The Meanest Birthday Girl

10 best books like The Meanest Birthday Girl (Josh Schneider): Sunny Side Up, Swing it, Sunny, Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas, The Year of the Fortune Cookie, The Year of the Baby, Eliza Bing Is (Not) a Big, Fat Quitter, Annie's Life In Lists, The Year of the Book, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Sunny Side Up

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0545741653

Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun -- it is the home of Disney World, after all. But the place where Gramps lives is no amusement park. It's full of . . . old people. Really old people.

Luckily, Sunny isn't...

Swing it, Sunny

Author

Jennifer L. Holm

Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.
Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing...

Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas

Author	Philippe Coudray
ISBN	1935179225

Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea.

Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea. Told in the form of one-page comic strips, each of Benjamin’s adventures is a...

The Year of the Fortune Cookie

Author	Andrea Cheng
ISBN	0544105192

Eleven-year-old Anna heads off to sixth grade, leaving the comfort and familiarity of elementary school behind and entering the larger, more complex world of middle school. Surrounded by classmates who have their roots all in America, Anna begins to feel out of place and wonders where she really belongs. ...

The Year of the Baby

Author	Andrea Cheng
ISBN	0547910673

Last year, Anna learned how to be a good friend. Now that her family has adopted a baby girl from China, she wants to learn how to be a good sister. But the new year proves challenging when the doctor warns that the baby isn’t thriving. Can Anna and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project...

Eliza Bing Is (Not) a Big, Fat Quitter

Author

Carmella Van Vleet

In this uplifting debut novel about determination and the rewards of hard work, a preteen girl struggling with ADHD must stick with a summer taekwondo class to prove that she's dedicated enough to pursue her true passion of cake decorating.

Eliza has had many hobbies in her eleven years, and...

Annie's Life In Lists

Author	Kristin Mahoney
ISBN	1524765090

If you love kids like:
1. Anatastia Krupnik
2. Ramona Quimby
3. The Penderwicks
then you will love Annie! For Annie, lists are how she keeps her whole life in order. And there is a lot to keep track of!

Annie's a shy fifth grader with an incredible memory and a love of making lists....

The Year of the Book

Author	Andrea Cheng
ISBN	0547684630

In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated.

When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot—constant...

Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea

Author	Ben Clanton
ISBN	1101918713

if i'm being honest, this doesn't really stand up to my other five star ratings, even my five star ratings specific to other children's picture books.

but sometimes it's just about what you need at a particular time, and this book brought a goofy smile to my face when i really really...

The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Author

Judd Winick

Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! “A Total BLAST,” says the Miami Herald!

BOOM! CLANG! CRASH! D.J. and Gina are totally ordinary kids. But Hilo isn’t! Hilo just fell out of the sky and doesn’t know where he came from,...

Narwhal's Otter Friend

Author

Ben Clanton

Narwhal and Jelly . . . and Otty?! Exuberant Narwhal and skeptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty the super-adventurous otter in the fourth book of this blockbuster early graphic novel series!

Dive into three new stories about the joy of adventure...

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Author	Ben Clanton
ISBN	0735262454

Narwhal's obsession with his new favorite food leads him into hijinks and hilarity in the third book of this all-star early graphic novel series!

Narwhal and Jelly are back and Narwhal has a new obsession . . . peanut butter! He's so obsessed he even wants to change his name to . . . that's right...