Staff Picks
If You Like the Magic Tree House Series, Then Try...
- Morgan R.
- Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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A treehouse that doubles as a time machine? What's not to love? Well, if you've read the whole Magic Tree House series and are looking for something new, this updated list has a few books and series that have a similar feel to Magic Tree House to keep you excited about reading!
Flat Stanley
His Original Adventure!
Published in 2010
A flat boy can do almost anything!Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy. At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. All of a sudden, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!But flatness has its serious side, too. Sneak thieves have been stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art, and Stanley knows he's the only one who can stop them. Will the robbers discover Stanley's plan before he foils theirs?
The Fairy-tale Detectives
Published in 2005
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
The Field Guide
Published in 2003
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
My Father's Dragon
Published in 2006
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Time Shifters
Published in 2017
While exploring the woods, Luke is chased by monsters before being rescued by a robot Abe Lincoln, a ghost, a dinosaur, and an inventor, who are trying to keep a device capable of sending people into a parallel dimension out of the wrong hands.
Miss Daisy is Crazy!
Published in 2004
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
A Perfect Place
Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary
Published in 2002
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
Target Practice
Published in 2014
Mysteriously zapped thousands of years into the future, a teenaged Cleopatra discovers that she is destined to save the galaxy, a prophecy that compels her to enroll in a high-tech school where she can learn modern subjects, alien languages, and combat fighting.
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
Published in 2015
Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
The Borrowers
Published in 1981
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
The One-eyed Giant
Published in 2002
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
The Littles
Published in 1967
The Littles are a family of tiny people who live in the Bigg family's house. Mr. Little is only six inches tall, and he is big for a Little. The Littles develop a plan to get rid of the mice in the Bigg's house.
Stuck in the Stone Age
Published in 2018
A glitchy time machine strands a bumbling janitor and a brilliant scientist in the distant past, and they must find their way home before they're attacked by angry cavemen or eaten alive by a saber-toothed tiger.
The Absent Author
Published in 1997
Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.
Wayside School is Falling Down
Published in 1989
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Published in 2007
Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
Going, Going, Gone
Published in 2016
Three middle schoolers travel back in time to the 1950s with the help of a magical library book.
A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans
Published in 2015
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.