Wild Girl

10 best books like Wild Girl (Patricia Reilly Giff): Paint the Wind, Becoming Naomi León, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board, Pirate Girl, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, The Brooklyn Nine, The Batboy, Under a War-Torn Sky, The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

Paint the Wind

Author	Pam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN	0439873622

This epic horse story, in the tradition of BLACK STALLION, marks exciting new territory for one of our most treasured and celebrated novelists.
A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother house,...

Becoming Naomi León

Author	Pam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN	0439269970

Apparently, I have a new favorite author:

Pam Munoz Ryan.

You guys know how much I enjoyed--no, ADORED--"Echo" a month or so ago? Well, "Becoming Naomi Leon" is every bit as good. And I am one happy reader right now. *blissful sigh*

This book is fantastic, the way it gives a window...

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

Author	Bethany Hamilton
ISBN	1416503463

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s...

Pirate Girl

Author	Cornelia Funke
ISBN	0439716721

Best-selling author Cornelia Funke and acclaimed illustrator Kerstin Meyer -- the winning team behind THE PRINCESS KNIGHT -- deliver another glorious adventure tale that celebrates girlhood!

Ferocious pirate Captain Firebeard THINKS that he and the ruthless crew of the "Horrible Haddock"...

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Author

E. Nesbit

That evening, Mother read to them from a book called The Phoenix and the Carpet, which she had had since she was a little girl. Like all the best children's books, it was written to be read aloud; you immediately knew that Mrs. Nesbit had read it aloud to her own children, and every now and then she had put in...

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

Author

Mick Cochrane

For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.

Molly doesn't want to be seen as "Miss Difficulty Overcome"; she wants to make herself known to the kids at...

The Brooklyn Nine

Author	Alan Gratz
ISBN	0803732244

1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids...

The Batboy

Author

Mike Lupica

From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of baseball's unsung hero: The Batboy

It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year- old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols....

Under a War-Torn Sky

Author	L.M. Elliott
ISBN	0786817534

When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France, the World War II pilot finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. In constant danger of discovery by German soldiers, Henry begins a remarkable journey to freedom. Relying on the kindness of strangers, Henry moves from town to town--traveling...

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

Author	Kristin Levine
ISBN	0399250905

The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when...

The Killing Sea

Author	Richard Lewis
ISBN	1416911650

Ruslan slipped away from the café and the curious onlookers. He began to run, not knowing exactly why, but instinct making him head away from the sea....

And in the distance, along the seafront of Ujung Karang, screams rose from a hundred, a thousand, mouths.

Aceh, Indonesia. December...

The Georges and the Jewels

Author	Jane Smiley
ISBN	0375862277

A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.

Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all...

Lara and the Gray Mare

Author	Kathleen Duey
ISBN	0142402303

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the ri-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds the mare in the process of a difficult birth. Lara vows...