The Chicken Dance
10 best books like The Chicken Dance (Jacques Couvillon): Bridge of Time, The Loud Silence of Francine Green, The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs, The Vacation, Bird Lake Moon, Dusssie, The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun, Saint Louis Armstrong Beach, Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0618504559 |
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
In the tradition of Poppy, the Warriors series, and other beloved animal adventures comes the swashbuckling tale of a brave cat on the high seas.
Captain Natick does not want to take a kitten on board his ship when it sets sail in 1847, but his daughter convinces him that the scrawny yellow cat...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0374380708 |
From the author of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle
When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0061470767 |
When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Both boys arrive scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to heal.
Spencer thought the house might be haunted....
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0802796494 |
Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic--until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out...
The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun
| Author | Mark Kneece |
| ISBN | 0802797210 |
In a time not unlike our own, two women are among the last people left behind in New York City, struggling to survive as the thermometer reaches an unbearable 140°. Almost overnight, modern-day conveniences have become luxuries and humans are pushed to their limits. As the climate grows more hostile,...
| Author | Brenda Woods |
| ISBN | 1101547707 |
A boy, a dog, and New Orleans' most famous hurricane
Saint is a boy with confidence as big as his name is long. A budding musician, he earns money playing clarinet for the New Orleans tourists, and his best friend is a stray dog named Shadow. At first Saint is sure that Hurricane Katrina will be just like...
| Author | Dennis Skinner |
| ISBN | 1782061592 |
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805063609 |
The lives of four generations of one Louisiana family, woven together by a master storyteller
Tracing a family's roots is like taking a journey through the years. In the case of one Louisiana family, that journey can be charted by the books they read and loved.
The journey begins in...
| Author | Sara Lewis Holmes |
| ISBN | 0545107954 |
No one in her sixth-grade class knows quite what to make of Ms. Loupe, with her short hair, her taped square "stage" on the floor, and the interest in improvisational theatre. After all, their school is on an Air Force base--a place that values discipline more than improv. But her students soon come to...
| Author | Sarah O'Leary Burningham |
| ISBN | 0811864367 |
Cute and surprisingly informative. I picked up this ARC because we booked Sarah to come into Changing Hands in June. What did a 25 year old mother of two learn from reading Boyology? Quite a bit actually. More about the behavior of my younger siblings, but it also made me flash back to those awkward tween...
| Author | Kathryn Erskine |
| ISBN | 0399255052 |
Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability, nothing could be more difficult. When his dad sends him to live with distant relatives in rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project,...
Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her...
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 1599902516 |
Kara Foster is finally starting to fit in at her boarding school in Japan-after all, nothing bonds you with your classmates like having an ancient demon put a curse on you. Hoping life can go back to normal now that the monster has been laid to rest, Kara joins her friends Sakura and Miho in putting on a play...
| Author | Mary Ann Rodman |
| ISBN | 0374337039 |
It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie can hardly stand to see...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416971017 |
October 1962. Juliet Klostermeyer's world is turning upside down. All she hears from her parents and teachers and on the news is the Russian threat and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And things aren't much better at home. Her best friend, Lowell, doesn't seem interested in being her friend anymore--he'd...
| Author | John Brendan Keane |
| ISBN | 1856356515 |
I thought it was a brilliant tale about how an eighteen year old girl is being forced into a marriage with a old man. Her money driven aunt Mena and crafty matchmaker thomasheen Sean rua are the the creators of this bitter and jealousy fuelled plan.
As Sive is illegitimate and completely oblivious...
| Author | Marita Conlon-McKenna |
| ISBN | 0862783054 |
When I was eleven years old, I was going away during school. My teacher gave me this book and told me it was my homework. I was so annoyed, I didn't want any homework. One day, while away, I was bored and decided to read this book that I had been given. I loved it. I couldn't be pulled away.
I felt so horrible...
| Author | Sarah Dooley |
| ISBN | 0312612532 |
Olivia "Livvie" Owen feels things differently than her parents and two sisters. Livvie is autistic. Her family has had to move repeatedly because of her outbursts. When they again face eviction, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a house where they were all happy, once.
The problem...
Darum nerven Japaner - Der ungeschminkte Wahnsinn des japanischen Alltags
| Author | Christoph Neumann |
| ISBN | 3492245080 |
Der ungeschminkte Wahnsinn des japanischen Alltags.
»Darum nerven Japaner« ist der ungeschminkte Bericht eines Deutschen, der in Japan lebt. Er weiß alles, sogar, wo man im Land des Lächelns ernste Zombies findet und wie (und warum!) Japaner sich auf »Off« stellen. Wussten Sie,...
| Author | Andrea Beaty |
| ISBN | 0810994720 |
From a debut novelist, a heroine who will make you laugh, and will break your heart.
Eleven-year-old Lily has a passion for Nancy Drew stories and a secret she is keeping from those she loves. When summer brings lying, stealing, sneaky Tinny Bridges to town, Lily must be on her guard with this...
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.
It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story....
| Author | Jana Frey |
| ISBN | 3785531222 |
Mattis ist zum ersten Mal richtig verliebt. Tag und Nacht träumt er nur von Mieke. Und wenn Mieke ihn zufällig berührt, zittert er. Nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher als Miekes Körper zu spüren. Als Mattis eines Abends heimlich einen Eintrag in Miekes Tagebuch liest, weiß er, dass auch Mieke...
