Dramatic Real Life Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• fiction
• dramatic stories
• real-life stories
• books that are similar to White Oleander or Sarah Dessen novels

The Summer I Turned Pretty 
By Jenny Han
YA F HAN
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

Miracle 
By Elizabeth Scott
YA F SCOTT
Rising senior and star soccer player Megan Hathaway, unable to remember the plane crash of which she was the sole survivor, feels like an empty shell and loses all interest in her life and her friends, but unlikely friends help her face life as a "miracle."

The Language of Flowers 
By Vanessa Diffenbaugh
F DIFFENBAUGH
The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 
By Jamie Ford
F FORD
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.