The Year We Were Famous

8 best books like The Year We Were Famous (Carole Estby Dagg): Blended, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Gone-Away Lake, The Shrinking of Treehorn, Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

Blended

Author	Sharon M. Draper
ISBN	1442495006

"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?”

Eleven-year-old Isabella is used to these kinds of comments - her father is black, her mother is white - but that doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than...

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

Author	Jackson Ford
ISBN	0316519154

For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.

Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers—a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Author	Ian Fleming
ISBN	0375832831

Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children’s book—and it is a classic! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of adventures as they try to capture a notorious gang of...

Gone-Away Lake

Author	Elizabeth Enright
ISBN	0152022724

Summer has a magic all its own.

When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she expects fun and adventure, but of the usual kind: exploring in the woods near Julian's house, collecting stones and bugs, playing games throughout the long, lazy days.

But this summer is different.

On...

The Shrinking of Treehorn

Author	Florence Parry Heide
ISBN	0823401898

"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn't pretending. He really was shrinking.

Hilarious complications result as he becomes more minuscule by the moment. Treehorn is a bit downhearted...

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Author

Carole Boston Weatherford

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history.

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance...

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

Author	Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN	0062215949

A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!

"This slim novel strikes a strong chord."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This complex tale of family and forgiveness has heart.” —School Library Journal (starred review)

"Strong...

Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

Author	Gill Rapley
ISBN	0091923808

The fully updated and revised edition of Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby's natural skills...