The Against Taffy Sinclair Club
10 best books like The Against Taffy Sinclair Club (Betsy Haynes): Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Secrets We Kept, Petals on the Wind, Beezus and Ramona, Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, The Babysitters Coven, This Place Has No Atmosphere, Halloween Night, Just as Long as We're Together
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0425193799 |
Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he’s never far from trouble. He’s an almost three-year-old terror who...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406546 |
Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she knows she's never going to be thin, and she is dead sure she'll never have a date. Life at home isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around. Then along comes Ms. Finney, an English teacher who'll try anything in the classroom and actually treats...
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
At the height of...
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0671729470 |
They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.
And...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0192750968 |
Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people have little sisters that bother them sometimes, but is there anyone in the world like Ramona? Whether she's taking one bite out of every apple in a box or secretly inviting 15 other 4-year-olds to the house...
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140344438 |
Jenny knows one thing for sure - Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy. So when the book club money disappears, why is the whole class punished? Nothing's fair!
But soon Jenny realizes some things aren't fair for Elsie, either. Elsie is on a strict diet, but when she...
| Author | Kate Williams |
| ISBN | 0525707379 |
Adventures in Babysitting
meets
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.
Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club....
This Place Has No Atmosphere
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406805 |
A gorgeous new package for Paula Danziger’s backlist with an introduction from Ann Martin!
In the year 2057 people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots. Fifteen-year-old Aurora loves everything about her life. She’s part of the coolest group of kids at school and...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0590460986 |
I’m pretty sure that I’d not read this Point Horror before!
With all the usual ‘fun’ Stine fake out cliffhangers, it’s entirely possible that I’d blurred it with the numerous other books of his that I’d read in the 90’s.
The main gist of this one sees Brenda annoyed by cousin...
Just as Long as We're Together
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398040 |
I'm mad as hell that Goodreads doesn't have the cover of the version that I read, because I liked that cover a LOT. It's the one that has Stephanie, Rachel and Alison in someone's room (Rachel's?) and they are laughing and someone's holding up one of the purple t-shirt that say "FRIENDS" in yellow letters....
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590418386 |
Slam books are of course the 80s/90s version of the burn book made famous in Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". A book put together my adolescent teenage girls with a lot of hormones and aggression and a need to bitch about their peers. I read this book in grade eight and still remember it 13 years later because I skipped...
| Author | Susan Saunders |
| ISBN | 0590406418 |
In this first book of the Sleepover Friends series, Stephanie invites a new girl in school, Patti, to the Friday-evening sleepovers she has with Lauren and Kate. During a TV movie, Kate imitates an actress and puts a curse on Patti and it seems to work. Only Lauren and Patti notice, but Patti can't do anything...
