Someday Angeline
10 best books like Someday Angeline (Louis Sachar): The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The Against Taffy Sinclair Club, Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies, With You and Without You, The Hot and Cold Summer, There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The Exiles at Home, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates, Back to School with Betsy
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0689828896 |
Henrietta is no Turkey. When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own. Thus begins the hilarious chain of events that has kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto...
| Author | Betsy Haynes |
| ISBN | 0553154133 |
Betsy Haynes treads on the heels of Judy Blume and Paula Danziger for this one. Jana Morgan a neurotic , over dramatic preteen leads a club against a snooty, beautiful classmate Taffy ( which we’re never quite sure is ever justified. ) When Taffy develops you-know-whats that’s the last straw. The...
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0064403904 |
When a gorgeous seventh-grade boy moves across the street, Vicki is ecstatic-until she remembers her latest school assignment. For one week, Vicki and the rest of her sixth-grade class have to pretend they're parents and carry around five-pound bags of sugar dressed in baby clothes. And if he sees...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590436252 |
Ah, another book that I remember always used to make me cry! Even though Liza isn't the oldest, as the oldest daughter she's still in some ways the most responsible, so I really identified with her. The way this book was structured was very nice. We get a good part of the book while Liza's father is still alive,...
| Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0590428586 |
Rory and Derek are best friends forever....
At least that's what they think -- until they meet Bolivia. She's visiting next door all summer and everyone wants the three of them to be buddies. But since she's a girl, Rory and Derek decide to ignore her completely. Except it's not so easy to ignore...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0671746847 |
Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight.
Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team,...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes. Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic...
| Author | Seán Cullen |
| ISBN | 0670065021 |
Meet Hamish X!
Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere.
The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency—Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanage, where the children are forced to earn their...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051015 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Third grade begins with...
| Author | Maxwell Eaton III |
| ISBN | 0375864482 |
The Flying Beaver Brothers are back, and this time they're hot on the trail of another eco-villain: Fish Stix Environmental Manufacturing. When Fish Stix sets up shop, most of the islanders are thrilled. After all, Fish Stix are the most popular, best-selling sticks around AND they're good for the...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689305710 |
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This book had a profound book on me during my childhood. As an abusive victim, it helped me not feel alone and gave me hope that one day things would change.
As it turns out, I had a chance to meet the author when I was in grade school and I still have the version of this book she signed...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141309806 |
Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. High comedy as much as a celebration of Rizka's brains and brassiness, her flouting of conventions, and her own brand...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380723557 |
The Secret: Everybody in Jessica's English class makes fun of Daphne. She never says a word to anyone -- just walks around with her nose in a book, with her long straggly hair hanging over her face. Now the worst thing has happened. The teacher has assigned Jessica to be partners with Daphne in the Write-A-Book...
| Author | Jun Lennon |
| ISBN | 1598164449 |
Energetic teenager Shuichi Shindo is the lead singer and songwriter for the smash-hit pop band, Bad Luck. He's recently moved in with his older boyfriend, Eiri Yuki, the handsome, sophisticated, and uber-famous romance novelist. Nothing goes smoothly for Shuichi, however. Yuki is inexplicably...
| Author | Anita Heiss |
| ISBN | 1865043613 |
Part of the "My Story" series. Set in Sydney, 1937, this is the fictional diary of a young Aboriginal girl, a member of the Stolen Generation.
She is given the diary by the Sister in charge of Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home and through its pages she describes her life - from her arrival there,...
How To Write Really Badly
| Author | Anne Fine |
| ISBN | 0749720239 |
Chester Howard a survécu a pas mal d’établissements scolaires. Il a connu des uniformes qui grattent, la prière cinq fois par jour, des profs qui se prenaient pour des psychothérapeutes et même une école ou personne ne parlait sa langue.
Pourtant, il se demande comment il va survivre à...
Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0385737017 |
Fourth-grader Calvin lives near the beach in Oahu with his mom and little sister. Mom says: “You’re the man of the house.” But Calvin’s not great at being the man of the house, or taking care of his responsibilities. He’s too busy having fun with his pals, and avoiding Tito, the bully.
Trouble...
The New House at the Chalet School
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006918026 |
Joey Bettany's last term at the Chalet School proves to be an unforgettable one. First, there is the opening of the new house and a bitter quarrel with its new matron.
Then the naughty Middles play a midnight hoax that backfires. There's a wild storm and a glorious picnic party before the term...
| Author | Susan Saunders |
| ISBN | 0590406418 |
In this first book of the Sleepover Friends series, Stephanie invites a new girl in school, Patti, to the Friday-evening sleepovers she has with Lauren and Kate. During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything...
