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Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer

10 best books like Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer (Thatcher Heldring): The Desperado Who Stole Baseball, Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906, Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico, Box Out, This Is What I Did, Teen, Inc., When I Crossed No-Bob, A True and Faithful Narrative, Minerva Clark Gets a Clue, The Innocent's Story

The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
AuthorJohn H. Ritter
ISBN0399246649
Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Yet for the villagers, life is about something even more valuable: baseball. Home to the Dillontown Nine, they would give anything to join the ranks of professional ballplayers?even their gold. Yet to make it, they will need to defeat the world champion Chicago...
Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0375836527
“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”

Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then...
Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
AuthorMalin Alegria
ISBN0689878117
"Do you guys have Internet?.."."How about TiVo?.."."You do get American TV?" The house was dark. "Wait a minute -- do they even have electricity?"Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California -- the closest she gets to a south-of-the-border experience is eating...
Box Out
AuthorJohn Coy
ISBN0439870321
John Coy turns to the high-stakes world of high school basketball in this fast-paced YA novel.

Liam has just been bumped up to starter on the varsity basketball team, and the pressure's on. With the girls' team heading to State, the boys' team is under even greater scrutiny than usual in Liam's...
This Is What I Did
AuthorAnn Dee Ellis
ISBN0316013633
Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story...
Teen, Inc.
AuthorStefan Petrucha
ISBN0802796508
Legally, a corporation is a person, so why shouldn't they be able to adopt a child?
Fourteen year old Jaiden's family is a corporation and his home is an office building. When his parents are killed in an accident caused by a faulty piece of equipment manufactured by NECorp, the company adopts him...
When I Crossed No-Bob
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0618717153
Life as an O’Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O’Donnell means trouble.
Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O’Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy’s mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell’s wedding celebration,...
A True and Faithful Narrative
AuthorKatherine Sturtevant
ISBN0374378096
In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore is something of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg pores over books. She spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories, laboring over every word until her hand...
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue
AuthorKaren Karbo
ISBN1582347476
Minerva Clark is a typical thirteen-year-old girl: she hates her hair, she hates her legs (which somehow manage to look both too fat and too skinny at the same time), and don’t get her started on her gigantor bootie. On top of all this puberty, she’s being raised by three older brothers,...
The Innocent's Story
AuthorNicky Singer
ISBN0192754491
The Innocent's Story is an excellent novel by Nicky Singer. Singer creatively portrayed the minds and hearts of two terrorist, one who truly wanted to kill and one who didn't, and who was haunted by his daughter's death. Singer also described the view of a mother's and father's unconditional love for...
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
AuthorScott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
AuthorSid Fleischman
ISBN0061344451
Avrom Amos likes to crack jokes. He loves the spotlight. And if he wants something, he knows how to get it. He's just like any other boy, except for one thing: He's a ghost—a dybbuk. During World War Two he'd been murdered by the Nazis, right after he saved the life of a young ventriloquist named Freddie.

Freddie...
The Curse of the Romanovs
AuthorStaton Rabin
ISBN1416902082
Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger.

It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers...
Cherry Heaven
AuthorLucy Adlington
The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...
The Big One-Oh
AuthorDean Pitchford
ISBN0399245472
Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties—that would require friends, which he doesn’t have. But now that he’s turning ten—the big one-oh—he decides to throw a birthday party for himself, complete with a “House of Horrors” theme. Of course things don’t work out as he plans....
Fearless
AuthorElvira Woodruff
ISBN0439677033
Award-winning author Elvira Woodruff has written a harrowing novel about an eleven-year-old orphan boy on a stormy sea -- and the charming daredevil who befriends him in England in 1695.

When a storm brings down his father's boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For...
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
AuthorScott W. Hunt
ISBN0525468188
I can't believe it took me this long to read this book!! I loved it! Artist Scott Hunt provides 9 evocative charcoal drawings meant to inspire narration, and 18 authors for teens write short stories about them. There are two stories for each picture, proving that there is no "right" way to interpret a picture....
Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within
AuthorLaura Bowers
ISBN0152057641
Abbey Garner has a plan: to earn a million dollars by the time she's thirty-five. Financial independence will allow her to break the cycle of unhappiness endured by the women in her family. Determined to fulfill her dream, Abbey works at Granny Po's struggling beauty shop, where the feisty Gray Widows...
Miracle on 49th Street
AuthorMike Lupica
ISBN0399244883
In the tradition of About a Boy comes a feel good sports and holiday novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica.

Josh Cameron has it all: a World Championship ring with the Boston Celtics, an MVP award, a clean-cut image, and the adoration of millions. What he doesn't have is family....
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
AuthorLauren Tarshis
ISBN0803731647
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It's easy: she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly...
I Thought We Were Friends!
AuthorNancy E. Krulik
How I Survived Middle School presents everyday issues that only bestselling author Nancy Krulik can address with her humor and hands-on experience.

It's Career Day at school, and Jenny's favorite aunt, the art director at a greeting card company, comes to speak. When her aunt takes interest...
Saving Armpit
AuthorNatalie Hyde
When vandals deface the Harmony Point sign, the town does indeed seem to become the “arm Pit” of the region. The baseball team hasn’t won a game in two seasons and the town itself is falling into disrepair. But when the new postmaster becomes the new ball coach, Clay and the rest of the Terriers finally...
Junebug
AuthorAlice Mead
ISBN0440412455
Reeve McLain, Jr.--Junebug--has a big dream that keeps him going. He dreams that someday he and his younger sister and mother will move from the awful housing project where drugs, gangs, and guns are part of everyday life. Junebug's 10th birthday is coming up, and he knows the gangs and drug dealers will...
How to Write Your Life Story
AuthorRalph Fletcher
ISBN0060507691
Publisher's Summary:

Lies About Writing Your Life Story

You have to be a famous celebrity.
You must have an amazing life.
You can't write your life story until you're old and gray.
Nobody will read it, so what's the point?
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