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After Diary of a Wimpy Kid

We just adore the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney.  The lovable underdog, Greg Heffley, draws young bookworms in, and the format is digestable for even the most reluctant reader.  So... what do we recommend you pick up once you've finished reading the Wimpy Kid series?  Here's our list of favorites...

Frindle (Paperback)

By Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780689818769
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Published: Aladdin, 02/01/1998

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker?

He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.


Lawn Boy (Paperback)

By Gary Paulsen
$6.50
ISBN-13: 9780553494655
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Yearling, 03/01/2009

One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold.

If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting.


By Bruce Hale, Shane Hillman
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780060851262
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperCollins, 03/01/2009

It's tough to be Zeke.

He's got his hands full with his prissy, know-it-all sister; his mean cousin Caitlyn, who's house-sitting for his missing parents; and a bully making life tough at school. And now, thanks to a stinky, scruffy, good-for-nothing talking cat, he's also got to cope with zombies, midget freedom fighters, devious spies, superstar rappers, and a whole weird world beneath our own where people wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes.

Other Books in the Underwhere Series


By Tom Birdseye
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780823416899
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Holiday House, 10/01/2003
Will Cody be able to hide his humiliating mistakes of the past from his peers in his new school?

By Charlie Small
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780375849701
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Published: David Fickling Books, 02/01/2008

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life–and still only be eight. And yet . . . there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal and some of its boggling content for analysis. And only one conclusion could be drawn. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true! In his first adventure, Gorilla City, Charlie wrestles a deadly river croc, rides a steam-powered rhino, and becomes tribal chief in a city of gorillas.

Other Books in the Charlie Small Series


By Jack Gantos
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780374429232
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 09/01/1995
Jack's life is a crazy roller-coaster ride. At his fifth school in six years, he has a crackpot teacher who wont give him a break about his lousy handwriting and a secret crush who wants to be a policewoman. At home, he has a pesky little brother with a knack for breaking an arm whenever Jack's supposed to be looking after him, a terror for an older sister who mocks his belief in UF)s, all sorts of weird neighbors, and, last but not least, ferocious alligators in the canal behind his house.

By Jennifer L. Holm, Elicia Castaldi
$12.99
ISBN-13: 9780689852817
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ginee Seo Books, 07/01/2007
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between September and June. But it looks like it's shaping up to be that kind of a year! Here's the story of one girl's worst school year ever -- told completely through her stuff.

By David Lubar
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780765345707
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Starscape, 06/01/2003

Kids can be such monsters. Literally.

From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she has some monsters for students. A group of kids attempt a levitation trick with hair-raising results. A neighborhood is so boring the grown ups are turning into...well...you know. And dozens more.

So don't be a weenie! Read these stories!

Other Books in the Weenie Series