Books like Still here by Rowan Blanchard

The Hate U Give tracks 16‑year‑old Starr Carter, a Black teenager from a poor Bronx neighborhood who attends an elite private school, as she confronts police violence, social media battles, and community turmoil after witnessing her friend’s shooting.

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

A powerful coming‑of‑age story about a young black hip‑hop artist fighting for her dreams amid the challenges of family, poverty, and the struggle for free expression.

A gifted and rebellious runner is pulled onto a top middle‑school track squad, where he must confront personal and family challenges while discovering his true potential.

Justyce McAllister, a high‑achieving African‑American student, finds himself at the center of a police brutality incident that forces him to confront race, identity, and justice in contemporary America.

In a tense sixty seconds, a young boy faces a choice that will determine whether he seeks revenge for his brother’s death or walks away from violence.

In Harlem, Xiomara Batista learns to use her voice and verse to fight for herself and her dreams, turning lyrical poetry into her most powerful tool.

A practical, supportive guide that helps teenage girls understand and manage Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, offering insights into mental health, strategies for daily life, and encouragement for self‑confidence and well‑being.

High‑school senior Emoni Santiago balances teenage motherhood, family responsibilities, and a love of cooking, discovering her culinary talent while navigating the challenges of a single‑parent household.

A practical guide for teenage girls covering money‑making, puberty, and everyday life skills, complemented by games and activities.

A guided journal for teenage girls that blends quizzes, creative activities, and psychology to help them explore skills, dreams, desires, and self‑perception.

A curious rabbit learns that patience and practical etiquette can help solve everyday mysteries, teaching young readers the value of wonder, friendship, and respectful communication.

From the book:THE best preface to this journal written by a young girl belonging to the upper middle class is a letter by Sigmund Freud dated April 27, 1915, a letter wherein the distinguished Viennese psychologist testifies to the permanent value of the document: "This diary is a gem. Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal develop-ment. We are shown how the sentiments pass from the simple egoism of childhood to attain maturity; how the relationships to parents and other members of the family first shape themselves, and how they gradually become more serious and more intimate; how friendships are formed and broken. We are shown the dawn of love, feeling out towards its first objects. Above all, we are shown how the mystery of the sexual life first presses itself vaguely on the attention, and then takes entire possession of the growing intelligence, so that the child suffers under the load of secret knowledge but gradually becomes enabled to shoulder the burden. Of all these things we have a description at once so charming, so serious, and so artless, that it cannot fail to be of supreme interest to educationists and psychologists.

A practical guide offering ten proven strategies to help teenage girls build confidence, improve friendships, and develop healthy social skills.

A lively, illustrated guide that helps tween girls understand the physical and emotional changes of puberty, from periods and body hair to crushes and new feelings.