Kenny & the Dragon
10 best books like Kenny & the Dragon (Tony DiTerlizzi): How to Train Your Dragon, Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906, Walls Within Walls, Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, The Lost Planet, Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, The Night Fairy, Extra Credit, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor, The Goat
| Author | Cressida Cowell |
| ISBN | 0316737372 |
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer"...but it wasn't always so. Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Can Hiccup capture a dragon...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0375836527 |
“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”
Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then...
Perfect for tween readers who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart.
After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move...
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
| Author | Chris Riddell |
| ISBN | 1405050578 |
Introducing Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve . . .
Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr Munroe. Together they...
| Author | Rachel Searles |
| ISBN | 1250038790 |
This is what the boy is told:
• He woke up on planet Trucon, inside a fence he shouldn't have been able to pass.
• He has an annirad blaster wound to the back of his head.
• He has no memory.
• He is now under the protection of a mysterious benefactor.
• His name is Chase Garrety.
This...
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
| Author | Cornelia Cornelissen |
| ISBN | 0440412420 |
It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for...
| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| ISBN | 0763636746 |
What would happen to a new night fairy whose wings were accidentally chewed off by a sleepy hungry new bat? Flory, acorn-size, with a single small sting spell, finds the world very big and dangerous. Depicted in the lush back garden of an old giantess, garbed in delicate softly tinted petal gowns, she...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 1416949291 |
It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant country....
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 1419712187 |
Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink...
| Author | Anne Fleming |
| ISBN | 1554989167 |
When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building.
Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?
As Kid soon discovers, a goat...
| Author | Paul Stewart |
| ISBN | 0385750889 |
FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP.
Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo
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Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship "Betty Jeanne "and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box...
