A Bear Named Trouble
10 best books like A Bear Named Trouble (Marion Dane Bauer): One Crazy Summer, The Shell Seekers, Under the Egg, Sounder, Ghosts of Greenglass House, The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, A Snicker of Magic, Stone Fox
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0060760885 |
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion...
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent...
| Author | Laura Marx Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0803740018 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle-grade debut.
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s...
| Author | William H. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0064400204 |
Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him.
During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the...
Ghosts of Greenglass House
| Author | Kate Milford |
| ISBN | 1328828921 |
Once again, Greenglass House has been inundated at Christmas time, just as it was the previous year. Thirteen-year-old Milo Pine has been struggling with being the odd kid at school, a Chinese adoptee in an insensitive, mostly white, world. He was hoping to nurse his wounds over Christmas break, alone...
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
| Author | Alexandra Bracken |
| ISBN | 1484778170 |
I would say it's a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness.
Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history — that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out...
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0062333461 |
Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick
From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful...
| Author | Natalie Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0545552702 |
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...
| Author | John Reynolds Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0064401324 |
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.
Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls...
| Author | Ted Dekker |
| ISBN | 1595542779 |
A freak storm has spawned three tornadoes that are bearing down on the town of Summerville.
Yet under the cover of the storm looms a much more ominous threat: A vindictive killer known as Red who's left a string of victims in his wake and is now bent on exacting his final revenge on the unsuspecting...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1101918357 |
Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to find a way to forage,...
| Author | Laura Resau |
| ISBN | 0545800846 |
Nothing exciting happens on the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico in the 1950s. There's no electricity, no plumbing, no cars, just day after day of pasturing goats. And now, without his sister and mother, eleven-year-old Teo's life feels even more barren.
And then one day, the...
Unbound: A Novel in Verse
| Author | Ann E. Burg |
| ISBN | 0545934273 |
From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-verse that is a gripping, transcendent story about a little-known piece of slave history.
The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep...
| Author | Mark Lowry |
| ISBN | 0849942047 |
In"Live & Die Laughing, "comedian/singer Mark Lowry pulls his wild-and-wacky train of thought into the station with musings about everything from God's character to church potlucks. Using material from his email newsletter, along with responses from its nearly 40,000 subscribers ("reMarkable,"www.marklowry.com),...
Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness.
Home...
Weird Stories from the Lonesome Cafe
| Author | Judy Cox |
| ISBN | 0439219426 |
When Sam decides to spend the summer working in his uncle's restaurant located in the middle of the Nevada desert, he doesn't expect to see too much excitement. But that all changes when some very strange characters see the Help Wanted sign in the window. Before long, ten-year-old Sam is fending off a...
The King of Show-and-Tell
| Author | Abby Klein |
| ISBN | 0439555981 |
Watch out, Junie, there's a new kid on the block! It's Freddy Thresher, a first grader who knows it's a jungle out there. A new chapter book series written by an elementary teacher who's seen it all!
Freddy Thresher has a problem: a really, really, big problem. He never has anything cool to bring...
