The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy

7 best books like The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy (Jon Scieszka): Bunnicula, Ramona and Her Mother, The Secret Zoo, 26 Fairmount Avenue, Deadweather and Sunrise, It Came from Beneath the Bed!, Where Is the Great Wall?

Bunnicula
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN1416928170
(This review is from 2004.)

Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.

So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...
Ramona and Her Mother
AuthorBeverly Cleary
This is a previously published edition of edition of ISBN 9780380709526. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her! Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch...
The Secret Zoo
AuthorBryan Chick
ISBN0979188733
I lead a book club with my son's class each year. He is in 4th grade. Our group read The Secret Zoo this winter. All 7 kids loved it! I assigned pages each week and they complained every week about having to wait to read on. They stopped me in the halls to discuss what they thought was going to happen next.

They...
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698118642
A Newbery Honor Book

Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstairs, only to find out--the hard way--that...
AuthorGeoff Rodkey
ISBN0399257853
A stunning middle-grade debut—full of heart, humor, and nonstop action.

It’s tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody’s trying to kill you.

Not that Egg’s life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent...
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN0689839480
Dear possible reader of this book,
I want to be a writer, just like my uncle Harold, who wrote a bunch of books about our friend Bunnicula. So I wrote this story. And boy! Did I ever get into trouble! My friend Delilah stopped speaking to me because I put her in my book. Uncle Harold stopped speaking to...
Where Is the Great Wall?
AuthorPatricia Brennan Demuth
ISBN0448483580
More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese...
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