I So Don't Do Mysteries
10 best books like I So Don't Do Mysteries (Barrie Summy): A Good Kind of Trouble, Shouting at the Rain, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Wait Till Helen Comes, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Stone Fox, Only the Good Spy Young, Dash, Someday Dancer, The Bicycle Spy
Author | Lisa Ramee |
ISBN | 0062836706 |
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.)
But in junior high, it’s like all the...
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Author | Ally Carter |
ISBN | 1423116380 |
When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting"...
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 | Erin Dionne |
ISBN | 0803732988 |
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius...
Author | John Reynolds Gardiner |
ISBN | 0064401324 |
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.
Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls...
Author | Ally Carter |
ISBN | 1423128206 |
When Cammie Morgan enrolled at the Gallagher Academy, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. What she didn’t know was that the serious, real-life danger would start during her junior year of high school. But that’s exactly what happened two months ago when Cammie faced off against...
Author | Kirby Larson |
ISBN | 0545416353 |
New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese-American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII.
Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl...
Author | Sarah Rubin |
ISBN | 0545393787 |
A ballerina tale with a thoroughly modern twist!
Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even if you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's 1959, and freckle-faced Casey lives in...
Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
ISBN | 0545850959 |
Can Marcel make the ride of his life?
Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through the streets of his small town in France or making bread deliveries for his parents' bakery. He dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race. But ever since Germany's...
James and the Giant Peach
Author | Hal Leonard Publishing Company |
ISBN | 0793564808 |
James and the Giant Peach Book Review
By Ria Shah
James and the Giant Peach is a great book for kids by Roald Dahl. James and the Giant Peach is a book about a boy named James who lives a terrible life with his two aunts since his parents got eaten while shopping in London by a giant rhinoceros....
Author | Maya Gold |
ISBN | 0545129591 |
Behind the counter at Cinderella Cleaners, Diana watches the clothes come and go. She loves to imagine the exciting events that the different outfits might be worn to. Then one day, Diana reaches into the pocket of a fancy coat and finds an invitation to a glittering gala in New York City. Since the coat's...
When Friendship Followed Me Home
A boy’s chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss, and the meaning of family
Ben Coffin has never felt like he fits in. A former foster kid, he keeps his head down at school to avoid bullies and spends his afternoons...
Author | James Patterson |
ISBN | 1478955856 |
In this new highly-illustrated series from James Patterson, an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class... and elementary school will never be the same!
It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring...