Jim Ugly
10 best books like Jim Ugly (Sid Fleischman): Faithful, Logan's Run, 3001: The Final Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, Maniac Magee, The City and the Stars, The Cay, The Great Train Robbery, Chasing Lincoln's Killer
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1476799202 |
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt.
What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something...
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553025171 |
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345438205 |
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0586203192 |
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths,...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0590452037 |
He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. Maniac Magee took to the streets.
And Maniac Magee became a legend.
Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how...
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.
But...
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0553129198 |
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could...
| Author | James L. Swanson |
| ISBN | 0545204704 |
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.,...
| Author | Andrea J. Loney |
| ISBN | 1620142600 |
James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first camera. He took photos of his family, classmates, and anyone who would sit still for a portrait. By the fifth grade, James was the school photographer and unofficial town photographer. Eventually he outgrew his small town...
| Author | Greg Pincus |
| ISBN | 0439912997 |
Gregory K is the middle child in a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math? Well, he'd be fibbing. What he really wants most is to go to Author Camp. But to get his parents' permission he's going to have to pass his math class, which has a probability of 0. THAT much he can understand!...
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553114182 |
Logan's world. . . With the computer system destroyed, Earth has reverted to savagery. Scattered tribes now rule a charred world. Scavengers, who prowl the broken cities. Surviving corps of the elite killers, led by a psychotic ex-Sandman. Sadistic bands of gypsy riders who kill and plunder. When...
| Author | Andrea J. Loney |
| ISBN | 0807509388 |
I am fortunate to have read an advanced copy of BUNNYBEAR. What a delightful story!
What should a bear do when he feels like a bunny? And other bears called you odd. He wiggled his nose, nibbled on strawberries, and bounced through the forest of course!
Author Andrea Loney tells the story...
| Author | Pamela Kopfler |
| ISBN | 1496713214 |
As the owner of a charming Louisiana bed and breakfast, Holly Davis believes in Southern hospitality--but she draws the line at welcoming the ghost of her cheating husband . . .
Burl Davis checked out of this life a little earlier than expected--before Holly could serve him with divorce papers...
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553138057 |
Logan is running again, with the fate of the world in his hands. Earth is free and at peace at last. But not the Earth on which Logan stands. For him a nightmare has just begun...In the 23rd century on Parallel Earth your 21st Birthday is your Lastday. Parallel Earth is a dazzling paradise of pleasure and...
Twist My Charm: Love Potion #11
Middle school crushes are WAY more complicated when you have a love potion.
Everyone knows love potions don’t really work. But Cleo got one as a gift. And it would be crazy not to at least try it . . . right? The plan is simple: make Cleo’s ex–best friend Samantha and her (secret) crush Larry...
Twist My Charm: The Popularity Spell
Twist My Charm: The Popularity Spell was a fun read! I read this with my daughter and we had a lot to talk about while reading it. Topics that came up were: the true meaning of friendship, false first impressions, whether it’s important or even desirable to be “popular” and at what cost, and whether...
