The Unsinkable Walker Bean
10 best books like The Unsinkable Walker Bean (Aaron Renier): Mighty Jack, Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook, Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess, Foiled, Target Practice, Zeus: King of the Gods, Salt Water Taffy, vol. 1: The Legend of Old Salty, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day...
Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 1596433698 |
In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them!
Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon,...
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1626722668 |
Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone — carried into another realm by an ogre.
When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy’s captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1599903962 |
Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596434325 |
Step into a world of fearsome battle, cruel treachery, and fierce loyalty. Your guides are the three Fates, eerie figures who weave the tale of life. Their subject today is Athena, warrior goddess. Five astonishing tales of brave Athena's adventures lies ahead.
Get ready for adventures you've...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1596432799 |
This review is for both books in the series, Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again. I read them one right after another, so they do sort of blend together a bit in my mind. For what it's worth, I'm shelving it as both middle grade and young adult because I feel like it straddles that very hazy line between the two...
| Author | Mike Maihack |
| ISBN | 0545528437 |
A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra -- yes, THAT Cleopatra -- who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy!
When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596436255 |
Girl walks into my library. I'm putting her age at around nine, maybe ten. Asks if I have any books on Ancient Greece. Turns out the kid is so into Greek mythology that she is willingly learning more about the true history behind that area of the world for her own personal knowledge. In other words, she is...
| Author | Matthew Loux |
| ISBN | 1932664947 |
Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam and his eighth-year-old brother Benny are being dragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family. And not to somewhere cool like Disney World, but to a little port town in Maine named Chowder Bay, far away from anyplace fun. But what promises to be a...
Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.
In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is about the most exciting thing since baseball. They’re...
| Author | Scott Chantler |
| ISBN | 1554534143 |
As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her...
| Author | James Burks |
| ISBN | 0759531455 |
Gator has just never seemed to fit in with the other neighborhood pets...probably because he has a nasty habit of eating the other neighborhood pets. Flushed down the toilet as just a little snapper, Gator spends his days alone in the sewers...
On the streets above, little Gabby has never seemed...
| Author | Colleen A.F. Venable |
| ISBN | 0761345981 |
There's a sandwich thief in Mr. Venezi's pet shop, and everyone is a suspect, from the chinchillas to the goldfish. Never fear! The world's fluffiest detective on the case: Sasspants, PI(G). By day, Sasspants is your average book-loving, gizmo-inventing guinea pig. By night she solves pet shop mysteries...
