Calli Be Gold

10 best books like Calli Be Gold (Michele Weber Hurwitz): Wish You Were Eyre, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, Tico and the Golden Wings, A Million Miles from Boston, The E.L. Konigsburg Collection, Class Clown, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, The Dancing Pancake, Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus ...

Wish You Were Eyre
AuthorHeather Vogel Frederick
ISBN1442430648
The book club says bon voyage to Concord and bonjour to France!

It’s a dream come true for Megan, who’s jet-setting to Paris for Fashion Week with Gigi. Meanwhile, back in Concord, Mrs. Wong decides to run for mayor, so Emma and Stewart team up to make her campaign a success. Jess and Cassidy...
AuthorGlenda Millard
ISBN0733313140
Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin...
AuthorLeo Lionni
ISBN0394817494
As a child, the German version of Leo Lionni's Tico and the Golden Wings (Tico und die goldenen Flügel) was a personal favourite which I repeatedly requested as a read-aloud (I have always loved birds and how Tico attains his golden wings and how he then disposes of them in a charitable manner and is again...
AuthorKaren Day
ISBN0385738994
School's out! That means Lucy is off to her favorite place: Pierson Point, Maine, where she spends summers with her family. And as she tries to forget her worries about starting middle school and about Dad's new girlfriend, Lucy can't get there soon enough. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself,...
AuthorE.L. Konigsburg
ISBN1416993851
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler:
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Jennifer, Hecate,...
AuthorJohanna Hurwitz
ISBN0590418211
Lucas Cott is one of the smartest kids in Mrs. Hockaday's third grade -- but he is also the most rambunctious. Lucas doesn't mean to be the class clown, so he promises to try to behave, even though it doesn't sound like much fun. With the best intentions, Lucas still manages to cause the unexpected when he...
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...
AuthorMichelle Y. Green
ISBN0803726619
Mamie Johnson looks the batter in the eye. Sizes him up for a curve- or a fastball. Stretches her 5'2" frame. And pops a surefire, windup, coming-right-at-ya pitch smack dab over the plate. One that lets the batter know that this "peanut of a girl" means business. Fueled by her passion for the game and buoyed...
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0375858709
DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!
FREE!!
ALL YOU CAN EAT!!
COME TO OUR
NEW GRAND OPENING!
 
The grand opening of the Dancing Pancake isn't the only new thing in Bindi's life: new friends, a new apartment, maybe even a cute new crush? But there are other changes, like her dad's move to a new...
AuthorKristen Tracy
ISBN0385736878
Fair: just, equitable, what is right.
Unfair: the life of Camille McPhee.

Imagine being Camille McPhee. She has low blood sugar, so she carries extra food in a cooler. Would you want to do that?

Didn’t think so.

And you wouldn’t want to fall under the school...
AuthorCharise Mericle Harper
ISBN0547152248
This book is named just grace and the terrible tutu.It is about a girl who is taking care of a crazy little girl.The problem is that Mimi Graces friend wants the little girl to like Mimi . Instead the little girl likes grace . I like this book because it is funny and amazing. In the end grace makes a show for Mimi...
AuthorAtinuke
ISBN1610670515
When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It just didn't seem possible. A contemporary early chapter book set on the continent of Africa? To understand how rare this was visit your local...
AuthorMary Amato
ISBN0823422712
1/4/11-Diane, the Book Fairy, put this one in my box...

4/1/11 I'm reading it aloud to my class. Many of them have been keeping clue books. They all have theories as to who the culprit is. We have been having so much fun with it! I love to look out over my book and see just how interested my entire class...
Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything
AuthorSteve Cotler
ISBN0375864377
Ronald "Cheesie" Mack is not a genius or anything, but he remembers everything that happened before, during, and after fifth-grade graduation, and he's written it all down in his own unique and hilarious way—with lots of lists, drawings, and splenderful (that's splendid plus wonderful!) made-up...
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0312642997
Pearl Littlefield’s first assignment in fifth grade is complicated: She has to write an essay about her summer. Where does she begin? Her dad lost his job, she had to go to a different camp—one where her older sister Lexie was a counselor-in-training (ugh!)—and she and her good friend James Brubaker...
AuthorCarlyn Beccia
ISBN0547225709
It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head.  Some of the cures worked, and some of them…well, let’s just say that millipedes, living or...
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0385736169
From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains.
 
Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned,...
AuthorIan Whybrow
ISBN1575055503
Little Wolf is sent away by his parents because he has not been behaving badly enough. In disconsolate and hilarious letters home, Little Wolf chronicles his journey to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College For Brute Beasts and his efforts to learn the Nine Rules of Badness. Ross’s ink drawings perfectly...
Strawberry Hill
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
When ten-year-old girl Allie learns that her family will be moving from their two-family home to their very own house in the country, she's hesitant until she finds out they will be living on a street with the magical name of Strawberry Hill. That changes everything! From her struggle to find a new best...
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
SPOILER!!! First i would like to point out that this book is super cute especially if you like or believe in magic yourself. In waiting for the magic, There are two kids, William and Elinor and their father leaves them to their mother. Their mother then decides that bringing home a cat and four dogs will...
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0545046513
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins presents a fascinating look at the bones of the human body as compared to the bones of animals, and shows them off!
This book is far from skinny -- it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue....
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
AuthorBrian Dennis
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis.
The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals,...
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0439114942
The Barnes & Noble Review
A masterful blend of artistic skill, scientific prowess, and impassioned theatrics lay at the core of Waterhouse Hawkins. A man of pure determination, he created the first life-size models of dinosaurs! This brilliant book is a fantastic nod to the genius of one man,...
Seaglass Summer
AuthorAnjali Banerjee

Eleven-year-old Poppy Ray longs to be a veterinarian, but she's never had a pet. This summer, she's going to spend a month with her uncle Sanjay, veterinarian and owner of the Furry Friends Animal Clinic on an island off the Washington coast.
Poppy is in for big surprises. She loves tending to...
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