Dont You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey: Teacher Guide (Novel Units)
10 best books like Dont You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey: Teacher Guide (Novel Units) (Novel Units, Inc.): Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, The Perfect Shot, Girl Coming in for a Landing, Girlhearts, Hugging the Rock, Welcome Home, Jellybean, Comfort, Send Me Down a Miracle, Wanderlust, The Shadow Club Rising
Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
ISBN | 0689871023 |
Things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something...
Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, but the teacher has promised she won't read any entry marked "Do not read this." It's the kind of assignment Tish Bonner, one of the girls with big hair...
Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
ISBN | 1575058626 |
Someone murdered Brian's girfriend, Amanda. The police think it was her father. Brian isn't so sure. But everyone he knows is telling him to move on, get over it, focus on the present. Focus on basketball. Focus on hitting the perfect shot. Brian hopes that the system will work for Amanda and her father....
Author | April Halprin Wayland |
ISBN | 0440419034 |
You walk into class—
my head clears.
No kidding.
You are my aspirin.
One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring collection captures the emotional highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty...
Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
ISBN | 0380722909 |
Reread November 2015:
Well Past Self called it because I reread this and am bumping it from 3 stars to 4. If I read it again, I'll probably give it 5.
One, Sarabeth's friends are in it more than I remember and they are lovely. Yay, Patty. And Leo is there at important times and says things that...
Author | Susan Taylor Brown |
ISBN | 1582461805 |
When her mom runs away from home, Rachel is left behind with her emotionally distant father and many questions she cannot answer. Over time, she learns the truth about her mom. But it's only when she learns the truth about her dad, the rock- immoveable and always there for her to lean on-that Rachel can...
Author | Marlene Fanta Shyer |
ISBN | 0689712138 |
Neil Oxley's older sister, Geraldine, is coming home for the first time. After spending most of her life in institutions for the retarded, she is finally going to live with her family and adapt to the "real world".
"Skillful juxtaposition of two seemingly incompatible elements--light humor...
Author | Carolee Dean |
ISBN | 0618138463 |
Nothing ever happened here. Nothing ever would.
Fifteen-year-old Kenny Wilson wants nothing more than to get out of Comfort, Texas—fast. Only three things stand in his way: getting enough money together, convincing Cindy Blackwell to go with him, and escaping the clawlike grip of his...
Author | Han Nolan |
ISBN | 0152046801 |
Things used to be normal in Casper, Alabama. Charity Pittman was a regular fourteen-year-old, the perfect daughter, following in her preacher father's footsteps. But then Adrienne arrived, with her big-city ways and artsy ideas. Reverend Pittman thinks she's the devil incarnate. Charity thinks...
Author | Chris Dyer |
ISBN | 0452283795 |
This book is written entirely in emails, from Kate Bogart, a travel writers, to her mother, best friend, boss, ex-husband, and a war correspondent. Kate is mad for the Portugese bull fighter she met on assignment in Lisbon. But when he starts to follow her from city to city, she's had enough. Her boss introduces...
Author | Neal Shusterman |
ISBN | 0142500895 |
The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputation. And when the new golden boy at school is the victim...
Author | Louise Plummer |
ISBN | 0385325118 |
-This book is about a couple that likes each other and been knowing each other for a while.Hannah’s mom finds out Hannah is pregnant, her mom didn’t ask what will she do with the baby or ask how she feels about it. She doesn’t even ask if she’s going to school.Hannah’s dad died by burping, it didn’t...
Author | Fuyumi Soryo |
ISBN | 0345491882 |
MIND CONTROL
Ryousuke Akiba calls himself ES, a code name taken from a mysterious scientific experiment. Ryousuke will live to be at least two centuries old and possesses strange mental powers: He can enter people’s minds, discover their darkest secrets, even rearrange their memories...
Author | Gary Paulsen |
ISBN | 0440229359 |
When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...
Author | Graham Greene |
ISBN | 0143039733 |
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all...
Author | Meca Tanaka |
ISBN | 1598167758 |
Buckle up and get ready for a bumpy ride down the road to true love!
When the sweet, bubbly, and somewhat clumsy Tamako sets her sights on the ever-so-serious Kanji, it's more than a struggle to get the romance to spark. But the challenge becomes even tougher- Tamako's mom is the top-money maker at...
Author | CLAMP |
ISBN | 1591820049 |
It's time for the ANgelic Layer regional finals in Kanto, Japan, and in honor of the occasion, an all-new fighting arena has been unveiled! For the first time ever, players must navigate their robotic Angels around an interactive 3-D environment filled with craggy peaks and smokey crevices. Misaki...
Yu Yu Hakusho, Volume 7: Knife-Edge Death Match
Author | Yoshihiro Togashi |
ISBN | 1591168120 |
Engulfed in the Dark Tournament's sinister spirit of victory (more like survival), Team Urameshi's Hiei and Kurama dig deep into their arsenals to battle the vicious henchmen of Jolly Devil Six. It's Kurama vs. Loto and Hiei vs. Zeru, and the rules do include playing dirty. Meanwhile, Kuwabara experiences...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Vol. 3: Capsule Monster Chess
Author | Kazuki Takahashi |
ISBN | 1591161797 |
This volume contains the rest of Shadi's move to bring out the other Yugi and play his little 'Shadow' game; the prize is Anzu and if Yugi loses, she'll die. It is a test of weaknesses and strengths and in the end, after a stressful time, Yugi wins and manages to defeat Shadi because of the trust between friends....
Author | Paul Zindel |
ISBN | 0553564560 |
Eight hundred and fifty-three horrifying things had happened to me by the time I was a teenager. That was when I met my Pigman, whose real name was Nonno Frankie.
The year Paul Zindel, his sister, Betty, and their mother lived in the town of Travis, Staten Island, New York, was the most important...