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Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

10 best books like Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price (Robert McCloskey): Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse, The Story of a Bad Boy, Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Freddy Goes to Florida, Buffalo Bill, Pagoo, The Trolley Car Family, Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin, Betsy and the Boys

Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse
AuthorRobert Lawson
ISBN0316517291
Paul Revere didn't make his famous midnight ride alone. Meet a patriot unlike any other: Scheherazade, the mare who doesn't mind mentioning she was once the fastest and most admired horse in the King's army. But on arrival in America, "Sherry" is quickly let down by her British rider and recruited by...
The Story of a Bad Boy
AuthorThomas Bailey Aldrich
ISBN1406806641
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze
AuthorElizabeth Enright
Four reasons to cheer!

Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is...
Henry Reed's Babysitting Service
AuthorKeith Robertson
ISBN0140341463
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own

An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
Freddy Goes to Florida
AuthorWalter R. Brooks
ISBN0879518081
first published between 1927 and 1958, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig have delighted five generations of children and are now going on to delight a sixth. They are available for the first time as Overlook paperbacks.

Walter R. Brooks introduced Freddy the Pig in Freddy Goes to Florida....
Buffalo Bill
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380374
I've often considered the "Wild West" to be fascinating. Cowboys, buffalo, Indians, wagons and life on the pioneer are tantalizing elements of fiction. Perhaps I read a little too much Little House on the Prairie as a girl.

Of all the famous elements of the west, the person who most embodies...
Pagoo
AuthorHolling Clancy Holling
ISBN0395539641
I want to be a Hermit Crab.



No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.



When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...
The Trolley Car Family
AuthorEleanor Clymer
ISBN0590407325
Mr. Paterfamilias (oops, I mean Parker)'s job driving his beloved trolley has gone away with his company's transition to buses, and, in lieu of severance, he chooses to take his trolley. Now he needs a new job and a new place to live while finding one, so (with the help of a surly-but-with-heart-of-gold...
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
AuthorMarguerite Henry
ISBN0970561806
Apparently, Quakers don't believe in art...I never knew this. Its considered evil I guess. So ironically, "Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin" is about a Quaker boy who loves art.

Ben does his utmost to study art, even behind his family's back. He cuts pieces of Grimalkin's fur to make paint...
Betsy and the Boys
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152051023
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

It's a new year, and Betsy...
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
AuthorEllen MacGregor
ISBN0070445605
Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest...
The Little Riders
AuthorMargaretha Shemin
ISBN0688124992
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
Cotton In My Sack
AuthorLois Lenski
This is the sixth book in Lois Lenski's American Regional Series. I missed it when reading the list of books from 1949, so I am adding it now. I also missed posting The Family Read yesterday, but since today is a school holiday, I am getting away with it!

Joanda's family are white share croppers...
Tucker's Countryside
AuthorGeorge Selden
ISBN0440402484
Chester Cricket needs help. That's the message John Robin carries into the Times Square subway station where Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse live. Quickly, Chester's good friends set off on the long, hard journey to the Old Meadow, where all is not well.Houses are creeping closer. Bulldozers and construction...
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog
AuthorDonald J. Sobol
ISBN0553485172
1. The Case of the Shower Singers
2. The Case of the Invisible Writing
3. The Case of the Stolen Fan
4. The Case of the Sleeping Dog
5. The Case of the Fire Thieves
6. The Case of the Mouse Show
7. The Case of the Tied-up Twins
8. The Case of the Wilford's Big Deal
9. The Case...
Henry and the Paper Route
AuthorBeverly Cleary
Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary gives readers a hero they'll relate to—and root for—in this comical and inspiring novel about Henry Huggins's mission to prove himself worthy of his very own paper route.

All the older kids work their own paper route, but because Henry is not...
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