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10 best books like The Trolley Car Family (Eleanor Clymer): The Mitchells: Five for Victory, The Secret Language, The Happy Hollisters, The Journeyman, In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Who Ran My Underwear up the Flagpole?, An Enemy at Green Knowe, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, The Devil's Children

The Mitchells: Five for Victory
AuthorHilda van Stockum
ISBN1883937051
The five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people...
The Secret Language
AuthorUrsula Nordstrom
ISBN0064400220
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
The Happy Hollisters
AuthorJerry West
ISBN0448168707
The adventures for the Hollisters begin as soon as they move into their new house on the shore on Pine Lake in Shoreham. First, the moving van carrying their toys and their father's important new invention disappears. Next, they learn that their house may be haunted, with a treasure hidden somewhere...
The Journeyman
AuthorElizabeth Yates
ISBN0890845352
The boy isn't much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin's odd ways. His father doesn't think he's good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him.

But Jared isn't concerned; he has his own ideas about what...
In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0689817088
Meet the Cobble Street Cousins!

Lily, who wants to be a poet
Tess, who wants to be a Broadway star
Rosie, who wants a little cottage with flowers by the door Right now, though, the cousins are sharing an attic bedroom in their Aunt Lucy?s light blue house on Cobble Street, and happily making...
Henry Reed's Babysitting Service
AuthorKeith Robertson
ISBN0140341463
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own

An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
Who Ran My Underwear up the Flagpole?
AuthorJerry Spinelli
ISBN0590462784
A fast, fun friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.

It's football season at Plumstead Middle School, and everything is up in the air. Sunny has become a cheerleader--the first ever to wear a frown and beat up fans who refuse to cheer. Eddie has gone out for football...
An Enemy at Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152024816
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia
AuthorPalmer Brown
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
The Devil's Children
AuthorPeter Dickinson
ISBN0440200822
The Apocalypse! Now! With More Tolerance-For-Sikhs!

I remember liking this whole trilogy when I was a kid, but I also recall that this one wasn't my favorite. I was surprised how little of the book felt familiar to me upon re-reading.

We're dropped into a post-apocalyptic scene. A...
Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
AuthorRobert McCloskey
Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge—they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful...
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
AuthorEllen MacGregor
ISBN0070445605
Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest...
Back to School with Betsy
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152051015
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Third grade begins with...
What a Year!: A 26 Fairmount Avenue Book
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0142501581
The year 1940 is a very big year for Tomie-it's the start of first grade, and it's his first birthday in the new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue. It's also the first year that Tomie gets to go trick-or-treating with his older brother, Buddy. Then the holidays arrive, and Tomie has a part in the Christmas play....
Depend On Katie John
AuthorMary Calhoun
ISBN0064400298
I read this at the age of 9. I had read Honestly Katie John! and Katie John and combed the local libraries 'till I found this one. It is different from the others and unique, full of the adventures of a fun, adventurous girl next door. It's full of surprises! Each Katie John book is unique in its own way. In this...
The Little Riders
AuthorMargaretha Shemin
ISBN0688124992
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
The Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew
AuthorStan Berenstain
ISBN0679836101
102 pages

I didn't know how this was going to be because I've never read one of their chapter books. Idk what it was about this book that made me pick it up in the first place. I noticed as soon as I started that the bears weren't talking the same. I know their other books are usually rhymed so they talk...
Family Sabbatical
AuthorCarol Ryrie Brink
ISBN1477829989
The Ridgeway family takes on France in this delightful story from Newbery Medal winner Carol Ryrie Brink.

Professor Ridgeway is on sabbatical in the South of France—and the whole family is along for the adventure. Susan has brought her diary to document their vacation fun, but Dumpling...
Big Sister and Little Sister
AuthorCharlotte Zolotow
ISBN0064432173
I liked this story quite a bit. I thought the illustrations were quite charming, although the style is quite old and may not be as appealing to readers today.

The story was sweet - a protective older sibling cares for her younger sister, doing her best to take care of her. The younger sister desires...
Six Cousins At Mistletoe Farm
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0006916201
After a fire at their home, Cyril, Melisande and Roderick are hastily sent to stay with their aunt, uncle and cousins on their farm. The three arrivals are somewhat spoiled and affected, and find it very tough to live on a working farm with their cousins Jane, Jack and Susan who have their own faults. Sensible...
Judy's Journey
AuthorLois Lenski
ISBN0440443032
The value of a book is more than the skill and creativity of the writer. It encompasses the value that it is given by its readers. A book has immeasurable value when it gives hope, comfort, and a sense of belonging to children.

I can't review Judy's Journey objectively because of my love for it as...
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