Amelia Rules! Volume 2: What Makes You Happy
10 best books like Amelia Rules! Volume 2: What Makes You Happy (Jimmy Gownley): Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom, Zita the Spacegirl, Mighty Jack, Half Brother, The Nest, The Cloud Searchers, Word Nerd, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, Click, Silverwing
| Author | Susin Nielsen |
| ISBN | 0887769772 |
Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs...
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1596434465 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Zita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye.
When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new...
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day...
| Author | Kenneth Oppel |
| ISBN | 1441871497 |
For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan — an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben’s father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine whether...
For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves....
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0545208858 |
An impossible journey with danger at every turn...
Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival...
Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they...
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
| Author | G. Neri |
| ISBN | 1584302674 |
In August of 1994, 11-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer — nicknamed for his love of sweets — fired a gun at a group of rival gangmembers, accidentally killing a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Police searched Chicago’s southside for three days before finding Yummy dead in a railway tunnel,...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328911128 |
A debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in school.
Olive wants to get in on the act . . .
. . . Any act!
Olive “clicks” with everyone in the fifth grade—until one day she doesn’t. When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to...
| Author | Kenneth Oppel |
| ISBN | 0006481795 |
Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately...
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country.
Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no...
| Author | Scott Chantler |
| ISBN | 1554534143 |
As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her...
| Author | Jeremy Whitley |
| ISBN | 1632291169 |
Angoisse Ashe, the oft-forgotten middle sister of the Ashe royal family, is locked in a castle deep in the swamp. Not only is her castle guarded by zombies, but the swamp is full of dangerous hazards. Everything from quicksand to goblins to swamp monsters to VAMPIRES! But does that give Adrienne pause?...
Fresh from fighting vampires, zombies and giant creatures in the swamp—Princess Adrienne, Bedelia the Blacksmith and Sparky the Dragon are in for their biggest adventure yet! Join our team of fearless ladies as they set off into the mountains to save twin princesses Andrea and Antonia. They’ll...
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
| Author | Susin Nielsen |
| ISBN | 1770493727 |
I don't know how she does it.
The 'she' of course refers to Nielsen, author of Word Nerd, Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom, and now The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen. Three consecutively published middle-grade/YA novels I have loved, each one beautifully written, with diverse...
Princeless, Vol. 6: Make Yourself Part 2
Mothers, Daughters, Dwarves, and Dragons collide in the epic conclusion to "Princeless: Make Yourself." Return to the snow covered mountains of The Rim for the epic conclusion of "Make Yourself," the biggest arc of Princeless yet! Will Bedelia's reunion with her mom be any of what she hoped for or will...
| Author | Nancy Hartry |
| ISBN | 1770493603 |
Watching Jimmy is impossible-to-put-down; full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, Carolyn relates what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy, when his uncle chose the perfect time to teach him a lesson he would never forget. The truth is Jimmy didn't fall from a swing like...
CatStronauts: Mission Moon
| Author | Drew Brockington |
| ISBN | 0316307475 |
CatStronauts, you are needed!
When the world is thrust into darkness due to a global energy shortage, the World's Best Scientist comes up with a bold plan to set up a solar power plant on the moon. But someone has to go up there to set it up, and that adventure falls to the CatStronauts, the best...
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 0310761913 |
Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah’s love interest since third grade, Sam, will never take it past the “best friend” zone. Noah...
