Plunked
10 best books like Plunked (Michael Northrop): The Running Dream, The Trumpet of the Swan, A Diamond in the Desert, Never Say Die, Lulu Walks the Dogs, Strike Three, You're Dead, Lulu's Mysterious Mission, Greek Myths For Young Children, George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans, Detectives in Togas
The Running Dream
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 0375866671 |
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with...
The Trumpet of the Swan
| Author | E.B. White |
| ISBN | 0064408671 |
Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.
Louis tries...
| Author | Kathryn Fitzmaurice |
| ISBN | 0670012920 |
On December 6, 1941, Tetsu is a twelve-year-old California boy who loves baseball. On December 7, 1941, everything changes. The bombing of Pearl Harbor means Tetsu's Japanese-American family will be relocated to an internment camp.
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| Author | Will Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0061708798 |
At home in Canada's Arctic, Nick Thrasher is an accomplished Inuit hunter at fifteen. About to bring home a caribou for his ailing grandfather, Nick loses the meat to a fearsome creature never before seen in the wild....
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 1442435798 |
Have I mentioned that I love Judith Viorst's books? I've read several of her children's books with our girls and I've read all of her books about the decades of a woman's life. She is such...
| Author | Josh Berk |
| ISBN | 0375970088 |
Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's "the worst there ever was.") But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 1442497467 |
Eeny meeny miney mo,
That babysitter’s got to go.
Lulu has put her tantrum-throwing days behind her. That is, until...
| Author | Heather Amery |
| ISBN | 0746037252 |
4 stars
One of very many children’s books on Greek mythology, I picked this one up mainly because it’s Usborne (I grew up on Usborne books and I have a certain amount of loyalty to them despite the fact that they keep putting out gendered shit like this) and because the pictures inside...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581454 |
Detectives in Togas
| Author | Henry Winterfeld |
| ISBN | 0152162801 |
Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the...