Books like Fig pudding by Ralph J. Fletcher

A luminous twins’ story of love, loss, and family that follows Jude and Noah from carefree adolescence to a painful rift, as each seeks healing and a return to one another.

After her mother leaves, thirteen‑year‑old Sal travels with her grandparents, retracing her mother’s path while recounting her friend Phoebe’s story of loss and understanding.

After her mother dies, Eve—now skeptical of stories and magic—receives a mysterious seed for her eleventh birthday. Joined by a boy who claims to be a ghost, they journey to Beaumont, New York, where the town's cursed orchards reveal a hidden magic.

Bunyip Bluegum, a curious Australian koala, teams up with a sailor and a penguin to protect their ever‑refilling magic pudding from thieves.

Seventeen‑year‑old Mark Santos confronts grief and guilt after his twin sister Grace dies, and, with his best friend’s encouragement, follows a bucket list from her journal to find healing.

Donalyn Miller shows how to transform reluctant readers into enthusiastic book lovers, guiding students through literature with engaging, autonomous approaches.

Sixteen-year-old Travis Coates wakes to a new body after his head is restored in a cryogenics experiment. Though his age remains, he and everyone around him are living in a vastly altered reality.

The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. - See more at: http://www.stenhouse.com/html/the-daily-5-second-edition.htm#sthash.x5YVVfHT.dpuf

The Reading Strategies Book offers 300 actionable reading strategies, organized by 13 goals, aligned to Fountas & Pinnell levels, and cross‑linked to skills and genres, to support differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes.

A boy learns that responsibility is not always personal when he faces his uncle’s drowning and the weight of guilt in his young life.

After his brother Beau dies, 12‑year‑old Danny finds comfort in a stray puppy that seems to know Beau, and together they pursue the dream of a Cape Kennedy rocket launch.

Seventeen‑year‑old Michael MacKenzie’s birthday shooting shatters a family, sparking grief and guilt that ripple through his own life and that of classmate Jenna Ward.

Fourteen-year-old Henry hikes Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but a Cambodian refugee accused of Franklin's death changes the course of their journey.