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10 best books like Edward's Eyes (Patricia MacLachlan): Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Greetings from Witness Protection!, Someone Named Eva, Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Bad Kitty, Home of the Brave, Diamonds in the Shadow, Diamond Willow, The Great Wide Sea

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
AuthorChris Riddell
ISBN1405050578
Introducing Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve . . .

Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr Munroe. Together they...
Greetings from Witness Protection!
AuthorJake Burt
ISBN1250107113
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...
Someone Named Eva
AuthorJoan M. Wolf
ISBN0618535799
Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award...
Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0375857052
Alvin Ho does not think the great outdoors is great. It is super-duper scary. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Flash floods
2. Meteorites
3. Lots of creepy trees
4. Pit toilets!

Luckily, when his dad suggests--gulp!--a camping trip, Alvin is prepared. He has:

1....
Pictures of Hollis Woods
AuthorPatricia Reilly Giff
ISBN0439692393
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.

The book touches on what is most important in life...
Bad Kitty
AuthorNick Bruel
ISBN1596430699
From the creator of The New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk -- four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Cauliflower, Dill...and 22 other...
Home of the Brave
AuthorKatherine Applegate
ISBN0312367651
Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind.

In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother...
Diamonds in the Shadow
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0385732619
THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter....
Diamond Willow
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374317763
There's
more to me than
most people
see.

Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants,...
The Great Wide Sea
AuthorM.H. Herlong
ISBN0670063304
Ben, Dylan, and Gerry are still mourning their mother's death when their dad decides to buy a boat and take them on a year-long sailing trip. Tensions flare between Ben and his father, but they gradually learn to live together in close quarters. But one morning, the boys wake up to discover their father...
The Killing Sea
AuthorRichard Lewis
ISBN1416911650
Ruslan slipped away from the café and the curious onlookers. He began to run, not knowing exactly why, but instinct making him head away from the sea....

And in the distance, along the seafront of Ujung Karang, screams rose from a hundred, a thousand, mouths.

Aceh, Indonesia. December...
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
AuthorLauren Tarshis
ISBN0803731647
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It's easy: she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
AuthorPeggy Gifford
ISBN0375839151
This first novel for kids was a little disappointing; I was eager to read it because my mate's dad's name is Stuart Little and I thought it might be a good gift.

Basically, Moxy is a little girl with moxie who keeps putting off her summer reading assignment and does quirky things. I think the author...
The Only Road
AuthorAlexandra Diaz
Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead.

Everyone in Jaime’s small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that’s known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone...
Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!
AuthorGeoffrey Hayes
ISBN0979923891
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winner 

In this Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winner Benny and his sister Penny know it’s wrong to sneak into someone else’s backyard but their mysterious new neighbor – or is it a monster? – may be a thief. They go snooping and discover a lot about themselves...
Stinky
AuthorEleanor Davis
ISBN0979923840
Stinky was on the 2009 ALA Honor Book list for the Theodore Giesel Award. It is a beginning reader book presented in a graphic novel format (for the purpose of LIS 565 assignment 3, I will count this book as a graphic novel rather than an early reader). Stinky is a smelly swamp monster who believes that all...
Piper Reed: Navy Brat
AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN0805081976
It's not easy being the middle child, especially when your dad is a Navy Chief. Meet Piper Reed, a spunky nine-year-old who has moved more times than she can count on one hand. From Texas to Guam, wherever Piper goes, adventure follows, inspired by her active imagination, free-wheeling spirit, and a...
The Dunderheads
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0763624985
Dunderheads, unite! A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully
subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman.

Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But...
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0385905882
When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other.

Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes,...
Dork in Disguise
AuthorCarol Gorman
Ay yi yi... This was cringingly awkward. I guess for middle-schoolers, this might be a good lesson in learning to be yourself and recognizing good people from shitty shallow people, but man... it was so painful to read because I just wanted to shake some sense into the main character the entire time.

It...
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