| Author |
Title |
Description |
|
Aiken, Joan |
Arabel’s Raven |
When Mortimer the Raven joins the Jones
family, they are never the same again. |
| Alexander,
Lloyd |
The Book
of Three |
Legend and mythology are blended in the
tale of an assistant pig keeper who becomes a hero. |
| Anno, Mitsumasa
|
Anno’s
Aesop |
Aesop’s Fables retold by Mr. Fox, with his
own special twist on the tales. |
| Balliet, Blue
|
Chasing
Vermeer |
Two children set out to solve an mystery
involving a famous painting that stumps the experts. |
| Banks,
Lynn Reid |
The Indian
in the Cupboard |
A toy
Indian placed in a magical cupboard comes to life. |
| Baum, L. Frank
|
The
Wizard of Oz |
Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. The
Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion help. |
| Bredsdorff, Bodil |
The
Crow-Girl |
A girl is orphaned and must leave her
remote cove to find others. She finds adventure on the way. |
| Bunting,
Eve |
The
Mother’s Day Mice |
Three little mice go looking for Mother’s
Day gifts. One brings home a song. |
| Burnett,
Frances |
The Secret
Garden |
A ten-year-old girl discovers the mysteries
of a locked garden when she moves to England. |
| Cameron,
Ann |
The
Stories Julian Tells |
Six stories about Julian and his family. |
| Corbett,
Scott |
The
Limerick Trick |
An experiment gone haywire makes a boy
speak only in rhyme. |
| Dahl, Roald |
James and
the Giant Peach |
James is unhappy living with his mean
aunts, until magic makes a peach that becomes his home. |
| DiCamillo,
Kate |
Because of
Winn-Dixie |
A dog a girl finds at the grocery store
helps make a summer memorable. |
| Erickson,
Russell |
A Toad for
Tuesday |
Warton the toad is captured by an owl who
wants to eat him for dinner on Tuesday. |
| Farmer,
Nancy |
The Ear,
the Eye, and the Arm |
In futuristic Africa, a family’s children
are kidnapped. They are saved by remarkable means. |
| Grahame,
Kenneth |
The Wind
in the Willows |
The escapades of four animal friends who
live along a river in the English countryside. |
| Howe, James |
Bunnicula |
What happens when a cat thinks the family’s
pet rabbit is a vampire? |
| Jacques,
Brian |
Redwall |
Medieval mice defend their monastery
against mean rats. |
| Keller,
Charles |
Belly
Laughs: Food Jokes and Riddles |
Jokes and riddles with an emphasis on food. |
|
King-Smith, Dick |
Babe: The
Gallant Pig |
A piglet destined for the dinner table is
adopted by a dog who coaches her in sheep herding. |
| Konigsburg,
E. L. |
The View
from Saturday |
How the experiences and friendship of four
children help them in a school competition. |
| Lewis, C.S. |
The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Four children enter the magical land of
Narnia through a wardrobe. |
| Levine,
Gail Carson |
Ella
Enchanted |
What if Cinderella was really enchanted to
have to obey everything she was told? |
| Lord,
Bette |
In the
Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
The story of a Chinese girl who leaves
China to join her father in New York. |
| MacDonald,
Betty |
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves all children, good
or bad. |
| Martin,
Jacqueline Briggs |
Washing
the Willow Tree Loon |
A loon is rescued from an oil spill,
cleaned and cared for before being returned to the wild. |
| Mason,
Simon |
The Quigleys
|
Hilarious books about a normal family. |
| McKinley,
Robin |
Beauty |
A beautiful retelling of Beauty and the
Beast |
| Mowat,
Farley |
Owls in
the Family |
The adventures of a family that adopts two
owls. |
| Norton,
Mary |
The
Borrowers |
Little
people, no taller than a pencil, live in old houses and borrow what they
need from humans. |
| O’Brien,
Robert C. |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
A widowed mouse turns to some rats whose
imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise. |
| Pratchett,
Terry |
The Wee
Free Men |
Tiffany is a young girl who finds out she
is a witch and must save her little brother. |
| Prelutsky,
Jack |
Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast |
A collection of humorous poems about
dinosaurs. |
| Raskin,
Ellen |
The Westing Game |
When an old man dies, he makes a special
treasure hunt in his will for some old acquaintances. |
| Rawls,
Wilson |
Summer of
the Monkeys |
Jay and his dog spend a summer chasing 29
escaped circus monkeys. |
| Robinson,
Barbara |
The Best
Christmas Pageant Ever |
The six mean Herdman
kids become involved in the community Christmas pageant. |
| Rockwell,
Thomas |
How to Eat
Fried Worms |
Billy takes on a bet that he will eat 15
worms. His friends find "tasty" ways to cook them. |
| Rosen,
Michael |
South and
North, East and West |
Twenty-five traditional tales from
countries around the world, including Iran, Brazil and Greece. |
| Silverstein, Shel |
Falling up: Poems and Drawings
|
A collection of humorous poems and
drawings. |
| Steig,
William |
Abel’s
Island |
Stranded on an island, a mouse must use all
of his resourcefulness to survive and return home. |
| Voigt,
Cynthia |
Homecoming |
Four children on their own learn to find
their place in the world. |
| White, E.B. |
Charlotte’s Web |
Barnyard tale about a spider who saves the
life of Wilbur the pig. |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little House in the Big Woods
|
Story of a log-cabin family in Wisconsin in
the late 1800s. |
| Williams, Margery |
The Velveteen Rabbit |
Love brings a toy rabbit to life.
|