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Toot & Puddle, The New Friend
Author: Holly Hobbie
Summary: Opal's new friend Daphne seems to be the best at everything she does, but Toot and Puddle see another side of her. |
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The Journey
Author: Sarah Stewart
Illustrator: David Small
Summary: A young Amish girl visits the big city. |
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The Summer Sherman Loved Me
Author: Jane St. Anthony
Summary: Twelve-year-old Margaret spends her summer trying to sort out her feelings for the boy next door who claims to love her. |
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Surviving Aunt Marsha
Author: Sofie Laguna
Summary: Strict Aunt Marsha arrives to care for three siblings whose parents are on an extended vacation. |
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Ghost Ship
Author: Dietlof Reiche
Summary: Supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed 230 years in the past. |
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Sebastian's Roller Skates
Author: Joan de Déu Prats
Illustrator: Francesc Rovira
Summary: Sebastian is a shy boy who doesn't speak. A pair of roller skates changes things. |
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Fancy That!
Author: Gillian Lobel
Illustrator: Adrienne Geoghegan
Summary: Mother Crane finds three unusual looking eggs and decides to hatch them. |
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TRACES: Framed!
Author: Malcolm Rose
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Luke is a forensic investigator who must solve three murders on his own school campus. |
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Where Are You Hiding, Copycub?
Author: Richard Edwards;
Illustrator: Susan Winter
Summary: Copycub gets lost while playing hide-and-seek. |
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Prince of the Birds
Author: Amanda Hall
Summary: An adaptation of Washington Irving's Moorish fantasy about a young prince who finds his "twin soul" with the help of birds. |
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Earth to Audrey
Author: Susan Hughes;
Illustrator: Stéphane Poulin
Summary: A friendship grows between a young boy and girl over the summer. |
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The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic
Author: Avi
Summary: A thought-provoking fable about life and death, greed and betrayal, magic and secrets. |
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Chasing Vermeer
Author: Blue Balliett
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Summary: A pair of sixth graders solve an art theft mystery. |
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Inkheart
Author: Cornelia Funke
Summary: A father and daughter have the ability to read characters out of books and into the world. |
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
Author: Jeanette Winter
Summary: An heroic librarian saves thousands of books as war looms. |
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If You Take a Mouse to School
Author: Laura Numeroff
Summary: Follows a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school. |
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Inside the Little Old Woman's Shoe (Board Book)
Author: Charles Reasoner
Summary: Rhyming text about a busy mommy mouse and many messy little mice. |
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Little Duck Lost
Author: Erica Briers;
Illustrator:
Stephanie Boey
Summary: A little duck must find his way home. |
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Ruby's Rainy Day (Board Book)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Summary: Max wants to play baseball but must wait until Ruby dresses them both for rainy weather. |
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Myrtle
Author: Tracey Campbell Pearson
Summary: With the help of her Aunt Tizzy, Myrtle and her baby brother learn how to deal with a mean neighbor named Frances. |
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Whose House?
