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10 best books like Airball: My Life in Briefs (L.D. Harkrader): The Twinkie Squad, Defiance, Samurai Shortstop, Stumptown Kid, Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment, Painting the Black, Go Big or Go Home, Gabriel's Horses, Wing Nut, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black

The Twinkie Squad
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0785724931
4.5 stars

I absolutely LOVED this!!! One of my friends has been recommending this book to me for years, but I could never find it in the library and kept forgetting to order it.

Finally, I ordered it, from the library, but then wasn't home when it came and wasn't able to pick it up (super...
Defiance
AuthorValerie Hobbs
ISBN0374308470
Winner of the 2008 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) in the Children's Products competition. A memorable trio of characters, each fighting for independence
Eleven-year-old Toby Steiner wants to do normal things on his vacation: he wants to hike and race his bike down the hill and...
Samurai Shortstop
AuthorAlan Gratz
ISBN0803730756
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It’s only...
Stumptown Kid
AuthorCarol Gorman
ISBN1561454125
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small...
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment
AuthorFrances O'Roark Dowell
ISBN1416947345
Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, aka Mac:

1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.

2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.

3. He does...
Painting the Black
AuthorCarl Deuker
ISBN0380731045
When a hard ball is coming at you fast, and when it's dancing, too, every single nerve in your body is alert and ready. Your eyes are wide open, and the adrenaline is pumping. It's not a feeling you want to give up, any more than you want to get off a roller coaster.

In his senior year of high school,...
Go Big or Go Home
AuthorWill Hobbs
ISBN0060741414
A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . .

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever!

Fred,...
Gabriel's Horses
AuthorAlison Hart
ISBN1561453986
In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey.
The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother-making...
Wing Nut
AuthorMary Jane Auch
ISBN0805075313
"Grady, can you pick up that wing nut for me?"
"The what?"
"The wing nut I just dropped. It has two little projections on it that look like wings. It fell into that patch of grass."
Grady dropped to his knees and felt through the grass until he found it. He couldn't help smiling about the name--wing...
The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black
AuthorEden Unger Bowditch
ISBN1610880021
-In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker...
Athlete vs. Mathlete
AuthorW.C. Mack
ISBN1599908581
Owen Evans lights up the scoreboards. His brother, Russell, rocks the school boards. These twin brothers couldn't be more different. They've long kept the peace by going their separate ways, but all that is about to change. The new basketball coach recruits Russell for the seventh grade team and a jealous...
Dory Dory Black Sheep
AuthorAbby Hanlon
ISBN1101994266
Dory the rascal tackles friendship, losing teeth, and learning to read in a hilarious new chapter book that is perfect for readers of Ivy and Bean
 
School has been pretty good so far. Dory has made a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits as are big as her own. Reading is proving to...
Paper Daughter
AuthorJeanette Ingold
Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with the thrill of the newsroom, and when her father is killed, she is determined to keep his dreams alive by interning at the local newspaper.

While assisting on her first story, Maggie learns that her...
Larger-Than-Life Lara
AuthorDandi Daley Mackall
ISBN0525477268
When Lara Phelps walks into Laney Grafton's fourth-grade class, Laney feels the air change. Lara is fat. Really fat. Finally, there will be someone else for the boys to pick on, Laney thinks. But as the class prepares for the school play, Lara doesn't act the way a fat kid should. She's confident. She's...
Free Baseball
AuthorSue Corbett
ISBN0525471200
Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a team with Cuban players comes into town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad, and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s when...
The Mailbox
AuthorAudrey Shafer
ISBN0385733445
Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed. Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care system until a social worker located his Uncle Vernon two years before. When he comes home to discover that his...
101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
AuthorLee Wardlaw
ISBN0142403407
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt was born to invent things, and his latest gadget—the Nice Alarm, which wakes you up with a gentle tap on the shoulder—promises to make him rich and famous! All Sneeze needs to do is attend the Invention Convention, and he will be catapulted into stardom. So, when Sneeze’s convention...
A Smidgen of Sky
AuthorDianna Dorisi Winget
ISBN0547807988
Whether she likes it or not, ten-year-old Piper Lee DeLuna is about to get a new family. Four years after the plane Piper's daddy was piloting disappeared, her mama is remarrying. The way Piper sees it, Mama's being plain disloyal. Besides, who'd want to get stuck with a prison guard for a stepdad and...
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