Children’s Book Characters Named Jake
Here are just a few children’s books with characters named Jake. Please comment below if you know of one I missed. I hope this encourages your kiddo to read!
The Puppy Place “Jake” by Ellen Miles
Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Lizzie goes to horse camp with her best friend Maria. While there, Lizzie meets a charismatic German shorthair pointer named Jake. The puppy is very curious about the farm and especially likes to spend time with the horses. Can Lizzie help find Jake a perfect home?
- Rating: Amazon-4.8 Goodreads- 4.2
- 7-10 year olds or 2nd-5th grade
- Lexile measure: 730L
Just Jake by Jake Marcionette (more in this series)
Meet sixth-grader Jake Mathews, whose life is turned upside down when his family moves from Florida to Maryland, where Jake must adapt to a new school. Jake has always ranked the kids at school in his hand-made, humorous “Kid Cards,” and when he arrives at his new school, Jake starts building a new collection, befriending as many people as he can while staying under the radar from the school bully. But what happens when the school bully decides Jake’s next in line for annihilation and his Kid Cards get into the wrong hands?!! JUST JAKE is a genuine—and as Jake himself would say, AWESOME!—world of school, family, friends, and teachers; it’s the product of a writer talented well beyond his years.
- Rating: Amazon- 4.6 Goodreads: 3.7
- 9-12 year olds or 3rd-7th grade
- Lexile measure: 820L
Jake by Audrey Couloumbis
It’s a few days before Christmas when ten-year-old Jake’s mom breaks her leg, ending up in the hospital. For as long as Jake can remember, it’s been just him and his mom. So with no one else to look after him, the hospital contacts the gruff granddad that Jake only knows through awkward twice-a-year phone calls. When Granddad shows up, he’s nothing like Jake expected. And he brings a dog with him—a nightmare dog, Jake thinks at first. But as Jake gets to know his grandfather and a makeshift family of friends and neighbors comes together around him and his mom, he realizes that this might not be such a bad Christmas after all.
- Rating: Amazon- 4.2 Goodreads-3.6
- 8-12 year olds
Which Way Dude? Jake Goes Bananas by Max Brallier
There are so many things to do in the Land of Ooo that sometimes the characters need a little help. This book features a multi-path story with riddles, puzzles, and codes that allow the reader to alter the characters’ paths and lead them on many different adventures.
- Rating: Amazon- 4.5
- 8-12 year olds
Jake Drake, Know-It-All #1 by Andrew Clements (more in this series)
Jake Drake is excited about Despres Elementary School’s first science fair. He wants to win the grand prize: a brand-new Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system. And he really wants to beat the third-grade know-it-alls, Marsha McCall and Kevin Young. The trouble is, to beat the know-it-alls, Jake has to become a know-it-all himself. And he may just lose more than he wins.
- Rating: Amazon- 4.7 Goodreads- 3.7
- 7-10 year olds or 2nd-5th
- Lexile Measure: 630L
National Park Mysteries written and illustrated by Aaron Johnson
Before Jake’s grandfather died, he was on the trail of a centuries-old mystery. And he has entrusted that mystery to Jake, leaving behind a set of hidden codes, riddles, maps, and other clues that lead Jake and his friends on a scavenger hunt into the heart of Colorado’s wild and rugged Rocky Mountain National Park. Through twists and turns, the mystery unfolds while Jake, Amber, and Wes learn about survival skills, natural history, integrity, character, and friendship. While camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, they discover they are not the only ones on this quest. An elusive shadow group is close on their heels.
- Ratings: Amazon-4.7 Goodreads-4.4
- 8+ year olds
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window–and when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child’s life–if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt, to the outside world.
- Also includes characters: Charles, Jake Bishop, Nina, Brian, Penny, Jenkins, Hannah, Gordon, Melody Bird, Frankie, Teddy, Casey, Callum, & Nigel.
- Rating- Amazon:4.6 Goodreads:4.1
- 3rd-7th grade
- Lexile Measure: 750 L
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