Kid Book Match

Thanks again for using our Bookmatch service. I've had a good time
thinking of some fun reads that are a little like The All of A Kind
Family. Here are a few suggestions:

Sidney Taylor wrote some more books about the All of a Kind Family.
These include: More all of Kind Family, Ella of All of A Kind Family
and All of a Kind Family Downtown.

Strudel Stories by Joanne Rocklin.
Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel.

If you like the Animal Ark series, here are some titles that you might enjoy:

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.
When he discovers that he is destined to become someone's dinner, Wilbur the pig is dissolute until his spider friend Charlotte decides to help him.

If you like books about nature, here are a few of my favorites:

Here are some great titles for a budding scientist!

The Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam.
Describes thirteen of the world's largest insects, including the
birdwing butterfly and the Goliath beetle.

Frogs, Toads, Lizards, and Salamanders by Nancy Winslow Parker.
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of frogs, toads, lizards, and salamanders.

Bats, Blue Whales & Other Mammals by Steve Parker.

If you like the Dragon Slayer's Academy series by Kate McMullan, here are some other dragon/fantasy books you may enjoy:

Three Tales of my Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett.
My Father's Dragon -- Elmer and the Dragon -- The Dragons of Blueland.
A compilation of three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of
Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.

The Dragon of Doom by Bruce Coville.

If you liked Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, here are some other titles I hope you will like just as much:

Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O'Connor.
Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday : the first book of their adventures / Cynthia Rylant.

If you like "The Color of My Words," you may enjoy these good read-aloud books for 4th and 5th graders:

Thank you for your Book Match request for Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson. Next time, we’d love to hear why you like a certain book – when we know what you like about a book it helps us suggest other books that you might enjoy. Although I haven’t read Island of the Aunts, it sounds amusing and I think you might like some of these books too:

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo.

Thank you for your Book Match request. Gregor the Overlander is a great fantasy series! Thank you for telling us why you really liked it, this really helps us understand what kind of books you are looking for! Here are some other books that you may enjoy:

The Marvelous Effect (Marvelous World, book 1) by Troy Cle.

Thank you for your Book Match request - and thank you for your patience
for our delayed response during the holiday season. I've also read
Beethoven Lives Upstairs, which is a great book. Since you didn't
mention the music element specifically as a requirement, and since I was
mostly unable to find music related historical fiction pertaining to
immigration and/or disabilities, the following recommendations, except
for one, do not relate to music. Also, since Immigration and