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Orangutan tongs: poems to tangle your tongue
By Jon Agee. 2008
Mary Engelbreit's nursery tales: a treasury of children's classics
By Mary Engelbreit. 2008
Twelve folk tales retold in a not-too-scary manner for younger readers. Anthology contains friendly versions of "Goldilocks and the Three…
Bears," "The Three Little Pigs," "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "The Gingerbread Boy," and "The Ugly Duckling." For grades K-3. 2008Mudshark
By Gary Paulsen. 2009
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when all the…
classroom erasers disappear, he turns to the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark. For grades 3-6. 2009Melonhead (Melonhead Ser.)
By Katy Kelly. 2009
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Ten-year-old Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a friend of Lucy Rose, has a talent for landing in trouble.…
But right now he and his pal Sam are dreaming up inventions to win a science contest. For grades 2-4. 2009Hairy Hezekiah
By Dick King-Smith. 2007
Looking for a friend, Hezekiah, a lonely camel, escapes from a zoo in England one night. He crashes through hedges…
and fences until some cows point him toward a safari park owned by a bushy-bearded gentleman, who figures out a way to help Hezekiah. For grades 2-4. 200511 birthdays
By Wendy Mass. 2009
Born on the same day, Leo and Amanda have shared nine birthday parties. But on their tenth, Amanda's feelings are…
hurt and she doesn't speak to Leo for a year. When their separate eleventh birthdays keep repeating, Leo and Amanda need to reconcile to get unstuck. For grades 4-7. 2009Lucky breaks
By Susan Patron, Matt Phelan. 2009
As Lucky turns eleven, she wishes for change. When smart and funny Paloma visits tiny Hard Pan, California, Lucky considers…
her to be best-girlfriend material. But Lucky has much to learn about friendship and parental trust. Sequel to The Higher Power of Lucky (BR 16881). For grades 4-7. 2009Princess angelica, part-time lion trainer (Princess Angelica #2)
By Monique Polak. 2021
Our favorite pretend princess, Angelica, aka Jelly, is back! A case of mistaken identity, a wild imagination and a love…
of storytelling leads Jelly to tell her friend Joon and the new kid she's just met, Leo, that she's a part-time lion trainer at the local animal rescue center. Her inventiveness has them completely convinced, but things get a bit more complicated when the resident lioness, Mwezi, escapes from her enclosure and the kids look to Jelly's "expertise" to save the dayChicken feathers
By Joy Cowley. 2008
The summer that Josh's mother spends in the hospital waiting for her new baby, Josh's father gives him a pet--a…
troublesome old hen named Semolina, who talks only to Josh. But then a fox attacks Semolina. For grades 3-6. 2008Twice upon a Marigold: Part Comedy, Part Tragedy, Part Two (Once Upon a Marigold)
By Jean Ferris. 2008
After a quiet year of amnesia in a small town, wicked Queen Olympia regains her memory and a desire to…
wrench power from King Swithbert. Christian and Marigold counter with a scheme of their own. Sequel to Once upon a Marigold (RC 56708, BR 16972). For grades 5-8. 2008Amanda Pig and the wiggly tooth (Oliver and Amanda)
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Ann Schweninger. 2008
Amanda enjoys wiggling her first loose tooth, but she does not want to pull it out because doing so might…
hurt. The tooth finally comes out without Amanda noticing and is lost. What can Amanda do about the Tooth Fairy? Four easy chapters. For grades K-3. 2008Forever Rose
By Hilary McKay. 2008
As Christmas approaches, eleven-year-old Rose, the youngest member of the eccentric Casson family, discovers that life is filled with both…
catastrophic problems and wonderful surprises. Sequel to Caddy Ever After (RC 62869, BR 16746). For grades 4-7. 2008Be a perfect person in just three days!
By Stephen Manes, Tom Huffman. 2010
When a self-help book falls off the library shelf and hits Milo on the head, he figures he's meant to…
read it. Especially since his family and classmates think he's less than perfect. But following author Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish's instructions is not so easy. For grades 3-6. 1982Phineas L. MacGuire erupts!: The First Experiment (From The Highly Scientific Notebooks Of Phineas L. Macguire Ser.)
By Frances O'Roark Dowell. 2007
At the beginning of fourth grade, Mac's best friend Marcus moves away, and Mac is stuck with the new boy--Mac…
R., whom nobody likes--as his partner for the science fair. But then Mac discovers that Mac R.'s real name is Ben and he's a natural-born artist. For grades 3-6. 2006Roxie and the hooligans
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 2006
In Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them, fourth-grader Roxie Warbler finds no advice on handling Helvetia's…
Hooligans, the bullies at school. But Roxie's survival skills come in handy when she, the Hooligans, and a pair of crooks land on a deserted island. For grades 3-6. 2006Junie B. Jones smells something fishy (Junie B. Jones Ser. #No. 12)
By Barbara Park. 1998
Disappointed because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B.…
Jones considers taking a raccoon, a worm, or a dead fish. For grades K-3. 1998Out of Patience
By Brian Meehl. 2008
Twelve-year-old Jake Waters is mortified by his father's dream to open a toilet museum. So he'd like to get out…
of Patience, Kansas, his boring hometown. But meanwhile he must deal with a curse tied to both a toilet plunger and to buried treasure. For grades 4-7. 2006Clementine (Clementine Ser. #1)
By Sara Pennypacker, Marla Frazee. 2006
Third-grader Clementine's disastrous week includes cutting her fourth-grade friend Margaret's long hair, chopping off her own hair, and frequenting the…
principal's office. Her little brother is the easy child, while Clementine, the difficult child, fears that her parents want to get rid of her. For grades 2-4. 2006Say what?
By Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2005
When six-year-old Sukie and her older brothers misbehave, their parents respond by saying the wrong thing. The children discover that…
this is a plot and fight back with their own weird phrases. For grades 2-4. 2004Junie B. Jones is a party animal (Junie B. Jones Ser. #No. 10)
By Barbara Park. 1997