18 books like Freaky Friday
No Roses for Harry!
Harry the dog finds a graceful way to dispose of his new sweater with roses on it.
Shares: Classics, Children's fiction
The Unteachables
Very Interesting. Love the storyline.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Humor, Schools, Children's fiction
Dogs don't tell jokes
Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school.
Shares: Self-perception, Humor, Schools, Children's fiction
The Last Straw
Greg has to try and explain to his dad why he should not go to military school and that is just one of his problems he has to try and impress a girl solve a sweet mystery and try to get kicked off the football team
Shares: Middle schools, Humorous fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Ms. LaGrange is strange!
Something weird is going on! Ms. LaGrange talks funny and she's from some other country called France! She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant! She grows her own food right out of the ground! Yuck! Plus, she's writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes!
Shares: Humorous fiction, Humor, Schools, Children's fiction
House of Robots
Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student.
Shares: Middle schools, Humorous fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
My brother is a big, fat liar
Georgia Khatchadorian plans to succeed at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaker brother failed.
Shares: Middle schools, Humorous fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Lulu and the duck in the park
Lulu, who loves animals, brings an abandoned duck egg to school, even though her teacher has banned Lulu from bringing animals to school ever again.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Humorous fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
It's Not My Fault I Know Everything (Dear Dumb Diary #8)
New York Times Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with another hilarious, candid, and sometimes not-so-nice diary!
Dear Dumb Diary,
I went back and read some of my very oldest diaries. The entries say things like "I eated salad dressing" and "I got a Barbie shoe stuck in Stinker's nose again" and "The vet was mean to me about the Barbie shoe so I tried to bite him but vets are quick at not…
Shares: Middle schools, Humorous fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Pretties
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Shares: Self-perception, Teenage Girls, Children's fiction
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.
Shares: Teacher-student relationships, Schools, Children's fiction
The earth, my butt, and other big, round things
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
Shares: Self-perception, Teenage Girls, Schools, Children's fiction
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (Wayside School #3)
All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the 30th floor. Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside…
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Alice, I Think
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
Shares: Self-perception, Teenage Girls, Children's fiction
Freckle Juice
Freckle Juice is a 1971 children's chapter book by Judy Blume with illustrations by Sonia O. Lisker. It is about a second grade student who wants to have freckles.
Shares: Self-perception, Humorous fiction, Children's fiction
Be more chill
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
Shares: Self-perception, Schools, Children's fiction
Basement of the undead
When Lew, Gary, and Lugnut are trapped in their middle school basement, they discover that at night it becomes the domain of zombie teachers and students--will they survive or be forced to join the undead?
Shares: Middle schools, Schools, Children's fiction
Dogsong
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.
Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare…
Shares: Self-perception, Children's fiction