Voices after Midnight

10 best books like Voices after Midnight (Richard Peck): A Night in the Lonesome October, Arthur's April Fool, Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 1, New Shoes, Checked, Carbs and Cadavers, The Fox Busters, A Farmer's Alphabet, Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2, Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher: An International Spy Story

A Night in the Lonesome October

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

Arthur's April Fool

Author	Marc Brown
ISBN	0316111813

Arthur Read versus Binky Barnes: it's a familiar theme of Marc Brown's Arthur Adventure books. The rivalry would later be softened in the PBS television series, but Arthur and Binky had their battles before then. April Fool's Day is coming, and with it the school talent show, but Arthur can't get excited....

Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 1

Author	Scott Tipton
ISBN	1613774036

The two greatest science-fiction properties of all time cross over for the first time in history! When the Federation's most terrifying enemy strikes an unholy alliance with one of the Doctor's most hated antagonists, the result is devastation on a cosmic scale! Spanning the ends of space and time...

New Shoes

Author	Chris Raschka
ISBN	0062657526

When your shoes are
worn out 
too tight
faded and flat

—guess what?

It’s time to get NEW SHOES!

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka pays homage to a quintessential moment of childhood—a visit to the shoe store—in this book about shoes, growing...

Checked

Author	Cynthia Kadohata
ISBN	1481446614

Hockey is Conor’s life. His whole life. He’ll say it himself, he’s a hockey beast. It’s his dad’s whole life too—and Conor is sure that’s why his stepmom, Jenny, left. There are very few things Conor and his dad love more than the game, and one of those things is their Doberman, Sinbad. When...

Carbs and Cadavers

Author	J.B. Stanley
ISBN	0738709131

James "Professor Puff" Henry may as well have "loser" stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy, and living at home, he relies on books and his favorite snack -- cheese puffs -- for sweet relief from his problems. A former English lit professor at William and Mary, he moves back to Quincy's Gap,...

The Fox Busters

Author	Dick King-Smith
ISBN	0140311750

Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged,...

A Farmer's Alphabet

Author	Mary Azarian
ISBN	0879233974

Mary Azarian had done woodcut art for thirteen years before releasing A Farmer's Alphabet in 1981. She would continue to further her reputation as one of her era's finest children's book illustrators, but A Farmer's Alphabet was already a notable achievement, a loving ode to a slowly vanishing lifestyle....

Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2

Author	Scott Tipton
ISBN	1613775512

The two greatest science fiction properties of all time cross over for the first time in history, in Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who Assimilation 2! When the Federation's most terrifying enemy strikes an unholy alliance with one of the Doctor's most hated antagonists, the result is devastation...

Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher: An International Spy Story

Author	Jerome Beatty Jr.
ISBN	0553150561

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Living and Writing on the Coast of Maine

Author	Lea Wait
ISBN	0996408428

What's it like to live your dream? To live the life of an author? To (finally) be married to the man you love and live in the place you've always imagined? With wry humor and insight, Lea Wait, acclaimed author of 14 books in two genres, shares the good, the bad, and the challenging about living in a Maine house...

Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril

Author	Peter Hogan
ISBN	1401246451

Este é o primeiro encadernado das histórias de Tom Strong que não é escrito por Alan Moore, mas sim, o seu discípulo e continuador de suas histórias, Peter Hogan, que já havia contribuído com o barbudão de Northampton em Tom Strong. Claro, logo de saída já notamos a diferença: a diagramação...

The Girl in the Window

Author	Wilma Yeo
ISBN	0590431536

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The Girl in the Window by Wilma Yeo was a throwback read. After reading a trio of thrillers, I decided to take on one from the juvenile genre. I remember this book from my childhood as one of those books that we all read and/or was...

When Spring Comes

Author	Kevin Henkes
ISBN	0062331396

The award-winning, bestselling husband-and-wife team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek collaborate for the first time since their acclaimed picture book Birds. Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and...

The Dragon That Ate Summer

Author

Brenda Seabrooke

The dragon that ate summer is my favorite book. It's about a young boy who found a dragon in one of his summer at home and name it as Spike. Everyday is not easy to keep the dragon hide from family but there also a friend who help him take care the dragon. The dragon is a problem maker, follow the little adventure...

Paws and Effect

Author	Sofie Kelly
ISBN	0451472160

Magical cats Owen and Hercules and resourceful librarian Kathleen Paulson are back in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Faux Paw...
 
Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business....

Squirm

Author	Carl Hiaasen
ISBN	0385752970

Some facts about Billy Dickens:
* He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake.
* Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal.
* Billy isn't the type to let things go.
Some facts about Billy's family:
* They've lived in six different Florida...

Rocketeer Adventures Volume 2

Author

Marc Guggenheim

The second all-new, all-great Rocketeer Adventures anthology is crammed with great creators doing terrific Rocketeer stories by these high-flying talents: Marc Guggenhein, Sandy Plunkett, Peter David, Paul Dini, Bill Morrison, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Louise Simonson, John Paul...