50 Books like Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

Suicide Notes

by Michael Thomas Ford

Waking in a psych ward, a sarcastic teen has forty-five days to admit he is gay.

3.80

56k+

🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🌈 Gay Awakening 🤝 Found Family 🖤 Dark Humor 📓 Diary Format

Suicide Notes 91%

Waking in a psych ward, a sarcastic teen has forty-five days to admit he is gay.

by Michael Thomas Ford 2008

3.80

56k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🌈 Gay Awakening 🤝 Found Family 🖤 Dark Humor 📓 Diary Format

Charming as a Verb

by Ben Philippe • 2020

His neighbor catches his dog-walking hustle and demands a social makeover to keep quiet.

3.84

8k+

🎓 College Admissions 🏙️ NYC Private School 🤝 Reluctant Friendship 🌍 Immigrant Family 💄 Social Makeover

Charming as a Verb 94%

His neighbor catches his dog-walking hustle and demands a social makeover to keep quiet.

by Ben Philippe 2020

3.84

8k+ ratings

🎓 College Admissions 🏙️ NYC Private School 🤝 Reluctant Friendship 🌍 Immigrant Family 💄 Social Makeover

In the Wild Light

by Jeff Zentner • 2021

A grieving Tennessee boy follows his best friend to boarding school and discovers poetry and love.

4.44

12k+

🏫 Boarding School ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 💞 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 💸 Class Divide

In the Wild Light 93%

A grieving Tennessee boy follows his best friend to boarding school and discovers poetry and love.

by Jeff Zentner 2021

4.44

12k+ ratings

🏫 Boarding School ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 💞 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family 💸 Class Divide

Catalina

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio • 2024

Undocumented at Harvard, she's her grandparents' American dream and their only safety net.

3.52

11k+

🎓 Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 🏠 Family Obligation 🎭 Performing Identity

Catalina 91%

Undocumented at Harvard, she's her grandparents' American dream and their only safety net.

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2024

3.52

11k+ ratings

🎓 Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 🏠 Family Obligation 🎭 Performing Identity

An Emotion of Great Delight

by Tahereh Mafi • 2021

Numb from grief and America's scrutiny, a Muslim teen rediscovers feeling through a forbidden love.

3.66

12k+

🕌 Muslim American Life 🏙️ Post-9/11 America 💔 Forbidden Romance 😢 Sibling Grief 😔 Survivor's Guilt

An Emotion of Great Delight 91%

Numb from grief and America's scrutiny, a Muslim teen rediscovers feeling through a forbidden love.

by Tahereh Mafi 2021

3.66

12k+ ratings

🕌 Muslim American Life 🏙️ Post-9/11 America 💔 Forbidden Romance 😢 Sibling Grief 😔 Survivor's Guilt

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera • 2015

After his father's suicide, a teen turns to memory erasure, until a boy changes everything.

3.95

69k+

🧠 Memory Erasure 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Awakening 💕 First Love 🫂 Found Family 🪦 Parental Loss

More Happy Than Not 91%

After his father's suicide, a teen turns to memory erasure, until a boy changes everything.

by Adam Silvera 2015

3.95

69k+ ratings

🧠 Memory Erasure 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Awakening 💕 First Love 🫂 Found Family 🪦 Parental Loss

Scars Like Wings

by Erin Stewart • 2019

A fire orphaned her. Her scars made her a spectacle. High school demands she be seen.

4.05

7k+

🩹 Visible Difference 🎭 School Theater 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Reluctant Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family

Scars Like Wings 91%

A fire orphaned her. Her scars made her a spectacle. High school demands she be seen.

by Erin Stewart 2019

4.05

7k+ ratings

🩹 Visible Difference 🎭 School Theater 💔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Reluctant Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas • 2017

A teen witnesses a police shooting and becomes the sole voice for her friend's justice.

4.45

1.0M+

🖤 Racial Injustice ✊ Teen Activism 🔄 Code Switching 🎤 Finding Your Voice 💑 Interracial Romance

The Hate U Give 91%

A teen witnesses a police shooting and becomes the sole voice for her friend's justice.

by Angie Thomas 2017

4.45

1.0M+ ratings

🖤 Racial Injustice ✊ Teen Activism 🔄 Code Switching 🎤 Finding Your Voice 💑 Interracial Romance

Broken Glass Park

by Alina Bronsky • 2010

Her stepfather killed her mother. In a crumbling German housing project, a teenager plots revenge.

