13 Best fiction books like A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

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A Trick of the Light

By: Lois Metzger

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers--young men--A Trick of …

If you liked the fiction plot in A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Dangerous Art of Blending In

By: Angelo Surmelis

4.00

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Evan Panos doesn’t know where he fits in. His strict Greek mother refuses to see… read more

Similar categories in Angelo Surmelis's The Dangerous Art of Blending In book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The truth is, it's exactly what I want, but I'm so scared of wanting it and even more scared of actually having it."

-Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In

"Here's the deal about never being authentically loved by your parents: The most fucked-up gesture or morsel of compassion is like a warm blanket."

-Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In

"Maybe I'm not so ugly after all. Maybe no one is really ugly, and maybe no one has the right to call someone that or tell them that they are. Maybe the only real ugliness is what lives inside some pe…"

-Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In

"I've squeezed as many bookcases in this tiny space as possible. Being surrounded by books and magazines makes me feel calm. It makes the room seem wrapped in a layer of protection. As if nothing or n…"

-Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In

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2. Be More Chill

By: Ned Vizzini

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the… read more

Similar categories in Ned Vizzini's Be More Chill book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

3. A Trick of the Light

By: Lois Metzger

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers--young men--A Trick of … read more

Similar categories in Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • realistic fiction
  • social work
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1)

By: Jacqueline Davies

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Davies's The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1) book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult

5. The Art of Starving

By: Sam J. Miller

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

More Happy Than Notmeets Glory O'Brien's History of the Futurein this gritty, contemporary YA debut… read more

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6. Power Play

By: Eric Walters

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"You' re going to spend some time on the power play, on penalty kill, and start right off as the se… read more

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7. Scars

By: Cheryl Rainfield

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Kendra, fifteen, hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexua… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Rainfield's Scars book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But of course it couldn't last. Nothing good ever does."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"It was easier to ask for forgiveness than it was to get permission."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

"You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does."

-Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

8. Elena Vanishing

By: Clare B. Dunkle , Elena Dunkle

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fe… read more

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9. Nothing

By: Robin Friedman

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall un… read more

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10. Sad Perfect

By: Stephanie Elliot

4.05

Format: 224 pages,

The story of a teen girl's struggle with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and how love hel… read more

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11. Paperweight

By: Meg Haston

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center o… read more

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12. How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

By: Kelsey Osgood

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their ca… read more

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13. Believarexic

By: J.J. Johnson

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Jennifer has to force her family to admit she needs help for her eating disorder. … read more

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14. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • fiction
  • young adult
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15. Prom House

By: Chelsea Mueller

2.83

Format: None pages, ebook

What happens when the best night of your life turns into the worst? Full of menace and suspense, th… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Different for Boys book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

Cover of The Year I Didn't Eat by Samuel Pollen

17. The Year I Didn't Eat

By: Samuel Pollen

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Some days are normal. Some days, everything is OK, and I eat three square meals, pretty much, even… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Dark Room Etiquette

By: Robin Roe

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything—until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him his whole … read more

Similar categories in Robin Roe's Dark Room Etiquette book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Girls at 17 Swann Street

By: Yara Zgheib

3.97

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, … read more

Similar categories in Yara Zgheib's The Girls at 17 Swann Street book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • realistic fiction
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."

-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street

Cover of Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) by Nora Dåsnes

20. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

Similar categories in Nora Dåsnes's Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Another First Chance

By: Robbie Couch

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's Another First Chance book and Lois Metzger's A Trick of the Light

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health

11 best-selling contemporary books like A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

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The Dangerous Art of Blending In

Angelo Surmelis

4.00

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Be More Chill

Ned Vizzini

4.39

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A Trick of the Light

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5.00

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Scars

Cheryl Rainfield

4.16

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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

Chris Grabenstein

4.12

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No Talking

Andrew Clements

3.97

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)

Judy Blume

4.11

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Brian Selznick , Andrew Clements

3.92

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