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10 best books like Stuck on Earth (David Klass): The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Little Blog on the Prairie, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Apollo's Outcasts, Zen and the Art of Faking It, 7 Days at the Hot Corner, Down Sand Mountain, Mercy on These Teenage Chimps

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
AuthorErin Dionne
ISBN0803732988
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618494170
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with...
Little Blog on the Prairie
AuthorCathleen Davitt Bell
ISBN1599902869
Gen's family is more comfortable spending time apart than together. Then Gen's mom signs them up for Camp Frontier—a vacation that promises the "thrill" of living like 1890s pioneers. Forced to give up all of her modern possessions, Gen nevertheless manages to email her friends back home about...
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
AuthorFrancisco X. Stork
ISBN0545151333
When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death...
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
AuthorJosh Berk
ISBN0375956999
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer....
Apollo's Outcasts
AuthorAllen M. Steele
ISBN1616146869
In the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile classics, crafted with a modern sensibility. Jamey Barlowe has been crippled since childhood, the result of being born on the Moon. He lives his life in a wheelchair, only truly free when he is in the water. But then Jamey's father sends him, along with...
Zen and the Art of Faking It
AuthorJordan Sonnenblick
ISBN0439837073
Meet San Lee, a (sort of) innocent teenager, who moves against his will to a new town. Things get interesting when he (sort of) invents a new past for himself, which makes him incredibly popular. In fact, his whole school starts to (sort of) worship him, just because he (sort of) accidentally gave the impression...
7 Days at the Hot Corner
AuthorTerry Trueman
ISBN0060574941
In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time.

This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship,...
Down Sand Mountain
AuthorSteve Watkins
ISBN0763638390
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
Mercy on These Teenage Chimps
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152060227
On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...
Feels Like Home
AuthorE.E. Charlton-Trujillo
ISBN0385733321
Growing up in a dead-end South Texas town, Mickey had two things she could count on: her big brother, Danny—the football hero everyone loved—and a beat-up copy of The Outsiders. But after the accident—after Danny abandoned her to a town full of rumors and a drunken father—all Mickey had left...
The Sweetheart of Prosper County
AuthorJill S. Alexander
ISBN0312548567
Almost-15-year-old Austin Gray is tired of standing at the curb and watching the parade pass her by. Literally. She decides this is the year she’ll ride on the hood of a shiny pickup truck in the annual parade, waving to the crowd and finally showing the town bully that she’s got what it takes to be the...
The Possibilities of Sainthood
AuthorDonna Freitas
ISBN0374360871
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
How to Survive Middle School
AuthorDonna Gephart
ISBN0385737939
Eleven-year-old David Greenberg dreams of becoming a TV superstar like his idol, Jon Stewart. But in real life, David is just another kid terrified of starting his first year at Harman Middle School. With a wacky sense of humor and hilarious Top 6½ Lists, David spends his free time making Talk Time videos,...
Grounded
AuthorKate Klise
ISBN0312570392
A middle grade novel about a 12-year-old girl dealing with loss, who uncovers a rather grisly scam involving a crematorium.

After her brother, sister, and father die in a plane crash, Daralynn Oakland receives 237 dolls from well-wishers, resulting in her nickname: Dolly. But dolls are little...
Vote
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0385742282
What's the craziest thing you ever did to get someone to notice you? The craziest thing that i have ever did was bye 500$ dollar shoes and sell them. The " Vote" is a realistic fiction book. My opinion of this book is that it makes you get excited about school politics and gives you a great lesson on how not to...
Sources of Light
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0547076592
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in.
    People like the McLemores fear that Sam,...
Payback Time
AuthorCarl Deuker
ISBN0547279817
Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist—a fat high school journalist named Mitch—veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel.  When Angel shows up Lincoln High, he seems to have no past—or at least not one...
Jake
AuthorAudrey Couloumbis
ISBN0375856307
A heartwarming holiday story from Audrey Couloumbis, the Newbery Honor–winning author of Getting Near to Baby. With beautiful writing and an endearing young narrator so honest and full of hope that you can't help but fall in love with him, Audrey Couloumbis tells a story, of a young boy and the grandfather...
The Year of Goodbyes
AuthorDebbie Levy
ISBN1423129016
This book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy’s mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posiealbum (autograph book) serve as stepping stones in a crucial year in history, when people of Jewish ancestry in Germany and Austria were systematically stripped...
Vampire Rising
AuthorJason Henderson
ISBN0061950998
The Van Helsing name reborn

Fourteen-year-old Alex has no idea that he's descended from the world's most famous vampire hunter, but that changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and confronts two vampires in his first three days. Turns out Glenarvon isn't the only school near Lake...
Living Hell
AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0152061932
What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation...
Brain Jack
AuthorBrian Falkner
ISBN1921150955
Las Vegas is gone—destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer...
The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt
AuthorElizabeth Cody Kimmel
ISBN0803733038
Moxie Roosevelt Kipper has endured thirteen years of being an ordinary girl with an unordinary name. Now that she's entered boarding school, the time is ripe to reinvent herself. She'll become unusual, outlandish, unexpected, sassy - someone worthy of a name like "Moxie." But who exactly? From Mysterious...
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