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You don't know me by David Klass. Twisted by Anderson? Jack Gantos's "The Hole in My Life" and Left for Dead Going Bovine The gospel according to Larry Little brother Alex Flinn Gail Giles Carol Plum-Ucci Kevin Brooks ("The Road") , David Almond ("Clay" or "The Savage"), Compound" by S.A. Bodeen, The Knife of Never Letting Go" Dessen- Dreamland How to Deal Just Listen Keeping the Moon Lock and Key That Summer This Lullaby Freymann-Weyr- My Heartbeat Kingsolver- The Bean Trees Letts- Where the Heart Is Leviathan- Realm of Possibilities Long- Juniper Tree Burning Suttenfield- Prep Walls- The Glass Castle books by Jordan Sonnenblick or Terry Trueman? www.boysread.org might be a good resource. John Green read-alikes put together by Gleason Library. @http://www.gleasonlibrary.org/documents/JH%20Readalikes.pdf Godless. When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own. All-In. Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart. Sequel to No Limit. No Limit. Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers. Doppelganger. High school newspaper reporter Roni finds an age-progressed photograph on a missing children's website of a boy that looks just like her sidekick Brian, throwing the pair into an investigation of Brian's past and family heritage. How to Steal a Car. Teen Kelleigh Monahan is having trouble dealing with family problems. Instead of drinking, cutting, or sleeping around, Kelleigh acts out by stealing cars. Invisible. Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever. The Prop. Forty-year-old Peeky Kane works at an Arizona casino as a poker player for 110 dollars within an eight-hour shift and insurance benefits. She can keep her earnings but must make up her losses. Suddenly a gang of "clowns" breaks into a cage and murders four people. Peeky finds herself on a short list of suspects. Rash. In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork. Paper Towns by Greene? anything by Pete Hautman, Terry Pratchet, Gordon Korman and Neil Gaiman Deadline by Crutcher Twisted by Anderson Paper Towns by John Green is much safer than Looking for Alaska. Flash Burnout Going Bovine? Percy Jackson series The Cherub' by Muchamore Slam by Nick Hornby, So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld or The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga? Touching Spirit Bear Tangerine by Bloor Shadow children series by Haddix Good luck Bear? Anything by Robert Cormier (Chocolate War and After the Cheese) Chris Crutcher's books (Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, Ironman). Twisted by Laurie Anderson - this is about a boy who is a senior in H.S., but your young man sounds pretty mature. This is a story about a young man trying to keep his family together. fit in with peers, and deal with a father who is a tyrant. Trouble by Michael? Schmidt Wednesday Wars Theories of Relativity by Margaret? Haworth-Attard - about a young man who is really a good guy who has been kicked out by his mother because it gets in the way of her relationship with other men. He is homeless and it focuses on the homeless scene. There is some drug content, but it is a redeeming story Deadline by Crutcher Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Rebound by Krech (I think) - A young man wants to make varsity, but has to decide if it is worth compromising his basic values. The Slot Machine or Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher; I am the Messenger by Zusak; Going Bovine by Bray; or America by E.R. Frank. Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games and Catching Fire MockingJay. books by Orson Scott Card.