ADVENTURE
/ MYSTERY
FIC AVI
Avi. The end of the beginning
Avon the snail
and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined
destination in search of unspecified adventures - funny.
FIC
BAU
Bauer, Marion Dane. The blue ghost. and Secret of the painted
house and The red ghost and The Green Ghost
latest Very Little Princess 
While visiting her grandmother's log cabin, Liz encounters the ghost of her great-great-great
grandmother and suddenly finds that she has been transported back in time
FIC
BRU
Bruchac, Skeleton Man and
latest Bearwalker
After her parents disappear and she is turned over
to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an
old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
FIC BUC
Buckley,
Michael. Sisters Grimm: Fairy Tale detectives #8
Inside story
When their parents disappear Sabrina and Daphne Grimm
are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed
to be dead.
FIC BYA
Byars, Betsy. Tornado
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.
FIC
DiC
DiCamillo, Kate. The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane
SLJ Best Book 2006
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted
and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little
girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening
to their hopes, dreams, and histories
EC DUF
Duffey, Betsy.
Cody unplugged. -- and other Cody books
Concerned that his television
and video habits have gotten out of hand, Cody's parents send him to Camp Bear
where he learns to experience real life rather than virtual reality.
FIC
DOY
Doyle,Roddy. Meanwhile adventures also author of the Giggler
Treatment
When Mister Mack gets arrested for supposedly robbing the bank,
it is up to Rover the dog and the Mack children to rescue him and find their Guinness-record-breaking
mother who is running around the world
FIC ENR part of the Melendy
family books, The Saturdays,
was the first
Enright, Elizabeth, Then there were five
A summer
that promises to be eventful turns into something extra special when the four
Melendy children become friends with the orphaned Mark Heron.
FIC
HIR
Hirsch, Odo. Bartlett and the Ice Voyage also
Bartlett and the City of Flames
When an impatient queen longs
to taste the delicious but fragile melidrop fruit, two explorers use "Inventiveness,
Desperation, and Perseverance" to try to bring it to her.
FIC
MOR
Morpurgo, Michael. Kensuke's kingdom
Sasquatch Reading Award nominees for 2006
When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island,
where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.
FIC NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry.
-- and other Bernie books
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already
going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted
in the hotel run by Bernie's
FIC PAU
Paulsen,
Gary. Brian's hunt - latest in the Hatchet series
Two years
after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old
returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
FIC
PAU
Wright, Betty Ren Princess for a week
When a confident
girl named Princess arrives to spend a week at Roddy's house, she encourages him
to help her investigate the suspicious activities happening at a supposedly haunted
house.
FIC SEL
Selznick, Brian. Invention of Hugo Cabret Caldecott
winner 2008
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing
clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller
and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
FIC
SMI
Smith, Robert. Chocolate fever
From eating too much chocolate,
Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him
a valuable lesson about self-indulgence
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ANIMAL STORIES
FIC ARM Armstrong, Alan W., Whittington. Newbery
honor award 2005
Whittington, a feline descendant of
Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard
plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story
FIC
AVI
Avi. The mayor of Central Park Young Reader's
Choice nominee 2006
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who
loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big
Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and
evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes
FIC AVI Avi,
Poppy's return. and others in the series
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome
son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons
to return to herancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction
by a bulldozer.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Marion Dane. Runt. Young
Reader's Choice Award nominee 2005
Runt,the smallest
wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest
of the pack and to earn a new name
FIC BIR
Birney, Betty. The
world according to Humphrey Sasquatch Reading
Award WINNER 2007 latest Summer according to Humphrey
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow
School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates
and teacher. also Friendship according to Humphrey
FIC BYA
Byars, Betsy. Little Horse Followed by Little Horse on his own
Little Horse falls into the stream and is swept awy into a dangerous adventure
and a new life.
EC COO
Cooper, Ilene.
Lucy on the loose
Bobby learns to overcome his shyness when he has
to find his beagle, Lucy, who ran off after a big orange cat.
FIC DiC
DiCamillo,
Kate. Mercy Watson goes for a ride and Mercy Watson to the rescue
and latest Mercy
Watson : something wonky this way comes #6
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday
drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when
an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind
the wheel.
FIC FIN
Fine, Anne. The diary of a killer cat and
latest
Return of the Killer Cat
Tuffy the pet cat tries to defend himself against
accusations of terrifying other animals and murdering the neighbor's rabbit.
FIC
HAA
Haas, Jessie. The birthday pony Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2007 and latest Jigaw Pony
Grandma Aggie tries to help her granddaughter Jane and the independent pony
Popcorn, who were born on the same day, become riding partners.
FIC HOB
Hobbs,
Valerie. Sheep
After a fire destroys the farm where he was born,
a young border collie acquires a series of owners and learns about life as he
seeks a home and longs to fulfill his life's purpose of shepherding sheep.
FIC
HUR
Hurwitz, Johanna. One small dog Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2004
Curtis gets a dog when his parents
divorce, but his beloved new dog causes problems that he did not expect.
FIC KIN
King-Smith, Dick. Lady Lollipop and its sequel Clever
Lollipop
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are
royally rewarded after they reform a spoiled princess
FIC McK
McKay,
Hilary. Dog Friday.
