Waiting for the Magic
10 best books like Waiting for the Magic (Patricia MacLachlan): Caterpillar Summer, The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society, Walls Within Walls, Just Like Jackie, The Boy on the Porch, Ruby Lee and Me, The Ordinary Princess, Guinea Dog, Dory and the Real True Friend
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep...
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561455954 |
Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his hard life dodging fishwives brooms and carriage wheels and trade his damp alley for the warmth of the Cheshire Cheese Inn. When he learns that the innkeeper is looking for a new mouser, Skilley comes up with an audacious scheme to install...
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
| Author | Michael Buckley |
| ISBN | 0810943247 |
A group of unpopular students are part of a spy network inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, their nerdy qualities are enhanced and transformed into incredible abilities. They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant turned assassin, and an array of James...
Perfect for tween readers who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart.
After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move...
| Author | Lindsey Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0062652915 |
For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it’s just been her and Grandpa. Robbie knows they look like an odd pair, because her blond hair and pale skin don’t match his dark complexion—but those differences don’t mean anything to her. And though she wishes Grandpa would tell her more about the...
| Author | Sharon Creech |
| ISBN | 0061892351 |
From Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech comes a singular story that reminds us of the surprising connections that bloom when unconditional love and generosity prevail. For when a young couple finds a boy asleep on their porch, their lives take an unexpectedly joyous turn.
When John and Marta...
| Author | Shannon Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0545782309 |
When a segregated North Carolina town gets its first black teacher, two girls--one black, one white--come face-to-face with how prejudice affects their friendship.
Everything's changing for Sarah Beth Willis. After Robin's tragic accident, everyone seems different somehow. Days on...
| Author | M.M. Kaye |
| ISBN | 0142300853 |
Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen....
| Author | Patrick Jennings |
| ISBN | 1606840533 |
Rufus has been dreaming of getting a dog. His best friend has one. His worst friend has one. But his dad has a few objections: They whine. They gnaw. They bark. They scratch. They beg. They drool.
Rufus pays no attention when his mom offers her think-outside-the-box suggestion, because she can't...
| Author | Abby Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0525428666 |
The star of Dory Fantasmagory is heading to school. Her older siblings, Luke and Violet, warn her to leave her imaginary friend, Mary, at home—or better yet, leave her whole imagination at home! Dory is determined to behave like a “regular old girl who never gets in trouble,” but on her very...
| Author | Natalie Dias Lorenzi |
| ISBN | 1580894348 |
American-born Skye knows very little of her Japanese heritage. Her father taught her to speak the language, but when their estranged Japanese family, including Skye's grandfather, suddenly move to the United States, Skye must be prepared to give up her All-Star soccer dreams to take Japanese lessons...
| Author | Lutricia "Lu" Clifton |
| ISBN | 0823423670 |
When twelve-year-old Frankie Joe's mother is sent to jail, he is uprooted from his home in Texas to live with the father he has never met, his father's wife, and his father's four "legitimate" sons in Illinois. Frankie Joe is miserable. Trying to adjust to his blended family proves too much to bear, so...
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| ISBN | 0380788780 |
Joe Stoshack lives for baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game -- except how to play well. His specialty is striking out. Stosh feels like a real loser, and when he takes a low-paying job cleaning a bunch of junk out of his neighbor's attic, he feels even worse -- until he comes across...
| Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
| ISBN | 0545850959 |
Can Marcel make the ride of his life?
Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through the streets of his small town in France or making bread deliveries for his parents' bakery. He dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race. But ever since Germany's...
| Author | Lauren Tarshis |
| ISBN | 0803731647 |
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...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 1405238968 |
I listened on Audible. The reader is excellent, but the recording is a bit soft, or perhaps his voice is too low to listen along with a running mixer in the kitchen, for example. :) I liked this sequel better than the first book, which I really enjoyed. These are really sweet. I totally relate to Nutmeg! lol....
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0375845615 |
An inspiring true story of a boy genius.
Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to "make pictures fly through the air." This boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius and just eight years later he made his brainstorm...
A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
| Author | Henry Cole |
| ISBN | 0061704105 |
Celeste is not your average mouse. She lives alone, quietly weaving baskets with creative flair under the floor boards of the Oakley Plantation. However, Celeste’s world turns upside down with the arrival of the great naturalist John James Audubon and his assistant Joseph, who have come to study...
The Trouble With Chickens
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0061215325 |
J.J. Tully is a former search-and-rescue dog who is trying to enjoy his retirement after years of performing daring missions saving lives. So he's not terribly impressed when two chicks named Dirt and Sugar (who look like popcorn on legs) and their chicken mom show up demanding his help to track down...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0062852574 |
A novel about loss, loneliness, and friendship that tells the story of the spring break that changes seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life forever.
Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English...
