My One Hundred Adventures
10 best books like My One Hundred Adventures (Polly Horvath): Dear Hank Williams, Song for a Whale, Louisiana's Way Home, Burning Bright, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Full of Beans, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt, The Warden's Daughter, Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game, Sweeping Up the Heart
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805080228 |
It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment--learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle...
In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him.
From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763694630 |
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...
| Author | Ron Rash |
| ISBN | 0061804118 |
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel García Márquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and...
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
| Author | Linda Urban |
| ISBN | 0152060073 |
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...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0553510398 |
Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
| Author | Arthur C. Brooks |
| ISBN | 0062883771 |
Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 1524721115 |
From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison.
Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daughter....
Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game
| Author | Chris Grabenstein |
| ISBN | 0525646442 |
Mr. Lemoncello is going LIVE ACROSS THE NATION in his brand new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's
New York Times
bestselling MR. LEMONCELLO series!
Greetings...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0062852574 |
A novel about loss, loneliness, and friendship that tells the story of the spring break that changes seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life forever.
Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English...
From the beginning, the fight was coming. Vega Jane fought her way out of the village where she was born, crossed a wilderness filled with vicious creatures, and raised a ragtag army behind her. But each triumph earned through grit and pain only brought her closer to him.
Necro. A sorcerer whose...
