A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History

10 best books like A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History (Lynne Cherry): Judy Moody was in a Mood. Not a Good Mood. A Bad Mood., Bad Kitty School Daze, Last Stop on Market Street, Attack of the Ninja Frogs, Weslandia, Horrible Harry and the Green Slime, Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey, Fanny's Dream, The Day of Ahmed's Secret, The Case of the Mossy Lake Monster

Judy Moody was in a Mood. Not a Good Mood. A Bad Mood.

Author	Megan McDonald
ISBN	0763612316

The book that started it all--now in paperback!

Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood.
A mad-faced mood.

Judy Moody doesn't have high hopes for third grade. But she does have an abundance of individuality and attitude, and when Mr. Todd assigns the class a special Me...

Bad Kitty School Daze

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596436700

Bad Kitty faces her toughest challenge yet . . .
 

Kitty and Puppy are out of control! They're screaming, fighting, hissing, and drooling all over the house, and all of the commotion is upsetting Baby. Time for school—obedience school, that is. Can Kitty learn to follow the rules and...

Last Stop on Market Street

Author	Matt de la Pena
ISBN	0399257748

Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...

Attack of the Ninja Frogs

Author	Ursula Vernon
ISBN	0803733658

Danny Dragonbreath knew girls were trouble. But the new foreign exchange student, Suki the Salamander, is beyond trouble. Not only has she reduced his best friend, Wendell, to a blithering, lovesick tadpole, but she?s apparently the object of an elaborate ninja frog kidnapping plot. Danny is never...

Weslandia

Author	Paul Fleischman
ISBN	0763610526

WESLANDIA honors the misfits—and the creators—among us.

Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia! Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He’s learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own - civilization,...

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime

Author	Suzy Kline
ISBN	0140389709

Although my brother would have been young enough to read the Horrible Harry series when they were new, I don't remember him reading them. I was too old for them at the time and was going through my "no kids books!" phase.

That being said, I know nothing about the Horrible Harry series except for...

Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey

Author	Alex Milway
ISBN	0763666157

In a wry new early reader, the world’s most optimistic pig and his nervous hamster sidekick set out on an exploration to find the Ends of the Earth.

Pigsticks is the last in a noble line of explorers, and he’s decided it’s time for him to follow in his forepigs’ footsteps — with an assistant...

Fanny's Dream

Author	Caralyn Buehner
ISBN	0142500607

In this inventive take on the traditional Cinderella tale, Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl with a big dream. Someday, she believes, she will marry a prince. When the town mayor announces he is throwing a grand ball, Fanny is convinced her time has come. She puts on her best calico dress and goes out to the...

The Day of Ahmed's Secret

Author	Florence H. Parry
ISBN	0688140238

The Day of Ahmed's Secret

As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand...

The Case of the Mossy Lake Monster

Author	Michele Torrey
ISBN	1402749627

Is there a creepy creature lurking in Mossy Lake? Is an evil plot stirring? Is something shocking happening to Caitlin’s cat Zappy—and can he be de-zapped? Would-be scientists and detectives will want to slip into their lab coats, dust off their test tubes, and get on the case with Drake Doyle and...

Jigsaw Jones Super Special #2 (Jigsaw Jones, Super Special) Case of the Million Dollar Mystery

Author	James Preller
ISBN	0439426294

Jigsaw Jones is a, puzzle fanatic detective who deals with all kinds of cases. He knows that mysteries are like jigsaw puzzles---you've got to look at all the pieces to solve the case.

There's a contest in Jigsaw's school to come up with a prize-winning invention. The kids are convinced the prize...

Book of Animal Poetry - With Favorites From Robert Frost, Jack Prelutsky, Emily Dickinson, and More

Author	U.S. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis
ISBN	0545565553

Book of Animal Poetry is a wonderful book with a huge selection of poems about animals. The poems are from many wonderful poets like Robert Frost, Jack Prelutsky, Emily Dickinson and many more. The book is split into different sections by animals such as large animals, small animals, insects, and marine...

Board Rebel

Author	Jake Maddox
ISBN	1598894145

Tanner Ryan hates everything about his new town. All of his friends are back in his old city, and the only thing he likes in Woodville is his family's pool. That is until he discovers the Curves, the most amazing place ever to skateboard. Unfortunately, on the same day he finds the Curves, he meets Bennett...