The Dragon of Cripple Creek

9 best books like The Dragon of Cripple Creek (Troy Howell): Blended, Piecing Me Together, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, Braced, Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life, My Squirrel Days, You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel, The Husband Hour, Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink

Blended

Author	Sharon M. Draper
ISBN	1442495006

"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?”

Eleven-year-old Isabella is used to these kinds of comments - her father is black, her mother is white - but that doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than...

Piecing Me Together

Author

Renée Watson

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from acclaimed author Renée Watson.

Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mother says she has to take every opportunity. She has. She accepted a scholarship...

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

Author	Shari Green
ISBN	1772780170

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a For Sale sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their little family, adding an unwelcome stepfather and pesky six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy s final...

Braced

Author	Alyson Gerber
ISBN	0545902142

Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.

Then...

Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

Author

Jenna Bush Hager

Funny and poignant personal stories and reflections from former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush.

Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years...

My Squirrel Days

Author	Ellie Kemper
ISBN	1501163345

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent,...

You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel

Author

Laurie Gelman

In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman’s "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her

If you’ve ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every...

The Husband Hour

Author	Jamie Brenner
ISBN	0316394904

When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind.

Lauren Adelman and her high school sweetheart, Rory Kincaid, are a golden...

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink

Author	Tod Olson
ISBN	0545928117

LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival.
World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into...