Penny from Heaven
By: Jennifer L. Holm
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball…
Want to Read $ 8.99"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house."-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven
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1. Penny from Heaven
By: Jennifer L. Holm
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- juvenile
"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the be…"-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven
2. Rules
By: Cynthia Lord
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptan… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
"rules"-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"No toys in the fish tank "-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"Just this once, let it be easy."-Cynthia Lord, Rules
"...choosing words is harder than I thought."-Cynthia Lord, Rules
3. Half a Chance
By: Cynthia Lord
3.99
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
A moving new middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules. When Lucy's family moves… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- juvenile
4. Shakespeare's Secret
By: Elise Broach
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare-can Hero uncover the connections? … read more
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- childrens
- historical
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
"There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it."-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret
"My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home."-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret
"I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested."-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret
"My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you."-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret
5. The Odds of Getting Even (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #3)
By: Sheila Turnage
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bes… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- juvenile
6. Belle Prater's Boy
By: Ruth White
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodro… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- juvenile
7. Breaking Stalin's Nose
By: Eugene Yelchin
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet You… read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
8. Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
By: Polly Horvath
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- juvenile
"At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, …"-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
9. Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
By: Sheila Turnage
4.03
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and E.B. White Read-Aloud Ho… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- juvenile
"Some people look like they were born on a clothes hanger. Not me. I look more like I was born in a dryer."-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I'v…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride.... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"Is it true, then, Mayor?" Grandmother Miss Lacy Thornton warbled from the end of the counter. "Is Jesse Tatum officially dead?" "Dead is such an unflattering term," he said, sliding onto his stool. "…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
10. The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #2)
By: Sheila Turnage
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated followup to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three T… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- juvenile
11. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.94
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but p… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"...religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more allure. He dismissed the classical sculptures in the Earl o…"-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
12. The Good Master
By: Kate Seredy
4.14
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
13. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
By: Rodman Philbrick
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, witty Civil War tale from bestselling author Rodman Philbrick Master storyteller Rodma… read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
"Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching"-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap."-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching int…"-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
14. The Outlaws of Sherwood
By: Robin McKinley
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author Robin McKinley's vivid retelling of the classic story of Robin Ho… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- young adult
- historical fiction
"Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are."-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
"I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it."-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
"Her words flew like butterflies through the vibrant air of the hall; and the company was quiet, as if watching them."-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
"The king will catch us if the sheriff should fail to and then the Saxon race can be symbolically and romantically hung by the neck till dead."-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
15. Whittington
By: None , Alan Armstrong
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Newbery Medal Honor Title (2006) This winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who a… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
16. Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Reilly Giff
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
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"There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water."-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
"Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it,…"-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
17. Soar
By: Joan Bauer
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- juvenile
18. Hope Was Here
By: Joan Bauer
4.01
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure w… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
"Revenge of the Giant Grill Man."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"The sad heart needs work to do."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
19. Toliver's Secret
By: Esther Wood Brady
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Underneath
By: Kathi Appelt , David Small
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned o… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
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"THE WORLD IS made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk."-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
"Whenever there is a breeze in the old forest, you might, for a moment, realize that the trees are singing. There, on the wind, are the voices of sugarberry and juniper and maple..."-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
"Here, she curled up in a tight ball and waited, purred to her unborn babies. And the trees, the tall and kindly trees, watched over her while she slept, slept the whole night through."-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
"For trees, who see so much sorrow, so much anger, so much desperation, know love for the rare wonder of it, so they are champions of it and will do whatever they can to help it along its way."-Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
21. Slugfest
By: Gordon Korman
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- juvenile
