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Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year

10 best books like Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year (Bill Harley): Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, Story's End, The Girl from Felony Bay, The School for the Insanely Gifted, No Talking, Freaky Fast Frankie Joe, Fakie, Call the Shots, Wildfire Run, The Adventures of Beanboy

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
AuthorKate DiCamillo
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person...
Story's End
AuthorMarissa Burt
ISBN0062020544
Enter the magical land of Story in this sequel to Storybound, perfect for fans of Inkheart, The School for Good and Evil, and classic fantasy tales like Ella Enchanted and The NeverEnding Story.

Kids who love fairy tales, dragons, and magic will be enchanted by Una Fairchild's unforgettable...
The Girl from Felony Bay
AuthorJ.E. Thompson
ISBN0062104462
The last year has been rougher than sandpaper for Abbey Force and her dad. He’s in a coma after his accident a year back, wherein he was framed for a terrible crime he didn’t commit. And their home, Reward Plantation, an idyllic spot on the eastern coast of South Carolina, had to be sold to pay off his...
The School for the Insanely Gifted
AuthorDan Elish
ISBN0061138738
Daphna Whispers is insanely gifted.

At age two and a half, she composed her first sonata.

At age eight, she completed an opera.

And now, at eleven and three-quarters, she is orchestrating a piano rhapsody.

With a résumé like that, it's no wonder she is a student...
No Talking
AuthorAndrew Clements
ISBN1416909834
"You have the right to remain silent." However...

The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot.

Then one...
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
AuthorLutricia "Lu" Clifton
ISBN0823423670
When twelve-year-old Frankie Joe's mother is sent to jail, he is uprooted from his home in Texas to live with the father he has never met, his father's wife, and his father's four "legitimate" sons in Illinois. Frankie Joe is miserable. Trying to adjust to his blended family proves too much to bear, so...
Fakie
AuthorTony Varrato
ISBN1897073798
Ideal for reluctant readers and ESL students, this short novel has action, intrigue, and relatable teen characters.
At first glance, Alex Miller seems like a typical kid, typical hair, typical clothes, typical hobbies. But Alex's life is anything but typical... and fitting in has become a matter...
Call the Shots
AuthorDon Calame
ISBN0763655562
And . . . action! As the uproarious trio returns, sensitive Sean takes the spotlight — scripting a low-low-budget film while fielding unexpected female fans.

Coop is cooking up another sure-misfire scheme (big surprise), and this time the comedy plays out from Sean’s point of view. What’s...
Wildfire Run
AuthorDee Garretson
ISBN0061953474
A Junior Library Guild selection - Just once Luke Brockett would like to do something slightly dangerous, but when your father is the President of the United States, that is not an option. Always surrounded by Secret Service agents and kept in a bubble of safety, Luke sees Camp David, the presidential...
The Adventures of Beanboy
AuthorLisa Harkrader
ISBN0547550782
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...
We Are Not Eaten by Yaks
AuthorC. Alexander London
ISBN0142420565
Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel could care less about adventure and they really do not like excitement. They’d rather be watching television. Unfortunately for them, their thrill-seeking parents have dragged them from continent to continent their entire lives. But when their mother...
It Happened on a Train
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN1416978194
Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over...
Wild Life
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0374380015
Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that's been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik...
Save Me a Seat
AuthorSarah Weeks
ISBN0545846609
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.

Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.

Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
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