Circle of Gold
10 best books like Circle of Gold (Candy Dawson Boyd): Journey to America, Felita, Zip, Losing Joe's Place, Salem on Trial, Super Fast, Out of Control!, All Alone, Sable, Sniper, Four Miles to Pinecone
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0689711301 |
It was 1938, and something terrible was happening in Germany. Suddenly, there were more and more restrictions for the Jews: yellow stars they had to wear, schools they could not attend, things they were forbidden to do. The Nazis were in power. And Lisa Platt was scared.
Her father knew they...
| Author | Nicholasa Mohr |
| ISBN | 0141306432 |
Felita's parents promise she will love their new neighborhood. Only Abuelita, her grandmother, understands how much Felita will miss her old block, and her best friend Gigi. But her new neighbors taunt and tease Felita and her family because they are from Puerto Rico. First published twenty years...
| Author | Ellie Rollins |
| ISBN | 1595145702 |
A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn in this effervescent debut that's Savvy meets Little Miss Sunshine
After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But Lyssa feels lost and adrift in...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590427695 |
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
| Author | David Cody Weiss |
| ISBN | 0671017578 |
Nine lives sentenced!
When Sabrina has a history report due, she and Salem do some serious research--in Colonial-era Westbridge! Their temporal transit tickets are unchangeable and nonrefundable, and Sabrina's powers have been time-locked so that she won't accidentally change...
| Author | Louis Sachar |
| ISBN | 0679890017 |
This chapter book in Newbery Honor-winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar's Marvin Redpost series is all about daredevils and conquering your fears!
Everyone says that Marvin is going to ride his new mountain bike down Suicide Hill. And everyone is coming to watch him do it--his friends,...
| Author | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| ISBN | 0590457071 |
Oloo!-Oo-oo-oop!-ooooo! All alone, high on the slope of the Little Giant in the French Alps of Saucie, ten-year-old Marcel yodeled to keep himself company. Like other boys in his village, Marcel would have to look over the family's cows during the summer; and the flexible, age-old rule was, "Don't...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0805057722 |
“Sable” is the story of a girl and a dog. I like stories that involve animals and this is no exception.
The story takes place somewhere in the country. It is at Tate’s (the main character) home (possibly a ranch or a farm) (Tate is the main character in the story) where a scrawny dog appears....
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0152061533 |
When Ben's parents go to Africa, they leave the fourteen-year-old in charge of the family's wild animal preserve. Everything seems to be running smoothly until one night when the silence is broken by the sound of peacocks screeching. When Ben leaves the house to investigate, he sees a terrifying...
| Author | Jon Hassler |
| ISBN | 0449703231 |
This book is not just a mystery or action book its has great feeling to it. The characters have life because this book has some truth behind it. The main character is a real person that person wrote this book and many more. He has a way to make the character have pop out of the book and stay with you.
My...
| Author | Jeremy Brown |
| ISBN | 0439769345 |
An updated version of Donold Sobol's TWO-MINUTE MYSTERIES, investigated by a CSI using modern forensic techniques rather than old-fashioned sleuthing.
Four-minute forensic mysteries are solved by a cast of quirky but lovable characters. Their wisecracking leader is CSI Wes Burton who...
| Author | Alice Mead |
| ISBN | 0440412455 |
Reeve McLain, Jr.--Junebug--has a big dream that keeps him going. He dreams that someday he and his younger sister and mother will move from the awful housing project where drugs, gangs, and guns are part of everyday life. Junebug's 10th birthday is coming up, and he knows the gangs and drug dealers will...
| Author | Joyce Milton |
| ISBN | 0394870239 |
If someone is getting this for a child who is at this level of reading I'd say it's pretty good. *Unless* the child already is interested in dinosaurs that is. The info here is so plainly simple, such everyday knowledge about dinosaurs that the kid will probably be bored and not even want to read it. Personally,...
| Author | Alfred Slote |
| ISBN | 0064404692 |
"Daydreamer Jason, 11, has just been [dropped] from his Little League team. Seeking solace at the baseball-card shop, he makes a startling hypothesis: 'Buck McHenry,' star pitcher [of the Negro Leagues], could be school custodian Mack Henry. Mr. Henry's identity, in doubt through much of the book,...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590456520 |
Karen, Hannie & Nancy decide to play boarding school with all of their dolls and stuffed animals. Including Karen's best baby doll Hyacynthia. In a swinging accident during "recess", Hyacynthia tragically falls and breaks off part of her leg and gets her face all scraped up :(
But not to...
| Author | Amanda Flower |
| ISBN | 0310737028 |
Twelve-year-old Andora 'Andi' Boggs and her new best friend Colin Carter couldn't be more excited to attend the prestigious science camp at the local university in Killdeer, Ohio. Unfortunately, Discovery Camp's curriculum appears to include much more than just chemistry and biology. From day...
| Author | Thomas L. Tedrow |
| ISBN | 0840734018 |
Home is where the heart is.
When Pa comes to visit the farm in Missouri, he and Laura have so much fun reminiscing about the good old days that they decide to set out in search of their old homestead. But when they return to the prairie they see that things have changed—really changed. Trees have...
| Author | Ben M. Baglio |
| ISBN | 0439051614 |
Lucy writes as if still captured by her childhood, which leaves an adult reader wondering if perhaps, Lucy writes based on memoirs.
Our main character is a true animal lover and whilst you wouldn't imagine that 100 (albeit large print) pages could be penned about a hamster, it turns out that...
| Author | Max Allan Collins |
| ISBN | 1572970022 |
Hey, say what you want about movie tie-ins, they do have some advantages. They are a lot like 'Star Trek' books; they are cotton candy for the brain. They taste good, go down fast, and take no thinking. That's not a bad thing!
You don't need the plot for this one-you know it, or you should! Main thing I...
Jessica's Cookie Disaster
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553481916 |
Jessica Wakefield is a wonderful baker! At least, that's what her home economics teacher thinks when she tastes the cookies Jessica baked in class. They're so good, the teacher submits a batch to the producer of the television talk show Lifestyles of the French and Famous. And now the producer has invited...
Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0590029657 |
Emily Barrios-Jake Sherman's first day of summer camp at Camp Walton!Well it's not going so good for him.Jake is a boy who doesn't want to go to camp because he thinks it is going to be boring.But later on in the story Jake actually really likes camp.Jake meets new people during camp.
There is these...
The Case of the Golden Slipper
| Author | Melinda Metz |
| ISBN | 0061065935 |
Trenchcoat Twins Case Report...from Mary-Kate and AshleyIt was like a fairy tale come true: Ashley and I got invited to a royal ball in honor of a real live princess We couldn't wait to meet Princess Glorianna.
But right before the ball, the princess was kidnapped Our only clue was a golden slipper...
