Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
10 best books like Ghosts Beneath Our Feet (Betty Ren Wright): Silent to the Bone, Wait Till Helen Comes, Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza, Behind the Attic Wall, Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella, My Teacher Is an Alien, Friction, The Girls
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 0689871236 |
Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the only one who might be able to...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380704420 |
Beware of Helen...Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend,...
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140371303 |
Helen Nichols has a reputation for being one of the best pitchers, and worst readers, in the sixth grade. She's also known as one of the biggest troublemakers in school. At the start of the year, she's assigned to the classroom of Mrs.Lobb--"Blob" to those who know her--a teacher with very little tolerance...
The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
| Author | Philemon Sturges |
| ISBN | 0142301892 |
The story of the industrious Little Red Hen is not a new one, but when this particular hen spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and decides to make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a fresh new twist. Kids will love following along as the hen, with no help from her friends the duck, the dog, and the cat,...
| Author | Sylvia Cassedy |
| ISBN | 0380698439 |
They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 0689871023 |
Things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something...
Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, but the teacher has promised she won't read any entry marked "Do not read this." It's the kind of assignment Tish Bonner, one of the girls with big hair...
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0698118715 |
I thought that this story was a very cute, fractured, retelling of Cinderella. Just the fact of this story featuring sasquatches was hilarious to me. I thought that it was cute that the prince had a challenge for all of the female sasquatches (to knock the prince into the water from off of a rolling log)...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 1416903348 |
Sixth grade is just out of this world!Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and realizes that "Mr. Smith" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her except Peter Thompson, the class brain....
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0689853858 |
Most well-known for her devastatingly poignant teen tales of urban desperation and redemption, renowned young adult author E. R. Frank switches gears and narrows her focus to the pivotal events of one 8th grade classroom.
The progressive petri dish of Forest Alternative's middle school...
| Author | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 0142300330 |
Maya has been part of the group ever since the day Candace asked her if she wanted to "do lunch" in the cafeteria. Yet when Candace suddenly deems her unworthy, Maya's so-called friends just blow her off. While Maya just wants the girls back like they used to be, she knows that can never happen-because whatever...
| Author | Daniel Hayes |
| ISBN | 0449704165 |
The Trouble with Lemons is a young adult/middle grade coming-of-age mystery from the early 90’s. It focuses on Tyler McAllister, a boy who suffers from severe allergies; his mother just had them move to a small town, because she thinks it’ll be better for him; however, his mother and brother are...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689305710 |
Read ?
This book had a profound book on me during my childhood. As an abusive victim, it helped me not feel alone and gave me hope that one day things would change.
As it turns out, I had a chance to meet the author when I was in grade school and I still have the version of this book she signed...
Cinderella Penguin, or, The Little Glass Flipper
| Author | Janet Perlman |
| ISBN | 0140555528 |
All cultures share the traditional story of Cinderella--even penguin culture!
Poor Cinderella Penguin is bossed and bullied by her evil penguin stepsisters as they get dolled up for the Penguin Prince's ball. After they have gone, a penguin tear rolls down Cinderella's cheek. "Suddenly,...
