The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
10 best books like The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues (Ellen Raskin): The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The Elevator Family, The Diamond in the Window, Sport, Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things, Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood, A Murder for Her Majesty, The Cuckoo Tree, Losing Joe's Place, Father's Arcane Daughter
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0689828896 |
Henrietta is no Turkey. When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own. Thus begins the hilarious chain of events that has kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto...
| Author | Douglas Evans |
| ISBN | 0440416507 |
WHAT’S THE STRANGEST HOTEL ROOM YOU’VE EVER STAYED IN? WHATEVER IT IS, THE WILSON FAMILY CAN TOP IT. BECAUSE FOR THREE DAYS, THEY LIVE IN AN ELEVATOR.
For the Wilson family, only the best will do! So when they arrive at the San Francisco Hotel and discover that there are no available rooms,...
| Author | Jane Langton |
| ISBN | 0064400425 |
A very unusual house...Eddy and Eleanor Hall have always known that their family was a bit out of the ordinary. After all, they live in one of the most remarkable houses in all of Concord. But they never guessed just how extraordinary their house really is, or what tremendous secrets about their family's...
| Author | Louise Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0440418186 |
Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father's absentmindedness under control and managing the family budget. When Kate, Sport's new and nice stepmother, enters the picture, things couldn't be better. Then comes the news: Sport's wealthy grandfather has just died and...
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 0375835253 |
This is not the summer camping trip of Sammy's dreams. She imagined shady glades, meandering streams, a deer or two. What she gets are scrubby shrubs, blazing sun, rattlesnakes, ticks, and scorpions. Her fellow campers are desperate to catch a rare glimpse of an endangered condor. To Sammy, the trip...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0553267221 |
Dear Mom and Dad, I'll Stay!
For thirteen-year-old Melanie Kessler, going to overnight camp was no way to spend a summer vacation. Right from the start, Melanie knew there was going to be trouble. Getting stuck with the six-year-old Tadpoles in the beginners' swim class was downright embarrassing....
| Author | Beth Hilgartner |
| ISBN | 0395616190 |
I usually criticize books, and pick on every single bad thing about them. The characters are weak... The plot was limp, and "horrid"... Or, most terribly, the storytelling was atrocious.
That wasn't the case with this book. And it pleasantly surprised me with no feminist sort of messages. "Girls...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0618070230 |
When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie....
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590427695 |
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach and a fancy private school. But with over protective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream.
Then,...
| Author | Helen Cresswell |
| ISBN | 0192753991 |
Everybody in Jack's family seems to be brilliant - apart from Jack and his downtrodden dog Zero. Even his little sister can beat him at swimming. But Jack's uncle Parker has come up with a plan to make him and Zero shine: they'll pretend that Jack can tell the future! If only they could foresee what chaos...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 1416938885 |
Andrew Clements delivers the latest in his adventure-filled school series.
This could be the last great Memorial Day weekend on Barclay Bay, and Ben knows it. This time next year, he might not be able to stand in the yard of the Oakes School and watch the harbor shake off winter—boats buzzing...
| Author | Karen Karbo |
| ISBN | 1582347476 |
Minerva Clark is a typical thirteen-year-old girl: she hates her hair, she hates her legs (which somehow manage to look both too fat and too skinny at the same time), and don’t get her started on her gigantor bootie. On top of all this puberty, she’s being raised by three older brothers,...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0553487884 |
You ever open your locker and find that some joker has left something really weird inside?
Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body.
Thirty seconds later it disappears.
It’s not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440484154 |
Switcharound is a good, in the beging is kind of boring but the story pick up when Calorine and his brother JP went to life with their dad during the summer. Calorine and Jp lifes changed alot, calorine became more responsable becuase she had to roll the mother paper. She had to babysitt their twin brothers....
| Author | Josh Berk |
| ISBN | 0375970088 |
An Edgar Award Finalist
Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's "the worst there ever was.") But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 1567923224 |
Prolific American children's author Russell Hoban, justly celebrated for his classic Frances stories, and English illustrator Quentin Blake, probably best known for his work on Roald Dahl's books, collaborated on a number of picture-books, amongst them this amusing tale of high-jinks and high...
| Author | Sarah Smith |
| ISBN | 0345418050 |
New England, 1887. A millionaire is brutally murdered. The only witness, his young grandchild, mysteriously disappears . . . Eighteen years later, in Switzerland, a man with no memory is "recognized" as Richard Knight, the missing child. Thus begins a masterpiece of historical suspense, as one man's...
