The Boy Who Reversed Himself

10 best books like The Boy Who Reversed Himself (William Sleator): Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady, When the Tripods Came, This Time of Darkness, Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, Catch You Later, Traitor, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time, Home of the Brave, The Wish List, How to Avoid Extinction

Bloody Jack
AuthorL.A. Meyer
Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming...
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152054596
After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London and fighting pirates never prepared Jacky for her toughest battle yet: learning how to be a fine lady.

Everything...
When the Tripods Came
AuthorJohn Christopher
ISBN0689857624
Long ago, the Tripods--huge, three-legged machines--descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person's life--in childhood--he is not a slave. For Will, his time...
AuthorHelen Mary Hoover
ISBN0765345676
This is one of my all time favorite books. I probably read it at least once a year.

This is set in the future, where EVERYONE lives in the City. "The City is old" is something that is said often.

I loved it cause it was dirty and gritty, and people were weird and creepy. It was like Logan's Run...
AuthorJanet Asimov
ISBN0802764959
I've noticed a trend that I find somewhat alarming. Sometimes, when people write books for young audiences, they ignore the usual rules of good fiction writing - including quality characterization, continuity, solid narrative through-lines, raising the stakes, etc. Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot...
AuthorAvi
ISBN1616203595
Brooklyn, New York, 1951.

Twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas, but when an FBI agent shows up at Pete’s doorstep accusing his father of being a Communist, Pete finds himself caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really...
AuthorLisa Yee
ISBN0439622484
Stanford Wong is in big trouble--or as he would spell it, "trubble"--in this laugh-out-loud companion to the award-winning MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS and this season's HC, EMILY EBERS.



Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't...
AuthorKatherine Applegate
ISBN0312367651
Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind.

In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother...
AuthorEoin Colfer
ISBN0439443369
Eoin Colfer has made millions of fans around the world with his much-loved character, Artemis Fowl, the star of his hugely best-selling series. Now, in a beautifully written novel that is already breaking records in his native Ireland, Colfer introduces readers to a lovable but troubled heroine,...
AuthorPaul Acampora
ISBN0545899060
For fans of Gary Schmidt and Joan Bauer, a laugh-out-loud intergenerational road trip story from acclaimed author Paul Acampora!

Since the death of his grandfather, Leo's number one chore has been to chase after his grandmother who seems to wander away from home every few days. Now, Gram's...
House Arrest
AuthorK.A. Holt
ISBN1452134774
Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.

I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.

But someone did notice.
Now...
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina
AuthorRodman Philbrick
ISBN0545342384
Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.

Zane Dupree is a charismatic 12-year-old boy of mixed race visiting a relative in New Orleans when Hurricane...
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