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10 best books like Violet Mackerel's Remarkable Recovery (Anna Branford): Clementine and the Family Meeting, Angel Creek, Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes, The Truth About Verity Sparks, Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade, New Guinea Moon, My Happy Life, Big Snow, Thai-Riffic!, The Naming of Tishkin Silk

Clementine and the Family Meeting
AuthorSara Pennypacker
ISBN1423123565
Clementine's having a nervous breakdown. The FAMILY MEETING! sign is up in her house, and she just knows she's in trouble for something. Has she been too mean to her little brother? Too sloppy? Eating too much junk food? Try as she might to find out what's on the agenda, her parents won't reveal anything...
Angel Creek
AuthorSally Rippin
ISBN1921758058
In her new falling-down home, in her new street, in her new suburb, Jelly waits for high school to begin. She can only feel happy up in the branches of the old apricot tree and by the creek at the back of the house. One night, Jelly and her cousins spot something in the creek’s dark waters. At first they think...
Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0375863354
What's so scary about a birthday party? Alvin Ho can tell you, if he's not too frightened to speak.

1. You might be dressed for bowling...but everyone else is dressed for swimming.

2. You could get mistaken for the piñata...or worse, the donkey, and get a tail pinned on you!

3....
The Truth About Verity Sparks
AuthorSusan Green
ISBN1921720271
Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl – she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her...
Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade
AuthorStephanie Greene
ISBN0399251677
Posey is really nervous about starting first grade. Instead of getting walked to her classroom, her mom has to drop her off at the Kiss-and-Go Lane. Then she'll have to walk into school and face the Monster of the Blue Hall all by herself. Worst of all, she has to do it without the one thing that always makes...
New Guinea Moon
AuthorKate Constable
ISBN1743315031
Julie has grown up not knowing her father, with just the occasional Christmas card and the knowledge that he flies planes for a charter company in New Guinea. When she comes to stay with him one long summer, she learns to appreciate not only her long-lost father and his love of flying, but also New Guinea...
My Happy Life
AuthorRose Lagercrantz
ISBN1877467804
This book is soooo cute!

Although "My Happy Life" is a chapter book, the chapters are short and packed full of illustrations. The story is
written from the viewpoint of a little girl just starting kindergarten. She lives with her Dad (her mother has passed away) and she likes to count the...
Big Snow
AuthorJonathan Bean
ISBN0374306966
Anxious for snow - lots of snow! - young David continually asks his mother about its arrival, and continually finds that the tasks she sets him - helping make cookies, cleaning the bathroom, making the bed - remind him of the flaky white substance he has on his mind. Eventually, after making lots of extra...
Thai-Riffic!
AuthorOliver Phommavanh
ISBN0143304852
Albert (Lengy) Lengviriyakul, is fed up with being Thai. His parents own a Thai restaurant with the cheesy name of Thai-riffic! and Lengy is sick of being his father's curry guinea pig, longing to just eat pizza! At school he is a bit of a troublemaker, going to any lengths to hide his background. But when...
The Naming of Tishkin Silk
AuthorGlenda Millard
ISBN0733313140
Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin...
Like Bug Juice on a Burger
AuthorJulie Sternberg
ISBN1419701908
I hate camp. I just hate it. I wish I didn’t. But I do. Being here is worse than bug juice on a burger. Or homework on Thanksgiving. Or water seeping into my shoes. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, Eleanor is off to summer camp. At first she’s excited to carry on the...
Lulu Walks the Dogs
AuthorJudith Viorst
ISBN1442435798
This is the second collaboration between Judith Viorst and Lane Smith featuring a little girl named Lulu.

Have I mentioned that I love Judith Viorst's books? I've read several of her children's books with our girls and I've read all of her books about the decades of a woman's life. She is such...
Song for a Scarlet Runner
AuthorJulie Hunt
ISBN1743313586
Peat is on the run — forced to flee for her life when she's blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling.

But a story can be a dangerous thing. It...
Phantom of Blood Alley
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0385611943
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him.

In the fiercely competitive world of early photography, the rewards are...
Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1407117920
This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea is Hilary McKay’s second adventure about a young animal lover whose compassion for animals in need often leads her into trouble. Set during the summer, this story takes place at the beach, where Lulu and her...
Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope
AuthorOlivia Gardner
ISBN0061544620
Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that...
Meet Grace
AuthorSofie Laguna
It's 1808 . . .
and Grace is living with her uncle in London. They have no money, and Grace is always lonely and often hungry. The best part of her day is going to Fleet Street to talk to the horses that she loves so much. One afternoon Grace can't resist taking a shiny red apple from a grocer's cart - and then...
The Ivory Rose
AuthorBelinda Murrell
Jemma has just landed her first job, babysitting Sammy. It's in Rosethorne, one of the famous witches' houses near where she lives. Sammy says the house is haunted by a sad little girl, but Jemma doesn't know what to believe.

One day when the two girls are playing hide and seek, Jemma discovers...
Below
AuthorMeg McKinlay
ISBN0763661260
Secrets have a way of floating to the surface. . . . Mystery, compelling characters, and an abandoned town beneath a lake make for a must-read adventure.

On the day Cassie was born, they drowned her town. The mayor flipped a lever and everyone cheered as Old Lower Grange was submerged beneath...
The Starkin Crown
AuthorKate Forsyth
ISBN0330404040
Last, the smallest and the greatest...
Though he must be lost before he can find,
Though, before he sees, he must be blind,
If he can find and if he can see,
The true king of all he shall be.

Prince Peregrine, rightful heir to the starkin and wildkin crowns, longs for adventure....
Erin the Firebird Fairy
AuthorDaisy Meadows
ISBN1408303515
The Magical Animal Fairies are the 11th series and represents different qualities in life,like humour and compassion. These magical animals are babies and still in training so sometimes they over-do their quality (or cause the opposite).

There are seven Magical Animal fairies and they...
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
Once upon a time in Botswana in Africa there was a little girl who would later grow up to be a famous detective: Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Having already cracked the case of the missing cakes at school, she now has a new mystery to solve.

Precious Ramotswe has two new...
Kate the Great, Except When She's Not
AuthorSuzy Becker
ISBN0385387423
Fans of Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries will love this illustrated series by the New York Times bestselling author of All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat. Meet Kate Geller, a sassy flute-playing artist, who comes up with an original way to redefine friendship.

Kate’s older sister is way too perfect....
After
AuthorSue Lawson
Initially, this was a book that didn’t really grab me; Callum started out as an annoying and difficult character, whose actions and behaviours made no sense. Gradually, however, as snippets of the past were revealed (‘Before’), his attitude changed. I think about a third into the novel, I really...
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