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10 best books like Soup & Me (Robert Newton Peck): Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, Otis Spofford, Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit, Beware the Fish!, Who Comes with Cannons?, Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, Good-Bye Pink Pig, Ida Early Comes over the Mountain, Norma Jean, Jumping Bean, The Children on the Top Floor

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
AuthorBarthe DeClements
ISBN0140371303
Helen Nichols has a reputation for being one of the best pitchers, and worst readers, in the sixth grade. She's also known as one of the biggest troublemakers in school. At the start of the year, she's assigned to the classroom of Mrs.Lobb--"Blob" to those who know her--a teacher with very little tolerance...
Otis Spofford
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0380709198
When it comes to stirring up a little excitement in class, Otis Spofford knows just what to do. He can turn a folk dance fiesta into a three-ring circus . . . or an arithmetic lesson into a spitball marathon. Best of all, Otis likes teasing neat, well-behaved Ellen Tebbits—until the day his teasing goes...
Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0590947168
Amber Brown is in deep trouble. Lately, no matter what she does, it isn't enough. She straightens up her room, sort of. She does her homework, well, most of it. And she agrees to meet Max, her mother's new boyfriend, but she doesn't agree to like him.
Now her mother is angry, her teacher wants all of her...
Beware the Fish!
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0590442058
Macdonald High is having some serious cash flow problems. Everything is being cut back - evening snack is gone, the lab equipment is decrepit and the dorms are freezing at night. Worst of all, Bruno Walton and Boots O'Neal are being moved in with Elmer Drimsdale - the science geek. There's even talk of...
Who Comes with Cannons?
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688110282
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
AuthorMarjorie Weinman Sharmat
ISBN0689713835
"I live at 165 East 95th Street, and I'm going to stay here forever," says the young hero firmly. After all, out West nobody plays baseball because they're too busy chasing buffaloes, and you have to ride a horse to school even if you don't know how, and you can't sit down because of the cactus. But his parents...
Good-Bye Pink Pig
AuthorC.S. Adler
ISBN0380701758
Ten-year-old Amanda is small, quiet and colorless. She knows that she's a disappointment to her elegant, ambitious mother who focuses all her attention on Amanda's charming older brother, Dale. Her mother is obsessed with getting Dale into an Ivy League college, although Dale protests that neither...
Ida Early Comes over the Mountain
AuthorRobert Burch
ISBN0140345345
This book is a re-read from my childhood. I actually understand the book much better about a quarter century later. I can see why Ida Early is the Mary Poppins of the mountains in Georgia during the Depression. Ida Early comes to the Sutton house the summer after the mother died to take care of the house and...
Norma Jean, Jumping Bean
AuthorJoanna Cole
ISBN0394886682
This book follows the story of a lively kangaroo named Norma Jean who enjoys jumping any time she can. However, Norma Jean's consistent jumping gets her in trouble at school and with her friends, because she doesn't know when are appropriate times to jump (sitting in class, playing on the seesaw, etc)....
The Children on the Top Floor
AuthorNoel Streatfeild
ISBN0440412242
The bones of this book are familiar Streatfield formula, but the premise is delightful. You have the talented diva, the young, serious child, the unruly boy, the mothering nanny, the young and wise governess... And then you have a famous, single TV personality who announces on Christmas Eve how jealous...
The Dragonling
AuthorJackie French Koller
ISBN0671867903
Dragonquest! Darek can't wait for his first Dragonquest. Then he can be just like his older brother, Clep, the hero who brought down a Great Blue, the largest and fiercest dragon of all. Darek goes to admire the kill -- and finds a dragonling peeking out of the giant dragon's pouch. Scared but curious,...
The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0395348293
At the same time Barbara Park was making a name for herself with juvenile humor novels in the 1980s, so was Lois Lowry. One might not think of her as a humorist, but Ms. Lowry could be almost as funny as Barbara Park. Caroline Tate, age eleven, is an apartment-dwelling girl of 1980s New York City. Her interest...
Henry Reed's Journey
AuthorKeith Robertson
ISBN0140341455
This book took me back to the old Wonderful World of Disney TV show, with their travel documentaries that took us through the Southwest, and so many movies that starred a singer or personality, with Disneyland as supporting actor. All the tropes are here: Chinatown, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, the...
Back to School with Betsy
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152051015
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Third grade begins with...
Something Queer is Going On
AuthorElizabeth Levy
ISBN0440479746
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, when i was but a young girl...


My mother was working for her Educational Psycology PhD advisor (for the dissertation that was forever in progress but never materialized because of the independent child she was raising all by herself~among...
Tua and the Elephant
AuthorR.P. Harris
ISBN0811877817
Ten-year-old Tua—Thai for "peanut"—has everything she needs at home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, except for one thing she's always wanted: a sister. In the market one day, Tua makes an accidental acquaintance—one with wise, loving eyes, remarkable strength, and a very curious trunk. And when...
Louie
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0142400807
Susie and Roberto are putting on a puppet show and all of their friends have come to see it, including she Louie.  As the show begins, Louie becomes fascinated by the smiling puppet Gussie and shouts "Hello!" in front of a silent audience.  After the show, Louie goes home and dreams about Gussie.  When...
Dragon Mage
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0765316595
Shy realizes that she is lucky to be taken in by her grandparents after her father dies–but life above an antique store in Slade’s Corners, Wisconsin is not exactly the place a teenage girl wants to be.

One day while going through boxes of her father’s boyhood stuff, she comes upon a rare...
Oh, Were They Ever Happy!
AuthorPeter Spier
ISBN0440841313
This book has been around for awhile and I can see why! It's the sort of story that parents and children will read and enjoy together--yet both will get something different out of it. When the parents in this story leave to run errands all day, the baby sitter fails to show up and the kids decide to "help" Mom...
I, Jack
AuthorJack the Dog
ISBN0060522097
Hi! Hi there! I am Jack! Big dog Jack. Wag tail. I live with a big Pack. I love my Packleader HUGE AMOUNTS! More than steak, even. yumyum. My Packleader has a Pack Lady and three children. I love them Big Amounts, too.

And then there's Petra. She is the dog who lives next door and she is Gorgeous. I love...
Jim Ugly
AuthorSid Fleischman
A one-man dogPart wolf and fiercely independent, Jim Ugly is a dog who answers to only one person. Unfortunately, that man -- Sam Bannock -- has disappeared. Rumor has it that Sam is dead, but to his son, Jake, something about that doesn't sound quite right. So Jake and Jim Ugly embark on a wild journey into...
Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
AuthorSuzy Kline
ISBN0140389709
Although my brother would have been young enough to read the Horrible Harry series when they were new, I don't remember him reading them. I was too old for them at the time and was going through my "no kids books!" phase.

That being said, I know nothing about the Horrible Harry series except for...
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