The Templeton Twins Have an Idea

10 best books like The Templeton Twins Have an Idea (Ellis Weiner): Star Wars: Jedi Academy, A Tangle of Knots, The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher, Winterling, No Talking, The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy, Fake Mustache, Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure, When Life Gives You O.J., The Trouble With Chickens

Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Author	Jeffrey Brown
ISBN	0545609992

This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school--all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting? A galaxy far, far away...

Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend...

A Tangle of Knots

Author	Lisa Graff
ISBN	0399255176

Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny...

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

Author	Dana Alison Levy
ISBN	0385376545

Meet the Fletchers. Their year will be filled with new schools, old friends, a grouchy neighbor, hungry skunks, leaking ice rinks, school plays, wet cats, and scary tales told in the dark!

There’s Sam, age twelve, who’s mostly interested in soccer, food, and his phone; Jax, age ten, who’s...

Winterling

Author	Sarah Prineas
ISBN	0061921033

“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.”With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt...

No Talking

Author	Andrew Clements
ISBN	1416909834

"You have the right to remain silent." However...

The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot.

Then one...

The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy

Author

Nikki Loftin

When Lorelei's old school mysteriously burns down, a new one appears practically overnight: Splendid Academy. Rock-climbing walls on the playground and golden bowls of candy on every desk? Gourmet meals in the cafeteria, served by waiters? Optional homework and two recess periods a day? It's every...

Fake Mustache

Author	Tom Angleberger
ISBN	1419701940

Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.

Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend—Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis—and world domination. It all begins...

Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure

Author	Lissa Evans
ISBN	1402798067

The exciting launch title of Sterling's middle-grade fiction list:
HORTEN'S MIRACULOUS MECHANISMS  Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery … and danger.
As if being small for his age and also having S. Horten as his name isn't bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced...

When Life Gives You O.J.

Author	Erica S. Perl
ISBN	0375959246

Okay, so here's what I've been puzzling over with this book-- it's a PRIME example of the sort of book that sometimes struggles to find the right readers, I think. Because it takes real risks, in quiet ways. It doesn't announce itself as "quirky" or "zany." It just is those things, because it is human, and...

The Trouble With Chickens

Author	Doreen Cronin
ISBN	0061215325

J.J. Tully is a former search-and-rescue dog who is trying to enjoy his retirement after years of performing daring missions saving lives. So he's not terribly impressed when two chicks named Dirt and Sugar (who look like popcorn on legs) and their chicken mom show up demanding his help to track down...

Big Trouble

Author

R.A. Spratt

Friday Barnes has a new case, and this time it's personal!

When Friday's father turns up out of the blue, he brings his daughter some distressing news - Friday's mother has been kidnapped! But who would want to kidnap a theoretical physicist? The Headmaster needs Friday's help too, when Highcrest...

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading

Author	Tommy Greenwald
ISBN	1596436913

Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he's managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he's in middle school, avoiding reading isn't as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that he's tired...