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A hilarious, hormone-drenched boarding school romp that unexpectedly shatters your heart into a million pieces. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Winger.
- chaotic
- nostalgic
- angsty
- devastating
- 01
Openly straight
Bill Konigsberg
A funny, heartfelt exploration of what happens when the desire to shed labels accidentally means shedding your true self.
- 02
What I Was
Meg Rosoff
An atmospheric, coastal coming-of-age tale driven by the intense, consuming gravity of an isolated adolescent friendship.
- 03
Twisted
Laurie Halse Anderson
A darkly funny, unflinchingly honest dive into the pressure cooker of teenage masculinity and family dysfunction.
- 04
Goodbye stranger
Rebecca Stead
A tender, deeply observant exploration of the exact moment when childhood friendships begin to stretch, fray, and reshape themselves.
- 05
Deadline
Chris Crutcher · 2007
A fiercely funny, ticking-clock tearjerker about living a lifetime's worth of rebellion and love in a single year.
- 06
Tangerine
Edward Bloor · 1997
A sun-baked, eerie coming-of-age mystery where environmental hazards mirror the toxic secrets buried within a seemingly perfect family.
- 07
Football Genius
Tim Green · 2007
An energetic, high-stakes sports story about a young underdog trying to prove his unbelievable talent to the pros.
- 08
Geography Club
Brent Hartinger · 2003
A funny, heartfelt exploration of the secret lives of queer teenagers navigating the treacherous social terrain of high school.
- 09
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers
A rhythmic, grounded coming-of-age story that hits with the fast-paced energy of a streetball game and the heavy reality of growing up.
- 10
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
A punchy, fast-paced journey inside the mind of a middle-school bully who slowly learns that vulnerability takes more strength than tackling people.
- 11
Boot Camp
Todd Strasser
A harrowing, claustrophobic plunge into the brutal reality of a secretive teen boot camp where survival means risking everything.
- 12
Sleeping freshmen never Lie
David Lubar
An earnest and observant exploration of the shifting friendships and family dynamics that shape a young writer's coming-of-age.
