Come Sing, Jimmy Jo
10 best books like Come Sing, Jimmy Jo (Katherine Paterson): Dragonwings, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Roller Skates, Frindle, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Desert Spear, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, No More Dead Dogs, Love, Stargirl, Just Ella
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0064400859 |
Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow's...
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
| Author | Robert C. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0689862202 |
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly...
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140303588 |
A Newbery Medal Winner!
Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689818769 |
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children — and adults — learn about the vagaries of the real world.
Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and...
| Author | Peter V. Brett |
| ISBN | 0345503813 |
The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power.
Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return...
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0689832133 |
Farmer Brown has a problem.
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....
Doreen Cronin's understated...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0786816015 |
Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie -- he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end?After refusing...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0375913750 |
LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing,...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 1416936491 |
Being a princess isn't all that...
You've heard the fairy tale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after...
Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and—worst of all—a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and...
A creative spirit learns that thinking "ish-ly" is far more wonderful than "getting it right" in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book THE DOT.
Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.
Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy....
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590427490 |
ahh the scholastic apple paperback. .
| Author | Mary Q. Steele |
| ISBN | 0140305882 |
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into...
I guess I'm not a Caudill fan across the board. It wasn't like this was terrible; it just wasn't terribly good either. The family relationships weren't sweet like I assumed they would be since several of her other books score nicely on that point. And it was just kind of boring ...
In 1780, Stephanie...
Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0679887911 |
"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful
things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged
adolescence" (The Washington Post), Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned
his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor,...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0140376283 |
Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust.Nyle...
| Author | Shel Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0060256710 |
From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.
It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply...
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
| Author | Shel Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0060256575 |
The missing piece meets the big o, Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece is a children’s picture book by poet Shel Silverstein. First publication date
1976. The story centers on a circular animal-like creature that is missing a wedge-shaped piece of itself. It doesn’t like this, and sets...
