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10 best books like Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles (Karen Romano Young): Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick: Ginny Davis's Year In Stuff, Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade, Saving Sky, SPHDZ, Selling Hope, Homesick, After All, You're Callie Boone, Six Innings: A Game in the Life, For Boys Only: The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever, Mallory's Guide to Boys, Brothers, Dads, and Dogs

Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick: Ginny Davis's Year In Stuff
AuthorJennifer L. Holm
ISBN0375968512
Part graphic novel, part scrapbook and altogether original—New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Holm's Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick is just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries and Babymouse!
Ginny has big plans for eighth grade. She's going to try out for cheerleading,...
Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade
AuthorJack Gantos
ISBN0374429235
From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader's trials and tribulations



Jack's life is a crazy roller-coaster ride. At his fifth school in six years, he has a crackpot teacher...
Saving Sky
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0061239054
The country is at war, terrorists strike at random, widespread rationing is in effect, and the power grid is down. But thirteen-year-old Sky Brightman is remarkably untouched by it all. She lives off the grid on sixty acres of rural New Mexico ranch land with chores to do and horses to ride and no television...
SPHDZ
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN1416979514
From the National Ambassador of Young People's Literature, comes the spaciest middle grade series this side of earth.  BE SPHDZ.

Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard enough, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently aren't kids at all. They...
Selling Hope
AuthorKristin O'Donnell Tubb
ISBN0312611226
Selling Hope is an inventive middle grade novel about a girl who wants a normal life and how she sees Halley's Comet as her ticket out of the vaudeville circuit.

It's May 1910, and Halley's Comet is due to pass thru the Earth's atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are...
Homesick
AuthorKate Klise
ISBN1250008425
Benny's parents are splitting up. His mom leaves home after a fight about a mysterious splinter that is rumored to be part of an important relic. Benny's dad has always liked clutter, but now, he begins hoarding everything from pizza boxes to old motorcycle parts.

As his house grows more cluttered...
After All, You're Callie Boone
AuthorWinnie Mack
ISBN0312563310
"Oh, fishsticks, tartar, and a side of fries!"

Runaway ferrets, former BFF drama-trauma, and one GIGANTIC (and very, very public) belly flop. No doubt about it, Callie Boone's summer is CRUMMY. The only things keeping her afloat are dive practice with her dad and a top-secret Olympic dream....
Six Innings: A Game in the Life
AuthorJames Preller
ISBN0312367635
Two teams, six innings, one game.

A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds,...
For Boys Only: The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0312377061
Hey, Boys!

Want to have some fun? Maybe learn how to land an airplane in an emergency? Or fight off an alligator? Escape from being tied up? How about taking a ride on one of America’s scariest roller coasters? Learn how to make fake blood or turn a real bone into a pretzel. What if you...
Mallory's Guide to Boys, Brothers, Dads, and Dogs
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
ISBN0822588862
Mallory McDonald has four big problems.



Problem #1: The boy she likes doesn't like her back.
Problem #2: Her brother is mad at her.
Problem #3: Her dad is upset about her math grade.
Problem #4: Her brother's dog won't leave her alone, and he smells terrible!



When...
Jessie Elliot Is a Big Chicken
AuthorElise Gravel
ISBN1596437413
It’s Jessie Elliot’s last summer as a child. In the fall, she’ll be going to Hochelaga High—where the cool kids smoke, have piercings, and make out in abandoned parking lots. Jessie wants to be cool, but it’s way more fun being uncool. That’s why this summer she’s going to get a high score...
Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1407117920
This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea is Hilary McKay’s second adventure about a young animal lover whose compassion for animals in need often leads her into trouble. Set during the summer, this story takes place at the beach, where Lulu and her...
Dory Dory Black Sheep
AuthorAbby Hanlon
ISBN1101994266
Dory the rascal tackles friendship, losing teeth, and learning to read in a hilarious new chapter book that is perfect for readers of Ivy and Bean
 
School has been pretty good so far. Dory has made a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits as are big as her own. Reading is proving to...
The Talent Show
AuthorDan Gutman
ISBN1416990038
When their town gets destroyed by a tornado, everyone is pretty depressed. So in order to cheer everyone up and raise some money, the community decides to put on a talent show. Unfortunately, no one in town is particularly talented. But that doesn’t stop everyone from giving it their all! Especially...
Chasing Orion
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0763639826
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author.

Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won’t be going to the theater anytime soon. It’s...
Zebrafish
AuthorSharon Emerson
ISBN1416995250
Vita is a purple-haired singing queen, and she has big dreams for her rock group, Zebrafish. But when she holds auditions for the back-up band, tryouts are sorely lacking in the musical ability department. Luckily her new bandmates—Walt, Tanya, Jay, and Plinko—have other talents. But lately...
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
AuthorAlan Silberberg
ISBN1416994300

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...
Binky to the Rescue
AuthorAshley Spires
ISBN1554535026
While in hot pursuit of an alien invader (a bug), Binky accidentally falls out the space station porthole (bathroom window) and finds himself in outer space (outside) for the very first time. But just as Binky begins to explore, he discovers that his copilot, Ted (stuffed mousie), is trapped beneath...
The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt
AuthorElizabeth Cody Kimmel
ISBN0803733038
Moxie Roosevelt Kipper has endured thirteen years of being an ordinary girl with an unordinary name. Now that she's entered boarding school, the time is ripe to reinvent herself. She'll become unusual, outlandish, unexpected, sassy - someone worthy of a name like "Moxie." But who exactly? From Mysterious...
Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders
AuthorMichael Townsend
ISBN0803733089
From Hercules? snake assassin slippers to Arachne's wicked weaver rap songs, these are the mythic monsters and Hellenic heroes that have captured Western culture for centuries?but a whole lot more fun. Each story showcases the wondrous and blunderful antics of gods and mortals in bright graphics...
Gossip from the Girls' Room
AuthorRose Cooper
ISBN0385739478
Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls!

Gossip from the Girls’ Room fills readers in on all there is to learn about middle school life at Middlebrooke, where Sofia has her very own blog and discusses all the juicy gossip that comes out of the Girls’ room; read along to find out just what happens when...
Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0385740018
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...
Unleashed
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0545709350
The seventh installment in #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Gordon Korman's Swindle series!

UNLEASHED: freed from restraint, running wild, not being held back by anyone or anything . . .
Luthor, a former attack dog, is supposed to be on his best behavior now that he’s in the care of...
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