Reel Life Starring Us
10 best books like Reel Life Starring Us (Lisa Greenwald): Reasons to Be Happy, Girls Acting Catty, Always Neverland, Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick: Ginny Davis's Year In Stuff, Promise the Night, Signal, 12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn, Planet Middle School, Notes from an Accidental Band Geek, The Last Musketeer
| Author | Katrina Kittle |
| ISBN | 1402260202 |
REASONS TO BE HAPPY
21. Cat purr vibrating through your skin
22. Jumping on a trampoline in the rain
23. Raw cookie dough
24. Getting yourself all freaked out after a scary movie
25. Dancing like an idiot when no one is watching
What happened to the girl who wrote those...
| Author | Leslie Margolis |
| ISBN | 1599902370 |
What's harder to deal with than a group of boys who act like dogs? How about a clique of catty mean girls? Annabelle has just figured out how to survive in junior high school. She's made great friends, her teachers are nice, and she's got lots of tricks up her sleeve for taming those pesky boys. But now she...
| Author | Zoe Barton |
| ISBN | 0061963259 |
School has only been out for one whole day, and Ashley can already tell her vacation is going to bore her to tears. With her friends out of town and her parents working nonstop, she finds herself alone and with nothing to do--until one night she wakes up and discovers Peter Pan in her bedroom, wrestling with...
Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick: Ginny Davis's Year In Stuff
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375968512 |
Part graphic novel, part scrapbook and altogether original—New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Holm's Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick is just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries and Babymouse!
Ginny has big plans for eighth grade. She's going to try out for cheerleading,...
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374399158 |
One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--"alien "meaning "from someplace else"--and...
12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn
It’s Wes Anderson meets Holden Caufield in this wry and funny novel about a boy who is sent to live with his uncle when his father (a bestselling self-help author) dies.
James “Hercules” Martino has until the end of the summer (a.k.a. two weeks) to accomplish the twelve tasks given to him...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1599902842 |
For twelve years, Joylin Johnson's life has been just fine, thank you very much. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then suddenly the world seemed to turn upside down, and...
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803735642 |
From the author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies comes a middle grade novel hailed by Linda Urban as “A perfect blend of laugh out loud funny and real-world heart.”
Elsie Wyatt wants to be an orchestra superstar, like her dad and grandfather. The first step? Get into a super-selective...
| Author | Stuart Gibbs |
| ISBN | 0062048384 |
The first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Spy School author Stuart Gibbs!
Before they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all!
On a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're not just missing...
| Author | Jeannie Mobley |
| ISBN | 1442433434 |
In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.
Katerina has a dream. It's her papa's dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm...
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0525422951 |
Picking up where Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Harry Fogg, the son of Phileas Fogg, has just made a wager of his own. Harry bets that he can drive a steam-powered motorcar all the way around the world in only 100 days. Racing off with three companions, Harry undertakes a grueling journey that...
| Author | Dawn Lairamore |
| ISBN | 0823423921 |
Having saved her kingdom from the dastardly designs of a scheming prince in Ivy's Ever After, fourteen-year-old Princess Ivy and her dragon friend, Elridge, have little time to rest on their laurels, for Ardendale is once again being threatened. It seems that many years ago a magical harp and a hen that...
| Author | Elise Allen |
| ISBN | 0547481535 |
Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi. Now, junior year could change everything. Cara’s moving to a new school, and her best friend urges her to seize the moment—with...
Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens
| Author | Julie Mata |
| ISBN | 1423194594 |
Night of the Zombie Chickens is supposed to be Kate Walden's breakout film. But her supporting actresses-her mother's prize organic hens-are high maintenance, to say the least. Thank goodness Kate's best friend Alyssa is the star. She's great at screaming and even better at killing zombies in creative...
| Author | Caroline Bock |
| ISBN | 0312668325 |
Everybody knows, nobody's talking. . . .
Seventeen-year-old Skylar Thompson is being questioned by the police. Her boyfriend, Jimmy, stands accused of brutally assaulting two young El Salvadoran immigrants from a neighboring town, and she's the prime witness. Skylar is keeping quiet...
| Author | Adrian McKinty |
| ISBN | 0810984202 |
Danny Lopez is new in town. He made a mistake back home in Las Vegas, and now he has landed at an experimental school in Colorado for “tough cases.” At the Cobalt Charter School, everything is scripted—what the teachers say, what the students reply—and no other speaking is allowed. This supercontrolled...
| Author | Daniel Nayeri |
| ISBN | 0763655260 |
Written entirely on an iPhone, this quartet of YA novellas by Another Pan and Another Faust author Daniel Nayeri showcases four different genres.
This bold collection of novellas by Another series author Daniel Nayeri features four riveting tales. These modern riffs on classic genres will...
The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills
| Author | Joanna Pearson |
| ISBN | 0545197732 |
The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant.
Janice loves anthropology--the study of human cultures--and her observations help her identify useful rules...
Luke King knows a lot of things. Like four different ways to disarm an enemy before the attacker can take a breath. Like every detail of every book he’s ever read. And Luke knows enough—just enough—about what his father does as a black ops infiltrator to know which questions not to ask. Like why does...
Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face
| Author | Paul Acampora |
| ISBN | 1596435488 |
Zachary's mom just up and disappeared from their home in Copper Lake, Colorado. The good news is that Zachary and his dad are trying to move on, and Falls, Connecticut is just the place for a fresh start. With the help of a new friend, Rachel, and her brother Teddy, Zachary is learning about new beginnings,...
| Author | Teresa Flavin |
| ISBN | 0763656941 |
I almost put this book down two sentences in, when we were told that the main character's name is Sunni Forrest [really?], but for reasons unknown, I kept reading.
I only kept reading for another 100 pages, and then happily abandoned it. There is an entire trainload of poorly-executed exposition;...
| Author | Frederic S. Durbin |
| ISBN | 0547370253 |
This beautifully written fantasy tackles the issues of slavery and freedom.
Twelve-year-old Cymbril is a slave on Thunder Rake, a gigantic wagon city that rolls from town to town carrying goods to be sold by its resident merchants. The Rake’s master purchases a new slave, a mysterious boy named...
| Author | Callie Kingston |
| ISBN | 0615599877 |
Reality is slipping away as Marissa sinks deeper into an abyss. Only truth and love can bring her back from the edge. While she slept on a desolate beach on the wild Oregon coast, a rogue wave pulled her out to sea. Now Marissa dreams each night of a merman who rescued her. Obsessed, she risks her life once...
| Author | Lisa Schroeder |
| ISBN | 1442473967 |
Has Lily bitten off more than she can bake? A sweet treat from the author of It’s Raining Cupcakes and Sprinkles and Secrets.
On a scale of one to ten, twelve-year-old Lily Hubbard is a zero when it comes to baking. Her cookies turn out salty, her cakes tend to lean, and things are always overcooked.
When...
