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10 best books like The Pepins and Their Problems (Polly Horvath): Vile Verses, Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances, How to Save Your Tail*:, Awful Ogre's Awful Day, Melonhead, Donuthead, Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, What I Came to Tell You, Bobby the Brave, Six Innings: A Game in the Life

Vile Verses
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0670060429
Roald Dahl is best remembered as the author of many well-loved children’s stories. But he was also the creator of some astonishingly imaginative, outrageous, and wonderfully disgusting verses. From oozing grobes to slimy slugs, this extraordinary collection is bursting with Dahl’s poems,...
Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0375868313
Let's face it, when it comes to death, everything is scary. Especially if your name is Alvin Ho and you maybe, sort of, agreed to go to a funeral for your Gunggung's best friend (who was your friend too).

Alvin's all freaked out and here's why:

1. He starts seeing bad omens...everywhere.

2....
How to Save Your Tail*:
AuthorMary Hanson
ISBN0375837558
How does a cookie-baking Rat named Bob save his tail from being gobbled by two hungry cats? By serving them cookies and telling them fantastic fairy tales about his family, of course. There's the story about great-grand uncle Mustard who upgrades his family to a lovely three-bedroom brick house. (All's...
Awful Ogre's Awful Day
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0060774592
I'm an awful, awful ogre,

Absolutely awful ogre.

I'm so awful, Awful Ogre

Is my awful ogre name ...

Awful Ogre is huge, hungry, horrible –– and totally lovable. Larger than life, Awful Ogre packs into one day enough excitement, imagination, emotion, and sheer...
Melonhead
AuthorKaty Kelly
ISBN0385734093
Adam Melon's friend Lucy Rose gave him a nickname—Melonhead—and it caught on fast. Melonhead is a self-proclaimed inventor. All his life, which is ten years and counting, great ideas have been popping in and out of his melon head. And sometimes they work! This year Melonhead's class is entering...
Donuthead
AuthorSue Stauffacher
ISBN0440419344
Franklin Delano Donuthead is a fifth grader with a lot of problems: For starters, his last name is Donuthead. He considers himself handicapped because one arm and leg are shorter than the other (by less than half an inch), his mother is trying to poison him with non-organic foods (like salami), he doesn’t...
Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains
AuthorLaurel Snyder
ISBN0375847197
THIS IS THE tale of Lucy and her best friend, Wynston. Until recently, they spent their days paddling in the river, picking blackberries, and teasing each other mercilessly. But now, King Desmond has insisted that Wynston devote every spare second to ruby-shining and princess-finding. Lucy feels...
What I Came to Tell You
AuthorTommy Hays
ISBN1606844334
Since his mother died earlier this year, Grover Johnston (named after a character in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel) has watched his family fall to pieces as his father throws himself into his work rather than dealing with the pain. Left to care for his younger sister, Sudie, Grover finds solace...
Bobby the Brave
AuthorLisa Yee
ISBN0545055946
From Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, a hilarious sequel to Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally).

Bobby fights his fears -- of stage fright, disconnection from his dad, and the evil neighbor cat with twenty-seven toes -- in this hilarious sequel to BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY).



...
Six Innings: A Game in the Life
AuthorJames Preller
ISBN0312367635
Two teams, six innings, one game.

A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds,...
Joey Fly, Private Eye in Creepy Crawly Crime
AuthorAaron Reynolds
ISBN0805082425
Have you ever had one of those moments? You know—you’re trying to find a stolen diamond pencil box for your beautiful butterfly customer, your mosquito witness won’t give you any information, and your clumsy scorpion assistant has just tampered with your only bit of evidence? Joey Fly has those...
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
AuthorMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch
ISBN0986949515
Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archive photos, Tuyet's story of the Saigon orphanage and her...
Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything
AuthorSteve Cotler
ISBN0375864377
Ronald "Cheesie" Mack is not a genius or anything, but he remembers everything that happened before, during, and after fifth-grade graduation, and he's written it all down in his own unique and hilarious way—with lots of lists, drawings, and splenderful (that's splendid plus wonderful!) made-up...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
AuthorPeggy Gifford
ISBN0375839151
This first novel for kids was a little disappointing; I was eager to read it because my mate's dad's name is Stuart Little and I thought it might be a good gift.

Basically, Moxy is a little girl with moxie who keeps putting off her summer reading assignment and does quirky things. I think the author...
Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear
AuthorNorma Fox Mazer
ISBN0439839831
Everything ten year-old Sprig wants, her older sister Dakota already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It’s enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear.

But in a year when Sprig’s father is away,...
Abby Carnelia's One & Only Magical Power
AuthorDavid Pogue
ISBN1596433841
SILLY MAGICAL POWERS, KIDS ON THE RUN.

One day, Abby Carnelia, ordinary sixth grader, realizes she has a magical power. Okay, it's not a fancy one (she can make a hard-boiled egg spin by tugging on her ears). But it's the only one she has, and it's enough to launch her into an adventure where she...
On The Road
AuthorLucy Nolan
ISBN0761452346
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...
No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay)
AuthorTrudi Trueit
ISBN1416975926
"This chapter has nothing to do with my pants."

So begins the story of Scab McNally, a fourth grader with a mission. Part inventor, part daredevil, Scab is determined to let nothing get in the way of convincing his parents to let him buy a dog -- especially his "smart times ten" twin sister, Isabelle....
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One
AuthorJudy Blume
ISBN0385733054
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...
15 Minutes
AuthorSteve Young
ISBN0060725087
It's not that
Casey Little is
always late.

It's just that everything
starts a little
too early.

But when Casey discovers a weird little time machine, he figures he'll never be late again. Unfortunately, it's not a very good time machine. It can only go back 15 minutes....
Rules for Ghosting
AuthorA.J. Paquette
ISBN0802734545
Twelve-year-old Dahlia has always lived at Silverton Manor-having spent fifty years as its resident ghost. When Oliver Day and his family show up as house-sitters the day Mrs. Tibbs, a Liberator sent by the Spectral Investigative Council, arrives to teach Dahlia the proper rules for ghosting, Dahlia...
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers
AuthorBrandon Marie Miller
ISBN1883052971
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
 Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam...
Yours Truly
AuthorHeather Vogel Frederick
ISBN1442471867
Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it’s up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it in this hilarious follow up to the heartwarming middle grade mystery, Absolutely Truly.

Even Truly Lovejoy has to admit that teeny-tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, has its charms—like the...
One Dog and His Boy
AuthorEva Ibbotson
ISBN1407124234
All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. "Never!" cries his mother. "Think of the mess, the scratch-marks, the puddles on the floor." But on the morning of Hal's 10th birthday, the unbelievable happens. He's allowed to choose a puppy at Easy Pets, a rent-a-pet agency (a fact his parents keep from him). The moment...
Kids Are Americans Too
AuthorBill O'Reilly
ISBN0060846763
Four-time #1 bestselling author and veteran television news journalist Bill O'Reilly has more than 5 million copies of his books in print to date! His first book for younger fans, The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, held the honorable distinction of being the #1 bestselling nonfiction title for kids in 2005...
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