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10 best books like Don't Care High (Gordon Korman): The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, A Walk Out of the World, Cowboys Don't Cry (Cowboys Don't, #1), Twin Spell, Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound: Or Blackberry Subway Jam, The Keeping Days, Pippi On The Run, The Littles and Their Amazing New Friend, The Catalogue of the Universe, Always October

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0451121503
This book was written in the early '80s. The following are among the long list of giveaways:

1) The word "retarded" appears twice on the same page.
2) The narrator's science teacher is casually anti-Semitic.
3) In order to find out what movies are playing, the characters need to use...
A Walk Out of the World
AuthorRuth Nichols
ISBN0152945148

Trying to stay one book recommendation ahead of my daughter's voracious reading habit, I somehow clicked my way to Ruth Nichols. This short novel borrows heavily from LOTR and the Pevensie's magic wardrobe, but I kept reminding myself that it was written for a child somewhere between 10 and 13,...
Cowboys Don't Cry (Cowboys Don't, #1)
AuthorMarilyn Halvorson
ISBN0773674292
Shane Morgan's world is shattered when his mother is killed in a car accident. His father and hero, a famous rodeo star, drowns his sorrow in booze and soon is just a rodeo clown with a drinking problem. Then the two inherit a small ranch, and Shane looks forward to having a real home, making friends, and...
Twin Spell
AuthorJanet Lunn
ISBN0440491770
Twin girls are drawn to an antique doll, and find themselves sucked into a mystery from the past. It's spooky, but not terrifying; just the right chill-factor for the intended age group. The book is a little slow-moving by today's standards. Still, the story is interesting, and the characters well drawn....
Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound: Or Blackberry Subway Jam
AuthorRobert Munsch
ISBN0920236200
I remember this book from when I was a kid, all the way back in the 1980s. Unfortunately, though the basic premise is pretty amusing, the story is dated. Very dated.

Jonathan's mother goes out to buy a can of noodles. She tells her son not to make a mess. But no sooner has she left than Jonathan hears...
The Keeping Days
AuthorNorma Johnston
ISBN1892323281
I found this dusty time capsule in my backyard. It arrived on the back of a 1980s has-been actor (and he arrived on the back of a flaming jet pack!). The dry ice revealed a neon sticker that said "1900". "Remember me?" It said, "We loved this in our childhood. It reminded us of growing up in 1900! We were bosom...
Pippi On The Run
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN0440842859
I remember the Pippi books as better than this. And I don't think it's a matter of bad translation, either. This volume is written as if it were meant to be told aloud. Then the repetitions, which jar in the print version, would be less glaring.

Pippi is not exactly irresponsible. She's just very...
The Littles and Their Amazing New Friend
AuthorJohn Lawrence Peterson
ISBN0590876120
If you're looking for something to hand off to your young reader, give this series a try!

The Littles are "humans" ... they just have a tail and are six inches tall. That's all. Oh, and they live in the Biggs house; not that the Biggs know it, because the Littles reside in the tiny spaces and nooks...
The Catalogue of the Universe
AuthorMargaret Mahy
Angela and Tycho seem an unlikely pair -- she is beautiful and confident, he is awkward and quietly intellectual. They have long shared a passion for deciphering the universe outside their own personal struggles. Like the great philosophers they study, to Angela and Tycho it seems the universe can...
Always October
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0060890959
From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world.

Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!), but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that...
The Great Brain at the Academy
AuthorJohn D. Fitzgerald
ISBN0440431131
A great book for boys! This series was a favorite from childhood for all the kids in our family. I remember my teacher and my mom reading them to us, and then re-reading them several times later.

Having read these aloud now myself for homeschool, I was surprised by the mature themes that I didn't...
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
AuthorEllen MacGregor
ISBN0070445605
Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest...
Sidekick
AuthorAuralee Wallace
ISBN0857991590
Heroes meets Bridget Jones in this brilliant, hilarious debut novel about a girl who just wants to save the world ...

Bremy St James, daughter of billionaire Atticus St James, has been cut off from the family fortune and is struggling to survive in a world that no longer holds its breath every...
Tempus
AuthorHolly Lauren
ISBN1493513303
Chapel Ryan isn't crazy. At least, that's what she's been trying to convince herself of for most of her life. But after being hallucination-free for three years, Chapel finds herself facedown on her English classroom’s gritty linoleum floor. When she looks up, everyone around her is suspended in...
Pwned
AuthorShannen Crane Camp
ISBN0996619372
Reagan West has the perfect life. She’s gorgeous, she’s popular, and she’s at the tip-top of the high school food chain as co-captain of the cheerleading squad. She’s also best friends with the most evil girl in Albany, Tawny Perez, which means she’s never on the receiving end of Tawny’s...
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
AuthorSeán Cullen
ISBN0670065021
Meet Hamish X!
Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere.
The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency—Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanage, where the children are forced to earn their...
That Scatterbrain Booky
AuthorBernice Thurman Hunter
ISBN0590710826
Booky didn't know much about the reasons for the Great Depression. All she knew was that she was hungry all the time, that her parents fought constantly, that the bailiff would soon return to evict her family from their home. Worst of all, she knew that Christmas would be a time of empty stockings instead...
Beginners
AuthorElizabeth Levy
ISBN0590440500
I'm re-reading these in the hope of getting rid of them. I first read the series when I was actually too old for it, but there's something very likeable about it and I love gymnastics as a sport. Re-reading as an adult, I think I was a little more aware of the failings of the book, many of which could have been...
Anastasia's Chosen Career
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0440401003
Anastasia Krupnik has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called "My Chosen Career." Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a modeling course at Studio Charmante. She has one week...
The Wakefield Legacy: The Untold Story
AuthorFrancine Pascal
ISBN0553297945
Follow the compelling stories of the women and men who came before Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield: Frontiersman Theodore Wakefield thought he'd lost his heart forever; will Dancing Wind make him love again?

Turn -of-the-century beauty Sarah Wakefield marries against her father's wishes...
Norby Through Time and Space
AuthorJanet Asimov
ISBN0441586376
I hadn't read any of the Norby books before, so I was just jumping into the middle of things with the characters and the world and all. While having read the prior books might have been a little helpful, jumping in is certainly not a problem. I think I picked this up at a bag book sale based solely on Asimov as...
The Lion of St. Mark: A Story of Venice in the 14th Century
AuthorG.A. Henty
ISBN1576469786
Mostly an enjoyable story. There were about three instances of superfluous recapitulations - just because one character wasn't present for events doesn't mean that the reader - who was - needs to hear it again. There were also sections of history that were recounted at length without any attempt to...
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