Poison Ivy
9 best books like Poison Ivy (Amy Goldman Koss): New Kid, Mighty Jack, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, Ogre Enchanted, The Cardboard Kingdom, All's Faire in Middle School, Positively Izzy, Stepsister, Rebound
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.
As he...
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day...
Author | Ben Hatke |
ISBN | 1626722668 |
Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone — carried into another realm by an ogre.
When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy’s captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power...
Author | Gail Carson Levine |
ISBN | 0062561219 |
In this prequel to Ella Enchanted, which can stand on its own, young healer Evie is transformed into an ogre by the meddling fairy Lucinda. She’ll turn back only if someone proposes and she accepts!
Returning to the land and many of the characters from her beloved Newbery Honor–winning...
Author | Chad Sell |
ISBN | 1524719374 |
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.
In...
Author | Victoria Jamieson |
ISBN | 0525429980 |
The author of Roller Girl is back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.
Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as...
Author | Terri Libenson |
ISBN | 0062484966 |
Award-winning comics creator and author of the bestselling Invisible Emmie Terri Libenson returns with a companion graphic novel that captures the drama, angst, and humor of middle-school life. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Holm, and Victoria Jamieson.
Middle school...
Author | Jennifer Donnelly |
ISBN | 1338268465 |
Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with...
Author | Eric Walters |
ISBN | 0613502337 |
It's like I said, it isn't what you do with the shots you make,but the ones that don't go in. The rebounds.Sean vows that this year will be different: he_ll stay out of trouble and make the basketball team, even if it means ditching his old friends.David also needs to make a new start. A serious accident has...