Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities
10 best books like Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities (Mike Jung): The Cloak Society, Sidekicks, Zip, The Seven Tales of Trinket, Summer of the Mariposas, The Prince Who Fell from the Sky, Freakling, Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, Joshua Dread, Double Vision
| Author | Jeramey Kraatz |
| ISBN | 0062095471 |
The first in a thrilling, action-packed middle grade trilogy, which School Library Journal declared "will likely find the same wide appeal as Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books.
The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago...
| Author | Jack D. Ferraiolo |
| ISBN | 0810998033 |
Batman has Robin, Wonder Woman has Wonder Girl, and Phantom Justice has Bright Boy, a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an ordinary schoolkid by day and a superfast, superstrong sidekick by night, fighting loyally next to his hero.
But after an embarrassing incident involving his too-tight spandex...
| Author | Ellie Rollins |
| ISBN | 1595145702 |
A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn in this effervescent debut that's Savvy meets Little Miss Sunshine
After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But Lyssa feels lost and adrift in...
| Author | Shelley Moore Thomas |
| ISBN | 0374367450 |
Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller’s blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared years before. She befriends a fortune-telling...
| Author | Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
| ISBN | 1600609007 |
When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer’s original tale.
With the supernatural aid of ghostly La Llorona via...
In Casseomae's world, the wolves rule the Forest, and the Forest is everywhere. The animals tell stories of the Skinless Ones, whose cities and roads once covered the earth, but the Skinless disappeared long ago.
Casseomae is content to live alone, apart from the other bears in her tribe, until...
| Author | Lana Krumwiede |
| ISBN | 0763659371 |
In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi—the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability,...
| Author | Donna Gephart |
| ISBN | 0385740522 |
Olivia Bean knows trivia. She watches
Jeopardy!
every night and usually beats at least one of the contestants. If she were better at geography, she would try out for the show’s kids’ week. Not only could she win bundles of money, she’d get to go to the taping in California, where her dad, who left...
| Author | Lee Bacon |
| ISBN | 0375990275 |
For Joshua Dread, middle school is proving to be, well, awkward. Not only do bullies pick on him, but do you see those supervillains over there trying to flood the world? The ones that everyone, including his best friend Milton, are rooting for Captain Justice to take down? They're the Dread Duo, and they...
| Author | F.T. Bradley |
| ISBN | 0062104373 |
Fans of 39 Clues and Artemis Fowl will enjoy the fun, fresh thrill ride through this humorous, action-packed adventure from debut author F. T. Bradley.
In the trilogy opener, twelve-year-old Lincoln Baker finds himself in a world of trouble! First, Linc’s seemingly harmless prank on a...
The first in a high octane sci-fi adventure series by best-selling and award-winning author, Brian Falkner.
It is 2030, and the world is at war with an alien race. The Bzadians. The battleground: Earth. Recon Team Angel, made up of teenagers from around the world, has been training for years....
| Author | John David Anderson |
| ISBN | 0062133144 |
With not nearly enough power comes way too much responsibility.
Andrew Bean might be a part of H.E.R.O., a secret organization for the training of superhero sidekicks, but that doesn’t mean that life is all leaping tall buildings in single bounds. First, there’s Drew’s power: Possessed...
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807594806 |
One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just for him. What's inside? ZAPATO POWER-shoes that change Freddie's life by giving him super speed! But what will Freddie do with his fast new skills? Weird things are happening at the Starwood Park Apartments where he lives, and his...
| Author | Julie Bourbeau |
| ISBN | 0375868909 |
Mystery, magic, mischief and monsters abound in this slightly fantastical story of a human kid who wants to stay that way. Perfect for fans of Ransom Riggs and Maryrose Wood.
Max’s village is absolutely normal in every single way and on every single day—except Wednesday. Most of the townsfolk...
| Author | Amar'e Stoudemire |
| ISBN | 0545387590 |
STAT: Standing Tall And Talented-- A slam-dunk new fiction series from NBA superstar Amar'e Stoudemire!
Eleven-year-old Amar'e Stoudemire has a lot going on. He loves to go skateboarding in the park. He takes his school work very seriously. He helps out with his dad's landscaping company....
Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization
| Author | Stacia Deutsch |
| ISBN | 1442430753 |
Join forces with the Guardians to defeat Pitch in this retelling of the animated feature Rise of the Guardians. Includes eight pages of full-color images from the movie!
When Pitch, the boogeyman, decides that children should believe in him and not the Guardians, he adds a little fear to their...
| Author | Lisa Yee |
| ISBN | 0545055946 |
From Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, a hilarious sequel to Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally).
Bobby fights his fears -- of stage fright, disconnection from his dad, and the evil neighbor cat with twenty-seven toes -- in this hilarious sequel to BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY).
...
| Author | Rhode Montijo |
| ISBN | 1423157400 |
Yurgh.
The premise of this was pretty ok -- little girl gets gum stuck in her hair, becomes gum girl, saves the day. The build-up and crime-stopping was really sloppily/dully done, the weirdly scolding but not really actually moralizing tone of the narration, and the overabundance of slightly-too-complicated-for-the-story...
In the not-too-distant future, huge tornadoes and monster storms are a part of everyday life. Sent to spend the summer in the heart of storm country with her father in the special StormSafe community his company has developed, Jaden Meggs is excited to reconnect with her dad after he spent years researching...
| Author | Joe Schreiber |
| ISBN | 0544157567 |
When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. Will he be able to save his friends and family and the entire world from giant mechanical...
| Author | Elissa Brent Weissman |
| ISBN | 1442452552 |
Look out Wall Street—Lindy Sachs is about to make some serious cash. A twelve-year-old takes on the stock market in this money-minded middle grade novel.
It all starts when seventh grader Lindy Sachs is granted $100 and access to her father’s online trading account as a way to alleviate...
| Author | Emily Ecton |
| ISBN | 1452101558 |
Jeremy's troubles begin when his eccentric neighbor leaves him an "experiment" for safekeeping—a jackalope! This so-called mythological creature looks like a bunny rabbit, but comes with razor-sharp antlers and is purported to be a ruthless killer. When government agents show up at Jeremy's...
| Author | Jeannie Mobley |
| ISBN | 1442433434 |
In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.
Katerina has a dream. It's her papa's dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm...
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 | Greg Van Eekhout |
| ISBN | 1599904896 |
Thatcher Hill is bored stiff of his summer job dusting the fake mermaids and shrunken heads at his uncle's seaside Museum of Curiosities. But when a mysterious girl steals an artifact from the museum, Thatcher's summer becomes an adventure that takes him from the top of the ferris wheel to the depths...
