Books like Making waves by Randi Reisfeld

A high school drama that dramatizes a classroom experiment where students create a fascist society, forcing the narrator to confront authority and peer pressure.

Thirteen‑year‑old Lakshmi leaves her impoverished Himalayan home for India, only to discover she has been sold into prostitution. With fierce resilience and new friendships, she fights her captivity and seeks a way back to freedom.

Ruthless, a mystery novel for teens, revolves around four high school seniors who have been terrorized by a relentless stalker named A. Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer must navigate their own secrets and fears as they try to uncover the truth behind the killer.

In 1900s Minnesota, shy Betsy Ray finally finds a playmate when a new family moves in across the street. Her friendship with Tacy Kely turns into a legendary duo, Betsy‑Tacy, as they build a playhouse, start a sand store, and add new companions to their circle.

A tale of manners and expectations in the city versus the countryside, exploring the clash between Polly and her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw.

When Karen befriends Addie, a girl with cerebral palsy, she learns that true friendship means learning to support without overstepping.

"On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her"--From publisher's website.

A ghost story of loneliness and friendship on the beach.

When Emma, Skylar, Jo and Maddie return to their camp for a weekend of canoeing, midnight swims, and capture‑the‑flag, old memories and new secrets surface, turning the getaway into an unexpected adventure.