3.53

3k+

🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 🗡️ Revenge Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 👧 Sibling Caretaker

Broken Glass Park 91%

Her stepfather killed her mother. In a crumbling German housing project, a teenager plots revenge.

by Alina Bronsky 2010

3.53

3k+ ratings

🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 🗡️ Revenge Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 👧 Sibling Caretaker

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore • 2009

She nannies for a couple adopting a child and watches a family in quiet collapse.

3.18

19k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 👪 Transracial Adoption 👶 Nanny Narrative 💔 Sibling Loss 🗽 Post 9/11 America

A Gate at the Stairs 91%

She nannies for a couple adopting a child and watches a family in quiet collapse.

by Lorrie Moore 2009

3.18

19k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 👪 Transracial Adoption 👶 Nanny Narrative 💔 Sibling Loss 🗽 Post 9/11 America

Guitar Notes

by Mary Amato • 2012

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

4.04

6k+

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship 😰 Parental Pressure 🎶 Music As Healing

Guitar Notes 91%

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

by Mary Amato 2012

4.04

6k+ ratings

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship 😰 Parental Pressure 🎶 Music As Healing

The Black Kids

by Christina Hammonds Reed • 2020

When the Rodney King verdict ignites LA, a Black teen's private-school act goes up in flames.

4.02

11k+

🗣️ Code-Switching 🖤 Racial Reckoning 🗯️ High School Rumor 💔 Toxic Friendships 😔 Guilt And Amends

The Black Kids 91%

When the Rodney King verdict ignites LA, a Black teen's private-school act goes up in flames.

by Christina Hammonds Reed 2020

4.02

11k+ ratings

🗣️ Code-Switching 🖤 Racial Reckoning 🗯️ High School Rumor 💔 Toxic Friendships 😔 Guilt And Amends

No and Me

by Delphine de Vigan • 2007

A thirteen-year-old prodigy, too anxious to speak, meets a homeless girl and finds her voice.

3.72

20k+

🖋️ Literary Young Adult 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🧠 Precocious Narrator 💔 Limits Of Rescue 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

No and Me 91%

A thirteen-year-old prodigy, too anxious to speak, meets a homeless girl and finds her voice.

by Delphine de Vigan 2007

3.72

20k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Young Adult 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🧠 Precocious Narrator 💔 Limits Of Rescue 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

by Erika L. Sánchez • 2017

Her perfect sister is dead. What the closet hides could break her immigrant family.

4.00

85k+

🧬 Generational Trauma 🌎 Immigrant Family 📦 Secret Life Uncovered 🩹 Mental Health Healing 🗣️ Sharp-Tongued Heroine

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Summary

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 92%

Her perfect sister is dead. What the closet hides could break her immigrant family.

by Erika L. Sánchez 2017

4.00

85k+ ratings

🧬 Generational Trauma 🌎 Immigrant Family 📦 Secret Life Uncovered 🩹 Mental Health Healing 🗣️ Sharp-Tongued Heroine

All My Rage

by Sabaa Tahir • 2022

Sal sells drugs to save his motel, hiding it from Noor, the girl he loves.

4.48

66k+

🌄 Immigrant Dreams 🕌 Pakistani-American 💞 Friends To Lovers 🍺 Parent With Addiction 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

All My Rage 92%

Sal sells drugs to save his motel, hiding it from Noor, the girl he loves.

by Sabaa Tahir 2022

4.48

66k+ ratings

🌄 Immigrant Dreams 🕌 Pakistani-American 💞 Friends To Lovers 🍺 Parent With Addiction 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Almond

by Sohn Won-Pyung

A boy who cannot feel is targeted by a boy of rage, who tests his emptiness with growing cruelty.

4.14

184k+

🧊 Emotional Numbness 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏡 Found Family 💔 Trauma Recovery 🇰🇷 Korean Fiction

Almond 90%

A boy who cannot feel is targeted by a boy of rage, who tests his emptiness with growing cruelty.

by Sohn Won-Pyung 2017

4.14

184k+ ratings

🧊 Emotional Numbness 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏡 Found Family 💔 Trauma Recovery 🇰🇷 Korean Fiction

Impulse

by Ellen Hopkins • 2007

Three suicide survivors in a wilderness program must confront the pain that drove them to the edge.

