Dancing in Cadillac Light

10 best books like Dancing in Cadillac Light (Kimberly Willis Holt): Guts, A Long Way from Chicago, The Golden Goblet, The Buddha in the Attic, Best Friends, Darby, The 14 Fibs of Gregory K., As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me, The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table, Runaway Ralph

Guts

Author

Raina Telgemeier

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...

A Long Way from Chicago

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142401102

"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...

The Golden Goblet

Author

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...

The Buddha in the Attic

Author	Julie Otsuka
ISBN	0307700003

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha...

Best Friends

Author

Shannon Hale

Sequel to Shannon Hale's award-winning graphic novel memoir, "Real Friends", this new graphic memoir picks up where "Real Friends" left off. As Shannon grows a little older, the rules of friendship always seem to be changing, leaving her guessing and trying her best to just keep up. "Best Friends"...

Darby

Author	Jonathon Scott Fuqua
ISBN	0763622907

"Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST

A Book Sense 76 Top Ten Pick

A National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for...

The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.

Author	Greg Pincus
ISBN	0439912997

Gregory K is the middle child in a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math? Well, he'd be fibbing. What he really wants most is to go to Author Camp. But to get his parents' permission he's going to have to pass his math class, which has a probability of 0. THAT much he can understand!...

As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me

Author	Nanci Kincaid
ISBN	0316009148

The characters in Nanci Kincaid's "As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me" are amazingly well written but comparing it to "To Kill a Mockingbird" as some critics chose to do gives the author too much credit.

The book is the story of Berry Jackson, a teenager growing up Pinetta, Fla. As in most small...

The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

Author	Rick Bragg
ISBN	0525588663

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens"...

Runaway Ralph

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0590664875

Because schools so often assign them, over the last few years I've read and reread Cleary's "Dear Mr. Henshaw" and "Strider" countless times, but never went any farther into her catalog. That wasn't due to my opinion of these books (they are both very good) but because I was too old to be aware of Ms. Cleary...