A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

10 best books like A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (Deborah Hopkinson): The Fixer, Inkling, Restart, Some Kind of Courage, The Land of Forgotten Girls, Shadow Magic, Beautiful Blue World, Beyond the Bright Sea, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, Nothing but Trouble

The Fixer

Author	Jennifer Lynn Barnes
ISBN	1619635941

This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars.

Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entire life on her grandfather's ranch. But when her estranged sister Ivy uproots her to D.C., Tess is thrown into a world that revolves around politics and power. She also starts at Hardwicke Academy,...

Inkling

Author	Kenneth Oppel
ISBN	1443450286

Ethan’s dad is a comic artist whose greatest creation, the mutant superhero Kren, brought him fame and glory. But after his dad’s string of successful books, a tragedy strikes the family and now his dad is completely stuck.

If only artistic talent were hereditary. Ethan is stuck on a graphic-novel...

Restart

Author	Gordon Korman
ISBN	1338053779

Chase's memory just went out the window.

Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.

He...

Some Kind of Courage

Author	Dan Gemeinhart
ISBN	0545665779

A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2016

Saddle up for a life-defining, death-defying adventure.

Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony--fast, fierce, beautiful...

The Land of Forgotten Girls

Author	Erin Entrada Kelly
ISBN	0062238647

Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living in impoverished circumstances in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better.

Soledad has always been able to escape into the stories she creates. Just like her mother always could. And Soledad has needed that escape...

Shadow Magic

Author

Joshua Khan

Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire.

Lilith Shadow wasn't supposed to be ruler of Gehenna. But following the murder of her...

Beautiful Blue World

Author	Suzanne LaFleur
ISBN	0735286639

Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they'll be all right.

But the army is recruiting children, and paying families well for their service. If Megs takes...

Beyond the Bright Sea

Author	Lauren Wolk
ISBN	1101994851

From the author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollow comes a moving story of identity and belonging.

Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was...

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Author	Lynda Blackmon Lowery
ISBN	0803741235

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...

Nothing but Trouble

Author	Jacqueline Davies
ISBN	0062369903

Odawahaka has always been too small for Maggie’s big scientific ideas. Between her stuck-in-a-rut mom, her grumpy grandpop, and the lifetime supply of sludgy soda in the fridge, it’s hard for Maggie to imagine a change. 

But when Lena moves in with her creative spirit and outrageous...

Soar

Author

Joan Bauer

Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!

Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....

Full of Beans

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0553510398

Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
 
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...

Adventures with Waffles

Author	Maria Parr
ISBN	0763672815

Dei som ikkje alt har lese denne hjartevarmaren av ein roman bør snarast gjere det. Klassikar, rett og slett!

Trille er sikker på at nabo Lena Lid er bestevennen hans. Men han er ikkje sikker på om han er bestevennen til Lena Lid.

I denne boka følgjer vi to svært oppfinnsame niåringar...

Paper Wishes

Author	Lois Sepahban
ISBN	0374302162

A moving debut novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II—and the dog she has to leave behind.

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack...

The Girl in the Tower

Author

Lisa Schroeder

Ever since she can remember, ten-year-old Violet and her mother have been locked away in a tower by the evil Queen Bogdana, who has the kingdom under her spell. The queen has everything she wants except for one thing -- beauty. Violet possesses this beauty. She also has a secret: although she is very small,...

Gertie's Leap to Greatness

Author

Kate Beasley

Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission...

Mayday

Author

Karen Harrington

A powerful coming-of-age story about the importance of finding your voice

Wayne Kovok lives in a world of After. After his uncle in the army was killed overseas. After Wayne and his mother survived a plane crash while coming back from the funeral. After he lost his voice.

Wayne has always...

Crossing the Deadline: Stephen's Journey Through the Civil War

Author	Michael Shoulders
ISBN	1585369519

When Stephen's father passes away in 1861, he and his mother and brother are left at the mercy of a cruel uncle. As the Civil War intensifies to the south, Stephen's brother enlists to fight for the Union and help support the family. The war drags on and Stephen, an accomplished bugler in the town band, is...