Books like A Light in the Attic
12 books with a reading profile close to A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. Practical; an easy read.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Also practical · entertainment, literary
Shel Silverstein's collection presents a landscape of illustrated poems where logic bends and the mundane turns absurd.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
entertainment, literary
Bernadette Fox is a former architectural star living in a decaying Seattle mansion, struggling to adjust to a suburban life she detests.
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Pineapple Street
entertainment, literary
Set in the elite enclave of Brooklyn Heights, the narrative follows three women navigating the Stockton family’s immense generational wealth.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Also practical · entertainment, accessible
Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair, a precursor to a sequence of mounting frustrations that define his day.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
entertainment, literary
Maurice is a sentient, talking ginger cat who runs a profitable protection racket across the Discworld with a band of intelligent rats and a dim-witted piper.
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Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Also practical · entertainment, accessible
Flora Belle Buckman is a cynical ten-year-old girl who finds herself responsible for a squirrel named Ulysses after he is sucked into a high-powered vacuum cleaner.
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A Bad Case of Stripes
Also practical · entertainment, accessible
Camilla Cream loves lima beans but refuses to eat them because she wants to fit in with her classmates.
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Fangs
Also practical · entertainment, accessible
Elsie is a three-hundred-year-old vampire who has spent centuries searching for a partner who can withstand her nocturnal lifestyle and bloodlust.
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Witches Abroad
entertainment, literary
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick travel across the Discworld to the city of Genua to stop a forced fairy-tale ending.
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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
entertainment, literary
Lillian, a young woman living in her mother’s attic, accepts a job from her wealthy former roommate, Madison, to care for ten-year-old twins, Bessie and Roland.
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
entertainment, literary
Levi, known as Biff, is resurrected by an angel in the twenty-first century to write a new gospel that fills the thirty-year gap in the life of Jesus, or Joshua.
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