Life on Mars
10 best books like Life on Mars (Jennifer Brown): Under the Egg, Rules, Guts, Rascal, Tiger Eyes, Click, The Stone Child, Boy-Crazy Stacey, Heat, Olguța și un bunic de milioane
| Author | Laura Marx Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0803740018 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle-grade debut.
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s...
| Author | Cynthia Lord |
| ISBN | 0439443822 |
Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order...
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140344454 |
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.
Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398121 |
Davey has never felt so alone in her life. Her father is dead (shot in a holdup) and now her mother is moving the family to New Mexico to try to recover. Climbing in Los Alamos Canyons, Davey meets mysterous Wolf, who seems to understand the rage and fear she feels. Slowly, with Wolf's help, Davey realizes...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328911128 |
A debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in school.
Olive wants to get in on the act . . .
. . . Any act!
Olive “clicks” with everyone in the fifth grade—until one day she doesn’t. When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to...
| Author | Dan Poblocki |
| ISBN | 0375842543 |
What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real?
Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That’s why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream come true when Eddie discovers that...
| Author | Gale Galligan |
| ISBN | 1338304518 |
Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. Things are great in Sea City: There's a gorgeous house right on the beach, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand... and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen!
Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott...
| Author | Mike Lupica |
| ISBN | 0142407577 |
The #1 Bestseller!
Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led...
Olguța și un bunic de milioane
| Author | Alex Moldovan |
| ISBN | 6067882884 |
Olguţa e o puştoaică de doisprezece ani ca oricare alta. Bine, nu chiar ca oricare alta: e neîndemânatică, impertinentă, intră mereu în bucluc, nu prea are prieteni, iar familia ei e atât de dezbinată, încât nu-şi recunoaşte mătuşa când aceasta îşi face apariţia la uşă.
Nu-i...