4.25

83k+

🖋️ Verse Novel 🏥 Psychiatric Facility 🖤 Suicide Survival 🤝 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers

Impulse 90%

Three suicide survivors in a wilderness program must confront the pain that drove them to the edge.

by Ellen Hopkins 2007

4.25

83k+ ratings

🖋️ Verse Novel 🏥 Psychiatric Facility 🖤 Suicide Survival 🤝 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers

Notes from the Midnight Driver

by Jordan Sonnenblick • 2006

A sixteen-year-old's drunken crash earns him a hundred hours with a hostile, jazz-obsessed old man.

4.05

10k+

🫂 Intergenerational Bond ⚖️ Community Service 🏥 Nursing Home 🎶 Music Heals 💕 Friends To Lovers

Notes from the Midnight Driver 90%

A sixteen-year-old's drunken crash earns him a hundred hours with a hostile, jazz-obsessed old man.

by Jordan Sonnenblick 2006

4.05

10k+ ratings

🫂 Intergenerational Bond ⚖️ Community Service 🏥 Nursing Home 🎶 Music Heals 💕 Friends To Lovers

We Are All Made of Molecules

by Susin Nielsen • 2015

His mother died. Her father came out. Now they're stepsiblings, and neither one will bend.

3.82

17k+

🏠 Blended Family 👥 Dual Pov 🌈 Gay Parent 👫 Unlikely Siblings 🛡️ Bullying And Allyship

We Are All Made of Molecules 90%

His mother died. Her father came out. Now they're stepsiblings, and neither one will bend.

by Susin Nielsen 2015

3.82

17k+ ratings

🏠 Blended Family 👥 Dual Pov 🌈 Gay Parent 👫 Unlikely Siblings 🛡️ Bullying And Allyship

All That’s Left to Say

by Emery Lord • 2023

A girl goes undercover at her dead cousin's prep school to find who supplied the pills.

3.67

2k+

🏫 Prep School Mystery 🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Hidden Identity 😔 Survivor's Guilt

All That’s Left to Say 90%

A girl goes undercover at her dead cousin's prep school to find who supplied the pills.

by Emery Lord 2023

3.67

2k+ ratings

🏫 Prep School Mystery 🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Hidden Identity 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Ashes of Life

by Erica Lucke Dean • 2015

After her parents' sudden death, a grieving teen is trapped living with the stepmother she resents.

4.07

1k+

🪦 Parental Loss 🏠 Found Family 💔 Destructive Coping 🌱 Emotional Recovery 🔄 Alternating Pov

Ashes of Life 90%

After her parents' sudden death, a grieving teen is trapped living with the stepmother she resents.

by Erica Lucke Dean 2015

4.07

1k+ ratings

🪦 Parental Loss 🏠 Found Family 💔 Destructive Coping 🌱 Emotional Recovery 🔄 Alternating Pov

It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini • 2006

Craig got into the best school in Manhattan. Then his mind tried to kill him.

4.07

263k+

🏥 Teen Psychiatric Ward 🌧️ Teenage Depression 🤝 Found Family 🎨 Art As Therapy 😅 Darkly Comic

It's Kind of a Funny Story 90%

Craig got into the best school in Manhattan. Then his mind tried to kill him.

by Ned Vizzini 2006

4.07

263k+ ratings

🏥 Teen Psychiatric Ward 🌧️ Teenage Depression 🤝 Found Family 🎨 Art As Therapy 😅 Darkly Comic

This Winter

by Alice Oseman • 2015

Tori's brother is home from treatment. Their family's Christmas plan: pretend nothing happened.

4.06

104k+

🎄 Holiday Novella 🫶 Anorexia Recovery 🛡️ Protective Sister 💕 Sibling Bond 🤐 Family Silence

This Winter 90%

Tori's brother is home from treatment. Their family's Christmas plan: pretend nothing happened.

by Alice Oseman 2015

4.06

104k+ ratings

🎄 Holiday Novella 🫶 Anorexia Recovery 🛡️ Protective Sister 💕 Sibling Bond 🤐 Family Silence

Playlist for the Dead

by Michelle Falkoff • 2015

A grieving teen follows a suicide playlist into a web of bullying, secret identities, and revenge.

