The Graduation of Jake Moon

10 best books like The Graduation of Jake Moon (Barbara Park): Sold, The Bridge Home, Hidden, After Ever After, The Compound, The Word Eater, Rhyme Schemer: (Book for Middle School Kids, Middle Grade Novel, In Verse Novel for Boys), Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices, New Kid, House Arrest

Sold

Author	Patricia McCormick
ISBN	0786851716

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the...

The Bridge Home

Author	Padma Venkatraman
ISBN	1524738115

When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim. Life on the streets of the teeming city of Chennai is harsh for girls considered outcasts, but the sisters...

Hidden

Author	Miriam Halahmy
ISBN	1845395239

Fourteen year old Alix lives at the bottom of Hayling Island near the beach. It is a quiet backwater, far removed from world events such as war, terror and refugees. Alix has never even given a thought to asylum seekers, she has enough problems of her own: Dad has a new life that doesn't include her, Grandpa...

After Ever After

Author	Jordan Sonnenblick
ISBN	0439837065

Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student, or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took...

The Compound

Author	S.A. Bodeen
ISBN	0312370156

Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy.

For Eli, no amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, his father...

The Word Eater

Author	Mary Amato
ISBN	0823419401

I LOVED this book!

I actually made a goodreads account just so I could come in here and review this book!

I read this book when I was maybe 8 to 10? That's when it came out and I got it at a scholastic book fair! And it has stuck with me all these years. It's such an amazing concept: A worm who eats...

Rhyme Schemer: (Book for Middle School Kids, Middle Grade Novel, In Verse Novel for Boys)

Author

K.A. Holt

Kevin has a bad attitude. He's the one who laughs when you trip and fall. In fact, he may have been the one who tripped you in the first place. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way--and he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems. But what happens when the tables are turned and he is the...

Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices

Author	Mitali Perkins
ISBN	0763658669

Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.

Listen in as ten YA authors -- some familiar, some new -- use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers...

New Kid

Author	Tim Green
ISBN	0062208721

New York Times bestselling author and former NFL defensive end Tim Green delivers another baseball tale that will keep kids on the edge of their seats. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica or Dan Gutman's Baseball Card Adventure series.

Tommy's the new kid in town, like he's been so many times before....

House Arrest

Author	K.A. Holt
ISBN	1452134774

Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.

I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.

But someone did notice.
Now...

Runaway Ralph

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0590664875

Because schools so often assign them, over the last few years I've read and reread Cleary's "Dear Mr. Henshaw" and "Strider" countless times, but never went any farther into her catalog. That wasn't due to my opinion of these books (they are both very good) but because I was too old to be aware of Ms. Cleary...