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Don't Call Me Ishmael!

10 best books like Don't Call Me Ishmael! (Michael Gerard Bauer): The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California, Red Glass, Deadly, Unna?, Losing It, Will, Writing Clementine, Thai-Riffic!, Nona & Me, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, Rock Star Superstar

The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California
AuthorMary Hershey
ISBN1595141502
“Mom didn’t think it was funny when I took off my leg at school, put it in my locker, and then tied a rag around my stump with fake blood on it. After that, though, the kids at school pretty much knew if anyone was going to be cracking jokes about my leg, it was gonna be me.” So says thirteen-year-old Alastair...
Red Glass
AuthorLaura Resau
ISBN0385734662
ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes...
Deadly, Unna?
AuthorPhillip Gwynne
ISBN0141300493
'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. Dumby Red and Blacky don't have a lot in common. Dumby's the star of the footy team, he's got a killer smile and the knack with girls, and he's a Nunga. Blacky's a gutless wonder, needs braces, never knows what to...
Losing It
AuthorSandy McKay
ISBN1877361747
"I'll go bonkers in here, Issy. It's like prison except at least in prison you have some freedoms."

Fifteen-year-old Johanna Morrison is in hospital, writing letters to her best friend, Issy. As part of her therapy Jo is not allowed to leave her room, use the phone, have visitors or even wash...
Will
AuthorMaria Boyd
ISBN0375862099
THE CRIME

It all started when Will mooned the girls' school bus. It wasn't his finest moment. And it's the last time William Armstrong will sully the St. Andrew's community, says Principal Waddlehead-er, Waverton.

THE PUNISHMENT

That's when a teacher worried about Will's...
Writing Clementine
AuthorKate Gordon
ISBN1743316631
You said we could write anything we wanted. The first thing that came into our minds. Blue fish, red fish, green fish...

Clementine Darcy is floundering. She wants to be the kind of a fish who swims to the swish of her own fins - upstream, not simply carried along by the current.

But she...
Thai-Riffic!
AuthorOliver Phommavanh
ISBN0143304852
Albert (Lengy) Lengviriyakul, is fed up with being Thai. His parents own a Thai restaurant with the cheesy name of Thai-riffic! and Lengy is sick of being his father's curry guinea pig, longing to just eat pizza! At school he is a bit of a troublemaker, going to any lengths to hide his background. But when...
Nona & Me
AuthorClare Atkins
ISBN1863956891
Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas.

They are also best friends. It doesn’t matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life.

Born just five days apart in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, the girls are inseperable, until...
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
AuthorDebra Garfinkle
ISBN0142407828
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
Rock Star Superstar
AuthorBlake Nelson
ISBN0142405744
Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when playing his Fender P-Bass. He doesn't care about prestige or getting girls; it's the quality of the music that matters. Then he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely play, but somehow they have a following. Pete can't resist, and he joins...
Swear to Howdy
AuthorWendelin Van Draanen
ISBN0440419433
A funny friendship turns serious in this haunting book about secrets, lies, and what it means to be a true friend.
 
Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He’s funny, daring, mischievous—and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he’s done. Luckily,...
The Summer Sherman Loved Me
AuthorJane St. Anthony
ISBN0374372896
What happens when you get what you think you want and then don't know what to do with it? When twelve-year-old Margaret hears the boy next door call to her in the middle of the night, her heart races with excitement – and nervousness. Will this mean Sherman is her boyfriend? Although Sherman insists that...
Donuthead
AuthorSue Stauffacher
ISBN0440419344
Franklin Delano Donuthead is a fifth grader with a lot of problems: For starters, his last name is Donuthead. He considers himself handicapped because one arm and leg are shorter than the other (by less than half an inch), his mother is trying to poison him with non-organic foods (like salami), he doesn’t...
The Revealers
AuthorDoug Wilhelm
ISBN0374462437
Throwing light on a dark problem

Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail...
The Shiny Guys
AuthorDoug MacLeod
ISBN0143565303
'Wouldn't it be funny if they were real?'
'Shiny red men?'
'What if I were the sane one and everyone else was mad?'

One night, the shiny guys visit fifteen-year-old Colin Lapsley. They don't speak, but Colin can read their thoughts. They want him to pay for the terrible thing that he has...
Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend
AuthorSteven Herrick
ISBN0702249289
Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend is a charming and delightful little book about a group of school-kids living in a small rural Australian town. It's written as a verse novel – each chapter is a short non-rhyming poem – but this isn't the boring, difficult poetry you have to study at school: it's honest,...
Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool
AuthorOdo Hirsch
ISBN1935279653
The Bell family's ancestors were showered with honors, gifts and grants of land. In exchange, they have bestowed a Gift, once every 25 years, on the town. The Gifts have ranged from a statue to a bell tower with stained-glass windows, but now it's Darius's father's turn - and there is no money for an impressive...
Crow Country
AuthorKate Constable
From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes  a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia 

Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from...
Juggling With Mandarins
AuthorV.M. Jones
ISBN1869504623
Two, three, four - how many mandarins can Pip juggle? A coming-of-age novel about Pip, whose father wants him to be everything that Pip is not. Pip is good at English, like his mother; but Pip′s father wants him to be a soccer star like Nick, Pip′s brother, and to win at any cost. When Pip′s English...
A Pocketful of Eyes
AuthorLili Wilkinson
ISBN1742376193
Smart, funny, page-turning contemporary crime fiction in the tradition of Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie—and Veronica Mars

Beatrice May Ross is smart, observant, and analytical, so when a dead body is discovered in the taxidermy department at the museum where she's interning,...
The Book from Baden Dark
AuthorJames Moloney
ISBN0732287677
The exciting conclusion to the bestselling trilogy that began with THE BOOK OF LIES.

three years have passed since Marcel defeated Mortregis, the great dragon of war, and more than a year since the Battle of Cadell. On a mountainside in Elster, Bea, who has lived among the elves all this time,...
The Ruby Talisman
AuthorBelinda Murrell
When Tilly's aunt tells her of their beautiful French ancestress, she shows Tilly a priceless heirloom. Tilly falls asleep wearing the ruby talisman, wishing she could escape to a more adventurous life... In 1789 Amelie-Mathilde is living in luxury at the opulent palace of Versailles - but her guardians...
Bridie's Fire
AuthorKirsty Murray
ISBN1865087270
This sweeping historical novel for young adults documents the adventures of Bridie, an orphaned Irish teenager who escapes the potato famine that claimed the lives of her parents and baby brother. Independent and stubborn, Bridie makes a new life for herself in the rough-and-tumble world of Australia...
Nanberry: Black Brother White
AuthorJackie French
ISBN0732290228
The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted. Ages 12+ two brothers - one black, one white - and a colony at the end of the world It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as...
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