The Search for Belle Prater
10 best books like The Search for Belle Prater (Ruth White): The Red Rose Box, The Locked Garden, The Crossing, The Shadows of Ghadames, Escape Into the Night, Applewhites at Wit's End, The Trouble with May Amelia, Cats at Sea, There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
| Author | Brenda Woods |
| ISBN | 0142501514 |
On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0060790946 |
It's the year 1900, the dawn of a new century and a chance for a new beginning for Verna and Carlie, whose mother died two years ago. They are headed to their new home—the grounds of an asylum for the mentally ill. Their father, a doctor, has been hired to treat its patients while the girls are under the strict...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0439786614 |
A critically acclaimed tearjerker from a master storyteller: On one side of the border is brutality and heartache; on the other side--a new life.
14yo Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between...
| Author | Joëlle Stolz |
| ISBN | 0440419492 |
This story about a Muslim girl bound by traditional Islamic customs but who yearns for something more explores women’s rights, freedom, religion, and identity.
In the Libyan city of Ghadames, Malika watches her merchant father depart on one of his caravan expeditions. She too yearns...
| Author | Lois Walfrid Johnson |
| ISBN | 1556613512 |
"At the shore of the river, Libby stepped down, expecting to find ice. Instead, cold water rose around her feet. Suddenly she yelped. “Hush!” came the quick warning from above. Libby leaped from the water to a foothold in the bank. Just then a voice cried out. “Over here!” a man shouted. “Get...
| Author | Stephanie S. Tolan |
| ISBN | 0060579382 |
Jack Semple and E.D. Applewhite are back, in this middle-grade sequel to Stephanie S. Tolan’s Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites.
Teenager E.D., the not so artistic, not at all eccentric member of the unconventional Applewhite clan, can't believe the plan her father has hatched...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 1416913734 |
May Amelia Jackson captured readers' hearts in the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia. Now, after over ten years, Jennifer Holm is bringing this beloved character back in a beautiful way. The Trouble with May Amelia is a gorgeously written story that's as heartbreaking as it is funny. May Amelia...
| Author | Lisa Martin |
| ISBN | 1616202467 |
Black and white line drawings illustrate each chapter.
For ages 8-12, grades 3-7.
A swashbuckling story of two very different cat brothers and their adventures at sea.
Cat brothers Cecil and Anton are as different as port and starboard. Cecil, stocky and black with white...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0671746847 |
Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight.
Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team,...
| Author | Sundee T. Frazier |
| ISBN | 0385734395 |
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440238013 |
Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II. Meggie's father has announced that they must help the war effort and
move to Willow Run, Michigan, where he'll work nights in a factory building important war planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. Willow Run will be the greatest...
| Author | Sara Lewis Holmes |
| ISBN | 0545107954 |
No one in her sixth-grade class knows quite what to make of Ms. Loupe, with her short hair, her taped square "stage" on the floor, and the interest in improvisational theatre. After all, their school is on an Air Force base--a place that values discipline more than improv. But her students soon come to...
| Author | Lucy M. Boston |
| ISBN | 0152025898 |
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0140373977 |
Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson
The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing bring the songs to life, and make the audiences beg...
| Author | Marian Hale |
| ISBN | 0805075844 |
"The Wynns are an unforgettable family. The details of their struggle to survive the Great Depression will linger long after the last page has been read."-Ann M. Martin, winner of the Newbery Honor for A Corner of the Universe
A stunning debut novel about
the true meaning of home
Sadie...
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| ISBN | 0440229197 |
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0152053468 |
6 Hours and 57 Minutes
It is a land of wonders!
It is a land of mystery.
It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember).
Cut off from the civilized world for untold years, this land is called:
It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden, mountainous...
Newbery Medalist and master storyteller Avi returns to Scholastic with a tantalizing prequel to his bestselling medieval mystery MIDNIGHT MAGIC.
A plot to overthrow King Claudio is brewing in the Kingdom of Pergamontio. Scholarly Mangus the magician -- along with his street-smart and...
| Author | Francesca Simon |
| ISBN | 1842551353 |
Humorous and entertaining, Horrid Henry is sure to captivate young boys and girls alike with tales of his misadventures. Horrid Henry is the epitome of laziness and narcississm. He thinks that the world should bow to him and doesn't understand why his mother and father adore his younger brother, appropriately...
What Body Part Is That?: A Wacky Guide to the Funniest, Weirdest, and Most Disgustingest Parts of Your Body
| Author | Andy Griffiths |
| ISBN | 1466827599 |
In its 68 fully illustrated, 99.9% fact-free chapters, What Body Part Is That? will explain everything you ever needed to know about your body without the boring technical jargon and scientific accuracy that normally clog up the pages of books of this type.
Never again will you be stuck for...
| Author | Dean Pitchford |
| ISBN | 0399250344 |
Growing up in the shadow of his football star brother, Chris, Newt Newman has never felt particularly special. When Chris is knocked into a coma, Newt's two best friends decide that taking him out for Halloween is the best way to cheer him up. Using some of Chris's old, oversized clothes, Newt creates...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0525477519 |
This was a very interesting book. I greatly enjoyed the main character's eventual development into manhood and the tone of the story. This book handled a tense historical period, and did a good job of inserting fictional characters seamlessly into that world. I thought that the characters were interesting,...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0439422663 |
My son and I just finished this set of Magic Treehouse books and it was another enjoyable set.
The first four focus on getting gifts from various people/things to give to Morgan and Jack and Annie go off on these missions. I enjoyed Tonight on the Titanic the best, as did my 8-year-old, but the other...
