Sweetgrass
10 best books like Sweetgrass (Jan Hudson): Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Lily's Crossing, Runt, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Just Ella, The Breadwinner, The Sniffles for Bear, The School Story, Nowhere Near You, Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0689841582 |
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440414539 |
Author Patricia Reilly Giff's Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing is now available for the first time in paperback!
Every summer Lily and her father go to her family's house in Rockaway, near the Atlantic Ocean. But the summer of 1944 is different. World War II has called Lily's father overseas,...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0440419786 |
DEEP IN THE Minnesota forest, where only the strong survive, four regular-sized pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker—are pushed into the world. Then one last, very small pup is born into the wolf pack. He is called Runt.
From the very start, Runt struggles in the harsh wild world...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there's that sneaking...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 1416936491 |
Being a princess isn't all that...
You've heard the fairy tale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after...
Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and—worst of all—a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and...
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 0888994168 |
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel The Breadwinner is trapped inside her family's one-room...
The relentlessly cheery Mouse pushes a cold-suffering Bear to new heights of melodrama in a hilarious new adventure starring the unlikely pair.
Bear has a terrible cold. In fact, Bear is quite sure that no one has ever been as sick as he is. So when Mouse comes tap, tap, tapping on his front door...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689851863 |
Two middle school girls scheme to publish a book in this novel from Andrew Clements, the author of Frindle.
Natalie's best friend, Zoe, is sure that the novel Natalie's written is good enough to be published. But how can a twelve-year-old girl publish a book? Natalie's mother is an editor for...
| Author | Leah Thomas |
| ISBN | 1681191784 |
Following up her acclaimed debut, Because You'll Never Meet Me, Leah Thomas continues the stories of Ollie and Moritz in another heart-warming story of unique friendship.
Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds. Their letters carry on as Ollie embarks on his...
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398067 |
You know, sometimes I am very embarrassed by the quantity of teen fiction I still enjoy, but I'm not by this one. I really do think this is Blume's most underappreciated, if not because it strikes a real chord with me. When I first read this book, I wanted to be Rachel Robinson. I wanted to be in super advanced...
| Author | Ann Turnbull |
| ISBN | 0763631442 |
Star-crossed young lovers triumph over religious intolerance, social disgrace and epic historical events in this thrilling sequel
London, 1665. Cast out by his father for becoming a Quaker, the newly independent Will travels from the countryside to London to earn a living. He and his beloved...
| Author | Cherie Bennett |
| ISBN | 0440228107 |
"Inspired by an actual child's life and writings, this tale of a young leukemia victim will elicit both tears and laughter." -- Booklist, Boxed
Becky Zaslow's leukemia diagnosis has introduced her to a world she never knew existed, a scary world of hospitals and blood counts and chemotherapy....
| Author | Lurlene McDaniel |
| ISBN | 0553494325 |
It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town....
She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
| Author | Misty Bernall |
| ISBN | 0874869226 |
In a perverse celebration of Hitler's birthday, two heavily armed students stormed through a Colorado school on April 20, 1999, killing as many people as they could. Confronting 17-year-old Cassie Bernall, they put a gun to her head and asked: Do you believe in God? She said Yes. The killer laughed and...
If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun
| Author | Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Marie G. Lee) |
| ISBN | 0380723476 |
Adopted as a baby, 12-year-old Alice Larsen is of Korean heritage but feels 100% American. Then Yoon Jun, a Korean immigrant, moves to her small Minnesota town, and Alice's parents start pressuring her to make friends with the strange new boy as a way to get in touch with her heritage. Alice resists--what...
| Author | Joan Hiatt Harlow |
| ISBN | 0689864043 |
It's 1929 and thirteen-year-old Tom Campbell has always wanted a real family with a real house and a dog of his very own. Since he was three years old, the only home he has ever known has been the Mission orphanage. When he is sent to live and work with fisherman Enoch and his wife, Tom finally sees his dream...
| Author | Mike Knudson |
| ISBN | 0670011029 |
It?s time for the fourth grade?s annual hoedown, and best friends Raymond and Graham are ready to wow the whole school with their great dance moves. But Raymond faces a tough choice when it?s time to pick a dance partner: the most annoying girl in the class?or his teacher! What?s a fourth-grade man to do?...
Chúcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
| Author | Francis Kalnay |
| ISBN | 0802773877 |
Pink certainly is an unusual color for a pony, and when Pedro spies Chúcaro grazing on the Pampa he can hardly believe his eyes. He just has to have that pony for himself. Unfortunately, the estancerio's spoiled son is equally determined to own the pony. But the wisest gauchos know that ponies as special...
