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10 best books like White Fur Flying (Patricia MacLachlan): Clementine and the Spring Trip, Beholding Bee, Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse, The Center of Everything, The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses, Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night, Twelve Kinds of Ice, Little Dog, Lost, Like Bug Juice on a Burger, On the Road to Mr. Mineo's

Clementine and the Spring Trip
AuthorSara Pennypacker
ISBN1423123573
For Clementine, spring is a really big deal. It's the time for seeing her apple tree start to grow, for watching her friend Margaret go crazy with spring cleaning, and for going on the school trip to Plimoth Plantation. Clementine is ready for Ye Olden Times, but she isn't so sure about surviving lunch...
Beholding Bee
AuthorKimberly Newton Fusco
ISBN0375868364
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is sent to work for another carnival,...
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse
AuthorTamera Will Wissinger
ISBN0547820119
Using a wide variety of poetic forms – quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse –this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy’s day of fishing. Sibling rivalry, the bond between father and son, the excitement – and difficulty --...
The Center of Everything
AuthorLinda Urban
ISBN0547763484
Spring 2013 Kids' Indie Next List

For Ruby Pepperdine, the “center of everything” is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi’s hug.  That’s how everything is supposed to be—until...
The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses
AuthorLisa Wheeler
ISBN1416975950
Embark on a methodical, meticulous, and hilarious quest for the perfect pet in this wickedly witty cautionary collection of pet poems.

If you're the type that oohs and aahs
at furry faces, precious paws,
the words ahead may be alarming:
Animals aren't always charming.

If...
Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0375870334
This book is hilarious and engaging. It is great for struggling readers and has a very similar feel to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This series follows Alvin Ho an Asian American student who has many fears. In this particular book, Alvin Ho is worried about his mom who is becoming bigger and bigger. As...
Twelve Kinds of Ice
AuthorEllen Bryan Obed
ISBN0618891293
With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice,...
Little Dog, Lost
AuthorMarion Dane Bauer
ISBN1442434236
From Newbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer comes the tale of a boy who needs a dog, and a dog who needs a boya match made in heaven, if only the two can meet.

Mark is a boy who needs a dog. But he can't get his mom on board with his plan.
Buddy is a dog who needs a boy. Buddy has an owner already, but not one...
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...
On the Road to Mr. Mineo's
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374356564
Summer days drift by slowly in Meadville, South Carolina--that is, until Sherman the one-legged pigeon flies into town and causes a ruckus. First Stella, who's been begging for a dog, spots him on top of a garage roof and decides she wants him for a pet. Then there's Ethel and Amos, an old couple...
The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
AuthorGreg Pincus
ISBN0439912997
Gregory K is the middle child in a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math? Well, he'd be fibbing. What he really wants most is to go to Author Camp. But to get his parents' permission he's going to have to pass his math class, which has a probability of 0. THAT much he can understand!...
Bo at Ballard Creek
AuthorKirkpatrick Hill
ISBN0805093516
It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village.

Bo learns Eskimo along with English, helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, and rides...
Dorko the Magnificent
AuthorAndrea Beaty
ISBN1613124783
Robbie Darko is a magician. An old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician. Robbie loves magic and he’s good at it—sort of. Despite his best efforts, passion, and practice, something always goes wrong with his tricks, landing Robbie in trouble. Enter crotchety Grandma Melvyn,...
Spunky Tells All
AuthorAnn Cameron
ISBN0374380007
Spunky the dog would be happy to share all of his secrets, if only his human family spoke his language. But no matter how hard he tries to talk, it's all "yerf!" to them. Through a series of unfortunate miscommunications, his family decides that Spunky wants a friend--specifically, a cat. Spunky can't...
Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1407117920
This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea is Hilary McKay’s second adventure about a young animal lover whose compassion for animals in need often leads her into trouble. Set during the summer, this story takes place at the beach, where Lulu and her...
Princess Cora and the Crocodile
AuthorLaura Amy Schlitz
ISBN0763648221
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off and a wicked crocodile a day "on."
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents...
Jelly Bean
AuthorCynthia Lord
ISBN0545635969
In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!

Suzannah's always wanted a pet of her own, but she lives in an apartment where there are absolutely no pets allowed. What she CAN do is...
Starring Jules: As Herself
AuthorBeth Ain
ISBN0545443520
Lights! Camera! Action! A hilarious chapter book debut from a fabulous new talent!
Things to Know About Me

by Jules Bloom
1. I am a scrambled-eggs-and-chocolate-milk type person.

2. I have an audition for a TV commercial (which would be great if I were a tall-icy-drink type...
Pug and Other Animal Poems
AuthorValerie Worth
ISBN0374350248
In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on...
The Year of Billy Miller
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0062268155
Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-paced and funny story about friendship, sibling rivalry, and elementary school. The Year of Billy Miller includes black-and-white art by Kevin Henkes and is perfect for fans of the Ramona...
When Life Gives You O.J.
AuthorErica S. Perl
ISBN0375959246
Okay, so here's what I've been puzzling over with this book-- it's a PRIME example of the sort of book that sometimes struggles to find the right readers, I think. Because it takes real risks, in quiet ways. It doesn't announce itself as "quirky" or "zany." It just is those things, because it is human, and...
Marty McGuire
AuthorKate Messner
A fun, accessible chapter-book debut from an exciting new talent--simultaneous hardcover-paperback launch!

Marty McGuire would rather spend recess catching frogs in the pond than playing dress-up with the other girls in third grade. So when her teacher casts Marty as the princess in the...
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0544106164
What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings is a collection of poems to provide comfort, courage, and humor at difficult or daunting moments in life. It conjures forth laments, spells, invocations, chants, blessings, promises, songs, and charms. Here are pleas on how to repair...
A Dog Called Homeless
AuthorSarah Lean
ISBN0007455038
"My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I haven't spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn’t always make things happen, however much you want them to."

When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking – what’s the point if no one is listening?

The...
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