Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes
10 best books like Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes (Mary E. Lambert): Guts, The Van Gogh Deception, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Greetings from Witness Protection!, Train I Ride, Stef Soto, Taco Queen, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Ban This Book, The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade, Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
| Author | Deron R. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0544759273 |
When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC’s National Gallery without any recollection of who he is, so begins a high-stakes race to unravel the greatest mystery of all: his identity. As the stakes continue to rise, the boy must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using...
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
| Author | Dusti Bowling |
| ISBN | 1454923458 |
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing...
Greetings from Witness Protection!
| Author | Jake Burt |
| ISBN | 1250107113 |
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...
| Author | Paul Mosier |
| ISBN | 0062455737 |
Rydr is on a train heading east, leaving California, where her gramma can’t take care of her anymore, and traveling to Chicago to live with an unknown relative. She brings with her a suitcase, memories both happy and sad, and a box containing something very important.
As Rydr meets her fellow...
Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for her dad to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be put out to pasture. It's no fun being known as the "Taco Queen" at school. But just when it looks like Stef is...
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 | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0765385562 |
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath
An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...
The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0545863201 |
In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really you didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids.
Maverick wants to change all that....
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 1627793240 |
Twelve-year-old Stevie's world changes drastically when her parents are tragically killed and she is forced to live with her estranged grandfather at his run-down motel. After failed attempts to connect with her grandfather, Stevie befriends the colorful motel tenants and neighbors. Together,...
