Vampire Island

10 best books like Vampire Island (Adele Griffin): Remembering Mrs. Rossi, Shakespeare's Spy, The Fran with Four Brains, Who Comes with Cannons?, The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, Overboard, Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World, Tiger, Tiger, The Magician's Boy, The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where TheyWent, and Went There

AuthorAmy Hest
ISBN0763621633
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.

Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
AuthorGary L. Blackwood
ISBN0142403113
Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...
AuthorJim Benton
ISBN1416902325
Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can get way out of hand. Franny needs some additional help. But for Franny there is only one person in the world she trusts to help her with her experiments -- herself....
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688110282
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
AuthorAndy Griffiths
ISBN0312367872
Muck?! Uck! YUCK!
 
Is it just bad luck
when the truck of a duck
gets stuck in the muck?
 
Nine silly rhymes,
and a pig that slimes,
from a writer voted BEST
by The New York Times!
 
WARNING:  This book may self-destruct if used to teach a lesson. ...
AuthorElizabeth Fama
ISBN0553494368
One moment of rashness, and fourteen-year-old Emily Slake finds herself amid hundreds of panicked and drowning people in the dark ocean waters off Sumatra. Miles from shore without a life vest, she resolves to survive. But in facing the dangers of the ocean, the desperation of her fellow survivors,...
AuthorKatrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN0823419991
This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient...
AuthorLynne Reid Banks
Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots, and Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches her how to earn the tiger's trust....
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN1416915559
Only a child can find the way to bring Saint George back to the play.

The Boy works for the Magician, and he wants more than anything to learn magic. But the Magician always says, "Not yet, Boy. Not till the time is right." So the Boy has to be content with polishing the Magician's wand, taking care...
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0618594450
A sequel to critically acclaimed THE NEDDIAD told from the point of view of Ned's friend, Iggy

La Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!

Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie...
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0679818634
Wow did this one surprise me. It's a collection of short horror stories, mostly based on African American folktales and set in the deep south. This was published by Scholastic, so I was expecting stories aimed at children. While technically I guess they are, the stories are much darker and mature than...
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
ISBN0440416108
Amy Prochenko has spent most of fifth grade avoiding both the bully Katilyn Walker, whose bark is as bad as her bite, and Sean Gorman, the only kid less popular than Amy. As if life isn't hard enough, along comes Sherlock.

After escaping from a research laboratory, all Sherlock wants is to be an...
AuthorZilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN1416942017

Twelve-year-old Audrey Abbott dreams of becoming a writer, but with her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, it seems there is no room for what her overworked mother would surely call a childish fantasy. So Audrey keeps her writing a secret. That is, until she meets a mysterious...
Being Teddy Roosevelt
AuthorClaudia Mills
ISBN0374306575
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can’t afford to rent him a sax, and he’s sure he’ll never save up enough...
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
Everyone seems to know what they want to be for Career Day at school?that is, everyone except Mallory. She can't seem to find anything she's good at. When she finally decides to be a fashion designer, some of her classmates laugh at her. And then, before she can stop it, out pops a lie?Mallory tells everyone...
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN1416902449
Do not panic.

Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. But Lord Thistlebottom has no advice...
AuthorWendelin Van Draanen
ISBN0440419158
Shredderman.com just made the national news! Everyone is talking about the new cyber-superhero. Oh yeah!

But now people are dying to know who is behind Shredderman.com. Reporters are snooping all over Cedar Valley! Oh no!

Nolan's parents and even his sidekick, Mr. Green, think...
AuthorLois Metzger
ISBN0545158907
Chilling, original tales about vampires and other creatures that bite, from some of today's best authors, including Christopher Paul Curtis, Neal Shusterman, Peter Lerangis, and more.

Are you ready for spine-tingling tales by some of today's best writers? Just keep in mind a few simple...
AuthorMatthew McElligott
ISBN0399252290
Victor Godwin's orderly life is upended when he discovers that Benjamin Franklin never actually died- he was put into suspended animation and hidden away for more than 200 years in Victor's basement! After an accident reawakens Ben, Victor must not only help him adjust to the modern world but also help...
AuthorLois Lowry
Mrs. Pidgeon has been reading Aesop's fables to her second grade class. What's a fable? Well, it's a story that has animals as characters, and it teaches you something important, and . . . Once again it is Gooney Bird Greene who knows how to turn lessons into fun. She has an idea. A fabulous idea! What if each...
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0316017337
This award winning and bestselling children series is going to be the hit of summer read alouds with my oldest GK's , ages 8 and almost 6. 15 fun 2 page rhyming stories which are written in tricolor print for alternate reading and reading together , how fun. Even though some say this edition with ghosts,...
No Rest for the Wicca
AuthorToni LoTempio
Communing with the dead is an everyday occurrence for PI Morgan Hawkes. A half-Wiccan witch who can commune with spirits of those caught between worlds, Morgan uses her talents to exorcise the trapped ghost or demon as part of the Paranormal Investigation Squad – until a string of murders with a voodoo...
A Taste of Scarlet
AuthorEvanne Lorraine
A rare Omega wolf with the gift of healing, Scarlet’s wolf connection shattered while held captive by a pack of rogue Alphas. A broken wolf link put her out of the mating game. But determined to serve a pack in need of her healing, she searches for the legendary werewolf whisperer on the chance he can work...
Decorated To Death
AuthorDean A. James
ISBN0758204868
Hardly one to become star-struck, Simon nevertheless deigns to attend a tea at Blitherington Hall in honor of celebrity interior designer Zeke Harwood, star of the popular television show, "Tres Zeke." The self-acclaimed King of Home Decorating makes it immediately obvious that he's there to give...
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