What I Came to Tell You
10 best books like What I Came to Tell You (Tommy Hays): The Girl in the Torch, Autobiography of a Face, The Unteachables, A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, The House That Lou Built, The Last, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, The Seventh Most Important Thing, If Only, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
| Author | Robert Sharenow |
| ISBN | 0062227971 |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets True Grit in this heartfelt novel of resilience, hope, and discovering a family where you least expect it, from award-winning author Robert Sharenow.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York...
| Author | Lucy Grealy |
| ISBN | 0060569662 |
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0062563912 |
What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?
The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
| Author | Hope Larson |
| ISBN | 0374386153 |
Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murry, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract — a wrinkle that transports one...
Lou Bulosan-Nelson is going to build her dream. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house in San Francisco, and longs for a place of her own where she can escape her lovable but large extended Filipino family. Lou has a talent for woodshop class and creating projects, and plans to build a...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra.
After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
The Seventh Most Important Thing
| Author | Shelley Pearsall |
| ISBN | 0553497286 |
It was a bitterly cold day when Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge—he is ready to send Arthur to juvie for the foreseeable future. Amazingly, it’s the Junk...
| Author | Carole Geithner |
| ISBN | 0545234999 |
A stunning debut about one girl's journey through loss and grief. Corinna's world is crushed after her mother dies of cancer. How does she get through the funeral, trays of ziti, a father who can't communicate, the first day of school, Mother's Day, people who don't know what to say, and the entire eighth-grade...
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 0857532936 |
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.
Then, while shining shoes...
| Author | Lauren Oliver |
| ISBN | 0062270818 |
What you will find in this book:
– A rather attractive bearded lady
– Several scandalous murders
– A deliciously disgusting Amazonian shrunken head
– Four extraordinary children with equally extraordinary abilities
– A quite loquacious talking bird
Blessed...
| Author | Frances Hardinge |
| ISBN | 0060880384 |
Ryan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins?
The well witch does.
And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of...
| Author | Barbara O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374310602 |
From Barbara O'Connor, the beloved author of Wish, comes a big-hearted story about the meaning of friendship, the challenges of growing up, and one lovable runaway dog.
Mavis Jeeter is fearless and bold, but she has never lived in one place long enough to have a real best friend. Her flighty...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 1443434310 |
To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world—the endling—Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with...
| Author | Mark Siegel |
| ISBN | 1101935928 |
In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn. Luckily, her friend Jax Amboy has returned from his adventures transformed! Now...
| Author | Veronica Cossanteli |
| ISBN | 1627794034 |
George is looking for a job in order to raise money for a new bike, so when he sees a help wanted ad for Wormestall Farm, he goes for it. Before long, he's embroiled in a madcap adventure involving creatures both (supposedly) extinct and (previously thought to be) mythological, a new friend (a girl!), and...
For every person, there are books that you read that completely shape your life or push your life in a certain direction. For me, this is one of those books.
I first read this book in seventh grade on a whim. I had to read Walk Two Moons in another class the previous year, so I recognized the author's...
Kyle, the main character, tries to survive his school year by following his mother’s directions. Kyle, shy and not talkative, is bribed by his whole family to talk and socialize with his friends, totally different from what Kyle was going to do over the year. He also has a crush on a girl named Chelsea,...
