Rabble Starkey

Author	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN	0440411521

I picked this book up at the Goodwill, not really knowing what it was about other than running, which I have an interest in. Surprisingly, it was about the Dust Bowl era, my current topic of particular interest! Therefore, I may have liked it more than I would have otherwise. But all in all, it was a very good...

Author	Paula Danziger
ISBN	0698116941

This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...

Author	Janet Lunn
ISBN	0140324364

Shadow in Hawthorn Bay introduces fifteen-year-old Mary Urquhart, a Scottish girl with a special gift – the gift of “second sight”. One morning, in the spring of 1815, Mary hears her beloved cousin Duncan calling desperately for her help. But Duncan is 3,000 miles away in Upper Canada, and to...

Author	Monica Hughes
ISBN	0862031648

Read this as a kid. I think it was my first bit of post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I'd been looking for it for years on Google, but kept misremembering the title. I was starting to think I'd hallucinated the whole thing.

Anyway, it was a great book for young adult fiction. It got me to think about a lot of...

Author	James Marshall
ISBN	0062051717

While I was and remain in absolute love with Maurice Sendak's brilliant illustrations (they are lively, fun, imaginative, and the delicious puns and word plays using porcine terms/descriptions from a number of different languages leave me smiling gleefully and with much appreciation), James Marshall's...

Author	Edward Packard
ISBN	0553128191

I found it really disturbing when I made a choice that resulted in my death the first time through. I mean, even at age 11 I knew that in real life you can sometimes make a choice that results in your own death, but it had never happened to me before, and I preferred not to think about it.

It kind of haunted...

Author	Marjorie Filley Stover
ISBN	0590404199

Following on from Midnight in the dollhouse this story skips forward in time about 100 years to a time when the doll's house is passed on to a descendant of the original owner. A mystery is solved again and treasure is found.

A 3.5 star book, my daughter said that this was an okay book, but I think...

Author	Walter Dean Myers
ISBN	0064473120

Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is...

Author	R.A. Montgomery
ISBN	1933390042

THE LEGENDARY JEWELS OF NABOOTI ARE MISSING! WILL FINDING THEM HELP WORLD PEACE? OR COULD IT KILL YOU? Two huge diamonds and two priceless rubies have been stolen from a museum in Paris. People in your own family have died trying to protect these jewels. Now, you must help your cousins Peter and Lucy do...

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Zibby Oneal

Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...

Author	Betsy Byars
ISBN	0140324798

"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	0440842859

I remember the Pippi books as better than this. And I don't think it's a matter of bad translation, either. This volume is written as if it were meant to be told aloud. Then the repetitions, which jar in the print version, would be less glaring.

Pippi is not exactly irresponsible. She's just very...

Author	Lewis Carroll
ISBN	1425047750

Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in...

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	1416939385

In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange...

Author	Katherine Paterson
ISBN	0140373977

Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson

The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing bring the songs to life, and make the audiences beg...

Author	Glen Rounds
ISBN	0590323008

Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The...

Author	E.L. Konigsburg
ISBN	0689823320

Long before there was Dolly the sheep, Jeanmarie Troxell dubbed the look-alike, think-alike girls in her school "clones" and decided she wanted nothing to do with them. That's how Jeanmarie forms an unlikely friendship with another outsider, Malcolm Soo, over an equally unlikely activity -- burying...

Author	Nancy McArthur
ISBN	0380754932

Yummie, Yummie...Dirty Socks!

Michael's room was always a disaster area, strewn with all kinds of litter -- heaps of papers, piles of crumpled clothes, and dirty socks everywhere. And that was just the top layer! The trouble was, half the room belonged to Michael's brother Norman the neatness...

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Michelle D. Kwasney

After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as “Itch,” moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn...

Author	Peyo
ISBN	0394851404

Where no schtroumpf has gone before...
Das ist eine witzige Erfahrung - als Kind hatte ich Dutzende der Gummifiguren der Schlümpfe, inklusive Zubehör. Die Geschichten um die Schlümpfe kannte ich aber nicht, und nun hole ich das nach. Und finde in diesen Büchern dadurch viele Kindheitserinnerungen...

Author	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0590060007

this is my first time reading this book!
in this FINAL MAIN SERIES SUPER SPECIAL (I’m so close to the end of these books! aaaahhh!) by ghostwriter Peter Lerangis, some of the babysitters go on the sms-hosted trip to london and paris, while the others stay in stoneybrook to work at the playground...

Author	Bill Wallace
ISBN	0689853416

A CURSED TREASURE!
Everybody thinks Gary's grampa died in a fishing accident. But from a note Grampa left, Gary suspects he was murdered. The note tells of a million dollars in gold hidden in a cave and an old Indian curse promising that anyone who touches it will die! Gary and his friend Brian are sure...

Author	Sandra Boynton
ISBN	0689817746

A book of short stories that are all about bed time and pre-bed time activities.
This is a cute book with tabbed stories that make it fun for kids to chose which story or stories they might want read that night. Each story is very short. Boynton always charms with her illustrations and humorous text.
This...