I, Jack
10 best books like I, Jack (Jack the Dog): Kitchen, Out, Because of Mr. Terupt, Stargazing, Roller Girl, The Rainbow Fish, Messenger, The Hole, Trombone Shorty, Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau (Books of Discovery for Creative Kids Contruction Fort Books)
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 0802142443 |
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives...
| Author | Natsuo Kirino |
| ISBN | 1400078377 |
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
The ringleader of this...
It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who...
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.
When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
| Author | Victoria Jamieson |
| ISBN | 0803740166 |
For fans of Raina Telgemeier’s Smile, a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby.
Twelve-year-old Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole...
| Author | Marcus Pfister |
| ISBN | 1558580093 |
I'm always on the look-out for new, well-written children's books for my son. We had been reading him: Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! and Why Mommy is a Democrat.
He loved the story and drawings!
However, he didn't seem to take to them as much as...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0385732538 |
Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver, now a major motion picture.
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but...
| Author | Hye-Young Pyun |
| ISBN | 1628727802 |
A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to Bury
In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly...
| Author | Troy Andrews |
| ISBN | 1419714651 |
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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| Author | Jennifer Berne |
| ISBN | 0811860639 |
Last night was a really, really good night for children's books--I read many five-star books--and this one started it off right. It's a beautifully told story of Jacques Cousteau, famous oceanographer, from his first curiosity and infatuation with the sea to his inventions to his movies and exploration...
| Author | Donald Hall |
| ISBN | 0140504419 |
Winner of the Caldecott Medal
Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the...
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0545342384 |
Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
Zane Dupree is a charismatic 12-year-old boy of mixed race visiting a relative in New Orleans when Hurricane...
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0374322252 |
When General George Washington is elected the first President of the United States, his wife chooses young Oney Judge, a house slave who works as a seamstress at Mount Vernon, to travel with her to the nation’s capital in New York City as her personal maid. When the capital is moved to Philadelphia,...
| Author | Kenzaburō Ōe |
| ISBN | 0802135463 |
A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition;...
| Author | Rachel Renée Russell |
| ISBN | 1481447211 |
Get your dork on with the ultimate Dork Diaries boxed set! This complete collection contains books one through nine (including three-and-a-half) in the wildly popular New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Dork Diaries series!
This collectible boxed set chronicles the oh-so-fabulous...
| 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...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box Set Collection - 12 Books NEW By Jeff Kinney
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| ISBN | 0241351804 |
From classic road trips to tales of hard luck and the terrifying prospect of finding a date for Valentine's Day, these misadventures are sure to have children (and you!) laughing out loud. This collection contains books 1-12 in Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Format: paperback Titles in Collection...
Magic Tree House By Mary Pope Osborne 47 Paperback Book Set Includes Treehouse Books #1-47
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0545209374 |
Includes #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark; #2: The Knight at Dawn; #3: Mummies in the Morning; #4: Pirates Past Noon; #5: Night of the Ninjas; #6: Afternoon on the Amazon; #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth; #8: Midnight on the Moon; #9: Dolphins at Daybreak; #10: Ghost Town at Sundown; #11: Lions at Lunchtime; #12:...
