Itch
8 best books like Itch (Michelle D. Kwasney): Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories, What Jamie Saw, Wild Things, Operation Yes, Tall, Thin and Blonde, Also Known as Harper, Notes from the Dog, White Bird
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
| Author | R.J. Palacio |
| ISBN | 0552574775 |
WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.
AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian,...
| Author | Carolyn Coman |
| ISBN | 0140383352 |
This 1996 Newbery Honor book was also a finalist for the National Book Award. It packs a punch in a mere 126 pages and it addresses a social issue that is compelling and necessary to discuss, ie the impact that adult decisions have upon their small children. Jamie's mother chose to subject her children...
| Author | Clay Carmichael |
| ISBN | 1590786270 |
Stubborn, self-reliant eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, is forced to move to the country to live with her strange and bad-tempered uncle. Zoe could care less that he's a famous doctor and sculptor. All she knows is that he is impossible to understand. The only interesting thing on the farm is...
| Author | Sara Lewis Holmes |
| ISBN | 0545107954 |
No one in her sixth-grade class knows quite what to make of Ms. Loupe, with her short hair, her taped square "stage" on the floor, and the interest in improvisational theatre. After all, their school is on an Air Force base--a place that values discipline more than improv. But her students soon come to...
| Author | Dyan Sheldon |
| ISBN | 1844286347 |
. I can relate to this book in a big way. My friends and I have been told that we are weird for being different and not being like 'normal' teenagers. This book tells the story of what it is like to feel like this and how people like Amy make it hard for people that aren't 'tall, thin and blonde'. This book shows...
| Author | Ann Haywood Leal |
| ISBN | 0805088814 |
Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn't surprising, seeing as how she's named after her mama's favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper's family gets evicted.
With Mama scrambling to...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385738455 |
“Sometimes having company is not all it’s cracked up to be.” Fourteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he’s hoping for a job where he doesn’t have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. She’s 10 years older,...
Wow! I borrowed this today from the library. I was going to concurrently read it with the other two library books I have at home and other reading material too. I had three phone calls I meant to make today. I picked up the book to start it, and I didn’t put it down until I finished it. I did not expect that....
