Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet

10 best books like Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (Eleanor Cameron): Saturday, the Twelfth of October, Magic or Not?, Shadow Castle, The Secret Language, The Pink Motel, The Return of the Twelves, Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, The Forgotten Door, Nightbirds on Nantucket, Tunnel Through Time

AuthorNorma Fox Mazer
ISBN0440995922
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
AuthorEdward Eager
ISBN0152511601
The magic begins when Laura and her family--brothers James, baby Deborah, and her parents--move to a country house in Connecticut. There is a well in the yard, and Laura is the kind of girl who believes in making wishes.

Her first wish comes true, and this sets off a round of adventures for Laura,...
AuthorMarian Cockrell
ISBN0595092969
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
AuthorUrsula Nordstrom
ISBN0064400220
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
AuthorCarol Ryrie Brink
The moment Kirby and Bitsy arrive with their parents at their newly inherited motel in Florida, they know it's an unusual place. First of all, it's pink. Not just regular pink, but pink, pink, PINK!

Then there's the roster of regular guests: an artist from Greenwich Village, a magician from...
AuthorPauline Clarke
ISBN0698201175
Beneath a floorboard in the old farmhouse into which his family has just moved, eight-year-old Max Morley discovers twelve time-worn wooden soldiers. Under his careful watch, the "Twelves" come to life, each possessing a name and a distinct personality. As Max soon learns, they share a history filled...
AuthorJay Williams
ISBN0070705208
No more homework!

Professor Bullfinch goes off to attend a scientific conference and leaves Danny in charge of his new miniature automatic computer called Minia. Danny calls it a midget giant brain and suddenly comes up with an idea. Could he program Minny to help him do his homework faster?...
AuthorAlexander Key
ISBN0590431307
Who is the strange boy who can talk to animals and read people's minds? Where does he come from?

The boy, Jon, has lost his memory and does not know. he only knows that he has fallen through the forgotten door to the strange planet, Earth, and that he is in great danger

Soon the family who...
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0395971853
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation....
Tunnel Through Time
AuthorLester del Rey
ISBN0590025341
This is a science fiction story about what it would be like to go back 80 million years in time and see what the Earth was like then.

A scientist has created a device that tunnels through time. The protagonist is his son, 17 year old Bob Miller. Bob and his father's friend, Doc Tom, and Doc Tom's son...
AuthorCarol Kendall
ISBN0152025111
Carol Kendall's witty, epic tales about the race of people called the Minnipins are now available as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. Now a new generation of readers can thrill to the adventures of the tiny folk who become mighty heroes. The original interior illustrations by Erik Blegvad and Imero...
The Wednesday Witch
AuthorRuth Chew
ISBN0786825987
I had only vague but happy memories of reading this book as a little girl, remembering the slightly incompetent witch who rode a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom and her talking black cat who helped a little girl with her homework. Rereading this as an adult was a pleasure, though the story is certainly...
AuthorBarbee Oliver Carleton
ISBN0590413988
I decided to read this after reading and loving the author's The Secret of Saturday Cove. Though "Saturday Cove" appears to be less well-known than "Witch's Bridge", I actually enjoyed it more and would encourage anyone who liked "Witch's Bridge" to give it a try. Even though "Saturday Cove" is not a...
AuthorJane Langton
ISBN0064401243
When Prince Krishna is called away, he leaves behind some strict instructions for the Hall children about one of the openings in the mysterious summerhouse: Keep Out! As Eddy and Eleanor swing through each of the other openings, they refuse to break the rule, even as their temptation grows. But when...
AuthorClifford B. Hicks
Whenever Alvin's Magnificent Brain kicks into action, it's time to watch out! For Alvin is always thinking up another marvelous invention. Maybe it's the Foolproof Burglar Alarm for his bedroom door, or a Sure Shot Paper Slinger for delivering newspapers from his bike. But there's no doubt about it,...
AuthorEllen MacGregor
ISBN0070445605
Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest...
AuthorZilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN1416942017

Twelve-year-old Audrey Abbott dreams of becoming a writer, but with her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, it seems there is no room for what her overworked mother would surely call a childish fantasy. So Audrey keeps her writing a secret. That is, until she meets a mysterious...
The Enormous Egg
AuthorOliver Butterworth
ISBN0316119202
Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley! But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he's...
Mystery of the Green Cat
AuthorPhyllis A. Whitney
ISBN0664321607
With its black eyes, the creature looks at the four children, mysteriously wise, mysteriously alive...."

What is the secret of the green cat? Why does it mean so much to the strange people who live next door?

Why is the old baroness kept a prisoner there in the gloomy old mansion?

Andy...
The Happy Hollisters and the Indian Treasure
AuthorJerry West
ISBN1299704484
The Happy Hollisters and the Indian Treasure (#4 in the Happy Hollisters series)

Another exciting adventure for this happy family comes about through their new friend Indy Roades, a former baseball player and a Yumatan Indian. He tells them about his pueblo in the mountains of New Mexico,...
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