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10 best books like The White Horse Trick (Kate Thompson): Under the Baseball Moon, My Life with the Lincolns, Medicine Road, Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Great Bear Rainforest, Invisible Things, The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood, I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet, House of Dance, Will Sparrow's Road, Second Impact

Under the Baseball Moon
AuthorJohn H. Ritter
ISBN0399236236
Andy Ramos, a free-style skateboarding trumpeter, has dreams as big as a baseball moon. Born into a family of musicians, Andy wants to take his unique fusion of Latin jazz, rock, and hip-hop straight to the top. But when he crosses paths with Glory Martinez, a softball pitcher who has Olympian dreams...
My Life with the Lincolns
AuthorGayle Brandeis
ISBN0805090134
My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew. Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination,...
Medicine Road
AuthorCharles de Lint
ISBN1931081964
Medicine Road will be the first in a series of linked novels by Charles de Lint, profusely illustrated by Charles Vess. Each of the projected three volumes will feature various combinations of the seven red-haired Dillard sisters (from Seven Wild Sisters) as well as new characters introduced as the...
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Great Bear Rainforest
AuthorPatti Wheeler
ISBN1608325881
Gannon and Wyatt can't wait to trek into the Great Bear Rainforest in search of the mythical spirit bear, but surviving in this unforgiving wilderness proves more challenging than they could have ever imagined. When members of the expedition go missing, the brothers bravely set out on a search-and-rescue...
Invisible Things
AuthorJenny Davidson
Sixteen-year-old Sophie knows there is more to the story of her parents' death. And she's on a mission to find the truth. To aid her in solving the decades-old mystery, Sophie has enlisted her best friend, Mikael, whose friendship has turned into something more. It's soon clear that Sophie's future...
The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood
AuthorBarb Bentler Ullman
ISBN0060736143
My 3 stars is not a criticism of the book - just a rating of how much I enjoyed it. I read this to my daughter (who is 6) and she liked some of it and didn't like some of it. It was written well (very well for a first book!). The characters and situations are believable. There is a fair amount of fun to bed. But on a...
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
AuthorMark Martin
ISBN1844677443
The magnitude of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional...
House of Dance
AuthorBeth Kephart
ISBN0061429287
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling...
Will Sparrow's Road
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0547739621
In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe...
Second Impact
AuthorDavid Klass
ISBN0374379963
Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school's star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper's sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling...
Chasing Tail Lights
AuthorPatrick Jones
ISBN0802796281
Break free.

Before he died, Christy's daddy used to say that when you feel lost, follow the tail lights of the truck in front of you, and they'll get you somewhere safe. Christy keeps chasing those tail lights, but somehow, she's always still lost in Flint, Michigan. Like most teens in Flint,...
Stealing Air
AuthorTrent Reedy
ISBN0545383072
You can't just ask for the chance to fly . . .
When his dad announced they were moving to Iowa, Brian looked forward to making some new friends. But on his first day there he makes an enemy instead -- Frankie Heller, the meanest kid in town. Brian needs to hang out with someone cool to get back on track. ....
The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children
AuthorKeith McGowan
ISBN0805086684
When Sol and Connie Blink move to Grand Creek, one of the first people to welcome them is an odd older woman, Fay Holaderry, and her friendly dog, Swift, who carries a very strange bone in his mouth. Sol knows a lot more than the average eleven-year-old, so when he identifies the bone as a human femur, he and...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
My Life as a Cartoonist
AuthorJanet Tashjian
ISBN0805096094
There’s a new kid in Derek Fallon’s class. His name is Umberto and he uses a wheelchair. Derek’s family is still fostering Frank the monkey, and Derek thinks it would be great to train Frank to assist Umberto. But Derek quickly realizes that Umberto is definitely not looking for any help. Derek...
The Stones Are Hatching
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
ISBN0064472183
The Worm is waking... After centuries of undisturbed slumber, the Stoor Worm -- the World Eater -- is waking. A creature of monstrous proportions and unimaginable evil, the Worm must be destroyed. Already its murderous hatchlings are spreading terror and destruction. And a strange trio -- Mad Sweeney...
Bloodline
AuthorKaty Moran
ISBN1406309389
A smooth , compelling read set in Dark Ages England, one of my favourite periods and settings. Traces the stroy of Essa, a half Briton, half Saxon boy abandoned by his travelling bar/spy/father in a Wixna village without explanation when he is nine
He grows up in the village, struggles to find his...
Freshman
AuthorMichael Gerber
ISBN0786838515

Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the rsum. And he does make it in-sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds...
Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular
AuthorKirk Scroggs
ISBN0316059412
Excellent!
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"Wiley," said Grampa, "if we wanna make it to the truck show in time, we're gonna have to cut through those woods."

"You mean those dark, scary, wild animal-infested woods?" I asked nervously.

"Why, that's the best kind, my boy!"
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Inside,...
The Ruby Notebook
AuthorLaura Resau
ISBN0385736533
Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, making a whole new set of friends and adopting new customs. This year, they’ve chosen to live in Aix-en-Provence, France, an enchanting city full...
Dragonborn
AuthorToby Forward
ISBN1599907240
When Flaxfield the great wizard dies, his apprentice Sam is left without a master. Sam has great power-but he doesn't know it yet. All he knows is that he needs a new master if he wants to finish his education in magic.

With his dragon Starback at his side, Sam sets out alone on his quest. But there...
Z
AuthorMichael Thomas Ford
ISBN0060737581
The First Rule of Torching: Cleanse with fire.

Josh is by far the best zombie Torcher around—at least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. Josh has quickly risen through the player ranks, relying on the skill, cunning, and agility of a real Torcher.

The Second Rule...
Julia Gillian And the Quest for Joy
AuthorAlison McGhee
ISBN0545033500
Where is the joy? Julia Gillian is sure to find it! This is the second story in an extraordinary series by a New York Times bestselling author.

So far, fifth grade at Lake Harriet Elementary School is not exactly a thing of joy. Julia Gillian's best friend, Bonwit Keller, is keeping a secret from...
The Radiant Road
AuthorKatherine Catmull
ISBN0525953477
Clare Macleod has lived all her life with an awareness of the Strange, tales of fairies and magic-making told to her by her mother who died years ago. No longer a child, Clare has learned to suppress the magic that haunted the corners of her life, to say the word “fairy” with the appropriate disbelief....
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