6 must-read humor books like The Kids of Cattywampus Street by Lisa Jahn-Clough

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The Kids of Cattywampus Street

By: Lisa Jahn-Clough

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Library Binding

“An extraordinary book.” --Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events   Lovers of Roa…

If you liked the humor plot in The Kids of Cattywampus Street by Lisa Jahn-Clough , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1) by Kate Milford

1. Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

By: Kate Milford

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Milford's Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"I want that T-shirt" Sirin muttered. " I should have that T-shirt."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"Never overlook folklore if you want to really know about the place it came from."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"But Milo had a shiny gold present to open, and presents trumped sad trees any day of the week."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"But when things were passed to you, you were supposed to pass them on to someone else eventually too."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

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2. What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night

By: Refe Tuma , Susan Tuma

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the parents who brought us the web sensation "Dinovember" comes photographic proof of what toy… read more

Similar categories in Refe Tuma's What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • humor
  • childrens

3. The Firefly Code

By: Megan Frazer Blakemore

3.25

Format: None pages,

Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in their utopian community, Old Harmonie. I… read more

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4. March of the Mini Beasts

By: Sam Ricks , Ada Hopper

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Danger! Action! Trouble! Adventure! Introducing The DATA Set, a brand-new chapter book series for y… read more

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5. The Beatryce Prophecy

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A magical medieval tale from two masters, Newbery Medal-winning Kate DiCamillo and Caldecott Medal-… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Beatryce Prophecy book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Once there was a mermaid."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Let her have her dangerous will."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

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6. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Klassen's The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Last Mapmaker book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

Cover of The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

8. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • humor
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

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9. The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Fort book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. Wildoak

By: C.C. Harrington

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Maggie’s stutter makes going to school hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class… read more

Similar categories in C.C. Harrington's Wildoak book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall, #2) by Tim Probert

11. Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall, #2)

By: Tim Probert

4.40

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of the Lightfall series, Bea and Cad continue their quest to stop Kest, t… read more

Similar categories in Tim Probert's Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall, #2) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1) by Tim Probert

12. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1)

By: Tim Probert

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Deep in the heart of the planet Irpa stands the Salty Pig’s House of Tonics & Tinctures, home of th… read more

Similar categories in Tim Probert's Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Break (Click #6) by Kayla Miller

13. Break (Click #6)

By: Kayla Miller

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Olive is less-than-excited to be spending Spring Break stuck with her dad...will she be able to mak… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Miller's Break (Click #6) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1) by Zeno Alexander

14. The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

By: Zeno Alexander

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secre… read more

Similar categories in Zeno Alexander's The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce>, rispose Malachi. , dichiarò Lenora. "

-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

"-Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce-, rispose Malachi. -Possono dominare solo dove c'è ignoranza, creare paura solo dove è stata …"

-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

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15. Garlic and the Witch

By: Bree Paulsen

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Witch book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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16. How to Train Your Dad

By: Gary Paulsen

3.64

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

A misadventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their… read more

Similar categories in Gary Paulsen's How to Train Your Dad book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • humor
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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17. What Stays Buried

By: Suzanne Young

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthda… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Young's What Stays Buried book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The same love that bound people together could sometimes be a barrier when it turned to grief."

-Suzanne Young, What Stays Buried

"All the love you’ve been holding in—the kind that’s mixed with grief and hurt, you let it out and set us free."

-Suzanne Young, What Stays Buried

"Sometimes, Calista could feel the grief as if it seeped down from the previous generation — sadness as a hereditary condition."

-Suzanne Young, What Stays Buried

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18. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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19. The Cardboard Kingdom

By: Chad Sell

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their or… read more

Similar categories in Chad Sell's The Cardboard Kingdom book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe by Josh   Allen

20. Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe

By: Josh Allen

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Thirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner!"Wonderful and we… read more

Similar categories in Josh Allen's Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • short stories
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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21. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lloyd's Hummingbird book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell by Jordan Sonnenblick

22. The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell

By: Jordan Sonnenblick

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade true story from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick.In a t… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Sonnenblick's The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • humor
  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1) by Sophie Escabasse

23. Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

By: Sophie Escabasse

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

There's a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Escabasse's Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The feelings you've experienced through her music are yours, pumpkin. It's okay to like her music and not like her, and it's okay to not like her music after meeting her. These are your feelings and …"

-Sophie Escabasse, Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

Cover of Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1) by Molly Knox Ostertag

24. Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xan… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of Fantastic Tales of Nothing by Alejandra Green

25. Fantastic Tales of Nothing

By: Alejandra Green

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fate of the land of Nothing hinges on Nathan and an unlikely team of magical beings to save the… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Green's Fantastic Tales of Nothing book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Time to Make Art by Jeff Mack

26. Time to Make Art

By: Jeff Mack

4.25

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Does art have to be perfect? Where do you begin? This inspiring picture book about making art doubl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Mack's Time to Make Art book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • childrens
Cover of Opinions and Opossums by Ann Braden

27. Opinions and Opossums

By: Ann Braden

4.21

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

Agnes has been raised to keep her opinions to herself, but how do you keep silent when you’re full… read more

Similar categories in Ann Braden's Opinions and Opossums book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington

28. In the Key of Us

By: Mariama J. Lockington

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama J. Lockington, c… read more

Similar categories in Mariama J. Lockington's In the Key of Us book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • middle grade
  • fiction
"When people tell you who they are, believe them, listen, and love them. (from Mama to Andi, p. 48 of the hardcover edition.)"

-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us

"You don't know everything about me'.... 'I guess you're right, but I don't know everything about me either. That's the whole point."

-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us

"Some people in this world don't know how to love themselves, let alone people who are different than them. (from Mama to Andi, p. 48 of the hardcover edition.)"

-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us

Cover of The Kids of Cattywampus Street by Lisa Jahn-Clough

29. The Kids of Cattywampus Street

By: Lisa Jahn-Clough

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Library Binding

“An extraordinary book.” --Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events   Lovers of Roa… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash (Detective Duck #1) by Henry Winkler

30. Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash (Detective Duck #1)

By: Henry Winkler

3.73

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling creators—Emmy Award–winning actor Henry Winkler, children’s book au… read more

Similar categories in Henry Winkler's Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash (Detective Duck #1) book and Lisa Jahn-Clough's The Kids of Cattywampus Street

  • humor
  • childrens
  • fiction

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Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

Kate Milford

4.02

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Last Mapmaker

Christina Soontornvat

4.15

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Mighty Jack (Mighty Jack, #1)

Ben Hatke , Alex Campbell , Hilary Sycamore

3.59

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Camp (Click #2)

Kayla Miller

4.15

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Freestyle: A Graphic Novel

Gale Galligan

4.15

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Lucy Knisley

4.03

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