If you like "Summer Sisters" by Judy Blume...
Hello! If you enjoyed “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume, these stories about women and friendship may appeal to you:
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
A story about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. The young women find a pair of jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch.
Sloppy Firsts
by Megan McCafferty
When her best friend, Hope, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, 16-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. Jessica is a fish out of water at school, a stranger at home, and now -- with the only person with whom she could really communicate gone -- more lost than ever. How is she supposed to deal with the boy-and-shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad's obsession with her track meets, and her nonexistent love life?
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells
“When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together." —summary from book jacket
Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral
by Kris Radish
“For Katherine Givens and the four women about to become her best friends, the adventure begins with a UPS package. Inside is a pair of red sneakers filled with ashes and a note that will forever change their lives. Katherine's oldest and dearest friend, the irrepressible Annie Freeman, left one final request - a traveling funeral - and she wants the most important women in her life as ‘pallbearers’."—summary from book jacket
The Au Pairs
by Melissa de la Cruz
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.
I hope you will enjoy these titles. If you need any further assistance
please contact us again soon!
-Mary Buck
Thanks for contacting the Central Rappahannock Regional Library for a
Book Match. We LOVE to connect readers to the right books!
You wanted a title like "Summer Sisters" by Judy Blume. This title
explores the sisterly relationships between friends and covers a lot of
ground.
Some titles I think you might enjoy are:
"Talk Before Sleep" by Elizabeth Berg. Two best friends become even
closer when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
"A Tale of Two Sisters" by Anna Maxted. Cassie and Lizbet have always
been very close sisters, but so very different that they have never been
competitive. Now that they're adults, things are beginning to change.
"Five Quarters of the Orange" by Joanne Harris. Three French siblings
make friends with a German soldier during the Nazi occupation of their
town. The consequences of this innocent friendship will reverberate long
after the war ends.
"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka. Two
sisters put aside their very British reserve when their elderly father
announces he is marrying big-breasted woman in her 30's.
"The Memory of Running" by Ron McLarty. Smithy Ides is a forty-something
loser - overweight, dead-end job, no hobbies and hardly any friends. A
series of tragedies leads Smithy on a literally life-changing journey.
"Anybody Out There" by Marian Keyes. Anna Walsh returns to her Dublin
family after a serious and disfiguring accident. She wants to return to
her life in New York City, but she has more than physical healing to do.
"Dance With Me" by Luanne Rice. Jane returns to Rhode Island to help her
sister care for their ailing mother. A grief-sticken neighbor returns to
run the family apple orchard. These lives will entwine in expected and
unexpected ways.
I hope you like these titles. All of them are owned by the Central
Rappahannock Regional Library. If you have a CRRL library card you may
put any (or all!) of them on hold, either through the "library catalog"
link at http://www.librarypoint.org or by calling the branch library
nearest you.
Some other authors with writing styles, characters or plots you might
enjoy:
Elizabeth Buchan
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Eileen Goudge
Kent Haruf
Alice Hoffman
Lorna Landvik
Sue Miller
Jodi Picoult
Adriana Trigiani
Joanna Trollope
I hope you find some titles to enjoy. Please let me know if I can be of
further assistance.
M. E. Raymond
Reference Librarian
Salem Church Road branch
phone: 540-785-9267
The following are some really great titles that may interest you as much as Summer Sisters did.
by Anita Shreve:
Eden Close
Fortune's Rocks
The Weight of Water
Strange Fits of passion
by Elizabeth Berg:
The Pull of the Moon
Talk before Sleep
Durable Goods
Joy School
by Barbara Kingsolver:
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Prodigal Summer
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris
by Marge Piercy:
Three Women
The Longings of Women
The Anna Papers, by Ellen Gilchrist
The Lake of Dead Languages, by Ellen Goodman
Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
I hope you will enjoy these titles. If you need any further assistance
please contact us again soon!
Martha Hutzel
Branch Manager
Snow Memorial Library
