Grade 4

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Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them. But now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
417 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Time Travel, Magic

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Two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. Nya must fetch water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home. Salva is a refugee from the Sudan war searching for his family and a safe place to stay.
128 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Africa, Refugees, Drought

Sequel to Swindle. When Griffin Bing's class goes to the zoo, they don't expect to see animals being treated so badly. Hilarity ensues as Griffin's team once more pulls off a heist...trying to break the animals back into a (better) zoo!
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists

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Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a 10-year-old with a knack for getting into trouble, has problems including hiding his pet snake from his mom, and coming up with an invention for the school science contest.
210 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny

Book 5 of The 39 Clues.
176 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 4 of The 39 Clues.
192 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 3 of The 39 Clues. Amy and Dan follow the trail of clues to Tokyo.
160 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

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Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped offÐexcept Salim. Where could he have gone? Ted and his older sister, Kat, follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin.
336 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Detectives

When 11-year-old Zack moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind after a terrible accident.
325 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts

Book 2 of The 39 Clues. Amy and Dan travel to Vienna to find Mozart's diary in search of the next clue.
160 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Amy and Dan Cahill just found out that they are members of the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but Amy and Dan have to compete against every other Cahill to assemble them.
220 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Miranda, a small delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor and is taken in by the dour widow Wysteria, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and seeks to escape.
150 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts, Flying People

Sequel to Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

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11-year-old James and Marvin, a beetle who lives under James' sink, form an unlikely friendship and help to solve the case of some missing artwork from the Metropolitan Museum.
304 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Insects & Spiders, Museum Mysteries, Burglaries & Heists

Sequel to Inkheart and Inkspell.
656 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!
379 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

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After a mean collector cons him out of a valuable baseball card, Griffin must put together a band of misfits to recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way, a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists

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Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

Smart, practical, and fun things you can do to make your home, school, neighborhood, and planet more environmentally friendly.
112 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Pollution

Amazing images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool and quirky facts.
48 pages Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Insects & Spiders

Dylan's Scout troop goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes

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Book 1 of the Seems series. 12-year-old Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems, a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running and sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But a Glitch in the Sleep Department could ruin everything if Becker can't Fix it.
288 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Funny

Meet Billy Hooten, AKA Owlboy, a quickthinking, goggle-and-feather-wearing superhero who protects the bizarre and monstrous citizens of Monstros City, a city that exists under Billy's hometown.
256 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Monsters, Parallel Universe, Funny

In 1859, 11-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the South, uses his wits to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who stole money that was saved to buy a family's freedom.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  19th Century, Funny, Slavery

Alternating chapters told from the point of view of Jacob AKA "first grade pain" and his sister AKA "the great one".
107 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Brothers, Sisters

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Theodosia must reverse the black magic that only she can see in the ancient artifacts her archaeologist parents bring back from Egypt.
344 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

Based on the true story of the Danish Resistance. When the Germans occupy Denmark in 1940, Bamse and his brother join the Resistance and help rescue Jews from being taken to concentration camps.
192 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

Book 2 of the Grk series.
208 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Dogs, Spies

Book 1 of the Grk series. A British schoolboy finds adventure when he travels to a dangerous foreign country to return a small dog to its rightful owner.
241 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Dogs, Spies

Holling's 7th grade year is off to a bad start when he realizes that his teacher hates him - for no reason.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny

Book 1 of the Warriors: Power of Three series.
384 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
533 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Orphans

Book 3 of the Percy Jackson series.
320 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 2 of the Solomon Snow series.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Sequel to Clementine.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

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Limpy the Toad has a vision. A world where cane toads and humans play mudslides together. And share their slug sauce and maggot moisturizer. But how does a young cane toad discover the ancient secret of living in peace with humans?
208 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

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Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
80 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Endangered Animals

Littlest One is a tiny creature learning her job of giving dreams to humans. When the Sinisteeds go after John, a young boy, with their horrifying nightmares, Littlest One must protect John from the nightmare of his dark past.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

Edgar and Ellen encounter a new foe, an unknown prankster who's stealing their best schemes! To stop the copycat capers the twins must descend into the sewers, but what they discover there is stranger than anything they could have imagined.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Twins, Funny

Yorsh, a young elf orphan, discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy connecting the last dragon and the last elf.
361 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Dragons, Warriors

Twelve-year-old Maud lives in an orphanage until she is adopted by an elegant high society con artist who wants to use Maud in her schemes.
389 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Orphans

Third-grader, Clementine has a big heart, a creative spirit, and a talent for trouble.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

This book shows the destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, the rediscovery of the ruins nearly 1,700 years later, and what daily life was like in this prosperous Roman town in the year 79 A.D. before the explosion.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

Ted loves to read mysteries, but when he sees a face in the window of the abandoned Anderson house, he becomes involved in a real-life mystery.
176 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Homelessness