3.28

15k+

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🎵 Music As Solace 💌 Online Secret Crush ⚔️ Avenging A Friend 🛋️ Grief Counseling

Playlist for the Dead 90%

A grieving teen follows a suicide playlist into a web of bullying, secret identities, and revenge.

by Michelle Falkoff 2015

3.28

15k+ ratings

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🎵 Music As Solace 💌 Online Secret Crush ⚔️ Avenging A Friend 🛋️ Grief Counseling

Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green • 2017

She spirals. A missing billionaire, his son, and a reward pull her into the world.

3.87

648k+

🌀 Ocd Representation 💚 Mental Health Recovery 🕵️ Amateur Mystery 🏰 Billionaire Family 💔 Bittersweet Romance

Turtles All the Way Down 90%

She spirals. A missing billionaire, his son, and a reward pull her into the world.

by John Green 2017

3.87

648k+ ratings

🌀 Ocd Representation 💚 Mental Health Recovery 🕵️ Amateur Mystery 🏰 Billionaire Family 💔 Bittersweet Romance

I Wish You All the Best

by Mason Deaver • 2019

Thrown out by their parents, a nonbinary teen builds a home with a sister long estranged.

4.14

55k+

🏳️‍⚧️ Queer Coming Of Age 💛 Found Family ✨ Nonbinary Protagonist 💕 Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Health Journey

I Wish You All the Best 90%

Thrown out by their parents, a nonbinary teen builds a home with a sister long estranged.

by Mason Deaver 2019

4.14

55k+ ratings

🏳️‍⚧️ Queer Coming Of Age 💛 Found Family ✨ Nonbinary Protagonist 💕 Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Health Journey

After the Shot Drops

by Randy Ribay

To save his cousin from a gambling debt, Nasir must destroy his best friend's basketball career.

4.13

3k+

🏀 Basketball Drama 💔 Estranged Best Friends 🎓 Recruited Athlete 💰 Class Divide 🔫 Gun Violence

After the Shot Drops 90%

To save his cousin from a gambling debt, Nasir must destroy his best friend's basketball career.

by Randy Ribay 2018

4.13

3k+ ratings

🏀 Basketball Drama 💔 Estranged Best Friends 🎓 Recruited Athlete 💰 Class Divide 🔫 Gun Violence

If You Come Softly

by Jacqueline Woodson • 1998

White girl, Black boy, Manhattan prep school. Falling in love is the easy part.

4.03

13k+

💕 Interracial First Love 🖋️ Literary Ya 📼 1990s Coming Of Age 🏫 Private School 🗽 New York City

If You Come Softly 92%

White girl, Black boy, Manhattan prep school. Falling in love is the easy part.

by Jacqueline Woodson 1998

4.03

13k+ ratings

💕 Interracial First Love 🖋️ Literary Ya 📼 1990s Coming Of Age 🏫 Private School 🗽 New York City

Dear Evan Hansen

by Val Emmich • 2018

A classmate's suicide and a found letter trap an anxious teen in a grieving family's lie.

3.86

73k+

🧠 Teen Mental Health 😰 Social Anxiety 🎭 Snowballing Lie 💔 Grieving Family 😟 Anxious Narrator

Dear Evan Hansen 92%

A classmate's suicide and a found letter trap an anxious teen in a grieving family's lie.

by Val Emmich 2018

3.86

73k+ ratings

🧠 Teen Mental Health 😰 Social Anxiety 🎭 Snowballing Lie 💔 Grieving Family 😟 Anxious Narrator

Big Girl Small

by Rachel DeWoskin • 2011

A teen singer with dwarfism enters an arts school. One boy sees her, not her size.

3.34

3k+

🎭 Performing Arts School 💔 First Love Gone Wrong 📱 Public Shaming 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 🗣️ Witty Narrator

Big Girl Small 90%

A teen singer with dwarfism enters an arts school. One boy sees her, not her size.

by Rachel DeWoskin 2011

3.34

3k+ ratings

🎭 Performing Arts School 💔 First Love Gone Wrong 📱 Public Shaming 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 🗣️ Witty Narrator

Love Letters to the Dead

by Ava Dellaira • 2014

A grieving freshman writes letters to dead icons, searching for a voice after her sister's death.

