Freaks
10 best books like Freaks (Kieran Larwood): We are in a Book!, I Love My New Toy!, NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society, Monsters, Sugar, The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, The Villain Virus, Beth's Story, 1914, Not As We Know It
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423133080 |
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
In We Are in a Book! Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?
Using vocabulary perfect for beginning readers (and...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423109619 |
Elephant and Piggie return for yet another entertaining book sure to be a laugh for young readers. When Piggie shows up with a new toy, she wants to share the experience with Gerald. However, moments after they begin to play, Gerald tosses the toy into the air and it breaks. What was a wonderful experience...
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
| Author | Michael Buckley |
| ISBN | 0810943247 |
A group of unpopular students are part of a spy network inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, their nerdy qualities are enhanced and transformed into incredible abilities. They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant turned assassin, and an array of James...
| Author | Emerald Fennell |
| ISBN | 1471404625 |
A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet.
Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most are shocked...
| Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0316043052 |
From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Towers Falling and Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick) comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future.
Ten-year-old...
The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez
| Author | Robin Yardi |
| ISBN | 1467783064 |
Life is confusing for Mateo Martinez. He and Johnny Ramirez don’t hang out anymore, even though they used to be best friends. He and his new friend Ashwin try to act like brave, old-time knights, but it only gets them in trouble. His parents keep telling him to hold his sister’s hand when crossing busy...
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
There are winged horses that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill hospital. In the mirrors that line its grand hallways, which once belonged to a princess. In those that reflect the elegant rooms, now filled with sick children. It is her secret.
One morning, when Emmaline climbs over the wall of...
The NERDS series combines the excitement of international espionage with the awkwardness of elementary school as it follows the adventures of a group of unpopular fifth graders who run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy qualities...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481406310 |
Find out what secrets lurk within the walls of Chatswood Manor in this in this first book of a historical fiction mystery series that explores a family’s secrets throughout generations.
The Chatswood family tree has many branches—and even more secrets. It’s the summer of 1914 in England,...
| Author | Tom Avery |
| ISBN | 1783442263 |
Jamie and Ned are twins. They do everything together: riding their bikes, beachcombing outside their house, watching their favourite episodes of Star Trek.
But Ned is sick, and one day, he may leave Jamie behind.
When they discover a strange...
| Author | Emily Winfield Martin |
| ISBN | 0375869956 |
New York Times bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin brings a strange and wonderful place to life with her unique style of both art and writing.
What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? They are all orphans at Oddfellow's Orphanage! This...
The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery
A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to...
Monster High/Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 0316352829 |
A dangerous story is bubbling and almost all the Narrators are scared to tell it. Cracks in the World of Stories are spreading, and the ominous Shadow High is gaining power. Only one young, brave Narrator, Brooke Page, is ready to tell this tale.
As the first cracks show, Frankie and Draculaura...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1484716302 |
"I am tired. And cranky. I will take a nap!"
These Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems are SO POPULAR right now, and with good reason. They are so fun to read.
Gerald is a spectacle-wearing elephant who is a bit of an old fuddy-duddy. His best friend, Piggie, is a light-hearted, fun-loving...
| Author | Kevin Sands |
| ISBN | 1481446746 |
Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a “spectacular debut” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease and...
Shiverton Hall: The Creeper
| Author | Emerald Fennell |
| ISBN | 1408827794 |
Don’t look behind you. Resist with all your power. He’ll go away, perhaps, as long as you don’t look.
Arthur Bannister is back for another term at Shiverton Hall, where eerie events are unfolding. First, a burned stranger shows up in the middle of the night uttering dire warnings. Then...
| Author | Emerald Fennell |
| ISBN | 1408827786 |
They slowed as they reached the gate; two stone columns, each with its own crumbling angel perched on top. The angels held up a rusty, wrought-iron arch that read, in curling, serpentine letters: SHIVERTON HALL.
Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall, which,...
Matilda “Wheezer” Choi, the asthmatic who can fly and kick butt courtesy of her nanobyte-enhanced inhalers, loves pro wrestling and hates anything “girlie.” Maybe that’s because she grew up with six brothers—or maybe it’s because her home life has become a battle zone in the conflict...
The Death of Yorik Mortwell
Inspired by the artwork of Edward Gorey, Windblowne author Stephen Messer delivers a mock-Gothic tale about poor Yorick (alas!), son of the Gamekeeper at venerable Ravenby Manor, who meets an untimely demise—in chapter one! Worry not, dear reader, for Yorick returns in ghostly form, intent on...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481427555 |
In this stunning conclusion to the Chatswood family's story, the first story arc of the Secrets of the Manor series, a mysterious benefactor helps the Vandermeers during the Great Depression and readers finally discover the family's biggest secret!
The Great Depression is raging across...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481418408 |
Discover the chilling secrets surrounding Maggie O'Brien's disappearance from Chatswood Manor in the third book of an irresistibly entertaining historical fiction mystery series.
Elizabeth and Katherine Chatswood are on the verge of turning twelve years old, which means that the grandest...
| Author | Ginger Garrett |
| ISBN | 0553535250 |
A fantastical story about love, fear, and the thrill of discovering who we were born to be, The Last Monster is a story about making peace with our insecurities and defending those who must hide what they really are.
Sofia has never felt special. Not at school, or with her track team, and especially...
Claire Rousseau embarks on an exciting new chapter in the eighth book of this fascinating historical fiction series.
Claire Rousseau has just arrived at Rousseau Manor in Paris, France, from America. Everything is new to her—the sights, the people, the language—and adventurous Claire...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481406345 |
There are more family secrets waiting to be discovered at Vandermeer Manor in America in the second book of a historical fiction mystery series.
It’s the end of June in 1914, and Beth Etheridge is traveling from her home in England’s Chatswood Manor all the way to America, to visit her cousin...
The Nine Lives of Alexander Baddenfield
| Author | John Bemelmans Marciano |
| ISBN | 0670014060 |
Alexander Baddenfield is a horrible boy—a really horrible boy—who is the last in a long line of lying, thieving scoundrels. One day, Alexander has an astonishing idea. Why not transplant the nine lives from his cat into himself? Suddenly, Alexander has lives to spare, and goes about using...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481427539 |
Someone is causing trouble at Chatswood Manor and it's up to Betsy to find the culprit before it's too late in the fifth book of this fascinating historical fiction series.
Betsy Northrop is about to turn twelve years old and per her family's tradition, plans are underway for a magnificent birthday...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481418440 |
Trouble is brewing at Vandermeer Manor and it is up to Katherine and Elizabeth to reveal the truth before it’s too late in the fourth book of a fascinating historical fiction series.
Twins Katherine and Elizabeth Chatswood are on their way to visit their distant relatives at Vandermeer Manor...
Exciting secrets are waiting to be revealed in a new story arc set in a manor in the heart of Paris in the seventh book of this fascinating historical fiction series.
Camille LeClerc has just moved into the grand estate Rousseau—one of the largest and most beautiful manor homes in all of Paris—with...
| Author | Michael Buckley |
| ISBN | 0810989867 |
The excitement of international espionage combined with the awkwardness of elementary makes for non-stop laughs in NERDS, the hilarious series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley!
The last time we met the NERDS, a team of superspies operating out of their school basement,...
| Author | Andrew Neiderman |
| ISBN | 0671415018 |
What a horror novel is is somewhat subjective. Must a horror novel be a tale of the supernatural? Must it feature the inexplicable? How much gore is necessary, and how high must the body count be?
Pin is not what some readers would think of as a horror novel — in fact, it veers more toward being...
