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10 best books like Operation Bunny (Sally Gardner): A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher, Earwig and the Witch, Withering-By-Sea, The Princess in Black, Dory Fantasmagory, Iris and Walter, The Prairie Thief

A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0385392281
Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems to think Miss Drake is her pet—a ridiculous notion!

Unknown to most of its inhabitants, the City by the Bay is home to many mysterious and fantastic creatures, hidden beneath the parks, among the clouds,...
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
AuthorEsther Averill
ISBN1590170474
In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
AuthorKaren Foxlee
ISBN0385753543
A modern-day fairy tale set in a mysterious museum that is perfect for readers of Roald Dahl and Blue Balliett.

Unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother...
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
AuthorDana Alison Levy
ISBN0385376545
Meet the Fletchers. Their year will be filled with new schools, old friends, a grouchy neighbor, hungry skunks, leaking ice rinks, school plays, wet cats, and scary tales told in the dark!

There’s Sam, age twelve, who’s mostly interested in soccer, food, and his phone; Jax, age ten, who’s...
Earwig and the Witch
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007416857
Most orphanages are horrible, but Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. The last thing she wants is to be adopted by the very strange Bella Yaga, demon-attended Mandrake, and talking black cat Thomas. Earwig wants to learn magic,...
Withering-By-Sea
AuthorJudith Rossell
ISBN0733333001
High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts. But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have... Something...
The Princess in Black
AuthorShannon Hale
Who says princesses don’t wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black!

Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when . . . Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big...
Dory Fantasmagory
AuthorAbby Hanlon
ISBN0803740883
Move over, Junie B. Jones and Ivy & Bean! Here comes a lovably energetic little sister with a BIG personality—and an imagination to match!

As the youngest in her family, Dory really wants attention, and more than anything she wants her brother and sister to play with her. But she’s too...
Iris and Walter
AuthorElissa Haden Guest
ISBN0152056440
When I arrived at my current library two years ago, the first question I received that stumped me was a request for the Iris and Walter books. I knew a lot of kids’ books, even then, but somehow none of the libraries I’d worked in prior to my current position had this series, so I had to admit to the nanny...
The Prairie Thief
AuthorMelissa Wiley
In this “delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and The Spiderwick Chronicles” (SLJ), experience life on the prairie—with one fantastical twist!

Louisa Brody’s life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty...
The Frog Who Croaked
AuthorJarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN0062071645
From the Files of the Platypus Police Squad

Case #1138 Detectives of record: Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley

Case brief: A local schoolteacher is missing, and the only thing fishier than the circumstances surrounding his disappearance is the smell coming from the bag he left behind....
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia
AuthorPalmer Brown
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
Emmaline and the Bunny
AuthorKatherine Hannigan
ISBN0061626546
Emmaline lives in a very tidy town, but Emmaline is not tidy. Emmaline likes to hop, hop, hop and holler, “Hoopalala!” And, more than anything, Emmaline wants a bunny.

Orson Oliphant is mayor of the town. He is very tidy. Orson Oliphant does not like hopping and hollering. And, more than...
Clover's Luck
AuthorKallie George
ISBN1423183827

Despite her name, Clover has always felt decidedly unlucky. So when she stumbles upon a mysterious cottage in the Woods, she can hardly believe her good fortune. It's the Magical Animal Adoption Agency, and it houses creatures of all kinds. Fairy horses, unicorns, and a fiery young dragon are just...
The Miniature World of Marvin & James
AuthorElise Broach
ISBN0805091904
In this Masterpiece Adventure from bestselling author Elise Broach, James is going on vacation for a week. His best friend, Marvin the beetle, has to stay at home. Without James to keep him company, Marvin has to play with his annoying cousin, Elaine. Marvin and Elaine quickly find themselves getting...
The Case of the Girl in Grey
AuthorJordan Stratford
ISBN0385754442
This history-mystery series continues with another fine display of brains and bravery from the Wollstonecraft Girls—Ada Bryon Lovelace and Mary Shelley. The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case (The Case of the Missing...
Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty!
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0307980650
In this hilarious sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire!—that even includes a guest appearance by J. K. Rowling a.k.a. "Oldwhatshername"—Madeleine wants nothing more than to save money for college, but her impractical, ex-hippie parents are broke. When the family unexpectedly...
The Case of the Weird Blue Chicken
AuthorDoreen Cronin
ISBN1442496797
First sentence: Dirt. Sugar. Poppy. Sweetie. You lost it. We'll find it.



Premise/plot: Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie are the chicken squad--a team of chicks who solve backyard mysteries for fun. This one features a WEIRD BLUE CHICKEN. A blue bird has come to them for help....

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The Secrets of Eastcliff-by-the-Sea: The Story of Annaliese Easterling Throckmorton, Her Simply Remarkable Sock Monkey
AuthorEileen Beha
ISBN1442498404
A charming sock monkey reunites a fractured family in this simply remarkable novel in the tradition of The Velveteen Rabbit and The Penderwicks.

Meet Throckmorton S. Monkey. He's everything a sock monkey is supposed to be: Loving. Loyal. A very good listener. And he's never, ever, not even...
Emma and the Blue Genie
AuthorCornelia Funke
What if a genie had no wishes?

Cornelia Funke, New York Times bestselling author of Inkheart, brings her signature imagination, adventure, and humor to the youngest of middle-grade readers in this charming tale of magic lost and found.

One dark night, Emma finds a mysterious green...
Detective Gordon: The First Case
AuthorUlf Nilsson
ISBN1927271495
On the one hand, this is a cute little mystery about forest animals. On the other, it presents the mentality of Nordic-style socialism to kids. It’s written by a popular Swedish children’s author, and the liberal Scandinavian outlook is interesting to see.

The plot is centered around...
The Dragonsitter
AuthorJosh Lacey
ISBN1849394199
'Dear Uncle Morton. You'd better get on a plane right now and come back here. Your dragon has eaten Jemima.'

It had sounded so easy: Edward was going to look after Uncle Morton's unusual pet for a week while he went on holiday. But soon the fridge is empty, the curtains are blazing, and the postman...
Ivy
AuthorKatherine Coville
ISBN0553539760
For fans of Jessica Day George and E. D. Baker comes a charming young fantasy about a girl, her grandmother, and an animal hospital devoted to fantastical creatures.

Ivy's grandmother is a healer--to mostly four-legged patients of the forest. Although the woodland creatures love her, the...
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