The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
10 best books like The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (Josh Berk): Witch Child, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, Schooled, Elsie Dinsmore, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble, Lola: A Ghost Story, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 0763618292 |
The spellbinding diary of a teenage girl who escapes persecution as a witch--only to face new intolerance in a Puritan settlement.
Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary's startling...
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
| Author | Judith Levine |
| ISBN | 0743269365 |
Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year.
Without...
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0316008095 |
Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside) and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith,...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0786856920 |
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a school counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing...
Elsie Dinsmore-part one
Why I am even writing this in the first place.
I loved the Elsie Dinsmore, (ED), books when I was younger. In the last few years, as I have made some new friends and started to actually talk to my friends about what they thought about things I was surprised by all the criticism,...
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1419728385 |
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
| Author | Robin Brande |
| ISBN | 0615960146 |
I knew today would be ugly...
It's the first day of high school for Mena, and already her world looks bleak: she's an outcast, all her former friends hate her, even her parents barely speak to her anymore. And why? Because she tried to do the right thing. And then everything went wrong.
But...
There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble
| Author | Laurie Notaro |
| ISBN | 0812975723 |
The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant.
When her husband is offered a post at a small university, Maye is only too happy to pack...
| Author | J. Torres |
| ISBN | 1934964336 |
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
| Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
| ISBN | 0152057536 |
Two worlds collide in one compelling story set in a suburban American middle-school. Kirsten's world is crumbling. Her parents are barely speaking to one another and her best friend has come under the spell of the queen bee Brianna. Walker's goal is to survive the new very white private school his mom...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 1596061111 |
Is it space travel that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own back yard. In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game,...
| Author | Benedict Carey |
| ISBN | 0810979918 |
In a trailer park called Adjacent, next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish, and no one seems to care. At first Lady Di and her best friend, Tom Jones, barely notice the disappearances—until their beloved math tutor, Mrs. Clarke, is abducted, too. Mrs. Clarke has left them clues...
| Author | Susin Nielsen |
| ISBN | 0735262756 |
A touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness.
Felix Knuttson, twelve, is an endearing kid with an incredible brain for trivia. His mom Astrid is loving but unreliable; she can't hold onto a job, or a home. When they...
| Author | Timothée de Fombelle |
| ISBN | 2070631249 |
Paris, 1934. Devant Notre-Dame une poursuite s'engage au milieu de la foule. Le jeune Vango doit fuir. Fuir la police qui l'accuse, fuir les forces mystérieuses qui le traquent. Vango ne sait pas qui il est. Son passé cache de lourds secrets. Des îles siciliennes aux brouillards de l'Ecosse, tandis...
| Author | Maryrose Wood |
| ISBN | 0385732783 |
To best friends and devoted theater fans Emily and Philip, Aurora is no ordinary Broadway musical. Their love for the hit show (whose reclusive author has never been named) is nothing short of an obsession. Thanks to a secret loan from Emily’s grandma Rose, seeing the Saturday matinee has become a...
The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone
| Author | Adele Griffin |
| ISBN | 1616953608 |
Brilliant young artist. Her mysterious death. Fandom that won't let her go.
From the moment she stepped foot in NYC, Addison Stone’s subversive street art made her someone to watch, and her violent drowning left her fans and critics craving to know more. I conducted interviews with those...
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
| Author | Alex Gino |
| ISBN | 0545956242 |
Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn.
A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is a Deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for...
| Author | Amy Clipston |
| ISBN | 0310289831 |
Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams … and secrets. You’ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash...
