One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street

10 best books like One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street (Joanne Rocklin): Winterhouse, The Unfinished Angel, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, The Toilet Paper Tigers, Taming the Star Runner, May B., Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization, Attaboy, Sam!

Winterhouse
AuthorBen Guterson
An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel full of secrets.

Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly...
The Unfinished Angel
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0061430951
'Peoples are strange!
The things they are doing and saying - sometimes they make no sense. Did their brains fall out of their heads?'

Angel, not fond of people at the best of times and having an identity crisis, is about to meet Zola - a talkative young girl who makes herself at home in Angel's...
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0547231849
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0590462318
Forget about winning, they're just trying to score!

Corey Johnson never dreamed Little League could be so humiliating. But that was before he joined the Feather Soft Tigers.

It's bad enough that the team uniforms have pictures of toilet paper on them-thanks to their sponsor. But...
AuthorS.E. Hinton
ISBN0440204798
Travis is the epitome of cool, even when he's in trouble. But when he's sent to stay with his uncle on a ranch in the country, he finds that his schoolmates don't like his tough city ways. He does find friendship of a sort with Casey, who runs a riding school at the ranch. She's the bravest person Travis has...
May B.
AuthorCaroline Starr Rose
I’ve known it since last night:
It’s been too long to expect them to return.
Something’s happened.

May is helping out on a neighbor’s Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it’s hard to be separated from her family by 15 long,...
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0375867554

In this hilarious chapter book mystery, meet a girl whose parents have been kidnapped by disreputable foxes, and a pair of detectives that also happen to be bunnies! When Madeline gets home from school one afternoon to discover that her parents have gone missing, she sets off to find them. So begins...
AuthorChris Crutcher
ISBN0060507837

This short story collection serves as my introduction to Chris Crutcher as an author.

These stories are easy to read despite dealing with social situations and moral dilemmas: self-esteem, reaction to death and dying, prejudice and discrimination, or family relationships.

I...
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...
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0440408164
Lois Lowry is an incredibly talented children’s author, but I’m not much of a fan of this entry. Yes, Sam is just as endearing, and I enjoy how Lowry shows his growth into the preschool-age era. The story is enjoyable and well written, but it doesn’t seem to have quite the same flair as the original...
AuthorSusan Patron
ISBN1416939989
"Eleven is much more intrepid than only ten."

On the eve of her eleventh birthday, Lucky wants to let loose and become intrepid; she's ready for life to change. But Hard Pan (population 43) drones on like it always has: Lincoln all tied up in knotty matters, Miles newly diagnosed as a genius but...
AuthorLynne Reid Banks
ISBN0380706490
You may think Houdini is a strange name for a hamster, but if you've ever heard of the late Great Houdini, the most amazing escape-artist of all time, you'll understand how I got my name. I'm proud to say that there hasn't been a cage built that can hold me. I can climb, dive, wriggle, squeeze, or gnaw my way...
AuthorLesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN0823439607
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes.

When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great...
The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN1773061186
This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building...
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
AuthorLouis Sachar
ISBN0747555249
'Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?' 'Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.' Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High School Talent Show is announced, and he starts practising...
The Kid in the Red Jacket
AuthorBarbara Park
ISBN0394805712
If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny!
 
Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends?
Howard Jeeter’s parents have...
Tex
AuthorS.E. Hinton
Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny Collins's blue-eyed sister, Jamie. He thinks life with his seventeen-year-old brother, Mason, in their ramshackle house would be just about perfect if only Mace would stop...
The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery
AuthorP.G. Bell
A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.

The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to...
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