The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya
10 best books like The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya (Jane Kelley): Liar & Spy, Caterpillar Summer, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, Turtle in Paradise, The Invisible String, Like Water on Stone, Ruby Holler, Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2, Sweet Home Alaska, Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1
| Author | Rebecca Stead |
| ISBN | 0385737432 |
When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs....
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep...
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0062491490 |
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason’s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason’s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family’s orchard. An investigation drags on,...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375836888 |
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
| Author | Patrice Karst |
| ISBN | 0875167349 |
Buying copies of this cute children's book for several Grandchildren that have recently or are just about ready to move out of State. The basic context is that of a string, a magic and invisible string , which connects us all to the ones we love. It's the very ticket (a comforting story) for someone who needs...
| Author | Dana Walrath |
| ISBN | 0375991425 |
Blending magical realism and lyrical free verse, this is an intense survival story of three siblings caught up in the horrific events of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
It is 1914, and the Ottoman Empire is crumbling into violence.
Beyond Anatolia, in the Armenian Highlands, Shahen...
| Author | Sharon Creech |
| ISBN | 0060560150 |
From Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it.
Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imaginations...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 1423126106 |
After twenty years of fighting monsters, angering gods and goddesses, and surviving against the odds, Odysseus is more desperate than ever to return to his family. But first he will have to explore yet another strange land. And when he finally does return home, he will have yet more dangerous enemies...
| Author | Carole Estby Dagg |
| ISBN | 0399172033 |
This exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression.
Terpsichore can’t wait to follow in Laura Ingalls...
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 1423128648 |
Giants and Cannibals!
Wonders and Witches!
One Amazing Hero.
Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed...
