Fuzzy
10 best books like Fuzzy (Tom Angleberger): The Van Gogh Deception, The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, Greetings from Witness Protection!, The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez, All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, The Other Boy, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, The Skeleton Tree, Ban This Book, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
| Author | Deron R. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0544759273 |
When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC’s National Gallery without any recollection of who he is, so begins a high-stakes race to unravel the greatest mystery of all: his identity. As the stakes continue to rise, the boy must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using...
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
| Author | Alexandra Bracken |
| ISBN | 1484778170 |
I would say it's a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness.
Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history — that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out...
Greetings from Witness Protection!
| Author | Jake Burt |
| ISBN | 1250107113 |
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...
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...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0062333461 |
Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick
From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful...
| Author | M.G. Hennessey |
| ISBN | 0062427687 |
A heartfelt and timely middle grade story about a transgender boy’s journey toward acceptance and empathy. Perfect for fans of George and Gracefully Grayson.
Twelve-year-old Shane Woods is just a regular boy. He loves pitching for his baseball team, working on his graphic novel, and hanging...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1101918357 |
Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to find a way to forage,...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0765385562 |
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath
An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0544612310 |
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0545789753 |
A solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother.
What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet,...
Unbound: A Novel in Verse
| Author | Ann E. Burg |
| ISBN | 0545934273 |
From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-verse that is a gripping, transcendent story about a little-known piece of slave history.
The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep...
The Tapper Twins Go to War (with each other)
| Author | Geoff Rodkey |
| ISBN | 0316297798 |
This brand-new series by a popular screenwriter is a pitch-perfect, contemporary comedy featuring twelve-year-old fraternal twins, Claudia and Reese, who couldn't be more different... except in their determination to come out on top in a vicious prank war! But when the competition escalates into...
| Author | Sarah Weeks |
| ISBN | 0545846609 |
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.
Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.
Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
