Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia
10 best books like Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia (Barbara O'Connor): Towers Falling, Don't Hex with Texas, Cover Her Face, Bob, Amina's Voice, Wishtree, Harbor Me, Behind the Attic Wall, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, The Red King
Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
ISBN | 0316262226 |
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,...
Author | Shanna Swendson |
ISBN | 0345492935 |
Everything’s bigger in Texas–including romance, magic, and danger!
Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family’s feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen...
Author | P.D. James |
ISBN | 0743219570 |
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face...
Author | Wendy Mass |
ISBN | 1250166624 |
A classic middle-grade tale of magic and friendship, about a girl who helps an old friend find home, by two New York Times–bestselling authors Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead.
It’s been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy’s grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s...
Author | Hena Khan |
ISBN | 1481492063 |
Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she’s in middle school everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the “cool” girls in the class, and even talking about changing her...
Author | Katherine Applegate |
ISBN | 1250043220 |
Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . .
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's...
Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
ISBN | 0399252525 |
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat—by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There,...
Author | Sylvia Cassedy |
ISBN | 0380698439 |
They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie...
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?
For Arturo, summetime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few...
Author | Victor Kelleher |
ISBN | 0803707584 |
Any more, fantasy novels are expected to be enormous epic-length ordeals -- look at the works of Tolkien, Martin, Goodkind, Rothfuss, and others. I have nothing against a long book, but too often authors feel that for their fantasy to be compelling it has to be massive, and often that leads to packing...
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Author | Peg Kehret |
ISBN | 0807574597 |
What a beautiful story! My grandmother was born in 1901 and had polio as a young teen (we think that's the right age). Her father was a doctor and had heard about some unorthodox treatments that were being done for polio victims and tried them on her. They involved heat and massage, so I am now assuming these...
Author | Sharon Creech |
ISBN | 0062570730 |
Perfect for fans of Charlotte’s Web and The One and Only Ivan, Saving Winslow is an uplifting modern classic in the making about a young boy who befriends an ailing newborn donkey and nurses him back to health, from New York Times bestseller and Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech.
Louie doesn't...