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10 best books like I Am Not Joey Pigza (Jack Gantos): Completely Clementine, The Locked Garden, Amber Brown Sees Red, Dunk, One Year in Coal Harbor, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, Bucking the Sarge, The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The One and Only Stuey Lewis: Stories from the Second Grade, The Big Game of Everything

Completely Clementine
AuthorSara Pennypacker
ISBN1423123581
Summer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she’s still mad at him for eating meat. Instead, she has to express her sadness by giving him drawings of animals she knows would not want to be somebody’s dinner.

Then there is the...
The Locked Garden
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN0060790946
It's the year 1900, the dawn of a new century and a chance for a new beginning for Verna and Carlie, whose mother died two years ago. They are headed to their new home—the grounds of an asylum for the mentally ill. Their father, a doctor, has been hired to treat its patients while the girls are under the strict...
Amber Brown Sees Red
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0590947281
A must read series for any child dealing with divorced or separated parents. Amber Brown is going through a whirl wind of emotions with all the changes going on in her life. She likes her moms new fiance Max but hates that his presence in their life means that her parents have no chance of reconciliation....
Dunk
AuthorDavid Lubar
ISBN0618439099
To the Bozo, the clown who sits inside the cage above the dunk tank, everyone is a "mark." Once he has zeroed in on his victim, the Bozo comes up with the perfect wisecrack something funny enough to make people stop and listen, and cruel enough to hook the mark. Now the mark is bent on revenge, and he'll buy...
One Year in Coal Harbor
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0375869700
Readers rejoice—Primrose Squarp is back! The wise and curious heroine of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle is facing another adventure-filled year in Coal Harbor.

Even though her parents, once lost at sea, are home, there’s a whole slew of problems and mysteries to keep Primrose—and...
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
AuthorR.A. Spratt
ISBN0316068195
Three children and their hilariously subversive nanny pig embark on zany adventures in this award-winning middle grade debut illustrated by Caldecott winnter Dan Santat.

The three Green children are cared for by a nanny pig. Yes, a pig--a fabulously sassy and impeccably dressed pig, as...
Bucking the Sarge
AuthorChristopher Paul Curtis
ISBN0440413311
Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.

As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”

And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”

The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum...
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0140324798
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
The One and Only Stuey Lewis: Stories from the Second Grade
AuthorJane Schoenberg
ISBN0374372926
So what if Stuey isn't the world's best reader, is only allowed to trick or treat around one block, doesn't get to play on his soccer dream team, and has to put up with the most annoying girl on the planet. Somehow Stuey always makes life work and when he puts his mind to it, he can survive anything—even second...
The Big Game of Everything
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN0060740345
You have to love your family. You do, even if you don't, right? You don't have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It's a rule, and it's the kind of rule you don't break unless you're some kind of animal.

My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides...
Confessions of a Closet Catholic
AuthorSarah Darer Littman
ISBN0142405973
Justine Silver's best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister, has given up chocolate for Lent, but Justine doesn't think God wants her to make that kind of sacrifice. So she's decided to give up being Jewish instead.  Eleven-year-old Justine pours her heart out to her teddy bear, "Father Ted," in a homemade...
The Lit Report
AuthorSarah N. Harvey
ISBN1551439050
Julia and Ruth have been unlikely best friends since they first met in Sunday school--Ruth was standing on the Bible-crafts table belting out "Jesus Loves Me." Now that they're a year away from graduation, they're putting the finishing touches on their getaway plans. But their dream of a funky big-city...
Game Over, Pete Watson
AuthorJoe Schreiber
ISBN0544157567
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...
The Jelly Bean Experiment
AuthorDavid A. Adler
ISBN1402287216
Danny Cohen's new friend is 100% weird.

New to Danny's fourth grade class, Calvin Waffle has a knack for following his classmates around to collect data for his science experiments. He carries jelly beans everywhere, and claims his father is a spy. Danny isn't quite sure just what to make of...
Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0399256563
Beloved Amber Brown returns in a new book!

Amber can't wait to be Best Child when her mom and Max get married, but planning a wedding comes with lots of headaches. Amber can't find the right dress, her dad keeps making mean cracks about Max, and Mom and Max have very different ideas about how much...
Roxie and the Hooligans
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN1416902449
Do not panic.

Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. But Lord Thistlebottom has no advice...
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440229359
When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Film)
AuthorFrederic P. Miller
ISBN6130218427
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by Mexican film maker Alfonso Cuarn, it is the third film in the popular Harry Potter series. It stars Daniel Radcliffe as the teenage wizard Harry Potter, and Rupert...
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
AuthorAlan Silberberg
ISBN1416994300

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...
Just Grace and the Flower Girl Power
AuthorCharise Mericle Harper
ISBN0547577206
Fresh, innovative, and loaded with laugh-out-loud wit and humor, Just Grace is a series
that stands out from the pack, just like Grace herself. Author Charise Harper weaves
together distinctive, quirky illustrations and vibrant characters in fast-paced stories that
capture familiar...
Oddly Normal
AuthorOtis Frampton
Oddly Normal is a 10-year old girl with the most unfortunate name and the luck to go with it. The product of a unique mixed-marriage (her mother is a witch and her father is human), Oddly has grown up between cultures and she is the proverbial outsider. On her 10th birthday, her parents mysteriously disappear...
Half a World Away
AuthorCynthia Kadohata
ISBN1442412755
A kid who considers himself an epic fail discovers the transformative power of love when he deals with adoption in this novel from Cynthia Kadohata, winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award.

Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he’s an “epic fail.’ That’s...
Little Shaq
AuthorShaquille O'Neal
ISBN1619637219
The start of a brand new series by Shaquille O'Neal and illustrated by 2014 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent award winner Theodore Taylor III, Little Shaq is sure to be a hit with young readers.

When Little Shaq and his cousin Barry accidentally break their favorite video game, they...
Jack Plank Tells Tales
AuthorNatalie Babbitt
ISBN0545004969
I`ve read this one 2 or 3 times! By myself, to my students, to my then-boyfriend, possibly my roomate had to put up with some of the stories too. It`s delightful, like everything Natalie Babbitt writes! Gentle imaginative stories that are perfect to read with young children or older friends who like that...
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