The Wonder of Charlie Anne
10 best books like The Wonder of Charlie Anne (Kimberly Newton Fusco): Bandit's Moon, The Castle of Llyr, The Glass Sentence, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, Braced, Navigating Early, Turtle in Paradise, Jacob Have I Loved, The Journey of Little Charlie, Bye for Now: A Wishers Story
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0440415861 |
After a narrow escape from the nasty O. O. Mary's clutches, Annyrose ventures forth to find her long-lost brother Lank in gold-digging territory. But the journey is rough, bandits and fiends waiting for the traveler at every bend. Soon Annyrose runs into Joaquin Murieta, legendary bandit of the Gold...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0805080503 |
Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses...
| Author | S.E. Grove |
| ISBN | 0670785024 |
She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous.
Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World—a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547231849 |
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...
| Author | Alyson Gerber |
| ISBN | 0545902142 |
Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.
Then...
| Author | Clare Vanderpool |
| ISBN | 0385742096 |
At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375836888 |
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.
For...
The Journey of Little Charlie
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.
Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and the most fearsome man in Possum Moan,...
Bye for Now: A Wishers Story
| Author | Kathleen Churchyard |
| ISBN | 1606841904 |
The candles dripped onto the icing as Robin deliberated. What could she possibly wish? She wanted to wake up the next day and learn all her problems were gone. But since her problems weren’t going to disappear, she didn’t want to be Robin anymore.
“I wish I was somebody else,” Robin...
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0061999660 |
A dark house.
An isolated island.
Strange dreams
and even stranger
visions . . .
Jack is spending the summer on a private island far from modern conveniences. No Wi-Fi, no cell service, no one else on the island but a housekeeper and the two very peculiar children in his care....
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1476773998 |
A graphic novel about a brother and sister who must come together after years apart to face the disturbing history that has cursed their family.
Derek Ouellette’s glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he’s been living...
