The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A Novel of Snow and Courage
10 best books like The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A Novel of Snow and Courage (Chris Kurtz): Wishing Day, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, Kelsey Green, Reading Queen, Lucky Ducklings, A Wolf Called Wander, Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover, Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny, Lulu and the Duck in the Park, A Dog Called Homeless
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0062342061 |
On the third night of the third month after a girl’s thirteenth birthday, every girl in the town of Willow Hill makes three wishes.
The first wish is an impossible wish.
The second is a wish she can make come true herself.
And the third is the deepest wish of her secret heart.
Natasha...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 0618250743 |
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803738382 |
Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is at his very best in this fast-paced mystery adventure. Fans of The Tale of Desperaux, A Little Princess, and Stuart Little will all be captivated by this memorable story of a lovable orphan mouse on an amazing quest.
The smallest mouse in London’s...
| Author | Claudia Mills |
| ISBN | 0374374880 |
Kelsey Kline is the best reader in the third grade--well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal Mr. Boone announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, she...
| Author | Eva Moore |
| ISBN | 0439448611 |
An engaging and charming true rescue story illustrated by a Christopher Award winner!
Early one morning, Mama Duck takes her babies for a walk. They follow safely behind her as they leave their pond, waddle through the park, and stop in the little sunlit town's parking lot for yummy breakfast....
| Author | Rosanne Parry |
| ISBN | 1783447907 |
The wolf star, brightest of all in the summer sky, shines over my home ground. I know every hidden lake and rocky ridge, but if my pack is not in the mountains, then it is no home to me. I feel a howl deep inside, but dare not let it out.
Swift lives with his pack in the mountains, until one day his home...
| Author | Cece Bell |
| ISBN | 0763654752 |
Rabbit’s carefully planned visit with Robot doesn’t work out exactly as he imagined in this offbeat tale about two comically mismatched friends.
Rabbit is excited: his friend Robot is coming to spend the night! Rabbit has left nothing to chance and has drawn up a list of all the things they...
| Author | John Himmelman |
| ISBN | 0805099700 |
Introducing Isabel, aka Bunjitsu Bunny! She is the BEST bunjitsu artist in her school, and she can throw farther, kick higher, and hit harder than anyone else! But she never hurts another creature . . . unless she has to.
This series of brief stories about Isabel's adventures are a beguiling combination...
| Author | Hilary McKay |
| ISBN | 1407117378 |
Lulu and the Duck in the Park was quite the adventure. I found the book to be fun-loving, clever, and bright. I loved the educational component associated with the story and the diversity that was depicted through the presented relationships. I loved that Lulu was of ethnic origin. I thought this served...
| Author | Sarah Lean |
| ISBN | 0007455038 |
"My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I haven't spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn’t always make things happen, however much you want them to."
When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking – what’s the point if no one is listening?
The...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374380015 |
Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that's been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik...
| Author | Maria Parr |
| ISBN | 0763672815 |
Dei som ikkje alt har lese denne hjartevarmaren av ein roman bør snarast gjere det. Klassikar, rett og slett!
Trille er sikker på at nabo Lena Lid er bestevennen hans. Men han er ikkje sikker på om han er bestevennen til Lena Lid.
I denne boka følgjer vi to svært oppfinnsame niåringar...
