18 books like This school year will be the best!
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
"Hilarious. Barbara Park makes reading fun." --Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man
Barbara Park's #1 New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, has been keeping kids laughing--and reading--for more than twenty-five years. Over 65 million copies sold!
Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner--Junie B. Jones! Remember when it was scary to go to school? In the first Junie B. Jones…
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Maxie, Rosie, and Earl- Partners In Grime
When their disciplinary meetings with the principal are postponed, three students skip school with humorous results.
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Presents humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
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Almost Starring Skinnybones
Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national television.
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Deadline
Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on — not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his…
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A fine, fine school
When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it is up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.
Gallery WINNER: voted the favorite Gallery Book for the year in the Triple Crown Children's Book Award program, advancing uplifting, wholesome, mainstream literature.
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Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown
Amber Brown is starting second grade, but there is a new teacher this year. Nobody knows what Ms. Light will be like, and Amber is worried. Will she be mean? Will she like the class? Armed with her new teddy-bear backpack, Amber marches off to school, ready to face the scary newness of 2nd grade.
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David goes to school
David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"
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Back to school, Mallory
After moving, eight-year-old Mallory struggles with being new at school, especially because her mother is now the music teacher and director of the third grade play.
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Harry Potter (series) 1-4
Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter has had his hands full during his first four years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As if excelling on and off the Quidditch field isn't enough, Harry has heard evil voices in the walls, saved lives, and fended off convicts. Only time will tell how Harry will manage the certain dangers in store for him over the next few years. The first four…
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I Want to Eat Your Books
He’s limping strangely down the hall with outstretched arms and a groaning drawl. A zombie! Could it really be? You race to class, but turn to see he’s sitting in the desk right next to you!But odds are you’ll probably be okay, because this is no ordinary zombie. This zombie doesn’t want to eat your brains—he wants to eat your books! Hide your textbooks and your fairy tales, because the little…
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Skinnybones
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
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I hate rules!
Katie Carew (nicknamed Katie Kazoo by the class bully) always wished that she could be anyone but herself. Now her wish has come true - and she keeps turning into other people! When Katie gets caught breaking the rules, first passing a note, and later with a cell phone (that isn't even her's!), she loses her recess for the day. She's had it with the school rules! When she turns into the…
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Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day
Afternoon kindergarten is having a field day, and Junie B. Jones is team captain! Only, here's the problem. Room Eight keeps on winning too many events. And so how will Room Nine ever become the kindergarten champions? As Captain Field Day, will Junie B. find a way to lead her team to victory? Or will it be up to someone else to save the day?From the Trade Paperback edition.
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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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Iggy Peck, Architect
Meet Iggy Peck—creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irreverent, inspired fun.
Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials—who could forget the tower he built of dirty…
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Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia helps out by teaching a class but she takes the list of activities very literally. Planting bulbs becomes planting light bulbs. Practising a play becomes practising playing. Using apples to solve maths problems becomes finding apples and getting the children to try to take them away from each other. It's a story full of humour and mayhem and kids will enjoy laughing over Amelia…
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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.
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