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Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs

10 best books like Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs (Karen Karbo): Dracula, How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?, Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico, Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer, Safe, Teen, Inc., Chicken Boy, Diamonds in the Shadow, When I Crossed No-Bob, A True and Faithful Narrative

Dracula
AuthorMichael Mucci
ISBN1402731523
For years I read and watched adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula before I even read the book. Beforehand I did not have the original to compare to, but now that I do, I still find myself enjoying them and not being overly critical, if I am critical at all sometimes.

This adaptation I couldn’t...
How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0545153530
Surprise! Our bestselling little dinosaurs are back for a BIG birthday celebration! Everyone has a birthday, and from riotous birthday parties to the excitement of being one year older, having a birthday is the highlight of a young child's year. All little dinosaurs love to get presents, and this new...
Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
AuthorMalin Alegria
ISBN0689878117
"Do you guys have Internet?.."."How about TiVo?.."."You do get American TV?" The house was dark. "Wait a minute -- do they even have electricity?"Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California -- the closest she gets to a south-of-the-border experience is eating...
Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer
AuthorThatcher Heldring
ISBN0385733909
TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...
Safe
AuthorSusan Shaw
ISBN0525478299
Safe. To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother's death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen-year-old Tracy must fight her way...
Teen, Inc.
AuthorStefan Petrucha
ISBN0802796508
Legally, a corporation is a person, so why shouldn't they be able to adopt a child?
Fourteen year old Jaiden's family is a corporation and his home is an office building. When his parents are killed in an accident caused by a faulty piece of equipment manufactured by NECorp, the company adopts him...
Chicken Boy
AuthorFrances O'Roark Dowell
ISBN1416934820
Meet Tobin McCauley. He's got a near-certifiable grandmother, a pack of juvenile-delinquent siblings, and a dad who's not going to win father of the year any time soon. To top it off, Tobin's only friend truly believes that the study of chickens will reveal...the meaning of life? Getting through seventh...
Diamonds in the Shadow
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0385732619
THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter....
When I Crossed No-Bob
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0618717153
Life as an O’Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O’Donnell means trouble.
Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O’Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy’s mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell’s wedding celebration,...
A True and Faithful Narrative
AuthorKatherine Sturtevant
ISBN0374378096
In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore is something of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg pores over books. She spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories, laboring over every word until her hand...
The Innocent's Story
AuthorNicky Singer
ISBN0192754491
The Innocent's Story is an excellent novel by Nicky Singer. Singer creatively portrayed the minds and hearts of two terrorist, one who truly wanted to kill and one who didn't, and who was haunted by his daughter's death. Singer also described the view of a mother's and father's unconditional love for...
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
AuthorScott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
AuthorSid Fleischman
ISBN0061344451
Avrom Amos likes to crack jokes. He loves the spotlight. And if he wants something, he knows how to get it. He's just like any other boy, except for one thing: He's a ghost—a dybbuk. During World War Two he'd been murdered by the Nazis, right after he saved the life of a young ventriloquist named Freddie.

Freddie...
The Curse of the Romanovs
AuthorStaton Rabin
ISBN1416902082
Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger.

It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers...
Cherry Heaven
AuthorLucy Adlington
The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
AuthorScott W. Hunt
ISBN0525468188
I can't believe it took me this long to read this book!! I loved it! Artist Scott Hunt provides 9 evocative charcoal drawings meant to inspire narration, and 18 authors for teens write short stories about them. There are two stories for each picture, proving that there is no "right" way to interpret a picture....
Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within
AuthorLaura Bowers
ISBN0152057641
Abbey Garner has a plan: to earn a million dollars by the time she's thirty-five. Financial independence will allow her to break the cycle of unhappiness endured by the women in her family. Determined to fulfill her dream, Abbey works at Granny Po's struggling beauty shop, where the feisty Gray Widows...
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...
How to Write Your Life Story
AuthorRalph Fletcher
ISBN0060507691
Publisher's Summary:

Lies About Writing Your Life Story

You have to be a famous celebrity.
You must have an amazing life.
You can't write your life story until you're old and gray.
Nobody will read it, so what's the point?
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I...
The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0618594442
The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, always...

Los Angeles, California.
Neddie Wentworthstein is the guy with the turtle.
Sandor...
Wolven
AuthorDi Toft
ISBN0545171091
The exciting adventures of a boy and his pet...werewolf! When his big, hairy hound turns into a boy, Nat discovers he's caught up in a weird government conspiracy to train wolven as weapons!

With his big snaggly teeth, patchy black fur, and glowing golden eyes, Woody is far from the cutest of...
Beware Of Dog
AuthorBob Balaban
ISBN0439401372
Meet Thomas and his new best friend McGrowl--a courageous canine who's bionic to the bone!

When Thomas's loveable dog McGrowl is hit by a car, Thomas is heartbroken. But just when he thinks McGrowl will be lost to him forever, the mysterious vet Dr. Minderbender steps in to save the day. After...
Unicorns of Balinor
AuthorMary Stanton
1/10/19end

I have been reading this series out of order for a few years now. If I find the book at the library I get it. I love horses and the art work on this series is just great. =0)

I found this book at my local Russian pharmacy. They had created a small lending library in the store anyone...
Vancouver Nightmare
AuthorEric Wilson
ISBN1551431491
Title: Vancouver Nightmare
Author: Eric Wilson
Series: The Tom and Liz Austen Mysteries, #2
Format: hardcover
Length: 100 pages
Rating: 3 stars

Synopsis: A chance meeting with a drug dealer takes Tom Austen into the grim streets of Vancouver's Skid Road, where he poses...
The Ghosts of Now
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440931150
It's Friday night and Angie Dupree is alone in the house when the phone rings. "Your brother is dead," whispers a voice. At the hospital, Angie finds Jeremy in a coma from which he may never recover. Angie is on her own trying to piece together the events of that horrifying night. Her family is new to town....
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