10 must-read fiction books like The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31) by Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson

Cover of The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31) by Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson

The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31)

By: Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson

4.16

Format: 126 pages, Library Binding

Book by Erickson, John R.

If you liked the fiction plot in The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31) by Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6) by Beverly Cleary

1. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)

By: Beverly Cleary

4.10

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go t… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Ramona required accuracy from books as well as people."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)

"Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)

"Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)

"For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad..."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)

Cover of Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4) by Beverly Cleary, Alan Tiegreen

2. Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

By: Beverly Cleary , Alan Tiegreen

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This is the fourth title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona's father has lost… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Having a sister who tried to act like the Virgin Mary was not easy for a girl who felt as Ramona did."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"No family is perfect. Get that idea out of your head. And nobody is perfect either. All we can do is work at it. And we do."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"Clank, crash, clank. Ramona forgot about her father being out of a job, she forgot how cross he had been since he gave up smoking, she forgot about her mother coming home tired from work and about Be…"

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

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3. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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4. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.23

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more

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  • animals
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"I'm not a criminal,"

-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."

-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

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5. Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona, #5)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you a… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult

6. The One and Only Ivan

By: Katherine Applegate , Patricia Castelao

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accu… read more

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7. The Phantom Tollbooth

By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more

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8. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

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9. Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

By: Brant Hansen

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Not entitled to get angry? Really? It's a radical, provocative idea: We're not entitled to get offe… read more

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10. Ramona's World (Ramona, #8)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby can't wait to start fourth grade. With a new baby sister to brag about, new calluses … read more

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11. Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.15

Format: 252 pages,

Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people h… read more

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12. A Place to Hang the Moon

By: Kate Albus

4.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

Cover of The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6) by Patrick Rothfuss

13. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

By: Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more

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  • fiction
"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

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14. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

By: Jenna Fischer

4.23

Format: 321 pages, ebook

An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna… read more

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  • humor
"Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion…"

-Jenna Fischer, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

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15. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

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  • fiction
"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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16. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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17. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31) by Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson

18. The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog, #31)

By: Gerald L. Holmes John R. Erickson

4.16

Format: 126 pages, Library Binding

Book by Erickson, John R. read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • humor
  • animals
  • young adult
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  • mystery

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