Books like Ghost
Castle 'Ghost' Cranshaw, a seventh-grader who has been running since the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother, talks his way onto an elite track team, where the coach sees something in him, if he can stay out of trouble.
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The Crossover
Twelve-year-old twins Josh and Jordan Bell are basketball stars like their father, a former pro, and as Jordan falls for a girl and their father's health becomes a worry, Josh tells the story of their season in verse.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto retired from tennis with twenty Grand Slam titles and a reputation as the most ruthless woman in the game, and in 1994, at thirty-seven, she comes back to defend her record against a younger player, with her father as her coach again.
Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
Walk Two Moons
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle rides with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho, retracing her mother's journey, and passes the time telling them the strange story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has disappeared.
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Adunni, fourteen, wants above all to go to school and find her louding voice, but in her Nigerian village her father sells her as third wife to an old man, and she runs away to Lagos.
Speak
Melinda Sordino starts high school as an outcast because she called the police at a summer party, and as the year goes on she barely speaks, finding a voice only in art class, while she struggles to face what happened to her that night.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man with bipolar disorder channels all his manic energy into one goal: reuniting with his ex-wife, fuelled by football and unearned optimism.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
Mika in Real Life
Mika Suzuki, thirty-five and adrift in Portland, gets a phone call from Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, and in a panic tells her she has everything together.
The Power of One
An English boy growing up in wartime South Africa is sent to a hated Afrikaner boarding school, learns to box from a drunken former welterweight on a train, and decides to become champion of the world.
Indian Horse
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe man in a treatment centre for alcoholics, goes back over his childhood, his years in a residential school and the hockey that saved him for a while.