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Be 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. 1982Whodunit?: detective stories
By Philip Pullman. 2007
Sixteen stories of crimes ranging from cold-blooded murder to dognapping, in settings that include an Egyptian tomb, a sinister English…
country house, and New York City streets. In "Butch Minds the Baby" by Damon Runyon, a safecracker takes his infant son along on a job. For grades 6-9. 1998Project Mulberry: a novel
By Linda Sue Park. 2005
While working on a project for an after-school club Korean American Julia and her friend Patrick learn about silkworms and…
also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Alternating with chapters are short dialogs between the author and Julia, the main character, about writing. For grades 4-7. 2005Phineas 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. 2006The Anne of Green Gables cookbook
By Kate Macdonald. 1988
Step-by-step recipes for teatime fare from egg-salad sandwiches and old-fashioned lemonade to macaroons, raspberry tarts, vanilla ice cream, chocolate caramels,…
cakes, and puddings. Inspired by passages from the books about Anne of Green Gables. Adult assistance recommended. For grades 3-6. 1985Tony Hawk (Sports Heroes And Legends Ser.)
By Edgar Greene. 2003
This biography of champion skateboarder Tony Hawk focuses on his determination to perfect his moves ever since he began the…
sport at age eight. Discusses competitions, sponsorships, starting his own skateboard company, and performing in extreme-sports shows. For grades 4-7. 2003The canary caper ( a To Z Mysteries Ser. #No. 3)
By Ron Roy. 1998
Mrs. Davis asks Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to help find her missing canary, Mozart. When other pets mysteriously disappear--including…
Ruth Rose's cat, Tiger--the friends set out to catch the thief and return the animals to their rightful owners. For grades 2-4. 1998Heat
By Mike Lupica. 2006
Star pitcher Michael Arroyo is banned from Little League baseball because rival coaches don't believe he's only twelve years old.…
An orphan whose birth certificate is back in Cuba, Michael is on the run from social services because he fears separation from his seventeen-year-old brother, Carlos. For grades 5-8. 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. 1998Fame and glory in Freedom, Georgia
By Barbara O'Connor. 2003
Sixth-grader "Bird" Weaver, an outcast at school, befriends Harlem Tate, the new kid in town, and together they enter the…
spelling bee. Harlem is considered dumb and difficult to like, but once he gets the eyeglasses he needs he begins to bloom. For grades 4-7. 2003Stumptown kid
By Carol Gorman. 2007
Holden, Iowa; 1952. Eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, improves his baseball game with the help…
of Luther Peale, who played in the Negro Leagues. Charlie also learns the meaning of both racism and heroism. For grades 5-8. 2005Seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
By Betty G Birney. 2007
Missouri, 1923. Eleven-year-old Eben McAllister is challenged by his father to find seven wonders in their hometown in seven days--with…
a train ticket to Colorado as the prize. For grades 3-6. 2005The Empty Envelope ( a To Z Mysteries Ser. #No. 5)
By Ron Roy. 1998
When Dink receives a series of strange letters addressed to "D. Duncan" and then an empty envelope, he believes he…
has a mystery on his hands. Josh and Ruth Rose help Dink decode a secret message and foil a pair of stamp thieves. For grades 2-4. 1998Listen!
By Stephanie S Tolan. 2006
A lonely summer spent regaining use of her injured leg becomes interesting when twelve-year-old Charley adopts a wild dog she…
finds in the woods. While Charley slowly tames the dog, he begins healing her heart, which is full of memories of her dead mother. For grades 4-7. Christopher Medal. 2006Roald Dahl's revolting recipes
By Roald Dahl. 1994
Recipes for preparing some of the scrumptious and wonderfully disgusting dishes that appear in Dahl's books. There's chicken soup from…
George's Marvelous Medicine (BR 10915), toffee-apple trees from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (BR 11466), and Bruce Bogtrotter's cake from Matilda (BR 17775), among other treats. For grades 3-6. 1994The President's daughter
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. 2006
1901. Fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel, who describes her family's adventures in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt,…
becomes president of the United States. She talks about their pets, her schooling, and being in the news. For grades 4-7. 2004A bear named Trouble
By Marion Dane Bauer. 2005
Ten-year-old Jonathan likes to imagine himself as various animals in the Alaska zoo where his father works. But when a…
wild brown bear kills his favorite white goose, Jonathan reports the incident to the media without thinking of the consequences to the bear. For grades 4-7. 2005The missing manatee: A Mystery About Fishing And Family
By Cynthia C DeFelice. 2008
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet goes out in his skiff along Florida's coastal channels, where he finds…
a manatee killed by a bullet. When he returns with a deputy sheriff, the manatee's body is gone. But Skeet works to unravel the mystery. For grades 5-8. 2005Out 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. 2006