Oh yeah! In the same vein, the Amber Brown series.
(I read the first book with one of my second-grade reading groups, and it was a moderate hit, so I started another one with them, Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit. I learned a valuable lesson: read the whole book before choosing to do it with the kids! Amber Brown starts obsessing about bras and singing “We Must Increase Our Bust” in the third chapter, and that’s just not somewhere I felt like going with a half-dozen eight-year-old boys).
Daniel
Ooh! Eloise!
Jack Gantos’ underrated Joey Pigza series.
It is too bad more books on Amazon don’t have the “check in side” option when you click on the cover image.
Yep–that was one of the ways I tried to check on the voice of the books I was recommending. On at least one book, I found out it was third person, and didn’t mention it therefore (I forget what the book was, though).
Daniel
Two of my favorites - Hitty: Her first Hundred Years by Rachel Field
and Consance: A Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp
I was watching an agent’s daughter today and she brought in Volume Three of the series. It was possitively enchanting. Very very cool, and fun for adults too.
Maybe a little younger than you’re looking for, but the Fancy Nancy books are all in the first person.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riodan
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (classic! and still hilarious!)
Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater
LH of D already mentioned The Watsons Go to Birmingham, so I’ll add Bud, Not Buddy by the same author.
Seer of Shadows by Avi (new last year)
The McGurk Mysteries by E.L. Hildick are all in first person (although as much as I fondly remember them, and think they are very cleverly written, the mysterious parts are pretty obvious to an adult)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (which I remember marveling over because it tricks you on the first person issue)
John D. Fitzgerald’s Great Brain series is written in first person.