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As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!

10 best books like As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! (Donna Gephart): Adam Canfield of the Slash, Here Today, How to Save Your Tail*:, The Hope Chest, Honeybee: Poems Short Prose, Down Sand Mountain, Vögelein: Clockwork Faerie, The Door in the Forest, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, Mercy on These Teenage Chimps

Adam Canfield of the Slash
AuthorMichael Winerip
ISBN0763627941
Adam Canfield has to be the most overprogrammed middle-school student in America. So when super-organized Jennifer coaxes him to be coeditor of their school newspaper, THE SLASH, he wonders if he’s made a big mistake. But when a third-grader’s article leads to a big scoop, Adam and his fellow junior...
Here Today
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0439856256
In 1963, Ellie's mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti's supermarket, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the Dingmans began to fall apart." So begins 11-yr-old Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's story. Ellie, who is about to start 6th grade in the small town...
How to Save Your Tail*:
AuthorMary Hanson
ISBN0375837558
How does a cookie-baking Rat named Bob save his tail from being gobbled by two hungry cats? By serving them cookies and telling them fantastic fairy tales about his family, of course. There's the story about great-grand uncle Mustard who upgrades his family to a lovely three-bedroom brick house. (All's...
The Hope Chest
AuthorKaren Schwabach
ISBN0375840958
A perfect Common Core tie-in, The Hope Chest includes nonfiction backmatter with period photographs, historical notes about the suffrage movement, and a Voting in America timeline. It's also a New York State Curriculum title for fourth grade.

Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind...
Honeybee: Poems Short Prose
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0060853905
Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.

Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another?

In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved...
Down Sand Mountain
AuthorSteve Watkins
ISBN0763638390
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
Vögelein: Clockwork Faerie
AuthorJane Irwin
ISBN0974311006
When Jakob, Vögelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in his sleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone to wind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live--unless she can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, she continues...
The Door in the Forest
AuthorRoderick Townley
ISBN0375856013
At the mid point of three towns, in the center of three streams, in the heart of a forest, lies a mysterious island. Encircled by quicksand and sewn shut by vines, it is impenetrable to all but the poisonous snakes patrolling its waters. But Daniel is determined to get there, along with his friend Emily.

Emily...
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
AuthorSundee T. Frazier
ISBN0385734395
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...
Mercy on These Teenage Chimps
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152060227
On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...
Love
AuthorMariah Fredericks
ISBN0689876556
What if, for once, the losers won out against the über-cools? GeekGirl gets GreekGod? It'd turn the school upside down. But that's what Zoe's World, a website that Eberly's eighth-grade girls check out daily, is suggesting. Only Anna, Eve, and Syd know that the cards -- the mysterious tarot deck...
Fakie
AuthorTony Varrato
ISBN1897073798
Ideal for reluctant readers and ESL students, this short novel has action, intrigue, and relatable teen characters.
At first glance, Alex Miller seems like a typical kid, typical hair, typical clothes, typical hobbies. But Alex's life is anything but typical... and fitting in has become a matter...
Tru Confessions
AuthorJanet Tashjian
ISBN0590960474
mom read this one out loud. Skipped some words and a whole segment about Ouija boards. Mom remembers this being made into a Disney Original Movie and wanted to read it. Our brother has special needs so mom tries to find books about being a sibling to someone that is different from everyone else. Over all...
13
AuthorJason Robert Brown
13 Things to Know About 13

1. This book is about a guy named Evan.

2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana,

4. where nobody knows him.

5. He's not very happy about it.

6. His mom is kind of nuts.

7....
In Dog Years I'd be Dead: Garfield at 25
AuthorJim Davis
ISBN0345452046
Experience twenty-five years of the furry phenomenon known as Garfield with this fun, in-depth, and lavishly illustrated book.

Jim Davis’s grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis, was a big, cantankerous, outspoken man. Garfield is a big, cantankerous, outspoken cat. Coincidence? Of...
Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular
AuthorKirk Scroggs
ISBN0316059412
Excellent!
_____

"Wiley," said Grampa, "if we wanna make it to the truck show in time, we're gonna have to cut through those woods."

"You mean those dark, scary, wild animal-infested woods?" I asked nervously.

"Why, that's the best kind, my boy!"
_____

Inside,...
As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth
AuthorLynne Rae Perkins
ISBN0061870900
The Newbery Group has been referencing this book for a couple of months now, so I thought I should read it. Since it is a road trip book about a teenage boy I was thinking it would have some Kerouac inspiration/feel to it. To the author's credit, she does know how to create characters that are warm, interesting,...
Homefront
AuthorDoris Gwaltney
ISBN0689868421
For as long as Margaret Ann Motley can remember, she has been waiting and hoping for one thing -- a room to call her very own. And when Margaret's older sister leaves for college, it looks like Margaret's days of waiting are over. But then disaster strikes. Its form: an English cousin named Courtney who...
The Carnival of the Animals
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0375964584
A CD of Camille’s music is included here to play. So, while we were reading the story we put the music on. The kids loved this music. We only needed a song or two while we read it. The next day they wanted to listen to the entire thing. They loved the finale and we danced and danced to that one.

The artwork...
Imaginary Enemy
AuthorJulie Gonzalez
ISBN0385735529
Jane White goes by the pen name Gabriel when she writes letters to Bubba, her imaginary enemy. She’s been writing to Bubba (short for Beelzebub) since second grade, blaming him every time something in her life goes wrong. It’s never her fault! She doesn’t want to admit that her impetuous behavior...
15 Minutes
AuthorSteve Young
ISBN0060725087
It's not that
Casey Little is
always late.

It's just that everything
starts a little
too early.

But when Casey discovers a weird little time machine, he figures he'll never be late again. Unfortunately, it's not a very good time machine. It can only go back 15 minutes....
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375836721
Here's a chapter book of contemporary fables about a rambunctious group of fourth graders and their amazing teacher—the globe-trotting, Mayan-ceremonial-robe-wearing Mr. Jupiter—that is sure to delight students and teachers alike. There's Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten....
Agnes Parker... Keeping Cool in Middle School
AuthorKathleen O'Dell
ISBN0803730780
Middle school is going to take some getting used to. The halls are hectic, the unspoken rules are baffling, and the eighth-grade boys are one big gang of bullies. Agnes' best friend Prejean has jumped in and decided to run for class president, but Agnes would rather try to be invisible. That'll be especially...
Secret of the Night Ponies
AuthorJoan Hiatt Harlow
ISBN1416907831
Thirteen-year-old Jessie Wheller is a girl who knows her heart and will do everything that she can to follow it. With her Newfoundland pony, Raven, and Newfoundland dog, Blizzard, Jessie is never at a loss for faithful companions. Jessie's grandmother is always pushing her to be a "lady," but if being...
Dinosaur Trouble
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN1596433248
SOMETIMES THE MOST UNLIKELY PAIRS MAKE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A hilarious prehistoric yarn for newly-independent readers from a master of children's animal stories.

All pterodactyls know that flying dinosaurs are superior, and all apatosauruses know that any dinosaur with only two legs...
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