Spying on Miss Muller
10 best books like Spying on Miss Muller (Eve Bunting): Remember Me to Harold Square, Remembering Mrs. Rossi, Moon Bridge, Forbidden, Anne Frank and Me, Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard, Greater Than Angels, Three Terrible Trins, Nowhere to Call Home, Twenty Pageants Later
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763621633 |
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.
Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
| Author | Marcia Savin |
| ISBN | 0590437658 |
In all honesty, I could not finish this book. I found it..unreadable as it is now. Maybe I could have felt different about this book if I had tried reading it as a child--when I knew nothing about what makes good literature and writing--but I am an avid reader and someone who has thrived off of trying to understand...
| Author | Judy Waite |
| ISBN | 0689876424 |
True Cause is the true cause. Lucky, so lucky. I love you. These are the phrases that fifteen-year-old Elinor has grown up with on the farm where she and her fellow Followers, led by the amazing Howard, live. It is a simple, material-less lifestyle, but Elinor is one of the Chosen, a special group of young...
| Author | Cherie Bennett |
| ISBN | 0698119738 |
In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in German-occupied Paris during World War II. No more Internet...
| Author | Tom Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1556527535 |
Love once inspired sonnets, plays, novels, and countless romantic songs. But romance can become obsession, and nowadays, love songs are creepier than ever. Even the Police’s stalker anthem “Every Breath You Take” is a popular choice at weddings and funerals.
In Touch Me, I’m Sick,...
In the Face of Evil In the autumn of 1940, Anna Hirsch, her friends, and her family are rounded up by the Nazis and deported from Germany into France. They are placed in Gurs, a refugee camp where conditions are inhuman. But even worse is the terror that the Jews will be relocated to one of the Nazi death camps.
Relief...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0679885528 |
Within the walls and under the floorboards of Orchard Farmhouse live three mischievous mouse brothers (a.k.a. the trins) who create constant commotion. "With his customary panache, King-Smith grabs the reader's attention from his opening sentence. And, sustaining his understated wit and rollicking...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0380733064 |
Unable to cope with the financial ruin caused by the Great Depression, Frances's father has taken his own life. Sad and bewildered, Frances cashes in the railroad ticket that would have carried her to her aunt's home, trades in her dress for trousers and a cap, and hits the rails as a hobo called Frankie...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553296728 |
Scottie-Anne's older sister is a 'professional' participant in beauty contests, and after watching so many of them, Scottie-Anne's conclusion is that brains don't count much. she wants nothing to do with what she considers the shallow, egotistical world of pageants-until her school holds one....
| Author | James Lincoln Collier |
| ISBN | 0440495040 |
Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City.
Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven...
| Author | Anne Isaacs |
| ISBN | 0590603647 |
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles...
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1930900899 |
During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war.
"So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously.
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The entire village knows Neima’s grandfather is a madman. For years the old man has prophesied that a great flood is coming, a flood disastrous enough to blot out the entire earth. He’s even built an enormous ark that he claims will allow his family to survive the deluge. But no one believes the ravings...
| Author | Bernard Evslin |
| ISBN | 0590414488 |
Gods, Demigods and Demons is a concise, yet wide-ranging handbook of Greek mythology that promises a vivid introduction to the great myths of ancient Greece. Here are the gods of the Olympian pantheon. Here too are the demigods, demons, heroes, and many of the best-loved (as well as lesser-known) cycles,...
Confessions from the Principal's Chair
| Author | Anna Myers |
| ISBN | 0802795609 |
In Denver, Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the same girls. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn't going to tolerate the Queen Bee behavior. Within 24 hours, she pulls up stakes and moves them...
| Author | Brad Leithauser |
| ISBN | 0307271110 |
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty...
| Author | Ben Mikaelson |
| ISBN | 0786812087 |
I thought that the book Countdown by Ben Mikaelsen was a good book. It tells the story of a young boy named Elliot who is chosen to be the first junior astronaut in space. Meanwhile Vincent, a young Maasai boy from Africa, is figuring out how the world works. While Elliot is in space his job is to talk on a radio....
I've found it!!!
I feel like squealing with joy. Do you know I hunted everywhere for this book? But I couldn't remember who it was by or what it was called. However, I never, ever forgot to story. Need I say it was amazing? I love love, love this book. Avi writes just the kind of YA I like, and I'm very...
The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color: 1832
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0786805323 |
I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, it ended up being more interesting than I thought it would be. There is even a little adventure and suspense! But on the other hand, the narrator, Mary, was not easy to like. She does get a lot of stuff thrown at her so I can't say she's wholly to blame, but the...
The Kid in the Red Jacket
| Author | Barbara Park |
| ISBN | 0394805712 |
If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny!
Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends?
Howard Jeeter’s parents have...
Beautiful story that takes place on Mackinac Island after the Revolutionary War, when the fort was in use and Indians and fur traders were a big part of the scene.
A couple of quotes:
p. 429 "As I looked along the shore at the roundness of the white pebbles at the water's edge, I saw among...
