Wing Nut
10 best books like Wing Nut (Mary Jane Auch): Carlota, She's All That!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the Goddesses of Mythology, Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-To-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade, Defiance, Saying it Out Loud, Billy Creekmore, La Linea, Storm Warriors, Gabriel's Horses, Airball: My Life in Briefs
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0440909287 |
Raised to take the place of her dead brother, Carlota de Zubaran can do anything that Carlos could have done. She races her stallion through the California lowlands, dives into shark-infested waters searching for gold, and fights in the battles that rage between the Mexicans...
She's All That!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the Goddesses of Mythology
| Author | Megan E. Bryant |
| ISBN | 1606310593 |
Action, romance, power struggles — no, it's not reality TV! Greek mythology meets the modern age in this riviting (and educational) series complete with profiles, headshots, sidebars and more!- Annotated/illustrated Table of Contents
- Introduction explains the origins of mythology,...
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-To-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade
| Author | Esmé Raji Codell |
| ISBN | 0786855096 |
Like every fifth grader, Esm Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esm tells us about: the night she and her mother became egg vigilantes...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374308470 |
Winner of the 2008 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) in the Children's Products competition. A memorable trio of characters, each fighting for independence
Eleven-year-old Toby Steiner wants to do normal things on his vacation: he wants to hike and race his bike down the hill and...
| Author | Joan Abelove |
| ISBN | 0141312270 |
For fans of Lurlene McDaniel, this is a heartwrenching chronicle of a teen girl's experiences with her mother's brain cancer, based on the author's own life
Mindy has always relied upon her mother-to listen to her, to ease the tension between Mindy and her withdrawn father, to love her. Then...
Folks say I'm bound to be unlucky in life, for I was born at midnight on a Friday, the thirteenth of December, and Peggy says it's certain I can commune with spirits. But I ain't never seen any ghosts, not even my own mother, and wouldn't that be the ghost I'd see if I could?
So begins the tale of Billy...
| Author | Ann Jaramillo |
| ISBN | 1596431547 |
Miguel's life is just beginning. Or so he thinks. Fifteen-year-old Miguel leaves his rancho deep in Mexico to migrate to California across la linea, the border, in a debut novel of life-changing, cliff-hanging moments.
But Miguel's carefully laid plans change suddenly when his younger sister...
| Author | Elisa Carbone |
| ISBN | 0440418798 |
Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of the 19th century is far from quiet. The...
| Author | Alison Hart |
| ISBN | 1561453986 |
In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey.
The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother-making...
| Author | L.D. Harkrader |
| ISBN | 1596430605 |
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. He loves watching basketball. He loves talking about basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But coach has a plan for Kirby and the supremely untalented seventh-grade team. It involves the guys playing nearly naked -- only in their briefs. Maybe the...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344451 |
Avrom Amos likes to crack jokes. He loves the spotlight. And if he wants something, he knows how to get it. He's just like any other boy, except for one thing: He's a ghost—a dybbuk. During World War Two he'd been murdered by the Nazis, right after he saved the life of a young ventriloquist named Freddie.
Freddie...
Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign...
What a Beast!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the Monsters and Mutants of Mythology
| Author | Sophia Kelly |
| ISBN | 1606310607 |
- Annotated/illustrated Table of Contents
- Introduction explains the origins of mythology, how we learned the stories, and why myths matter today
- A-Z Hall of Fame features the key characters in each book
- Full profiles of each character with their amazing myths
- Backmatter includes...
| Author | Kelly McClymer |
| ISBN | 1416916458 |
Prudence Stewart is finally starting to get her witch on. It's been a month since her parents decided to give their magic-deficient daughter a crash course in enchantment by enrolling her in Agatha's Day School for Witches. And sure, Pru's still stuck in Magic for Dummies -- but at least she made the cheerleading...
| Author | Alfred Slote |
| ISBN | 0064404692 |
"Daydreamer Jason, 11, has just been [dropped] from his Little League team. Seeking solace at the baseball-card shop, he makes a startling hypothesis: 'Buck McHenry,' star pitcher [of the Negro Leagues], could be school custodian Mack Henry. Mr. Henry's identity, in doubt through much of the book,...
| Author | Diane Lee Wilson |
| ISBN | 0689871384 |
WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.
When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side...
| Author | Jennifer Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0590469215 |
Very strong message on the immorality of slavery. Two young girls, 13 and 14 are bound together as friends forever. The story begins in the future and goes back and forth in time as the now two old women are penning their life story.As Susannah's parents die, she is shipped to her Uncle's farm in Virginia...
| Author | Carolyn Marsden |
| ISBN | 0763633763 |
"A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching...
| Author | Janet Taylor Lisle |
| ISBN | 0399250700 |
When three kittens are carelessly thrown off the back of a truck, none of the highway cats know what to make of them. They seem to have some sort of appeal?an energy, even?that Khalia Koo, Jolly Roger and the rest of the mangy, feral cats don?t understand. But there are bigger issues to figure out when the...
| Author | Tom Bodett |
| ISBN | 0375806873 |
"Bodett, the genial voice in those Motel 6 commercials, offers a page-turner set in the wilds of Alaska, and he clearly knows the taste of sea and storm, the face of the landscape, and the sound of the loons and the scent of salmon. In this sentimental but rousing tale, September Crane, 13, and her 12-year-old...
| Author | Sue Corbett |
| ISBN | 0525471200 |
Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a team with Cuban players comes into town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad, and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s when...
| Author | Audrey Shafer |
| ISBN | 0385733445 |
Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed. Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care system until a social worker located his Uncle Vernon two years before. When he comes home to discover that his...
A crew of middle school nobodies secretly use dog training techniques on their classmates to go from eighth-grade underdogs to leaders of the pack, only to discover being top dog isn’t all they expected it to be..
Do You Know the Monkey Man?
| Author | Dori Hillestad Butler |
| ISBN | 1561453404 |
For thirteen-year-old Samantha, life consists of too many unanswered questions about her past.
Why has her father not tried to contact her all these years? How could he have allowed her twin sister to drown in Clearwater Quarry when they were only toddlers? And how can Samantha's mother expect...
