Books like Ike and mama and trouble at school by Carol Snyder

When ten‑year‑old Opal arrives in Naomi, Florida, she discovers friendship, community, and the healing power of a big ugly dog named Winn‑Dixie during her first summer in town.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 follows eighth‑grader Ramona as she navigates a new school, new friends, and the challenges of growing up, all while balancing family expectations and her mischievous sense of humor.

A story about Nick Allen, who invents a new word and becomes a local hero by spreading it across the country.

A Jewish family leaves rural Russia for New York, where youthful ambition, tradition, and comedy collide in a diary‑style journey of hope, settlement, and cultural clash.

Interview‑style book where a dozen children discuss bullying in school, offering perspectives from victims, witnesses, and bullies, with prompts for classroom dialogue.

I Should Worry, I Should Care follows young Molly and her neighbors in a Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood during World War II, blending family life, cultural identity, and the challenges of a turbulent era.

Seventeen‑year‑old Levi joins his ex‑Marine brother Boaz on a Boston‑to‑Washington walk as he seeks to understand Boaz’s withdrawal.

In 1950s Pittsburgh, young Franny, recovering from polio, discovers a peculiar friendship with a flea named Fleabrain, a bond that leads her to question animal research and the nature of imagination.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

During the summer of 1910, a young Russian immigrant from New York’s tenements, Dossi, stays two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, enriching each of their lives.

A baseball-themed story about a child dealing with personal and team-related challenges on a little league team managed by their mother and coached by their brother.

Thirteen‑year‑old Alison Shandling lives in the shadow of her autistic twin brother, Adam, and the constant focus of their parents. When the taunting Rabbi’s son, Harry Roth, is injured, Alison discovers a hidden truth that changes her view of herself and others.

A china cup from Russia holds together a family's dreams and memories in America.