Love Among the Walnuts
10 best books like Love Among the Walnuts (Jean Ferris): Chasing Vermeer, Princess Academy, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Ghostopolis, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Red Kayak, The Squire's Tale, A Summer to Die, One Tough Chick
| Author | Blue Balliett |
| ISBN | 0439372941 |
When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves...
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599900734 |
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375867821 |
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
| Author | Doug TenNapel |
| ISBN | 0545210283 |
Imagine Garth Hale's surprise when he's accidentally zapped to the spirit world by Frank Gallows, a washed-out ghost wrangler. Suddenly Garth finds he has powers the ghosts don't have, and he's stuck in a world run by the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who would use Garth's newfound abilities to rule the...
Tales from Outer Suburbia
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 0771084021 |
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern...
| Author | Priscilla Cummings |
| ISBN | 0142405736 |
Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0440228239 |
Life for the young orphan Terence has been peaceful, living with Trevisant, the old Hermit in a quiet, isolated wood.
That is, until the day a strange green sprite leads him to Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, who is on his way to Camelot hoping to be knighted. Trevisant can see the future and knows...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440219175 |
I haven't read this book since I was eleven or twelve, but I bought a used copy because I have such extremely fond memories of it. My copy has new cover art, so I got all nostalgic seeing the thumbnail of the old cover here.
It's funny how much of this book I remembered vividly and how much I'd forgotten...
| Author | Leslie Margolis |
| ISBN | 1599909618 |
Annabelle has tamed the wild boys, mastered the social hierarchy of catty mean girls, and bugged out over her first school dance. But now it's time for the school talent show. Annabelle's been asked to be a judge. Which is perfect . . . until her friends accuse Annabelle of playing favorites because her...
| Author | Sasha Paley |
| ISBN | 1416935177 |
April and Wil couldn't be more different, but both of them are spending the summer at Wellness Canyon -- otherwise known as a weight-loss camp. April knows that if she could just drop a little weight, she would be popular like she's always wanted. She's saved up for months to afford Wellness Canyon, which...
