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Thanks for requesting a Book Match. Since you like books by Sharon Draper, you might like to try Jacqueline Woodson and Angela Johnson. I’ve included a book by each of them on this list, but they have others. Hope you enjoy all the books I’ve suggested.

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

Ttfn (Ta-Ta for Now) - Lauren Myracle.
This sequel to the breakout bestseller, Ttyl (a novel told entirely in instant messages), follows Maddie, Zoe, and Angela through their next year in high school, 11th grade. There's trouble and lots of IMs ahead for the Winsome Threesome.
Angela has just found out that her family is moving to El Cerrito,
California, and she seriously doesn't know how she'll survive without
her best friends. Maddie makes some really bad moves with Clive, a

BOSTON JANE by Jennifer L. Holm.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Here are some other vampire and werewolf titles that you may enjoy, too.

In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when,as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. There is a sequel to this called Demon in my View. Atwater-Rhodes has written a number of other really good vampire and vampire hunter titles.

Here are a couple other titles you may enjoy:

Sloppy Firsts
In her fresh fiction debut, first-time novelist McCafferty takes readers through a year in the life of smart, sarcastic Jessica Darling as she copes with the perils of high school.

Flavor of the Week
Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes recipes from the story.

What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones.

Sophie's mother doesn't know about the boy who's pressing Sophie to go further than she wants. Or about the boy she chats with online. These sharp, funny, and tragic poems tell of Sophie's sometimes painful but always passionate journey of self-discovery.

Owl in Love also has a bit of fantasy, so I wondered if that is another element that you might like, so I included a few of those. I also included a few light reads, since you mentioned liking that as well. Here are some titles I hope you'll enjoy:

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause.
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

Here are some titles that you might find interesting.....

Zel by Donna Jo Napoli.
It is based on the fairy tale Rapunzel...told in alternating chapters
from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince. It goes into the psychological motivation of all the characters.

The Great God Pan by Donna Jo Napoli.
A retelling of the Greek myths about Pan...whose reed flute frolicking leads him to a meeting with Iphigenia a human raised as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra.