The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
10 best books like The True Adventures of Charley Darwin (Carolyn Meyer): Nothing Pink, The Trouble in Me, The Archer's Son, Assassin, My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War 1939-1945, Dusssie, Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen, The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun, Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing, When the Whistle Blows
| Author | Mark Hardy |
| ISBN | 1932425241 |
Nothing Pink is an eye opening story about a boy named Vincent who struggles with being gay. To make things even harder, his father is a preacher.
This book was so sad to me. Growing up very religious myself, I've heard so many of the things that were said in this book. The idea of someone not being accepted...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374379955 |
Fourteen-year-old Jack is sick of his old self. When his family moves to a new rental home in Fort Lauderdale, he wants to become everything he’s never been before. Then in an explosive encounter, he meets his new neighbor, Gary Pagoda, just back from juvie for car theft. Instantly mesmerized, Jack...
| Author | M.E. Hubbs |
| ISBN | 1934610941 |
…Hedyn held an old sheet iron helmet and a mail tunic up in the starlight to see them better. The breast of the mail bore a ragged hole and the heavy links were sticky. It took a moment for Hedyn to realize it was soaked in drying blood.
“A bascinet and hauberk?” he asked.
“Aye, you...
| Author | Anna Myers |
| ISBN | 0802789897 |
Would you betray your president to win the heart of America's most celebrated actor?
Bella isn't evil. But even people with good intentions can end up doing bad things. Especially when they meet people with the power to persuade them to do almost anything, like John Wilkes Booth—the...
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763641111 |
Marcia Williams follows a young girl's coming of age during World War II in a moving fictional journal that includes the author's own family mementos.
The year is 1939, and Britain is about to declare war on Germany. After Flossie's father joins the army, the nine-year-old girl is left to care...
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0802796494 |
Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic--until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out...
| Author | Vicky Alvear Shecter |
| ISBN | 1590787188 |
Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies—the Romans. Now it's time to meet the "real" Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just...
The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun
| Author | Mark Kneece |
| ISBN | 0802797210 |
In a time not unlike our own, two women are among the last people left behind in New York City, struggling to survive as the thermometer reaches an unbearable 140°. Almost overnight, modern-day conveniences have become luxuries and humans are pushed to their limits. As the climate grows more hostile,...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152063013 |
A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary Soto
The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both boys and girls, narrators of various ethnicities fall in love for the first time,...
| Author | Fran Cannon Slayton |
| ISBN | 0399251898 |
Jimmy lives in Rowlesburg, West Virginia, during the 1940s. He does all the things boys do in the small mountain town: plays a mean game of football, pulls the unforgettable Halloween prank with his friends in ?the Platoon,? and promises to head off into the woods on the first day of hunting season? no...
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 0689862318 |
It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From...
| Author | Sarah O'Leary Burningham |
| ISBN | 0811864367 |
Cute and surprisingly informative. I picked up this ARC because we booked Sarah to come into Changing Hands in June. What did a 25 year old mother of two learn from reading Boyology? Quite a bit actually. More about the behavior of my younger siblings, but it also made me flash back to those awkward tween...
| Author | Kate Klimo |
| ISBN | 0307979040 |
For anyone who has ever wanted a puppy, the DOG DIARIES series tells a dog's story in a new way--from a dog's point of view! Focusing on a different breed for each book, starting with a Golden Retriever and a German Shepherd, these stories are based on true dog stories or on true-to-life situations. With...
| Author | Heather Vogel Frederick |
| ISBN | 0689848692 |
October 1835. Patience Goodspeed, almost thirteen years old, departs from Nantucket aboard her father's whaling ship. Between kitchen duty and whale blubber stench, this voyage is far from a pleasure cruise. At least Papa lets Patience assist the ship's navigator since she's so good at calculations....
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 1599902516 |
Kara Foster is finally starting to fit in at her boarding school in Japan-after all, nothing bonds you with your classmates like having an ancient demon put a curse on you. Hoping life can go back to normal now that the monster has been laid to rest, Kara joins her friends Sakura and Miho in putting on a play...
| Author | Janet Ruth Young |
| ISBN | 1416900403 |
when i am well
i will take you
At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped. Stopped being Billy's father and his...
| Author | Janet Lee Carey |
| ISBN | 1606840096 |
“I want that soul sack,” he said suddenly.
“What?” the witch asked around the scrap of meat she was chewing.
“I want it so no one I love will ever, ever, ever have to go inside again.”
“It’s not for mortal hands to have.” The witch spat out a bit of bone.
“You know magic....
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416971017 |
October 1962. Juliet Klostermeyer's world is turning upside down. All she hears from her parents and teachers and on the news is the Russian threat and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And things aren't much better at home. Her best friend, Lowell, doesn't seem interested in being her friend anymore--he'd...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0545384281 |
Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II.
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere.
One white, one black, these young men have nothing...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0152064028 |
Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family’s plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner...
How I Saved My Father's Life (And Ruined Everything Else)
| Author | Ann Hood |
| ISBN | 0439928192 |
This book accurately, well as accurately as I can imagine since my shift in family was caused by death not divorce, evokes the feelings family members can feel during a split. Part of me wanted to lower the star count even further for the negativity, but as I was able to feel the anger and then the other emotions...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0732285410 |
A story about dreams, gold, rebellion ... and an unlikely friendship across time
It's 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run 'the best little cook shop on the diggings'. the Puddlehams...
Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1584857633 |
This is book 21 in the History Mysteries series and is one of the harder books to find.
The story takes place in 1895 and centers around the young girl Rhonda who lives on an island where her father is a member of a group of men that rescue people from boats that get shipwrecked on the shoals.
It's...
| Author | Rhonda Stapleton |
| ISBN | 1416974652 |
Felicity is a total romantic. That’s why she follows her heart—not the rules—in her job as a cupid. But when Felicity turns her matchmaking magic on her best friend, Andy, it’s Andy who breaks their golden rule: friends always come first. Andy is so wrapped up in her new guy that she’s ditching...
| Author | E.F. Abbott |
| ISBN | 1250068363 |
What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message? That's sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington’s urgent mission.
In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen,...
