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10 best books like Frozen Summer (Mary Jane Auch): Shadow Spinner, The Year We Fell From Space, They Called Us Enemy, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Julie's Wolf Pack, The Art of Keeping Cool, Belle Teale, Bedtime for Monsters, Guilty Wives, Wolfie the Bunny

Shadow Spinner
AuthorSusan Fletcher
ISBN0689830513
Originally reviewed on my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing.

Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher is set in Ancient Persia and it is a retelling of 1001 Arabian Nights. The original tale is the story of Shaharazad, the young woman who tells stories each night to the Sultan, ending before...
The Year We Fell From Space
AuthorA.S. King
ISBN1338236369
The deeply affecting next book from acclaimed author Amy Sarig King.

Liberty Johansen is going to change the way we look at the night sky. Most people see the old constellations, the things they've been told to see. But Liberty sees new patterns, pictures, and possibilities. She's an exception....
They Called Us Enemy
AuthorGeorge Takei
ISBN1603094504
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
AuthorDusti Bowling
ISBN1454923458
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing...
Julie's Wolf Pack
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0064407217
The acclaimed final book in the trilogy that begins with the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves

In this exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra, Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own.

Fearless...
The Art of Keeping Cool
AuthorJanet Taylor Lisle
ISBN0689837887
The War At Home

Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal...
Belle Teale
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0439098246
Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin's gripping, widely acclaimed novel of a girl confronting the perils of friendship and the conflicts of community.

Belle Teal's life isn't easy, but she gets by. She lives with her mother and grandmother far out in the country. They don't have much money, but...
Bedtime for Monsters
AuthorEd Vere
ISBN0141502398
Bedtime for Monsters is Ed Vere's hilarious monsterish tale - with a big twist!

What if a monster were looking for a bedtime snack? And what if that snack just happened to be you? GULP! He's getting closer and closer . . . and his tummy is rumbling REALLY loudly. You'd be very scared! BUT all this...
Guilty Wives
AuthorJames Patterson
No husbands allowed Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool,...
Wolfie the Bunny
AuthorAme Dyckman
ISBN0316226149
Not every child views the imposition of a new sibling as an interloper, but a fair number of them do. They’re just tooling along, enjoying the natural bliss that comes with being the one and only star in their parents’ firmament when BLAMMO! A squalling person of inadequate size is there, hogging...
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