18 books like Prairie school

What to read after Prairie school — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Queenie Peavy Robert Burch · 1966 · ★ 5.0 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Tormented by taunts that her father is in prison, thirteen-year-old Queenie retaliates by causing a lot of trouble until she discovers something important about her father and herself. Shares: Accelerated Reader, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Class Clown Johanna Hurwitz · 1987 · ★ 3.7 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Lucas Cott, the most obstreperous boy in the third grade, finds it very hard to turn over a new leaf when he decides to become the perfect student. Shares: Accelerated Reader, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight Jenny Nimmo · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs. ---------- German-language description: Der finstere Schattenlord will Charlie Bones Stadt in seine Gewalt bringen und er hat… Shares: Accelerated Reader, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Kirsten learns a lesson Janet Beeler Shaw · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 69p · ≈ 2h · Moderate After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl. Kirsten has a hard time in her new American school because she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with… Shares: Accelerated Reader, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Boy Who Owned the School Gary Paulsen · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz. Jacob, who is usually in a fog anyway, has the the job of running the fog machine. The problem is that Maria… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

The day the teacher went bananas James Howe · 1984 · ★ 4.3 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Skylark Patricia MacLachlan · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Moderate My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help remembering what she knew first. Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not… Shares: Prairies, Children's fiction

The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called "squatters" and equipped with covered wagons, livestock, farming implements, and household furnishings, they give every appearance of being ordinary settlers except for the fact they have bypassed… Shares: Prairies, United States, Children's fiction

A Flying Birthday Cake? Louis Sachar · 1999 · ★ 3.7 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

The curse of the night wolf Paul Stewart · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and "highstacking" around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog and soon finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics, and very expensive furs. . . .From the Hardcover edition. Shares: Accelerated Reader, Children's fiction

The Misfits James Howe · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Witch Week Diana Wynne Jones · 1982 · ★ 3.9 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned. Shares: Accelerated Reader, Schools, Children's fiction

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (Wayside School #3) Louis Sachar · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Maizon at Blue Hill Jacqueline Woodson · 1992 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate After winning a scholarship to an academically challenging boarding school, Maizon finds herself one of only five blacks there and wonders if she will ever fit in. Sequel to "Last Summer with Maizon." Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt · 1964 · ★ 3.0 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton—a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. Shares: Accelerated Reader, United States, Children's fiction

Our sixth-grade sugar babies Eve Bunting · 1990 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh grade boy they both love. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Don't you know there's a war on? Avi · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired. Shares: School Stories, United States, Schools, Children's fiction

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Gabrielle Zevin · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

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