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Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel

8 best books like Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel (Michael Gerard Bauer): The Truth About Verity Sparks, Just a Girl, The Pause, Pan's Whisper, Crow Country, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, The Golden Day, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

The Truth About Verity Sparks
AuthorSusan Green
ISBN1921720271
Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl – she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her...
Just a Girl
AuthorJane Caro
ISBN0702238805
I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin.

Determined, passionate and headstrong, Elizabeth I shaped the destiny of a kingdom.

Her mother; Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father Henry VIII. From...
The Pause
AuthorJohn Larkin
ISBN0857981706
Declan seems to have it all: a family that loves him, friends he’s known for years, a beautiful girlfriend he would go to the ends of the earth for.

But there’s something in Declan’s past that just won’t go away, that pokes and scratches at his thoughts when he’s at his most vulnerable....
Pan's Whisper
AuthorSue Lawson
ISBN1742032060
When you’re fighting to forget, what would make you remember?

Pan Harris is brash, loud and damaged. Ordered into foster care, Pan is full of anger at the mother who abandoned her, and the older sister who kept her from her father. Pan is certain that she knows the reality of her past – until...
Crow Country
AuthorKate Constable
From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes  a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia 

Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from...
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
AuthorGlenda Millard
This complex and haunting exploration of life on the edge and what it takes to triumph over adversity is a story about the indomitable nature of hope.

Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful teenage dancer, and the girl's baby-ragtag survivors of a sudden war-form a fragile family, hiding...
The Golden Day
AuthorUrsula Dubosarsky
ISBN0763663999
When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery.

The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven...
The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
AuthorMoisés Kaufman
ISBN0804170398
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal....
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