In Harm's Way
9 best books like In Harm's Way (Andrew Clements): The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep, Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon, Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac, Shipwreck Island, It Happened on a Train, Plain Girl, Belle Teale, The Klipfish Code
The Tail of Emily Windsnap
| Author | Liz Kessler |
| ISBN | 0763628115 |
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity,...
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep
| Author | Liz Kessler |
| ISBN | 0763625043 |
5/5 stars
Between the thunders of the upper deep
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth
-Alfred Lord Tennison
There are some books that fill your heart with brightness and exploding suns. There are some stories...
Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon
| Author | Leila Howland |
| ISBN | 1484787234 |
Rapunzel is not your typical princess. For one thing, she has returned to her kingdom after eighteen years spent trapped in a tower and she's still getting to know her parents. For another, she has to get used to royal customs, like the proper ways to sit and curtsy, when she'd really rather climb a tree...
Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest...
| Author | S.A. Bodeen |
| ISBN | 1250027772 |
Sarah Robinson is deeply troubled in the wake of her dad's second marriage. She now has to deal with a new stepmom and two stepbrothers, Marco, who is her age, and Nacho, who's younger. Even though they've all moved from Texas to California to start life as a new, blended family, none of the kids seem remotely...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978194 |
Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over...
| Author | Virginia Sorensen |
| ISBN | 0152047255 |
An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. So when she's forced to attend public school she's terrified. She fears the new world she must enter, fears the way she sticks out next to other kids, and--most of all--fears she may do what her brother did: run away and...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0439098246 |
Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin's gripping, widely acclaimed novel of a girl confronting the perils of friendship and the conflicts of community.
Belle Teal's life isn't easy, but she gets by. She lives with her mother and grandmother far out in the country. They don't have much money, but...
| Author | Mary Casanova |
| ISBN | 0618883932 |
The year is 1942, and Norway is under Nazi occupation. Twelve-year-old Marit has decided to take action, despite her grandfather’s warnings. But will her plan work? Can she really complete her part of this secret code? And even if she can, would it make any difference to the Resistance?
As this...
