Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus ...
10 best books like Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus ... (Kristen Tracy): What the Moon Said, Signal, A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Kindred Souls, Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, Nature Girl, A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson, Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love, Calli Be Gold, The Cruisers
| Author | Gayle Rosengren |
| ISBN | 0399163522 |
Fans of the Little House books will fall in love with Esther.
Thanks to her superstitious mother, Esther knows some tricks for avoiding bad luck: toss salt over your left shoulder, never button your shirt crooked, and avoid black cats. But even luck can't keep her family safe from the Great Depression....
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374399158 |
One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--"alien "meaning "from someplace else"--and...
A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845
| Author | Linda Crew |
| ISBN | 0875952992 |
This work is the winner of the 2004 Stevens Literary Prize. West. The sound of a wish in a single word. That's how seventeen-year-old Lovisa King put it that spring of 1845 as she set off with her parents, eleven of her siblings, and their assorted spouses and children for Oregon Country, the promised land....
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0060522976 |
Jake’s grandfather, Billy, hears the talk of birds, is eighty-eight years old, and is going to live forever. Even when Billy gets sick, Jake knows that everything will go on as always. But there’s one thing Billy wants: to rebuild the sod house where he grew up. Can Jake give him this one special thing?
From...
| Author | Donna Gephart |
| ISBN | 0385740522 |
Olivia Bean knows trivia. She watches
Jeopardy!
every night and usually beats at least one of the contestants. If she were better at geography, she would try out for the show’s kids’ week. Not only could she win bundles of money, she’d get to go to the taping in California, where her dad, who left...
Eleven-year-old Megan is stuck in the wilds of Vermont for the summer with no TV, no Internet, no cell phone, and worst of all, no best friend. So when Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail with only her little dog, Arp, for company, she decides she might as well hike all the way to Massachusetts where...
| Author | Barbara Dana |
| ISBN | 0060287047 |
When something is most important to me and I do not want to lose it, I gather it into a poem. It is said that women must employ the needle and not the pen. But I will be a Poet! That's who I am!
Before she was an iconic American poet, Emily Dickinson was a spirited girl eager to find her place in the world....
| Author | Lauren Tarshis |
| ISBN | 0803733216 |
Emma-Jean is experiencing something new and unsettling, but not entirely unpleasant. It?s a fluttering in her heart when she imagines herself asking Will to the seventh-grade dance. Her best friend Colleen is worried that Will might laugh if Emma-Jean invites him. After all, Emma-Jean is a different...
| Author | Michele Weber Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0385908024 |
Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is the quiet third child in a family of loud overachievers. In fact, the family motto is Be Gold. Calli's sister is on an ice-skating team, and her brother's a basketball star. Her parents are sure she has a hidden gift for something. They just have to figure out what it is! But...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 1441863281 |
School is hard enough, but when you're misfits on a mission, you're really put to the test. The re-launch of a popular middle-grade series by Walter Dean Myers.
Zander and his crew are underdogs at DaVinci Academy, one of the best Gifted and Talented schools in Harlem. But even these...
| Author | Lisa Harkrader |
| ISBN | 0547550782 |
Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he’s been reading them. When his favorite comic has a contest for kids, he hopes he has finally found a way to fix his family—all he has to do is create the winning superhero sidekick . . . Introducing...
| Author | Martha Freeman |
| ISBN | 0823421678 |
The chipper narrator, Alex Parakeet, lives on Chickadee Court, famous in Alex's small college town for its 12 houses that annually display items from the famous Christmas carol (My family is seven swans a-swimming, he explains). But this year there is fowl play: the birds on neighbors' yards-partridge,...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0312642997 |
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...
"Don't die," Gus whispered.
He reached out and touched her hand. Were there superpowers that could bring her back? Would there be gods in Africa that could help them save her?
"I stayed alive when you ordered me to. Now you return the favor, okay? Just . . . whatever you do, don't die."
Ruthlessly...
| Author | Kathryn Fitzmaurice |
| ISBN | 0061624977 |
Eleanor "Groovy" Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she's old enough. But even Groovy's thoughtfully—planned menus won't fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven—suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long-absent mother...
| Author | Stephanie Barden |
| ISBN | 0061964239 |
Cinderella Smith has aproblem with a capital P.She loses shoes almost asquickly as she puts themon her feet. But now she’s lost themost important shoe of all: her shiny,ruby red tap shoe. Without it shewon’t have a chance of being chosenPumpkin Blossom Fairy for the falldance recital—and that...
| Author | Marilyn Kaye |
| ISBN | 0805088806 |
Jessica may not have the warmest relationship with her mother, aspiring presidential candidate Margaret Hunsucker, but it still comes as a shock when she discovers that her mother has sold her to the devil. Will she have to spend eternity in hell with one of Satan's minions, a demon named Brad? Brad...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0545033489 |
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian's summer has its routine. She spends the days with her dog, visits her hip young neighbor Enzo, and twice a week tries to win the meerkat from the claw machine at the local hardware store. She's also gifted with the art of knowing what will happen and keeps a list of skills she...
It's All Downhill From Here
| Author | Nancy E. Krulik |
| ISBN | 0545052599 |
Bestselling author Nancy Krulik delves into the mind of a twelve-year-old trying to survive middle school.
It's wintertime at Joyce Kilmer Middle School, and everyone is thrilled when school is closed because of a huge snowstorm. Everyone except Jenny, that is! Addie's mom has to work, so...
| Author | Laurel Snyder |
| ISBN | 0375861998 |
The perfect book for girls and boys who look to find adventure and magic in surprising places!
What if you were really bored with your life? What would you wish for?
Penelope Grey wishes for something—anything!—interesting to happen, and here’s what she gets:
•...
| Author | Shawn K. Stout |
| ISBN | 0399257284 |
Penelope Crumb would LOVE Ramona Quimby! And might even name her eyebrow "Marge."
Penelope Crumb is no ordinary fourth grader. She carries around a red toolbox that used to belong to her father (who's been dead since Penelope was a baby), she keeps a list for the government chronicling the many...
| Author | Art Corriveau |
| ISBN | 0810982986 |
Nicky Flynn’s life just got a whole lot harder. His parents are going through a messy divorce, and as a result he’s starting a new life, in a new city, in a new school. Now his mom has brought home Reggie, an eighty-pound German shepherd fresh from the animal shelter, who used to be a seeing-eye dog. At...
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
| Author | Ruth McNally Barshaw |
| ISBN | 1599902389 |
I liked this one even better than the first book. I almost think the two books should have been reversed- we needed to get to know Ellie in a familiar-to-everyone setting (I think everyone has been new somewhere at sometime) before we saw her in a new-to-her setting (being away from your immediate family...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful, poignant, and timely tale of segregation, family, and one surprising friendship.
The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the...
| Author | Alison Jackson |
| ISBN | 0805082948 |
Twelve-year-old Evie Carson lives with her mom. In an apartment across the lake, Evie's celebrity-chef dad is starting a new life with his young second wife, Angie, who's expecting twins. To make matters worse, Evie's dad has custody of the beloved family dog. Navigating her new family situation is...
