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10 best books like The Secret Hum of a Daisy (Tracy Holczer): This Journal Belongs to Ratchet, The Key to Extraordinary, All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Goodbye Stranger, The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, Full Cicada Moon, The Secret Language of Girls, Sparrow Road, Soar, Small as an Elephant

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
AuthorNancy J. Cavanaugh
ISBN1402281064
A debut middle grade novel about a girl named Ratchet and her quest to make a friend, save a park, and find her own definition of normal. Ratchet tells her story through the assignments in her homeschool journal.


If only getting a new life were as easy as getting a new notebook.
But it's...
The Key to Extraordinary
AuthorNatalie Lloyd
ISBN0545552745
Everyone in Emma's family is special. Her ancestors include Revolutionary War spies, brilliant scientists, and famous musicians--every single one of which learned of their extraordinary destiny through a dream.

For Emma, her own dream can't come soon enough. Right before her mother died,...
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
AuthorLeslie Connor
ISBN0062333461
Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick

From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful...
Goodbye Stranger
AuthorRebecca Stead
ISBN0385743173
Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games—or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through...
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0375848185
“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred
 
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to...
Full Cicada Moon
AuthorMarilyn Hilton
Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse about fitting in and standing up for what’s right

It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white...
The Secret Language of Girls
AuthorFrances O'Roark Dowell
ISBN1416907173
In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being.
Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend, Marylin, about this. But Marylin is no longer her best friend. Or...
Sparrow Road
AuthorSheila O'Connor
ISBN0399254587
It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year- old Raine O'Rourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious Sparrow Road- a creepy, dilapidated mansion that houses an eccentric group of artists. As Raine tries to make sense of her new surroundings, she forges friendships...
Soar
AuthorJoan Bauer
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!

Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....
Small as an Elephant
AuthorJennifer Richard Jacobson
ISBN0763641553
Jack’s mom is gone, leaving him all alone on a campsite in Maine. Can he find his way back to Boston before the authorities realize what happened?

Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning"...
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