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10 best books like Love, Ruby Lavender (Deborah Wiles): Thursdays with the Crown, Louisiana's Way Home, Project Mulberry, Becoming Naomi León, The Thief Lord, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, Woods Runner, The Landry News

Thursdays with the Crown
AuthorJessica Day George
ISBN1619632993
Castle Glower has been acting weird, so it’s no surprise when two towers transport Celie and her siblings to an unknown land. When they realize that no one from home is coming to get them, the kids – along with Celie’s pet griffin Rufus – set out through the forest to figure out where they are and...
Louisiana's Way Home
AuthorKate DiCamillo
ISBN0763694630
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be.

When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana...
Project Mulberry
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0440421632
Julia Song and her friend Patrick want to team up to win a blue ribbon at the state fair, but they can't agree on the perfect project. Then Julia's mother suggests they raise silkworms as she did years ago in Korea. The optimistic twosome quickly realizes that raising silkworms is a lot tougher than they...
Becoming Naomi León
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439269970
Apparently, I have a new favorite author:

Pam Munoz Ryan.

You guys know how much I enjoyed--no, ADORED--"Echo" a month or so ago? Well, "Becoming Naomi Leon" is every bit as good. And I am one happy reader right now. *blissful sigh*

This book is fantastic, the way it gives a window...
The Thief Lord
AuthorCornelia Funke
ISBN1903434777
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.

Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with...
Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
AuthorKatherine Hannigan
ISBN0060730269
Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.

That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook.

Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping,...
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
AuthorLinda Urban
ISBN0152060073
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall.

But when Dad ventures to the music store...
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
AuthorLesley M.M. Blume
ISBN0375835237
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset...
Woods Runner
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0385738846
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.

But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois...
The Landry News
AuthorAndrew Clements
ISBN0689828683
NEW STUDENT GETS OLD TEACHER
The bad news is that Cara Landry is the new kid at Denton Elementary School. The worse news is that her teacher, Mr. Larson, would rather read the paper and drink coffee than teach his students anything. So Cara decides to give Mr. Larson something else to read -- her own...
Ruby Holler
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0060560150
From Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it.

Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imaginations...
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment
AuthorFrances O'Roark Dowell
ISBN1416947345
Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, aka Mac:

1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.

2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.

3. He does...
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
AuthorLauren Tarshis
ISBN0803731647
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It's easy: she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly...
Walking with Miss Millie
AuthorTamara Bundy
ISBN0399544569
A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South

Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia—a too small, too hot, dried-up place she’s sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking her elderly...
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0064409600
Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.

Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's...
Everything on a Waffle
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0374422087
In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, everything comes on a waffle--lasagna, fish, you name it. Even waffles! Eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp loves this homey place, especially its owner, Kate Bowzer, who takes her under her wing, teaches...
Smells Like Dog
AuthorSuzanne Selfors
ISBN0316043982
Meet Homer Pudding, an ordinary farm boy who's got big dreams-to follow in the footsteps of his famous treasure-hunting uncle. But when Uncle Drake mysteriously disappears, Homer inherits two things: a lazy, droopy dog with no sense of smell, and a mystery.

Why would his uncle call this clumsy...
Greetings from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374399379
Aggie isn't expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a soul has come to stay in nearly three...
We the Children
AuthorAndrew Clements
ISBN1416938869
Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town—with all the buses and traffic and eight dollar slices of pizza. It’s going to change everything....
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
AuthorE.L. Konigsburg
ISBN0689866372
I Prefer Not To....

That's Margaret Rose Kane's response to every activity she's asked to participate in at the summer camp to which she's been exiled while her parents are in Peru. So Margaret Rose is delighted when her beloved uncles rescue her from Camp Talequa, with its uptight camp director...
Muggie Maggie
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN8427934637
A silly, but amusing little book about a third-grade girl's battle to learn cursive. I'm reviewing it only because it really sticks out in my memory, because this book influenced my own handwriting. So, in the book, Maggie's mother is telling her how when she was in college, all the girls she knew dotted...
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