The Worst Witch at School

10 best books like The Worst Witch at School (Jill Murphy): Starting with Alice, The Fourth Grade Wizards, Only a Witch Can Fly, The Witches' Supermarket, Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, Unfamiliar Magic, The Summer Sherman Loved Me, Summerhouse Time, Behind the Secret Window, Timebends: A Life

AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0689843968
All Alice wants is a friend.
Well, a pet and pierced ears and really long hair would be nice, too -- and most of all, Alice wishes she still had a mother. But starting third grade in a new school in a new town can be lonely, especially if the closest thing you have to a friend is weird Donald Sheavers from...
AuthorBarthe DeClements
ISBN0140327606
Marianne is turning into a daydreamer in class, drifting back through her memories of happier times, and falling way behind in her schoolwork. Despite her father's efforts, the months since Marianne's mother died have been one long stretch of loneliness and hurting. Like her friend Jack, who's a good...
AuthorAlison McGhee
ISBN0312375034
Only a witch can fly.

But one little girl wants to fly--more than anything. So on a special night, with the moon shining bright and her cat by her side, she gathers herself up, she grips her broom tight, and she tries. And she fails. And she's brave. And she tries again. Until . . .

Utterly...
AuthorSusan Meddaugh
ISBN0395700922
Anyone who loves dogs, cats, witches and Halloween, and intricate pictures with lots of view, will get a kick out of this book.

Martha dressed up as a witch and her dog dressed up as a cat inadvertently find their way into a no dogs allowed witches’ supermarket on Halloween. I like that they get...
AuthorBrigid O'Donoghue
ISBN1560778520
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.

Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
AuthorR.C. Alexander
ISBN0375858547
Desi is a witch. And she knows she could be a great witch—if only her mom would teach her any spells. Unfortunately, Desi’s mom is more concerned with keeping them safe and their abilities hidden.

When her mom leaves town under mysterious circumstances, it should be Desi’s perfect opportunity...
AuthorJane St. Anthony
ISBN0374372896
What happens when you get what you think you want and then don't know what to do with it? When twelve-year-old Margaret hears the boy next door call to her in the middle of the night, her heart races with excitement – and nervousness. Will this mean Sherman is her boyfriend? Although Sherman insists that...
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0375840613
Every year a rented pink cottage full of family, swapping stories, and riding waves mean Summerhouse Time for Sophie. Best of all is sharing a room with her favorite cousin and laughing and trading secrets like two happy peas in a cousin pod. Sophie can't wait! But when she asks the now-a-teenager Colleen...
AuthorNelly S. Toll
ISBN0803713622
For thirteen months during World War II, Nelly Toll and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Just eight years old when she went into hiding in 1943, Nelly began keeping the diary that would inspire this powerful and moving memoir of her childhood....
AuthorArthur Miller
ISBN0140249176
The trouble with autobiographies is that only part of most people's lives is interesting. So it is here. I wanted to read about Marilyn Monroe but we get only small parts out of two chapters. Miller glosses over the breakup of his first marriage and the formation of his relationship with the most famous...
AuthorMarcia Williams
ISBN0763631973
Canterbury Tales are a bit bawdy.This is a version adapted for children. Some of the thematic elements just can't be avoided! And humor during the middle ages included potty humor (read: tooting and whatnot). That being said, I thought this was done appropriately and the girls think it is HYSTERICAL....
AuthorMeredith Badger
ISBN0312378874
Step away from the wand...

We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.

In fact, she hates being a fairy.

She hates her itchy tutu school uniform...
AuthorKathleen O'Dell
ISBN0142403946
At her school in California, fourth-grader Ophie Peeler has it all: starring roles in all the school plays, plenty of attention and, of course, the best best friend a girl could ask for. Like Dorothy, Ophie is on the yellow brick road to a glamorous, adventurefilled life. But all of that changes when Ophie...
AuthorNatasha Lowe
Cat Campbell is a late-blooming witch whose magical abilities are bursting to be mastered in this charming coming-of-age story set in the world of The Power of Poppy Pendle.

Cat Campbell has had magical powers since the day she was born, but she didn’t always know that. Cat’s mother believes...
AuthorKelly McClymer
Prudence Stewart is FINALLY getting her witch on at Agatha's Day School. Sadly, her love life isn't quite so charmed. Boy trouble is lurking, big-time:

• First, there's Angelo, Pru's adorable crush-next-door. When he shows up at Agatha's, it spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E for Pru. Especially when...
Modern Mythology
AuthorAndrew Lang
A fascinating treatise on the study of modern mythology the construction of myths so soon after an event. Andrew Lang was the foremost scholar in folklore and mythology of his time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...
AuthorCharise Mericle Harper
ISBN0618959572
Grace can do a lot of things...but can she save the planet???? Or at the very least, can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite stuffed animal back?

Lots of exciting things are happening to Grace and her friends. Most exciting of all, Mimi's older cousin Gwen is coming to stay with Mimi,...
Hex the Halls
AuthorMindy Klasky
Just in time for the holidays! Check out this magical holiday collection of eight original short stories by some of today's bestselling paranormal authors:

Dreaming of a Witch Christmas by Mindy Klasky
It's beginning to look a lot like Yuletide...

And newlywed Jane Madison...
AuthorJulie Bowe
ISBN0152057773
As Ida May begins fourth grade, she is determined never to make another best friend--because her last best friend moved away. This is a doable plan at first. Thanks to bratty, bossy Jenna Drews who hates Ida, no one in class has ever really noticed her before.  
    
It's when the sparkly...
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
ISBN1575059320
Valentine's Day is approaching and everyone seems to be crazed with love--except for Mallory. She's been invited to a Valentine's party next door and rumor has it that her next-door neighbor's dad is going to propose to her best friend's mom. What will it mean if her two best friends become brother and...
AuthorStephanie Greene
ISBN0142421057
Make reading sparkle with the fourth title in the adorable Princess Posey chapter book series!

Halloween is right around the corner and Princess Posey is super excited to have a party with her first grade classmates and go trick-or-treating. But sometimes Halloween tricks are scary. When...
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0060533013
First Date Fifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her ‘round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's...
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