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10 best books like Where I Live (Eileen Spinelli): Please Bury Me in the Library, Oggie Cooder, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial, Like Bug Juice on a Burger, Frogs, Keeping the Night Watch, This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness, Hugging the Rock, 42 Miles

Please Bury Me in the Library
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN0152163875
There's nothing like curling up with a good book, but you have to be careful. Before you know it, a minute turns into an hour, an hour turns into a day, and a day may turn into . . . eternity.

Inspired by the likes of Edward Lear, X. J. Kennedy, and Lewis Carroll, the author of Arithme-Tickle and Scien-Trickery...
Oggie Cooder
AuthorSarah Weeks
ISBN0439927919
From the author of So B. It, a super charming middle-grade Napoleon Dynamite with heart - the tale of a very average boy who's put in his school's spotlight when his averageness appeals to a TV show.

Oggie Cooder has a talent -- he can charve better than anyone else in Truman Elementary School....
Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems
AuthorGeorgia Heard
ISBN1596432209
TRY THIS AT HOME. Poems to inspire young readers.

From Eileen Spinelli's many goodbyes to summer at the shore, to Avis Harley's catalog of ways to say hello across the globe, to a close look at the birds and animals outside Valiska Gregory's window in winter…Georgia Heard has collected list...
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375840478
The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, some working, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. But when their science teacher, J. T. Scopes, is arrested for having taught Darwin’s theory of evolution in class, it seems...
Like Bug Juice on a Burger
AuthorJulie Sternberg
ISBN1419701908
I hate camp. I just hate it. I wish I didn’t. But I do. Being here is worse than bug juice on a burger. Or homework on Thanksgiving. Or water seeping into my shoes. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, Eleanor is off to summer camp. At first she’s excited to carry on the...
Frogs
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0439877555
For the first- to third-grade set, frogs are an endless source of fascination, especially when looked at VERY close up. See tiny poison dart frogs and mammoth bullfrogs, as Nic Bishop's amazing images show the beauty and diversity of frogs from around the globe. And simple, engaging text conveys basic...
Keeping the Night Watch
AuthorHope Anita Smith
ISBN0805072020
So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. His father is back now, though C.J. is not as quick to forgive as the other members of his family. He still feels the weight of responsibility that fell on his shoulders when Daddy was...
This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0618616802
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes,...
Hugging the Rock
AuthorSusan Taylor Brown
ISBN1582461805
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...
42 Miles
AuthorTracie Vaughn Zimmer
ISBN0618618678
JoEllen’s parents divorced when she was very young, so she was used to splitting her time between them, shuttling four blocks from one Cincinnati apartment to another. But when her dad moved to the old family farm last year, her life was suddenly divided. Now on weekdays she’s a city girl, called...
Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word
AuthorBob Raczka
ISBN1596435410
Play with your words! A brand new poetic form that turns word puzzles into poetry.

Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle--these poems capture a scene from a child's daily life and present a puzzle to solve. Sometimes sweet and sometimes funny, but always clever, these poems are fun to read and...
Diamond Willow
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374317763
There's
more to me than
most people
see.

Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants,...
Looking for Me
AuthorBetsy Rosenthal
One of 12 siblings growing up in depression-era Baltimore, Edith isn't quite sure of who she is. Between working at her father’s diner, taking care of her younger siblings, and living in the shadow of her more mature sisters, Edith feels lost in a sea of siblings. When a kind teacher encourages...
Being Teddy Roosevelt
AuthorClaudia Mills
ISBN0374306575
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can’t afford to rent him a sax, and he’s sure he’ll never save up enough...
Dodger and Me
AuthorJordan Sonnenblick
ISBN0312377932

What would you do if your best friend was:
1. Imaginary?
2. An oversize blue chimp in surfer shorts? (Potentially embarrassing, but hey, no one else can see him . . . right?)
3. Proposing a plan to help you improve your life?
4. Did we say imaginary?
5. Driving you crazy?!?!
Now...
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
AuthorMarc Tyler Nobleman
ISBN0375838023
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated...
The Aurora County All-Stars
AuthorDeborah Wiles
ISBN0152060685
Twelve-year-old House Jackson—star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars—has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary...
Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln
AuthorJudith St. George
ISBN0399241744
Abraham Lincoln grew up poor and without schooling in a Kentucky wilderness and lost his mother before he was ten. It was sparkplug Sally Bush Johnston who married his father, brought a library of books to their log cabin home, and believed in Abe from the beginning. She was an inspiring turning point...
Word After Word After Word
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0060279710
An inspirational short novel for young readers about the power of writing by Newbery Medal–winning author Patricia MacLachlan.

Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words...
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