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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Frank Cottrell Boyce · 321 pages
Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family out in the country.
Grandpa's Great Escape
David Walliams · 464 pages
Nicholas
Rene Goscinny · 131 pages
This collection of stories focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of little Nicolas and his friends at school and at play. Available to English-speaking children for the first time, this worldwide classic is one of a five book series that brings to life the day-to-day adventures of a young school boy--amusing, endearing, and always in trouble.
Princess Mia
Meg Cabot · 288 pages
A princess on her own . . . Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and her parents are making her see a "therapist." School, where Lilly still refuses to speak to her and Lana suddenly wants to be bff, is a total nightmare.
Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord · 221 pages
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see. Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire. With her friend Nate,
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson · 1,456 pages
This is a three volume slipcased book collection of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips that where published from 1985-1995, it covers all the strips published and also reproduces many of the covers of earlier books in full page color illustrations. There are three daily black and white strips per page, and one color Sunday comic on a single page. Besides the comic strips there is also other full p
The Lotterys Plus One
Emma Donoghue · 320 pages
Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery.
The Graduation of Jake Moon
Barbara Park · 115 pages
Fourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely into the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.
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.
Inheriting Edith: A Novel
Zoe Fishman
For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: The deceaseds eighty-two-year old moth
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Bette Bao Lord · 169 pages
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
All-of-a-Kind Family
Sydney Taylor · 189 pages
The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.
Waffle Hearts
Maria Parr · 237 pages
Lena is Trille’s best friend, even if she is a girl. And there is never an ordinary day when you’ve got a best friend like Lena. Hardly a day passes without Trille and Lena inventing some kind of adventure that often ends in trouble. Whether it’s coaxing a cow onto a boat or sledding down the steepest and iciest hill with a chicken, there is always a thrill—and sometimes an injury—to be had. Tril
Mandy
Julie Andrews Edwards · 237 pages
For ten-year-old Mandy, the old stone orphanage was the only home she remembered. Matron Bridie was kind to her, but there were thirty children to look after, and sometimes Mandy felt there was something missing. One day Mandy climbed over the high orphanage wall and found a tiny, deserted cottage in the woods. Here at last was her very own home. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy wor
Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl · 206 pages
Can Danny and his father outsmart the villainous Mr. Hazell? Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most
The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong · 298 pages
Six students in a tiny Dutch sea town engage practically the whole population in an effort to attract storks to nest on the town's roofs again.
Hour of the Bees
Lindsay Eagar · 368 pages
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Sharon Creech · 141 pages
Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories
A Mouse Called Wolf
Dick King-Smith · 98 pages
When a mother mouse named her youngest baby Wolfgang Amadeus from a scrap of sheet music left lying by the piano, she did not know what a perfect name she had chosen. Wolf discovers he has a singing talent, which leads to his making a special new friend. Suggested level: junior, primary.
The New Small Person
Lauren Child
Elmore Green likes being an only child, so when his parents bring a new small person, his baby brother, into the house he is not pleased and does his best to keep the new small person out of his life.