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…
Want to Read $ 7.99"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 it."-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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1. 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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- childrens
- coming of age
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
2. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
By: Jeanne Birdsall
4.19
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- juvenile
"The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
"Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!"-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
3. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By: Phillip Hoose
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- juvenile
4. 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
- 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)
5. Olive's Ocean
By: Kevin Henkes
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sometimes life can change in an instant Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
6. Dead End in Norvelt
By: Jack Gantos
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dead End in Norveltis the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to chil… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
By: Jim Murphy
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- childrens
8. 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
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy book and Gary D. Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
- childrens
- teen
- coming of age
- historical
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
"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
9. 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
10. Jacob Have I Loved
By: Katherine Paterson
3.69
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- historical
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
"Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied"-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"In February the weather sometimes gave us a vacation, in August, never. We just got up earlier every morning until finally we met ourselves going to bed."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
11. Calvin
By: Martine Leavitt
3.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As a child, Calvin felt an affinity with the comic book character from Bill Watterson's Calvin & Ho… read more
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12. 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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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- juvenile
13. 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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14. Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1)
By: Sarah Arthur
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An American teenager discovers that her estranged English grandmother was once a queen in another w… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- historical fiction
15. Nothing Else But Miracles
By: Kate Albus
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. 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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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"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)
17. Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)
By: Ashley Bustamante
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
DANGER LURKS BEHIND EVERY COLOR When Ava Locke was five years old, she began a journey to join t… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"I don’t know how to need someone this way. All this time my emotions have been guarded by a stick house, and now a wildfire is outside my door."-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)
"How can I know for sure? How can I ever truly know? My heart wants to justify every action and begs me to believe he is being honest, but my intellect keeps flashing warning lights and asking questio…"-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)
18. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more
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- childrens
- historical
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- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
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"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
19. The Night War
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more
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- historical fiction
20. Across So Many Seas
By: Ruth Behar
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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21. Eagle Drums
By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more
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