12 Top contemporary books like Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2) by Rachel Vail

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Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

By: Rachel Vail

3.51

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to conti…

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1. The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

By: Nancy Springer

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has d… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Springer's The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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2. That Summer

By: Sarah Dessen

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's That Summer book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes

By: Lisa Greenwald

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When a blizzard threatens to ruin Valentine's Day, three seventh-grade friends make and distribute … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • contemporary

4. My Summer of Pink & Green (Pink & Green, #2)

By: Lisa Greenwald

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

At the end of My Life in Pink & Green, Lucy Desberg had just won the grant that would save her fami… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's My Summer of Pink & Green (Pink & Green, #2) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Restart

By: Gordon Korman

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more

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6. Tipping the Velvet

By: Sarah Waters

4.05

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

7. Pink & Green Is the New Black (Pink & Green, #3)

By: Lisa Greenwald

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Desberg is in eighth grade, and she's determined to make this year perfect. Over the course of… read more

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8. The Prettiest

By: Brigit Young

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A must-read for young feminists, The Prettiest is an incisive, empowering novel by Brigit Young abo… read more

Similar categories in Brigit Young's The Prettiest book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. How to Find What You're Not Looking For

By: Veera Hiranandani

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg… read more

Similar categories in Veera Hiranandani's How to Find What You're Not Looking For book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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10. A Place at the Table

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white, Jewish girl meet when they take a… read more

Similar categories in Saadia Faruqi's A Place at the Table book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Melissa

By: Alex Gino

4.10

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she… read more

Similar categories in Alex Gino's Melissa book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Girl problems?"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"My dad’s cleaning!"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"Some of us take death very seriously."

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"I still don’t see why I can’t just take the next bus,"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

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12. The Reunion

By: Guillaume Musso

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An elite prep school frozen in the snow Three friends linked by a tragic secret One girl taken by… read more

Similar categories in Guillaume Musso's The Reunion book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life."

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

"La vie me fait moins peur.Vous pouvez m'attaquer, vous pouvez me juger, vous pouvez me ruiner. J'aurau toujours à portée de main un vieux bic mâchouillé et un bloc-notes froissé. Mes seules armes. A …"

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

"It is futile to deny the complexity of human emotions. Our lives are sometimes inscrutable, often disrupted by conflicting desires. Our lives are fragile, at once precious and insignificant, sometime…"

-Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

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13. Allergic

By: Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to… read more

Similar categories in Megan Wagner Lloyd's Allergic book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Your heart’s expanded enough, Mom! Let’s go!"

-Megan Wagner Lloyd, Allergic

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14. The Kingdom

By: Jo Nesbø

3.84

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Roy and Carl have spent their whole lives running from the darkness in their past, but when Carl fi… read more

Similar categories in Jo Nesbø's The Kingdom book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
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15. Born Behind Bars

By: Padma Venkatraman

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Set in Chennai, India, this is the story of a boy who's unexpectedly released into the world after … read more

Similar categories in Padma Venkatraman's Born Behind Bars book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Kabir, let me tell you something I learned the hard way. Hoping for small stuff you can control is okay. But pinning your hopes on an other person is usually a waste of time. Especially if that perso…"

-Padma Venkatraman, Born Behind Bars

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16. 12 Before 13

By: Lisa Greenwald

4.22

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass will adore the second book in this hilarious series about two… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's 12 Before 13 book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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17. 13 and 3/4 (Friendship List #4)

By: Lisa Greenwald

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

BFFs Ari and Kaylan make a new bucket list as they set out for different summer camps in the fourth… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's 13 and 3/4 (Friendship List #4) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • middle grade
  • contemporary
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18. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

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19. 13 and Counting (Friendship List #3)

By: Lisa Greenwald

4.23

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Fans of Lauren Myracle and Rachel Renee Russo's Dork Diaries will adore the third book in this laug… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's 13 and Counting (Friendship List #3) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Ella on the Outside

By: Cath Howe

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Ella is the new girl at school. She doesn't know anyone and she doesn't have any friends. And she h… read more

Similar categories in Cath Howe's Ella on the Outside book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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21. Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

By: Rachel Vail

3.51

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to conti… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2) book and Rachel Vail's Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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