First Grade Dropout

Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team

Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums

Mia's Life: Best Friends for Never

Bayou Dogs #2

Simon's Dream (Fog Mound, The)

Out the Somewhere

The Sack (Puffin Books)

Marley's life is as precarious as an overfull water balloon—one false move and everything will burst. Her best friends are pulling away from her, and her parents, newly separated, have decided she should spend the summer with her dad in his new house, with a job she didn't ask for and certainly doesn't want. On the upside is a cute boy who loves dogs as much as Marley does . . . but young love has lots of opportunity for humiliation and misinterpreted signals. Luckily Marley is a girl who trusts her instincts and knows the truth when she sees it, making her an immensely appealing character and her story funny, heartfelt, and emotionally true.

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First Grade Dropout

Audrey Vernick, Matthew Cordell, 2015

Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team

Steven Salerno, Audrey Vernick, 2012

Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums

Audrey Vernick, Daniel Jennewein, 2011

Mia's Life: Best Friends for Never

Stephanie Yue, Mia Fizz, Lidia Fernández Abril, 2022

Bayou Dogs #2

Nick Podehl, Tony Abbott, 2009

Simon's Dream (Fog Mound, The)

Susan Schade, 2008

Out the Somewhere

Brita Granström, Mick Manning, 1998

The Sack (Puffin Books)

Christobel Mattingley, Simon Kneebone, 1993