The Ogre of Oglefort
10 best books like The Ogre of Oglefort (Eva Ibbotson): All of Me, Habibi, A Good Kind of Trouble, The Light Jar, The Goldfish Boy, In the Field of Grace, The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838, Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest, Stone Girl, Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter
"Beautifully written, brilliant, and necessary." --Matt de la Pena, Newbery Medalist
Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create, and his father...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0689825234 |
An award-winning novel about identity, family, and friendship from renowned writer and editor Naomi Shihab Nye.
The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St....
| Author | Lisa Ramee |
| ISBN | 0062836706 |
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.)
But in junior high, it’s like all the...
| Author | Lisa Thompson |
| ISBN | 1407171283 |
Nate and his mother are running away, hiding out in a tumbledown cottage in the middle of a forest. When Mum heads off for provisions, and then doesn't return, Nate is left alone and afraid, with the dark closing in all around him.
But comfort can come from the most unexpected of places - a mysterious...
Matthew Corbin suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He hasn't been to school in weeks. His hands are cracked and bleeding from cleaning. He refuses to leave his bedroom. To pass the time, he observes his neighbors from his bedroom window, making mundane notes about their habits as they...
| Author | Tessa Afshar |
| ISBN | 0802410979 |
Without wealth or family, the widow Ruth left her people and followed Naomi, her beloved Hebrew mother-in-law, to rebuild Naomi's home in Israel. Provisions gone and starvation at the door, Ruth used all that she had left--a strong back and a willing heart--to gather grain in a field, abandoned after...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0439121973 |
I'm a bit torn on this one. The story itself was very interesting and features plenty of historical details about the Trail of Tears. It does emphasize the fact that the Cherokee people were treated very unfairly and forced to endure great hardships. However, I think it downplays the bitterness and resentment...
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest
| Author | Matt Haig |
| ISBN | 0399247394 |
Aunt Eda's Rule #9: NEVER-UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES- GO INTO THE FOREST. Samuel and Martha have just moved to Norway to live with their aunt Eda, and she's taking some getting used to. She has too many rules, no TV, and insists that they eat local delicacies like brown cheese and reindeer soup. And then there's...
I’m at the police station. There’s blood splattered across my face and clothes. In this tiny room with walls the colour of winter sky I hug a black backpack full of treasures. Only one thing is certain . . . no one can ever forgive me for what I’ve done.
An unspeakable event changes everything....
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter
| Author | Simon Mayo |
| ISBN | 1454905093 |
Thrills. Danger. And world domination. Itch is as action-packed and suspenseful as a middle-grade novel can get.
Fourteen-year-old Itchingham Lofte, nicknamed Itch, has an unusual passion: collecting specimens of every element in the periodic table. So what if that means he's had a few...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0375864571 |
Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture...
Drums of Change: The Story of Running Fawn
| Author | Janette Oke |
| ISBN | 1556618123 |
Running Fawn is a young girl in a changing Indian tribe. She loves the ways of her people and doesn't understand why any of their ways need altering. But the white man and the loss of the buffalo mean that if her tribe doesn't adjust, they will die. Running Fawn understands this, but it is so hard to change.
This...
| Author | Stacy DeKeyser |
| ISBN | 1481413511 |
A classic fairytale with a fun, adventurous twist...that is what Stacy DeKeyser’s One Witch at a Time is! This standalone companion to DeKeyser’s The Brixen Witch, is a reimagining of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Rudi thought his misadventures with witches was over, but an unexpected day...
Jelly, aged 11, is the life and soul of the classroom. She's popular and great at doing impressions. She's also overweight. She's learned to deal with the put-downs by brushing them off and pretending she finds it all very funny - while making up poems and writing her private worries in a notebook.
Then...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0441138993 |
Six years ago the Temple of Chaldon burned her parents as witches. Now three forbidden guests bribe her abusive bond-holder innkeeper to stay during the Midwinter Festival in Drinn. She attracts the unwanted attention of head priest Gadrath, and so do kindly healer Mist, and mated mercenaries Jaren...
| Author | Bren MacDibble |
| ISBN | 1760523577 |
From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure.
'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.'
And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away.
Ella...
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 1406381217 |
The diary of an irrepressible girl learning to deal with friendship, grief and growing up, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.
Harry Christmas and Angie Moon are best friends and almost-twins. Ever since they were born two days apart they’ve been partners in cloud-spotting, sweet-eating...
When eleven-year-old Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn’t speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao.
To distract himself from the...
