The Vanishing Coin

6 best books like The Vanishing Coin (Kate Egan): A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, Night of the Living Worms: A Speed Bump & Slingshot Misadventure, Pugs of the Frozen North, Dinosaur Boy, A Whole New Ballgame, Save Me a Seat

A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	0385392281

Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems to think Miss Drake is her pet—a ridiculous notion!

Unknown to most of its inhabitants, the City by the Bay is home to many mysterious and fantastic creatures, hidden beneath the parks, among the clouds,...

Night of the Living Worms: A Speed Bump & Slingshot Misadventure

Author	Dave Coverly
ISBN	0805088865

What's a bird to do when his sibling is a big-time celebrity? It's a question Speed Bump has to deal with every single morning, because his brother happens to be the one and only Early Bird. You know, THE Early Bird, who ALWAYS gets the worm! Unfortunately, Speed Bump is a sleepy little bird with a big head...

Pugs of the Frozen North

Author	Philip Reeve
ISBN	0192734571

The Race to the Top of the World! It comes around once in a lifetime, and the prize? Your heart's desire. Shen and Sika can't resist the chance to win, but competition is fierce. The path to victory is littered with snow trolls, sea monsters, and a gang of particularly hungry yetis. But Shen and Sika have...

Dinosaur Boy

Author	Cory Putman Oakes
ISBN	1492605379

Sometimes being different is good...even if it means having a tail and spikes

Everyone knows the dinosaur gene skips a generation. So it wasn't a complete surprise when Sawyer sprouted a tail and spikes before he started fifth grade. After all, his grandfather was part stegosaurus.

Despite...

A Whole New Ballgame

Author	Phil Bildner
ISBN	0374301301

Rip and Red are best friends whose fifth-grade year is nothing like what they expected. They have a crazy new tattooed teacher named Mr. Acevedo, who doesn't believe in tests or homework and who likes off-the-wall projects, the more "off" the better. They also find themselves with a new basketball coach:...

Save Me a Seat

Author	Sarah Weeks
ISBN	0545846609

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.

Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.

Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...