18 books like Friction
Not in Room 204
Shares: Sexual Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Children's fiction
Don't you know there's a war on?
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
Shares: Teacher-student relationship, Teacher-student relationships, Children's fiction
Because of Mr. Terupt
Because of Mr. Terupt is the 2010 debut children's novel by Rob Buyea. Told through the eyes of seven students, it is about one year in the life of a fifth-grade class and their new teacher at the fictitious Snow Hill School.
The novel was a 2011 Middle Reader Honor Awards book of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. It received the 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate).
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Teachers, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction
Clementine's Letter (Clementine)
Clementine can't believe her ears, her beloved teacher, Mr D'Matz, might be leaving them for the rest of the year to go on a research trip to Egypt! No other teacher has ever understood her impulsiveness, her itch to draw constantly, or her need to play "Beat the clock" when the day feels too long. Her new substitute teacher has a whole new set of rules that Clementine can't figure out. She…
Shares: Students, Teachers, Children's fiction
The Unteachables
Very Interesting. Love the storyline.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Children's fiction
Fourth Grade Rats
A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.
Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry.
Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey teach…
Shares: Students, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction
Lulu and the duck in the park
Lulu, who loves animals, brings an abandoned duck egg to school, even though her teacher has banned Lulu from bringing animals to school ever again.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Students, Children's fiction
The battle of Zormla
The Empress of Zurm and others receive invitations to a battle from Zormla and his select squad of one-eyed teddy bears.
Shares: Students, Children's fiction
The war of Jenkins' ear
Toby Jenkins' friendship with an unusual new boy who claims to be Jesus makes life at boarding school somewhat more tolerable, even when conflict arises between the students and the boys from town.
Shares: Students, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction
The Talented Clementine
Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
Shares: Students, Teachers, Children's fiction
Killing Mr. Griffin
The plan was only to scare their English teacher...
They never actually intended to kill Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go wrong.
Shares: Students, Teachers, Children's fiction
A quiet kind of thunder
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's…
Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction
The day the teacher went bananas
A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla.
Shares: Teachers, Children's fiction
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Presents humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Shares: Students, Children's fiction
Sixth Grade Secrets
It starts when Laura finds a baseball cap at a rummage sale. The cap says "PIG CITY," and Laura decides to start a secret club based on the name. But part of the fun of a club is keeping other people out of it...and when Laura's best friend Gabe starts his own rival club called Monkey Town, it begins a prank war that escalates until more than feelings start getting hurt.
Shares: Students, Children's fiction
Swim the Fly
Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time—quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl on a date. But that goal starts to look easy compared to Matt's other aspiration: swimming the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) to…
Shares: Students, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction
Report to the Principal's Office
Four totally different kids have only one thing in common--they're all about to report to the principal's office.
Shares: Students, Children's fiction
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Children's fiction