Making the Team
10 best books like Making the Team (J. Scott Savage): The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes, Lucy at Sea, Starbounders, The Lightning Catcher, The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck, The Dragon King, The Laura Line, The Princess of Cortova, Anna Was Here, Alien on a Rampage
The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes
| Author | Kelly Easton |
| ISBN | 0375837728 |
Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked old house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop, everything from fried clams and fried hot...
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119931 |
The thrilling sequel to The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, a book that Newbery-winning author Katherine Applegate called “a grand and adventurous tale, as magical and mysterious as the sea itself.”
Ever since Lucy’s parents drowned at sea, she’s been protected by special magic. That’s...
| Author | Adam Jay Epstein |
| ISBN | 0062120220 |
Zachary Night has been waiting his whole life for this moment. Like his family before him, he's finally headed to Indigo 8, a top secret training center where future Starbounders learn the skills to protect the galaxy. But being a Starbounder is no walk on the moon. No sooner has Zachary mastered the warp...
| Author | Anne Cameron |
| ISBN | 0062112767 |
You know something is seriously wrong when it starts raining newts and frogs…
11 year-old Angus McFangus believes that his parents are boring civil servants, but one stormy night his world is turned upside down when he is mysteriously whisked to the island of Imbur to become an apprentice...
| Author | Emily Fairlie |
| ISBN | 0062118900 |
Emily Fairlie’s clever and imaginative, The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck, tells the story of sixth grader Laurie Madison. She is one of the students at Tuckernuck and desperately wants to join her best friend Kimmy at another middle school. However, it will have to wait as she is assigned for gerbil...
| Author | Nils Johnson-Shelton |
| ISBN | 0062070975 |
Artie Kingfisher, his sister, Kay, and the New Knights of the Round Table have finally reached the legendary isle of Avalon. But before Artie can take his place as King Arthur reborn, he must recover nothing less than the mythical Holy Grail. And as the greatest battle of his life looms, Artie finds himself...
| Author | Crystal Allen |
| ISBN | 0062208446 |
A touching and funny story of one girl’s journey to discover where she came from and the unlimited possibilities of who she can become, from Crystal Allen, the acclaimed author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy and The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown.
Laura...
With tensions rising between the kingdoms of Westria and Austlind, Molly and Tobias accompany King Alaric to Cortova, where he hopes to form an alliance with King Gonzalo—an alliance that would be sealed by Alaric’s marriage to Gonzalo’s daughter, Elizabetta. But the devious Gonzalo has many...
| Author | Jane Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0060564938 |
Ten-year-old Anna Nickel is moving from Colorado to Kansas, and she is not happy about leaving her friends behind! This is a moving, often humorous coming-of-age story about family, faith, God's love, and the meaning of home, perfect for fans of Katherine Paterson and The Penderwicks.
Ten-year-old...
| Author | Clete Barrett Smith |
| ISBN | 1423134486 |
David is looking forward to spending another adventure-filled summer at his grandmother's Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast-a vacation hotspot for aliens. But as soon as he meets Grandma's new repairman, an alien named Scratchull, he becoms suspicious. The only problem is that it is difficult...
| Author | Brian Farrey |
| ISBN | 0062049348 |
Fast-paced, funny, and full of surprises, The Grimjinx Rebellion brings Brian Farrey's epic and critically acclaimed Vengekeep Prophecies trilogy to an unforgettable close.
Jaxter Grimjinx and his family haven't had much time for thieving. Through no fault of their own, they've been...
| Author | Herbie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0062071807 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Faerie Wars Chronicles, Herbie Brennan, comes this heart-pounding middle-grade adventure—think The Da Vinci Code for tweens. Reminiscent of the Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl series, this edge-of-your-seat thriller involves an ancient curse,...
| Author | Marion Jensen |
| ISBN | 0062209612 |
Each leap year, on February 29th, at 4:23 p.m., every member of the Bailey family over the age of twelve gets a superpower. No one knows why, and no one questions it. All the Baileys know is that it's their duty to protect the world from those evil, supervillainous Johnsons.
Today, Rafter Bailey...
| Author | Bryan Chick |
| ISBN | 0062192302 |
The fifth book in the fast-paced and imaginative series about four adventurous friends and the secret world hidden in their local zoo. Ella, Noah, Richie, and Megan are in trouble—and so is the Secret Zoo! A captivating series for tween readers praised as "action packed and breathless" by Publishers...
| Author | Jason Fry |
| ISBN | 0062230204 |
In this swashbuckling new sci-fi adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry, three siblings in a family of privateers must compete to decide who will be the next ship captain, all while battling space pirates, Earth diplomats, and even treachery from within the family.
The...
| Author | Jess Keating |
| ISBN | 1402297580 |
Ana Wright's summer just got terrifying. She's finally getting used to living in a zoo (no, seriously—she lives with her family in an actual zoo), when she's assigned to work in the new shark tank. With her worst enemy. Forget about sharks! Ashley is the ultimate predator. And after Ana's favorite...
Warm up your credit cards, or start counting out the Benjamins, because you're going to want to buy both of Braden Bell's magical books. "The Kindling," his first YA masterpiece, is matched and perhaps surpassed by its sequel, "Penumbras." These are more than great reads folks.
"Middle School...
| Author | John David Anderson |
| ISBN | 0062338145 |
The Dungeoneers is an action-packed, funny, and heartbreaking middle grade fantasy-adventure from the author of the acclaimed Sidekicked and Minion, John David Anderson.
The world is not a fair place, and Colm Candorly knows it. While his parents and eight sisters seem content living on...
| Author | Liniers |
| ISBN | 1943145202 |
I like the work of Liniers, but read this now because it won the 2018 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8) recently. It's a sweet and largely unremarkable story of a girl, her dog, and her floppy toy rabbit named Planet. (Right, I thought it was going to be an environmental...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0061963771 |
I have become a big fan of the Guys Read Short Story Series edited by Jon Scieszka. With ten authors writing ten different short stories, it's easy to find one that will appeal to any reader.
Guys Read: The Sports Pages hits a home run for it's mix of stories from great children's authors like...
| Author | Papa G. |
| ISBN | 1477515011 |
Ulrich Von Strudel has got no knees, but this is the least of his problems. Awful, terrible, despicable things are going to happen to this poor boy. And just when he thinks things couldn’t possibly get any worse. He discovers there’s a monster hiding in his closet. FING is a heart warming modern fairytale...
| Author | Mark Tatulli |
| ISBN | 1449435483 |
Someday Desmond will be famous for his special effects wizardry, but for now he's just trying to make it through sixth grade at Cloverfield Memorial Junior High, which means he needs to stay one step ahead of the school's disciplinary officer, Mr. Needles.
The only problem is Desmond just can't...
The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper
| Author | Annabelle Fisher |
| ISBN | 0062393774 |
Pixie Piper, an ordinary fifth grader, discovers she is a direct descendent of Mother Goose, and she has the magical ability and poetry power to prove it! A lively and funny twist on a classic character for fans of the Clementine books, Wendy Mass, and Lisa Graff.
Fifth grader Pixie Piper has...
