The Not-Just-Anybody Family

7 best books like The Not-Just-Anybody Family (Betsy Byars): Ribsy, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Front Desk, Henry and the Clubhouse, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, The Seer of Shadows, The Iliad

Ribsy

Author

Beverly Cleary

It's the Year of the Dog in the Chinese Zodiac, and even though I added many new dog titles to my shelf this year in honor of my favorite animal, I am no newcomer to Ribsy.

Ribsy is my favorite story of a dog-as-protagonist, and this week's introductory read-aloud to my 7-year-old was quite possibly...

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Author	Ally Carter
ISBN	1423116380

When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting"...

Front Desk

Author	Kelly Yang
ISBN	1338157795

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.

Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.

Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner,...

Henry and the Clubhouse

Author

Beverly Cleary

Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day.

Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space...

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

Author

Stephanie Burgis

Aventurine is the fiercest, bravest dragon there is. And she's ready to prove it to her family by leaving the safety of their mountain cave and capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human. But when the human she finds tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, Aventurine is transformed into...

The Seer of Shadows

Author	Avi
ISBN	0060000155

Newbery Medalist Avi weaves one of his most suspenseful and scary tales—about a ghost who has to be seen to be believed and must be kept from carrying out a horrifying revenge.

The time is 1872. The place is New York City. Horace Carpetine has been raised to believe in science and rationality....

The Iliad

Author

Gareth Hinds

In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer's classic wartime epic.

More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known...