Riding the Flume

10 best books like Riding the Flume (Patricia Curtis Pfitsch): How to Train Your Dragon, Gender Queer, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy, The People of Sparks, Lumber Camp Library, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, Fence, Vol. 3, The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 2, NewsPrints

How to Train Your Dragon

Author	Cressida Cowell
ISBN	0316737372

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer"...but it wasn't always so. Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Can Hiccup capture a dragon...

Gender Queer

Author	Maia Kobabe
ISBN	1549304003

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Author	Cara Robertson
ISBN	1501168371

When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...

Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

Author	Amerie
ISBN	1681193647

Leave it to the heroes to save the world--villains just want to rule the world.

In this unique YA anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors team up with thirteen influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view.

These...

The People of Sparks

Author	Jeanne DuPrau
ISBN	0375828257

If I could give this book 6 stars, I would. I enjoyed City of Ember as a fun, quick YA read, but this sequel is just as entertaining, while also being profoundly thought-provoking and insightful.

I loved that the main characters - Lina and Doon - are honest and warm, with realistic struggles: Doon...

Lumber Camp Library

Author	Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
ISBN	0064442926

To Ruby, her log-riding lumberjack pa is the most wonderful person in the world. There's nothing she'd rather do than follow in his footprints, but a lumber camp is no place for an eight-year-old girl.

So Ruby goes to school. There she discovers another passion -- the world that opens up to her...

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

Author	George Saunders
ISBN	1932416374

From the bestselling author of Tenth of December comes a splendid new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with the illustrator behind The Stinky Cheese Man and James and the Giant Peach! Featuring fifty-two haunting and hilarious images, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a modern fable for...

Fence, Vol. 3

Author	C.S. Pacat
ISBN	1684153344

Combines Issues #9-12.

Scrappy fencer Nicholas Cox comes to the end of his path to prove himself worthy of a father he never knew in the face of surly upperclassmen, nearly impossible odds, and the talent of his rival, sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama.

Sparks fly white-hot on...

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 2

Author	Nagabe
ISBN	1626925232

Untouchable

To be touched by an Outsider is to become an Outsider. A clawed, black hand reaches out to touch Shiva's cheek in her sleep. The hand does not belong to Teacher. Who is this strange new Outsider, and what do its creepy murmurings about "mother" portend?

Enter a fantasy realm...

NewsPrints

Author

Ru Xu

Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls are expected to help the struggling economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves living and working at the Bugle, the only paper in town that tells the truth. And what's printed in the newspapers now matters more than ever.

But...