In 1452, a man appears at Gutenberg's home with a mysterious chest which can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The book is blank, but then words begin to appear on the page, words only the boy can see.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 2 of the Mistmantle Chronicles.
Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Talking Animals

While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans - most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. This pop-up book explores the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves.
310 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Sharks

Warriors: The New Prophesy: Twilight

Book 5 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Warriors: The New Prophesy: Starlight

Book 4 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The Clans have finally arrived in their new home, following the prophecies of their warrior ancestors. The future seems uncertain, and more than one cat is harboring sinister plans that could lead to violence and darkness. As all the warriors wait for a sign, some of them begin to realize that the threats they face in the forest may not be as perilous as the threats they face from within.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Warriors: The New Prophesy: Dawn

Book 3 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Something terrifying is happening in the world of the Clans. Amid the destruction of the forest, cats are disappearing, including ThunderClan's beloved medicine cat apprentice, Leafpaw. Now the young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: The Clans must move to a new home, or risk extermination.
352 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

A legendary archer from ancient Korea travels forward in time to twelve-year-old Kevin's bedroom in New York.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Time Travel

After moving to New Jersey following his parents divorce, Jimmy tries out for the 7th grade baseball team, and has to prove himself as a pitcher in a new town.
105 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Baseball

A brave warrior Beowulf must defeat the monster Grendel in this epic battle based on the Scandinavian tale.
96 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dragons

Fletcher Moon is the youngest qualified private detective in the world. Things are going pretty well until he is caught up in an investigation involving the town's biggest crime family. Grievous bodily harm, arson, dangerous undercover work ensue as Fletcher is framed for several crimes he did not commit.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Detectives

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Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Together with Calder's friend Tommy the kids hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright.
318 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both experience real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes

Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters

Book 3 of the Emily Windsnap series. The magic ring that Emily - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back. But the ring, once on, won't come off, and Neptune puts a terrible curse on Emily.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 2 of the Percy Jackson series. After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee. When Owen was stranded after the 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the motherless hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, swimming, eating, and playing together.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Best Friends, Tsunamis

River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies. The stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But when Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, and she's the only one who can help.
368 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Trolls

Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series.
192 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball, Racism

Sequel to Inkheart.
635 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

Oliver is miserable in his new home in the sticks, until he finds a magical amulet that allows him to talk to animals and transform into animals.
284 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Talking Animals

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Volcano researcher Donna O'Meara's photographs and accounts of treacherous journeys get readers up close and personal with some of the world's most dangerous volcanoes.
56 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Volcanoes

On August 24, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt. Hundreds of years later, archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble.
48 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

A scarecrow is truck by lightning and comes to life. He hires a young orphan, Jack, to be his servant, and Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers: battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

Book 1 of the Mistmantle Chronicles. Orphaned as a baby squirrel, Urchin is raised by the kind animals on the island of Mistmantle, but treachery and murder are about to change Urchin's destiny.
288 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Talking Animals

Book 2 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans. But on their way home, they meet a tribe of wild cats who have their own warrior ancestors . . . and their own mysterious prophecy to fulfill.
320 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 1 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The wild cat Clans have lived in peace and harmony for many moons -- but now, strange messages from their warrior ancestors speak of terrifying new prophecies and a mysterious danger.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 18 of the Redwall series. The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity until the day their savior will arrive—the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return to glory.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

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Book 1 of the Percy Jackson series. Twelve-year-old Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, whose mother is mortal and whose father is Poseidon the God of the Sea, lives in the 21st century where the Greek gods are still very much around.
384 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology, Monsters

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Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches

Book 1 of the Jimmy Coates series. 11-year-old Jimmy is on the run. The good news is that he has some sweet new abilities that let him outrun, outjump, and outkick anybody-even adults. The bad news is that the mysterious organization that kidnapped Jimmy's parents is after him and he has no idea why. Except that it might have something to do with his new fighting capabilities. And the fact that he might not be entirely human.
352 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Robots and Cyborgs, Spies

While working on a project, Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, and patience.
240 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Racism

Part of the Royal Diaries series. Fourteen-year-old Sophia travels to Russia where she is renamed Catherine and married to the Empress's son.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  18th Century, Princesses, Russia

Sequel to The Conch Bearer. Anand journeys back to ancient India where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil djinns.
336 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic, Genies (or Djinn)

When Isabel's fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: dozens of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel discovers she has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again, and she has a destiny to fulfill among the whales.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Whales, Sea Adventures

A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
194 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mexico, Pirates, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

This summer the Penderwick sisters go on vacation to a beautiful estate called Arundel where they discover sprawling gardens, a treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and other creatures. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey, son of Arundel's owner, who is the perfect companion for their adventures.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Sisters

