Books like The Toothpaste Millionaire

Looking for books like The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill (Juvenile Fiction · grades 4–8)? 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 The Toothpaste Millionaire

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A Boy at Wargrades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
A Year Down Yondergrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).
All about Samgrades 4–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (4–6).
All the Blues in the Skygrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.grades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
Baby-sitting is a Dangerous Jobgrades 4–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (4–6).
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!grades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
Bones on Black Spruce Mountaingrades 4–8
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (4–8).
Caddie Woodlawn's Familygrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).
Carry On, Mr. Bowditchgrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).

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