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12 books with a reading profile close to Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.

  1. 1 The Prince and the Dressmaker

    The Prince and the Dressmaker

    by Jen Wang

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Set in nineteenth-century Paris, the story follows Prince Sebastian, a royal heir whose parents are searching for his future bride.

  2. 2 Everything Leads to You

    Everything Leads to You

    by Nina LaCour

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Emi Price is an eighteen-year-old production designer working as an intern on film sets in Los Angeles.

  3. 3 If I Was Your Girl

    If I Was Your Girl

    by Meredith Russo

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Amanda Hardy moves to Lambertville, Tennessee, to live with her father after a violent assault at her previous school.

  4. 4 It Only Happens in the Movies

    It Only Happens in the Movies

    by Holly Bourne

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Audrey, a seventeen-year-old, has recently been dumped by her boyfriend and decides that real life does not work like the movies she loves.

  5. 5 The Music Shop

    The Music Shop

    by Rachel Joyce

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Frank owns a record shop on a shabby street in an English town in the 1980s, in a world that has already moved to CDs.

  6. 6 Keeping the Moon

    Keeping the Moon

    by Sarah Dessen

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Colie Sparks arrives in Colby for the summer to stay with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her fitness-guru mother tours Europe.

  7. 7 Bloom

    Bloom

    by Kevin Panetta

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Ari has graduated from high school and dreams of moving to the city to find success with his band, but his father expects him to keep working at the family bakery.

  8. 8 The Last Summer of You and Me

    The Last Summer of You and Me

    by Ann Brashares

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Riley, Alice and Paul are friends who grew up together in a small town in Maine.

  9. 9 The Girl from the Sea

    The Girl from the Sea

    by Lee Knox Ostertag

    romance, narrative

    Fifteen-year-old Morgan Kwon lives on an island where she hides her true identity to fit in with her friend group.

  10. 10 Someone Like You

    Someone Like You

    by Sarah Dessen

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Halley has always lived in the shadow of her bold best friend, Scarlett.

  11. 11 Circle of Friends

    Circle of Friends

    by Maeve Binchy

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Benny Hogan, a shy, plump girl from a small Irish town, goes to University College Dublin in the 1950s, where she becomes friends with Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and the glamorous Nan Mahon.

  12. 12 The Geography of You and Me

    The Geography of You and Me

    by Jennifer E. Smith

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    The story begins in a stalled elevator during a New York City blackout, where Lucy, a teenager living in a luxury penthouse, meets Owen, the son of the building’s superintendent.

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