Unless otherwise noted, all books may be found in
the juvenile fiction section under the author’s last name.

FRIENDS & FAMILY

Ivy & Bean / Annie Barrows
Bean becomes best friends with her new neighbor.

The Penderwicks / Jeanne Birdsall
Four loving sisters have a memorable summer.
 
The Stories Julian Tells / Ann Cameron
Six happy stories about Julian and his family.

Phineas L. MacGuire--blasts off / Frances O'Roark Dowell
Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas asks his friends to help with experiments using dog "slobber."

Stink and the great Guinea Pig Express / Megan McDonald
Stink and his friends try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory.

Secret Letters from 0 to 10 / Susie Morgenstern
Ernest’s boring life is enlivened when a spunky girl named Victory enters his class.

The Moffats / Eleanor Estes
The adventures of four Connecticut children.

Snowed in With Grandmother Silk /Carol Fenner
An unexpected snowstorm reveals good surprises about Ruddy’s Grandmother Silk.

Sarah, Plain and Tall / Patricia MacLachlan
Siblings want their father’s mail order bride to stay.

In Aunt Lucy’s Kitchen / Cynthia Rylant
Three 9-year old cousins live with their aunt on Cobble Street. One of a series.

The Good Master / Kate Seredy
A Hungarian farm family is visited by their city cousin.

Younguncle comes to town / Vandana Singh
Younguncle brings fun to his three nieces and nephews in Northern India.

Strudel Stories / Joanne Rocklin
Seven generations of a Jewish family’s stories are told while making apple strudel.

Lucy Rose, here's the thing about me / Katy Kelly
The diary of 8-year old Lucy Rose and her adventures in Washington, D.C.

FUNNY STORIES

Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing / Judy Blume
Peter’s little brother, Fudge, is never far from trouble.

Frindle / Andrew Clements
Nick Allen invents a new word.
 
The BFG /Roald Dahl
Sophie concocts a plan to save the Big Friendly Giant.

Babymouse : queen of the world! / Jennifer L. Holm
An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world. One of a series. (GRAPHIC j BABYMOUSE) 
 
Rip-Roaring Russell / Johanna Hurwitz
The hilarious adventures of Russell.

Melonhead / Katy Kelly
Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest .

The princess test / Gail Carson Levine
Humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea."

Alvin Ho : allergic to girls, school, and other scary things / Lenore Look
A young Chinese boy who loves superheroes tries to overcome his fear of everything.

Judy Moody / Megan McDonald
Third-grader Judy gets a fun assignment on the first day of school- The Me Collage.

How to Eat Fried Worms / Thomas Rockwell
Billy must eat 15 worms or lose a bet.

Clementine / Sara Pennypacker
The funny story of a big-hearted third grader with a talent for getting into trouble.

Sideways stories from Wayside School / Louis Sachar
Humorous stories from a class in Wayside School.

Math Curse / Jon Scieszka
One day everything is a math problem.

ANIMAL STORIES

Poppy / Avi
A deer mouse tries to persuade her family to move, but an owl has other plans for them.

Chicken feathers / Joy Cowley
Josh has a pet chicken who talks, but only to him.

Hurry Home, Candy / Meindert DeJong
A dog is accidentally left behind during a family outing.

Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo
Good things happen to a ten year-old girl because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Willa and Old Miss Annie / Berlie Doherty
A new friend introduces a young girl to some special animals.

A Toad for Tuesday / Russell Erickson
An owl captures Warton to eat on his birthday.

The Mousewife / Rumer Godden
Story of a devoted mouse and a dove.

Runaway Radish / Jessie Haas
Radish the pony grows too big for the girls who own him, but then finds another nice life at a horse camp.

Lady Lollipop / Dick King-Smith
A swineherd and his pig reform a royal princess.

Catwings / Ursula LeGuin
Four cats are born with wings.

Stories about Rosie / Cynthia Voigt
The daily life of Rosie, a dog.

A Mouse in the House / Gerda Wagener
A family tries to protect a mouse from its pet cat.

Charlotte’s Web / E. B. White
A pig and a spider become special friends.

TRUE STORIES

Ask Dr. K. Fisher about dinosaurs / Claire Llewellyn ( j 567.9 Lle )
When dinosaurs ask Dr. Fisher about their concerns
his witty replies include lots of prehistoric facts.

Owen and Mzee / Isabella Hatkoff
Meet 2 unlikely friends: an orphaned baby hippo and a giant 130-year old tortoise. ( j 599.635 Hat)

What to do about Alice? /Barbara Kerley
The biography of Alice Roosevelt who “broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy!” (j 92R ROOSEVELT Ker)

Pale Male / Janet Schulman ( j 598.944 Sch)
A redtail hawk settles in a New York high-rise.
 
You wouldn't want to be a medieval knight! : armor you'd rather not wear / Fiona Macdonald
The real story about the life of knights. (j 940.1 Mac)

Roberto Clemente / Jonah Winter (j 92C CLEMENTE Win)
The life of the legendary Pittsburgh Pirate.

The American Story: 100 true tales from American history /Jennifer Armstrong
One hundred brief stories from our country’s history. ( j 973 Arm)

MYSTERIES & ADVENTURES

The Night Crossing /Karen Ackerman
An Austrian family escapes to Switzerland in 1938.

The Field guide / Holly Black
The Grace children have unusual experiences at their Great Aunt’s house. First in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

The fairy-tale detectives / Michael Buckley
Two sisters solve mysteries in Ferryport Landing where the inhabitants are characters from famous fairy tales.
First in The Sisters Grimm series.

The Courage of Sarah Noble / Alice Dalgliesh
True story of a brave little girl in colonial America.

Half magic / Edward Eager
Four children find that wishes made on an ancient coin only come half-true.

The Secret of Platform 13 / Eva Ibbotson
Three unlikely companions travel through a magic tunnel to rescue the king’s stolen son.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat / Lynne Jonell
Emmy discovers that she and her parents are being drugged with rodent potions by their evil nanny .

The extraordinary adventures of ordinary Basil / Wiley Miller
Bored with his life in a lighthouse, Basil sets out for adventure and soon arrives in a mysterious cloud city.

Riding Freedom / Pam Munoz Ryan
The adventure-filled story of a girl who posed as a boy and fooled everyone.

OUR FAVORITES

Twenty and Ten /Claire Bishop
Twenty fifth graders hide ten children from the Nazis.

Thank You, Jackie Robinson /Barbara Cohen
A man and a boy share a love of baseball.

Love That Dog / Sharon Creech
A boy writes a poem about an event close to him.

The Whipping Boy / Sid Fleischman
A prince and his whipping boy meet some outlaws.

Stone Fox / John Reynolds Gardiner
A boy enters an important dog sled race.

Honus and me / Dan Gutman
A boy finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet him.

The year of the dog: a novel / Grace Lin
A young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog to her own life.
 
Many Moons / James Thurber
A princess wants the moon.

POETRY

Candy Corn / James Stevenson (j 811 Ste)

Butterfly eyes and other secrets of the meadow / Joyce Sidman (j 811 Sid)

There was a man who loved a rat and other vile little poems / Gerda Rovetch (j 811 Rov)

Tap dancing on the roof : sijo (poems) / Linda Sue Park ; pictures by Istvan Banyai (j 811 Par)