City of Light, City of Dark
10 best books like City of Light, City of Dark (Avi): On My Honor, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Bob, A Tangle of Knots, Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer, The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel, The Sand Warrior, Tall Story, Bolivar, Tight
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0440466334 |
"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew up playing...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Wendy Mass |
| ISBN | 1250166624 |
A classic middle-grade tale of magic and friendship, about a girl who helps an old friend find home, by two New York Times–bestselling authors Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead.
It’s been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy’s grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s...
| Author | Lisa Graff |
| ISBN | 0399255176 |
Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny...
| Author | Trina Robbins |
| ISBN | 0761360107 |
In 1938, Lily Renée Wilhelm, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, is living in Vienna when the Nazis march into Austria. After a ship voyage fraught with danger from Nazi torpedoes, teenage Lily reunites with her parents in New York and helps her family earn a living by painting designs on wooden boxes. One day...
| Author | Orpheus Collar |
| ISBN | 1423150686 |
Since their mother's death, Sadie and Carter have become near-strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, Carter has traveled the world with their father, the famed Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings to the British Museum, where he hopes...
| Author | Mark Siegel |
| ISBN | 1101935863 |
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there's more to themselves and more to their worlds than meets the eye. . .
The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter...
| Author | Candy Gourlay |
| ISBN | 0385618948 |
What you want is not always what you get.
Even when your wishes come true
Andi desperately hopes her long lost half-brother Bernardo will be as mad on basketball as she is. But when he steps off the plane from the Philippines, she cannot believe her eyes. She hasn't seen him for ten years, but...
| Author | Sean Rubin |
| ISBN | 1684150698 |
What would you do if your neighbor was a dinosaur?
Going extinct isn't for everyone.
Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can't seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in the busy streets of New York City that...
| Author | Torrey Maldonado |
| ISBN | 1524740551 |
Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .
Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up.
And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him...
| Author | Antoine Revoy |
| ISBN | 1626721831 |
Animus is the YA creation of Antoine Revoy, who grew up in Paris and Tokyo, loving comics from east and west. What we know is that Japan has an elaborate system of yokai (monsters, supernatural creatures), and this ghost story fits that manga category, but it also features realistic drawing. This story...
| Author | Whitney Gardner |
| ISBN | 1481495569 |
It’s the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. He hasn’t grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. He even has the same crush he’s harbored for years. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. But how could a girl like Nia...
