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Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me

10 best books like Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me (Lisa Papademetriou): Starting with Alice, Beyond the Burning Time, Ice Wolves, Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, Pictures of Hollis Woods, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Ellen Tebbits, The Detention Club, Fairy School Dropout, My Last Best Friend

Starting with Alice
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0689843968
All Alice wants is a friend.
Well, a pet and pierced ears and really long hair would be nice, too -- and most of all, Alice wishes she still had a mother. But starting third grade in a new school in a new town can be lonely, especially if the closest thing you have to a friend is weird Donald Sheavers from...
Beyond the Burning Time
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0590473328
They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends...
Ice Wolves
AuthorAmie Kaufman
ISBN0062458000
Everyone in Vallen knows that ice wolves and scorch dragons are sworn enemies who live deeply separate lives.

So when twelve-year-old orphan Anders takes one elemental form and his twin sister, Rayna, takes another, he wonders whether they are even related. Still, whether or not they’re...
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
AuthorBarthe DeClements
ISBN0140371303
Helen Nichols has a reputation for being one of the best pitchers, and worst readers, in the sixth grade. She's also known as one of the biggest troublemakers in school. At the start of the year, she's assigned to the classroom of Mrs.Lobb--"Blob" to those who know her--a teacher with very little tolerance...
Pictures of Hollis Woods
AuthorPatricia Reilly Giff
ISBN0439692393
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.

The book touches on what is most important in life...
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
AuthorLouis Sachar
ISBN0590590898
Bradley Chalkers is the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. No one likes him-except Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren't afraid to try. But when you feel like...
Ellen Tebbits
AuthorBeverly Cleary
Ellen Tebbits has a secret that she'll never share with anyone. That is, until she meets Austine—and discovers that Austine has the same secret! Soon the girls are best friends who do everything together—attending dance class, horseback riding, and dodging pesky Otis Spofford. But then Ellen...
The Detention Club
AuthorDavid Yoo
ISBN0061783781
Peter and his best friend Drew were popular in elementary school. A day into middle school, the two realize they are no longer cool. Peter and Drew don't know how their status changed over the summer. Peter comes up with several plans to make them popular again.

All the schemes fail, until Peter...
Fairy School Dropout
AuthorMeredith Badger
ISBN0312378874
Step away from the wand...

We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.

In fact, she hates being a fairy.

She hates her itchy tutu school uniform...
My Last Best Friend
AuthorJulie Bowe
ISBN0152057773
As Ida May begins fourth grade, she is determined never to make another best friend--because her last best friend moved away. This is a doable plan at first. Thanks to bratty, bossy Jenna Drews who hates Ida, no one in class has ever really noticed her before.  
    
It's when the sparkly...
Jean and Johnny
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0060533013
First Date Fifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her ‘round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's...
Life, Starring Me!
AuthorRobin Wasserman
ISBN0545100658
Candy Apple books . . . just for you. Sweet. Fresh. Fun. Take a bite!

Ruby Day is a star. Or at least she was, until she got too old for her role on the international tour of Bye Bye Birdie. She knows all there is to know about Parisian room service, signing autographs for fans, and navigating strange...
On a Clear Day
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0385387539
Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster.
 
It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power...
The Last Book in the Universe
AuthorRodman Philbrick
ISBN0439087597
This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.
It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the...
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