The Laura Line
10 best books like The Laura Line (Crystal Allen): Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit, Eighth-Grade Superzero, Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood, Sylva and the Fairy Ball, Lucy at Sea, The Lightning Catcher, The Magician's Bird, Making the Team, The Dragon King
Jake Schwartz is not looking forward to middle school. Puberty feels light-years away; he’s not keen on the cool clothes or lingo; and he has the added pressure of preparing for his bar mitzvah. The only saving grace is that Danny Uribe, his lifelong best friend, will be by his side…
Or will...
| Author | Octavia Spencer |
| ISBN | 1442476818 |
Meet Randi Rhodes, the world's first ninja detective! Mystery abounds in this delightful new middle grade series from Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer.
Deer Creek is a small town whose only hope for survival is the success of their Founder's Day Festival. But the festival's...
| Author | Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich |
| ISBN | 0545096766 |
In this terrific debut, a Brooklyn middle-schooler finds the superhero within himself thanks to old friends, new dreams, and a pair of magical "Dora the Explorer" sneakers.
Ever since a deeply unfortunate incident earlier this year, Reggie's been known as "Pukey" McKnight at his high-intensity...
| Author | Varsha Bajaj |
| ISBN | 0807563633 |
What thirteen-year-old Abby wants most is to meet her father. She just never imagined he would be a huge film star--in Bollywood! Now she's traveling to Mumbai to get to know her famous father. Abby is overwhelmed by the culture clash, the pressures of being the daughter of India's most famous celebrity,...
With Sylva and the Fairy Ball, Margaret McNamara launches the Fairy Bell Sisters, an enchanting new chapter-book series. The books feature Tinker Bell’s little sisters and are a must-read for lovers of the Rainbow Fairies and Disney Fairies stories.
Clara Bell, Golden Bell, Rosy Bell,...
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119931 |
The thrilling sequel to The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, a book that Newbery-winning author Katherine Applegate called “a grand and adventurous tale, as magical and mysterious as the sea itself.”
Ever since Lucy’s parents drowned at sea, she’s been protected by special magic. That’s...
| Author | Anne Cameron |
| ISBN | 0062112767 |
You know something is seriously wrong when it starts raining newts and frogs…
11 year-old Angus McFangus believes that his parents are boring civil servants, but one stormy night his world is turned upside down when he is mysteriously whisked to the island of Imbur to become an apprentice...
| Author | Emily Fairlie |
| ISBN | 0062118935 |
In this sequel to The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck, Bud and Laurie solve another mystery at Tuckernuck Hall. This second hilarious installment is perfect for fans of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Chasing Vermeer, The Westing Game, and the Mysterious Benedict Society books.
In...
| Author | J. Scott Savage |
| ISBN | 0062133314 |
With thrills, chills, and laughs on every page, plus a boy-girl rivalry that will leave you in stitches, this is one frighteningly funny book you don’t want to miss.
In this second book in a middle-grade series that's “sure to please young readers looking for a thrill” (Kirkus Reviews,...
| Author | Nils Johnson-Shelton |
| ISBN | 0062070975 |
Artie Kingfisher, his sister, Kay, and the New Knights of the Round Table have finally reached the legendary isle of Avalon. But before Artie can take his place as King Arthur reborn, he must recover nothing less than the mythical Holy Grail. And as the greatest battle of his life looms, Artie finds himself...
| Author | Jane Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0060564938 |
Ten-year-old Anna Nickel is moving from Colorado to Kansas, and she is not happy about leaving her friends behind! This is a moving, often humorous coming-of-age story about family, faith, God's love, and the meaning of home, perfect for fans of Katherine Paterson and The Penderwicks.
Ten-year-old...
| Author | Maria T. Lennon |
| ISBN | 0062126903 |
It's Mean Girls for tweens in the tradition of Paula Danziger's Cat That Ate My Gymsuit and Judy Blume! Watch out, world: here comes Charlie C. Cooper-computer whiz, reformed bully, and so-called middle child-in this seriously funny debut tween novel from screenwriter Maria T. Lennon.
Confessions...
| Author | Herbie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0062071807 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Faerie Wars Chronicles, Herbie Brennan, comes this heart-pounding middle-grade adventure—think The Da Vinci Code for tweens. Reminiscent of the Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl series, this edge-of-your-seat thriller involves an ancient curse,...
| Author | Tim Green |
| ISBN | 0062089595 |
When two friends compete, one of them will be forced out.
Joey and Zach have always been best friends. They're also two of the best baseball players in their league, and shoo-ins for the all-star team at the end of the season. Their dream is to play together on the Center State select team, and they...
| Author | Colleen L. Reece |
| ISBN | 1593102038 |
Time Period: 1620 Oct.-Nov. Imagine leaving the land you know and the friends you hold dear-and you'll begin to understand the whirlwind of emotion that awaits ten-year-old Sarah Smythe. This fictional Pilgrim aboard the Mayflower is moving from Holland to the New World-America-in the vanguard...
| Author | Jo Knowles |
| ISBN | 0763672173 |
In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister’s secret struggle.
Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,...
| Author | Ronald Kidd |
| ISBN | 1416958924 |
The year is 1955, and there’s nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie, and Crank, love more than horror movies. So when Invasion of the Body Snatchers starts filming in their small California town, they couldn’t be more excited. But when their acquaintance with Laura and Darryl, extras...
| Author | Joni Sensel |
| ISBN | 1599904578 |
When Ariel Farwalker hears the moon talking to her, she thinks she must be going crazy. Then she discovers an ancient map, and learns that the moon is part of a mysterious summons that's calling her on a new journey.
With her surly guardian Scarl by her side, Ariel sets out on an adventure that...
| Author | Ben H. Winters |
| ISBN | 0061965413 |
Ms. Finkleman is just our boring old music teacher.
Or is she?
It all starts with a Special Project in Mr. Melville's Social Studies class: Solve a mystery in your own life. For seventh grader Bethesda Fielding, one mystery is too tempting to ignore: Ms. Finkleman.
Bethesda...
Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her...
| Author | Floyd Cooper |
| ISBN | 0399233423 |
Has the moon ever followed you home at night?
Max loves his grandpa. When they must say good-bye after a visit, Grandpa reminds Max that the moon above them at Grandpa’s house is the same moon that will follow him all the way home. And on that swervy-curvy car ride back home Max smiles as...
| Author | Phoebe Stone |
| ISBN | 0545443601 |
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Phoebe Stone's instant classic, THE ROMEO AND JULIET CODE.
When Flissy Bathburn's parents first dropped her off in Bottlebay, Maine, she hated everything about it. She hated the big gloomy house she was to live in. She hated meeting her long-lost and highly...
| Author | Sara K. Joiner |
| ISBN | 0823434419 |
In this riveting coming-of-age survival story, a stubborn and intellectual teen must fight for her life when the mighty volcano Krakatau erupts and puts her hometown on the Javanese coast in mortal danger.
In 1883, on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies, thirteen-year-old Katrien...
| Author | Michael Dahl |
| ISBN | 1434242536 |
Ever since it was built by the great magician Abracadabra, the hotel Tyler Yu lives in has had its share of mysterious events. Ghosts wandering the halls, a magician who vanishes into thin air – Ty can’t figure these things out on his own. But Charlie Hitchcock, with his photographic memory, might...
