Books like How to Eat Fried Worms

Looking for books like How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (Humor · grades 3–6)? It’s most often read for its themes of humor, friendship, and school. The 10 titlesbelow are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

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10 books similar to How to Eat Fried Worms

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Why each is a match

My Teacher Is an Aliengrades 3–6
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (3–6).
Wayside School Is Falling Downgrades 3–5
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school, same genre (Humor), and overlapping grades (3–5).
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself500L
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (4–7).
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobodygrades 4–8
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (4–8).
Confessions of a Class Clowngrades 6–8
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (6–8).
Diary of a Wimpy Kid950L
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (3–7).
Dogtowngrades 3–6
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and courage and overlapping grades (3–6).
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life890L
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (4–7).
Hannah Sharpe, Cartoon Detectivegrades 3–6
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (3–6).
J vs. Kgrades 3–5
Shares themes of humor, friendship, and school and overlapping grades (3–5).

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