Ten-year-old Robin Brogan is determined
to keep the dog he finds abandoned on the beach from being impounded by the police
- laugh out loud funny
EC McK
McKissack, Pat, Tippy Lemmey.
Sasquatch Book Award nominee 2006
Leandra, Paul, and Jeannie keep trying to avoid a dog named Tippy Lemmey until
they discover that he is not really their enemy.
FIC
MYE
Myers, Laurie. Lewis and Clark and me: a dog's tale Beverly
Cleary Children's Choice 2005
Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland
dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis
to the Pacific Ocean
FIC NAG
Nagda, Ann Whitehead.
Meow means mischief Sasquatch Book Award nominee
2006
A stray kitten
turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and
to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while
her parents are away. Also author of Dear Wiskers and Tarantula Power
FIC NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Great chicken Debacle, Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2005
Hoping to earn a trip to an amusement
park, the three Morgan children agree to take care of a chicken that their father
plans to give their mother as a birthday surprise
FIC STA
Staples,
Suzanne Fisher. The green dog: a mostly true story
During the summer
before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through
the woods, acquires a canine companion.
FIC WAL
Wallace, Bill Goosed! Sasquatch Reading Award
nominee 2005
When Jeff's girlfriend leaves a Labrador retriever
puppy with his family for a week, his dog T.P. and cat Cord hope the energetic
puppy does not stay any longer
FIC WHY
Whybrow, Ian. Little
Wolf : terror of the Shivery Sea.
In a series of letters to his parents,
Little Wolf tells of setting sail to find the lost treasure of his legendary ancestor,
Blackfur the Pirate. (latest in the series of Little
Wolf books)
FIC WOO
Wood, Don. Into
the Volcano Booklist's
Editor's Choice 2009
With a little bit of education and a big bit
of action, this intense and gorgeous graphic novel follows two brothers who uncover
secrets and discover courage deep inside an active volcano
-- GRAPHIC NOVEL
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CONTEMPORARY,
REALISTIC FICTION -- some in other countries
FIC BIR
Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four
sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy. ALA
notable bok 2006 and National Book winner
2006 and latest the Penderwick at Point Mourette
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable
sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to
the dismay of his snobbish mother.
FIC
BON
Bonners, Susan. Edwina victorious.
Edwina follows in the
footsteps of her namesake great-aunt when she begins to write letters to the mayor
about community problems and poses as Edwina the elder.
FIC BYN
Byng,
Georgia. Molly Moon's incredible book of hypnotism Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2005 and latest Molly Moonand
the Morphing Mystery
Unlucky
and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town,
discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New
York City
FIC CAM
Cameron, Ann, 1943-. Gloria rising. Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2005 also Gloria's Way
A chance
meeting with a woman astronaut encourages Gloria to try to be her best self, even
with her difficult fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Yardley.
FIC CHE
Cheng,
Andrea. Honeysuckle house
An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors
and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth
grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover
other connections.
FIC CHI
Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean spells
trouble see also Utterly Me, Clarice Bean and
latest Don't look now
Clarice Bean, aspiring
actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she
attempts to help a friend inneed by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily"
spy, Ruby Redfort
FIC CLE
Clements, Andrew The Jacket
Sixth-grader
Phil comes to an awareness of his own racial prejudice after he sees Daniel, an
African-American boy, wearing his brother's one-of-a-kind jacket and leaps to
the conclusion that Daniel has stolen the coat.
FIC COL
Colfer, Eoin.
The Legend of Spud Murphy - and latest Legend of Captain Crow's teeth
When their mother starts dropping them off at the library several afternoons
a week, nine-year-old William and his brother dread boredom and the overbearing
librarian, but they are surprised at how things turn out.
FIC CRE
Creech, Sharon. Granny Torrelli makes soup Young
Reader's Choice nominee 2006
With the help of her wise
old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her
relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
FIC CUT
Cutler, Jane. Leap frog
Edward and his new friend Charley prepare for
the First Annual Mark Twain Memorial Jumping Frog Contest
FIC FRI
Friedman, Laurie. Honestly Mallory
When
Mallory cannot decide what to be on Career Day, it makes her feel like she is
not good at anything and she ends up telling a lie that quickly gets out of control..
see also Mallory vs. Max, Happy birthday Mallory, Back to school Mallory, In
business with Mallory, and latest RMally's super sleepover
FIC
HAD
Haddix, Margaret. Say What? Beverly Cleary Award nominee
2007
When their
parents begin saying the wrong thing every time six-year-old Sukey and her older
brothers misbehave, the children discover that it is a plot and fight back with
their own wrong phrases.
FIC HAN
Hannigan, Katherine. Ida B.
- and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
/
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy
hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her
mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the
orchard and send her to public school.
FIC
HOR
Horvath, Polly. Everything on a waffle. Newbery
Honor book 2003
Eleven-year-old girl Primrose, who lives in
a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all
that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months
after her parents are lost at sea
FIC HUR
Hurwitz, Johanna. One
small dog Sasquatch Reading Award nominee 2004
Curtis gets a dog when his parents divorce, but his beloved new dog causes
problems that he did not expect.
FIC KEL Kelly, Katy, Lucy Rose,
here's the thing about me and
other Lucy Rose books
Eight-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her
first year in Washington, D.C., her home since her parents separation, where she
spends time with her grandparents, makes new friends, and longs to convince her
third grade teacher to let her take care of the class pet during a holiday.
