Fearless

10 best books like Fearless (Elvira Woodruff): The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906, Paint the Wind, Remembering Mrs. Rossi, The Ever Breath, Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer, The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood, The Trojan War, Billy Creekmore, Chasing the Secret

AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0060276924
Did you want to go to America?
Pop: Sure. I didn't have a choice. My father said I had to go. So I went.

Were you sad when you left your village?
Pop: Maybe a little . . . well, maybe a lot.

Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep knows that he must leave his home in China and travel to America with the...
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0375836527
“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”

Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then...
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439873622
This epic horse story, in the tradition of BLACK STALLION, marks exciting new territory for one of our most treasured and celebrated novelists.
A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother house,...
AuthorAmy Hest
ISBN0763621633
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.

Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
The Ever Breath
AuthorJulianna Baggott
ISBN0385737610
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When...
AuthorThatcher Heldring
ISBN0385733909
TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...
AuthorBarb Bentler Ullman
ISBN0060736143
My 3 stars is not a criticism of the book - just a rating of how much I enjoyed it. I read this to my daughter (who is 6) and she liked some of it and didn't like some of it. It was written well (very well for a first book!). The characters and situations are believable. There is a fair amount of fun to bed. But on a...
AuthorBernard Evslin
A cinematic tale of passion, war, loyalty, betrayal, and retribution

“These events I relate are the living seeds, and they will bear bloody fruit, I promise.” So says Ulysses, King of Ithaca, as he recounts the origins of the Trojan War. Renowned Greek mythologist Bernard Evslin masterfully...
Billy Creekmore
AuthorTracey Porter
Folks say I'm bound to be unlucky in life, for I was born at midnight on a Friday, the thirteenth of December, and Peggy says it's certain I can commune with spirits. But I ain't never seen any ghosts, not even my own mother, and wouldn't that be the ghost I'd see if I could?

So begins the tale of Billy...
Chasing the Secret
AuthorMaya Snow
ISBN0061243906
A samurai will overcome all obstacles to face her enemy with honor. And she will show no mercy.

Kimi and her sister, Hana, disguised themselves as boys to study at Master Goku's dojo--and to prepare themselves to take revenge on the uncle who murdered their father and older brothers. They have...
AuthorWill Hobbs
ISBN0060741414
A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . .

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever!

Fred,...
AuthorDean Pitchford
ISBN0399245472
Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties—that would require friends, which he doesn’t have. But now that he’s turning ten—the big one-oh—he decides to throw a birthday party for himself, complete with a “House of Horrors” theme. Of course things don’t work out as he plans....
AuthorAndrea Cheng
ISBN0544105192
Eleven-year-old Anna heads off to sixth grade, leaving the comfort and familiarity of elementary school behind and entering the larger, more complex world of middle school. Surrounded by classmates who have their roots all in America, Anna begins to feel out of place and wonders where she really belongs. ...
AuthorMaiya Williams
ISBN0810992167
I picked up a copy of this book a couple of years ago at my local re-use it center as the synopsis on the dust cover captured my attention. However, what really piqued my interest was an inscription to a young girl named McKinlee on her 12th birthday which was March 31, 2005 according to the date her Grandma...
AuthorCatherine Jinks
Pagan's final adventure finds our sarcastic hero a bit older and wiser as he leads his young scribe out of the world of books to brave the real-life dangers of a papal crusade.
Impressed by the bookish Isidore, Pagan Kidrouk -- now Archdeacon of Carcassonne -- hires the boy as his scribe. Eager to flee...
AuthorPaul Zindel
ISBN0440229510
Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is a leading physicist building the atomic bomb. Stephen realizes the dangers involved...
AuthorMichael Ferrari
ISBN0385737157
Born to Fly tells the story of eleven-year-old tomboy Bird McGill. Ever since she can remember, Bird has loved flying in small propeller airplanes with her mechanic dad. When the local airstrip is turned into a military flight school, Bird is in heaven. But when a young Japanese American student named...
AuthorJustin Richards
ISBN1582347212
What starts as an ordinary pick-pocketing incident in Victorian London unites three teens against a madman. Eddie is the pickpocket; George is an assistant at the British Museum; Elizabeth has a nose for trouble—and all of them are being hunted by Augustus Lorimore. Lorimore is a sinister factory...
AuthorMarian Hale
ISBN0805075852
A poignant coming-of-age novel set during the Galveston Storm of 1900

"I looked south toward the gulf, trying to keep an eye on the stalking sea. Wild waves rose up like a great hand and wrenched loose the Pagoda's long staircase, sending planks tumbling through the air. With horror I watched...
AuthorGregory Mone
ISBN1596436735

A stowaway, a stolen book, a murderous villain: an adventure on the most famous shipwreck in history.  The great ocean liner Titanic is preparing to cross the Atlantic. On board is a sinister thief bent on stealing a rare book that may be the key to unlocking infinite treasure, a wealthy academic...
AuthorLois Miner Huey
Kids study US history, but do they know what life long ago was really like? The past was full of yuckiness. The sounds, smells, filth, bugs, rats, poor hygiene, lack of dental and medical care, and bad food are not portrayed at today's historic sites, in movies, or in most books about US history. Yet this...
The Encyclopedia of Immaturity: Volume 2
AuthorKlutz
ISBN1591746892
The Encyclopedia of Immaturity® has been such a hit that we’re following up with a second book. The Encyclopedia of Immaturity® Volume 2 includes thought-provoking topics such as how to slide down a banister, what we talk about when we talk about wedgies, how to send a toilet gram, and more. It’s...
The Zombie Project
AuthorGertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN0807594938
Most of the time I choose books that sound good. Sometimes I buy books that sound so terrible that they arouse my curiosity.

When I saw The Zombie Project (Boxcar Children Mysteries #128) for sale on Amazon I thought "WTF are they doing to my childhood?" Then I bought it because I needed to know....
Dragon: Hound of Honor
AuthorJulie Andrews Edwards
ISBN0060571217
In the noble and dangerous times of medieval France, the young knight Aubrey de Montdidier, nephew of the Count of Montargis, has been strangely murdered. His friend the brave Sieur DeNarsac, captain of the count's men-at-arms, and Thierry, a young page, must now solve the tragic mystery. Yet it is...
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