Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge

10 best books like Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge (Bill Wallace): In the Forests of the Night, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Messenger, Just So Stories, The Underneath, The Summer King, Touching Spirit Bear, Boston Jane: An Adventure, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough, Chocolate Fever

In the Forests of the Night

Author	Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
ISBN	0440228166

By day, Risika sleeps in shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone.
But someone is following Risika. He has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika...

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Author	Richard Atwater
ISBN	0316058432

The single greatest book of my childhood. (Nerd alert warning)...This will explain how much I enjoyed this book. When I first read it, I had inherited a copy from one of my older siblings. They had written their name in the front of it, because our mother has a weird obsession with putting our names on everything...

Messenger

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0385732538

Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver, now a major motion picture.
 
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but...

Just So Stories

Author	Rudyard Kipling
ISBN	0517266555

How The Kipling Got His Reputation

Once upon a time, Best Beloved, when the world was middle-aged and good Queen Victoria sat on the throne, there was a Kipling. And even though he constantly had to carry around a White Man's Burden (an object, by the way, which he had invented himself, and very...

The Underneath

Author	Kathi Appelt
ISBN	1416950583

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend...

The Summer King

Author	O.R. Melling
ISBN	0810959690

Sequel to the critically-acclaimed "The Hunter's Moon"
This second book in a series "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance" ("Booklist"), follows sixteen-year-old Laurel as she tries to understand the cause of her twin sister's mysterious death. Honor believed in Faerie, a parallel land...

Touching Spirit Bear

Author

Ben Mikaelson

Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years. This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk. Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage and Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life.

Cole is offered...

Boston Jane: An Adventure

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0064408493

Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington...

Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

Author	Jefferson Bethke
ISBN	1400205395

Abandon dead, dry, rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. 

Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation in 2012 with a passionate, provocative poem titled “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.” The 4-minute video literally became an overnight...

Chocolate Fever

Author	Robert Kimmel Smith
ISBN	0142405957

Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you can possibly imagine. Henry probably loves chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world. One day-it starts...