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Connecting with Books

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Teen Fiction in which the main character connects with a book

 

 

In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth

  • Pub Date: 2007
  • Middle and high school interest 
  • See also: Journals 
  • A teenage girl reads and rereads her late mother's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

Call Me Hope by Gretchen Olson

  • Pub Date: 2007
  • Middle school interest 
  • See also in Children's Fic: Abuse 
  • See also in Teen Fic: Abuse, Mother-Daughter Relationship 
  • Hope, who is trying to cope with a verbally abusive mother, bonds with Anne Frank's diary.

 

The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard

  • Pub Date: 2003
  • Adult book with teen interest
  • See also in Adult Fic: Kid/Teen Main Character 
  • After her mother is killed, Wendy reads The Diary of Anne Frank and Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.

 

King Dork by Frank Portman

  • Pub Date: 2006
  • High school interest 
  • A teen is obsessed with his late father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye.

 

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone

  • Pub Date: 2006
  • High school interest 
  • Love doesn't last forever as learned in Judy Blume's Forever.

 

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

  • Pub Date: 2007
  • High school interest 
  • After reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ben decides to campaign to name a street after Malcolm X in his small Idaho town.

 

Slam by Nick Hornby

  • Pub Date: 2006
  • High school interest
  • See also:  Pregnancy & Childbirth
  • Sam has read Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder so many times that he feels he knows Tony Hawk.

 

Love and Lies by Ellen Wittlinger

  • Pub Date: 2008
  • High school interest
  • See also: Losing Virginity 
  • It's a small part of the book, but Marisol finds first lines for a writing class assignment.  She cites Feed, Fair Weather, The Bell Jar, and others.

 

Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande

 

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

  • Pub Date: 2010
  • High school interest 
  • See also: In the News 
  • A secret society called the Mockingbirds is created with inspiration from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisnar

  • Pub Date: 2011
  • Middle and high school interest 
  • Two teens on a search for a friend's long-lost father connect with Of Mice and Men. 

 

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher

  • Pub Date: 2012
  • High school interest 
  • Several teen girls become unlikely friends when their mothers force them into a mother-daughter book club. 

 

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

  • Pub Date: 2017
  • Diversity:  Asexual protagonist
  • See also: Fandom, Blogs/Social Media
  • Tash and her friends are adapting Anna Karenina into a web series that suddenly gets internet-famous. 

 

When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A. J. Steiger

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • High school interest 
  • Alvie loves animals and the book Watership Down. 

 

The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Goode

 

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