The Little Gymnast
10 best books like The Little Gymnast (Sheila Haigh): Kristy's Great Idea, Prayers for Sale, Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies, When the Dolls Woke, The Hot and Cold Summer, The Bears' House, The Great Mom Swap, You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye, Patti's Luck
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590224735 |
Kristy thinks the Baby-sitters Club is a great idea. She and her friends Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne all love taking care of kids. A club will give them the chance to have lots of fun - and make tons of money.
But nobody counted on crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents...
| Author | Sandra Dallas |
| ISBN | 0312385188 |
Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and...
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140344438 |
Jenny knows one thing for sure - Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy. So when the book club money disappears, why is the whole class punished? Nothing's fair!
But soon Jenny realizes some things aren't fair for Elsie, either. Elsie is on a strict diet, but when she...
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0064403904 |
When a gorgeous seventh-grade boy moves across the street, Vicki is ecstatic-until she remembers her latest school assignment. For one week, Vicki and the rest of her sixth-grade class have to pretend they're parents and carry around five-pound bags of sugar dressed in baby clothes. And if he sees...
| Author | Marjorie Filley Stover |
| ISBN | 0590404199 |
Following on from Midnight in the dollhouse this story skips forward in time about 100 years to a time when the doll's house is passed on to a descendant of the original owner. A mystery is solved again and treasure is found.
A 3.5 star book, my daughter said that this was an okay book, but I think...
| Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0590428586 |
Rory and Derek are best friends forever....
At least that's what they think -- until they meet Bolivia. She's visiting next door all summer and everyone wants the three of them to be buddies. But since she's a girl, Rory and Derek decide to ignore her completely. Except it's not so easy to ignore...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0140383212 |
Everybody in Fran Ellen’s class knows her name. They know that she sucks her thumb and that she smells bad. But they don’t really know anything important about her.
They don’t know that she lives in two houses. One is with her brothers and sisters and sick mother. There is no father in that house,...
| Author | Betsy Haynes |
| ISBN | 0553153986 |
Lorna Markham and Scotti Wheeler are next-door neighbors and best friends. And they each share the same problem: their mothers. Lorna's mother nags her about her schoolwork, wondering why she can't be more like Scotti. And Scotti's mother nags her about her eating habits, telling her to follow Lorna's...
| Author | Patricia Hermes |
| ISBN | 0590331140 |
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Morrow doesn't think much of the fact that her mother winced a little when she hugged her. In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes the whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah's mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer...
| Author | Susan Saunders |
| ISBN | 0590406418 |
In this first book of the Sleepover Friends series, Stephanie invites a new girl in school, Patti, to the Friday-evening sleepovers she has with Lauren and Kate. During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything...
Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash
| Author | Trinka Hakes Noble |
| ISBN | 0140549218 |
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This Could Change Everything
If only Essie hadn't written that letter - the one that went viral...
THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING is the feel-good new novel from Jill Mansell, the
bestselling author of MEET ME AT BEACHCOMBER BAY. Not to be missed by fans of Katie Fforde and Lucy Diamond.
On the one hand, if Essie hadn't written...
| Author | Jill Mansell |
| ISBN | 0747257361 |
Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness
Jessie has kept the identity of her son Oliver's father a secret for years. She's stunned when she discovers that the man in question, actor Toby Gillespie, has just moved...
