100 Best Books for Children

7 best books like 100 Best Books for Children (Anita Silvey): To Night Owl from Dogfish, The Spellman Files, I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks, Signora Da Vinci, Curse of the Spellmans, Sleeping in My Jeans, Don't Get Caught

To Night Owl from Dogfish

Author	Holly Goldberg Sloan
ISBN	0525553231

From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless,...

The Spellman Files

Author	Lisa Lutz
ISBN	0743571355

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the...

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Author	Gina Sheridan
ISBN	1440576246

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!

From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout these pages,...

Signora Da Vinci

Author	Robin Maxwell
ISBN	0451225805

Novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina--the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.

Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever.

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Curse of the Spellmans

Author	Lisa Lutz
ISBN	1416532412

THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny...

Sleeping in My Jeans

Author	Connie King Leonard
ISBN	1947845004

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins has it all figured out. She'll ace her advanced high school courses, earn a college scholarship, and create a new life for herself and her family. There's no time for distractions—no friends, no fun, and especially no boys.

But Mattie's brilliant plan crumbles...

Don't Get Caught

Author	Kurt Dinan
ISBN	1492630144

10:00 tonight at the water tower. Tell no one. -Chaos Club

When Max receives a mysterious invite from the untraceable, epic prank-pulling Chaos Club, he has to ask: why him? After all, he's Mr. 2.5 GPA, Mr. No Social Life. He's Just Max. And his favorite heist movies have taught him this situation...