So Totally Emily Ebers
10 best books like So Totally Emily Ebers (Lisa Yee): Collected Poems, 1909-1962, So You Want to Be a Wizard, Dragon Rider, The Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang, Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes, Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, Unstoppable Octobia May, Kimchi & Calamari, The Raft, Joshua Dread
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151189781 |
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that T.S. Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of...
So You Want to Be a Wizard
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 0152047387 |
Nita Callahan is at the end of her rope because of the bullies who've been hounding her at school... until she discovers a mysterious library book that promises her the chance to become a wizard. But she has no idea of the difference that taking the Wizard's Oath is going to make in her life. Shortly, in company...
Classic Coming of Age Story
--Minus the love triangles, savior complexes, and completely stupid decisions that plague many of the YA fiction I've read
The Dragons of this world are scattered. The packs have long been broken up and devoured by the Golden One. Firedrake the Dragon remembers...
The Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
| Author | Amy Ignatow |
| ISBN | 1419701827 |
It’s summertime, and Julie and Lydia are going on a road trip! After all the ups and downs of their first year in junior high, they’re looking forward to seeing the sights and getting some new perspective on their quest for popularity. Papa Dad and Daddy will provide the transportation, and they’ll...
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375863354 |
What's so scary about a birthday party? Alvin Ho can tell you, if he's not too frightened to speak.
1. You might be dressed for bowling...but everyone else is dressed for swimming.
2. You could get mistaken for the piñata...or worse, the donkey, and get a tail pinned on you!
3....
Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375857052 |
Alvin Ho does not think the great outdoors is great. It is super-duper scary. Here are a few reasons why:
1. Flash floods
2. Meteorites
3. Lots of creepy trees
4. Pit toilets!
Luckily, when his dad suggests--gulp!--a camping trip, Alvin is prepared. He has:
1....
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0545609607 |
Octobia May is girl filled with questions. Her heart condition makes her special - and, some folks would argue, gives this ten-year-old powers that make her a "wise soul." Thank goodness for Auntie, who convinces Octobia's parents to let her live in her boarding house that is filled with old folks. That's...
| Author | Rose Kent |
| ISBN | 0060837691 |
Kimchi and calamari. It sounds like a quirky food fusion of Korean and Italian cuisine, and it's exactly how Joseph Calderaro feels about himself. Why wouldn't an adopted Korean drummer-comic book junkie feel like a combo platter given:
(1) his face in the mirror
(2) his proud Italian family....
| Author | S.A. Bodeen |
| ISBN | 0312650108 |
Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot,...
| Author | Lee Bacon |
| ISBN | 0375990275 |
For Joshua Dread, middle school is proving to be, well, awkward. Not only do bullies pick on him, but do you see those supervillains over there trying to flood the world? The ones that everyone, including his best friend Milton, are rooting for Captain Justice to take down? They're the Dread Duo, and they...
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0786814055 |
The book BEGGING FOR CHANGE, by Sharon G. Flake is about a fourteen year old girl named Raspberry. Raspberry is a girl who was living a normal life with her mom and dad, until the day that her parents separated. When her mom and dad separated from each other, Raspberry stayed living with her mother, while...
| Author | Lee Bacon |
| ISBN | 0375990283 |
The second book in the JOSHUA DREAD series by Lee Bacon! From the moment Joshua Dread receives an invitation to Gyfted & Talented, the mysterious program for kids with superpowers, his plans for a normal summer turn upside down. Evil maniac Phineas Vex is still alive—and he wants Joshua dead....
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0786815035 |
I started Money Hungry this morning because I read Begging For Change a few weeks/months ago. I wasn't aware at the time that BFC was the sequel to MH. This is an extremely fast book to read. It took me about an hour. I would hand this to a kid that is reluctant to read in a second.
I think Flake does a great...
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0545057183 |
Autumn and Adonis have nothing in common and everything in common. Autumn is outgoing and has lots of friends. Adonis is shy and not so eager to connect with people. But even with their differences, the two have one thing in common--they're each dealing with a handicap. For Autumn, who has a learning disability,...
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 0757303323 |
Cats first purred their way into human hearts thousands of years ago, and have been our treasured companions and soul mates ever since. Whether impish kittens, regal adult cats or serene seniors, it's impossible for us to remain indifferent to them--especially at 4 A.M. when the food bowl runs dry!...
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0786818441 |
Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go through in a lifetime. His family is still reeling from the tragic shooting death of his little brother, Jason, each person coping with grief in his or her own way. Mann's mother has stopped eating and is obsessed with preserving...
| Author | Phoebe Stone |
| ISBN | 0439802458 |
6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Too bad she's a tomboy with only one on-again, off-again friend, and hair so short you can't spit on it. Too bad he's the most popular boy in their small-town school.
But then Conrad hurts his leg and suddenly...
The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 1423100328 |
I am a queen. I live in a castle, right across the street from the John Howard Housing Projects. Every day right after school I run to my bedroom window and open it wide--even in the middle of winter when the wind blows wet snow up my nose. I watch for my knight in shining armor. He's ten years old, like me, and...
| Author | Michael P. Spradlin |
| ISBN | 0399247637 |
1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan has joined the Knights Templar as a squire, journeying with Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to free the Holy Land from the Saracens. As defeat looms near, Tristan is entrusted with the most sacred of Christian relics, the Holy Grail. He must return it safely to Britain,...
