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10 best books like Walls Within Walls (Maureen Sherry): Wish, The Candymakers, Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Turtle in Paradise, Extra Credit, Freaky Fast Frankie Joe, The Last Musketeer, Ghetto Cowboy, The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity, Kenny & the Dragon

Wish
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374302731
Listening Length: 4 hours and 41 minutes

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite....
The Candymakers
AuthorWendy Mass
ISBN0316002585
Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew?

Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone?

Miles,...
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
AuthorCornelia Cornelissen
ISBN0440412420
It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for...
Turtle in Paradise
AuthorJennifer L. Holm
ISBN0375836888
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.

She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
Extra Credit
AuthorAndrew Clements
ISBN1416949291
It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant country....
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
AuthorLutricia "Lu" Clifton
ISBN0823423670
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...
The Last Musketeer
AuthorStuart Gibbs
ISBN0062048384
The first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Spy School author Stuart Gibbs!

Before they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all!

On a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're not just missing...
Ghetto Cowboy
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN0763649228
A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way.

Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American...
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN1416978151
Steve Brixton always wanted to be a detective...
until he found out he already WAS one.

It all starts here: The thrilling story of Steve Brixton's first case. Our hero has a national treasure to recover, a criminal mastermind to unmask, and a social studies report due Monday -- all while...
Kenny & the Dragon
AuthorTony DiTerlizzi
ISBN1416939776
What do you do when your new best buddy has been designated a scourge by the community and marked for imminent extermination? Just ask Kenny Rabbit. When the simple folks in the sleepy little village of Roundbrook catch wind that there's a dragon running loose in the countryside, they get the wrong idea...
Waiting for the Magic
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
SPOILER!!! First i would like to point out that this book is super cute especially if you like or believe in magic yourself. In waiting for the magic, There are two kids, William and Elinor and their father leaves them to their mother. Their mother then decides that bringing home a cat and four dogs will...
The Map to Everywhere
AuthorCarrie Ryan
Adventure, magic, and hilarity collide in New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis's first book in a fantastical series.

To Master Thief Fin, an orphan from the murky pirate world of the Khaznot Quay, the Map is the key to finding his mother. To suburban schoolgirl...
Keeper
AuthorKathi Appelt
ISBN1416950605
Keeper is a breathtaking, magical novel from National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt.

To ten-year-old Keeper the moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong ... and so much has gone wrong.

But she knows who can make things right again: Maggie Marie, her mermaid...
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