5 must-read high school books like Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu

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Making Friends with Alice Dyson

By: Poppy Nwosu

3.82

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

My hand, which is following a stray pencil rolling across the floor, stops dead right in front of t…

"It makes me wonder if that's all love is, just the same as being friends."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"It makes me wonder if that's all love is, just the same as being friends."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"I lean my head to the side, watching him. ‘Do you really not care what everyone thinks?’ ‘Nah, not really.’ I bite my lip. Interesting."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"I lean my head to the side, watching him. ‘Do you really not care what everyone thinks?’ ‘Nah, not really.’ I bite my lip. Interesting."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

If you liked the high school plot in Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)

By: Amanda Foody

3.84

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets…and secrets hide … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Foody's Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose."

-Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)

"And he would tell her that, even after losing everything he'd ever wanted, he still desperately wanted her."

-Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)

"She rooted around her pocket, pulling out a tube of lipstick, the gun and the silk mask, All the girlie necessities, apparently."

-Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)

"Her guidebook had been wrong about one thing: the most dangerous part of the City of Sin wasn't the beckoning of the card tables or the threat of the gangs, it was the allure of Levi Glaisyer's rogui…"

-Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)

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2. Adorkable

By: Cookie O'Gorman

3.58

Format: 24 pages,

Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For refe… read more

Similar categories in Cookie O'Gorman's Adorkable book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Fireworks

By: Katie Cotugno

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

From Katie Cotugno, bestselling author of 99 Days, comes Fireworks--about a girl who is competing w… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Fireworks book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Distance Between Us

By: Kasie West

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and aft… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's The Distance Between Us book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

Similar categories in Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

6. Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)

By: Meg Cabot

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Suze is a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead peop… read more

Similar categories in Meg Cabot's Shadowland (The Mediator, #1) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

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7. Stardust in Their Veins (Castles in Their Bones, #2)

By: Laura Sebastian

4.10

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

Princesses Beatriz and Daphne have lost their older sister, but their mother's grand scheme of taki… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sebastian's Stardust in Their Veins (Castles in Their Bones, #2) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By: Ann Liang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

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9. Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

By: Laura Sebastian

4.06

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sebastian's Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"You've trained for this, my doves. You know who to strike. You know where they are vulnerable."

-Laura Sebastian, Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

"I’m here because I want to be. Because you are lightning– terrifying and beautiful and dangerous and bright all at once. And I wouldn’t wish you were anything else."

-Laura Sebastian, Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

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10. Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2)

By: Kasie West

3.71

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Lacey Barnes has dreamed of being an actress for as long as she can remember. So when she gets the … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why entertainment?"

-Kasie West, Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2)

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11. Meet Me at Midnight

By: Jessica Pennington

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They have a love-hate relationship with summer. Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star s… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Pennington's Meet Me at Midnight book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Heir and the Spare

By: Kate Stradling

4.15

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

An evil princess, a ruthless persecutor, a wretched match. Tormented at home and bullied during … read more

Similar categories in Kate Stradling's The Heir and the Spare book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Broken wings can heal, A bird is meant to fly"

-Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

"The simple act of voicing her fears aloud helped her accept them."

-Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

"and she abandoned him to examine the inventory of a small bookshelf."

-Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

"You artists have a shocking degree of compassion, even toward those who don’t deserve it."

-Kate Stradling, The Heir and the Spare

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14. A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

By: Laura Taylor Namey

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, …"

-Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

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15. I Wish You Would

By: Eva Des Lauriers

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In this drama-filled love story, private confessions are scattered on the beach during a senior cla… read more

Similar categories in Eva Des Lauriers's I Wish You Would book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. More Than Maybe

By: Erin Hahn

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up under his punk rocker dad's spotlight, eighteen-year-old Luke Greenly knows fame and wan… read more

Similar categories in Erin Hahn's More Than Maybe book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"one day the word will come. hopefully, ill be ready for them."

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"It sounds lonelier than it is. But I'd rather lose myself in a sea of strangers than find myself one-on-one with an acquaintance."

