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10 best books like From Charlie's Point of View (Richard Scrimger): Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me, Libyrinth, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, Signal, Frozen Summer, Hot Lunch, The Traitors' Gate, At the Sign of the Star, The Canning Season, Project Sweet Life

Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me
AuthorLisa Papademetriou
ISBN0786851708
Allie Kimball is excited to be starting sixth grade. Her best friend is going to be in the same school and she is going to try out for the soccer team. But she soon learns that middle school is a very different world, full of strange new beasts, like glommers--girls who never go anywhere alone--and norks-a...
Libyrinth
AuthorPearl North
ISBN0765320967
In her debut novel, Pearl North takes readers centuries into the future, to a forgotten colony of Earth where technology masquerades as magic and wars are fought over books.

Haly is a Libyrarian, one of a group of people dedicated to preserving and protecting the knowledge passed down from...
The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life
AuthorMartine Murray
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
Signal
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0374399158
One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--"alien "meaning "from someplace else"--and...
Frozen Summer
AuthorMary Jane Auch
ISBN0440416248
It's 1816 and Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family are going through a cold, hard summer in their new home in western New York. There's barely any food since Papa's crops were destroyed by the late
season frosts. Mem's mama has never gotten used to their new home. It's even harder for her to cope after...
Hot Lunch
AuthorAlex Bradley
ISBN0525478302
Molly Ollinger can't stand perky Cassie Birchmeyer. When they are forced to collaborate on a school project, their bickering escalates into a food fight in the Sunshine Day School cafeteria. But because Sunshine Day isn't your average high school, the girls' punishment isn't detention it's to work...
The Traitors' Gate
AuthorAvi
ISBN0689853351
John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison.

Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Inspector Copperfield -- can explain why. Surely, Pa...
At the Sign of the Star
AuthorKatherine Sturtevant
ISBN0374404585
The tale of a bookseller's daughter

Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the right husband she can continue in the book trade...
The Canning Season
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0374399565
Love under trying circumstances
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who...
Project Sweet Life
AuthorBrent Hartinger
ISBN0060824115
For most kids, fifteen is the year of the optional summer job: Sure, you can get a job if you really want one, but it isn't required or anything. Too bad Dave's dad doesn't agree! Instead of enjoying long days of biking, swimming, and sitting around, Dave and his two best friends are being forced by their...
Not Like You
AuthorDeborah Davis
ISBN0618720936
"Starting a new chapter" is how Kayla’s mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves—five in the past two years. But what 15-year-old Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn’s drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, and she’ll do anything to keep that from happening...
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
AuthorSeán Cullen
ISBN0670065021
Meet Hamish X!
Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere.
The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency—Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanage, where the children are forced to earn their...
Attica
AuthorGarry Kilworth
ISBN1904233562
A novel with echoes of timeless classics such as THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, THE BORROWERS and ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Garry Kilworth's ATTICA reveals a twilight world of forgotten wonders, and extraordinary adventures - all happening just above our heads. Join Jordy, Alex and Chloe as they...
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
AuthorRonald Kidd
ISBN1416905723
Dayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. It is long across and about two miles wide. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. The local librarians know the gossip on almost...
Sun & Spoon
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0688152325
It had been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he was worried that he would forget her. That's why he needed something of Gram's - something special that had belonged to her, something to remember her by.

Spoon wasn't quite sure what the something was, though...
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
AuthorKatherine Paterson
ISBN0140376100
I'm still debating my issues with this book. It's really hard for me to read something that is hugely based in religion. Not that I'm not religious (I am), or that I don't like reading about religions (I do), but I'm more of a philosophical, true religious history, or subtle religious influence kind of...
Shantorian
AuthorPatrick Carman
ISBN0545165016
Bestselling author Patrick Carman pushes the vbook to the next level with this thrilling book/video/web experience. In the 21st century landscape of bits and bytes, everyone leaves a digital footprint ... even the most advanced cyber criminals. And that's where the Trackers come in. Four tech-savvy...
Framed!
AuthorMalcolm Rose
Luke Harding is excited to become the youngest person ever to qualify as a forensics investigator. He barely has time to celebrate his final exams when Malc, his Mobile Aid to Law and Crime, calls him to their first case. A fellow student has been mysteriously shot dead with an arrow. Two more grisly on-campus...
A Company of Fools
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN1550417215
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour Book
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour Book
Mr. Christie Silver Book Award
Ruth Schwartz Award, finalist
Manitoba Young Readers_ Choice Award, nominee
Rocky Mountain Book Award, nominee

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Full Service
AuthorWill Weaver
ISBN0374324859
The times they are a-changin' . . .

The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which...
The Blue Helmet
AuthorWilliam Bell
ISBN0385662467
Lee wants to be a Tarantula – a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee’s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.

Lee feels more lost than ever. His mother’s...
Revenge on the Fly
AuthorSylvia McNicoll
ISBN1927485568
In the year 1912 cities around the world waged war against the fly in a desperate attempt to control disease. In England, twelve-year-old William Alton lost his mother to the white plague and his sister to summer complaint. When Will and his father emigrate to Canada for better opportunities, he also...
Spellbound
AuthorAnna Dale
ISBN0747587167
Spellbound takes on various popular elements of English fantasy and children's literature, merges it deeply in a sense of wilderness and landscape that fits to that world of secrets, tunnels and hidden places, and tells an entertaining tale of a young girl coming to terms with the nastiness inside...
All Alone in the Universe
AuthorLynne Rae Perkins
ISBN0380733021
"Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At least I think we were. I don't know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,'I didn't see anything coming.'" When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds...
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