The Tell-Tale Start
10 best books like The Tell-Tale Start (Gordon McAlpine): The Only Thing Worse Than Witches, Hello Hello, Honus & Me, The Frog Who Croaked, The Case of the Deadly Desperados, It Happened on a Train, My Life as a Stuntboy, Wonkenstein, The Zoo at the Edge of the World, The Big Dark
| Author | Lauren Magaziner |
| ISBN | 0803739184 |
Rupert Campbell is fascinated by the witches who live nearby. He dreams of broomstick tours and souvenir potions, but the closest he can get to a witchy experience is sitting in class with his awful teacher Mrs. Frabbleknacker, who smells like bellybutton lint and forbids Rupert’s classmates from...
| Author | Brendan Wenzel |
| ISBN | 1452150141 |
This gorgeous follow-up to the Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat explores another aspect of seeing the world for young children. Beginning with two cats, one black and one white, a chain of animals appears before the reader, linked together by at least one common trait. From simple colors...
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| ISBN | 0380788780 |
Joe Stoshack lives for baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game -- except how to play well. His specialty is striking out. Stosh feels like a real loser, and when he takes a low-paying job cleaning a bunch of junk out of his neighbor's attic, he feels even worse -- until he comes across...
| Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| ISBN | 0062071645 |
From the Files of the Platypus Police Squad
Case #1138 Detectives of record: Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley
Case brief: A local schoolteacher is missing, and the only thing fishier than the circumstances surrounding his disappearance is the smell coming from the bag he left behind....
| Author | Caroline Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1444001698 |
The Case of the Deadly Desperado is a TERRIBLE book that Caroline Lawrence should be ashamed of. I am not sure what was added to the story by having the protagonist be half Sioux other than the excuse to include all sorts of offensive stereotypes and racial slurs. I do not care if the use of the word “squaw”...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978194 |
Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over...
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0805089047 |
Derek Fallon gets the opportunity of a lifetime—to be a stunt boy in a major movie featuring a pretty teen starlet. After accepting the job he learns that he is the star's stunt double and must wear a wig! His friends are never going to let him live this down. If that weren't his only problem, his parents...
| Author | Obert Skye |
| ISBN | 0805092684 |
Twelve-year-old underachiever Rob has better things to do than read. His parents give him lots of books but most of them just end up in the messy pile of junk he keeps locked in his closet that once doubled as a makeshift science laboratory. One day, Rob hears weird sounds coming from behind his closet...
| Author | Eric Kahn Gale |
| ISBN | 0062125184 |
Marlin is not slow, or mute; what he is is a stutterer, and that makes it impossible for him to convince people otherwise. What he is also is a Rackham: the youngest son of the world-famous explorer Roland Rackham, who is the owner and proprietor of the Zoo at the Edge of the World, a resort where the well-to-do...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0545789753 |
A solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother.
What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet,...
