16 best-selling fiction books like The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill

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The Toothpaste Millionaire

By: Jean Merrill

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toot…

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Cover of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1) by Chris Grabenstein

1. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

By: Chris Grabenstein

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerKyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teac… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Knowledge not shared remains unknown"

-Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

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2. No Talking

By: Andrew Clements

3.97

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

"You have the right to remain silent." However... The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys a… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCJHOOL.Not in class,not in the halls, not on the plaground nowhere.No talking at all. And its a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks les…"

-Andrew Clements, No Talking

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3. Sing Down the Moon

By: Scott O'Dell

3.76

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, f… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

Format: None pages,

When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman

5. By the Great Horn Spoon!

By: Sid Fleischman

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

For fans of theI Survivedseries--a rollicking adventure from the California Gold Rush! When Jack's … read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • school
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6. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
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7. The Toothpaste Millionaire

By: Jean Merrill

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toot… read more

Similar categories in Jean Merrill's The Toothpaste Millionaire book and Jean Merrill's The Toothpaste Millionaire

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Egypt Game (Game, #1) by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

8. The Egypt Game (Game, #1)

By: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But s… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

9. Ralph S. Mouse (Ralph S. Mouse, #3)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In this third and final Mouse novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, Ralph heads t… read more

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10. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

11. David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

By: Janet Benge , Geoff Benge

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

"Each true story in this series by outstanding authors Janet and Geoff Benge is loved by adults and… read more

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12. Yours Truly (Pumpkin Falls Mystery, #2)

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it's up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it i… read more

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13. The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.11

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute t… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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14. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

15. The Twenty-One Balloons

By: William Pène du Bois

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

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16. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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17. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

18. Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

By: Liesl Shurtliff

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke… read more

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19. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1)

By: Hugh Lofting , Michael Hague

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with an… read more

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20. Amos Fortune, Free Man

By: Elizabeth Yates , Nora S. Unwin

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A Newbery Medal Winner When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave trade… read more

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Cover of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1) by Barbara Robinson

21. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

22. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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23. Henry Huggins (Henry Huggins, #1)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the first novel from Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will inst… read more

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24. Saturdays at Sea (Castle Glower, #5)

By: Jessica Day George

3.49

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This bestselling series comes to a rousing conclusion as Celie and her family set sail on a ship ma… read more

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25. Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a … read more

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26. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

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27. Absolutely Truly

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

An unsent letter in a first edition copy of Charlotte's Webleads to a hunt for treasure in this hea… read more

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28. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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29. The Sign of the Beaver

By: Elizabeth George Speare

3.87

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring th… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3) by Peter  Brown

30. The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3)

By: Peter Brown

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot ser… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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31. The Star That Always Stays

By: Anna Rose Johnson

4.08

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

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Transform Your Habits

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Chris Grabenstein

4.12

Transform Your Habits

No Talking

Andrew Clements

3.97

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Sing Down the Moon

Scott O'Dell

3.76

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E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

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Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

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4.18

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Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

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