Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst
10 best books like Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst (Lois Lowry): Ramona the Brave, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Spy School British Invasion, Double Act, The Long Secret, The Mystery of the Monster Movie, The Headless Cupid, Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence, Dragon Overnight
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0192751077 |
I've had a copy of Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Brave somewhere in my house, regardless of where I've lived or how old my kids are, for 4 decades now, but I never had the audiobook, narrated by Stockard Channing.
I don't really “do” audiobooks (exceptions made by books narrated by Colin Firth...
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0142408794 |
Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs.
When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0440800463 |
Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus�who's tempermental enough...
| Author | Stuart Gibbs |
| ISBN | 1534424709 |
Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series.
Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs to take...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0440867592 |
Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They're identical, and they do EVERYTHING together, especially since their mother died three years earlier - but they couldn't be more different. Bossy, bouncy, funny Ruby loves to take charge, and is desperate to be a famous actress, while quiet, sensitive,...
| Author | Louise Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0440418194 |
Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill. She’s determined to discover the author of the notes. And she drags her friend, mousy Beth Ellen, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0142400173 |
The original Cam Jansen series follows the exploits of 10-year-old 5th grader Jennifer "the Camera" (aka "Cam") Jansen and her best friend, classmate, and neighbor Eric Shelton. Cam got her nickname because of her photographic memory. All she has to do is say "Click," and Cam can remember everything...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440228956 |
I was 12 when I first picked up this book, I had just move hundreds of miles away from my home to a new school new step family and knew nobody. Honestly I only desided to read it because the two main characters were David and Amanda. David and Amanda were the names of 2 cousins I missed very much.
But after...
Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence
| Author | Ruth Haley Barton |
| ISBN | 0830823867 |
Winner of a Christianity Today 2005 Book Award!To seek to fill a book with words about moving beyond words into solitude and silence is a daunting task; it is laughable really, if one sees the irony in it all. I have found myself . . . drawn to the task and yet somehow strangely resistant. On the one hand, I...
Nory Horace can turn herself into a kitten. But sometimes she adds in a bit of dragon and, well, accidentally turns into a dritten. Oops? Her friend Andres Padillo can fly high . . . but then he can’t fly back down again.
Nory and Andres are in an Upside-Down Magic class with other kids who have...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0590664875 |
Because schools so often assign them, over the last few years I've read and reread Cleary's "Dear Mr. Henshaw" and "Strider" countless times, but never went any farther into her catalog. That wasn't due to my opinion of these books (they are both very good) but because I was too old to be aware of Ms. Cleary...
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0553480804 |
A clown accused of robbery... A mutt maimed by an armed gardener... A pig-shaped teapot... A Cupid who shoots expensive arrows... And a muscle-building tonic that shrinks your pockets!
These are just some of the ten brian-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his...
