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King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

10 best books like King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography (Chris Crutcher): Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan, The War to End All Wars: World War I, Hole in My Life, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, God Went to Beauty School, Captain Freedom, Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It

Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
AuthorAimee Major Steinberger
ISBN1933617837
Join Aimee Major Steinberger on the ultimate fangirl vacation in Japan!

This rapid-fire adventure is full of everything fans dream of seeing: cosplay on the infamous Harajuku Street, fantasy restaurants, maid cafes, Tokyo’s largest doll store, beautiful shrines, bookstores full of...
The War to End All Wars: World War I
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0547026862
Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands...
Hole in My Life
AuthorJack Gantos
ISBN0374430896
Becoming a writer the hard way

In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin...
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
"Boys, let us get up a club."With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began...
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
AuthorAnn Angel
ISBN0810983494
Forty years after her death, Janis Joplin remains among the most compelling and influential figures in rock-and-roll history. Her story—told here with depth and sensitivity by author Ann Angel—is one of a girl who struggled against rules and limitations, yet worked diligently to improve as...
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
AuthorJames Sturm
ISBN0786839015
Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905? 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own historyand...
God Went to Beauty School
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0060094354
A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out...
Captain Freedom
AuthorG. Xavier Robillard
ISBN0061650684
Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!

Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management.

The Superhero lifestyle is...
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
AuthorCharles R. Smith Jr.
ISBN0763616923
A dynamic author-illustrator team follows the threetime heavyweight champ through twelve rounds of a remarkable life.

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. . . . I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived!"

From the moment a fired-up teenager from Kentucky won 1960 Olympic gold...
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
AuthorSundee T. Frazier
ISBN0385734395
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...
Riding Invisible
AuthorSandra Alonzo
ISBN1423118987
Everyone has to know the truth in case I get killed on the trail. It’ll be My Escape all written and drawn WHILE IT HAPPENS. Could be a little raw. I’m a little raw. I’m going to lay low, still and quiet, blend in, harmonize with the world out there. It’s not an easy thing to be, a boy on a horse...riding...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
AuthorJohn Coy
ISBN0761366172
Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting,...
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440229359
When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...
Who I Was Supposed to Be
AuthorSusan Perabo
ISBN0743290372
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns;...
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0439691842
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes!

When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the...
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka
AuthorJon Scieszka
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead....
Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice
AuthorCatherine Lewis
ISBN1442460768
Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand!

Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly—but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman,...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763651176
They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.

World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought...
Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World
AuthorSid Fleischman
ISBN0061896403
See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens.

Everyone knew Charlie—Charlie...
Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.
AuthorMatt Rothschild
ISBN0307405427
What fresh hell is this?

I stopped, dumbfounded. My grandmother was at my bedroom door. “What the hell are you doing?” she asked, surprised but not angry. I looked down at my dress. “Playing school.” My grandmother began stroking her chin. Clearly, there were several ways she could...
Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder
AuthorTony Hawk
ISBN0060958316
For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice,...
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine
AuthorMel Boring
ISBN0805073167
It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrión was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He had a small, sharp lancet ready . . . Carrión's friends and teacher from the medical school thought it was a bad idea. They knew Carrión was eager to learn more...
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
AuthorWinifred Conkling
ISBN1616201967
The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history.In 1848, Emily Edmonson, thirteen, along with five siblings and seventy other enslaved people, boarded the "Pearl...
Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
AuthorRobin Hemley
ISBN0316020605
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do...
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