Swing Sideways
10 best books like Swing Sideways (Nanci Turner Steveson): Counting Thyme, The Line Tender, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles, The Truth About Twinkie Pie, Hooray for Anna Hibiscus!, The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island, Stef Soto, Taco Queen, Lucy at Sea
| Author | Melanie Conklin |
| ISBN | 0399173307 |
| Author | Kate Allen |
| ISBN | 0735231605 |
Wherever...
| Author | Michelle Cuevas |
When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0062333461 |
From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful...
| Author | Shari Green |
| ISBN | 1772780073 |
| Author | Kat Yeh |
| ISBN | 0316236624 |
Take two sisters making it on their own: brainy twelve-year-old GiGi and junior-high-dropout-turned-hairstylist DiDi. Add a million dollars in prize money from a national cooking contest...
| Author | Atinuke |
| ISBN | 1935279742 |
| Author | Dana Alison Levy |
| ISBN | 0553521306 |
Welcome to Rock Island, Where Time Stands Still!
The Fletchers are back on Rock Island, home of...
| Author | Jennifer Torres |
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119931 |
Ever since Lucy’s parents drowned at sea, she’s been protected by special magic. That’s...
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 0440419433 |
Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He’s funny, daring, mischievous—and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he’s done. Luckily,...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1416934820 |
The Great Good Summer
| Author | Liz Garton Scanlon |
| ISBN | 1481411470 |
Ivy Green's mama has gone off with a charismatic preacher called Hallelujah Dave to The Great...
| Author | Susan Ross |
| ISBN | 0823434273 |
Twelve-year-old Jacques's mother has passed away, his father is jobless and drinking again and his grandmother's...
| Author | Amanda Rawson Hill |
| ISBN | 1629799408 |
Kate and her best friend Sofia have been inseparable for nearly as long as Kate can remember. Now, though, Sofia is drifting away, drawn to a new friend. Kate’s grandmother is drifting away too, but in a different...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689305710 |
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 | Natasha Anastasia Tarpley |
| ISBN | 0545783879 |
Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time, but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, surviving on his own...
| Author | Mark Goldblatt |
| ISBN | 0385391099 |
| Author | Julie Falatko |
Charlie Bumpers vs. the Perfect Little Turkey
| Author | Bill Harley |
| Author | Tricia Springstubb |
| ISBN | 0062366289 |
A single second. That’s all it takes to turn a world upside down.
Twelve-year-old Nella...
| Author | Holly Schindler |
| ISBN | 0803737254 |
| Author | Victoria Scott |
| ISBN | 1338043587 |
So she shouldn’t be afraid of anything. But ever since her mom left the family and she lost hearing in one ear in a blizzard, it’s been hard to talk to people, and near-impossible to go anywhere or do anything without her dad or big sister within eyesight — it makes her too...