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| | | Title: | Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales From East and West | | Description: | An enchanting preface by Newbery Award winner Jane Yolen introduces this collection of 15 dragon stories from England, Western and Eastern Europe, Korea, Japan, and China. | | | |
| | | Author: | Francisco X. Alarcón | | Title: | Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems | | Description: | A bilingual collection of humorous and serious poems about family, nature, and celebrations by a renowned Mexican American poet. | | | |
| | | Author: | Aliki | | Title: | William Shakespeare and the Globe | | Description: | Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed. | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Richard Atwater | | Title: | Mr. Popper's Penguins | | Description: | How will Mr. Popper, a housepainter, deal with the addition of twelve penguins to his household? | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Natalie Babbitt | | Title: | The Search For Delicious | | Description: | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | | | |
| | | Author: | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | | Title: | The Flag Maker | | Description: | Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Robert Bateman | | Title: | Safari | | Description: | Paintings and brief text present some of the animals found in Africa, including elephants, giraffes, cheetahs, wildebeests, lions, ostriches, and zebras. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Betsy Byars | | Title: | Tornado | | Description: | As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Beverly Cleary | | Title: | Ramona's World | | Description: | Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class. | | | |
| | | Author: | Andrew Clements | | Title: | Frindle | | Description: | A champion troublemaker, Nick decides to invent a new word to torment his teacher. | | Call Number: | | | | | |
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| | | Author: | Leslie Connor | | Title: | Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel | | Description: | Miss Bridie emigrates to America in 1856 and chooses to bring a shovel, which proves to be a useful tool throughout her life. | | | |
| | | Author: | Sharon Creech | | Title: | A Fine, Fine School | | Description: | When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it's up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Sharon Creech | | Title: | Granny Torelli Makes Soup | | Description: | With the help of her wise old grandmother, Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Pat Cummings | | Title: | Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale | | Description: | Ananse the spider thinks he will marry the daughter of the village chief, but instead he is outsmarted by Lizard. | | | |
| | | Author: | Karen Cushman | | Title: | Rodzina | | Description: | Rodzina, big for twelve and secretly scared to death, boards an orphan train headed west. | | Call Number: | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Paula Danziger | | Title: | Amber Brown is Not A Crayon | | Description: | 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. | | | |
| | | Author: | Kate DiCamillo | | Title: | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | | Description: | The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Michael Dorris | | Title: | Guests | | Description: | A young Native American boy wishes everything could stay the same--the same as it was before the arrival of the strangers with their strange clothes and odd speech. | | | |
| | | Author: | Louise Erdrich | | Title: | The Birchbark House | | Description: | The story of a little Ojibwa girl who lives with her family on an island on Lake Superior in 1847. | | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | John Fitzgerald | | Title: | The Great Brain | | Description: | Read about the adventures of three non-Mormon brothers growing up in a small Utah town in the late 1800's. | | | | | |
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| | | Author: | Sid Fleischman | | Title: | The Whipping Boy | | Description: | A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Jeron Frame | | Title: | Yesterday I Had the Blues | | Description: | A young boy ponders a variety of emotions and how different members of his family experience them, from his own blues to his father's grays and his grandmother's yellows. | | | |
| | | Author: | Neale S. Godfrey | | Title: | Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kids' Money Book | | Description: | Provides an overview of economics and money, including earning, spending, saving, checks and credit cards, banks, and the history of money. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Matthew Gollub | | Title: | The Jazz Fly | | Description: | A singular story about musical insects celebrating language and the inventive spirit of jazz. | | | |
| | | Author: | Virginia Hamilton | | Title: | The People Could Fly: The Picture Book | | Description: | In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Amy Hest | | Title: | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | | Description: | Thirteen-year-old Jessie, a Jewish immigrant, works for three years to earn money to bring her grandmother to America. | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Polly Horvath | | Title: | Everything On a Waffle | | Description: | Eleven-year-old Primrose tells of her parents' disappearance at sea and living with her Uncle Jack. Her only refuge is at a local restaurant, where the owner, Miss Bowzer, serves everything on waffles. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Steve Jenkins | | Title: | Actual Size | | Description: | Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Angela Johnson | | Title: | Just Like Josh Gibson | | Description: | A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl. | | | |
| | | Author: | Diana Wynne Jones | | Title: | Wild Robert | | Description: | While trying to get away from the tourists visiting the stately home where her parents are caretakers, Heather accidentally summons a mischievous 350-year-old youth with magical powers. | | | | |
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| | | Author: | Kathleen Karr | | Title: | Skullduggery | | Description: | In 1839, twelve-year-old Matthew is hired on as assistant to a phrenologist, and digs up graves to find skulls to study. | | | | |
| | | Author: | Barbara Kerley | | Title: | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | | Description: | The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about these awe-inspiring ancient animals. | | | |
| | | Author: | Kathryn Lasky | | Title: | A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet | | Description: | The moving story of the first African-American woman poet. | | | |
| | | Author: | J. Patrick Lewis | | Title: | Scien-trickery: Riddles in Science | | Description: | A collection of poems that describe people, places, and things associated with science, including oxygen, the ocean, and germs. | | | |
| | | Author: | Arnold Lobel | | Title: | Fables | | Description: | Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich. | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Marybeth Lorbiecki | | Title: | Sister Anne's Hands | | Description: | A moving story about tolerance and the power of a wonderful teacher. | | | |
| | | Author: | Bette Bao Lord | | Title: | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | | Description: | Ten-year-old Shirley Temple Wong has come to Brooklyn from China and finds America very strange until she discovers baseball. | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Albert Lorenz | | Title: | Jack and the Beanstalk: How a Small Fellow Solved a Big Problem | | Description: | Lorenz tackles the problems of scale in "Jack and the Beanstalk" as never before, using cutaway views, architectural diagrams, and bird's-eye and worm's-eye perspectives to render the tale of a small fellow in a land of giants. | | | |
| | | Author: | D. Anne Love | | Title: | The Puppeteer's Apprentice | | Description: | In this medieval adventure, a girl named Mouse works in a manor's scullery, dreaming of a different life. But what chance does she have? | | | |
| | | Author: | Lois Lowry | | Title: | Anastasia Krupnik | | Description: | This is the first in Lois Lowry's hilarious series about family, school, and growing up. | | | | | | |
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| | | Author: | Sandra Markle | | Title: | Outside and Inside Birds | | Description: | Learn about birds on the outside -- their feathers, eyes, and beaks -- and on the inside -- their hearts, brains, and bones. Discover what they eat, the way they travel, and how they lay their eggs. | | | |
| | | Author: | Jacqueline Briggs Martin | | Title: | Snowflake Bentley | | Description: | A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Robert McCloskey | | Title: | Homer Price | | Description: | Meet Homer, a small-town kid who is good at solving problems. | | | | | | | |
| | | Author: | Michael McCurdy | | Title: | Trapped By the Ice!: Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure | | Description: | The true tale of the 1915 expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton to cross the polar ice cap which turned out to be a two-year saga of survival for Shackleton and his crew. | | | |
| | | Author: | Ken Mochizuki | | Title: | Baseball Saved Us | | Description: | Shorty, a young boy living in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, helps form a baseball league. | | | | | | |
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