![]() Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan. Turtle’s time running around the neighborhood, meeting new people and having pirate adventures with her boy cousins make for a charming and funny story with old-fashioned overtones. 11 year old Turtle moves in with her extended family in this lovely gem of a book set in 1930s Florida Keys. Hilarious, and the text edition includes a very clever use of photographs to highlight Moxy’s creative procrastination skills. Moxy is supposed to read Stuart Little for her summer reading assignment, but she spends more time avoiding - and justifying that avoidance - than she does reading. (series) We listened to this ( and the sequel) on audiobook and my son spent much of the time laughing, especially during the periodic one word chapters. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford. Friendship and sibling relationships play a big part Maggie's detective work in this enjoyable series suitable for kids who enjoy realistic fiction. Maggie is an amateur dog walker and when dogs start disappearing in her neighborhood she also becomes a sleuth. Girls Best Friend (series) by Leslie Margolis. Along the way she learns about friendships and doing the right thing. She is up against the new girl and must make ethical choices in order to win the election fairly. ![]() This fun story follows the tale of the clever and likable Brianna, who is determined to become fifth grade president. President of the Whole Fifth Grade (series) by Sherri Winston. Meanwhile, her 100 year old doll family learn to live with the new, modern FunCraft doll family. Annabelle doll finds a diary belonging long lost Aunt Sarah and decides to investigate. Even my 11 year old son loved listening to this on audiobook. Martin (author of The Baby-Sitters Club!). All of the books in this British series are now available state-side! When Gertrude goes off one day to find a prince and instead gets captured, her sister heads out to rescue her. Hard-working, practical Eliza and her dreamy, prince poster-collecting sister Gertrude are total opposites. When I read this out loud to my son we could not stop laughing! I quite enjoyed creating silly voices for all of Sarah Courtauld's ridiculous and charming characters. This book is nice way of exposing young readers to other cultures and includes a reading guide, glossary, activity ideas and even a recipe!īuckle and Squash: The Perilous Princess Plot by Sarah Courtauld. When her friends’ lunchtime treats go missing Precious is on the job and when she discovers the surprising thief a nice chuckle is had by all. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency book series for grown-ups solved her very first case in Botswana when she was just a girl. A charming story of a girl who sets out to have a great year and learns a lot along the way. Pacy's mom tells her that the year of the dog will be a lucky one. I love all books by Grace Lin, and the Pacy series is a real treat. The Year of the Dog (series) by Grace Lin. Happy reading! (Note: book covers and titles are affiliate links.) For those on the younger side, they may enjoy books from my list of early chapter book series about girls. I found differing age recommendations for The Baby-Sitters Club, and decided to aim for books that are particularly suitable for fourth and fifth grade readers. For those kids looking to expand their horizons with other books that feature friendship, school, growing up, life-lessons and a little humor, these 10 books for kids who love The Baby-Sitter's Club will be just the ticket. And now that there is a graphic novel version of The Baby-Sitters Club, voracious readers have even more to love. ![]() Martin is like a rite of passage for any growing reader, especially ( and I hate to be gender specific, but.) girls. The back of one of the four trading cards for each book (except #40) contained a part of a sketch drawing of Karen and her friends, to be put together into the complete picture when all trading cards were collected.Reading The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. The first printings of books #40-52 came with four book cover trading cards each. Necklace and California Diaries preview bookletīumper sticker from Friends Forever #2 Stacey vs.
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