Please enjoy this booklist featuring characters intent on getting even.
Anderson, Jodi Lynn
Loser/Queen
High school nonentity Cammy Hall lives with her grandparents and has one friend–Gerdi, the Danish foreign exchange student–but when someone starts sending her mysterious text messages with instructions that make her more noticeable, she must decide what kind of life she wants to lead.
Brooks, Kevin
iBoy
When Tom gets smashed in the head with an iPhone from 22 stories above, he starts using his brain in new ways to exact revenge on his attackers. See previous blog post
Collins, Yvonne.
Love, Inc.
When three fifteen-year-old Austin, Texas, girls who met in group therapy discover that they are all dating the same boy, they first get revenge and then start a wildly successful relationship consulting business. KBR blogged about this
Cook, Eileen
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood
In eighth grade, Lauren publicly betrayed her best friend Helen and humiliated her so badly that Helen moved away, but as Lauren starts her senior year of high school, Helen returns with a new appearance and a plot to get revenge.
Downham, Jenny
You Against Me
When eighteen-year-old Mikey’s younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, he meets Ellie, the sister of the accused, and befriends her, complicating the situation considerably for all of them.
Harmon, Michael
The Chamber of Five
When seventeen-year-old Jason is invited to join the secretive Chamber of Five, an elite group of students who run Lambert School for the Gifted, he sees how corrupt the institution is and decides to work from the inside to take it down when things go too far.
Higgins, F.E.
The Eyeball Collector
When a blackmail artist reveals a secret from the past, wealthy Hector Fitzbaudly ends up losing his social standing and fortune, prompting him to seek revenge on the man responsible for the act, the sinister Eyeball Collector.
O’Connell, Mary
The Sharp Time
In the week following her mother’s death in a freak accident, eighteen-year-old Sandanista Jones finds small measures of happiness even as she fantasizes about an act of revenge against an abusive teacher at her high school.
Reid, Kimberly
My Own Worst Frenemy
Chanti Evans moves from the streets of Detroit to the exclusive Langdon prepatory school, where her upbringing immediately makes her a suspect in the string of thefts occurring on campus, and she must find the culprit and clear her name.
Happy Reading!
Holly, CLP-Main
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