The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room

10 best books like The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room (Patricia Reilly Giff): Planet of the Apes, Welcome to Dead House, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Superfudge, The Last American Vampire, Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger, Fudge-a-Mania, The Camp-Out Mystery, Monster Blood, Where Is Area 51?

Planet of the Apes

Author	Pierre Boulle
ISBN	0345447980

"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"

With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...

Welcome to Dead House

Author	R.L. Stine
ISBN	0439568471

Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too. — But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. — So Amanda and Josh do. But these creepy new friends...

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Author	Louis Sachar
ISBN	0747571775

If you want to see exactly what rests at the center of someone’s soul, don’t bother reading a 200-page biography on them; ask them what was the first book ever to make an impression on them that lasted into their adulthood. For some it might be some garbage about a brat named Ramona and her ginger-kid...

Superfudge

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0142408808

From Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing!

Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume’s five Fudge...

The Last American Vampire

Author

Seth Grahame-Smith

New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges.

THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE

In Reconstruction-era America,...

Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

Author	Louis Sachar
ISBN	0747569118

fulfilling my vow to read all the sequels i never knew existed to books i loved when i was little.

Miss Zarves taught the class on the nineteenth story. There is no nineteenth story. And there is no Miss Zarves.

You already know all that.

But how do you explain the cow in her classroom?

so,...

Fudge-a-Mania

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0425193829

Fudge is back—and driving his brother Peter crazy, as usual. This five-year-old human hurricane is more trouble than ever. His latest plan is to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman (how disgusting!).But Peter’s problems are about to get worse. His parents have decided to share a summer...

The Camp-Out Mystery

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807510521

We've read a few books in The Boxcar Children series and we really like them. The stories are exciting and suspenseful and the children are all so independent and capable.

This story takes the family camping and our girls are eager for the weather to get warmer so we can go camping again.

There's...

Monster Blood

Author	R.L. Stine
ISBN	0439626293

Soon after he purchases a dusty can of monster blood at the funky old toy store near his great-aunt Kathryn's house, Evan begins to notice some strange things happening to the people around him.

While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits a funky old store and buys a dusty can...

Where Is Area 51?

Author	Paula K. Manzanero
ISBN	1524786411

You'll find it on a map--but you'll never get anywhere near this top secret military base. What exactly is going on there?

Is Area 51 a top secret military base that lies in the middle of the barren Nevada desert? Or could it actually be a facility for examining aliens and their spaceships? People...