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone's feet when the words are neede…"

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"theres absolutly no coming back from this. science shows once you start noticeing consdtellations in freckles your fu****. i need to put a stop to this befor i do something mental like press a kiss t…"

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

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17. Girls in Boys' Cars

By: Felicity Castagna

3.42

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more

Similar categories in Felicity Castagna's Girls in Boys' Cars book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

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18. The Breakup Tour

By: Emily Wibberley

3.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A rising-star musician has a second chance at love with an old flame she remembers all too well in … read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's The Breakup Tour book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplas… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Breathe and Count Back from Ten book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You are so a physical person...You're taking up space. You're made of all this matter. What more proof do you need than that?"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

"Like maybe the "magic" isn't just about believing in mermaids; it's about believing peope like me don't exist, Like maybe admitting I've needed crutched dispels the myths we want to believe about peo…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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20. You, Me, and Our Heartstrings

By: Melissa See

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Daisy and Noah have the same plan: use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition. But when th… read more

Similar categories in Melissa See's You, Me, and Our Heartstrings book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Keep My Heart in San Francisco

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

“An absolute charmer of a book…Delightful!” —Jenn Bennett, author of Alex, Approximately and Starry… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's Keep My Heart in San Francisco book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Damn olfactory system. Swirling up all these old and bruising memories."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Keep My Heart in San Francisco

"Silly considering we barely have a fraction of what we need, but that's what hope does. It lifts you up when everything else is dragging you down, down, down."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Keep My Heart in San Francisco

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22. Every Time You Go Away

By: Abigail Johnson

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven, Abigail Johnson draws a searing and lyrical portrait of grief, … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Johnson's Every Time You Go Away book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Dungeons and Drama (Dungeons and Drama, #1)

By: Kristy Boyce

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dat… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Boyce's Dungeons and Drama (Dungeons and Drama, #1) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Yes No Maybe So

By: Becky Albertalli

3.73

Format: 464 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed have crafted a resonant, funny,… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Yes No Maybe So book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Time is literally what life is made of."

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"Oranges don't have nipples," says Sophie"

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"There's nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year."

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"The truth is, it's a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it's so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you're old enough to get it, but... y…"

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

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25. The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2)

By: Tricia Levenseller

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Chrysantha Stathos has won. By hiding her intelligence and ambition behind the mask of a beautif… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Levenseller's The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"I know you have options." "And those options will be taken away the second I marry. I will be beholden to my husband." "But you will be wealthy." "Is that what you'd choose? Bondage over freedom for …"

-Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2)

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26. The Art of Taxidermy

By: Sharon Kernot

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them f… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Kernot's The Art of Taxidermy book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It was not beautifully remade; it was awkwardly dead"

-Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy

"the songs of Oma's birds were the only sounds I wanted to hear."

-Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy

"And Jeffrey's dark skin, amid a sea of white, made him an alien too. In the country of his ancestors."

-Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy

"I can feel it, Annie whispered. The air is heavy with ghosts. The birds sing only sad songs. The ground swallowed many tears."

-Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy

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27. A Sweet Mess (A Sweet Mess, #1)

By: Jayci Lee

3.39

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Korean-American author Jayci Lee delights with this delicious and light-hearted romantic comedy tha… read more

Similar categories in Jayci Lee's A Sweet Mess (A Sweet Mess, #1) book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People say when something you enjoy becomes your full-time job, the joy gets sucked out of it."

-Jayci Lee, A Sweet Mess (A Sweet Mess, #1)

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28. My Second Impression of You

By: Michelle I. Mason

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and Instant Karma, a heartfelt story about a girl who thinks she kno… read more

Similar categories in Michelle I. Mason's My Second Impression of You book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Making Friends with Alice Dyson

By: Poppy Nwosu

3.82

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

My hand, which is following a stray pencil rolling across the floor, stops dead right in front of t… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It makes me wonder if that's all love is, just the same as being friends."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"I lean my head to the side, watching him. ‘Do you really not care what everyone thinks?’ ‘Nah, not really.’ I bite my lip. Interesting."

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"I drink in the words, and it scares me how the warmth of them seeps deep into my insides, untwisting everything that's knotted and wrong, loosening it all. How can such small things make such big cha…"

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

"I glance back at the painting of the forest. At first there doesn't seem to be much besides the shadowy gum trees. But if you peer a little closer it is dark and deep like a well with no bottom. Anyt…"

-Poppy Nwosu, Making Friends with Alice Dyson

Cover of Breathing Underwater by Abbey Nash

30. Breathing Underwater

By: Abbey Nash

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this slice-of-life, sensitively written novel, a teen girl grapples with a sudden epilepsy diagn… read more

Similar categories in Abbey Nash's Breathing Underwater book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Spilled Ink

By: Nadia Hashimi

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, s… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Hashimi's Spilled Ink book and Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends with Alice Dyson

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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