Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue
10 best books like Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue (Jon Agee): Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, The Unteachables, The Odds of Getting Even, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Page by Paige, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems, A Dazzling Display of Dogs, A Week without Tuesday, On the Wings of Heroes, Curse of the Harvester
| Author | Barbara Cohen |
| ISBN | 0688135633 |
In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot—Buran will not—sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There,...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0062563912 |
What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?
The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...
| Author | Sheila Turnage |
| ISBN | 0803739613 |
Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times Lucky.
The trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, NC. Mo and Dale, aka Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy--confessed kidnapper...
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0786801786 |
You ever hear of the jazz playin' man, the man with the cats who could swing with his band?
His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music...
| Author | Laura Lee Gulledge |
| ISBN | 0810997223 |
Everyone sees a quiet redhead who draws things. But when I close my eyes, I'm laughing and screaming and scheming and daydreaming.
New city. New friends. New Paige?
When Paige's parents move her family from Virginia to New York City, Paige doesn't know where she fits in anymore. At first,...
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
| Author | Marilyn Singer |
| ISBN | 0525479015 |
What’s brewing when two favorites—poetry and fairy tales—are turned (literally) on their heads? It’s a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read...
A Dazzling Display of Dogs
| Author | Betsy Franco |
| ISBN | 1582463433 |
This book was a very interesting read! It was a poetry book entirely themed on dogs. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the author/illustrator wove the words from the poems into some of the illustrations. Each page has a new poem to a different dog or dog breed. The words wrap in all sorts of different...
| Author | Angelica Banks |
| ISBN | 1627791558 |
Something is broken in the land of story. Real and imaginary worlds are colliding — putting everything and everyone in grave peril. Tuesday and Baxterr, at the request of the Librarian, and with the help of Vivienne Small, venture to find the Gardener — the one person who can stop this catastrophe....
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803730810 |
Davy Bowmans brother and their dad hung the moon. Dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davys brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has invaded Davys homefront boyhood. Theres an air raid drill in the...
| Author | Greg Grunberg |
| ISBN | 0545826071 |
Ben and Jake are back for more! With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way he never saw coming when a new and formidable foe invades his nightmares. With Jake backing him up and a mysterious newcomer in the Dream World, Ben may...
Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1250191726 |
Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. They’ve befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. So when they meet Zita the Spacegirl, fresh from her interplanetary travels and seeking their help to face a new threat, they’re more than ready for another adventure.
But...