FIC KEL Kelly, Katy, Melonhead
Lucy
Rose's firend -- In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's
friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into
trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older
invention into a new invention.
FIC KER
Kerrin, Jessica Scott,
Martin Bridge ready for take-off also Martin Bridge on the lookout and
Martin Bridge: blazing ahead ALA Notable book 2006
Contains
three stories in which a boy's plans for a rocket, a bus driver, and an old hamster
go wrong.
FIC KNU
Kundson, Mike. Raymond and Graham rule the school
also Bases Loaded and latest Cool Campers
Best
friends Raymond and Graham have looked forward to being the oldest and toughest
boys at East Millcreek Elementary School; but everything goes wrong, including
the scary teacher.
FIC LOO
Look, Lenore. Ruby Lu, brave and true
and Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything ALA
Notable Book 2007
"Almost eight year old" Ruby Lu spends
time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and
learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends
FIC
LOO
Look, Lenore. Alvin Ho: allergic to girls, school and other
scary things and next allergic to camping, hiking, and other natural disasters
and now birthday parties...
A
young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long
line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must
overcome his fear of everything.
FIC MAR
Marsden,
Carolyn Silk Umbrellas author of Gold-threaded
dress (similar to 100 dresses)
Eleven-year-old
Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family
sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister
in difficult work at a local factory instead
FIC McG
McGhee,
Alison. Julia Gillian (and the art of knowing) and latest Julia Gillian
(and the quest for joy)
Nine-year-old
Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot,
take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she
seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
FIC
NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Great chicken Debacle Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2005
Hoping to earn a trip to an amusement
park, the three Morgan children agree to take care of a chicken that their father
plans to give their mother as a birthday surprise
FIC TES
Testa, Maria. Some kind of pride Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2004
Eleven-year-old Ruth,
named after one of the greatest baseball players of all time, begins to question
her dream of becoming a major league player after she overhears her father lamenting
the fact that her talent is being wasted on a girl.
FIC
WOJ
Wojciechowski, Susan.Beany and the meany
When Meany's best friend Carol Ann pairs with the new girl at school to create
a science project, Beany must work with Kevin the bully. See also Beanie goes
to camp and Beany (not Beanhead) and the magic crystal
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CONTEMPORARY
- SCHOOL STORIES, some HUMOROUS
FIC AMA
Amato, Mary. Snarf attack,
underfoodle, and the secret of life : the Riot brothers tell all and
latest Drooling and dangerous : the Riot Brothers return
Contains three
stories in which brothers and best friends Wilbur and Orville Riot catch a thief,
overthrow a king, and find a treasure, and includes rules to some of their made-up
games.
FIC AUC
Auch, Mary Jane I was a third grade bodyguard
and others by author
When Brian takes care of the third grade class's
pet chicken during Christmas vacation, Arful, his talking dog, has his paws full
watching over it..
FIC BAR
Barrows, Ann. Ivy and Bean ALA
Notable Book 2007 and newest Ivy and Bean and the fossil record
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected
support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean
first suspected. also Ivy and Bean and the ghost that had to go
FIC
BYA
Byars, Betsy. SOS file
The students in Mr. Magro's class
submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they
read them aloud for extra credit.
FIC CHI
Child, Lauren. Clarice
Bean gets in trouble - and latest Clarice Bean don't look now
Calrice Bean, aspriing actresss and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting
into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of
the fictional spy, Ruby Redfort. See also Clarice Bean spells trouble.
FIC CLE
Clements, Andrew Jake Drake, know-it-all Beverly
Cleary Children’s Choice nominee 2004 and others about Jake
Drake
Jake strives to win the grand prize for his school's first science
fair.
FIC COD
Codell, Esme Raji. Sahara Special Young
Reader's Choice nominee 2006
Struggling with school
and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and
unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each
of her classmates.
EC COX
Cox, Judy. Third grade pet. and
others by author Butterfly Buddies
Fearing for the safety of the third
grade's class pet, Cheese the rat, Rosemary takes him home in her backpack and
creates chaos in the household.
EC CUY
Cuyler, Margery. Invisible
in the third grade
Alex has fun fooling his family and his fellow third
graders when he finds a brand of bubble gum that turns him invisible, but his
pranks get out of hand on Halloween.
FIC DeG
DeGroat, Diane. Annie
Pitts, artichoke ……..and Annie Pitts, swamp monster
When Annie
and her third grade class put on a play about nutrition, it has more surprises
than the teacher expected
FIC DiS
DiSalvo, DyAnne. The sloppy
copy slipup
Fourth-grader Brian Higman worries about how his teacher
Miss Fromme--nicknamed The General--will react when he fails to hand in a writing
assignment, but he ends up being able to tell his story, after all.
FIC
DOW
Dowell, Frances O'Roark. Phineas L. Macguire and latest Phinas
MacGuire gets slimed
Fourth-grade
science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on
a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder
if they have any chance of winning
EC DUF
Duffey, Betsy. Gadget
war
Kelly is an ingenious inventor with 43 inventions to her credit and
she is only in third grade. Then she meets Albert and he is determined to prove
that he is the real gadget wiz
EC DUF
Duffey, Betsy. How to be
cool in the third grade.
When Robbie York is marked as a target by a bully
at school, he decides that the only way to survive the third grade is by being
cool.
EC DUF
Duffey, Betsy. Spotlight on Cody. and others
in series
Nine-year-old Cody Michaels is bound for stardom in the third grade
talent show just as soon as he figures out his talent.
FIC GRE
Greenwald,
Shelia. Rosy Cole's memoir explosion
When Rosy writes a memoir
about herself and her friends for a school assignment, she is surprised when they
are not thrilled with the result.
EC HAD
Haddix, Margaret.
The girl with 500 middle names Beverly Cleary
Children's Choice 2004
Janie's parents move to the suburbs
so she can go to a better school, but when she discovers that all the other students
are richer than she is, she feels out of place--until she realizes that there
are more important things than money.
FIC HAR
Harper, Charisse.
Just Grace and latest Just Grace walks the dog / Just Grace goes green
/ Just Grace and the snack attack/ Double surprise
Misnamed
by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic,
but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
FIC HAR
Harper, Jessica. Uh-oh Cleo also Underpants on
my head, and I barfed on Mrs. Kenly
What
starts out as a perfectly ordinary day in the Small house turns into Stitches
Saturday when Cleo gets a cut on the head after her twin brother, Jack, accidentally
pulls down their Toy House.
FIC HUR
Hurwitz, Johanna. Fourth
Grade fuss.
A yard sale, ice skating, class pictures, and a surprise
party are a few of the things that make fourth grade fun for Julio and his friends,
but they must get serious about studying as the statewide end-of-year test approaches.
EC JAC
Jacobson, Jennifer. Andy Shane and very bossy Dolores Starbuckle
and Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick and Andy Shane Hero at last
Andy Shane hates school, mainly
because of a tattletale know-it-all named Dolores Starbuckle, but Granny Webb,
who has taken care of him all his life, joins him in class one day and helps him
solve the problem
FIC JON
Jones, Miranda Double Trouble (Little
Genie) also Castle magic, Puff of Pink, and Make a wish
Ali
uses one of her magical wishes so that she and Little Genie can trade places and
Ali can stay home from school.
FIC KEL
Kelly, Katy, -. Lucy
Rose, busy like you can't believe
sequel to Lucy Rose, here's the thing about me .
Now in fourth
grade, palindrome-enthusiast Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping
while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother
is beginning to date.
FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. Gooney the fabulous
sequel to Gooney Bird Green and Gooney Bird and the room
mother and latest Gooney Bird is so Absurd
Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students
in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their
own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
FIC MAC
MacDonald, Amy. No more nasty and also No more nice
When Simon's Great Aunt Matilda becomes the substitute teacher for his unruly
fifth-grade class, her unique way of looking at things gives the students a new
perspective on learning.
FIC MAR
Marsden, Carolyn. The gold-threaded
dress and Quail Club
When Oy and her Thai American family
move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because
she is different.
FIC McD
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody girl detectiveand
others about Judy Moody
When a puppy who is being trained as a police
dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery,
imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
FIC McD
McDonald, Megan
Stink and the world's worst stinking sneakers and also Stink and the
ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink
Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to
enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
FIC MIL
Mills,
Claudia 7 x 9 = trouble Beverly Cleary Children's
Choice Award nominees 2005
Third-grader Wilson struggles with
his times-tables in order to beat the class deadline
FIC NAG
Nagda, Ann Whitehead Dear Whiskers. Beverly
Cleary Children's Choice nominee 2003
Jenny is discouraged
when her second grade pen pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia
who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become
friends.
also author of Tarantual Power
Forced to work with the
class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries
to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.
EC
PEN
Pennypacker, Sara Stuart's cape Beverly
Cleary Children's Choice Award nominees 2005
Bored because
there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried
about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of
his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures. And the latest Stuart goes
to school
FIC PEN
Pennypacker, Sara Clementine SLJ
Best Book 2007 and others and latest Clementine Friend of
the Week
While sorting
through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old
Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his
efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building
FIC
ROB
Robinson, Barbara The Best/Worst Halloween
ever
The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween
FIC
SAC
Sachar, Louis. Wayside School ... stories
Humorous episodes
from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally
built sideways with one classroom on each story.
FIC
SEU
Seuling, Barbara. Robert and the practical jokes- - and
others about Robert
As a boys-versus-girls war of practical jokes escalates
in his third-grade classroom, Robert finds it difficult to ask a girl's help in
learning to dance in time for a family wedding reception.
FIC SMI
Smith, Anne Warren. Turkey monster Thanksgiving Beverly
Cleary Award nominees 2006
When her perfectionist classmate
and neighbor plans an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, Katie begins to wonder if
the relaxed day she, her father, and her messy little brother usually enjoy means
they are not a "real" family.
FIC SPI
Spinelli, Jerry. Loser
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange
and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving
family do no tallow him to feel that way about himself.
FIC VAN
Van Draanen, Wendelin Secret Identity (Shredderman series) Beverly
Cleary Choice nominee 2007 and latest Enemy Spy
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has
a secret identity--Shredderman!
FIC WAR
Warner, Sally. Only
Emma and Not so weird Emma also Super Emma and Best
friend Emma
Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child i disrupted
when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony
Scarpetto, a bona fide "pain in the patootie.".
FIC WON
Wong, Janet
S. Minn and Jake Sasquatch Book Award nominee
2006
Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins
a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is
also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect
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FANTASY/SCIENCE
FICTION/ MAGIC
FIC AMA
Amato, Mary. The word eater.
Sasquatch Book Award Nominee 2003
Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park Middle School, finds a worm that
magically makes things disappear, and she hopes it will help her fit in, or get
revenge, at her hated school.
FIC AND
Anderson, M. T. Whales
on Stilts ALA Notable book 2006 see also latest
Clue of the linoleum lederhosen
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school
student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her
father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
FIC
ASH
Asch, Frank: Star Jumper: a journal of a cardboard genius and latest
Gravity Buster
Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex decides to
build a cardboard spaceship to escape his annoying little brother.
FIC BAK
Baker, E.B. The Frog Princess and others. Also new The Wide Awake Princess
After reluctantly
kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself
a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to
become human again.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Marion Dane. The blue ghost.
and Red Ghost and Green Ghostand latest Very Little Princess
While visiting her grandmother's
log cabin, Liz encounters the ghost of her great-great-great grandmother and suddenly
finds that she has been transported back in time
FIC BRE
Brennan,
Herbie. Fairy Nuff : a tale of Bluebell Wood and also Nuff said
After mistakenly burning down his own cottage, Fairy Nuff finds that not only
are the Widow Buhiss and some African ants after him, but also that the Queen
urgently needs his help.
FIC BOS
Boston, L. M. (Lucy Maria), The
children of Green Knowe. and others in the series
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.
FIC BRI
Briggs, Anita. Hobart
Four budding artists, a tap dancer, a poet, a
singer, and an acrobat, who just happen to be pigs, live out their dreams and
avoid becoming bacon.
FIC BUT
Butterworth, Oliver. The Enormous
Egg
Problems develop when Nate's hen lays an egg that hatches into a dinosaur.
FIC
CAT
Catling, Patrick. Chocolate Touch
Everything John
Midas touches turns to chocolate
FIC CHR
Christian, Peggy Bookstore
Mouse
A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power
of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon
Censor.
FIC COV
Coville, Bruce. Jeremy Thatcher, dragon catcher
(part of Magic Book series)
Small for his age but artistically talented,
twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
FIC COV
Coville, Bruce. Monsters of Morley Manor Sasquatch
Reading Award WINNER 2004
Anthony and his younger sister
discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are
alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical
adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
FIC COV
Coville,
Bruce. The evil elves. Weeping Werewolves and Mischief Monster
and latest Naughty Nork Moongobble
series
In order to complete his third task and become a member of the Society
of Magicians, Moongobble embarks on a quest to recover a magical stone and help
his old elf friends at the same time.
FIC COW
Cowell, Cressida.
How to be a pirate.
Follows the further adventures and misadventures
of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his
father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search
of a pirate's treasure. .
FIC COW
Cowell,Cressida. How to speak
dragonese see also How to train your dragon and How to cheat a dragon's
curse
Recounts the further
escapades of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Thurd as he continues his Viking training
during which he escapes from a boatload of Roman soldiers and searches for his
kidnapped dragon..
FIC DEL
Delaney, Michael. Birdbrain Amos,
Mr. Fun sequel to Birdbrain Amos
Amos the hippopotamus takes his
tick bird, Amoeba, and her family on what he hopes will be a fun vacation, but
he finds himself competing with Amoeba's imaginary friend.
see also Birdbrain
Amos. Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award nominees 2005
FIC
DEL
Delaney,M. C. Obi, gerbil on the loose
Obi
Wan Kenobi, the gerbil, is forced to escape his cage and fend for himself after
his owner leaves on vacation and the pet sitter neglects to feed him, and through
his adventures encounters a cat, a tarantula, a snake, and a dog.
FIC DiC
DiCamillo, Kate. The tale of Despereaux: Newbery
WINNER 2004
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
FIC
DOW
Downer, Anne. Hatching Magic and Dragon of Never-Was
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while
seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon,
but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything
right.
FIC DRA
Drake, Salamanda, Dragonsdale and
soon Riding the Storm
Cara loves taking care of the dragons in her father's stable even though she
has been forbidden to ride since the accident that caused her mother's death,
but rather than just watch as all her friends begin preparing their dragons for
the Island Championships, she decides to train the wild dragon Skydancer in secret.
FIC
EAS
Easton, Patricia Harrison. Davey's blue-eyed frog. Beverly
Cleary Award nominees 2006
Davey finds a talking frog that
claims to be a princess and plans to take her to school to show off, until he
begins to consider the consequences of his actions
FIC FOR
Forrester,
Sandra. The everyday witch and others in the series
On the eve
of her twelfth birthday, Beatrice Baily is surprised to find that the decision
about her classification as a witch has not been made and that she must first
perform a task involving the evil Dally Rumpe.
FIC FUN
Funke, Cornelia.
Dragon Rider. Young Readers' Choice nominee 2007
Firedrake, Ben and their furry friend Sorrel are in search of the mythical
place where dragons can live in peace forever, and their journey takes them to
magical lands where they meet marvelous creatures and one ruthless villain.
FIC
GAR
Gardner, Sally. The Princess’s calamity
Five dolls, abandoned
in a park, are rescued by Mr. and Mrs. Mouse who provide a home for them and protect
them through various adventures, despite the horrible behavior of the doll called
the Countess.
FIC GRA
Gray, Luli. Falcon and the Charles Street
Witch and the sequel Falcon's egg
Twelve-year-old Falcon must find
the courage to save the day--and the dragon, Egg--after having a series of magical
misadventures caused by her little brother, a distracted old dragon, and a bumbling
witch.
FIC HAP
Haptie, Charlotte Otto and the Flying twins
and Otto and the Bird Charmers
Young Otto comes to the rescue
when he discovers that his family and city are the last remnants of an ancient
magical world now under threat from the Normal Police.
FIC HEA
Hearne, Betsy. Wishes, kisses and pigs
After eleven-year-old Louise
makes a wish on the first evening star and her brother turns into a pig, she uses
wishes, kisses, and spells to try to put things right again.
FIC HOR
Horvath, Polly. The Pepins and their problems author of The Trolls
and now Vacation
The reader is invited to help solve the Pepin family's
unusual problems, which include having a cow who creates lemonade rather than
milk and having to cope with a competitive neighbor.
FIC HOW
Howe,
James, It came from beneath the bed - and others in the Bunnicula series
With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the
wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from a science
experiment gone awry.
FIC HOR
Hurwitz, Johanna. Lexi's tale
......and other stories like PeeWee's tale and Squirrels World
Lexi the squirrel and his guinea
pig friend Pee Wee, who live in Central Park, help a hungry stranger with a funny
hat.
FIC IBB
Ibbotson, Eva. Island of the aunts. Sasquatch
Book Award nominee 2003
As they get older, several sisters
decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island
home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
FIC IBB
Ibbotson, Eva. The great ghost rescue - and others
by the author
A young English boy decides to establish a sanctuary
for an assortment of ghosts when the homes they have haunted are replaced by highways
and other modern "improvements.".
FIC JEN
Jenkins, Emily Toys
go out
Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen
to be toys
FIC JOH
Johnston, Tony. The spoon in the bathroom wall
Living in the boiler room of the school where her father is janitor seems
normal to fourth grader Martha Snapdragon, until she has experiences with an evil
principal, the class bully, and a mysterious giant spoon, all reminiscent of the
Arthurian legends
FIC JON
Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the incredible
shrinking rat
When Emmy
discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their
evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she
and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.
FIC
KEN
Kennemore, Tim. The circle of doom
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie
uses ingredients both ordinary and not so ordinary to make a series of magic potions,
to the growing astonishment of her younger brothers.
FIC LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. For Biddle's sake. -- and others in series
In
this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been
transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical abilities
to charm a prince into marriage.
FIC LEV
Levine, Gail Carson.
Fairy dust and the quest for the egg and latestFairy
Haven and the quest for the wand
Tinker Bell and the other residents of
Fairy Haven do not know what to make of Prilla, the new fairy who is quite strange,
clumsy, and seemingly talentless, but when Never Land is in danger, Prilla's talent
emerges, in this enchanting tale that features a four-page gatefold panorama of
Never Land
FIC LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. The fairy's return.
and others
In a retelling of the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Goose," the
good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess, with the help of a fairy
and a magic goose.
FIC LIS
Lisle, Rebecca. Copper
Pursued by enemies of the family she never knew she had, ten-year-old Copper Beach
flees to Spindle House, her paternal home, and decides to uncover the truth about
a feud between the Stone and Wood clans that sent her into exile six years earlier
EC MAH
Mahy, Margaret. The five sisters.
Before Sally's
Nana can finish filling in the faces on a row of paper dolls which she has cut
out, the five sisters are whisked off on a series of extraordinary adventures.
FIC MAR
Marciano, John. Harold's tail
As a result
of an experiment stripping the fur from his tail, Harold the squirrel finds himself
homeless and mistaken for a rat on the unfamiliar streets of New York City.
FIC MAR
Martin, Ann M. The meanest doll in the world - sequel
to The doll People
Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls
who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby
Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack
and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school!
But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far
deeper trouble than they imagined.
FIC NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo
The prince of the pond : otherwise known as De Fawg Pin
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.
FIC
NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo. Ugly
When
all the other birds of Dove Lake turn against him, Ugly's mother has no choice
but to protect her family and leave her darling chick behind - but armed with
his natural curiosity, he finds his way alone with the friendship of a few wonderful
characters.
FIC ORM
Ormondroyd, Edward. David and the Phoenix
A young boy climbs the hill behind his house and meets the Phoenix who lives there.
They begin a practical education that includes finding ways to outwit the scientist
who wants to capture and study the Phoenix.
FIC PEA
Pearce, Phillippa.
The little gentleman
A young girl's dull life is transformed when she
meets and befriends an extraordinary talking mole that likes to be read to and
tell of his own past exploits throughout the centuries - humorous, moving novel.
FIC PIN
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, . Fat camp commandos
and it's sequel Fat Camp Commandos go west
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula
and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss
camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible
for promoting the idea that thin is better.
FIC POT
Potter, Ellen.
Olivia Kidney and the next book Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy
Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a psychic,
talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual
characters.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip I was a rat! Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2003
A little boy turns life in
London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists
he was a rat.
