Adler,
David A. Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery.
When Cam
Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door-to-door to
raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a
crime.
Barrett,
Judi. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Life is
delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it
rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of
hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Bishop,
Clare Huchet. Twenty and Ten.
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish
children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.
Byars, Betsy. The
Seven Treasure Hunts.
Two boys make up a series of treasure
hunts for each other, with disastrous and hilarious results.
Child, Lauren. Clarice
Bean Spells Trouble.
Clarice Bean attempts to
help a friend in need by following the rules of fictional spy Ruby Redfort.
Clements, Andrew. Jake
Drake, Class Clown and other books in the Jake Drake series.
Jake has a new mission in life; to be
so funny that even his new student teacher, Miss Bruce, will laugh.
Danziger, Paula. Amber Brown Is
Not A Crayon.
The year she is in the third grade is
a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to
a distant state.
Etra, Jonathan and
Spinner, Stephanie. Aliens
for Breakfast.
Richard joins an intergalactic special
agent in a fight to save Earth from the Dranes.
Frazee, Marla A Couple of
Boys Have the Best Week Ever.
Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.
Friedman,
Ina R. How
My Parents Learned to Eat.
An American sailor courts a Japanese
girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.
Greene, Stephanie. Queen Sophie Hartley.
Sophie, the middle child in a family
of five talented siblings, learns how to assert herself and to appreciate her
own talents.
Harper, Charise Mericle. Just Grace Goes Green.
Grace
can do a lot of things ... but can she save the planet? Or at the very least,
can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite
stuffed animal back?
Hesse, Karen. Sable.
Tate Marshall is delighted when a
stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky
fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go.
Holme, Jennifer. Babymouse: Volume 1: Queen of
the World.
These delightful, clever
graphic novels unveil a new heroine!
Making mundane chores and school activities into full-blown heroic
adventures, Babymouse greets every obstacle – her
locker, fractions, waking up, taking out the trash –
by imagining she is a superhero conquering villains and monsters who come her
way. If you enjoy this book, you can
read the rest of the Babymouse series.
Hurwitz, Johanna.
Aldo Ice Cream.
Nine-year-old
Aldo discovers the pleasures of doing volunteer work to help the older citizens
of the community and the satisfactions of earning his first money on his own
for unselfish reasons.
Aldo Peanut Butter.
Peanut and
Butter, the two dogs Aldo gets for his eleventh birthday, create chaos inside the
house while his parents are out of town and get accused of tearing up the
neighbor's lawn.
Hurray for Ali Baba Bernstein.
The
further adventures and misadventures of 9-year-old Ali Baba Bernstein.
Much Ado About Aldo.
Because of
a school project, eight-year-old Aldo decides to give up eating meat.
Kline,
Suzy. Herbie Jones and the Class Gift.
Disaster strikes when Annabelle trusts
Herbie Jones and Raymond with the job of picking up
the class's gift to their teacher.
Look, Lenore. Ruby
Lu, Brave and True.
In this short chapter book, Asian
American Ruby Lu, almost eight, is enthusiastic about her younger brother
Oscar, about magic, and, in the end, about everything – even Chinese school on
Saturdays.
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody
Declares Independence.
After learning about the American
Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own
Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough
to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom.
Mills, Claudia. How Oliver Olson
Changed the World.
Oliver
shows his overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things
without their help.
Mills, Claudia. 7 x 9 = Trouble!
Third grader Wilson Williams struggles
to learn his multiplication tables, stay ahead of his math whiz kindergarten
brother, and convince his parents that he needs a pet. Comical illustrations complete this gentle
and funny package.
Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine’s
Letter! and other “Clementine” books.
Clementine's beloved
teacher, Mr. D'Matz, might be leaving them to go on a
research trip. In his place, he's left a substitute with a whole new set of
rules that Clementine just can't figure out.
Scieszca, Jon.
Viking It & Liking It and other books in the Time Warp Trio series.
