The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

10 best books like The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure (Martin W. Sandler): A Long Way from Chicago, Bad Kitty School Daze, Turtle in Paradise, Bink & Gollie, Lifeboat 12, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship, Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, Full of Beans, Puppy's Big Day, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

A Long Way from Chicago

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142401102

"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...

Bad Kitty School Daze

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596436700

Bad Kitty faces her toughest challenge yet . . .
 

Kitty and Puppy are out of control! They're screaming, fighting, hissing, and drooling all over the house, and all of the commotion is upsetting Baby. Time for school—obedience school, that is. Can Kitty learn to follow the rules and...

Turtle in Paradise

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...

Bink & Gollie

Author

Kate DiCamillo

Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks,...

Lifeboat 12

Author

Susan Hood

In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

Author

Russell Freedman

From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both selftaught, both great readers and believers in...

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

Author

Pablo Cartaya

Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target. Marcus knows what classmates and teachers see when they look at him: a monster.

But appearances are deceiving. At home,...

Full of Beans

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0553510398

Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
 
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...

Puppy's Big Day

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596439769

Four Stars: Another funny installment in the Bad Kitty Series.

Kitty has gone nuclear! The family is shaking in fear because Kitty is on a inexplicable rampage. In order to protect Puppy, lovable Uncle Murray is called over to take Puppy out. Poor Uncle Murray is in for a few headaches as he heads...

The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

Author	Kwame Alexander
ISBN	0544570979

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? 

Illustrated...