FIC ROD
Rodda, Emily. Rowan of Rin. Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2004 and others in series
Because only he can read
the magical map, young, weak and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb
a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other
horrors threaten to drive them back. Latest is Rowan and the Ice Creepers
FIC STR
Strauss, Linda
A fairy called Hilary
A fairy named Hilary comes to stay with Caroline
and uses her magic to enliven trick-or-treating on Halloween, the making of a
giant snowman, a friend's party, an airplane trip, and a garden show.
FIC
TAY
Taylor, Theordore. The boy who could fly without a motor
In
1935, living at a lighthouse near San Francisco, a lonely nine-year-old boy inadvertently
summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying.
FIC TOW
Townley , Roderick The Great Good Thing and his latest Into the
labyrinth
Twelve-year-old girl Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really
is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the character's mad scramble
to reach their places whenever the book is opened, until Sylvie discovers she
can enter new worlds with the Reader, and find new adventures
FIC ULL
Ullman,
Barb Bentler. The fairies of Nutfolk Wood
After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader
Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world
of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.
FIC
WES
Weston, Robert Paul. Zorgamazoo
Imaginative
and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of
a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled
zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared
from the earth.
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FANTASY
SERIES
SER CHI
Children of the Red King , by Jenny Nimmo --
up to #5 Charlie Bone and the Hidden king
When an ancient enchanter is released from the grounds of Bloor's Academy, threatening
both of Charlie Bone's parents, the only way Charlie and his friends can defeat
him is by finding the red king himself.
SER EDG
Edge Chronicles, by
Paul Stewart - up to #9 Clash of the Sky Galleons
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll
family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find
the place where he belongs.
Far Flung Adventures, by Paul Stewart
Nine-year-old
Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting
neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into
his window and leads him toward adventure.
SER FAI
Fairy Realm series
by Rodda, Emily -- up to #10 Rainbow Wand
When Jessies searches for her ill grandmother's missing charm bracelet, she is
led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be there.
SER
GUA
Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, by Kathryn Lasky -- up to #13 River
of Wind
SER KEY
Keys to
the Kingdom, by Garth Nix - up to #5 Lady Friday
When Arthur is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect by Sir
Thursday, he must survive basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front, and
figure out how to free Part Four of the Will, while Leaf tries to banish Arthur's
doppleganger on Earth.
SER LAN
Land of Elyon series, by Patrick Carman
-- up to #4 The Tenth City
#5 Stargazer (fall 2008)
Alexa reveals the origin of the Land of
Elyon while defending it against the evil Abaddon and his sinister forces, with
not only the last Jocasta, but also the nature of the land itself, at stake.
SER MOS
Mostly Ghostly, by R. L Stine (also wrote Goosebump series ) -- up
to #6 Let's get this party started
Max's
twelfth birthday party turns into a major disaster when ghosts Nicky and Tara
boycott it and sinister events spin out of control.
SER SPI
Spiderwick
Chronicles by Holly Black -- up to #5 The Wrath of Mulgarath
The Grace children, Jared, Simon, and Mallory, having discovered a field guide
to fairies and other magical creatures at their Aunt Lucinda's house, find themselves
the victims of mean tricks designed to get them to give up the book.
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HISTORICAL
FICTION/ADVENTURE
FIC COH
Cohen, Miriam. Mimmy and Sophie
all around the town
Describes the experiences of two sisters growing
up in Brooklyn in the time of Shirley Temple movies and trolleys
FIC DEA
Gregory, Kristiana. Five smooth stones : Hope's diary. (My America series)
In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the
beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
FIC DEA
Hermes, Patricia. The starving time. (My America series)
Nine-year-old
Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters
Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their
first home.
FIC DEA
McMullan, Kate. As far as I can see : Meg's
diary (My America series)
In her diary for 1856, nine-year-old Meg describes
the long, dangerous journey she and her younger brother make from Missouri to
Kansas, as well as the new life they find there.
FIC GUT
Gutman,
Dan Satch & me and others
by author Babe & me -- Mickey & me
With his ability
to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to
find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
FIC
HAR
Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Star in the storm. Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2003 and
Thunder and the sea
In 1912,
fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new
law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old
Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden.
FIC HOL
Holm,
Jennifer L. Boston Jane : an adventure and others in the series
Schooled
in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia
finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest
and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington
Territory.
FIC KIN
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. A doctor like papa
Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award nominees 2005
When
the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who
has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like. also Lumber
Camp Library
FIC LOV
Love, Anne. The puppeteer’s apprentice.
A medieval orphan girl called Mouse gains the courage she needs to follow
her dreams of becoming a puppeteer's apprentice.
FIC McK
Mckissack,
Pat Scraps of time series: Beverly Cleary Award nominee
Song for Harlem -- Abby takes
a stand -- Away West
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner
of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught
by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the
height of the Harlem Renaissance.
FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. The
Quilt sequel to Alda's song and The Cookcamp
During World
War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago,
a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American
community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
FIC VAN
Van
Leeuwen, Jan. Cabin on Trouble Creek Sasquatch
Reading Award nominee 2007
In
1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the
land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger
siblings.
FIC WHE
Whelan, Gloria. The wanigan : a life on the
river.
In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year
of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group
of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
HUMOROUS
FIC BAB
Babbitt, Natalie. Jack
Plank tells tales
Jack Plank is too nice to be a pirate and is
looking for a new career. Each night he tells tales of why the one job he looked
into that day is wrong.
