The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech
10 best books like The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Gary Paulsen): Spanking Shakespeare, Finding A Voice: Friendship is a Two-Way Street, Beyond the Laughing Sky, My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer, Kids Pick The Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Blessing's Bead, Charley Skedaddle, A Is for Musk Ox, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
| Author | Jake Wizner |
| ISBN | 0375840850 |
SHAKESPEARE SHAPIRO HAS ALWAYS hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger brother...
Finding A Voice: Friendship is a Two-Way Street
| Author | Kim Hood |
| ISBN | 1847175430 |
Jo could never have guessed that the friendship she so desperately craves would come in the shape of a severely disabled boy. He can’t even speak. Maybe it is because he can’t speak that she finds herself telling him how difficult it is living with her eccentric, mentally fragile mother.
Behind...
| Author | Michelle Cuevas |
| ISBN | 0803738676 |
In the tradition of E. B. White and Kate DiCamillo comes the magical and moving story of a bird-like boy who longs to fly
Ten-year-old Nashville doesn’t feel like he belongs with his family, in his town, or even in this world. He was hatched from an egg his father found on the sidewalk and has grown...
My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
| Author | Jennifer Gennari |
| ISBN | 0547577397 |
Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of one thing—she’s great at making pies—and she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition. But a backlash against Vermont’s civil union law threatens her family’s security and their business. Even when faced...
Betcha laugh!
This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It’s a classic because it’s the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children’s poetry, including Bill Dodds,...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0547152310 |
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees...
| Author | Debby Dahl Edwardson |
| ISBN | 0374308055 |
Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions—and other...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0816713170 |
It's about a boy named Charley. He goes to the army to be a drummer boy or a bugler. At a confederate base he meats a man named Jem. When a war comes up Charley shots a man but he's not aloud to. He runs away because he shot the man.While running away he gets captured by a union soldier. He manages to run away. Eventually...
This book should have started with “A is for Apple”; however, Musk Ox ate the apple. So Zebra is upset that his “book is ruined” but Musk Ox thinks that the book would be much better when “A” is for “awesome…Arctic…and Alaska” all of which describe Musk Ox or where Musk Ox lives. And...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0590458817 |
Jacqueline Woodson's remarkable, award-winning story of a boy coming to grips a sudden change in his family.
Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though it could mean losing his friends? Should...
| Author | Ching Yeung Russell |
| ISBN | 1600604234 |
Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s, Yeung Ying is tired of hearing how important boys are. After all, she can write letters and recite poems as well as even better than her boy cousins.
Luckily, Yeung Ying's mother thinks "girls and boys are just the same." Despite protests from her husband s...
| Author | G. Xavier Robillard |
| ISBN | 0061650684 |
Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!
Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management.
The Superhero lifestyle is...
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0374360871 |
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...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
Freddie and Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody
| Author | Mike Dawson |
| ISBN | 1596914769 |
High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen.
All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it's...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689712634 |
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France
Sheesh - I am becoming such a maudlin old broad! I don't know . . . maybe it's just raging hormones, but nearly every story in this collection moved me to tears. Rylant presents twelve very short...
Revered author Michael Morpurgo remembers the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war.
From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa’s ship was torpedoed during the Second...
| Author | Sheila Gordon |
| ISBN | 0440226988 |
I first read this book when I was in the fifth grade, and I've never forgotten it. It tells the story of two boys in apartheid-era South Africa, Tengo and Frikkie. The two boys are the best of friends; Tengo is the black son of the "boss boy" on a large, prosperous farm, while Frikkie is the nephew of the farm...
These are the first three stories of the Tollins. Yes, they do have wings, but no, they aren't fairies. Tollins are a lot less fragile than fairies. In fact, the word fragile can't really be used to describe them at all. They are about as fragile as a house brick.
In "How to Blow Up Tollins" a fireworks...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1590789237 |
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors. The soothing refrain...
| Author | H.N. Kowitt |
| ISBN | 0545399262 |
Danny Shine is off THE LOSER LIST -- and out for REVENGE.
Danny Shine might have gotten his name off the Loser List in the girls' bathroom, but he's still got problems -- like the new kid, Ty Randall. Ty seems perfect: handsome, serious, committed to worthy causes -- everything Danny's not. Will...
| Author | Alan Gibbons |
| ISBN | 1842550942 |
Winner of the Angus Book Award, THE EDGE is crackly with tension. How will this mother and son escape their abuser and start a new life?
We've got to go. Now.
It's early morning and Danny's mother is at his bedside, urging him to get up. They're on the run from Chris, his mother's boyfriend,...
| Author | Meg Vandermerwe |
| ISBN | 1780744307 |
Ghost. Ape. Living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother — Zimbabwe ’s most loyal Manchester United supporter — she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1566563313 |
The ‘Watertower’ is essentially a graphic novel or visual text, making use of both words and art to impart the story. The books itself centres around two boys who decide to explore an old water tower, which towers over the small mid American town of Preston. The Water tower dominates the town, standing...
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.
| Author | Jason Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0061547883 |
A beautiful book of poetry and art
created by two friends,
one black
the other white,
one an artist
the other
a poet.
Bound together
by their brotherhood of friendship,
frequent nights of cereal for dinner,
struggles to make rent,
and big dreams.
My...