3.78

93k+

🖋️ Epistolary Novel 💔 Sister Grief ✍️ Healing Through Letters 🫂 Found Family 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age

Love Letters to the Dead 90%

A grieving freshman writes letters to dead icons, searching for a voice after her sister's death.

by Ava Dellaira 2014

3.78

93k+ ratings

🖋️ Epistolary Novel 💔 Sister Grief ✍️ Healing Through Letters 🫂 Found Family 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age

All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven • 2015

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

4.11

633k+

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation 💧 Grief And Guilt 🏘️ Midwest Small Town

All the Bright Places 90%

A grieving girl meets a troubled boy on a ledge. Wandering Indiana, they fall in love.

by Jennifer Niven 2015

4.11

633k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Teen Love 💔 Mental Health Romance 🧠 Bipolar Representation 💧 Grief And Guilt 🏘️ Midwest Small Town

Looking for Alaska

by John Green • 2005

A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.

3.96

1.8M+

🏫 Boarding School Fiction 💔 Tragic First Love 🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl 👥 Found Family 😞 Survivor Guilt

Looking for Alaska 90%

A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.

by John Green 2005

3.96

1.8M+ ratings

🏫 Boarding School Fiction 💔 Tragic First Love 🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl 👥 Found Family 😞 Survivor Guilt

Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay • 2019

A Filipino-American teen travels to Manila to clear his cousin's name in the drug war.

4.20

20k+

🇵🇭 Filipino American 🌴 Philippines Setting 🔍 Family Secrets 🎭 Cultural Identity ✊ Young Activist

Patron Saints of Nothing 90%

A Filipino-American teen travels to Manila to clear his cousin's name in the drug war.

by Randy Ribay 2019

4.20

20k+ ratings

🇵🇭 Filipino American 🌴 Philippines Setting 🔍 Family Secrets 🎭 Cultural Identity ✊ Young Activist

Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot

by Preeti Chhibber • 2024

After her crush humiliates her, Payal enlists her rival for the perfect romantic revenge.

3.77

322

🎓 Rivals To Lovers 🌏 Diaspora Teen Life 💭 Oblivious Crush 💘 He Falls First 💬 Witty Banter

Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot Summary

Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot 90%

After her crush humiliates her, Payal enlists her rival for the perfect romantic revenge.

by Preeti Chhibber 2024

3.77

322 ratings

🎓 Rivals To Lovers 🌏 Diaspora Teen Life 💭 Oblivious Crush 💘 He Falls First 💬 Witty Banter

You'd Be Home Now

by Kathleen Glasgow • 2021

When a fatal crash exposes her brother's addiction, she becomes the family's invisible caretaker.

4.13

82k+

💊 Sibling Addiction 🤫 Secret Relationship 📢 Slut-Shaming 💉 Opioid Crisis 🕊️ Survivor Guilt

You'd Be Home Now 90%

When a fatal crash exposes her brother's addiction, she becomes the family's invisible caretaker.

by Kathleen Glasgow 2021

4.13

82k+ ratings

💊 Sibling Addiction 🤫 Secret Relationship 📢 Slut-Shaming 💉 Opioid Crisis 🕊️ Survivor Guilt

How to Make Friends with the Dark

by Kathleen Glasgow • 2019

After her mother dies, a teen in foster care must trust a half-sister she's never met.

4.07

43k+

🖤 Grief And Loss 🏠 Foster Care 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 👭 Sister Bond 🤝 Found Family

How to Make Friends with the Dark Summary

How to Make Friends with the Dark 90%

After her mother dies, a teen in foster care must trust a half-sister she's never met.

by Kathleen Glasgow 2019

4.07

43k+ ratings

🖤 Grief And Loss 🏠 Foster Care 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 👭 Sister Bond 🤝 Found Family

Vera, or Faith

by Gary Shteyngart • 2025

A ten-year-old spies on her father and uncovers a secret more dangerous than her parents' divorce.

3.87

9k+

🎭 Political Satire 🇺🇸 Near Future America 🧠 Precocious Narrator 🔍 Search For Origins 🔒 Family Secrets

Vera, or Faith 90%

A ten-year-old spies on her father and uncovers a secret more dangerous than her parents' divorce.

by Gary Shteyngart 2025

3.87

9k+ ratings

🎭 Political Satire 🇺🇸 Near Future America 🧠 Precocious Narrator 🔍 Search For Origins 🔒 Family Secrets

Miles Morales Suspended

by Jason Reynolds • 2023

Suspended for defying a racist teacher, Miles discovers his school is devouring its own stories.

