Anna Was Here
10 best books like Anna Was Here (Jane Kurtz): Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana, The Whatnot, Northward to the Moon, Other Worlds, Something to Hold, Lucy at Sea, The Lightning Catcher, The Magician's Bird, Making the Team, The Dragon King
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana
| Author | Patti Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1608325857 |
National Outdoor Book Award Winner
When Gannon and Wyatt arrive in Botswana for an African safari, they find themselves tangled up in much more than a family vacation. After receiving word that a poacher has shot and wounded a lioness, they set off into the wild in the hopes of saving the mother...
"Oh, the Sly King, the Sly King, in his towers of ash and wind."
Pikey Thomas doesn’t know how or why he can see the changeling girl. But there she is. Not in the cold, muddy London neighborhood where Pikey lives. Instead, she’s walking through the trees and snow of the
enchanted...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0375861106 |
Reviewed by Rachel Seigel
Picking up one year after My One Hundred Adventures, author Polly Horvath revisits Jane Fielding and her family, now living in Saskatchewan, where her stepfather Ned is teaching French. When Ned gets fired from his job (for not actually knowing French), Jane’s...
Ten incredible trips into the unknown await you...
Blast off with:
• Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo an all-new and exclusive tale from Rick Riordan
• A Day in the Life by award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan
• Rise of the RoboShoes by Tom Angleberger...
| Author | Katherine Schlick Noe |
| ISBN | 0547558139 |
Can a white girl feel at home on an Indian reservation?
Based on the author’s childhood experience in the early 1960s, this novel centers on Kitty, whose father is a government forester at Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon. Kitty is one of only two white kids in her class, and the Indian kids...
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119931 |
The thrilling sequel to The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, a book that Newbery-winning author Katherine Applegate called “a grand and adventurous tale, as magical and mysterious as the sea itself.”
Ever since Lucy’s parents drowned at sea, she’s been protected by special magic. That’s...
| Author | Anne Cameron |
| ISBN | 0062112767 |
You know something is seriously wrong when it starts raining newts and frogs…
11 year-old Angus McFangus believes that his parents are boring civil servants, but one stormy night his world is turned upside down when he is mysteriously whisked to the island of Imbur to become an apprentice...
| Author | Emily Fairlie |
| ISBN | 0062118935 |
In this sequel to The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck, Bud and Laurie solve another mystery at Tuckernuck Hall. This second hilarious installment is perfect for fans of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Chasing Vermeer, The Westing Game, and the Mysterious Benedict Society books.
In...
| Author | J. Scott Savage |
| ISBN | 0062133314 |
With thrills, chills, and laughs on every page, plus a boy-girl rivalry that will leave you in stitches, this is one frighteningly funny book you don’t want to miss.
In this second book in a middle-grade series that's “sure to please young readers looking for a thrill” (Kirkus Reviews,...
| Author | Nils Johnson-Shelton |
| ISBN | 0062070975 |
Artie Kingfisher, his sister, Kay, and the New Knights of the Round Table have finally reached the legendary isle of Avalon. But before Artie can take his place as King Arthur reborn, he must recover nothing less than the mythical Holy Grail. And as the greatest battle of his life looms, Artie finds himself...
| Author | Crystal Allen |
| ISBN | 0062208446 |
A touching and funny story of one girl’s journey to discover where she came from and the unlimited possibilities of who she can become, from Crystal Allen, the acclaimed author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy and The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown.
Laura...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1442432896 |
In the conclusion to the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy, Marylin and Kate find that boys can be just as complicated as friendship.
Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right...
| Author | William Boniface |
| ISBN | 0060774649 |
In Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.
In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?
Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests....
| Author | Judith Clarke |
| ISBN | 0805091645 |
Clementine thinks her cousin Fan is everything that she could never be: beautiful, imaginative, wild. The girls promise to be best friends and sisters after the summer is over, but Clementine's life in the city is different from Fan's life in dusty Lake Conapaira. And Fan is looking for something, though...
| Author | Rosanne Parry |
| ISBN | 0375961968 |
The author of Heart of a Shepherd offers another sensitive portrayal of military families, this time stationed abroad, in the city of Berlin at that historic time just after the Wall came down.
When 13-year-old Jody and her friends save a badly beaten Russian soldier from drowning, they put...
| Author | Audrey Couloumbis |
| ISBN | 0375856323 |
Ten-year-old Lexie used to love going to the shore. For as long as she can remember, she's spent every summer there with her parents, eating hamburgers, swimming in the ocean, and combing the beach for treasure. This summer is going to be different though. Lexie's Mom and Daddy are divorced, and for...
| Author | Bryan Chick |
| ISBN | 0062192302 |
The fifth book in the fast-paced and imaginative series about four adventurous friends and the secret world hidden in their local zoo. Ella, Noah, Richie, and Megan are in trouble—and so is the Secret Zoo! A captivating series for tween readers praised as "action packed and breathless" by Publishers...
| Author | Jason Fry |
| ISBN | 0062230204 |
In this swashbuckling new sci-fi adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry, three siblings in a family of privateers must compete to decide who will be the next ship captain, all while battling space pirates, Earth diplomats, and even treachery from within the family.
The...
Warm up your credit cards, or start counting out the Benjamins, because you're going to want to buy both of Braden Bell's magical books. "The Kindling," his first YA masterpiece, is matched and perhaps surpassed by its sequel, "Penumbras." These are more than great reads folks.
"Middle School...
| Author | Sarah Ellis |
| ISBN | 1554983673 |
Lynn’s life is full — choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family — both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn’s own.
Blossom’s...
Charlie Bumpers vs. the Really Nice Gnome
| Author | Bill Harley |
| ISBN | 1561458317 |
Charlie is ready to play the bad guy in the class play, but Mrs. Burke has other ideas!
Charlie Bumpers has his heart set on playing the role of the evil Sorcerer in the fourth grade play. But his dreams of villainous stardom go up in smoke when he finds out that Mrs. Burke has cast him as the Nice Gnome!...
| Author | Marcia Mickelson |
| ISBN | 1462111904 |
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Cummings just wants to be a regular teenager, but after her mother’s mysterious murder, she isn’t sure if she’ll ever be normal again. Her mother’s death has left Ellie and her father worlds apart. And when her best friend abandons her, Ellie has no one else to turn...
| Author | Brian Rock |
| ISBN | 1607186136 |
Someone stole a cake from the cake contest--who could it be? Twelve animal bakers are potential suspects but Detective Duck uses his deductive reasoning skills to -quack- the case. After all, the thief left hairs behind so the thief wasn't a bird. Follow along as he subtracts each suspect one at a time...
| Author | Julie Sternberg |
| ISBN | 1419710338 |
I did a mean thing.
A very mean thing.
I HATE that I did it.
But I did.
This is worse than
carrot juice on a cupcake
or a wasp on my pillow
or a dress that’s too tight at the neck.
In the third installment from the team who created Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie and Like Bug...
