Oggie Cooder
10 best books like Oggie Cooder (Sarah Weeks): Lily's Crossing, Our Only May Amelia, The Great Fire, Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac, Getting Near to Baby, Belle Prater's Boy, Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, Piper Reed: Navy Brat
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440414539 |
Author Patricia Reilly Giff's Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing is now available for the first time in paperback!
Every summer Lily and her father go to her family's house in Rockaway, near the Atlantic Ocean. But the summer of 1944 is different. World War II has called Lily's father overseas,...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0064408566 |
It isn′t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it′s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can′t seem to abide her family′s insistence that she behave like a Proper...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0439203074 |
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.
By weaving personal accounts of actual...
Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375857052 |
Alvin Ho does not think the great outdoors is great. It is super-duper scary. Here are a few reasons why:
1. Flash floods
2. Meteorites
3. Lots of creepy trees
4. Pit toilets!
Luckily, when his dad suggests--gulp!--a camping trip, Alvin is prepared. He has:
1....
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0439692393 |
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.
The book touches on what is most important in life...
Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest...
| Author | Audrey Couloumbis |
| ISBN | 0698118928 |
A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Audrey Couloumbis's masterful debut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, and Betsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans—it is a story you will never forget.
Willa Jo and Little Sister...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0440413729 |
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept...
| Author | Peggy Gifford |
| ISBN | 0375839151 |
This first novel for kids was a little disappointing; I was eager to read it because my mate's dad's name is Stuart Little and I thought it might be a good gift.
Basically, Moxy is a little girl with moxie who keeps putting off her summer reading assignment and does quirky things. I think the author...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805081976 |
It's not easy being the middle child, especially when your dad is a Navy Chief. Meet Piper Reed, a spunky nine-year-old who has moved more times than she can count on one hand. From Texas to Guam, wherever Piper goes, adventure follows, inspired by her active imagination, free-wheeling spirit, and a...
Meet Robert Carver Ellis-Chan -- a perfectly normal fourth-grader who gets into perfectly crazy situations! Like when he was running for class president and discovered his big sister's panties static-clinging to the back of his sweater. Or when he got stuck to the rare sticky (and stinky) Koloff tree...
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
| Author | Ruth McNally Barshaw |
| ISBN | 1599902389 |
I liked this one even better than the first book. I almost think the two books should have been reversed- we needed to get to know Ellie in a familiar-to-everyone setting (I think everyone has been new somewhere at sometime) before we saw her in a new-to-her setting (being away from your immediate family...
| Author | Jody Feldman |
| ISBN | 0061214507 |
Gil Goodson's future happiness depends on winning the Golly Toy & Game Company's ultimate competition. If Gil wins, his dad has promised that the family can move away from all the gossip, false friends, and bad press that have plagued them ever since "The Incident". Inside the toy company's fantastic...