EC BRU
Bruel, Nick. Bad kitty gets a
bath and latest Bad kitty vs Uncle Murray : the uproar at the front door
Takes a humorous look
at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that
way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water.
'Includes fun facts, glossary, and other information.
FIC KIN
King-Smith, Dick. Funny Frank
Gertie the hen is appalled when her son
Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife,
make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.
FIC KIN
King-Smith, Dick. The cuckoo child.
With the unknowing help of his
pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's
farm.
FIC KIN Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice nominee 2004
King-Smith, Dick. Lady Lollipop. and the latest Clever Lollipop
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded after
they reform a spoiled princess.
FIC COL
Colfer, Eoin. Legend
of the worst boy in the world also - Legen of Spud Murphy and also
Legend of Captian Crow's teeth
Will Woodman has a hard time getting anyone
in his family to listen to him, so he turns to his grandfather, who, in turns
out, has more terrible sob stories than Will.
FIC COR
Corman, Carolyn.
Big house
When Ivy
and Ray's parents are sent to jail, and left in the custody of their parent's
accusers, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" their parents.
FIC
MYE
Myers, Walter Dean, Three swords for Granada.
In 1420
Spain, three young cat friends join the warrior cats as they struggle to save
their beloved Granada from the vicious dogs of the Fidorean Guard.
FIC
PIN
Pinkwater, Daniel Fat Camp Commandoes
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula
and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss
camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible
for promoting the idea that thin is better.
EC PIN
Pinkwater, Daniel
Manus, The lunchroom of doom.
Billy Furball, member of the Werewolf
Club, is kicked out of the lunchroom for having a food fight with himself and
ordered to see a psychiatrist who tries to convince him that he is not really
a werewolf, but when aliens invade the town, Billy knows it is time to revert
to his true nature.
FIC REI
Reiche, Dietlof I Freddy -- and
the latestThe Haunting of Freddy
Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how
to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized
creature.
FIC WHY Sasquatch Reading Award nominee 2003
Whybrow,
Ian. Little Wolf's book of badness and others in series Terror of the
Shivery Seas is latest
Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to
his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.
EC WIS
Wisniewski, David. Halloweenies.
Curse of the werewuss -- Frankenstein's
hamster -- Attack of the space toupees -- I forgot what you did last summer --
The abonimable showman Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror
movies.
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MYSTERY
FIC
ERI
Ericson, Helen Harriet spies again.
A companion to Harriet
the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet M. Welsch is up to her old spying
tricks when her beloved nanny Ole Golly, who had married and moved to Montreal,
returns without her husband, Harriet's friend Sport announces he has a crush on
a schoolmate, and the people across the street appear to be holding a child hostage.
FIC JOO
Joose, Barbara. Dead guys talk: a Wild Willie mystery and
others by author
In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives
investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak
Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.
FIC KEH
Kehret, Peg.
Stranger next door Sasquatch Reading Award nominees
for 2005 see also Trapped and
Spy Cat
A clever cat's heroism helps two twelve-year-old boys become friends
after their families, one of which is in a witness protection program, move to
neighboring houses in Hilltop, Washingtons.
FIC NAP
Napoli Donna
Jo., Sly the Sleuth and the pet mysteries and also Sly the Sleuth and
the food mysteries
Sly
the Sleuth, also known as Sylvia, solves three mysteries for her friends and neighbors,
all involving pets, through her detective agency, Sleuth for Hire.
FIC NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry.
.
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from
the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run
by Bernie's father.
FIC SEU
Seuling, Barbara. Robert
and the great escape Third grader Robert Dorfman and hisbest friend, Paul,
investigate the disappearance of the class pet, Sally the snake, which leads them
to the dark and creepy depths of the school basement. And other ROBERT books
FIC SHI
Shipton, Paul. Bug Muldoon : the garden of fear
Something
strange is going on in the garden and Bug Muldoon, beetle private investigator,
tries to figure out how the ants and the wasps are involved.
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SERIES
A is for Amber
A to Z mysteries
Airy Fairy
Amulet (Graphic novel)
Babymouse (Graphic novel)
Babysitter's
Club
Bailey School House
Barkley's School for dogs
Boxcar Children
mysteries
Bunnicula series
Cam Jamsen
Chet Gecko mysteries
Cody
unplugged
Deltora Quest
Disney fairies
Dragon Slayers' Academy
Edge Chronicles
Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective
Fairy Realm
Fairy
School
Ghosthunters
Guardians of Ga'hoole
Hank the cowdog
Hardy Boys
Horace Splattly, the cupcaked crusader
Horrible
Harry
Jenny Archer mysteries
Jigsaw Jones mysteris
Julian stories
Land
of Elyon
Little House chapter books
The Littles
Magic Pickle (Graphic
novel)
Magic Tree House
Marvin Redpost
Melvin Beederman, super hero
My name is America
My
Weird School
Nancy Drew
Nate the great
Owly (Graphic Novel)
PeeWee scouts
Pixie Tricks
Pony pals
Princess tales
Rainbow fairies
- Weather fairies - Jewel fairies and others
Secrets of Droon
Spiderwick Chronicles
Time Warp Trio
Zach files