The Impossible Journey

6 best books like The Impossible Journey (Gloria Whelan): Shooting Kabul, The Twenty-One Balloons, The Great Brain, The Mysterious Howling, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Breaking Stalin's Nose

Shooting Kabul

Author

N.H. Senzai

In the summer of 2001, twelve-year-old Fadi's parents make the difficult decision to illegally leave Afghanistan and move the family to the United States. When their underground transport arrives at the rendezvous point, chaos ensues, and Fadi is left dragging his younger sister Mariam through...

The Twenty-One Balloons

Author	William Pène du Bois
ISBN	0140320970

One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.

27 years of working and trying to earn a living.

I know it...

The Great Brain

Author	John D. Fitzgerald
ISBN	0142400580

The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...

The Mysterious Howling

Author	Maryrose Wood
ISBN	0061791059

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9+.

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander,...

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

Author	Rodman Philbrick
ISBN	0439668182

A dramatic, witty Civil War tale from bestselling author Rodman Philbrick

Master storyteller Rodman Philbrick takes readers on a colorful journey as young Homer Figg sets off to follow his brother into the thick of the Civil War. Through a series of fascinating events, Homer's older brother...

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Author	Eugene Yelchin
ISBN	0805092161

One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...