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26 Fairmount Avenue
Author: Tomi dePaola
A well-known children's author and illustrator describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. Ages 6-10
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. Ages 10-14
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Alice-Miranda at School
Author: Jacqueline Harvey
Alice-Miranda finds her new boarding school to be a very curious establishment, with no flowers in the gardens, a headmistress who has not been seen for years, and a mysterious stranger who seems to be hiding out on the premises. Ages 7-10. J Harvey
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All-of-a-Kind Family
Author: Sydney Taylor
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ages 8-12
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Author: Barbara Robinson
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant. Ages 8-11
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BFG
Author: Roald Dahl
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. Ages 8-12
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Big Orange Splot
Author: Daniel Pinkwater
When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on his neat house, Mr. Plumbean gets an idea that affects his entire neighborhood. Ages 4-8
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Chocolate Fever
Author: Robert Kimmel Smith
Henry breaks out in brown bumps as a result of eating too much chocolate. He then gets caught up in a hijacking and learns a valuable lesson about self-indulgence. Ages 7-10
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City of Ember
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
The lamps that light the underground City of Ember are beginning to flicker, and Lina must decipher a secret message in order to save the city. Ages 9-12
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Dealing With Dragons
Author: Patricia Wrede
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. Ages 10-14
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Doll People
Author: Ann M. Martin
Annabelle has been an 8-year-old doll in the same house for 100 years when a new family of plastic dolls arrives, bringing changes and the chance to solve an old mystery. Ages 8-12
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Each Little Bird That Sings
Author: Deborah Wiles
Comfort Snowberger, whose family runs the town funeral home, has attended many funerals and believes she is familiar with loss. But the sudden death of Great-uncle Edisto begins a series of events for which she is unprepared. Ages 9-12
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End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail...
Author: Avi
Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures. Ages 7-10
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Falling for Rapunzel
Author: Leah Wilcox
A prince tries to get Rapunzel to throw down her hair so he can rescue her, but she mishears him and throws down random objects from her room instead. Ages 4-8
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Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Ages 10-14
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How to Eat Fried Worms
Author: Thomas Rockwell
Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal. Ages 8-11
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I Want My Hat Back
Author: Jon Klassen
A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers an important detail. Ages 4-7
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I Was a Rat
Author: Philip Pullman
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists that he was once a rat. Ages 8-12
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Inkheart
Author: Cornelia Funke
Meggie lives a quiet life with her father Mo, a bookbinder, until the night he reads aloud and the villain Capricorn comes out of the book into the real world and tries to use Mo’s talents for his own evil purposes. Ages 10-14
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Kensuke’s Kingdom
Author: Michael Morpurgo
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. Ages 9-12
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Masterpiece
Author: Elise Broach
Marvin the beetle is a talented artist who makes a miniature drawing as a birthday gift for James, the boy whose apartment he shares, not realizing that this will involve them both in the search for an art thief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ages 8-12
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Math Curse
Author: Jon Sciezka
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. Ages 7-10
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Mouse and the Motorcycle
Author: Beverly Cleary
A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. Ages 8-12
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Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
Author: Won-Ldy Paye
When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters, and therefore the crocodile shouldn't eat her. Ages 3-7
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic
Author: Betty MacDonald
Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, and never-want-to-go-to-schoolers. Ages 7-10
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Mysterious Benedict Society
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. Ages 9-12
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Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Author: Eric Litwin
Pete the Cat loves his white shoes until - oh no! He steps in a puddle and it stains his shoes! Does it make him sad? Find out in this lyrical story with an optimistic message about keeping a positive attitude.
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Pippi Longstocking
Author: Astrid Lindgren
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village. Ages 7-10
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Reluctant Dragon
Author: Kenneth Grahame
The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and especially St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern? Ages 7-10
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Remarkable
Author: Lizzie K. Foley
Jane Doe is too average for her town’s School for the Remarkably Gifted, but when trouble arrives, Jane’s “ordinary” abilities are just what the town needs. Ages 8-12. J Foley
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Riding Freedom
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance. Ages 8-12
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Ruby Lu, Brave and True
Author: Lenore Look
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks, learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends. Ages 6-8
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Schooled
Author: Gordon Korman
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television or tasted pizza, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school. Ages 10-14
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Secrets at Sea
Author: Richard Peck
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous. Ages 8-12
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Seven Chinese Sisters
Author: Kathy Tucker
When a dragon snatches the youngest of seven talented Chinese sisters, the other six come to her rescue. Ages 5-8
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Author: Louis Sachar
This collection features humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. Ages 8-11
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Star of Kazan
Author: Eva Ibbotson
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany. Ages 9-12
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Stone Fox
Author: John Reynolds Gardiner
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. Ages 7-10
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Stories Julian Tells
Author: Ann Cameron
Episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend. Ages 6-9
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Stuart Little
Author: E.B. White
Stuart, the debonair mouse, sets off on an adventure-filled journey to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden. Ages 8-12
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Sweet Tooth
Author: Margie Palatini
Stewart's loud, obnoxious sweet tooth constantly gets him into trouble, until Stewart uses a healthy diet to take control of the situation. Ages 4-8
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Thief
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. Ages 10-14
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Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon
Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett
A compilation of three classic tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris. Ages 6-9
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Three Terrible Trins
Author: Dick King-Smith
Three mice brothers, ignoring the class system separating the four clans of rodents in their farmhouse, befriend a lower class mouse and form a team to fight cats. Ages 7-10
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Tops and Bottoms
Author: Janet Stevens
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road. Ages 4-7
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True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Author: Avi
As the only passenger and the only female on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew. Ages 9-12
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Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older. Ages 8-12
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Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. Ages 8-12
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Wednesday Wars
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. Ages 10-14
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Week in the Woods
Author: Andrew Clements
The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him. Ages 9-12
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Author: Grace Lin
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. Ages 8-12
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Author: Verna Aardema
This West African tale reveals the history and meaning of the mosquito's buzz. Ages 4-7
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Wild About Books
Author: Judy Sierra
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake. Ages 4-8
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