Relationships that Change Your Life

Book List by Erin Tipping

Everyday you are changed by the people you have relationships with. Here is a list of books that look at the different relationships a person can have and how these characters were changed by those relationships.

Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why

Hannah committed suicide two weeks ago. She made tapes that explain her 13 reasons for deciding to end her life. Clay gets one of these tapes because he is one of her reasons.

Benedict, Helen The Opposite of Love

All of the relationships in Emily’s life seem to point to the fact that love is fleeting. As she struggles with a distant father and a grandfather who’s loosing it, can she learn to relate to people?

Castellucci, Cecil Beige

Hanging out with your punk rocker dad is not as much fun as it sounds, especially when he is an aging punk rocker. But maybe the people you meet will change your mind

Cooney, Caroline B. Diamonds in the Shadows

The Finch family is picking up some refugees at the airport for their church. The five people they meet at the airport will change the way Jared Finch looks at the world.

Funke, Cornelia The Thief Lord

Prosper and Bo need to escape their evil aunt and uncle, so they run away to Venice. In Venice they join a group of petty thieves led by the Thief Lord. The secrets the Thief Lord is hiding will lead this makeshift family on an adventure like no other.

Grimes, Nikki The Road to Paris

Paris is a biracial girl trying to survive in foster care with her older brother Malcolm. Their father walked out on them, their mother likes to drink a little too much and now they don’t even have each other.

Higgins, Jack Sure Fire

When Rich and Jade are forced to move in with their father, they know he doesn’t want them there. When their father is kidnapped they learn that he is a spy and whoever was after him is after them.

Lyga, Barry Boy Toy

Josh has a secret that the whole town knows. It affects all of the relationships in his life. Can he move past this, get the girls, win the game, and go to college?

Meyer, Stephanie Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse

Bella’s life changed drastically when she moved in with her dad and met Edward and his family. See how her relationships with the people in her life change as she grows closer to some people and farther away from others.

Paolini, Christopher The Inheritance Series

Eragon has always been different from the rest of the people in the small village near his home. When a dragon hatches and chooses him as her rider, his whole world changes. Read the series for the first time or reread it to get read for the release of Brisingr in September.

Patterson, James Maximum Ride Series

Sometimes the family you live with is not the family you were born into. Join Maximum Ride and the rest of her flock as they fight to stay together and free of the school, the school that gave them the ability to fly, but also keeps them in cages if they’re caught.

Prose, Francine Bullyville

When Bart is given a scholarship to an elite private school, nothing goes well. He is terrorized by the wealthy kids who already go to school there. Will his relationships with these people ever change?

Sherrill, Martha The Ruins of California

Inez Ruin is the daughter of a rich computer scientist and a flamenco dancer turned realtor in this story set in the 1960s and 1970s. Follow her as she chronicles the changes in her family relationships.

Simmons, Michael Pool Boy

Brett was a rich jerk, until his dad is accused of insider trading. Now Brett is forced to get a summer job assisting the man who used to clean his pool. The way people treat you can really change when you aren’t the rich kid any more.

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