Paula Wiseman: 284 books

Cover of Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry
by Susan Vaught
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book Finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award ILA Young Adults’ Choices “A provocative, sensitive, and oh-so-timely read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Ambitious, thought-provoking, and very readable.” —Booklist (starred review) “Vaught...
Cover of Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
by Susan Vaught
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

“Edgar-winning Vaught, a neuropsychologist, has both personal and professional experience to draw on in crafting a narrator who is admirably smart and resilient despite an ‘itchy’ brain and a compulsion to count things.” —Booklist (starred review) “Deeply smart and considerate.”...
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by Susan Vaught
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year “Like its heroine, this contemporary mystery is compelling, offbeat, and fearless.” —The Horn Book “A sensitive, suspenseful mystery that deftly navigates the uncertainty of mental...
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by Susan Vaught
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017

“An excellent addition to middle grade shelves, with a differently-abled main character that readers will root for.” —School Library Journal “Vaught makes Max the brash, bold star of the book, exchanging stereotypes and sympathy cards for a well-drawn character whose disability is part...
Cover of The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!
by Wesley King
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

Lord of the Flies meets Star Trek in this outer space story of adventure, mystery, and fantastical fun from the author of The Vindico and The Feros. When Jonah wakes up on the Fantastic Flying Squirrel, he’s a bit confused. One second he is in his family’s living room doing his homework,...
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by Brian Eames
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Kitto’s adventure continues in the suspenseful sequel to The Dagger Quick, which School Library Journal called a “quest perfect for landlubbers and pirate aficionados alike.” On the high seas of the Caribbean in the 1600s, a twelve-year-old boy, Kitto, stands wrongly accused of his father’s...
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by Gloria Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

Kindness has incredible consequences in this compelling novel set in colonial India from a “master storyteller” (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award-winning author. It is India, 1918, six months after the end of World War I, and Rosalind awaits the return of her father from the war....
Cover of The Problem with the Puddles
by Kate Feiffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009

What if your parents agreed to disagree? Eight and a half years ago, when their beautiful baby girl was born, Mr. and Mrs. Puddle couldn't agree on what to name her. So Mrs. Puddle calls her daughter Emily and Mr. Puddle calls her Ferdinanda. And everyone else? They call her Baby. Having...
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Because of Thursday

With Audio Recording

by Patricia Polacco
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

From critically acclaimed author Patricia Polacco comes a heartwarming story about a girl named Annie, her lucky Thursdays, and a special cat who comes into her life just in time to make everything right. Thursdays have always been lucky for Annie Fetlock. She was born on a Thursday. She won...
Cover of Mostly Monsterly
by Tammi Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

Bernadette might seem like an ordinary monster, but sometimes she likes to do some very unmonsterlike things, like pick flowers. And pet kittens. And bake. When the time comes for Bernadette to go to Monster Academy, she's just a teensy bit nervous. Her classmates just don't understand her....
Cover of Superhero Joe and the Creature Next Door
by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

“Super Joe is super fun from beginning to end” (Children’s Literature)—and now he’s back for another adventure. One quiet morning, in a small town, a moving van arrives and brings the creature next door! Where did it come from? Why is it here? From his window Joe can’t see...
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by Carol Lynch Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

In trying to reunite with her mother, Winston discovers the many meanings of family and finds friendship in an unexpected place in this “warm, humorous, and poignant story” (Publishers Weekly) from the author of Waiting, which Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review,called “exceptional” and Glimpse,...
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by Tracey Baptiste
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009

Grace has always had wild red hair like no one else in her family and a birthmark on her shoulder that her mother told her was the mark of an angel. When Grace is sent from New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in Trinidad, she looks through the family album and discovers a blurred photograph...
Cover of Strictly No Elephants
by Lisa Mantchev
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

“A sunny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tale.” —The New York Times Book Review “Sweet and affirming.” —Kirkus Reviews Huffington Post Honor Book for Best in Kindness Bank Street Best Book of 2015 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Charlotte Huck Honor Book CCBC (Cooperative...
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