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10 best books like Snap (Alison McGhee): Jumping the Scratch, Kissing the Bee, Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-To-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade, The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood, Defiance, Flirt Club, No Laughter Here, Dead Guy Spy, Up on Cloud Nine, Hold Me Tight
| Author | Sarah Weeks |
| ISBN | 0060541091 |
Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there's one more bad thing...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0374399387 |
Senior year is flying by, the prom is approaching, and Dana, her best friend, Avra, and Avra's boyfriend, Emil, are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of that intricate beehive called adult life. While Dana plans on college, Avra plots escape once school is over—and plans to take Emil along...
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-To-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade
| Author | Esmé Raji Codell |
| ISBN | 0786855096 |
Like every fifth grader, Esm Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esm tells us about: the night she and her mother became egg vigilantes...
| Author | Barb Bentler Ullman |
| ISBN | 0060736143 |
My 3 stars is not a criticism of the book - just a rating of how much I enjoyed it. I read this to my daughter (who is 6) and she liked some of it and didn't like some of it. It was written well (very well for a first book!). The characters and situations are believable. There is a fair amount of fun to bed. But on a...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374308470 |
Winner of the 2008 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) in the Children's Products competition. A memorable trio of characters, each fighting for independence
Eleven-year-old Toby Steiner wants to do normal things on his vacation: he wants to hike and race his bike down the hill and...
| Author | Cathleen Daly |
| ISBN | 1596435720 |
I won this book through a First Reads Giveaway. Thanks very much! =)
- My Description -
Isabelle (Cisco) & Annie (The Bean) need help. They can't seem to get boys interested in them. They don't know how to flirt, so they form The Flirt Club.
The Flirt Club is founded with the...
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0688162479 |
Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0765316358 |
Nathan Abercrombie is getting used to his rotten life as a half-dead zombie. The good thing is he doesn't feel any pain. The bad thing is his body can't heal, so he has to be really careful not to break anything. But that's hard to do when his wrestling-obsessed gym teacher, Mr. Lomux, matches him up with...
| Author | Anne Fine |
| ISBN | 0440419166 |
Ian’s best friend, Stolly, is up on cloud nine. He’s in the hospital, unconscious, and hooked up to machines. The question Ian is trying to answer is: How did Stolly end up there?
In a way, Stolly’s always been on cloud nine, living life by his own rules and making those rules up as he goes...
| Author | Lorie Ann Grover |
| ISBN | 0689852487 |
"I'm leaving."
Dad's words come as a complete shock to Essie. How can he just walk out on her and the family, especially when Mom is pregnant?Essie keeps her dad's leaving a secret. Then Essie's classmate, Chris Crow, disappears, and everyone finds out he's been kidnapped. Is Chris okay? Is Dad ever...
| Author | Mary Jane Auch |
| ISBN | 0805075313 |
"Grady, can you pick up that wing nut for me?"
"The what?"
"The wing nut I just dropped. It has two little projections on it that look like wings. It fell into that patch of grass."
Grady dropped to his knees and felt through the grass until he found it. He couldn't help smiling about the name--wing...
Gwin is a Fetcher. With her papa and twin brother, Nat, she travels West Norn, bringing joy to its downtrodden people through song and story. But ever since Mama died, it's been hard to keep the joy alive.Proud and defiant, Fetchers have always been hunted by the Devouts for preserving the old ways. So...
| Author | Maiya Williams |
| ISBN | 0810992167 |
I picked up a copy of this book a couple of years ago at my local re-use it center as the synopsis on the dust cover captured my attention. However, what really piqued my interest was an inscription to a young girl named McKinlee on her 12th birthday which was March 31, 2005 according to the date her Grandma...
Life hasn't been the same for Jake Moon since his grandfather, Skelly, got Alzheimer's disease. At first Jake thought, no big deal, it was just a disease that made old people forget where they put their car keys. But he was wrong. It is a big deal. A very big deal.For one thing, he can't invite friends over...
| Author | Kimberly Newton Fusco |
| ISBN | 0553494236 |
Lenore is Cornelia’s mother and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore...
| Author | Lynne Rae Perkins |
| ISBN | 0380733021 |
"Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At least I think we were. I don't know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,'I didn't see anything coming.'" When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds...
Extreme American Makeover
| Author | Mitali Perkins |
| ISBN | 0525478000 |
Adopted from Pakistan when she was three, Sameera "Sparrow" Righton is not your typical all-American girl. None of this used to matter, but that was before her father decided to run for president of the United States. Now some of her father's campaign staffers think that maybe a dark-skinned, adopted...
| Author | 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 | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590484966 |
A good book very akin to Flight 116 is down although at least for me is not as tragic. Characters are well drawn with a mixture of good and bad characters. A bit heavy maybe on the spoiled California attuice but, it is believeable. Does show how in a disater good and bad descions can be made. The ending doesn't...
| Author | Wendy Lichtman |
| ISBN | 0061229555 |
Wendy Lichtman’s Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra depicts an 8th grade student named Tess. Tess has always relied on her mother, math, and her two best friends, but as she enters the eighth grade, she begins to question their trust. Tess views the world through math and constantly relates everyday...
| Author | Tracy Barrett |
| ISBN | 0805070524 |
The new girl in town meets a mysterious old-fashioned girl who can't seem to find her way home.
The girl didn't say anything. Her face held no expression.
Ariadne shivered. It was cool in the shade, and her hair was still wet.
"Hello," Ariadne said. No answer. "Um--I was just taking a...
| Author | Vanessa Curtis |
| ISBN | 1405240547 |
My name is Zelah Green – and I’m still here.
Summer’s supposed to be good, right? But I’m stuck at home with a lousy laptop, stacks of homework to start and dad being more useless than ever. And then Caro turns up out of the blue, all heavy metal and piercings and attitude and my boring summer’s...
In the tradition of Crenshaw and The Thing About Jellyfish, ten-year-old Hannah copes with the bullies at school and troubles at home through the power of stories in this sweet and sincere debut.
Tenacious. That means strong-willed. My mother calls me that.
I wish I felt the same way.
If...
"MY GOD, YOU'RE THE SISTER OF THAT BOY."
Shiv's best friend, her brother, Declan, is dead. It's been all over the news. Consumed by grief and guilt, she agrees to become an inpatient at the Korsakoff Clinic. There she meets Mikey. Caron. The others. They share a similar torment. And there, subjected...
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| ISBN | 0316010286 |
Leah Baer has been shuffled to and from various parents and households for years, and now shes back at her fathers house with his new wife. This latest move seems as though it might be a lasting one, but Leah feels out of place both at home and at school. Then an unconventional boy named Will befriends Leah...