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thriteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into returning to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
208 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  East Africa, Orphans

Uncoordinated Kansas 7th grader, Kirby Nickel, braves his coach's anger and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he never knew.
198 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Part of the Royal Diaries series. Fourteen-year-old Sophia travels to Russia where she is renamed Catherine and married to the Empress's son.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  18th Century, Princesses, Russia

In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
280 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th century, Fairies, Witches

Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw's life with Gram and her little brother, Owen, is happy & peaceful until their mother reappears after 7 years of being gone, stirring up questions, and challenging Naomi to discover who she really is.
246 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Mexico, Mothers

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Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus star, and several Orphans.
289 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

When strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, 11-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

Twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts , Murder Mysteries

Discusses the events and personalities involved in the momentous Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
61 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Survival, World War II

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Twelve-year-old Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by two kind servants in a professor's house. They took her in and loved her. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family.
416 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Foundlings, 19th Century

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Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

The wars between Iraq and the US are explained through a history of the region along with descriptions of the conflict, weapons, soldiers, key leaders, major events,a nd challenges in establishing peace.
96 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

A collection of illustrated Japanese folktales.
32 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Japan

Firedrake, a young dragon, must journey to a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven --- which may not even exist. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway boy. Together, the boy & dragon make their way toward the Rim of Heaven, all the while running a step ahead of Nettlebrand, a monster who will stop at nothing to hunt down Firedrake.
528 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Dragons

Jack and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivan the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a quest to Jotenheim, the home of the Trolls.
480 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Dragons, Trolls

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Book 1 in the Thora series. Thora's a half-mermaid. And as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid mother, Halla. But following her tenth birthday, Thora heads to the seaside town of Grimli, where her father grew up.
256 pages , Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 2 of the Emily Windsnap series. Picture an island paradise, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half human - her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the Kraken from its hundred-year sleep.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 17 of the Redwall series. Rakkety Tam, the roguish Highlander squirrel, sets off for Mossflower Wood and must defend Redwall Abbey against Gulo the Savage: a vicious beast-eating wolverine who descends upon the Abbey in search of a relic called the Walking Stone.
384 pages , Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

The 1930s in America will be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. This book documents this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, chronicling the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California on Route 66.
96 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Great Depression, Poverty, Drought

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents are aid workers, the three of them and native guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Refugees, Drought

One night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler jumps out of the book and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie finds herself in the kind of adventure she has only read about in books.
560 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Boy Bullies

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Book 1 of the Emily Windsnap series. The first time twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap goes swimming, she makes a startling discovery - she's a mermaid!
209 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

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.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Princesses, Talking Animals

Book 16 of the Redwall series. Martha Braebuck, a young hare-maid, wheelchair bound since infancy, wonders about an old poem relating to the ancient abbey of Loamhedge--and whether it may hold the key to her cure.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

In India, twelve-year-old Anand must journey to return a magical conch shell to its rightful home in the Himalayan mountains while enemies try to steal it from him.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic

Sequel to Parvana's Journey. Fourteen-year-old Shauzia dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France, but it is hard to reconcile that dream with the terrible conditions of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Homelessness, Middle East, Refugees

The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

A tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, Survival, World War II, Homelessness

A young man leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father the king.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny, Love, Princesses

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

Sequel to The Breadwinner. Kabul, Afghanistan is in ruins. Parvana, separated from the rest of her family, sets out alone to find them. She meets other victims of war: an infant boy in a bombed-out village, a nine-year-old girl who thinks she has magic powers over landmines, and a boy with one leg. The strength of their bond helps them to survive the most desperate conditions.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Homelessness, Middle East, Refugees

Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he makes friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and travels with him to Mars where Samir finds peace over his younger brother's death in the war.
160 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

*Video Booktalk*
Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Witches, Parallel Universe, Zombies

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Book 15 of the Redwall series. Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurdah, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

*Video Booktalk*
Book 1 of the Island Trilogy.
129 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Sea Adventures

Book 1 of the Roman Mysteries series. In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog -- and why.
160 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ancient Rome

Free-verse poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
272 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Racism

Book 14 of the Redwall series. A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures inprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Fairy Tales

Part of the Royal Diaries series. In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
300 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, Princesses

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Pottery, Homelessness

What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class all about different shark species, including the goblin shark, the angel shark, and the enormous whale shark.
96 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Sharks

With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the Gray Death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Princesses, Sisters

*Video Booktalk*
First-person accounts from both American and Japanese survivors combines with dramatic archival images to paint a vivid portrait of what it was like to have witnessed, participated in, and lived through the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
64 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  World War II

Book 1 of the Cique du Freak series. Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Insects & Spiders, Vampires

When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Hearing Impaired

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Funny, Time Travel

*Video Booktalk*
The students' scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine's Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Love

