The Dogs of Winter

10 best books like The Dogs of Winter (Bobbie Pyron): Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave, Frost Hollow Hall, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, An Elephant in the Garden, Shadow, Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD, Toffee, No Fixed Address, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!, My Brother's Name is Jessica

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...

Frost Hollow Hall

Author	Emma Carroll
ISBN	0571295444

'The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers. And they were very definitely shut.'

Tilly's heart sinks. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. No...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Author

Greta Thunberg

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...

An Elephant in the Garden

Author	Michael Morpurgo
ISBN	0312593694

With Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene. The bombing of Dresden is imminent and soon, so the zoo...

Shadow

Author	Michael Morpurgo
ISBN	0007339593

Shadow is a book about friendship that spans the UK and Afghanistan. Matt visits his grandfather and tells him about his best friend Aman who along with his mother has been taken to Yarl’s Wood. Aman has lived in the UK for 6 years as an asylum seeker, but according to the Government their time has run out...

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD

Author	Allison Britz
ISBN	1481489186

A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder—and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side—in this powerful and inspiring memoir.
Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a...

Toffee

Author	Sarah Crossan
ISBN	1408868121

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan.

I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.

Allison has run away from home, and with...

No Fixed Address

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...

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...

My Brother's Name is Jessica

Author	John Boyne
ISBN	0241376157

Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible.

Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing...