Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment

10 best books like Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment (Frances O'Roark Dowell): The Night Crossing, Me and the Pumpkin Queen, Geek Chic: The Zoey Zone, The Girl with 500 Middle Names, Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit, Stumptown Kid, Melonhead, The Hero Revealed, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, Airball: My Life in Briefs

AuthorKaren Ackerman
ISBN0679870407
It's hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, and it is Clara's...
Me and the Pumpkin Queen
AuthorMarlane Kennedy
ISBN0061140228
Mildred's Guide to Growing a Giant Pumpkin

1. Get the right seeds. These days, no one grows a Pumpkin Show winner without Howard Dill's Atlantic Giant seeds.

2. Convince your dad that having a pumpkin patch in your backyard is a good idea.

3. Make sure that your dogs stay far,...
Geek Chic: The Zoey Zone
AuthorMargie Palatini
ISBN0061138983
Meet Zoey
Age: Eleven. Well, almost eleven. Backspace. Halfway to eleven.
Factoid: 198 days to sixth grade.
Problem: Coolability (see glossary inside).
Connect the dots: A bad hair situation . . . Growing earlobes . . .

Wanted:
1. A fairy godmother.
2. A molto chic...
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN0689841361
JANIE WHO?
It's hard enough being the new kid in school. It's even tougher when all of your new classmates live in big houses and wear expensive clothes, while your parents have little and are risking everything just to give you a chance at a better life.
Now Janie's about to do something that...
AuthorJoan Carris
Grampa's menagerie of pets are rubbed the wrong way when a needy little critter arrives in this lighthearted chapter book.

Grampa Bender wouldn't be able to run the Bed and Biscuit animal boardinghouse without the help of Ernest the pig, Gabby the mynah bird, and Milly the cat. In fact, the three...
AuthorCarol Gorman
ISBN1561454125
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small...
AuthorKaty Kelly
ISBN0385734093
Adam Melon's friend Lucy Rose gave him a nickname—Melonhead—and it caught on fast. Melonhead is a self-proclaimed inventor. All his life, which is ten years and counting, great ideas have been popping in and out of his melon head. And sometimes they work! This year Melonhead's class is entering...
AuthorWilliam Boniface
ISBN0060774649
In Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.

In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?

Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests....
AuthorSundee T. Frazier
ISBN0385734395
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...
AuthorL.D. Harkrader
ISBN1596430605
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. He loves watching basketball. He loves talking about basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But coach has a plan for Kirby and the supremely untalented seventh-grade team. It involves the guys playing nearly naked -- only in their briefs. Maybe the...
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374370559
Nothing ever happens in Fayette, South Carolina. That's what Popeye thinks, anyway. His whole life, everything has just been boring, boring, boring. But things start to look up when the Jewells' Holiday Rambler makes a wrong turn and gets stuck in the mud, trapping Elvis and his five rowdy siblings...
AuthorGerald Morris
ISBN0547418558
In the third installment in the Knights’ Tales series, Gerald Morris tells the laugh-out-loud tale of King Arthur’s most celebrated knight, and nephew, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. With lively illustrations by Aaron Renier, Morris creates a captivating and comical medieval world that teems...
AuthorClaudia Mills
ISBN0374334870
Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own—not his class projects or even attending activities such as the space sleepover at school. Afraid he will become...
Penguin Problems
AuthorLauren Myracle
ISBN0525422641
A brand-new illustrated chapter book series by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Myracle!
 
Winnie Perry’s sweet baby brother, Ty, is the quintessential dreamer, full of big ideas and wacky plans that only a seven-year-old boy could hatch. Whether it’s battling the family cat...
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN1416902449
Do not panic.

Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. But Lord Thistlebottom has no advice...
AuthorBonny Becker
ISBN0375856374
Ms. Plum is the magical teacher every schoolkid wishes for!


Everybody wants to be in Ms. Plum’s class. It’s not just that she teaches the usual things in unusual ways. There’s something more, something about Ms. Plum herself—and her mysterious supply closet. Whenever she asks...
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0689862997
Dear Jamshed,

America is not so different from what we thought. I told you I wouldn't see a single cowboy riding across the plain, and I haven't.

I have not even seen a plain.

Still, there are some silver linings. They are:

1.) Trapper and King, the cat and dog who live...
AuthorJenny Lombard
ISBN0399243801
A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it. Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, ten-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical American life. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in....
Ruby Lu, Brave and True
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN1416913890
Most days the best thing about being Ruby is everything. Like when she's the star of her own backyard magic show. Or when she gives a talk at the school safety assembly on the benefits of reflective tape. Or when she rides the No. 3 bus all the way to Chinatown to visit GungGung and PohPoh.

And then...
Please Write in This Book
AuthorMary Amato
ISBN0823419320
"Hello boys and girls,
You have found this book! I hid it in the writer’s corner, hoping you would. During center time, you can choose to come to the writer’s corner and write in this journal. Write about anything you want. Leave it for other students to find and write in, too. I want you to “talk”...
Punished!
AuthorDavid Lubar
ISBN1581960425
If you are planning to teach figures of speech, you might want to pull this book out and read a little to your class each day. The main character, Logan, is cursed to speak in puns by Professor Wordsworth because he is too rowdy and a little disrespectful in the library. In order to lift the curse he must bring...
Three Good Deeds
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
ISBN0152053824
If Howard had known the old hag was a witch, he never would have taunted her. But he did, and she did what witches do--cursed him--and now he's a goose, which to tell you the truth, is not as serene and peaceful as it might look from the shore. People try to kill geese, for crying out loud, and the other geese...
The Missing Manatee
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0374312575
A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family
All Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out permanently....
Into the Wild: Yet Another Misadventure
AuthorDoreen Cronin
ISBN1481450468
The Chicken Squad is back for their third (mis)adventure, and this time they’re facing off with whatever’s hiding in a mystery box in the backyard. A hilarious chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and Diary of a Worm.

Our fluffy, fearless young detectives are back...
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