Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?
10 best books like Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? (Jon Scieszka): Darkness Under the Water, Rain Is Not My Indian Name, More Minds, The Dragonslayer's Apprentice, Grand & Humble, Being Teddy Roosevelt, The Weeping Werewolf, Shannon's Story, What Was the Alamo?, What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.
Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
| Author | Cynthia Leitich Smith |
| ISBN | 0688173977 |
It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again—at least through...
"And she stomped purposely out of the room, muttering something about using all the power she could get and maybe asking Sayley if she'd like to join her in a little adventure.
Coren stared after her. Well, that was life with Lenora. Never dull.
He shrugged an apology to Fullbright and...
| Author | David Calder |
| ISBN | 0590630938 |
This was a really good book and I enjoyed it quite a bit. While the english can be hard to understand in some parts of the book it had a story that really keep in into the story. If there is a second book I wanna read it soon. The reason I choose to read this book is becuase I saw it on the book shelf and I mistook it...
Harlan is the most popular kid in his high school, and Manny may be the least. And yet, Harlan and Manny both share the same sense of foreboding, that something is not quite right in either of their lives.
They have something else in common as well, even if they don’t know it. Fourteen years ago,...
| Author | Claudia Mills |
| ISBN | 0374306575 |
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can’t afford to rent him a sax, and he’s sure he’ll never save up enough...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0689857551 |
In "The Dragon of Doom," Moongooble successfully completes his first Mighty Task -- collecting the Golden Acorns of Alcoona. So now it's time for him to complete the second one. He must bring back a bottle containing the tears of the Weeping Werewolf! But werewolves are scary, dangerous creatures....
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590477560 |
shannon's story is that she is a little dull. she is also trapped in the time warp to end all time warps. in the last babysitters club book, everyone was starting school again for the fall. here we are one book later & suddenly it's the end of the eighth grade AGAIN for the older babysitters. the babysitting-themed...
| Author | Meg Belviso |
| ISBN | 0448467100 |
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With...
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0399542388 |
Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series.
On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything...
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700...
Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!
When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case....
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
| Author | Cindy Neuschwander |
| ISBN | 1570916012 |
The character names alone- "sir cumference" "lady di ameter" and their son "radius" are HILARIOUS! This truly is an adventure in math and other elementary school children will love this! It makes math fun to read a story to figure out something like this, with three dimensional shapes and formulas....
B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC
| Author | June Sobel |
| ISBN | 0152022503 |
Get ready for a ride through the alphabet at a busy construction site. There's a big yellow Bulldozer, a tall shiny Crane, and a rusty red Dump truck--and the construction crew is hard at work. But what are they building?
Melissa Iwai's bright, bold illustrations perfectly complement June Sobel's...
| Author | H.I. Larry |
| ISBN | 0312346565 |
After three years, it is finally time to lift the lid on the secret identity of the Zac Power series’ best-selling author, H.I. Larry.
Zac Power’s world of adventure and espionage has been immensely successful, with around fifty exciting stories published and over a million copies sold...
Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
| Author | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat |
| ISBN | 0440409322 |
Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!
Rosamund's baseball team has a very unusual second base—Oliver’s gloopy purple plastic...
| Author | Eva Moore |
| ISBN | 0439114934 |
The Magic School Bus - Space Explorers by Eva Moore is part of the the Magic School Bus series. In this book the class travels with their teacher Ms. Frizzle into outer space. They learn the order of the planets and the different atmospheres of each one. They learn why each planet has an atmosphere like it...
| Author | Dina Anastasio |
| ISBN | 0448486954 |
With over 110 million viewers every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events in the United States. The final showdown between the two best football teams in the NFL attracts some of the biggest musicians to perform at the half-time show. But the Super Bowl is more than just a spectacle...
| Author | Robert Lopshire |
| ISBN | 0679877150 |
Illustrated in full color. Thirty-seven years after creating the
breakthrough reader "Put Me in the Zoo," Robert Lopshire has brought Spot
back. This time, Spot must perform new and exciting tricks in order to convince
the circus folks to keep him on. He changes colors, he breaks out in...
Horrible Harry and the Goog
| Author | Suzy Kline |
| ISBN | 0142407283 |
A secret teacher party is happening in the library, but who is the party for? Harry and Doug plan to find out, but when they discover Harry's pet cat, Googer, skulking around their classroom, they have to catch him before anyone else does! They chase The Goog all over school—even into places students...
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448483580 |
More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese...
The Case of the Stinky Science Project
| Author | James Preller |
| ISBN | 0439114284 |
James Preller (born 1961) is the children's book author of the Jigsaw Jones Mysteries, which are published by Scholastic Corporation. He grew up in Wantagh, New York and went to college in Oneonta, New York. After graduating from college in 1983, James Preller was employed as a waiter for one year before...
