The Courage Test
10 best books like The Courage Test (James Preller): 24 Hours in Nowhere, Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave, Hope in the Holler, Snow Lane, The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, Lifeboat 12, Talking Leaves, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, Waiting For Gonzo
When you come from Nowhere, can you ever really make it anywhere? Author Dusti Bowling (Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus) returns to the desert to create a gripping story about friendship, hope, and finding the power we all have within ourselves.
Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona,...
Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave
| Author | Jen White |
| ISBN | 0374300844 |
After their mother's recent death, twelve-year-old Liberty and her eight-year-old sister, Billie, are sent to live with their father, who they haven't seen since they were very young. Things are great at first; the girls are so excited to get to know their father – a traveling photographer who rides...
| Author | Lisa Lewis Tyre |
| ISBN | 0525589740 |
The poignant--and funny--story of a girl trying to be brave and find her place in the world after she's sent to live with scheming relatives.
Right before Wavie's mother died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her find her way in life, including this one: Be brave, Wavie B! You got as...
| Author | Josie Angelini |
| ISBN | 1250150922 |
Fifth-grader Annie is just like every other girl in her small suburban town. Except she’s starting to realize that she isn’t.
Annie is the youngest of nine children. Instead of being considered the baby of the family, she wants to carve out place for herself in the world. But it’s hard...
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country.
Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no...
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.
With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0803735081 |
A new work of historical fiction about Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee alphabet, from the acclaimed author of Code Talker
Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah’s...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426311087 |
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.
When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561459453 |
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
| Author | Dave Cousins |
| ISBN | 9780192745 |
Meet Oz . . . he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well, nearly always).
Uprooted from his friends and former life, Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school, Oz attracts the attention...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374300836 |
The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series brings the beloved chronicle of this wired, wacky, and wonderful boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground. With his dad MIA in the wake of appearance-altering...
| Author | Don Calame |
| ISBN | 0763670715 |
Dan Weekes has two dreams in life: to become a famous graphic novelist and to one day muster the courage to ask Erin Reilly out on a date. Dan’s mom, however, has just one goal: to date every man in the state of California until she finally finds her Prince Charming.
When Dan comes home to find a...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 0385388357 |
For fans of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books comes a hilarious new graphic novel series about two young cave kids living 40,000 years ago.
The laugh-out-loud adventure features Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, as the duo take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave...
| Author | Delia Ray |
| ISBN | 0374300658 |
Running away from home isn't as easy as Ren thinks it will be. At least she isn't running very far-just a few miles to the ghost town of Fortune . . . or Mis-Fortune as everyone else calls it. Mis-Fortune on the Mississippi. Supposedly, there's an abandoned school on the outskirts with cheap rooms for rent....
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 1452101191 |
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead.
Everyone in Jaime’s small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that’s known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone...
| Author | Carolyn Marsden |
| ISBN | 0763615692 |
A young girl from Thailand finds that there are many shades to being American in this poignant story about longing to belong.
In Thailand she was named Oy, but here in America the teachers call her Olivia. Other things are not so easy to change, however. When Oy draws a self-portrait that has brown...
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!
Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 1481435256 |
Nora’s whole world plummets faster than the Cyclone roller coaster when her cousin Riley falls into a coma that Nora thinks is her fault in this warm, big-hearted debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Doreen Cronin.
Riding the Cyclone, the world famous Coney...
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 1101940417 |
Award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen gives us a brilliantly fresh and funny story about a boy learning to become the brave hero of his own life. Perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and The Fourteenth Goldfish.
My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin’...
| Author | Anne Sibley O'Brien |
Maria is from Guatemala, Jin is from Korea, and Fatima is from Somalia. All three are new to their American elementary school, and each has trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0545789753 |
A solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother.
What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet,...
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0307931811 |
Patriotism across the generations as a little girl and her great aunt learn the Pledge of Allegiance together.
Libby's great aunt, Lobo, is from Mexico, but the United States has been her home for many years, and she wants to become a U.S. citizen. At the end of the week, Lobo will say the Pledge...
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 1627793240 |
Twelve-year-old Stevie's world changes drastically when her parents are tragically killed and she is forced to live with her estranged grandfather at his run-down motel. After failed attempts to connect with her grandfather, Stevie befriends the colorful motel tenants and neighbors. Together,...
| Author | Megumi Iwasa |
| ISBN | 1927271886 |
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