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Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius

10 best books like Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius (Frank Asch): Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, Iris and Walter, Remy and Lulu, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, Melonhead, The Magician's Boy, Lulu Walks the Dogs, The Evil Elves, A Properly Unhaunted Place, Emmaline and the Bunny

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....
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...
Remy and Lulu
AuthorKevin Hawkes
ISBN0449810852
Ooh la la! From New York Times bestseller Kevin Hawkes, illustrator of Library Lion and Weslandia, comes the charming story of a dog and her owner who become the toast of Paris.
 
Lulu and her master, Remy, a passionate but struggling portrait painter, wander the French countryside looking...
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...
Melonhead
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...
The Magician's Boy
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN1416915559
Only a child can find the way to bring Saint George back to the play.

The Boy works for the Magician, and he wants more than anything to learn magic. But the Magician always says, "Not yet, Boy. Not till the time is right." So the Boy has to be content with polishing the Magician's wand, taking care...
Lulu Walks the Dogs
AuthorJudith Viorst
ISBN1442435798
This is the second collaboration between Judith Viorst and Lane Smith featuring a little girl named Lulu.

Have I mentioned that I love Judith Viorst's books? I've read several of her children's books with our girls and I've read all of her books about the decades of a woman's life. She is such...
The Evil Elves
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0689857594
Moongobble has successfully completed two of his three Mighty Tasks: He's collected the Golden Acorns of Alcoona and bottled the tears of the Weeping Werewolf. There's only one more Mighty Task to go, then Moongobble will become a member of the Society of Magicians. But this might be the most difficult...
A Properly Unhaunted Place
AuthorWilliam Alexander
ISBN1481469150
From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.

Rosa Ramona Díaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot—the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn’t want...
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...
How Tia Lola Learned to Teach
AuthorJulia Alvarez
ISBN0375864601
Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away from Papi, who has a new girlfriend and an announcement...
Guests
AuthorMichael Dorris
ISBN0786813563
Moss is frustrated. His father has invited outsiders who dress in strange clothes and speak an odd language to the village's special harvest meal - and no one but Moss seems to care how that will change the way things have always been. No matter whom he talks to, no matter what he says, people just smile and...
White Fur Flying
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN1442421711
Zoe’s family rescues dogs in need. There is always the sweet smell of dog and a warm body looking to cuddle or play. There is always a new dog to be saved and loved. Fur flies everywhere. It covers everything. Zoe’s house is never silent.

But the house across the street is always silent these...
Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles
AuthorKaren Romano Young
ISBN0312561563
Moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. She got into trouble at her last school.

On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank...
The Case of the Lost Boy
AuthorDori Hillestad Butler
ISBN0807509108
"My name is King. I am a dog. I am also a detective."



King has a very big mystery to solve. His family is missing, and he's been put in the P-O-U-N-D. Why doesn't his beloved human (Kayla) come to get him? When King is adopted by Connor and his mom, things get more confusing. The new family...
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0689864604
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's strange food on the table every night and only chopsticks to...
Travels of Thelonious
AuthorSusan Schade
"In ancient times human beings ruled the Earth -- at least that's what the old legends claim. But is it true?"Thelonious Chipmunk is a Talker -- an animal who has inherited the gift of language -- and he, for one, believes in humans. Who else could have made the old paper postcard he treasures? His desire...
Aliens for Breakfast
AuthorStephanie Spinner
ISBN0394820932
It's been ten years since Richard Bickerstaff sat down to breakfast and an alien climbed out of his cereal bowl! Join Richard and Aric, a tiny, wisecracking creature from the planet Ganoob, as they battle to save the world from evil aliens in Aliens for Breakfast, Aliens for Lunch, and Aliens for Dinner....
Dear Max
AuthorSally Grindley
Dear D.J. Lucas,
My uncle bought me one of your books for Christmas. It's called Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boy? I want to be a writer. I want to write a story now. Please will you help me?
Love from Max

And so begins Max's funny correspondence with his favorite author, the world-famous...
Lowji Discovers America
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...
Larf
AuthorAshley Spires
ISBN1554537010
No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day he might be found jogging, gardening or walking Eric, his pet bunny. But everything changes...
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0375966420
“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred
 
Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text...
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”...
Lenny & Lucy
AuthorPhilip C. Stead
ISBN1596439327
Peter and his father are moving to a new house beyond the dark unfriendly woods. When they arrive at their new home, Peter wants to turn back. Fortunately, he has Harold for company, but Harold is just a dog and can't help Peter. Scared of the things hidden in the woods, Peter makes a tall pile of pillows....
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One
AuthorJudy Blume
ISBN0385733054
MEET THE PAIN:
My sister's name is Abigail. I call her The Great One because she thinks she's so great. Who cares if she's in third grade and I'm just in first?

MEET THE GREAT ONE:
My brother's name is Jacob Edward, but everyone calls him Jake. Everyone but me. I call him The Pain because...
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