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What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World

10 best books like What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World (Henry Clark): Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking, Jinx, The Water Castle, The Path of Names, Texting the Underworld, My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!), Bowling Alley Bandit, Will in Scarlet, Elvis and the Underdogs, The Frog Who Croaked

Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking
AuthorErin Dionne
ISBN0803738714
Edgar Award Finalist

For fans of The Westing Game and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes a clever, treasure-hunt mystery based on a real-life art heist.
 

Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them--that is, until the day she opens her front door to a...
Jinx
AuthorSage Blackwood
ISBN0062129902
In the Urwald, you don’t step off the path. Trolls, werewolves, and butter-churn riding witches lurk amid the clawing branches, eager to swoop up the unwary. Jinx has always feared leaving the path—then he meets the wizard Simon Magus.

Jinx knows that wizards are evil. But Simon’s kitchen...
The Water Castle
AuthorMegan Frazer Blakemore
ISBN0802728391
Ephraim Appledore-Smith is an ordinary boy, and up until his father’s stroke he lived an ordinary life. But all that changes when his family moves to the Water Castle—their ancestral home in the small town of Crystal Springs. Mallory Green’s family has always been the caretakers of the Water...
The Path of Names
AuthorAri B. Goelman
ISBN0545474302
Mysteries, mazes, and magic combine in this smart, funny summer-camp fantasy -- like THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY for kids!

Dahlia Sherman loves magic, and Math Club, and Guitar Hero. She isn't so fond of nature walks, and Hebrew campfire songs, and mean girls her own age.

All...
Texting the Underworld
AuthorEllen Booraem
ISBN0803737041
Perpetual scaredy-cat Conor O'Neill has the fright of his life when a banshee girl named Ashling shows up in his bedroom. Ashling is--as all banshees are--a harbinger of death, but she's new at this banshee business, and first she insists on going to middle school. As Conor attempts to hide her identity...
My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)
AuthorAlison DeCamp
ISBN0385390440
For history lovers and journal fans comes a story about a boy on a mission to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan.
 
There are many things that 11-year-old Stanley Slater would like to have in life—most of all, a father. But what if Stan’s missing dad isn’t “dearly...
Bowling Alley Bandit
AuthorLaurie Keller
ISBN0805090762
As Mr. Bing's new pet "doughnut dog," Arnie couldn't be happier. When Mr. Bing joins a bowling league, Arnie gets to go along to practices and competitions. But then Mr. Bing starts rolling gutter balls. Someone or something is behind the madness. Arnie, together with his team of goofball friends,...
Will in Scarlet
AuthorMatthew Cody
This reimagining of the Robin Hood legend tells the story of the young boy behind the bandit hero's rise to fame.
 
Will Shackley is the son of a lord, and though just thirteen, he’s led a charmed, protected life and is the heir to Shackley House, while his father is away on the Third Crusade with...
Elvis and the Underdogs
AuthorJenny Lee
In the tradition of funny and heartwarming bestsellers like Wonder and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, this is the story of a sickly boy whose life is turned upside down when he gets a therapy dog…who can talk!

Benji Wendell Barnsworth is a small ten-year-old boy with a big personality. Born...
The Frog Who Croaked
AuthorJarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN0062071645
From the Files of the Platypus Police Squad

Case #1138 Detectives of record: Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley

Case brief: A local schoolteacher is missing, and the only thing fishier than the circumstances surrounding his disappearance is the smell coming from the bag he left behind....
Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol
AuthorJim Krieg
ISBN1595142762
Griff Carver knows a thing or two about fighting crime.

No, he cannot be bought. He cannot be frightened. And he will not sleep until justice is served. Because Griff Carver is not just any kid--he's a kid with a badge. And if you are a rule breaker, he's your worst nightmare.

Griff might...
Odessa Again
AuthorDana Reinhardt
ISBN0449015297
   Fourth grader Odessa Green-Light lives with her mom and her toad of a little brother, Oliver. Her dad is getting remarried, which makes no sense according to Odessa. If the prefix "re" means "to do all over again," shouldn't he be remarrying Mom? Meanwhile, Odessa moves into the attic room of their...
Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage: A Mystery with Hoverbots, Bristle Bots, and Other Robots You Can Build Yourself
AuthorBob Pflugfelder
ISBN1594746494
Nick and Tesla return in an all-new, robot-filled adventure!

When a rash of robberies hits the town of Half Moon Bay, 11-year-old sleuths Nick and Tesla are determined to catch the criminals—but to do so, they'll have to build a host of new gadgets and gizmos!

In this robot-themed...
Pi in the Sky
AuthorWendy Mass
Joss is the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe. His older brothers help his dad rule the cosmos, but all Joss gets to do is deliver pies. That's right: pies. Of course, these pies actually hold the secrets of the universe between their buttery crusts, but they're still pies.
Joss is...
Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year
AuthorBill Harley
ISBN1561457329
Charlie Bumpers's worst fear is confirmed: he has Mrs. Burke for fourth grade. How will he survive a year with the strictest teacher in the whole school?
Shortly before school starts, Charlie Bumpers learns that he will be in Mrs. Burke's class. It doesn't matter that she's been named Teacher of...
Haunters
AuthorThomas Taylor
Interessante Zeitreiseidee, die spannende neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet und schön umgesetzt wurde. Mit den Charakteren bin ich leider nicht so warm geworden, da wir sie kaum kennenlernen konnten und gegen Ende häuften sich ein wenig die Logiklöcher. Aber insgesamt war es doch eine rasante...
The Tell-Tale Start
AuthorGordon McAlpine
ISBN0142423467
Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and...
Binny for Short
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1444900544
When she was eight, Binny’s life was perfect: She had her father’s wonderful stories and Max, the best dog ever. But after her father’s sudden death, money is tight, and Aunty Violet decides to give Max away—he is just too big for their cramped new life. Binny knows she can’t get her dad back,...
After Iris
AuthorNatasha Farrant
ISBN0803739826
An unforgettable middle-grade debut that will steal your heart

Blue Gadsby’s twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same. Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily; her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed...
Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN0547503504
“At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide...
Life on Mars
AuthorJennifer Brown
ISBN1619632527
Skillfully constructed middle-grade novel unusual in its casting of a boy protagonist with such depth of character and emotion. The planetary motif runs through this story about a constellation of family and friends. Arty, short for Arcterus (a star), lives with his parents and sisters Cassi (short...
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN1419712187
Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink...
Falcon in the Glass
AuthorSusan Fletcher
ISBN1442429909
In Venice in 1487, the secrets of glassblowing are guarded jealously. Renzo, a twelve-year-old laborer in a glassworks, has just a few months to prepare for a test of his abilities, and no one to teach him. If he passes, he will qualify as a skilled glassblower. If he fails, he will be expelled from the glassworks....
Dorko the Magnificent
AuthorAndrea Beaty
ISBN1613124783
Robbie Darko is a magician. An old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician. Robbie loves magic and he’s good at it—sort of. Despite his best efforts, passion, and practice, something always goes wrong with his tricks, landing Robbie in trouble. Enter crotchety Grandma Melvyn,...
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