Grounded
10 best books like Grounded (Kate Klise): Star in the Forest, Samurai Shortstop, A Thunderous Whisper, Saint Louis Armstrong Beach, Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol, Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, Bobby the Brave, Six Innings: A Game in the Life, Dorko the Magnificent, Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook
| Author | Laura Resau |
| ISBN | 0385737920 |
Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return—they’ve paid a coyote to guide him back across the border—they receive news that he and the coyote’s other charges have been kidnapped and...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0803730756 |
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It’s only...
| Author | Christina Diaz Gonzalez |
| ISBN | 0375869298 |
Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he's been off fighting in Spain's Civil War, and his voice in her head is fading. Then she meets Mathias. His family has just moved to Guernica...
| Author | Brenda Woods |
| ISBN | 1101547707 |
A boy, a dog, and New Orleans' most famous hurricane
Saint is a boy with confidence as big as his name is long. A budding musician, he earns money playing clarinet for the New Orleans tourists, and his best friend is a stray dog named Shadow. At first Saint is sure that Hurricane Katrina will be just like...
| Author | Jim Krieg |
| ISBN | 1595142762 |
Griff Carver knows a thing or two about fighting crime.
No, he cannot be bought. He cannot be frightened. And he will not sleep until justice is served. Because Griff Carver is not just any kid--he's a kid with a badge. And if you are a rule breaker, he's your worst nightmare.
Griff might...
| Author | Karen Romano Young |
| ISBN | 0312561563 |
Moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. She got into trouble at her last school.
On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank...
| 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).
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| Author | James Preller |
| ISBN | 0312367635 |
Two teams, six innings, one game.
A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds,...
| Author | Andrea Beaty |
| ISBN | 1613124783 |
Robbie Darko is a magician. An old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician. Robbie loves magic and he’s good at it—sort of. Despite his best efforts, passion, and practice, something always goes wrong with his tricks, landing Robbie in trouble. Enter crotchety Grandma Melvyn,...
| Author | Mary Amato |
| ISBN | 0823422712 |
1/4/11-Diane, the Book Fairy, put this one in my box...
4/1/11 I'm reading it aloud to my class. Many of them have been keeping clue books. They all have theories as to who the culprit is. We have been having so much fun with it! I love to look out over my book and see just how interested my entire class...
| Author | Danette Haworth |
| ISBN | 0802723934 |
Hailee Richardson never realized how much she hated her Salvation Army life and Goodwill accessories until the night her family wins the lottery. All of a sudden she's no longer the only girl at school without a cell phone or a brand-new bike! And the newfound popularity that comes with being a lottery...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0375838899 |
Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard there, too—the school and library are closed. When Pop gets work near Canada, he has to leave...
| Author | Margaret McMullan |
| ISBN | 0547076592 |
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in.
People like the McLemores fear that Sam,...
| Author | Sarah Dooley |
| ISBN | 0312612532 |
Olivia "Livvie" Owen feels things differently than her parents and two sisters. Livvie is autistic. Her family has had to move repeatedly because of her outbursts. When they again face eviction, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a house where they were all happy, once.
The problem...
| Author | Kekla Magoon |
| ISBN | 1416978046 |
Set in a suburb of Las Vegas, Ella and Zachary, called Z, have been friends forever, but Z has always been “the weird kid” in their class. He collects stubby pencils, plays chess, and maintains an elaborate –and public– fantasy life, starring himself as a brave knight. Z’s games were okay back...
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
| Author | Alan Silberberg |
| ISBN | 1416994300 |
Loveable thirteen-year-old geek Milo Cruikshank finds reasons for frustrations at every turn, like the way his neighbor carves her pumpkin way too early to last until Halloween, or the fact that Summer Goodman won’t look twice at him while Hillary Alpert keeps leaving notes in his locker. The...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 0802720811 |
For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and in the annual Maple Show right before the big pancake breakfast on her family's farm. But all that changes when Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid. Tossed into...
| Author | Audrey Couloumbis |
| ISBN | 0375856307 |
A heartwarming holiday story from Audrey Couloumbis, the Newbery Honor–winning author of Getting Near to Baby. With beautiful writing and an endearing young narrator so honest and full of hope that you can't help but fall in love with him, Audrey Couloumbis tells a story, of a young boy and the grandfather...
| Author | Anne Ylvisaker |
| ISBN | 0763650668 |
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family’s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery.
Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don’t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren’t athletes or artists, good listeners,...
| Author | Cecilia Galante |
| ISBN | 1416980237 |
Twelve-year-old May is living in a desolate situation with only her grandmother, who is depressed about the absence of May’s mother, and her father, who works long hours and is almost never around. Due to her circumstance and her resentment over having to live in a low-income neighborhood, May often...
The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt
| Author | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0803733038 |
Moxie Roosevelt Kipper has endured thirteen years of being an ordinary girl with an unordinary name. Now that she's entered boarding school, the time is ripe to reinvent herself. She'll become unusual, outlandish, unexpected, sassy - someone worthy of a name like "Moxie." But who exactly? From Mysterious...
| Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0316043079 |
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown...
| Author | Blue Balliett |
| ISBN | 0439852099 |
An all-new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game.
A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.
A mischievous girl who doesn't belong.
A mysterious notebook .
A fire.
A stranger.
A death.
These...
| Author | Heather Henson |
| ISBN | 1416948996 |
Untamable. Damaged. Angry. Once full of promise and life, now a fiery knot of resentment and detachment. This is the story of Dream of Night, an injured and abused racehorse. It’s also the story of Shiloh, a sarcastic eleven-year-old foster child. By chance, Dream of Night and Shiloh both find themselves...