Thanks to their magical book, Fred,
Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1000 A.D. where they sail
with Leif Erikson, attempt to escape from his evil cousin, and try to find a
way back to their own time.
Stewart, Sarah. The
Journey.
A young Amish girl tells her “secret
friend,” her diary, about all the wondrous experiences she has on her first
trip to the city.
Tamar, Erika.
Soccer Mania.
Nine-year-old Pete and his friends,
who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and
discover the negative aspects of competition.
Viorst, Judith. Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Recounts the events of a day when
everything goes wrong for Alexander.
Also try Viorst’s other books about Alexander.
Warner, Sally.
Super Emma.
Third-grader Emma becomes
a reluctant heroine when she defends a friend from the class bully.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House In The Big Woods.
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Adler,
David. Lou
Gehrig: the Luckiest Man Alive.
This book traces the life of the
Yankees' star ballplayer, focusing on his character and his struggle with the
terminal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Aliki.
Mummies Made In Egypt.
Describes the
techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.
Aliki.
Wild and Woolly Mammoths.
An easy-to-read
account of the woolly mammoth, a giant land mammal that has been extinct for
over 11,000 years.
Ballard,
Robert. Exploring the Titanic.
Describes the large
luxury liner, which sank in 1912, and the discovery and exploration of its
underwater wreckage.
Barton,
Chris. The
Day-Glo Brothers: the true story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s bright ideas and
brand-new colors.
Illustrations
and easy-to-follow text describe how brothers Bob and Joe
Switzer invented fluorescent paint and colors; and explains how fluorescence
works.
Bishop,
Nic. Nic Bishop Spiders.
Bishops
amazing trademark images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders.
Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool
and quirky facts. A double-gatefold opens to reveal a stop-action sequence
showing a spider leaping.
Chin-Lee, Cynthia. Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World.
From Amelia Earhart, pilot and
adventurer, to Zora Neal Hurston, writer and
anthropologist, readers learn about the hardships and triumphs of 26 amazing
women and discover what inspired each one to change the world around her.
DePaola, Tomie. The
Quicksand Book.
Discusses
the composition of quicksand and rescue procedures.
Gibbons, Gail. Planet
Earth, Inside Out.
Examines planet Earth from its red-hot
core to the highest mountain peaks, and explains how scientists think the Earth
was formed and how it has changed over billions of years.
Grover, Wayne.
Dolphin Adventure: A True Story.
A diver describes how he encounters
and gains the trust of a family of dolphins and saves the life of their baby.
Fritz, Jean. Why Don’t You Get
A Horse, Sam Adams?
A brief biography of
Samuel Adams describing his activities in stirring up the revolt against the
British and how he was finally persuaded to learn to ride a horse.
Golenbock, Peter. Teammates.
Describes the racial prejudice
experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became
the first black player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and
support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.
Houston, Gloria. My
Great-Aunt Arizona.
An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston
Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.
Krull, Kathleen. Wilma
Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the
World’s Fastest Woman.
A biography of the
African American woman who overcame polio and became the first woman to win
three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Lewis, J.
Patrick. Riddle-icious.
A collection of
twenty-eight poems which are riddles and rhymes.
Markle, Sandra. Outside
and Inside Sharks.
Describes the inner
and outer workings of sharks, including their diet, anatomy, and reproduction.
Prelutsky, Jack. A
Pizza the Size of the Sun.
A
collection of humorous poetry on a variety of topics.
Ride,
Sally. To
Space and Back.
Describes in text and photographs what
it is like to be an astronaut on the space shuttle. Includes
a glossary of terms.
Simon,
Seymour. Sharks.
A photo essay
describing the habits and characteristics of sharks.
Simon, Seymour. Volcanoes.
Explains, in simple terms, the
characteristics of volcanoes and describes some famous eruptions and their
aftermath.
Simon, Seymour. Mountains.
Introduces various mountain ranges,
how they are formed and shaped, and how they affect vegetation and animals,
including humans.