Little Blog on the Prairie
10 best books like Little Blog on the Prairie (Cathleen Davitt Bell): Wish, Outlaw, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, A Victorian Christmas, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, Somebody Everybody Listens To, After Ever After, The House of Djinn, Converting Kate, Crunch
| Author | Joseph Monninger |
| ISBN | 0385739419 |
Bee’s brother, Tommy, knows everything there is to know about sharks. He also knows that his life will be cut short by cystic fibrosis. And so does Bee.
That’s why she wants to make his wish-foundation-sponsored trip to swim with a great white shark an unforgettable memory.
But...
| Author | Stephen Davies |
| ISBN | 1849390886 |
Fifteen-year-old Jake Knight is an explorer and adventurer at heart but this often gets him into trouble. When a stuffy English boarding school suspends him for rule-breaking, Jake flies out to Burkina Faso where his parents are living. He is expecting a long, adventure-filled vacation under a smiling...
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803732988 |
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius...
| Author | Patricia Gaffney |
| ISBN | 0451174429 |
The best Signet anthology I ever bought -- hands down!
And that's really only based on two stories, KIDNAPPED FOR CHRISTMAS by Betina Krahn and THE BLACK BEAST OF BELLETERRE by Mary Jo Putney. Either one of those stories would have been worth the purchase price of the whole book.
KIDNAPPED...
| Author | Francisco X. Stork |
| ISBN | 0545151333 |
When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death...
Somebody Everybody Listens To
| Author | Suzanne Supplee |
| ISBN | 0525422420 |
Retta Lee Jones is blessed with a beautiful voice and has big dreams of leaving her tiny Tennessee hometown. With a beaten down car, a pocketful of hard-earned waitressing money, and stars in her eyes, Retta sets out to make it big in Nashville. But the road to success isn?t a smooth one in a town filled with...
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0439837065 |
Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student, or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took...
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| ISBN | 0374399360 |
It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband's murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by her father's family with the education and security her mother desired for her, but with little understanding and love. Only her American...
| Author | Beckie Weinheimer |
| ISBN | 0670061522 |
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.
Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0061692336 |
Dewey Marriss is stuck in the middle of a crunch.
He never guessed that the gas pumps would run dry the same week he promised to manage the family's bicycle-repair business. Suddenly everyone needs a bike. And nobody wants to wait.
Meanwhile, the crunch has stranded Dewey's parents...
| Author | Robin Brande |
| ISBN | 0615952739 |
An experiment so bold, anyone might think it was a little crazy...
Catherine Locke is smart, ambitious, and--okay, not the slimmest girl around. But she's always cared more about her brain than her body. So far that's gotten her where she wanted: into the most advanced, competitive science class...
| Author | P.G. Kain |
| ISBN | 1416935193 |
Dorie Dilts is about to move from California to New Jersey, and instead of seeing this as the worst thing to happen to her in her 13 years, Dorie sees this as a great opportunity--an opportunity to reinvent herself as one of the popular crowd, that is. When she arrives at her new school, she immediately sets...
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right, too: "I'm so proud of you, Russ." "We'll always be here...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374399514 |
Ketchvar III's mission is simple: travel to Planet Earth, inhabit the body of an average teenager, and determine if the human race should be annihilated. And so Ketchvar—who, to human eyes, looks just like a common snail—crawls into the brain of one Tom Filber and attempts to do his analysis. At...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0307738159 |
“When I was a boy, my pa dowsed to earn extra money when we had a lean year. And when he put the branch in my hands for the first time, I felt a burning inside me because I had the gift, too. Just be thankful I didn’t hand that gift down to you.”
Amos figured it was probably best not to tell his father...
| Author | Donna Gephart |
| ISBN | 0385737939 |
Eleven-year-old David Greenberg dreams of becoming a TV superstar like his idol, Jon Stewart. But in real life, David is just another kid terrified of starting his first year at Harman Middle School. With a wacky sense of humor and hilarious Top 6½ Lists, David spends his free time making Talk Time videos,...
The Haunting of Charles Dickens
| Author | Lewis Buzbee |
| ISBN | 0312382561 |
Meg Pickel’s older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she suspects involves Orion, and she meets the author Charles Dickens, also unable to sleep, and roaming the London streets. He...
| Author | Chloe Taylor |
| ISBN | 1442479353 |
El sueño de Zoe es convertirse en una auténtica diseñadora de moda. Su primera oportunidad no tardará en llegar, pues con la nueva directora ya no hace falta llevar uniforme al colegio. Animada por sus amigas, con la ayuda de su tía y siguiendo el ejemplo de su madre (a quien le apasionaba la costura),...
| Author | Julien Neel |
| ISBN | 2723448150 |
Lou est une petite fille qui ne connaît pas son papa, qui vit seule avec sa maman et le petit chat qu'elles ont adopté. Toutes les deux ont une grande complicité, elles jouent à la console, se font des pizzerias Lou est amoureuse de son voisin d'en face mais bien sûr n'ose pas lui avouer C'est une petite...
Far better than two previous volumes. As it often is with web comics, this also goes through a lot of development with author. It is remarkable, how ready-to-publish even the very first strips were, but to me after first 400 strips the story telling does also became more professional. For some reason...
| Author | Carl Deuker |
| ISBN | 0547279817 |
Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist—a fat high school journalist named Mitch—veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel. When Angel shows up Lincoln High, he seems to have no past—or at least not one...
| Author | Elsbeth Edgar |
| ISBN | 0763650196 |
Fourteen-year-old Laura Horton doesn't quite fit in. She lives in a grand crumbling mansion on the edge of town that everyone calls "the haunted house," and she has more in common with her parents' eccentric artist friends than with the girls at school. So when loner Leon Murphy moves in next door, Laura...
| Author | Jason Henderson |
| ISBN | 0061950998 |
The Van Helsing name reborn
Fourteen-year-old Alex has no idea that he's descended from the world's most famous vampire hunter, but that changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and confronts two vampires in his first three days. Turns out Glenarvon isn't the only school near Lake...
