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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Knives Out Readalikes
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Obama's Reading Lists
Read Alikes for HBO's "The Undoing"
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Obama's Reading Lists
Read Alikes for HBO's "The Undoing"
Description
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Sherman Alexie, in his first book for young adults, tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, beautifully written, semi-autobiographical, and coupled with poignant drawings that reflect...
4) Go ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[1998], copyright 1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A novel of an eccentric and impoverished English family whose home is a ruined 14th century castle. The story is presented in the form of a diary by the family's teen daughter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
10) Forever princess
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
11) Princess in love
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
14) Princess in pink
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom.
15) Lawless spaces
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
16) Love, Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought-provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller about a loss shrouded in mystery with twists and turns down every railway. Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. Hes been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. Its there...
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"The author of this fictional diary began writing for a class assignment, but soon it became much more to him. As the star player of his high school football team, he faces a lot of pressure and expectation. Not to mention the secret that he's harboring inside. The secret that could change everything. And as David quickly learns, nothing stays secret forever. His innermost thoughts and feelings are chronicled in the diary he left behind."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Summer Stetson has always lived in the shadow of her dead sister, knowing she can never measure up in any way, but on her seventeenth birthday her aunt gives her Shannon's diary, which reveals painful but liberating truths about Summer's family and herself.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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When Evan's father dies suddenly, he finds the book his father had been reading, a diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a Pacific Island during World War II. There was also an American soldier stranded there.
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