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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe World According to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney · 124 pages
Humphrey, a pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
The Best School Year Ever
Barbara Robinson · 117 pages
The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.
Anastasia Krupnik
Lois Lowry · 128 pages
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
The Wedding Planner's Daughter
Coleen Murtagh Paratore · 200 pages
Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume · 120 pages
Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem—his little brother, Fudge. But the grown-ups in his life just can't see that there is something wrong with a two-year-old who breaks his front teeth try- ing to fly, decides that he is a dog, goes on a no-eat strike, and scribbles all over his brother's homework. Peter is always asked to perform so that Fudge will be less of
Mary Anne Saves the Day
Ann M. Martin · 167 pages
Mary Anne has never been a leader of the Baby-sitters Club. She's left that up to Kristy... or Claudia... or Stacey. But now there's a big fight among the four friends, and Mary Anne doesn't have them to depend on anymore. It's bad enough when she's left alone at the lunch table at school. But when she has to baby-sit a sick child without any help from the club members, Mary Anne knows it's tim
A Season of Gifts
Richard Peck
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Three Times Lucky
Sheila Turnage · 312 pages
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat · 103 pages
Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo · 240 pages
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacuum cleaner, that is. As for self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, she has read every issue of the comic book 'Terrible Things Can Happen to You!' so she is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the sq
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 249 pages
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Lauren Child · 190 pages
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.
Wonder
R.J. Palacio · 330 pages
## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h
Matilda
Roald Dahl · 240 pages
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages
Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers · 206 pages
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren · 160 pages
Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbour
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg · 162 pages
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
The Great Brain
John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages
A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett · 352 pages
Something is coming after Tiffany ...Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six