With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Detectives

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.
128 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mean Girls, Popularity

In Korea in 1473, 11-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.
144 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Korea, Brothers, 14th-15th Century

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
184 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dogs

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  19th Century, Famine, Ireland

11-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest in Afghanistan.
170 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

Part of the Royal Diaries series. A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
227 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Princesses, Russia, World War I

On a mysterious island, three eccentric women care for an assortment of astonishing creatures--not just seals, fish, and gulls, but mermaids, selkies, a couple of ghosts, a very long talking worm, and a boobrie that lays eggs so large, just one will make seventy-two omelets.
281 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 13 of the Redwall series. The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 12 of the Redwall series. When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

*Video Booktalk*
Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
48 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  South America

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave like the characters in the trio's class play.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology, Time Travel

Part of the Royal Diaries series. While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ancient Egypt, Princesses

In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Princesses

With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier.
160 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball, Racism

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
249 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
112 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Korea, 17th Century

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day, only because he wants to hear more stories. But after one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. Thirteen-year-old Marjan must undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, and learn new stories for Shahrazade.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

Sixty poems from different Middle Eastern poets depict the love of family, friends, and for the Earth, the daily occurrences of life that touch us forever, the longing for a sense of place. These poems show that beneath the veil of stereotypes, our human connections are stronger than our cultural differences.
112 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Middle East

Book 11 of the Redwall series. When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 10 of the Redwall series. Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde.
336 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Violet's paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V, and Violet is certain the disturbing letter is intended for her.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Ghosts, Sisters

Book 9 of the Redwall series. Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Driven by his sense of "dharma," or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings, demons, and the love of his life.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Magic, Talking Animals, India

Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.
144 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
352 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

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.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Dogs, Tornadoes

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Grandparents, Boy Bullies

Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
256 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Fairies

Book 8 of the Redwall series. The destinies of the badger lord Sunflash, and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. The Time Warp Trio ends up in Ancient Egypt.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Ancient Egypt, Time Travel

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Future, Time Travel

Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
64 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons, World War II

Book 7 of the Redwall series. Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru.
416 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

In 14th Century England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
128 pages, Grade 4-7
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Homelessness

Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins a wizard, a fey, and an ogre on a quest from their magical kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall. When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
87 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers, Drought

Book 6 of the Redwall series. Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 5 of the Redwall series. Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Teenage girl by day, and owl by night, Owl Tycho's life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.
208 pages Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Owls, Flying People

True stories of boneheaded plays, major league mess-ups, and other baseball bloopers.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Dystopia

Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
144 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Vietnam, Refugees

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

Book 4 of the Redwall series. The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, and Rasco and the Rats of NIHM. When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by the superintelligent rats of NIMH.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Book 3 of the Redwall series. Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
144 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

Book 2 of the Redwall series. Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 1 of the Redwall series. When the peaceful life of Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM. Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers

In 1947, a Chinese girl comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to make friends and feel at home when she discovers Baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  China

A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Talking Animals

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Secret Codes

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
80 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons

Cassie and her brothers do not understand the racism and discrimination they face as a black family living in Mississippi in the 1930s.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Great Depression, Poverty, Racism

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.
144 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Dystopia

Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. With Moon Shadow's help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and his own country in order to make his dream come true.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, Racism

Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Trinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
160 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Two tramp cats searching for a place of their own discover the members of the Cat Club but are not easily induced to join them.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Relates the rise of Tom, the hotel cat, from catcher of mice in the cellar to successful upstairs cat in charge of the hotel's guest cats.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda and her daughter must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go.
Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Cats

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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away, so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. After some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right into a mystery that made headlines!
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries

Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Parallel Universe

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
256 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

The little black cat named Jenny, along with her brothers and their owner Captain Tinker, sails around the world on a ship called the Sea Queen.
128 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Cats

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ghosts, Grandparents

When Jane finds a magic charm that grants exactly half of any wish, her brother Mark and her sisters Katharine and Martha take turns making double wishes, leading to results that are twice as unpredictable and hilarious.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Book 3 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
256 pages Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Horses, Talking Animals

Book 6 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
272 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Giants, Talking Animals, Witches

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
192 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
Talking Animals, Witches

The story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave that destroyed his family and village.
64 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Tsunamis

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mean Girls

In the winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter's tiny Norwegian village and held it and its treasure captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated, but Peter and the other children risked their lives and outwitted the Nazis, sending all the town's gold to America.
156 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  World War II

Roy Tucker, the Kid from Tomkinsville, joins the rest of his Dodger teammates in a come-from-behind battle for the series title.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

Ken spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds. Then one day, Ken's life is filled with new purpose when he finds Flicka, a magnificent filly as wild as she is fast.
304 pages Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Horses

Book 1 of the Little House series. 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.
224 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Survival, Sisters, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
272 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends