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Small Image Melonhead 2009
by Katy Kelly, illus. by Gillian Johnson

Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a 10-year-old with a knack for getting into trouble, has problems including hiding his pet snake from his mom, and coming up with an invention for the school science contest.
210 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Masterpiece 2008
by Elise Broach, illus. by Kelly Murphy

11-year-old James and Marvin, a beetle who lives under James' sink, form an unlikely friendship and help to solve the case of some missing artwork from the Metropolitan Museum.
304 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Insects & Spiders, Museum Mysteries, Burglaries & Heists

Small Image Oggie Cooder 2008
by Sarah Weeks

Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

Small Image Nic Bishop Spiders 2007
by Nic Bishop

Amazing images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool and quirky facts.
48 pages Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Insects & Spiders

Small Image Billy Hooten: Owlboy 2007
by Tom Sniegoski

Meet Billy Hooten, AKA Owlboy, a quickthinking, goggle-and-feather-wearing superhero who protects the bizarre and monstrous citizens of Monstros City, a city that exists under Billy's hometown.
256 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Monsters, Parallel Universe, Funny

Small Image Soupy Saturdays With the Pain and the Great One 2007
by Judy Blume, illus. by James Stevenson

Alternating chapters told from the point of view of Jacob AKA "first grade pain" and his sister AKA "the great one".
107 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Brothers, Sisters

Small Image Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel 2007
by Kaye Umansky, illus. by Scott Nash

Book 2 of the Solomon Snow series.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Small Image The Talented Clementine 2007
by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee

Sequel to Clementine.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image Edgar & Ellen: Under Town 2006
by Charles Ogden, illus. by Rick Carton

Edgar and Ellen encounter a new foe, an unknown prankster who's stealing their best schemes! To stop the copycat capers the twins must descend into the sewers, but what they discover there is stranger than anything they could have imagined.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Twins, Funny

Small Image Clementine 2006
by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee

Third-grader, Clementine has a big heart, a creative spirit, and a talent for trouble.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image Horns and Wrinkles 2006
by Joseph Helgerson, illus. by Nicoletta Ceccoli

River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies. The stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But when Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, and she's the only one who can help.
368 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Trolls

Small Image Pompeii: Lost and Found 2006
by Mary Pope Osborne, illus. by Bonnie Christensen

This book shows the destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, the rediscovery of the ruins nearly 1,700 years later, and what daily life was like in this prosperous Roman town in the year 79 A.D. before the explosion.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

Small Image The Lost Feather 2006
by Mary Lou DeCaprio, illus. by Katherine Megrue-Smith

Eyes-of-a-Hawk has lost the special feather that his father gave him as a reward for his bravery, so he calls on his animal friends to help him find it.
28 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Small Image Room One: A Mystery or Two 2006
by Andrew Clements

Ted loves to read mysteries, but when he sees a face in the window of the abandoned Anderson house, he becomes involved in a real-life mystery.
176 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Homelessness

Small Image You Can't, But Genghis Khan 2006
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. Join Joe, Fred, and Sam as they travel back in time to meet a young Genghis Khan and explore the Mongolian Empire. Will the Time Warp Trio find The Book in time, or will they be stuck in the thirteenth century forever?
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  9th-13th Century, Funny, Time Travel

Small Image Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters 2006
by Robert Sabuda, illus. by Matthew Reinhart

While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans - most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. This pop-up book explores the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves.
310 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Sharks

Small Image Southpaw 2006
by Rich Wallace

After moving to New Jersey following his parents divorce, Jimmy tries out for the 7th grade baseball team, and has to prove himself as a pitcher in a new town.
105 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Baseball

Small Image Beowulf 2006
by Michael Morpurgo, illus. by Michael Foreman

A brave warrior Beowulf must defeat the monster Grendel in this epic battle based on the Scandinavian tale.
96 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dragons

Small Image Peter and the Shadow Thieves 2006
by Dave Barry

Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters

Small Image Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist 2006
by Liz Kessler

Book 3 of the Emily Windsnap series. The magic ring that Emily - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back. But the ring, once on, won't come off, and Neptune puts a terrible curse on Emily.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image Urchin and the Heartstone 2006
by M.I. McAllister

Book 2 of the Mistmantle Chronicles.
Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Talking Animals

Small Image Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship 2006
by Craig Hatkoff, illus. by Peter Greste

The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee. When Owen was stranded after the 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the motherless hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, swimming, eating, and playing together.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Best Friends, Tsunamis

Small Image The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 2006
by Laurence Yep

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both experience real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes

Small Image The Wright 3 2006
by Blue Balliett

Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Together with Calder's friend Tommy the kids hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright.
318 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Small Image Key Lardo: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2006
by Bruce Hale

Chet and Natalie have met their sleuthing match, and boy, are they jealous. A new detective has arrived at Emerson Hicky Elementary. His name's Bland. James Bland. But when Bland suddenly goes missing, the blame falls squarely on Chet.
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Possum Always Rings Twice: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2006
by Bruce Hale

Someone is sending school council candidates ominous threats, and a certain not-so-smooth-talking fox is hitting the hallways to drum up fanatic support for his flashy campaign. This presidential race is getting fishy. Could it be that someone is trying to rig the election?
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Pond Scum 2005
by Alan Silberberg

Oliver is miserable in his new home in the sticks, until he finds a magical amulet that allows him to talk to animals and transform into animals.
284 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Talking Animals

Small Image The Scarecrow and his Servant 2005
by Philip Pullman, illus. by Peter Bailey

A scarecrow is truck by lightning and comes to life. He hires a young orphan, Jack, to be his servant, and Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers: battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

Small Image Urchin of the Riding Stars 2005
by M.I. McAllister

Book 1 of the Mistmantle Chronicles. Orphaned as a baby squirrel, Urchin is raised by the kind animals on the island of Mistmantle, but treachery and murder are about to change Urchin's destiny.
288 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Talking Animals

Small Image The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming 2005
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sequel to The Conch Bearer. Anand journeys back to ancient India where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil djinns.
336 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic, Genies (or Djinn)

Small Image The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy 2005
by Jeanne Birdsall

This summer the Penderwick sisters go on vacation to a beautiful estate called Arundel where they discover sprawling gardens, a treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and other creatures. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey, son of Arundel's owner, who is the perfect companion for their adventures.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Sisters

Small Image Isabel of the Whales 2005
by Hester Velmans

When Isabel's fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: dozens of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel discovers she has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again, and she has a destiny to fulfill among the whales.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Whales, Sea Adventures

Small Image The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galore 2005
by Sid Fleischman, illus. by John Hendrix

A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
194 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mexico, Pirates, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

Small Image The Bully Blockers Club 2004
by Teresa Bateman, illus. by Jackie Urbanovic

Lottie Raccoon is tired of being bullied by Grant and so is everyone else, so she gathers everyone together and they form a club, The Bully Blockers Club. Now when Grant tries to bully someone, the other kids speak up. That gets an adult's attention, and Grant stops his bullying!
32 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Boy Bullies

Small Image The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow 2004
by Kaye Umansky

Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus star, and several Orphans.
289 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Small Image Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen 2004
by Marissa Moss, illus. by C.F. Payne

Jackie Mitchell loved baseball. And before long she could outplay anyone in her neighborhood -- even the boys. But no seventeen-year-old girl could pitch against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then on April 2, 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Tennessee for an exhibition game. And on that day, Jackie Mitchell made baseball history.
32 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Baseball

Small Image Basho and the River Stones 2004
by Tim Myers, illus. by Oki S. Han

A collection of illustrated Japanese folktales.
32 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Japan

Small Image Peter and the Starcatchers 2004
by Dave Barry

Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

Small Image Dragon Rider 2004
by Cornelia Funke

Firedrake, a young dragon, must journey to a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven --- which may not even exist. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway boy. Together, the boy & dragon make their way toward the Rim of Heaven, all the while running a step ahead of Nettlebrand, a monster who will stop at nothing to hunt down Firedrake.
528 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Dragons

Small Image The Princess Tales, Volume 2 2004
by Gail Carson Levine

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Small Image Thora: A Half-Mermaid Tale 2004
by Gillian Johnson

Book 1 in the Thora series. Thora's a half-mermaid. And as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid mother, Halla. But following her tenth birthday, Thora heads to the seaside town of Grimli, where her father grew up.
256 pages , Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image Emily Windsnap and the Monster From the Deep 2004
by Liz Kessler

Book 2 of the Emily Windsnap series. Picture an island paradise, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half human - her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the Kraken from its hundred-year sleep.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2004
by Bruce Hale

Right in the middle of a run-of-the-mill case, the powers that be finger Chet's fine-feathered partner, Natalie Attired, as a no-goodnik blackmailer and boot her out of Emerson Hicky quicker than you can say, "Boot her out of Emerson Hicky."
136 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Chasing Vermeer 2004
by Blue Balliett

When strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, 11-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

Small Image Give My Regrets to Broadway: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2004
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko can't sing, dance, or act. He can't even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose's musical version of Shakespeare's Omlet, Prince of Denver? A new case, naturally. The original leading man has disappeared, and something smells rotten in the realm of Ratnose.
115 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Trouble is my Beeswax: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2003
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie blow the lid off a cheating ring in Mr. Ratnose's classroom.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Malted Falcon: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2003
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and track down the winning ticket for the biggest, chocolatiest, most gut-busting dessert ever, the Malted Falcon.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Tail of Emily Windsnap 2003
by Liz Kessler

Book 1 of the Emily Windsnap series. The first time twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap goes swimming, she makes a startling discovery - she's a mermaid!
209 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image Not Just a Witch 2003
by Eva Ibbotson, illus. by Kevin Hawkes

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003
by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Timothy B. Ering

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Princesses, Talking Animals

Small Image The Conch Bearer 2003
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In India, twelve-year-old Anand discovers his destiny as the bearer of a magical and powerful conch shell, and must journey to return it to its rightful home high in the Himalayan mountains while enemies try to steal it from him.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic

Small Image Escaping the Giant Wave 2003
by Peg Kehret

When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Boy Bullies

Small Image The Princess Tales, Volume 1 2002
by Gail Carson Levine

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Small Image Nice Shot, Cupid! 2002
by Kate McMullan

Book #4 of the Myth-O-Mania series. That story about Cupid falling in love with the beautiful Psyche? What malarkey! He did accidentally prick himself with one of his own arrows and fall in love-but with himself!
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology

Small Image This Gum's For Hire: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2002
by Bruce Hale

To save his own skin, private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players.
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Hamster of the Baskervilles: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2002
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko doesn't believe in the supernatural. But when a teacher reports seeing a monster by the light of a full moon, Chet and his sleek-winged partner, Natalie Attired, must answer the burning question: Is there a vicious, supernatural werehamster on the loose?
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Farewell My Lunchbag: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2001
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than he can chew.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Big Nap: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2001
by Bruce Hale

Someone is turning the students at Emerson Hickey Elementary into zombies, and it's up to fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko to find out who.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Great Shark Escape 2001
by Joanna Cole

What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class all about different shark species, including the goblin shark, the angel shark, and the enormous whale shark.
96 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Sharks

Small Image See You Later, Gladiator 2000
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Adam McCauley

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Funny, Time Travel

Small Image Four Stupid Cupids 2000
by Gregory Maguire

The students' scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine's Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Love

Small Image Because of Winn Dixie 2000
by Kate DiCamillo

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
184 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dogs

Small Image Island of the Aunts 2000
by Eva Ibbotson

On a mysterious island, three eccentric women care for an assortment of astonishing creatures--not just seals, fish, and gulls, but mermaids, selkies, a couple of ghosts, a very long talking worm, and a boobrie that lays eggs so large, just one will make seventy-two omelets.
281 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2000
by Bruce Hale

When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Mystery of Mr. Nice: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2000
by Bruce Hale

When the principal of his school begins acting nice to him, Chet Gecko realizes that he is an imposter and so sets out to find the real one.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image It's All Greek to Me 1999
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave like the characters in the trio's class play.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology, Time Travel

Small Image Which Witch? 1999
by Eva Ibbotson, illus. by Annabel Large

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
249 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image The Volcano Disaster 1998
by Peg Kehret

When an "Instant Commuter" transports him to Mt. Saint Helens during its eruption in 1980, twelve-year-old Warren cannot get himself back to his own time.
136 pages, Grade 3-5
related subjects:  Time Travel, Volcanoes

Small Image The Flag of Childhood: Poems From the Middle East 1998
by Naomi Shihab Nye

Sixty poems from different Middle Eastern poets depict the love of family, friends, and for the Earth, the daily occurrences of life that touch us forever, the longing for a sense of place. These poems show that beneath the veil of stereotypes, our human connections are stronger than our cultural differences.
112 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Middle East

Small Image The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now 1997
by Dan Greenburg

Part of the Zack Files series. Zack and his father go to Hawai'i where Zack has an unfortunate encounter with an angry volcano goddess.
57 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Funny, Volcanoes

Small Image Ella Enchanted 1997
by Gail Carson Levine

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Small Image Tornado 1996
by Betsy Byars, illus. by Doron Ben-Ami

As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Dogs, Tornadoes

Small Image Crash 1996
by Jerry Spinelli

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Grandparents, Boy Bullies

Small Image The Moorchild 1996
by Eloise McGraw

Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
256 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Fairies

Small Image Tut Tut 1996
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. The Time Warp Trio ends up in Ancient Egypt.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Ancient Egypt, Time Travel

Small Image 2095 1995
by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Future, Time Travel

Small Image The Secret of Platform 13 1994
by Eva Ibbotson

Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins a wizard, a fey, and an ogre on a quest from their magical kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Small Image Skylark 1994
by Patricia MacLachlan

Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall. When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
87 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers, Drought

Small Image The Prince of the Pond 1992
by Donna Jo Napoli, illus. by Judy Schachner

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

Small Image R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIHM 1990
by Jane Leslie Conly

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, and Rasco and the Rats of NIHM. When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by the superintelligent rats of NIMH.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Small Image Shoebag 1990
by Mary James

Shoebag, a happy young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before returning to his former life as an insect.
135 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Insects & Spiders

Small Image Rasco and the Rats of NIHM 1986
by Jane Leslie Conly

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM. Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Small Image Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985
by Patricia MacLachlan

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers

Small Image In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984
by Betty Bao Lord

In 1947, a Chinese girl comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to make friends and feel at home when she discovers Baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  China

Small Image Babe: The Gallant Pig 1983, 1995 reissue
by Dick King-Smith, illus. by Mary Raynor

A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Small Image The Witches 1983, 1998 reissue
by Roald Dahl, illus. by Quentin Blake

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Small Image Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 1977, 1999 reissue
by Eleanor Coerr

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
80 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons

Small Image Jenny and the Cat Club 1973, 2003 reissue
by Ester Averill

Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Trinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
160 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Small Image Captains of the City Streets 1972, 2005 reissue
by Ester Averill

Two tramp cats searching for a place of their own discover the members of the Cat Club but are not easily induced to join them.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Small Image Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM 1971
by Robert C. O'Brien

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Small Image The Hotel Cat 1969, 2005 reissue
by Ester Averill

Relates the rise of Tom, the hotel cat, from catcher of mice in the cellar to successful upstairs cat in charge of the hotel's guest cats.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Small Image Miranda the Great 1967, 2005 reissue
by Eleanor Estes, illus. by Edward Ardizzone

When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda and her daughter must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go.
Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Cats

Small Image From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967, 2002 reissue
by E.L. Konigsburg

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away, so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. After some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right into a mystery that made headlines!
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries

Small Image Jenny Goes to Sea 1957, 2005 reissue
by Ester Averill

The little black cat named Jenny, along with her brothers and their owner Captain Tinker, sails around the world on a ship called the Sea Queen.
128 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Small Image The Children of Green Knowe 1954
by L. M. Boston, illus. Peter Boston

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ghosts, Grandparents

Small Image Half Magic 1954
by Edward Eager

When Jane finds a magic charm that grants exactly half of any wish, her brother Mark and her sisters Katharine and Martha take turns making double wishes, leading to results that are twice as unpredictable and hilarious.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Small Image The Horse and His Boy 1954, 1994 reissue
by C.S Lewis

Book 3 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
256 pages Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Horses, Talking Animals

Small Image The Silver Chair 1953, 1994 reprint
by C.S Lewis

Book 6 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
272 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Giants, Talking Animals, Witches

Small Image Charlotte's Web 1952
by E. B. White, illus. by Garth Williams

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
192 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

Small Image The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 1950, 1994 reprint
by C.S Lewis

Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
Talking Animals, Witches

Small Image The Big Wave 1948, 1986 reprint
by Pearl S. Buck

The story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave that destroyed his family and village.
64 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Tsunamis

Small Image The Hundred Dresses 1944, reissue 2004
by Eleanor Estes

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mean Girls

Small Image Snow Treasure 1942, 1997 reissue
by Marie McSwigan

In the winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter's tiny Norwegian village and held it and its treasure captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated, but Peter and the other children risked their lives and outwitted the Nazis, sending all the town's gold to America.
156 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  World War II

Small Image Little House in the Big Woods 1932, 2007 reissue
by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Book 1 of the Little House series. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
224 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Survival, Sisters, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

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