The Anybodies

6 best books like The Anybodies (N.E. Bode): Lindsey Lost, May Bird and the Ever After, Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages, Thora: A Half-Mermaid Tale, Stealing Magic, The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

Lindsey Lost

Author	Suzanne Marie Phillips
ISBN	0670784605

The Bourne Identity meets I Am the Cheese in this taut thriller

Even though Micah’s a star pitcher, his older sister Lindsey is the real deal—a runner so good, she has a shot at the Olympics. The two of them urge each other on, and are each other’s best support. Then the unthinkable happens:...

May Bird and the Ever After

Author

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There, she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. Then...

Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages

Author	Denise Vega
ISBN	0316034487

Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com

Erin Swift is sure that the eighth grade will be a far better experience than her last school year.

In seventh grade - the Year of Humiliating Events (or YOHE as she likes to refer to it) - Erin's private blog became a very public one. Everyone at...

Thora: A Half-Mermaid Tale

Author	Gillian Johnson
ISBN	0060743786

Thora's no ordinary girl. She's got scales on her legs, purple feet, and a blowhole that squirts water from the top of her head. Thora's a half-mermaid. And as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid...

Stealing Magic

Author	Marianne Malone
ISBN	0375868194

Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief...

The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

Author	Elise Primavera
ISBN	0060569468

For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed-up beauty-pageant winner, and now Ivy and her mother have moved into a ramshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors--bookish Pru, stuck-up Cat, and wannabe adventurer Franny--are...