Welcome Home, Jellybean
10 best books like Welcome Home, Jellybean (Marlene Fanta Shyer): Remember Me to Harold Square, Window Boy, A Taste of Blackberries, The Perfect Shot, Crazy Lady!, Girlhearts, A Girl Called Al, The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, Mennyms Alive, Hugging the Rock
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Andrea White |
| ISBN | 1933979143 |
Set in 1968, this touching novel tells the story of Sam Davis, a young man with cerebral palsy who peers though his bedroom window every day at the school he longs to attend. With great determination and the help of both his caretaker and his imaginary friend, Winston Churchill, Sam not only succeeds in...
| Author | Doris Buchanan Smith |
What do you do without
your best friend?
Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend.
But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie,...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 1575058626 |
Someone murdered Brian's girfriend, Amanda. The police think it was her father. Brian isn't so sure. But everyone he knows is telling him to move on, get over it, focus on the present. Focus on basketball. Focus on hitting the perfect shot. Brian hopes that the system will work for Amanda and her father....
| Author | Jane Leslie Conly |
| ISBN | 0064405710 |
I am reading books from the ALA’s most challenged list. I checked off all the books I have already read (although I plan to go back and read some) and now I am working through the part of the list I am interested in reading. I went through the list in my school library and grabbed this one. I finished it this...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380722909 |
Reread November 2015:
Well Past Self called it because I reread this and am bumping it from 3 stars to 4. If I read it again, I'll probably give it 5.
One, Sarabeth's friends are in it more than I remember and they are lovely. Yay, Patty. And Leo is there at important times and says things that...
| Author | Constance C. Greene |
| ISBN | 0140347860 |
The first--and inho best of the series of "Al" books by Constance C. Greene. The young narrator--whose name is never given!--describes her new friend "Al" who just moved into the apartment down the hall.
Al(exandra---she NEVER uses her full name--soon because fast friends which our narrator...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
| Author | Sylvia Waugh |
| ISBN | 0380729431 |
The Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, have always lived with danger, ever since their maker Kate Penshaw instilled in them an indomitable life force. That life force carried them through perils of many kinds and helped them survive the greatest danger of all -- the ever-present fear of discovery...
| Author | Susan Taylor Brown |
| ISBN | 1582461805 |
When her mom runs away from home, Rachel is left behind with her emotionally distant father and many questions she cannot answer. Over time, she learns the truth about her mom. But it's only when she learns the truth about her dad, the rock- immoveable and always there for her to lean on-that Rachel can...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374399417 |
Just when Joey Pigza's wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man - literally. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza has a crazy new outlook on life, and he's even changed his name to Charles Heinz. He thinks...
| Author | Melissa Wyatt |
| ISBN | 0374302332 |
Remy Walker has it all: he found the love of his life at home in crumbling little Dwyer, West Virginia, deep in his beloved Appalachian Mountains where his family settled more than one hundred and sixty years ago. But at seventeen, you're not supposed to already be where you want to be, right? You've got...
| Author | Carolee Dean |
| ISBN | 0618138463 |
Nothing ever happened here. Nothing ever would.
Fifteen-year-old Kenny Wilson wants nothing more than to get out of Comfort, Texas—fast. Only three things stand in his way: getting enough money together, convincing Cindy Blackwell to go with him, and escaping the clawlike grip of his...
| Author | Novel Units, Inc. |
| ISBN | 1608781003 |
Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dunphrey is a book about a teacher named, of course Mrs. Dunphrey, and she teaches an English class and makes her students write in a journal. One of her students, named Tish accepts this and writes about her own personal issues in her life down in her journal. She puts on her...
| Author | Neal Shusterman |
| ISBN | 0142500895 |
The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputation. And when the new golden boy at school is the victim...
| Author | Louise Plummer |
| ISBN | 0385325118 |
-This book is about a couple that likes each other and been knowing each other for a while.Hannah’s mom finds out Hannah is pregnant, her mom didn’t ask what will she do with the baby or ask how she feels about it. She doesn’t even ask if she’s going to school.Hannah’s dad died by burping, it didn’t...
I had decided I would have a future.
Will can see his future stretch out before him. It's as clear as the plains that lead to La Junta and the first-place prize at the rodeo. He will become a man, a cowboy with a life of his own. But his twin brother, Denny, follows, bringing with him the memory of that...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0064402886 |
Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down. For the...
| Author | Ann Head |
| ISBN | 0451163192 |
Football hero Bo Jo Jones and his girlfriend July are in love. On the night of the prom, they do what so many couples in love do. Soon, July finds out that she is pregnant with Bo Jo's baby and suddenly the life they once knew is over. Now Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones must come to grips with the very adult decision that...
| Author | Jackie Urbanovic |
| ISBN | 0061214388 |
This book is a fun story about a duck that does not fly South for the Winter believing he would enjoy the Winter as much as he did the Summer and Spring-which he quickly finds out he does not! He then spends the Winter with Irene and her lovable bunch as he awaits the arrival of Spring. During this time he learns...
| Author | Miriam Schlein |
| ISBN | 0064403661 |
Daxiong mao is rare and mysterious, like a god, living in the midst of the mountains.
Strange things are happening on Lu Yi's farm. First, some men from the Chinese government ask Lu Yi's father to sell the property that has belonged to the family for generations. Then a giant panda appears in...
| Author | Laura Summers |
| ISBN | 0399256164 |
Vicky has always felt responsible for her mentally disabled twin sister, Rhianna, and their feisty little brother, Jamie. So when the foster care system threatens to split them up, they all run away together, heading for a distant relative's home. After a difficult journey, they arrive-only to find...
| Author | Jasmine Cresswell |
| ISBN | 1551669315 |
On her wedding night, seventeen-year-old Anna Langtry stole her husband's car and fled into the darkness, racing toward freedom. She felt on desperation to escape the nightmare of her Colorado home - an isolated rural community that condoned her forced polygamous marriage to become one man's third...
| Author | William Horwood |
| ISBN | 0312183046 |
This stunning sequel follows the further adventures of four of the most beloved characters in English literature: loyal Mole, resourceful Water Rat, stern but wise Badger, and of course, capricious, irresistible Toad. In this new tale, the comfortable bachelor world of the River Bank is thrown into...
