Crunch
10 best books like Crunch (Leslie Connor): Cosmic, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Captain Nobody, The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester, The Trouble With Chickens, Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze, Full of Beans, The Fourth Stall, Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception, We the Children
| Author | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| ISBN | 1405054646 |
Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0439668182 |
A dramatic, witty Civil War tale from bestselling author Rodman Philbrick
Master storyteller Rodman Philbrick takes readers on a colorful journey as young Homer Figg sets off to follow his brother into the thick of the Civil War. Through a series of fascinating events, Homer's older brother...
| Author | Dean Pitchford |
| ISBN | 0399250344 |
Growing up in the shadow of his football star brother, Chris, Newt Newman has never felt particularly special. When Chris is knocked into a coma, Newt's two best friends decide that taking him out for Halloween is the best way to cheer him up. Using some of Chris's old, oversized clothes, Newt creates...
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
An amazing secret has tumbled off a freight train into Carter, Georgia, and Owen Jester is the only person who knows about it. If he can simply manage to evade his grandfather’s snappish housekeeper, organize his two best friends, and keep his nosy neighbor, Viola, at bay, he just might be in for the...
The Trouble With Chickens
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0061215325 |
J.J. Tully is a former search-and-rescue dog who is trying to enjoy his retirement after years of performing daring missions saving lives. So he's not terribly impressed when two chicks named Dirt and Sugar (who look like popcorn on legs) and their chicken mom show up demanding his help to track down...
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
| Author | Alan Silberberg |
| ISBN | 1416994300 |
Loveable thirteen-year-old geek Milo Cruikshank finds reasons for frustrations at every turn, like the way his neighbor carves her pumpkin way too early to last until Halloween, or the fact that Summer Goodman won’t look twice at him while Hillary Alpert keeps leaving notes in his locker. The...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0553510398 |
Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...
| Author | Chris Rylander |
| ISBN | 0061994960 |
Chris Rylander delivers a funny Ferris Bueler-style middle grade novel with The Fourth Stall.
Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It's what he does—he and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run afoul of the law, or at least the school code...
Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385740018 |
I absolutely love going back and reading books I loved as a teenager! So when I saw this book at the library by the author of "the hatchet" I borrowed it with with high hopes. Sadly I was not all that impressed. The book jumped from subject to subject leaving a lot of story lines feeling unfinished, and it didn't...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 1416938869 |
Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town—with all the buses and traffic and eight dollar slices of pizza. It’s going to change everything....
| Author | Stuart Gibbs |
| ISBN | 1481423363 |
The moon base commander has gone missing and Dash Gibson is on the case in the second mind-boggling mystery of the Edgar-nominated Moon Base Alpha series from the New York Times bestselling author of Belly Up and Spy School.
There's nowhere to hide on the world's first moon base. After all, it's...
| Author | Stuart Gibbs |
| ISBN | 1442494883 |
It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.”
Like his fellow lunarnauts—otherwise known...
