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10 best books like The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini (Peter Johnson): Search for the Lost Kingdom, Chuck Close: Face Book, The Wild Book, Crow, Child of the Mountains, Flying the Dragon, Children of the River, Pearl Verses the World, Letters to Leo, The Adventures of Beanboy

Search for the Lost Kingdom
AuthorT.L. Wood
ISBN0976351080
Welcome to the mysterious world of Eldohr, where the land is vast and colorful. This world was once reigned by two royal kingdoms who were friends and allies. Castlegrove to the north, Greengate to the south. A terrible dragon, Alibastizor, has destroyed all dreams of these kingdoms ruling together...
Chuck Close: Face Book
AuthorChuck Close
ISBN1419701630
This fascinating, interactive autobiography presents Chuck Close’s story, his art, and a discussion of the many processes he uses in the studio. The question-and-answer format is based on real kids’ inquiries about Close’s life and work, and his answers to them. Close, who is wheelchair-bound...
The Wild Book
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0547581319
Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them?But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank...
Crow
AuthorBarbara Wright
ISBN0375969284
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's...
Child of the Mountains
AuthorMarilyn Sue Shank
ISBN0375989692
It’s about keeping the faith.

Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn’t bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There’s her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger brother, BJ, who has cystic fibrosis; and wise old Gran....
Flying the Dragon
AuthorNatalie Dias Lorenzi
ISBN1580894348
American-born Skye knows very little of her Japanese heritage. Her father taught her to speak the language, but when their estranged Japanese family, including Skye's grandfather, suddenly move to the United States, Skye must be prepared to give up her All-Star soccer dreams to take Japanese lessons...
Children of the River
AuthorLinda Crew
ISBN0440210224
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.

Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian...
Pearl Verses the World
AuthorSally Murphy
ISBN0763648213
At school, Pearl is a group of one, and at home her beloved granny is fading. A poignant gem of a tale about independence, grief, and finding your place.

Pearl likes to write poems, but despite the insistence of her teacher, Ms. Bruff, Pearl's poems don't rhyme, and neither does she. She wishes...
Letters to Leo
AuthorAmy Hest
ISBN0763636959
The joys and trials of fourth grade - and of life with her father now that her mother is gone - play out in charming letters from Annie to her dog, Leo.

Annie Rossi never, ever thought her father would let her have a dog. But now that he’s finally given in, she’s found the perfect ear for the stories...
The Adventures of Beanboy
AuthorLisa Harkrader
ISBN0547550782
Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he’s been reading them. When his favorite comic has a contest for kids, he hopes he has finally found a way to fix his family—all he has to do is create the winning superhero sidekick . . . Introducing...
The Case of the Deadly Desperados
AuthorCaroline Lawrence
ISBN1444001698
The Case of the Deadly Desperado is a TERRIBLE book that Caroline Lawrence should be ashamed of. I am not sure what was added to the story by having the protagonist be half Sioux other than the excuse to include all sorts of offensive stereotypes and racial slurs. I do not care if the use of the word “squaw”...
Lulu and the Duck in the Park
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1407117378
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...
After Eli
AuthorRebecca Rupp
ISBN0763658103
When Daniel’s brother Eli is killed at war, Daniel considers the history of unusual fatalities to determine what makes a death — or a life — matter.

Some people die heroically, others accidentally. When Daniel Anderson’s older brother dies, he wonders which category Eli’s death...
Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers
AuthorPendred Noyce
ISBN0984525009
When Aunt Adelaide sends thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne on a treasure hunt in the rain, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world an enchanting land where words and numbers run wild. They are surprised again when the first people they meet beg them to find Lexicon's missing children,...
The Mistaken Masterpiece
AuthorMichael D. Beil
ISBN0375867406
Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are back in an all-new Red Blazer Girls caper. In the third installment, Sophie is nose to fist with her arch-rival, Livvy, all while taking care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog, when Father Julian hires the Blazers to help him authenticate a painting. Mayhem and...
Dear Max
AuthorSally Grindley
Dear D.J. Lucas,
My uncle bought me one of your books for Christmas. It's called Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boy? I want to be a writer. I want to write a story now. Please will you help me?
Love from Max

And so begins Max's funny correspondence with his favorite author, the world-famous...
Tin Soldier
AuthorMonica Leonelle
ISBN0984234845
If you love something, let it go?

Rykken Camacho wants to find the seven archangel stones and save his girlfriend--well, ex-girlfriend, officially. But can he really dig up a secret that’s been buried for a hundred years?

His best friend Pilot is mad at him, President Vega is suspicious...
Jimmy the Greatest!
AuthorJairo Buitrago
ISBN1554981786
Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012



Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests...
On the Soul of a Vampire
AuthorKrisi Keley
For some it takes a lifetime to discover their raison d'être. Imagine searching for eight centuries. In 1997 Philadelphia, 800 year old vampire Valéry Castellane comes face to face with his reason to be, in the person of Angelina Lacroix, a young mortal woman whose understanding of immortality is...
Meeow and the Little Chairs
AuthorSebastien Braun
Sebastien Braun, who has made a name for himself with reassurance tales such as I Love My Daddy and I Love My Mommy (as well as the recent On Our Way Home ), switches gears with this new series of basic concept-books devoted to the adventures of Meeow, a little black cat with a big imagination. In Meeow...
The Whole Story of Half a Girl
AuthorVeera Hiranandani
ISBN0385741286
What greater praise than to be compared to Judy Blume!--"Each [Blume and Hiranandani] excels in charting the fluctuating discomfort zones of adolescent identity with affectionate humor."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred

After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half...
The Devil's Sword
AuthorDouglas E. Richards
ISBN0982618433
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the adult thriller, WIRED, comes a critically acclaimed mainstream thriller for kids and adults alike. "Crisp, innovative, and intelligent. Should be at the top of your reading list." -- Larry Cox, book critic, King Features syndicate A fencing...
Oddfellow's Orphanage
AuthorEmily Winfield Martin
ISBN0375869956
New York Times bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin brings a strange and wonderful place to life with her unique style of both art and writing.

What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? They are all orphans at Oddfellow's Orphanage! This...
A Vine in the Blood
AuthorLeighton Gage
ISBN1616950048
It is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe’s premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. A victory for the home team is inextricably linked to the skills of the country’s principal striker, Tico “The Artist” Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport. All the politicians...
The Moon Over High Street
AuthorNatalie Babbitt
The new novel by Natalie Babbitt, author of Tuck Everlasting
Joe Casimir needed help with the choice he had to make. But how do you choose the person who will help you choose? Mr. Boulderwall, the millionaire, knew exactly what he wanted Joe to choose. And millionaires are experts at making choices....
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