Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza, #2)
By: Jack Gantos
4.08
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as …
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1. Running Out of Time
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.99
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes t… read more
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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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"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. Kira-Kira
By: Cynthia Kadohata
3.97
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lyn… read more
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"The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time."-Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
"I didn't care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies."-Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
"I cried and cried. But then I had to stop. One thing about me was that when I was having a serious wish session, I tried never to wish impossible wishes. I might have wished for sixteen crayons inste…"-Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
4. Stone Fox
By: John Reynolds Gardiner , Greg Hargreaves
4.04
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has c… read more
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5. A Girl Named Disaster
By: Nancy Farmer
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs aw… read more
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"The high point of your life was when you knocked me down"-Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster
"I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up riv…"-Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster
6. The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
By: Avi
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
"Asta's Son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mo… read more
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7. Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza, #2)
By: Jack Gantos
4.08
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as … read more
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- young adult
- 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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"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. Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #5)
By: Laurence Yep
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider … read more
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10. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
By: Gary D. Schmidt
3.91
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for… read more
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"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches."-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
"Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow i…"-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
11. 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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"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
12. Hello, Universe
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and… read more
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13. Savvy (Savvy, #1)
By: Ingrid Law
0.00
Format: 126 pages,
For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" -a … read more
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14. The Wanderer
By: David Díaz , Sharon Creech
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. Sophie… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. Paperboy
By: Vince Vawter
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a … read more
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17. The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)
By: Susan Patron
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-ol… read more
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18. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
By: Rita Williams-Garcia
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more
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19. The View from Saturday
By: E.L. Konigsburg
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more
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21. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
By: Dan Gemeinhart
4.54
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more
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"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
