The Van Gogh Deception
9 best books like The Van Gogh Deception (Deron R. Hicks): The Ambrose Deception, Greetings from Witness Protection!, Between Two Skies, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Ban This Book, The Eureka Key, Fuzzy, Unbound: A Novel in Verse, Click'd
Author | Emily Ecton |
ISBN | 1484788389 |
Melissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off. At least that's what their middle school teachers think. To everyone's surprise, they are the three students chosen to compete for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, solving clues that lead them to various locations around Chicago. At first...
Greetings from Witness Protection!
Author | Jake Burt |
ISBN | 1250107113 |
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...
Hurricane Katrina sets a teenage girl adrift. But a new life — and the promise of love — emerges in this rich, highly readable debut.
Bayou Perdu, a tiny fishing town way, way down in Louisiana, is home to sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle;...
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?
For Arturo, summetime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few...
Author | Alan Gratz |
ISBN | 0765385562 |
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath
An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...
Author | Sarah L. Thomson |
ISBN | 1619637316 |
When middle school puzzle master Sam and history wiz Martina win a contest for a summer trip across the US, they discover they've been drafted into something vastly more extraordinary. Joining another kid on the trip, Theo, a descendant of George Washington himself, they must follow clues to find seven...
Author | Tom Angleberger |
ISBN | 1419721224 |
When Max—Maxine Zealster—befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school—the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that...
Unbound: A Novel in Verse
Author | Ann E. Burg |
ISBN | 0545934273 |
From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-verse that is a gripping, transcendent story about a little-known piece of slave history.
The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep...
Author | Tamara Ireland Stone |
ISBN | 1484784979 |
Allie Navarro can't wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. CLICK'D pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other. And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about...