Masters of Disaster
10 best books like Masters of Disaster (Gary Paulsen): Home, The Van Gogh Deception, Wait Till Helen Comes, Rascal, Warriors Box Set, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, The View from the Cherry Tree, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, The Last Kids on Earth, Camp
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307594165 |
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...
| Author | Deron R. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0544759273 |
When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC’s National Gallery without any recollection of who he is, so begins a high-stakes race to unravel the greatest mystery of all: his identity. As the stakes continue to rise, the boy must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380704420 |
Beware of Helen...Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend,...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140344454 |
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.
Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood...
| Author | Erin Hunter |
| ISBN | 0061477931 |
This is the set of six books that begins a long list of "Warrior" books. I read "Into The Wild" with the Children's Books group here on Goodreads, enjoyed it, and gave it to my then-8-year-old grandson who promptly fell in love with the series. As he finished each book, he loaned it to me and I was captivated...
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
This is not a book but a loose chapter of Gyo: Volume 2.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault (Amigara means "Empty Shell") is a short story originally published along with the second volume of Junji Ito's Gyo, but has nothing to do with the story.
People are being unnaturally drawn into a mountainside...
The View from the Cherry Tree
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689717849 |
I had read this before. Well, really, listened to it as my 6th grade teacher read it out-loud. I remember I liked it, but I'm more impressed now by how well written this book is. Basically, Robbie is an 11-year-old kid who accidentally sees his cranky next-door neighbor pushed out the window, murdered....
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
| Author | Max Brallier |
| ISBN | 0670016616 |
Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328530825 |
Olive and Willow are happy campers!
Or are they?
Olive is sure she’ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow – but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows – Olive. It’s...
Another spot-on story of middle school drama and friendship from Terri Libenson, national bestselling author of Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy.
Friends. Frenemies. Middle school...
The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are.
Jaime...
Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential...
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
| Author | Felicity McLean |
| ISBN | 1460755065 |
'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.'
So begins Tikka Molloy's recounting of the summer of 1992 - the summer the Van Apfel sisters, Hannah, the beautiful...
