Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

10 best books like Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman (Marc Tyler Nobleman): Stargazing, The Widow of Rose House, A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder, Look Both Ways, Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian, The Okay Witch, The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!), Full of Beans, Town Is by the Sea, Lafayette!

Stargazing

Author

Jen Wang

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.

When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...

The Widow of Rose House

Author	Diana Biller
ISBN	1250297850

A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel

It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried...

A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder

Author

Dianne Freeman

How far will some go to safeguard a secret? In the latest novel in Dianne Freeman’s witty and delightful historical mystery series, the adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out . . .
 
Though American by birth, Frances Wynn, the now-widowed Countess of Harleigh, has adapted admirably...

Look Both Ways

Author

Jason Reynolds

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all they different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it...

Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

Author	Jill Grunenwald
ISBN	1510737065

“A fascinating look into a world many of us never see, and a powerful story about one woman’s journey to find her own strength, with a clear message of the importance of books and information for all.” —Booklist (American Library Association), starred review

In December 2008, twentysomething...

The Okay Witch

Author	Emma Steinkellner
ISBN	1534431454

Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything!

Magic is harder than it looks.
...

The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)

Author	Barry Wittenstein
ISBN	1632895579

A young couple meet and marry. Josephine is prone to accidents and getting cuts. Her husband, Earle, has a father that is a doctor and Earle works in medical supplies. You know what happens next: Earle creates the Band-Aid.

This is the evolution of what we now know as our go to bandage. They even...

Full of Beans

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0553510398

Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
 
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...

Town Is by the Sea

Author	Joanne Schwartz
ISBN	1554988713

A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator...

Lafayette!

Author	Nathan Hale
ISBN	1419731483

The Frenchman who changed the course of the American Revolution.

Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility—he wanted adventure!

A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager...