Miss Amanda’s Best of 2010

Miss Amanda’s top picture book and middle grade reads of 2010.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Mania!

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Read this book you must!

Is he real?  Sure he’s a real Yoda origami finger puppet but is he really magic?  Can he see the future?  Can you trust his advice?  Or is he just a big fraud by the weirdest kid in school? Tommy, Kellen and Harvey set out to collect case files to prove or disprove the powers of [...]

Wimpy Yourself!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie is opening this Friday!  Check out the official website to watch the trailer, read about the cast, or play super fun games. Love the books but you’ve read them all?  Stop in to pick up or print out here a copy of our Wimpy Kid Readalikes Booklist.    You can also create your own Wimpy character.  [...]

Grown-ups Are Dumb

I didn’t say it!  Honestly! Grown-ups Are Dumb (No Offense)  is a new book by kid professional cartoonist Alexa Kitchen.  At 7 years-old, her book Drawing Comics Is Easy! (Except When It’s Hard) was nominated for Eisner and Harvey awards, top honors in comics and cartooning.  Her latest book is a new collection of stories [...]

Diary of Wimpy Kid Read-alikes

Dear Dumb Diary series  by Jim Benton  JF/PBK/B Franny K. Stein series by Jim Benton   JF/Benton Clarice Bean series by Lauren Child   JF/Child Horace Splattly series by Lawrence David   JF/David Sardine in Outer Space by Emmanuel Guibert   JF/Guibert My Weird School series by Dan Gutman   JF/Gutman Babymouse series by Jennifer Holm   JF/Holm Martin Bridge series by [...]