After All, You're Callie Boone
10 best books like After All, You're Callie Boone (Winnie Mack): Blended, Because of Mr. Terupt, The Apothecary, Running Out of Time, Love, Stargirl, Bread Givers, The Trouble with May Amelia, Spy School, There's a Bat in Bunk Five, Big Girl Small
| Author | Sharon M. Draper |
| ISBN | 1442495006 |
"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?”
Eleven-year-old Isabella is used to these kinds of comments - her father is black, her mother is white - but that doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than...
It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who...
It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin’s father is kidnapped,...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 0439632501 |
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0375913750 |
LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing,...
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| ISBN | 0892552905 |
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 1416913734 |
May Amelia Jackson captured readers' hearts in the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia. Now, after over ten years, Jennifer Holm is bringing this beloved character back in a beautiful way. The Trouble with May Amelia is a gorgeously written story that's as heartbreaking as it is funny. May Amelia...
| Author | Stuart Gibbs |
| ISBN | 1442421827 |
Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it’ll be fun to watch him try!
Ben Ripley may only be in middle school, but he’s already pegged his dream job: C.I.A. or bust. Unfortunately for him, his personality doesn’t exactly scream “secret agent.” In...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406813 |
In this book I think the author wants us to know that Marcy is a girl who doesn't really fit in with most people because of how she looks. Also Marcy and her father don't have a good connection.But when she goes to this special writing camp to be a counselor, her life just turns so much better. I think the author...
| Author | Rachel DeWoskin |
| ISBN | 0374112576 |
A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old - sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0440229219 |
Newbery Honor Winner Ruth White gives readers an unforgettable story of one girl’s experience growing up with a sister that develops schizophrenia.
It’s 1955 when 13-year-old Lyric moves with her father and older sister, Summer, from a small Virginia town to the big industrial city...
| Author | Ron Roy |
| ISBN | 0613048172 |
The sentence structure, writing, and/or narratioon was stilted at least in the beginning. The adults had some moments, in particular, where their dialogue was so off I could liken it only to someone inexperienced focused on getting the next part in and forgetting how to do so smoothly, or a placeholder...
