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10 best books like Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook (Mary Amato): Sold, Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, Tesla's Attic, Guinea Dog, Will in Scarlet, All the Broken Pieces, Will Sparrow's Road, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, The Hero Revealed
| Author | Patricia McCormick |
| ISBN | 0786851716 |
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the...
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0805090487 |
In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors.
But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs...
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
| Author | Deborah Heiligman |
| ISBN | 1596433078 |
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn...
| Author | Neal Shusterman |
| ISBN | 1423148037 |
Tesla's Attic is the first book in a brilliantly imagined and hilariously written trilogy that combines science, magic, intrigue, and just plain weirdness, about four kids who are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.
After their home burns down,...
| Author | Patrick Jennings |
| ISBN | 1606840533 |
Rufus has been dreaming of getting a dog. His best friend has one. His worst friend has one. But his dad has a few objections: They whine. They gnaw. They bark. They scratch. They beg. They drool.
Rufus pays no attention when his mom offers her think-outside-the-box suggestion, because she can't...
This reimagining of the Robin Hood legend tells the story of the young boy behind the bandit hero's rise to fame.
Will Shackley is the son of a lord, and though just thirteen, he’s led a charmed, protected life and is the heir to Shackley House, while his father is away on the Third Crusade with...
| Author | Ann E. Burg |
| ISBN | 0545080924 |
A remarkable literary debut by a stunning new voice in children's fiction.
Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States,...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547739621 |
In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe...
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
Molly doesn't want to be seen as "Miss Difficulty Overcome"; she wants to make herself known to the kids at...
| Author | William Boniface |
| ISBN | 0060774649 |
In Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.
In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?
Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests....
| Author | Kate Klise |
| ISBN | 0312570392 |
A middle grade novel about a 12-year-old girl dealing with loss, who uncovers a rather grisly scam involving a crematorium.
After her brother, sister, and father die in a plane crash, Daralynn Oakland receives 237 dolls from well-wishers, resulting in her nickname: Dolly. But dolls are little...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0307976815 |
Max Starling's theatrical father likes to say that at twelve a boy is independent. He also likes to boast (about his acting skills, his wife's acting skills, a fortune only his family knows is metaphorical), but more than anything he likes to have adventures. Max Starling's equally theatrical mother...
| Author | Toby Forward |
| ISBN | 1599907240 |
When Flaxfield the great wizard dies, his apprentice Sam is left without a master. Sam has great power-but he doesn't know it yet. All he knows is that he needs a new master if he wants to finish his education in magic.
With his dragon Starback at his side, Sam sets out alone on his quest. But there...
| Author | Nan Marino |
| ISBN | 1596434996 |
"Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony.
It's the summer of 1969, and things are not only changing in Tamara's...
This picturebook biography is an excellent and accessible introduction for young readers to learn about one of the world's most influential luminaries. With her signature style of prose laced with stirring quotes, Doreen Rappaport brings to life Helen Keller's poignant narrative. Acclaimed illustrator...
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis.
The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals,...
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
| Author | Alan Silberberg |
| ISBN | 1416994300 |
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...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 1581960425 |
If you are planning to teach figures of speech, you might want to pull this book out and read a little to your class each day. The main character, Logan, is cursed to speak in puns by Professor Wordsworth because he is too rowdy and a little disrespectful in the library. In order to lift the curse he must bring...
