Whales on Stilts
10 best books like Whales on Stilts (M.T. Anderson): Cow Boy: A Boy and His Horse, The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery, Aliens on Vacation, Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization, Smek for President!, Hello, Nebulon!, Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates, Travels of Thelonious, The Doom Machine
| Author | Nate Cosby |
| ISBN | 1936393670 |
Justice ain't got no age..
Nate Cosby (Pigs, Jim Henson's The Storyteller) and Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards, Misery Loves Sherman) present Cow Boy, the story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain't his,...
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0152022813 |
Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee--stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters,...
| Author | Clete Barrett Smith |
| ISBN | 1423133633 |
David, otherwise known as Scrub (don't ask), isn't happy about leaving Florida and his friends to summer with his grandmother in "Middle of Nowhere," Washington. When he arrives at her Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, he isn't surprised by its 60s meets Star Wars decor, but he is surprised by the...
| Author | Lauren Tarshis |
| ISBN | 0803731647 |
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It's easy: she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0618594442 |
The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, always...
Los Angeles, California.
Neddie Wentworthstein is the guy with the turtle.
Sandor...
| Author | Adam Rex |
| ISBN | 1484709519 |
In this much anticipated sequel to The True Meaning of Smekday, Tip and J.Lo are back for another hilarious intergalactic adventure. And this time (and last time, and maybe next time), they want to make things right with the Boov.
After Tip and J.Lo banished the Gorg from Earth in a scheme involving...
| Author | Ray O'Ryan |
| ISBN | 1471116832 |
Get to know Galaxy Zack—and his new home planet!
In Hello, Nebulon!, Zack makes the big move from Earth. He is already nervous about starting school and making new friends, but it only gets worse when he dreams that his classmates are slimy aliens with tentacles, pizza comes covered in gross...
| Author | Kevin O'Malley |
| ISBN | 0802795714 |
Planet Jurassica is under siege. The sinister space pirates have raided the Imperial palace and stolen the famous Jewels of Jurassica. This looks like a job for . . . Captain Raptor!. . . hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy. If anyone...
"In ancient times human beings ruled the Earth -- at least that's what the old legends claim. But is it true?"Thelonious Chipmunk is a Talker -- an animal who has inherited the gift of language -- and he, for one, believes in humans. Who else could have made the old paper postcard he treasures? His desire...
| Author | Mark Teague |
| ISBN | 0545151422 |
Bestselling writer/illustrator Mark Teague presents a witty, vivid novel about Jack and Isadora, two kids who discover a spaceship and are taken aboard by aliens who plan to take over the Earth!
When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978151 |
Steve Brixton always wanted to be a detective...
until he found out he already WAS one.
It all starts here: The thrilling story of Steve Brixton's first case. Our hero has a national treasure to recover, a criminal mastermind to unmask, and a social studies report due Monday -- all while...
| Author | Nathan Bransford |
| ISBN | 0803735375 |
Jacob Wonderbar is used to detentions, but when a spaceship crashes near his house, he finds himself in a whole new level of trouble. After swapping a corn dog for the ship, he and his two best friends, Sarah Daisy and Dexter, take off on a madcap adventure. They accidentally cause an epic explosion, get...
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore
| Author | Jenny Offill |
| ISBN | 0375835962 |
This "Parenting Magazine" Best Book of the Year and Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year features a kid full of fun ideas. For example, in the morning, gluing her brother's bunny slippers to the floor sounds like a good plan. But now she's not allowed to use glue anymore. And...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596431261 |
In the goofy space adventures of a little girl called Sardine, encounters aren't always friendly: weird creatures, cosmic squids, masters of the universe, talking clouds, and evil beings abound. In this volume of twelve stories, Supermuscleman, the chief executive dictator of the universe, is...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0385392478 |
Told in diary entries and other “documents,” this magical, modern-day comedy by the master of funny fantasy, Bruce Coville is a story filled with laugh-out-loud humor and heart.
Angus is a brownie. No, not the kind you eat! He’s a tiny magical creature that loves to do chores. Angus...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0142401161 |
Sam, Fred and Joe accidentally open The Book while going over lines for the Greek Mythology play they are about to perform for school. Unfortunately, they get sucked into a real version of their play and find themselves in the presence of the Greek Gods and their enemies, the Monsters. For some reason...
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 1416913890 |
Most days the best thing about being Ruby is everything. Like when she's the star of her own backyard magic show. Or when she gives a talk at the school safety assembly on the benefits of reflective tape. Or when she rides the No. 3 bus all the way to Chinatown to visit GungGung and PohPoh.
And then...
| Author | Dan Greenburg |
| ISBN | 0152059954 |
Nobody wants to adopt the Shluffmuffin twins. Wally's feet stink something awful, and Cheyenne is allergic to everything. Then why are the Mandible sisters so eager to take them home? And what sort of old maids would choose to live in a place called Dripping Fang Forest, where zombies wander the woods...
