A Tinfoil Sky
10 best books like A Tinfoil Sky (Cyndi Sand-Eveland): Guts, A Stone Sat Still, The Great Paper Caper, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave, Bruce's Big Move, The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School, Wrecking Ball, Boy-Crazy Stacey, The Hueys in the New Sweater, Fake
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
| Author | Brendan Wenzel |
| ISBN | 1452173184 |
I simply loved this book because it has the potential for different perspectives of how and when we read it. It will be different for the children. They will enjoy the illustrations and the various animals and flora depicted in relation to the stone. And as for adults, I feel this book describes a home to...
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0007182295 |
The wonderful Oliver Jeffers, illustrator of such books as
The Day the Crayons Quit
, and author/illustrator of titles like
How to Catch a Star
, creates an entertaining picture-book mystery and ecological fable in The Great Paper Caper. As the residents of the forest notice that branches have...
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 0857532936 |
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.
Then, while shining shoes...
| Author | Ryan T. Higgins |
| ISBN | 1368003540 |
I like grumpy ol’ Bruce. He has 4 geese as children and 3 rowdy mice live with him. The 3 rowdy mice drive him crazy. They are, noisy and messy. Wow, that sounds just like children. It’s amazing how loud and messy kids can be. I mean, it’s unbelievable. It’s so bad for Bruce, that he decides to move...
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
| Author | Laura Murray |
| ISBN | 0399250522 |
When a class leaves for recess, their just-baked Gingerbread Man is left behind. But he's a smart cookie and heads out to find them. He'll run, slide, skip, and (after a mishap with a soccer ball) limp as fast as he can because: "I can catch them! I'm their Gingerbread Man!"
With help from the gym...
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| ISBN | 1419739034 |
In Wrecking Ball, Book 14 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series—from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney—an unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When...
| Author | Gale Galligan |
| ISBN | 1338304518 |
Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. Things are great in Sea City: There's a gorgeous house right on the beach, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand... and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen!
Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott...
The Hueys in the New Sweater
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0399257675 |
A brand-new series and cast of characters from the mind of Oliver Jeffers
The Hueys are small and mischievous, unique compared to the world's other creatures--but hardly unique to one another. You see, each Huey looks the same, thinks the same, and does the same exact things. So you can imagine...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm so glad social media wasn't really a thing back when I was growing up. By the time I graduated high school, most people were just starting to realize there was more to the internet than Prodigy chat rooms and AOL. As if the teenage years weren't tough enough, it...
