Finding Buck McHenry

8 best books like Finding Buck McHenry (Alfred Slote): Frindle, Horton Hears a Who!, Bunnicula, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, Grandfather Twilight, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

Frindle

Author	Andrew Clements
ISBN	0689818769

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...

Horton Hears a Who!

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0679800034

In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant).

So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen.

Especially since City View was in the middle...

Bunnicula

Author	James Howe
ISBN	1416928170

(This review is from 2004.)

Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.

So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

Author	Jonathan Van Ness
ISBN	0062906402

Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.

The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.

Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months

Author

Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the iconic Where the Wild Things Are, created a warmly loved classic book of months, in verse, with Chicken Soup with Rice.

This rhyming book cleverly uses a little boy’s love for soup to teach children the months of the year and...

Grandfather Twilight

Author	Barbara Helen Berger
ISBN	0613004108

When day is done, and shadows begin to deepen, it is time for Grandfather Twilight to close his book, put on his jacket, and go for a walk through the forest. Little birds hush as he walks by, and the rabbits and other small woodland creatures watch in silence as he performs his very special evening task and...

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0380709244

"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--his very own motorcycle. Living in a knothole in a hotel room, young Ralph has seen plenty of families come and go, some more generous with their crumbs than others. But when young Keith and his parents...

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

Author	Matthew Vines
ISBN	1601425163

As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay...