Braced

10 best books like Braced (Alyson Gerber): Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Amina's Voice, Greetings from Witness Protection!, Scar Island, Restart, Beautiful Blue World, Ashes to Asheville, Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!, The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

Author	Shari Green
ISBN	1772780170

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a For Sale sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their little family, adding an unwelcome stepfather and pesky six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy s final...

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Author	Dusti Bowling
ISBN	1454923458

Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing...

Amina's Voice

Author	Hena Khan
ISBN	1481492063

Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she’s in middle school everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the “cool” girls in the class, and even talking about changing her...

Greetings from Witness Protection!

Author	Jake Burt
ISBN	1250107113

A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...

Scar Island

Author

Dan Gemeinhart

Jonathan Grisby is the newest arrival at the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys -- an ancient, crumbling fortress of gray stone rising up from the ocean. It is dark, damp, and dismal. And it is just the place Jonathan figures he deserves.

Because Jonathan has done something terrible....

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...

Beautiful Blue World

Author	Suzanne LaFleur
ISBN	0735286639

Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they'll be all right.

But the army is recruiting children, and paying families well for their service. If Megs takes...

Ashes to Asheville

Author	Sarah Dooley
ISBN	0399165045

Two sisters take off on a wild road trip in this poignant tale for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree

After Mama Lacy's death, Fella was forced to move in with her grandmother, Mrs. Madison. The move brought Fella all sorts of comforts she wasn't used to at home, but it also meant saying goodbye...

Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!

Author	Ammi-Joan Paquette
ISBN	0062418823

Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true—and asks readers to separate facts from fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus that can control the mind of an...

The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

Author	Jordan Sonnenblick
ISBN	0545863201

In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really you didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids.

Maverick wants to change all that....

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink

Author	Tod Olson
ISBN	0545928117

LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival.
World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into...