18 books like Snakes And Ladders (Bananas)

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Alice in April Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While trying to survive seventh grade, Alice discovers that turning thirteen will make her the Woman of the House at home, so she starts a campaign to get more appreciated for taking care of her father and older brother. Shares Single-parent families, Family, Families, Schools

Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1886 · ★ 3.9 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing to be carried around the room… Shares Grandparent and child, Grandfathers, Grandparents, Family

The Misfits James Howe · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like… Shares Bullies, Schools, Children's fiction

Lucy and the bully Claire Alexander · 2008 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light When a mean classmate in preschool wrecks Lucy's artwork, she discovers that they can be friends once he stops being jealous of her. Shares Bullying, Bullies, Schools

Alice in Lace Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1996 · ★ 4.1 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions. Shares Single-parent families, Family, Families, Schools

Dead ends Erin Jade Lange · 2001 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure. Shares Bullying, Bullies, Single-parent families, Schools

The Yellow House Mystery Gertrude Chandler Warner · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man Shares Grandfathers, Family, Families, Children's fiction

Wendy and the Bullies Nancy K. Robinson · 1980 · ★ 3.7 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Wendy's troubles with bullies in and out of school reach the point where she is afraid to go to school. Shares Bullies, Schools, Children's fiction

The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Family, Families with this book.

Rotten School #7 - Dudes, the School Is Haunted! Robert Lawrence Stine · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Light Joe Sweety is the worst kind of bully -- big, mean, and always ready to use his fists. Chipmunk is the shiest, clumsiest kid at Rotten School. When Chipmunk is paired with Joe on the class trip, things get ugly -- and fast! Chipmunk spills his apple juice on Joe, he barfs on Joe, and he pulls down Joe's pants. All accidents, of course. But does Joe care? No way! He is out to get Chipmunk!Bernie… Shares Bullying, Bullies, Schools, Children's fiction

Heart of the wilderness Janette Oke · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate George McMannus traveled night and day from his wilderness cabin when the tragic news arrived that his daughter and son-in-law had died in a river accident. His only granddaughter, Kendra Marty, not yet four years old, had been left behind. McMannus was her only family, but what could a trapper, living alone in the backwoods, do to care for Kendra? She was such a tiny thing--so small to have… Shares Grandfathers, Grandparents

The bent twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher · 1915 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for herself and to trust her own instincts and experience. This, coupled with her passionate temperament, makes Sylvia a compelling figure as she resists efforts to mold her with every… Shares Family, Families

Wolven Di Toft · 2009 · ★ 4.9 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Nat, with help from family, friends, and his "pet" Woody, a wolf that turns into a boy, must face werewolves that have been altered as part of a dastardly plan. A boy who lives with his eccentric grandparents near a strange, apparently cursed wood longs for a dog, but the strange creature finally found by his grandfather hardly fits his image of the perfect pet, and it grows… Shares Grandparents, Families, Children's fiction

The Sweetness of Forgetting

The Sweetness of Forgetting Kristin Harmel · 2012 · ★ 4.2 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life. Shares Grandparent and child, Single-parent families

Monstrous devices Damien Love · 2018 · ★ 3.6 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object. Shares Grandfathers, Grandparents, Children's fiction

Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia · 2009 · ★ 3.4 The wrong angleTrina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina.Dominique: Some stupid little flit cuts right in between us and is like, "Hey." Like she don't see I'm here and all the space around me is mines. I slam my fist into my other hand… Shares Bullies, Schools, Children's fiction

Meltdown Andy McNab · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fourth in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers.A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to… Shares Grandfathers, Grandparents, Children's fiction

Escape from the overworld Danica Davidson · 2014 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Light "Eleven-year-old Stevie, who comes from a long line of Steves, doesn't feel as if he fits in the Minecraft world. Even though his dad is great at building and fighting off zombies, Stevie struggles in these areas. But the Stevie discovers a portal into a new world--our world. He steps out of a computer screen and into the room of Maison, a bullied girl who loves to build and create. Stevie wants… Shares Bullying, Schools, Children's fiction

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