The Maestro
10 best books like The Maestro (Tim Wynne-Jones): Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, From Ant to Eagle, Swindle, Silverwing, The Night Wanderer, Missing, Red Wolf, Ebb and Flow, The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition, Hawk
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
My name is Calvin Sinclair, I'm eleven years old and I have a confession… ...I killed my brother.
It's the summer before grade six and Calvin Sinclair is bored to tears. He’s recently moved from a big city to a small town and there's nothing to do. It’s hot, he has no friends and the only kid...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0439903440 |
Ocean's 11... with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper from Gordon Korman!
After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many...
| Author | Kenneth Oppel |
| ISBN | 0006481795 |
Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately...
| Author | Drew Hayden Taylor |
| ISBN | 1554510996 |
Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she’s deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he’s also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father, or even her astute Granny Ruth suspect...
| Author | Becky Citra |
| ISBN | 1554693454 |
Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave behind the pain of Thea's mom's death. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering...
| Author | Jennifer Dance |
| ISBN | 1459708105 |
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory.
In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red...
| Author | Heather Smith |
| ISBN | 1771388382 |
One summer,
after a long plane ride
and a rotten bad year
I went to Grandma Jo's.
It was my mother's idea.
Jett, what you need is a change of scenery.
I think she needed a change of scenery, too.
One without me.
Because that rotten bad year?
That was my fault.
Thus...
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition
| Author | Stéphane Melchior-Durand |
| ISBN | 0553535161 |
Having simply adored and been enchanted by The Golden Compass, I enjoyed getting to see the story in a graphic novel format. Fans of abridged books may enjoy this one greatly since it manages to distill the wonderful story to its essential points. All the elements that made the original story's so compelling...
| Author | Jennifer Dance |
| ISBN | 1459731840 |
Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689845243 |
A fifth-grade genius turns the spotlight on grades - good and bad - in this novel from Andrew Clements, the author of Frindle.
Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She's managed to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she...
| Author | Jennifer Dance |
| ISBN | 1459728688 |
It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each...
White Feather 3-Book Bundle: Red Wolf / Paint / Hawk
| Author | Jennifer Dance |
| ISBN | 1459735501 |
Short-listed for the Silver Birch Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, CCBC Best Books for Kids Teens Award, and the MYRCA 2016 Award
“With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness … and I’m deeply impressed.” — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning...