Author: Barbara Seuling:
Illustrator: Kay Chorao
Summary: A boy imagines himself living in various animals' homes, then decides his own warm house and cozy bed are just right for him. |
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Rocko and Spanky Go to a Party
Author: Kara LaReau; Illustrator Jenna LaReau Summary:
Rocko and Spanky have been invited to a birthday party. Before they go, they have lots to do. First they need to find a gift. Then they must find something to wear. But there's one very important detail Rocko and Spanky have forgotten . . . so when they finally get to the party, they're in for a BIG surprise! |
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The Secret School
Author: Avi
Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson finds herself in charge of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Colorado. |
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The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor
Author: Theodore Taylor
Summary:
Jon Jeffers is the loneliest nine-year-old on earth. It's 1935, and he's stuck on a tiny rocky island off the coast of San Francisco with his mother and his lighthouse-keeper father. Jon longs for something more. If only he had a way to escape this forsaken pile of rocks, he could have some real adventures. |
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Anna the Bookbinder
Author: Andrea Cheng; Illustrator: Ted Rand
Summary: Anna helps her father, a bookbinder, in a time of need. |
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Robots Everywhere
Author: Denny Hebson;
Illustrator: Todd Hoffman
Summary: Various kinds of robots go about their daily activities, such as riding buses, rusting at the beach, and eating metal nuts. |
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The Gullywasher
El Chaparrün Torrencial
Author: Joyce Rossi;
Illustrator:
Patricia Hinton Davison
Summary:
Leticia's grandfather, who was a vaquero as a young man, provides fanciful explanations for how he got his wrinkles, white hair, round belly, and stooped frame. |
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Carlos and the Squash Plant
Carlos y la Planta de Calabaza
Author: Jan Romero Stevens;
Illustrator Jeanne Arnold
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Having ignored his mother's warnings about what will happen if he doesn't bathe after working on his family's New Mexico farm, Carlos awakens one morning to find a squash growing out of his ear. |
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This House is Made of Mud
Author: Ken Buchanan;
Illustrator: Libba Tracy
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A family builds an adobe house in the Southwest desert. |
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Becoming Butterflies
Author: Anne Rockwell;
Illustrator: Megan Halsey
Summary: A class observes the various stages caterpillars go through to become butterflies. |
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Mama Love
Author: Kathy Mallat
Summary: A young chimpanzee describes its mother's love for it and its love for her. |
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I.Q. Goes to the Library
Author: Mary Ann Fraser
Summary: After going to the library with Mrs. Furber's class every day of Library Week, I.Q., the class pet, hopes to check out a funny book with his own library card. |
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The Cat Who Walked Across France
Author: Kate Banks;
Illustrator: Georg Hallensleben
Summary: After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he once had in the stone house by the edge of the sea. |
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God Bless the Child (Contains CD)
By: Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.; Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Summary: A swing spiritual based on the proverb, "God blessed the child that's got his own." |
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Author: Will Hillenbrand
Summary: A traditional nursery song is expanded to tell the story of a young pig's first day at school. |
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A Big Cheese for the White House: The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar
Author: Candace Fleming;
Illustrator:
S.D. Schindler
Summary: In 1801, the townspeople of Cheshire, Massachusetts create a gigantic cheddar cheese to present to President Jefferson. |
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Otto Has a Birthday Party
Author: Todd Parr
Summary: There is a problem with a cake Otto the dog makes for his birthday party, but he and his friends have a good time anyway. |
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together.
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman;
Illustrator: Michael Emberley
Summary: Short, rhyming text created for two voices. |
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Yankee Doodle
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman;
Illustrator: Nadine Bernard Westcott
Summary: Expands on the original song "Yankee Doodle," and includes a poodle, toad, and old rooster. |
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Dinosailors
Author: Deb Lund; Illustrator: Howard Fine
Summary: After spending time sailing, some seasick dinosaurs decide they have had enough of the high seas. |
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One Monkey Too Many
Author: Jackie French Koller;
Illustrator: Lynn Munisinger
Summary: Adventurous monkeys have a series of mishaps and escapades involving a bike, a canoe, a restaurant, and a hotel. |
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First Day
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall;
Illustrator: Tiphanie Beeke
Summary: A young girl begins her first day of school filled with doubt. But after facing her fear of the big kids, reciting the alphabet with ease, and learning about recess, she can't help but look forward to day two. |
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Piggies in a Polka
Author: Kathi Appelt; Illustrator: Leuyen Pham
Summary: Pigs dance the night away when a polka band plays at the annual hootenanny. |
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Blow Out the Moon
Author: Libby Koponen
Summary: Young girl travels with her family to England in this story about growing up. |
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How I Became a Pirate
Author: Melinda Long;
Illustrator:
David Shannon
Summary: Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and learns about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of the piratical life. |
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Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How She Got Her Job
Author: Katie Davis
Summary: Relates how Mabel's failure to brush or floss her own teeth turned her from an ordinary fairy into the Tooth Fairy. |
