Almost Starring Skinnybones
10 best books like Almost Starring Skinnybones (Barbara Park): Eirelan, Horror at the Haunted House, Horrible Harry at Halloween, [citation Needed]: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing, Hannah Montana The Movie: The Junior Novel, The Meanwhile Adventures, Molly Takes Flight, Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, The Eye of Horus
| Author | Liam O'Shiel |
| ISBN | 1463569327 |
"As Uinseann often says, we must be content with life and love and the beauty of the Earth. All the rest is dust in the wind." - Liadan Conmaicne Laigain.
Enter into a familiar world that is unfamiliar, a friendly world that is threatening, a world where honor and sacrifice are expected of all....
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0142301469 |
It was a job any kid would kill for: to play a role in the Historical Society's Haunted House Halloween fundraising event. Ellen Streater was thrilled to play Joan of Arc, burning at the stake. It was for a good cause—to benefit the eerie old Clayton House, soon to reopen as a museum. They said the house...
| Author | Suzy Kline |
| ISBN | 0141306750 |
Horrible Harry and his classmates all love Halloween. Everyone wears a costume to school-even Miss Mackle. Every Halloween Harry shocks his classmates with his scary costume. In kindergarten he was a bloody Count Dracula, in first grade he was the Loch Ness Monster, and in second grade he was a slithering...
| Author | Conor Lastowka |
| ISBN | 1466346981 |
Do you need help telling the difference between a Renaissance Pope and an oracular octopus? Do you need details on what inappropriate body parts the attendees at Wing Bowl expose to one another? Do you need an accounting of which movies in the Air Bud series contain the fewest fart jokes? Fortunately,...
Hannah Montana The Movie: The Junior Novel
| Author | Dan Berendsen |
| ISBN | 1423118162 |
This must-have junior novel with an 8-page full-color insert retells the story of the much-anticipated theatrical release of Hannah Montana, slated for release in Spring 2009! A sneaky newspaper reporter is on a mission to discover Hannah Montana's secret! If he finds out that the pop sensation is...
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 0439963311 |
Mr Mack is out of a job and sets his mind to inventions - whilst unbeknownst to him Mrs Mack decides to walk around the world without telling anyone. But, Mr Mack's inventions get him into trouble when he's arrested for inadvertently holding up a bank. It's up to his children and their amazing dog, Rover,...
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 1562477676 |
World War Two is changing everything in Molly's life. First Dad left for England, and now Aunt Eleanor plans to join the WASPs--the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. In Molly Takes Flight, Molly longs for something that won't change, like the North Star shining at the end of the Little Dipper.
After...
Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116879 |
This book is about a boy who is looking forward to his birthday thats coming up soon.He stopped being his usual self to get things he need for his upcoming birthday.Ex:sweets, birthday invitaion,and etc. You must think he's crazy for needing sweets but this is because his mother doesn't let the family...
| Author | Frank X. Walker |
| ISBN | 0820345415 |
Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De...
| Author | Peter McGrath |
| ISBN | 0307931404 |
Summary:
Nina Martin, the new American girl now lives with eight other students in the Anubis house to attend an English boarding school. Nina is giving an eye-shaped locket, and is told that with it she is the only one that has the power to unlock the dark secrets of Anubis house. Now Nina finds...
Judy Moody's Double-Rare Way-Not-Boring Book of Fun Stuff to Do
| Author | Megan McDonald |
| ISBN | 0763627690 |
Warning: This awesome activity book is guaranteed to put kids in their all-time best-ever mood.
Dive right in and join the T.P. (Take out your Pencil) Club for hours of Judy Moody fun! Get the low-down on Screamin' Mimi's ice cream, knock yourself out learning knock-knock jokes, try out your...
The Book of Three: Volume 2
| Author | Diana G. Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1416925309 |
What a wonderful throwback to my favorite TV show since I was a teenager!
I love how much work the creators of the book - and show - put into these two books.
Volume 2 includes a family history on the entire Halliwell/Warren line, biographies of the Charmed Ones, including a list of their jobs, their...
| Author | Suzanne Harper |
| ISBN | 1423111818 |
The Surf Series is coming to Malibu and that means boards, boys... and summer concerts. The major competition hosts some of the hottest international young talent on the waves--including Miley's crush of the moment--Australian-born Talen Wright. So when Hannah Montana is asked by the Surf Series...
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0312377932 |
What would you do if your best friend was:
1. Imaginary?
2. An oversize blue chimp in surfer shorts? (Potentially embarrassing, but hey, no one else can see him . . . right?)
3. Proposing a plan to help you improve your life?
4. Did we say imaginary?
5. Driving you crazy?!?!
Now...
| Author | Nancy J. Cavanaugh |
| ISBN | 1492604275 |
Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?! Avery and Becca, my “Chinese Sisters,” that’s who. We’re not really sisters—we were just adopted from the same orphanage. And we’re nothing alike. They sing Chinese love songs on the bus to summer camp, and I pretend like I don’t know them.
To...
| Author | Barbara Steiner |
| ISBN | 1593694806 |
Samantha can't wait to take Nellie to Piney Point, Grandmary's summer home in the mountains. But the girls arrive to find the lodge plagued with accidents--and Grandmary begins to think about selling. Samantha and Nellie must figure out what's going on before they lose Piney Point forever! Includes...
| Author | Susan Patron |
| ISBN | 1416990585 |
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD LUCKY adores Miles—a cookie fiend, genius, and the closest she’s got to a little brother. But when Miles’s mother returns to Hard Pan, Lucky finds herself with a tricky, challenging moral dilemma and no idea what to do about it. She also gets into big-time trouble for starting...
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| ISBN | 1780810296 |
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| Author | Clifford Odets |
| ISBN | 0827440197 |
This was an ok play, but not really my cup of tea. This is a Depression-era worker's activist play, inciting the workers to strike for better conditions and so on. The problem I have with a lot of political texts is that they frequently sacrifice art for direct political commentary, which doesn't appeal...
