Before we get started I want to wish my awesome husband a Happy Happy Birthday! Yeah, he’s pretty cool!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish so that us book bloggers can talk even more about what we love best, books and all things bookish!
This week’s Top Ten theme is Books for People Who Like X Author. I chose to focus on the middle grade side of things this week and am providing you with a list of books you might like if you enjoy Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The Wimpy Kid books are wildly successful all over (I know the copies in my Media Center are never on the shelf!) and some of those readers might be looking for read-alike books to dig into.
Well, fear not because today I have a list of Books for People Who Like Jeff Kinney! These are all books that are written in a journal-like style and often include little drawings and doodles that add to the story. I will include an asterisk (*) next to the titles I have read. If it doesn’t have an asterisk, I still recommend the title because I’ve heard great things about it!
1. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger *
2. The Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell *
4. The Loser List by H.N. Kowitt
5. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald *
6. Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce *
7. Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm
8. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
9. The Boy Project by Kami Kinard *
10. Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Notes on Noogies, Wet Willies and Wedgies by Farley Katz
Hopefully this will help guide your own future reading or help you pick books out for the middle grade reader in your life!
I’ve had the Yoda book on my wish list for forever!
Oh it’s so fun! I hope you get to read it soon!
That is a great and really fun looking list!
I’ve only heard of the first and you reminded me that I had wanted to read it when it first came out…and like many things these days it slipped my mind until I saw it on your list.
I haven’t read any of these books! I’ll need to check them out.
Oh! My little cousin loves Diary of a Wimpy Kid so I’ll be sure to pass these recs along to his mom.
That’s a great list! I’ll keep these in mind for my kids. Thanks for sharing!