The Big One-Oh
10 best books like The Big One-Oh (Dean Pitchford): The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery, Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer, Me and the Pumpkin Queen, Gabriel's Horses, Fearless, Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, Jessie Elliot Is a Big Chicken, Piper Reed, The Great Gypsy, Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day, Howie Monroe and the Doghouse of Doom
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0152022813 |
Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee--stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters,...
| Author | Thatcher Heldring |
| ISBN | 0385733909 |
TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...
| Author | Marlane Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0061140228 |
Mildred's Guide to Growing a Giant Pumpkin
1. Get the right seeds. These days, no one grows a Pumpkin Show winner without Howard Dill's Atlantic Giant seeds.
2. Convince your dad that having a pumpkin patch in your backyard is a good idea.
3. Make sure that your dogs stay far,...
| Author | Alison Hart |
| ISBN | 1561453986 |
In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey.
The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother-making...
| Author | Elvira Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0439677033 |
Award-winning author Elvira Woodruff has written a harrowing novel about an eleven-year-old orphan boy on a stormy sea -- and the charming daredevil who befriends him in England in 1695.
When a storm brings down his father's boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For...
| Author | Karen Romano Young |
| ISBN | 0312561563 |
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...
| Author | Elise Gravel |
| ISBN | 1596437413 |
It’s Jessie Elliot’s last summer as a child. In the fall, she’ll be going to Hochelaga High—where the cool kids smoke, have piercings, and make out in abandoned parking lots. Jessie wants to be cool, but it’s way more fun being uncool. That’s why this summer she’s going to get a high score...
Piper Reed, The Great Gypsy
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0805081984 |
Piper’s dad - the Navy Chief - might be gone again, but Piper’s got plenty to keep her busy at home: new neighbors, a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and most important, the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show. Piper is determined to win, but teaching tricks to her dog seems nearly impossible....
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0440414822 |
An easy 'tween read, not worth an adult's hour. The way grandma teaches the girl a lesson borders on abuse, imo. I have no idea how Molly can forgive her even before dinner time, while exhausted, in pain, hungry, and hopped on caffeine. Molly obviously already has resilience and, erm, 'balls,' and if the...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 0689839529 |
Dear possible reader of this book,
My editor asked me to write a third book in my series, Tales from the House of Bunnicula. And did I have trouble getting started! I was afraid I used up all my ideas. But faster than a writer can say "What if?" I came up with a story! It's about a lovable and smart (not to...
In 2012, a documentary crew descended upon Westside Middle School to detail the life of an average seventh grader and his classmates.
What they uncovered, though, was far from average. Mostly, it was upper average along with moments of extreme average, highlighted by several minutes of total...
| Author | Lucy Nolan |
| ISBN | 0761452346 |
I love Down Girl and Sit. They are two dogs that live in neighboring houses and this is a collection of stories about them, as narrated by Down Girl. Down Girl lives with her master, Rruff, and loves it when they go out for a drive. In the first story, Down Girl and Sit and their masters go to the beach and get...
Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies
| Author | Andrea Beaty |
| ISBN | 0810984164 |
They came from outer space! The Fluffs are large alien bunny rabbits who communicate telepathically, thrive on sugar, and hypnotize others to do their bidding. They spend most of their time annoying one another, eating, and belching loudly. They can also assume the shape/semblance of anything they...
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0385733054 |
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...
The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0060858184 |
Franny is thrilled when she's accepted by the Allbright Academy, an elite private boarding school designed to train leaders. But she knows she's not as smart as the other kids there—or as beautiful, accomplished, confident, or mature. The fact is, the Allbright students—from their shining teeth...
| Author | Tim Carvell |
| ISBN | 0061934364 |
Tad has an agenda: Survive seventh grade.
He also wants to: grow a mustache, get girls to notice him, and do a kickflip on his skateboard. . . .
But those are not the main reasons he started a blog. Tad just has a lot of important thoughts he wants to share with the world, like: Here is the first...
Nightmare at the Book Fair
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| ISBN | 1416924388 |
Trip Dinkleman hates to read. Hates, hates, hates it.
All he wants to do is play lacrosse. So when the president of the PTA asks Trip to help her out on his way to tryouts, he is not happy. He is even more not happy when a stack of books tumbles onto his head and knocks him out cold. And he is even more not...
| Author | Nick Bruel |
| ISBN | 1596439769 |
Four Stars: Another funny installment in the Bad Kitty Series.
Kitty has gone nuclear! The family is shaking in fear because Kitty is on a inexplicable rampage. In order to protect Puppy, lovable Uncle Murray is called over to take Puppy out. Poor Uncle Murray is in for a few headaches as he heads...
School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters
| Author | Rachel Vail |
| ISBN | 0312532903 |
It's the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to Justin. He didn't get the teacher he wanted, he's not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school. Elizabeth doesn't seem nervous at all. Justin is very nervous about third grade....
Will at the Battle of Gettysburg 1863
| Author | Laurie Calkhoven |
| ISBN | 0525421459 |
Twelve-year-old Will wants to be a drummer in the Union army, but he's stuck far from the fighting in his sleepy hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Then the Union and Confederate armies converge on Gettysburg, and suddenly Will and his family are caught up in the battle.
From delivering...
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel
| Author | Ruth McNally Barshaw |
Ellie McDougal (better known to her friends as Ellie McDoodle because she loves to draw) is a nearly-twelve-year-old prisoner . . . of her aunt, uncle, three annoying cousins, and her baby brother, Ben-Ben. Sentenced to a week-long camping trip with them while her parents are out of town, Ellie is absolutely,...
The Great Hamster Massacre
| Author | Katie Davies |
| ISBN | 1847385958 |
This is a story about me, and Tom, and our investigation into the Hamster Massacre. I'm supposed to be writing my What-I-Did-In-The-Summre-Holidays story for school, but I'm going to write this story first...
Anna and het brother, Tom, have always wanted a pet. After their latest pestering...
| Author | Ursula Vernon |
| ISBN | 0803738498 |
In the tenth book of the series perfect for Dork Diaries and Wimpy Kid fans, this dragon will storm a castle, battle a knight, and stand up to any bully!
What does Danny Dragonbreath do when his super-annoying cousin Spencer gets kidnapped by knights? First, he thinks about how nice and quiet...
