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10 best books like The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (Betsy Byars): Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, Notes from a Liar and Her Dog, A Taste of Blackberries, Ten Kids, No Pets, The Trojan War, Ghosts Beneath Our Feet, Dorrie and the Blue Witch, A Girl Called Al, Welcome Home, Jellybean, The Catalogue of the Universe

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
AuthorM.E. Kerr
ISBN0061139890
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
AuthorGennifer Choldenko
ISBN0142500682
Antonia--"Ant" for short--has a lot of problems: Her mom adores her two blonde, ballerina sisters, but is constantly exasperated with the "nut-brown," non-dancing Ant. Her dad keeps quitting perfectly good jobs and moving the family across the country. Her entire family hates her dog. And on top...
A Taste of Blackberries
AuthorDoris Buchanan Smith
What do you do without
your best friend?

Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend.

But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie,...
Ten Kids, No Pets
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0590436201
Newbery Honor medalist Ann M. Martin's funny, insightful take on pets and family -- now with a spectacular new cover.

There are ten siblings in the Rosso family. Ten individuals with ten different ways of looking at things. But they all have one thing in common: Each of them wants a pet. The only...
The Trojan War
AuthorBernard Evslin
A cinematic tale of passion, war, loyalty, betrayal, and retribution

“These events I relate are the living seeds, and they will bear bloody fruit, I promise.” So says Ulysses, King of Ithaca, as he recounts the origins of the Trojan War. Renowned Greek mythologist Bernard Evslin masterfully...
Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
AuthorBetty Ren Wright
ISBN0590434446
Back in the day, Betty Ren Wright was right up there with R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike for YA mysteries. I'd never read any of her books though, I'm not sure why, but when I saw this one in my local thrift store for $0.59, I picked it up.

For as short as it is, and as big as the font is, it took me forever...
Dorrie and the Blue Witch
AuthorPatricia Coombs
ISBN0440422108
What a beautiful book! Reading this book brought back wonderful memories of reading this as a child. I love the illustrations, absolutely beautiful, I really like the black, white and blue used in this one and all the details in the pictures. I'm very impressed this author/illustrator was equally as...
A Girl Called Al
AuthorConstance C. Greene
ISBN0140347860
The first--and inho best of the series of "Al" books by Constance C. Greene. The young narrator--whose name is never given!--describes her new friend "Al" who just moved into the apartment down the hall.

Al(exandra---she NEVER uses her full name--soon because fast friends which our narrator...
Welcome Home, Jellybean
AuthorMarlene Fanta Shyer
ISBN0689712138
Neil Oxley's older sister, Geraldine, is coming home for the first time. After spending most of her life in institutions for the retarded, she is finally going to live with her family and adapt to the "real world".

"Skillful juxtaposition of two seemingly incompatible elements--light humor...
The Catalogue of the Universe
AuthorMargaret Mahy
Angela and Tycho seem an unlikely pair -- she is beautiful and confident, he is awkward and quietly intellectual. They have long shared a passion for deciphering the universe outside their own personal struggles. Like the great philosophers they study, to Angela and Tycho it seems the universe can...
Attaboy, Sam!
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0440408164
Lois Lowry is an incredibly talented children’s author, but I’m not much of a fan of this entry. Yes, Sam is just as endearing, and I enjoy how Lowry shows his growth into the preschool-age era. The story is enjoyable and well written, but it doesn’t seem to have quite the same flair as the original...
The Barn
AuthorAvi
ISBN0380725622
The schoolmaster says nine-year-old Benjamin is the finest student he's ever seen-fit for more than farming; destined for great things someday But his father's grave illness brings Ben home,from school and compels him to strive forsomething great right now -- to do the one thing that will please Father...
Pongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits
AuthorKaye Umansky
ISBN0140342214
Pongwiffy has it all...a hovel of her own, a sometime-friend named Sharkadder, and an odor only a witch could love. Everything is almost perfect -- until a gaggle of Goblins move in next door. Heavens above, they're enough to wake the dead. It's time to move. But where? And where will she find a much-needed...
The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0440840341
Facts and fictions are different truths. Minna Pratt stares at this message above her mother's typewriter every day and tries to understand it. But how can she, when her mind is already so full? She wishes her mother would ask her normal questions like "How was your day?" instead of "What is the quality...
Arabel and Mortimer
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0152060820
Arabel Jones and her raven companion, Mortimer, return in this second collection of short stories, following the initial title, Arabel's Raven. In Mortimer's Tie, Mortimer's quest to find a diamond eventually wins the Jones family a free cruise. But will Mortimer's penchant for disaster ruin their...
Flip-Flop Girl
AuthorKatherine Paterson
ISBN0525674802
This book for kids is about siblings who recently lost their father. Little Mason refuses to talk and older Vinnie is supposed to "help" her mother as they move into Grandmom's house, start at a new school and meet new friends. I can't really say what the point of this books is. That the kids were disturbed?...
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