Starting with Alice
10 best books like Starting with Alice (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor): Anastasia Krupnik, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, Year of the Monkey, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me, Peak, No Flying in the House, Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0553153382 |
I really do not know why I did not read this particular Lois Lowry book (or the entire Anastasia Krupnik series for that matter) as a teenager, when the series was current, was just being published. I so love mature little Anastasia with a vocabulary better than mine and self-direction enough to make her...
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1857989325 |
Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
| Author | Mona Eltahawy |
| ISBN | 0807013811 |
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud...
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140371303 |
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...
| Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
| ISBN | 0786851708 |
Allie Kimball is excited to be starting sixth grade. Her best friend is going to be in the same school and she is going to try out for the soccer team. But she soon learns that middle school is a very different world, full of strange new beasts, like glommers--girls who never go anywhere alone--and norks-a...
| Author | Roland Smith |
| ISBN | 0152024174 |
The only thing you’ll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. – Peak Marcello
After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention...
| Author | Betty Brock |
| ISBN | 0439866650 |
Most little girls have parents to take care of them, but not Annabel Tippens.She has Gloria, a tiny white dog who talks and wears a gold collar. Annabel never thought it was strange that she had Gloria instead of real parents. Until one day a wicked, wicked cat named Belinda comes to tell her the truth --...
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
| Author | Michael Hyatt |
| ISBN | 0801075262 |
Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great.
Most people think...
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
| Author | Margaret Renkl |
| ISBN | 1571313788 |
An Indie Next Selection for July 2019
An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019
From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family--and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.
Growing...
| Author | Narinder Dhami |
| ISBN | 0340860944 |
I chose this book after i watch the film. I study the film " Bend it like Beckham" in school for English in 2010 and i enjoyed watching it. I wanted to watch it again but i couldn't get the film out so i got the book instead.
The story is about an Indian girl whose name is Jesminder. She is nearly 16 years...
| Author | John Allison |
| ISBN | 1684153719 |
Daisy, Esther, and Susan’s last year at university is getting a bumpy start, with everything strange after Ed’s declaration of love followed by grievous injury, Daisy with nowhere to live, and McGraw and Susan at odds over their new flat!
The final year of university is about to start for...
| Author | John Allison |
| ISBN | 1684154375 |
It’s Daisy, Esther and Susan’s third year at university, and with that comes new beaus, new jobs, and new adventures.
The third (and final!) year of university is finally here, and BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan are in for some surprising upsets in their first semester. Between Halloween...
