A Million Shades of Gray
10 best books like A Million Shades of Gray (Cynthia Kadohata): The Alcatraz Escape, The Perfect Score, Beverly, Right Here, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, The Odds of Getting Even, Bink & Gollie, Lifeboat 12, Sanity & Tallulah, Breaking Stalin's Nose, An Elephant in the Garden
| Author | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman |
Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times bestselling Book Scavenger series!
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action―this time with “Unlock the Rock.” For his...
| Author | Rob Buyea |
| ISBN | 1101938250 |
No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods's sixth-grade class, not even their teacher. It's not like the kids don't already have things to worry about. . . .
Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763694649 |
Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....
| Author | Sheila Turnage |
| ISBN | 0803736711 |
The eagerly anticipated followup to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times Lucky
Small towns have rules. One is, you got to stay who you are – no matter how many murders you solve.
When Miss Lana makes an Accidental Bid at the Tupelo auction and winds up...
| Author | Sheila Turnage |
| ISBN | 0803739613 |
Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times Lucky.
The trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, NC. Mo and Dale, aka Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy--confessed kidnapper...
Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks,...
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.
With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...
| Author | Molly Brooks |
| ISBN | 1368008445 |
Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, when gifted scientist Sanity uses her lab skills and energy allowance to create a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, she has...
| Author | Eugene Yelchin |
| ISBN | 0805092161 |
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...
An Elephant in the Garden
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0312593694 |
With Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene. The bombing of Dresden is imminent and soon, so the zoo...
