The Vanishing Violin
7 best books like The Vanishing Violin (Michael D. Beil): The Curse of the Blue Figurine, Liar & Spy, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Notes from an Accidental Band Geek, The Other Half of My Heart, Yule Be Dead
The Curse of the Blue Figurine
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402583 |
the place: a small town. the time: America during the Korean war. the hero: little Johnny Dixon, bookish and fascinated by history, a fussy boy and a lonely one - his mother having recently died and his father off to war, leaving him in the care of his grandparents. Johnny is thoughtful and curious, which...
| Author | Rebecca Stead |
| ISBN | 0385737432 |
When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs....
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803732988 |
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius...
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1435510143 |
He awoke—and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials...
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803735642 |
From the author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies comes a middle grade novel hailed by Linda Urban as “A perfect blend of laugh out loud funny and real-world heart.”
Elsie Wyatt wants to be an orchestra superstar, like her dad and grandfather. The first step? Get into a super-selective...
| Author | Sundee T. Frazier |
| ISBN | 0385734409 |
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines:...
| Author | Lorraine Bartlett |
| ISBN | 0425266001 |
A Christmas crime shocks the merchants of a quaint shopping district in this latest installment of The New York Times bestselling Victoria Square series.
It's Christmastime, but not everyone is jolly--especially not Vonne Barnett. Her dead body has been found in Victoria Square. Katie...
