Losing Joe's Place
10 best books like Losing Joe's Place (Gordon Korman): Haunted, Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, Strange Heaven, Devil on My Back, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Graffiti Knight, It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World, Hero of Lesser Causes, Secrets of the Shopping Mall, That Scatterbrain Booky
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0002008211 |
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0140324364 |
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay introduces fifteen-year-old Mary Urquhart, a Scottish girl with a special gift – the gift of “second sight”. One morning, in the spring of 1815, Mary hears her beloved cousin Duncan calling desperately for her help. But Duncan is 3,000 miles away in Upper Canada, and to...
| Author | Lynn Coady |
| ISBN | 0385659148 |
Strange Heaven is tearfully hilarious, as funny and appalling as real life. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has gone to Halifax from industrial Cape Breton, had her baby, and given it up for adoption. She’s apathetic, the doctors decide, so they transfer her to the psych ward of the children’s...
| Author | Monica Hughes |
| ISBN | 0862031648 |
Read this as a kid. I think it was my first bit of post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I'd been looking for it for years on Google, but kept misremembering the title. I was starting to think I'd hallucinated the whole thing.
Anyway, it was a great book for young adult fiction. It got me to think about a lot of...
| Author | Mordecai Richler |
| ISBN | 0887766862 |
We all grew up with television, right? I still remember when I was a 5-y/o toddler and I was sitting on the floor right in front of our black-and-white television. I was watching a belly dancer and my parents and siblings were laughing because I was having a hard-on.
I also remember the many times...
| Author | Karen Bass |
| ISBN | 1927485533 |
After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice. It’s dangerous, of course,...
It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116917 |
What could be better? Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the divorce express, shuttling between their parents on weekends.
Now Rosie's mom and Phoebe's dad have fallen in love and they're all moving in together. Rosie has always dreamed of having a real family, but having Phoebe...
| Author | Julie Johnston |
| ISBN | 0887766498 |
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.
One fateful summer day her brother...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0440402700 |
Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and a troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban...
| Author | Bernice Thurman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0590710826 |
Booky didn't know much about the reasons for the Great Depression. All she knew was that she was hungry all the time, that her parents fought constantly, that the bailiff would soon return to evict her family from their home. Worst of all, she knew that Christmas would be a time of empty stockings instead...
| Author | Mary Francis Shura |
| ISBN | 0590435000 |
Personal Response: I enjoyed Gentle Annie because it combined history and entertainment so that more people would read it. The book is written well and has many good plot points. I like the way that the book is based on real events yet had enough fiction to keep the reader wanting to read more. I especially...
| Author | William Bell |
| ISBN | 0440226791 |
Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from...
| Author | Sarah Elton |
| ISBN | 1554684188 |
Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times--these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way...
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 | Margaret Davidson |
| ISBN | 0590442309 |
Summary:
This book is an inspiring biography of of Dr. Martin Luther King that explains the historical context and meaning of his famous I have a Dream speech and discusses the Civil Rights Movement.
Characteristics that Support the Genre:
This book is considered a biography because...
| Author | Charlotte Zolotow |
| ISBN | 0064432173 |
I liked this story quite a bit. I thought the illustrations were quite charming, although the style is quite old and may not be as appealing to readers today.
The story was sweet - a protective older sibling cares for her younger sister, doing her best to take care of her. The younger sister desires...
| Author | Jennifer Lanthier |
| ISBN | 1554552184 |
A city boy finds a stamp that unlocks his imagination; a country boy is captivated by stories. When they grow up, the two boys take different paths – one becomes a prison guard, the other works in a factory – but their early childhood passions remain. When the country boy’s stories of hope land him...
| Author | Kazune Kawahara |
| ISBN | 1421571455 |
Second volume of maybe the most adorable shoji/romance manga I have read so far (which is not THAT much, but this one stands out for me). We have three central characters, Takeo, a 6'6", 265 pound guy who is all heart but not a likely romantic lead. He intervenes on behalf of (petite) Yamato who is being bothered...
| Author | Julien Neel |
| ISBN | 2723452522 |
Les petites et grandes histoires de la vie de Lou. Richard et la mère, c'est une affaire qui roule. Et puis le roman de la mère est enfin publié. Tout roule de ce côté-là aussi, donc. Mais pour Lou, l'ambiance de cette rentrée est tout de même assez confuse. Des engins de chantier démolissent l'immeuble...
A Fate Totally Worse Than Death
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0763621897 |
"This takeoff on teen horror novels is funny, mocking, and a surefire hit. . . . Should have teen-horror fans screaming with laughter." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
In Paul Fleischman’s hilarious parody of teenage horror novels, Danielle and her friends from Cliffside...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0886191092 |
The book Jesper is full detailed excitement. It tells an amazing story of what life was like for Jesper, a 16 year old boy in Copenhagen, Denmark, and what he had to go through during world war two.
Jesper did not agree with what was happening to the world around him. So he decided to form a group called...