3.81

1k+

📜 Verse Novel ✊ Student Resistance 📚 Book Censorship 🕷️ Black Superhero ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline

Miles Morales Suspended 90%

Suspended for defying a racist teacher, Miles discovers his school is devouring its own stories.

by Jason Reynolds 2023

3.81

1k+ ratings

📜 Verse Novel ✊ Student Resistance 📚 Book Censorship 🕷️ Black Superhero ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline

Bitter Melon

by Cara Chow • 2010

A Chinese American teen hides her speech trophies from a mother who scripts her entire future.

3.86

2k+

👧 Immigrant Coming Of Age ⛓️ Maternal Control 🎭 Secret Double Life 🏮 Filial Piety 🕯️ Generational Trauma

Bitter Melon 91%

A Chinese American teen hides her speech trophies from a mother who scripts her entire future.

by Cara Chow 2010

3.86

2k+ ratings

👧 Immigrant Coming Of Age ⛓️ Maternal Control 🎭 Secret Double Life 🏮 Filial Piety 🕯️ Generational Trauma

Cuts Both Ways

by Candice Brathwaite • 2022

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

3.74

830

🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

Cuts Both Ways 91%

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

by Candice Brathwaite 2022

3.74

830 ratings

🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

Yo te inventé

by Francesca Zappia

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

4.02

31k+

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Yo te inventé 90%

Her first friend was a hallucination. Now he's her chemistry partner, and she's falling.

by Francesca Zappia 2015

4.02

31k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Health Ya 💥 Enemies To Lovers 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

by Wendy Mass • 2006

Four lost keys, his dead dad's locked box, and one summer to open it before thirteen.

4.02

20k+

🔒 Locked Box Mystery 🌞 Summer Quest 🖤 Grief Journey 👴 Eccentric Mentor 👫 Best Friends Duo

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Summary

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life 90%

Four lost keys, his dead dad's locked box, and one summer to open it before thirteen.

by Wendy Mass 2006

4.02

20k+ ratings

🔒 Locked Box Mystery 🌞 Summer Quest 🖤 Grief Journey 👴 Eccentric Mentor 👫 Best Friends Duo

Mexican WhiteBoy

by Matt de la Peña • 2008

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

3.85

6k+

🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ⚾ Baseball Fiction 🌴 Southern California

Mexican WhiteBoy 90%

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

by Matt de la Peña 2008

3.85

6k+ ratings

🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ⚾ Baseball Fiction 🌴 Southern California

The Skin I'm In

by Sharon G. Flake • 2000

Bullied for dark skin, Maleeka hides in borrowed clothes. A scarred teacher challenges the mirror.

4.16

17k+

🎨 Colorism 💔 Toxic Friendship 📚 Mentor Teacher ✍️ Healing Through Writing 🏫 Middle School Life

The Skin I'm In 90%

Bullied for dark skin, Maleeka hides in borrowed clothes. A scarred teacher challenges the mirror.

by Sharon G. Flake 2000

4.16

17k+ ratings

🎨 Colorism 💔 Toxic Friendship 📚 Mentor Teacher ✍️ Healing Through Writing 🏫 Middle School Life

Room to Dream

by Kelly Yang • 2021

A corporation wants her family's motel. Seventh-grader Mia Tang has a column and something to prove.

4.37

6k+

🧳 Immigrant Experience 🌏 Cultural Identity 💔 Shifting Friendships 📰 Girl Reporter ✊ Community Resistance

Room to Dream 90%

A corporation wants her family's motel. Seventh-grader Mia Tang has a column and something to prove.

by Kelly Yang 2021

4.37

6k+ ratings

🧳 Immigrant Experience 🌏 Cultural Identity 💔 Shifting Friendships 📰 Girl Reporter ✊ Community Resistance

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

by Natalia Sylvester • 2022

A Peruvian American teen hides her dream of becoming a mermaid performer from her immigrant parents.

3.82

4k+

🏡 Boy Next Door 👨‍👩‍👧 Strict Parents 🎭 Performing Arts 💔 Chronic Illness 💕 First Love

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After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.

by Ali Benjamin 2015

4.10

45k+ ratings

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Love and Other Four-Letter Words Summary

Love and Other Four-Letter Words 90%

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by Carolyn Mackler 2000

3.61

2k+ ratings

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4.14

88k+ ratings

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