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10 best books like Becoming Naomi León (Pam Muñoz Ryan): A Snicker of Magic, Rain Reign, The Old Willis Place, Love, Ruby Lavender, Red Kayak, The Thief Lord, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World, Ban This Book, Ruby Holler, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

A Snicker of Magic
AuthorNatalie Lloyd
ISBN0545552702
Introducing an extraordinary new voice---a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten . . .and your heart sing.

Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove...
Rain Reign
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0312643004
Rose Howard has Asperger’s syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Rain was a lost dog Rose’s father brought home. Rose and Rain are practically...
The Old Willis Place
AuthorMary Downing Hahn
ISBN0618430180
Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. But when a new caretaker comes to live there with his young daughter,...
Love, Ruby Lavender
AuthorDeborah Wiles
ISBN0152054782
Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves. What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate their own personal secret-letter...
Red Kayak
AuthorPriscilla Cummings
ISBN0142405736
Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns...
The Thief Lord
AuthorCornelia Funke
ISBN1903434777
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.

Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with...
Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
AuthorKatherine Hannigan
ISBN0060730269
Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.

That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook.

Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping,...
Ban This Book
AuthorAlan Gratz
ISBN0765385562
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath

An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...
Ruby Holler
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0060560150
From Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it.

Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imaginations...
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0064409600
Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.

Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's...
Greetings from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374399379
Aggie isn't expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a soul has come to stay in nearly three...
Runaway Twin
AuthorPeg Kehret
ISBN0525421777
A unique story of separated twins and the unexpected consequences of their reunion. Sunny Skyland longs to be reunited with her twin sister, Starr. With only an old photograph, taken a few days before the girls were separated at age three, to guide her, Sunny begins the cross-country journey that she...
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