Books with author Jill Pinkwater

They're loud, they're rude, they're awful. . . they're sixth-graders. And when their teacher--the best in the school--has to leave, the class vows to drive away anyone who dares to replace her. With spitballs, screaming, and squadrons of paper airplanes filling the air, no substitute can withstand their reign of terror until . . . Mr Fred.Goldberg Fred is as odd as his name. He's also smart, unshakable, and . . . telepathic. He dodges paper airplanes with ease and answers insults (even unspoken ones) with useful facts. But the strangest thing about him is, he seems to genuinely LIKE sixth-graders. The students think Mr Fred is so weird that he can't be from this planet. And they set out to prove it. But each step that takes them nearer to Mr Fred's identity makes him seem even more far-out . . .

Larry is a polar bear with style. He likes blueberry muffins, enjoys dancing ballet, and takes pride in his job as a lifeguard. He lives with the Frobisher family in the hotel that they named after him. One day, Larry invites his bear friends from the zoo for a sleepover. That’s when all the fun begins! Jill Pinkwater’s pen-and-ink and colored-marker illustrations capture Larry’s appealing character as he and his friends have the best sleepover ever.

Even a child who is pure of heart And does his homework neatly May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the moon is full completely Werewolf Club member Billy Furball has been banned from the school lunchroom for having a food fight with himself. Worse yet, Dr. Cookie Mendoza, the Board of Education Psychiatrist, insists that none of the members of the club are really werewolves because werewolves don't exist. How will our heroes confront such crises? To support their pal Billy, the other members of the Club boycott the school lunchroom, too. All end up dining instead at Honest Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom where they get to know Captain Sterling, of the North American Space Squad, and Carla Lola Carolina, the restaurant's manager. When Carla undergoes a rather strange transformation the situation gets serious! Only a grisly encounter with alien meatballs...oh, it's too horrible to tell. You'll have to read The Lunchroom of Doom yourself to see what happens.

Sherelee Holmes, who claims to be the great-great-granddaughter of the famous detective, has her first big case. And it's one that will take the keen mind of a Holmes to crack.With the help of some real eccentrics (and her very own Watson), it is up to Sherelee to save her obnoxious sister Myra from TOP--the Temple of Perfection--whose Imperfect, Almost Perfect, Perfect, and Premium-Grade Brothers and Sisters are led by the most perfect one ever, Daddy Perfect.But Daddy is a cunning foe. And rescuing Myra means infiltrating TOP--a place as crazy as a plate of scrambled eggs.Jill Pinkwater has created a wonderfully unconventional novel that combines mystery, adventure and satire in one fast-paced story. . . with a solution that would have satisfied Sherlock himself.

Yetta, beautiful Yetta, manages to escape from the butcher's shop. But now she is lost in Brooklyn―a strange place filled with rude rats and dangerous buses!!??????geVAHLT!Oh, dear!But then, brave Yetta saves a small green bird from a sneaky cat, and his friends, the wild parrots of Brooklyn, are very grateful. ¡Muchas gracias, gallina hermosa! ¡mooCHAS grahSEEas, gahYEEna ehrMOsa! Thank you very much, beautiful chicken!Has beautiful Yetta found her new home? Inspired by real events, this multilingual story by Daniel Pinkwater is a witty, warm, and wonderful read-aloud for any age.

Two girls, separated by a thousand years, brought together by their love of horses....and magic.Wild horses in ancient Iceland. A deadly blizzard. A terrifying witch. A magic amulet. Travel across time.Arnora, whose love and understanding of horses is known throughout the land, is saved from death by her great horse, Skyfaxi, and the witch Thorbjorg, feared by everyone. The witch gives Arnora a tiny bronze horse, a talisman to carry when she voyages to Vinland with Ragnar, the Viking youth who loves her.A Thousand years later, in a forest in Maine, Kate, a lonely girl, finds a tiny bronze horse, hidden in a cairn of stones, and then....the magic happens.

When Brenda Tuna and Inda Ink Teidlebaum meet on the first day of seventh grade, it's a case of natural affinity. . . even though Brenda is wearing an outfit reminiscent of the pages of National Geographic. Even India's ex-hippie parents find Brenda rather unusual. The girls quickly learn that in Junior High, hardly anyone admires true uniqueness. High School promises to be different, though, and Brenda wastes no time in taking over the school newspaper and goes on to found the Buffalo Boosters, the richest--and wackiest--club in the history of Florence High School.As India warns their fellow Student Misfits, Brenda is brilliant, creative, articulate, brave, original... and dangerous. Where she leads, trouble is sure to follow in Jill Pinkwater's hilarious story of two best friends in their never-ending battle against intolerance, conformity -- and boredom.

Somewhere in the city of New York, in the borough of the Bronx, there's a street called Burnbridge Avenue. Everyone knows everyone else's business on Burnbridge, and they all watch out for each other. So when the neighborhood cats begin to disappear, everyone notices.The Burnbridge kids decide it's up to them to discover why all the cats are missing. Loretta, who wants to be a forest ranger, and Julio, who's a walking dictionary, help lead the investigation. Pooling their resources, the kids pursue every clue, eventually discovering some very surprising things about their own neighborhood.

Even a child who is pure of heart And does his homework neatly May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms And the moon is full completely What's small and round and smells like knackwurst, and is very, very scary? The Werewolf Club is about to find out! After a stop at the Local Yokel Diner to eat jitterbugs (you don't want to know), the young werewolves are off to Basketball Hall, the ancestral home of their teacher Mr. Talbot's uncle, Hugo Basketball. Generations of Basketballs have been cursed by their servants, the peculiar Barrymores, (it's so hard to get good help) not to mention by the monstrous Hound of the Basketballs. Who better to vanquish the frightful hound, Hugo figures, than a pack of werewolves? So, with the moon full (and their bellies full of knackwurst and sauerkraut), our intrepid heroes are once again risking their young lives to rid the world of evil. But what about the haunted pastrami?