JFIC Stand Alone Books


Showing 61 - 80 of 1474  There are a total of 1474 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Antarctica!"
Star rating for Antarctica!
Description:
A young scientist must choose between finishing an important experiment and rescuing a colleague.
Book cover for "The anti-book"
Star rating for The anti-book
Average Rating:
1.5 stars
Description:
"Mickey finds a book that promises to erase whatever is written in it, and after filling the page with all the things and people he dislikes, he finds himself in the anti-world where everything familiar is gone"--
Book cover for "The anxious exile of Sara Salt"
Star rating for The anxious exile of Sara Salt
Description:
In this middle-grade novel told in letters, when Sara Salt's little brother is born early, her mom and stepdad send her to stay in Toronto with her half-sister Abby, who is starting a transitional housing park for unhoused people "Sara's little brother is born premature. He looks small and red, like a baby bird, so she calls him Birdy. Because she can't visit him often, she writes him letters about everything that's happened since he's been born-like...
Book cover for "Any way you look"
Star rating for Any way you look
Description:
Twelve-year-old Ainy is looking forward to working at her mother's clothing store for the summer--and someday soon wearing a hijab--but when certain boys harass her, and the boy she has a crush on doesn't step in, she turns to her older sister for help.
Book cover for "Anybody here seen Frenchie?"
Star rating for Anybody here seen Frenchie?
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Eleven-year-old Aurora Petrequin's best friend has never spoken a word to her. In fact, Frenchie Livernois doesn't talk. Aurora is bouncy, loud and impulsive. Making friends has never come easily. When Frenchie, who is autistic, silently chose Aurora as his person back in third grade, she chose him back. They make a good team, sharing their love of the natural world in coastal Maine. n the woods, Aurora and Frenchie encounter a piebald deer, a rare...
Book cover for "Anybody shining"
Star rating for Anybody shining
Description:
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
Book cover for "Apartment 1986"
Star rating for Apartment 1986
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums while they try to reveal why her grandmother wants to travel back to 1986.
Book cover for "Appleblossom the possum"
Star rating for Appleblossom the possum
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
A young possum strikes out on her own and winds up trapped in a human house before her brothers can rescue her.
Book cover for "Arabian nights"
Star rating for Arabian nights
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.
Book cover for "Are you nobody too?"
Star rating for Are you nobody too?
Description:
"After years of discomfort as the only Chinese student at her private middle school, Emily transfers to Chinatown's I.S. 23 for 8th Grade and ends up feeling more disconnected than ever. In this coming-of-age novel-in-verse, will Emily be able to find her way or will she lose herself completely?"--
Book cover for "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret"
Star rating for Are you there God? It's me, Margaret
Author:
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Book cover for "Around the world in 80 days"
Star rating for Around the world in 80 days
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
Book cover for "As brave as you"
Star rating for As brave as you
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
Book cover for "As you wish"
Star rating for As you wish
Description:
After feelings for her best friend Deve become complicated, thirteen-year-old African American Birdie makes a wish with a West African trickster god that goes awry.
Book cover for "Asking for a friend"
Star rating for Asking for a friend
Description:
"Eden Jones is a nonbinary kid who has Social Anxiety Disorder, and when their mother announces she is throwing a birthday party and inviting all their friends they are thrown into a panic--because while Eden's three 'friends' are all real kids at school they have almost never actually spoken to any of them"--
Book cover for "Astrid the unstoppable"
Star rating for Astrid the unstoppable
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," She loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Book cover for "At home in a faraway place"
Star rating for At home in a faraway place
Description:
Lissie fearlessly embraces new experiences when she travels to Guatemala with her dad and grandmother.
Book cover for "Attack of the black rectangles"
Star rating for Attack of the black rectangles
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Book cover for "Auggie & me"
Star rating for Auggie & me
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Collects three stories featuring Auggie Pullman told from Julian, Charlie, and Charlotte's perspectives. Wonder tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, whose first year at Beecher Prep school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him. Auggie & Me is a new side to the Wonder story: three new chapters from three different characters-- Julian the bully ; Auggie's oldest friend Christopher...
Book cover for "Averil offline"
Star rating for Averil offline
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Averil is on a mission to find the creator of the phone app her helicopter parents use to keep track of her.