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Stella Batts: superstar (Stella Batts Ser.)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2015
Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she…
is perfect for the role. She rehearses her lines until she knows the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned. For grades 3-6. 2015Stella Batts: none of your beeswax (Stella Batts Ser.)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2014
Eight-year-old Stella finds it is not easy or fun to keep secrets. One secret involves her sister Penny, and another…
is about school and her best friend. For grades 3-6. 2014The sixty-eight rooms (The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures)
By Greg Call, Marianne Malone, Gina Triplett. 2010
On a sixth-grade field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Ruthie and Jack discover a small magic key that…
shrinks them to fit into the Thorne Rooms--minidioramas from different eras. But Ruthie and Jack are not the first visitors to explore inside these tiny rooms. For grades 4-7. 2010DupliKate: a novel
By Cherry Cheva. 2009
Overscheduled high school senior Kate is surprised when a computer-generated twin abruptly appears in her room. Kate takes the opportunity…
to let her other self socialize while she concentrates on getting into Yale but soon realizes that she is losing an important part of her life. For grades 6-9. 2009Lulu goes to witch school (I Can Read Bks.)
By Jane O'Connor, Emily Arnold McCully. 1987
Razia's ray of hope: one girl's dream of an education (CitizenKid)
By Suana Verelst, Elizabeth Suneby. 2013
My kindergarten
By Rosemary Wells. 2004
Explores the exciting world of kindergarten, progressing month by month through the school year. Includes holiday and seasonal information, poems,…
and rhymes. Describes learning activities such as adopting a tree, performing on musical instruments, measuring, and playing a variation of the animal/mineral/vegetable game. For preschool-grade 2. 2004Bronx masquerade
By Nikki Grimes, Christopher Myers. 2002
Tough students at a Bronx high school reveal their innermost thoughts, dreams, and fears during the monthly English class's Open-Mike…
Fridays. Through their expressions of rap, free verse, and rhymes, the students learn they are more alike than they are different. For junior and senior high readers. Coretta Scott King Award. 2002Writing to Richie
By Patricia Calvert. 1994
David and Richie have been in lots of foster homes, because their parents are unable to take care of them.…
Now they are going to the Birks. On the way, David tells Richie everything will be okay, and each hopes this time David will be right. For a while everything is just fine at the Birks, even Richie's allergies. Then Richie has a reaction to his school lunch, and life is never the same. For grades 4-7Bunny double, we're in trouble! (My Weird School Special)
By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2014
The year of Billy Miller: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (A miller Family Story Ser.)
By Kevin Henkes. 2013
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade at Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary School in Constant, Wisconsin, with a bump on his head…
and lots of worries. But his adventures with friends, homework, and family keep him busy all year long. For grades K-3. 2013Graduation day (The Testing #3)
By Joelle Charbonneau. 2014
Tensions between the United Commonwealth and the rebel alliance intensify, with deadly action looming on the horizon. Meanwhile, gifted student…
Cia Vale, unsure of which side to trust, must convince her fellow students to believe in her. Sequel to Independent Study (DB 78427). Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2014Trapped
By Michael Northrop. 2011
During what seems like a typical New England blizzard, seven kids at Tattawa Regional High School are waiting to be…
picked up by their parents. Only the snowstorm is much more powerful than was expected, and not everyone survives. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2011After Ever After
By Jordan Sonnenblick. 2010
Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen in remission. Even though the cancer should be far…
behind him, life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, who has always been Jeffrey's main support system and confidant, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and "find himself". Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too. He needs to tell Steven how he feels about basically being abandoned. His best friend, Tad, is hatching some kind of secretive, crazy plan, which is driving him bonkers. And there's a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's book of precepts (Wonder Ser.)
By R. J. Palacio. 2014
Auggie's teacher Mr. Browne provides a book filled with principles to live by for each day of the year. Companion…
to Wonder (DB 74228). For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2014Hate that cat: A Novel
By Sharon Creech. 2008
Jack continues his study of poetry begun with Miss Stretchberry last school year in Love That Dog (BR 14137). Although…
he still misses his dog Sky, he writes poems about other things: words, sounds, silence, his mother's hand signs, and cats. A novel in verse. For grades 4-7. 2008The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007Lenny 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. 2002The worst best school year ever (The Best Ever)
By Barbara Robinson. 1994
In this sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (DB 38118, BR 5636), the six Herdman children are still terrorizing…
their Woodrow Wilson School classmates. Beth, who is in the same grade as Imogene Herdman, is worried about this year's big assignment: coming up with compliments for every person in the class. What in the world can she say about Imogene? For grades 3-6Larry gets lost in the library (Larry gets lost)
By Eric Ode. 2021
Larry, a playful pup, loves to go on vacation with Pete at his grandparents' farm. When a bookmobile arrives, Pete…
is excited to select a stack of books, but he doesn't notice that Larry, in search of a snack, wanders into the bookmobile and is taken back to the city! For preschool to grade 2. Unrated