Black Storm Comin'

10 best books like Black Storm Comin' (Diane Lee Wilson): Our Only May Amelia, 24 Hours in Nowhere, The Night Diary, All's Faire in Middle School, Restart, Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man, Listening for Lions, Breakout, Touching Spirit Bear, Black Duck

Our Only May Amelia

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0064408566

It isn′t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it′s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can′t seem to abide her family′s insistence that she behave like a Proper...

24 Hours in Nowhere

Author

Dusti Bowling

When you come from Nowhere, can you ever really make it anywhere? Author Dusti Bowling (Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus) returns to the desert to create a gripping story about friendship, hope, and finding the power we all have within ourselves.

Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona,...

The Night Diary

Author	Veera Hiranandani
ISBN	0735228515

It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.

Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't...

All's Faire in Middle School

Author	Victoria Jamieson
ISBN	0525429980

The author of Roller Girl is back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.

Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as...

Restart

Author	Gordon Korman
ISBN	1338053779

Chase's memory just went out the window.

Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.

He...

Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man

Author	Dashiell Hammett
ISBN	1883011671

Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novel

In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel.

The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume,...

Listening for Lions

Author

Gloria Whelan

"If you are among evil people, you must be like the lion, gathering strength and awaiting your time."

Africa is the only home Rachel Sheridan has ever known. But when influenza strikes down her missionary parents, she is left vulnerable prey to her family's wicked neighbors. Surrounded by...

Breakout

Author	Kate Messner
ISBN	1681195364

Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods,...

Touching Spirit Bear

Author

Ben Mikaelson

Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years. This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk. Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage and Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life.

Cole is offered...

Black Duck

Author	Janet Taylor Lisle
ISBN	0399239634

When Ruben and Jed find the dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It is the 1920’s, Prohibition is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys find themselves involved as well: Didn’t the dead...

King of Mist

Author

Jordan Rivet

The swords are sharper, and the Fire is hotter in the action-packed sequel to Duel of Fire.

Dara Ruminor takes her new position as a Castle Guard for the King of Vertigon very seriously. She refuses to allow her feelings for Siv to get in the way of atoning for her parents’ actions, no matter how...

Dance of Steel

Author

Jordan Rivet

An epic journey will challenge them both. But the enemy they left behind is growing stronger . . .

Dara and Siv flee through the treacherous snows of Vertigon, injured and defeated, with enemies in pursuit. They don’t know when they’ll return to the mountain they love. If they make it to safety,...