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Lenny and Mel (Beginning chapter book)
By Erik P. Kraft. 2002
Twin brothers Lenny and Mel celebrate holidays in some unusual ways. After eating Thanksgiving turkey for a week, the boys…
put the remains under Mel's pillow for the Leftover Fairy to exchange for money. Beginning chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2002Becoming Naomi León
By Pam Muñoz Ryan. 2004
For seven years Naomi and brother Owen lived happily with Gram in her trailer. Gram arranged Owen's surgeries for his…
physical disabilities and helped Naomi begin to speak again. When their mother reappears, Gram takes the children to Mexico to find their father and their heritage. For grades 4-7. Schneider Family Book Award. 2004Punctuation takes a vacation
By Robin Pulver, Lynn Rowe Reed. 2003
The best Halloween ever (The Best Ever)
By Barbara Robinson. 2004
The Herdman children create mayhem every year, so the town mayor cancels Halloween and trick-or-treating. Instead, the principal plans a…
safe, controlled holiday party at school, underestimating the Herdmans, who make their own plans. For grades 3-6. 2004Shooter
By Walter Dean Myers. 2004
A high school tragedy related from multiple viewpoints: interviews, reports, and journals. Seventeen-year-old Len shoots a football player to death,…
injures several others, and commits suicide. His troubled friends recall Len's problems. In the surrounding culture no one is completely innocent nor completely guilty. For senior high readers. 2004Saving Lilly
By Peg Kehret. 2001
Sixth-graders Erin and David have researched the topic of circus animal abuse, so when their teacher schedules a field trip…
to the Glitter Tent Circus they refuse to go. Instead they raise money to send a mistreated elephant, Lilly, to an animal sanctuary. For grades 3-6. 2001Junie B., first grader: shipwrecked (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 6)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 2004
The Beast
By Walter Dean Myers. 2003
When sixteen-year-old "Spoon" receives a scholarship to a New England prep school, he leaves Harlem and his girlfriend Gabi behind.…
Returning home at Christmastime, he discovers Gabi is a drug addict and he no longer is in step with street life. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003Junie B., first grader: boss of lunch (Junie B. Jones #19)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 2002
First-grader Junie B. is thrilled when Mrs. Gutzman asks her to help in the school cafeteria. But she has to…
learn the hard way that a helper is not the boss. A beginning chapter book. For grades K-3. 2002Junie B., first grader: cheater pants (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 4)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 2003
Copying a classmate's homework one day gets Junie B. in trouble with her teacher, who explains about cheating. The next…
day Junie B.'s friend Herbert helps her on a spelling test--sharing answers isn't cheating, is it? For grades K-3. 2003The view from Saturday
By E. L. Konigsburg. 1996
Mrs. Olinski is hard-pressed to explain how she selected the four students who will represent the sixth grade in the…
Academic Bowl. But her choice of the four calling themselves "The Souls" was excellent. As the students prepare and compete, each reveals a reason for being part of the team. For grades 4-6. Newbery AwardLa bar-mitsva de Samuel
By David Fitoussi. 2009
"La bar-mitsva de Samuel est un premier roman irrévérencieux. Samuel, un enfant juif né dans les banlieues chaudes de Paris,…
raconte sans s'excuser. Sa mère prie pour gagner à la loto ou pour le décès de son père avec une trêve à la fête de kippour, elle terrorise les enfants avec un cintre et souhaite tellement passer pour une Française qu'elle prétend n'avoir jamais mangé de couscous. Un jour, elle colle même un petit mot sur sa boîte aux lettres où il est inscrit "sale Française" et, enfin, s'échappe au Canada avec son nouveau mari. Samuel s'habille avec les gaines de sa grand-mère, ses parents s'envoient des lettres d'injures en découpant les lettres de l'alphabet dans les journaux pour en accentuer l'effet. C'est à Montréal, dans le quartier Snowdon, que le petit David découvre son identité, décide de manger cacher, menace sa mère de porter la kipa en public et projette de visiter le mur des lamentations et les bordels de Tel-Aviv. Le roman de David Fitoussi est un guide de survie pour le nouvel arrivant ou un manuel pour quiconque souhaite faire fortune en immobilier à Montréal, malgré la crise". -- 4e de couvMy teacher is an alien
By Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville. 1999
Contains the complete text of four books, including My Teacher Is an Alien, in which Susan catches her substitute teacher…
peeling off his face and realizes he's not human. Also My Teacher Fried My Brains, My Teacher Glows in the Dark, and My Teacher Flunked the Planet. For grades 3-6. 1992Junie B., first grader: toothless wonder (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 3)
By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 2002
Beetles, lightly toasted
By Phyllis Naylor. 1987
Andy really wants to win a fifth-grade essay contest on conservation, and he especially wants to beat his cousin Jack.…
Andy's idea involves testing recipes using handy critters--like beetles and worms--on unsuspecting eaters. The results surprise him. For grades 3-6Oliver and Albert, friends forever (Oliver and Amanda Ser.)
By Jean Leeuwen, Ann Schweninger. 2000
Albert, the new student in Oliver's school, is taller than his pig classmates and he can read. But at recess…
Oliver and his friends realize that Albert can't play kickball and that he likes bugs. Soon the whole class is studying the critters. For grades K-3. 2000Ramona Quimby, age 8: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Ramona #6)
By Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers. 1981
As Ramona enters third grade, her father returns to college to become an art teacher. Having a working mother and…
a student father is tough on the family, but the Quimbys stick together through good times and bad. For grades 3-6 and older Cleary fansFrindle
By Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick. 1996
In the fifth grade Nick has his first difficult class--language arts with Mrs. Granger. He and his classmates decide to…
"beat her at her own game" by inventing a new word. They begin calling their pens "frindles," even though it means being on detention every day. For grades 3-6Mad about Madeline: the complete tales (Madeline)
By Ludwig Bemelmans. 1993
A collection of all six rhymed stories about Madeline. The first--published in 1939--introduces Madeline, the smallest of twelve girls who…
live together in Paris with Miss Clavel. She has various adventures involving animals, gypsies, travel, a boy called Pepito, and a magical Christmas. For grades K-3. 1961Seeing lessons: the story of Abigail Carter and America's first school for the blind
By Spring Hermann, Ib Ohlsson. 1998
1832. Ten-year-old Abigail and her six-year-old sister, Sophia, are among the first students chosen to attend a new school in…
Boston that is solely for children who are blind. The girls are homesick but thrilled at the chance to learn to read, do math and handicrafts, and play the pianoforte. For grades 4-7