Finding Fortune

10 best books like Finding Fortune (Delia Ray): The Key to Extraordinary, Hooray for Anna Hibiscus!, Lola Levine Is Not Mean!, Garvey's Choice, The Twilight Prisoner, Fleabrain Loves Franny, The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, A Bike Like Sergio's, My Two Blankets, Soar

The Key to Extraordinary

Author	Natalie Lloyd
ISBN	0545552745

Everyone in Emma's family is special. Her ancestors include Revolutionary War spies, brilliant scientists, and famous musicians--every single one of which learned of their extraordinary destiny through a dream.

For Emma, her own dream can't come soon enough. Right before her mother died,...

Hooray for Anna Hibiscus!

Author	Atinuke
ISBN	1935279742

Rarer than quality books. More elusive than good picture books for older readers. The goal, the gem, the one kind of book all children’s librarians seek but know are so difficult to find . . . . the really well written early chapter book. Now let’s say you’ve found one. It happens. Lots exist, to a...

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

Author	Monica Brown
ISBN	0316258369

Lola loves writing in her diario and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. But when a soccer game during recess gets "too competitive," Lola accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine!

Lola feels horrible, but with the help of her...

Garvey's Choice

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	1629797405

Garvey’s father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading—anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and...

The Twilight Prisoner

Author	Katherine Marsh
ISBN	1423106938

After traveling to the ghostly underworld beneath New York City, Jack has made it back aboveground, to join the living. But if he's alive why is he still seeing ghosts?

Jack tries hard to fit in at his new school-and tries even harder to win the affections of his Latin classmate and friend,...

Fleabrain Loves Franny

Author	Joanne Rocklin
ISBN	1419710680

This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952. Franny Katzenback, while recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with the brand-new book Charlotte’s Web. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with an eloquent flea named Fleabrain...

The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

Author	Susan E. Goodman
ISBN	0802737390

In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only.

Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made...

A Bike Like Sergio's

Author	Maribeth Boelts
ISBN	0763666491

Finders keepers, right? When Ruben picks up someone’s lost money, he finds out how hard it can be to do the right thing.

Ruben feels like he is the only kid without a bike. His friend Sergio reminds him that his birthday is coming, but Ruben knows that the kinds of birthday gifts he and Sergio receive...

My Two Blankets

Author

Irena Kobald

"My Two Blankets" is a beautifully crafted story that uses precisely chosen, evocative language with drawings that blend with the text in perfect harmony. Irena Kobald conveys messages of hope, friendship and acceptance through the eyes and actions of children. Her approach is devoid of saccharine...

Soar

Author

Joan Bauer

Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!

Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

Author	Katherine Marsh
ISBN	1423135008

Fate:
Is it written in the stars from the moment we are born?
Or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands?

Jepp of Astraveld needs to know.

He left his countryside home on the empty promise of a stranger, only to become a captive in a luxurious prison: Coudenberg...