Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
10 best books like Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little (Peggy Gifford): Clementine, Friend of the Week, Someone Named Eva, Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, No Talking, Diamonds in the Shadow, Diamond Willow, The Great Wide Sea, The Killing Sea, Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, Just Grace
Clementine, Friend of the Week
| Author | Sara Pennypacker |
| ISBN | 1423113551 |
Clementine has been picked for Friend of the Week, which means she gets to be line leader, collect the milk money, and feed the fish. Even better, she'll get a Friend of the Week booklet in which all the other third grade kids will write why they like her. Clementine's best friend Margaret has all sorts of...
| Author | Joan M. Wolf |
| ISBN | 0618535799 |
Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award...
Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375857052 |
Alvin Ho does not think the great outdoors is great. It is super-duper scary. Here are a few reasons why:
1. Flash floods
2. Meteorites
3. Lots of creepy trees
4. Pit toilets!
Luckily, when his dad suggests--gulp!--a camping trip, Alvin is prepared. He has:
1....
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 1416909834 |
"You have the right to remain silent." However...
The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot.
Then one...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385732619 |
THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter....
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374317763 |
There's
more to me than
most people
see.
Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants,...
| Author | M.H. Herlong |
| ISBN | 0670063304 |
Ben, Dylan, and Gerry are still mourning their mother's death when their dad decides to buy a boat and take them on a year-long sailing trip. Tensions flare between Ben and his father, but they gradually learn to live together in close quarters. But one morning, the boys wake up to discover their father...
| Author | Richard Lewis |
| ISBN | 1416911650 |
Ruslan slipped away from the café and the curious onlookers. He began to run, not knowing exactly why, but instinct making him head away from the sea....
And in the distance, along the seafront of Ujung Karang, screams rose from a hundred, a thousand, mouths.
Aceh, Indonesia. December...
| Author | Lauren Tarshis |
| ISBN | 0803731647 |
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It's easy: she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0618646426 |
Grace loves cats. She also loves taking pictures of cats and drawing Not-So Super comics. She doesn’t like Sammy Stringer, a boy in her class. She’s got lots and lots of ideas, and when her neighbor’s cat goes missing, Grace does her best to make Mrs. Luther feel less lonely. But...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 1416927433 |
Jake is a part of an extraordinary family. He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake knows he has Edward. From the moment he was born, Jake knew Edward was destined for something. Edward...
A fun, accessible chapter-book debut from an exciting new talent--simultaneous hardcover-paperback launch!
Marty McGuire would rather spend recess catching frogs in the pond than playing dress-up with the other girls in third grade. So when her teacher casts Marty as the princess in the...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805081976 |
It's not easy being the middle child, especially when your dad is a Navy Chief. Meet Piper Reed, a spunky nine-year-old who has moved more times than she can count on one hand. From Texas to Guam, wherever Piper goes, adventure follows, inspired by her active imagination, free-wheeling spirit, and a...
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0763624985 |
Dunderheads, unite! A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully
subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman.
Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But...
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0689852819 |
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between...
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0385905882 |
When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other.
Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes,...
