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Small Image Fairest 2006
by Gail Carson Levine

A retelling of the Snow White story.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Princes, Fairy Tales, Love, Singing

Small Image Farewell My Lunchbag: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2001
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than he can chew.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Fat Men From Space 1977
by Daniel Pinkwater

Through his radio tooth, William learns of an invasion by spacemen who are taking all of earth's supply of junk food.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Aliens, Funny

Small Image Fever 1793 2000
by Laurie Halse Anderson

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Disease Epidemics

Small Image Fire Storm 2003
by Jean Craighead George, Illus. by Wendell Minor

Axel enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
26 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Fires

Small Image Fish 2004
by L.S. Matthews

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

Small Image The Flag of Chilidhood: Poems From the Middle East 1998
by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

Small Image Flicka: The Movie Novel 2006
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Home from boarding school for the summer, Katy finds a wild horse, Flicka. But when her father forbids her to visit the dangerous mustang, Katy must choose between following her own instincts and keeping her father's trust.
144 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Horses

Small Image Flush 2005
by Carl Hiaasen

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor, which has made the local beach into toilet. He canıt prove it though, so he decides to sink the boat. But the boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noahıs dad is stuck in jail. Now Noah is determined to prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally.
272 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fathers, Pollution

Small Image The Folk Keeper 1999
by Franny Billingsley

Orphaned Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.
162 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies, Orphans

Small Image Four Stupid Cupids 2000
by Gregory Maguire

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

Small Image Freeglader 2006
by Paul Stewart, Illus. by Chris Riddell

Book 7 of The Edge Chronicles.
416 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings

Small Image From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967, 2002 reissue
by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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Small Image The Genie of Sutton Place 1973
by George Selden

When Tim's aunt tells him that his beloved dog, Sam, can no longer stay in their apartment, Tim conjures a genie for help.
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dogs, Funny, Genies (or Djinn)

Small Image George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War 2004
by Thomas B. Allen, Illus. by Cheryl Harness

The true story of Washington's use of espionage in gathering intelligence to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
192 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Spies

Small Image Get to Work, Hercules! 2003
by Kate McMullan

Book #7 of the Myth-O-Mania series. The true story of Hercules, who had big muscles, but an itty-bitty brain.
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology

Small Image The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galore 2005
by Sid Fleischman, Illus. by John Hendrix

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

Small Image A Gift of Magic 1971
by Lois Duncan

When the old woman died, she left each of her grandchildren something very special. For Kirby, the gift of dance. For Brendon, the gift of music. And for Nancy, the most extraordinary gift of all, the gift of magic.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  ESP, Sisters

Small Image Girl, 15, Charming but Insane 2004
by Sue Limb

British teen, Jess, has a hopeless crush on Prince William look-alike, Ben Jones, but she thinks he likes her perfect and beautiful best friend, Flora.
240 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Funny

Small Image The Girls 2000
by Amy Goldman Koss

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

Small Image Give My Regrets to Broadway: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2004
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko can't sing, dance, or act. He can't even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose's musical version of Shakespeare's Omlet, Prince of Denver? A new case, naturally. The original leading man has disappeared, and something smells rotten in the realm of Ratnose.
115 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image The Giver 1993
by Lois Lowry

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

Small Image Goddess of Yesterday 2002
by Caroline B. Cooney

Anaxandra lives in the castle with King Menelaus and his wife Helen, until Trojan prince Paris comes and has an affair with Helen that starts the Trojan War.
264 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Small Image The Golden Compass 1996
by Philip Pullman

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
399 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Talking Animals

Small Image Goodbye, Vietnam 1992
by Gloria Whelan

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

Small Image Goose Chase 2001
by Patrice Kindl

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, Princes

Small Image Goose Girl 2003
by Shannon Hale

On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and claim the crown that is rightfully hers.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Mean Girls, Princes

Small Image Gossamer 2006
by Lois Lowry

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

Small Image A Great and Terrible Beauty 2003
by Libba Bray

After the mysterious suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off to boarding school in England where she discovers her own unexplainable power.
416 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Mean Girls, 19th Century, ESP

Small Image Great Fire 1995
by Jim Murphy

A true account of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871.
144 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fires, 19th Century

Small Image The Great Shark Escape 2001
by Joanna Cole

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 3-5
related subjects:  Sharks

Small Image Grk and the Pelotti Gang 2007
by Josh Doder

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

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Small Image Habibi 1997
by Naomi Shihab Nye

When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
272 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Middle East

Small Image Half Magic 1954
by Edward Eager

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

Small Image Half-Moon Investigations 2006
by Eoin Colfer

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

Small Image The Hamster of the Baskervilles: A Chet Gecko Mystery 2002
by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko doesn't believe in the supernatural. But when a teacher reports seeing a monster by the light of a full moon, Chet and his sleek-winged partner, Natalie Attired, must answer the burning question: Is there a vicious, supernatural werehamster on the loose?
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Small Image Hatchet 1987
by Gary Paulsen

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Small Image Hattie Big Sky 2006
by Kirby Larson

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old Hattie travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself, and describes her difficult new life in letters to her old friend fighting the war in Europe.
289 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  World War I, Wild West Pioneers

Small Image Have a Hot Time, Hades! 2002
by Kate McMullan

Book #1 of the Myth-O-Mania series. Hades tells the real story about the gods and goddesses.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology

Small Image Haveli 1993
by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Sequel to Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Middle East

Small Image Heat 2006
by Mike Lupica

Michael Arroyo has a dream of pitching in the Little League World Series, and an arm that throws serious heat. But, orphaned after his family fled from Cuba, Michael has no one to watch out for him except his older brother, who is only 17, and if Social Services hears of the boys' situation, they will be separated in the foster care system-or even worse, sent back to Cuba.
220 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

Small Image High Rhulain 2005
by Brian Jacques

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

Small Image Hiroshima 1995
by Laurence Yep

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

Small Image Hiroshima 1946, 1985 reissue
by John Hersey

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. Told through the memories of survivors, this book tells what happened on that day.
160 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons, World War II

Small Image Hitler's Canary 2007
by Sandi Toksvig

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

Small Image Holes 1998
by Louis Sachar

In the wrong place at the wrong time, Stanley Yelnats is wrongly sent to a horrible correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, buried treasure, and a new sense of himself.
192 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Small Image Homeless Bird 2000
by Gloria Whelan

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Sewing, India

Small Image Honus and Me 1997
by Dan Gutman

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

Small Image Hoops 1981
by Walter Dean Myers

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
192 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, High School

Small Image Hoot 2002
by Carl Hiaasen

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Owls

Small Image Horns and Wrinkles 2006
by Joseph Helgerson, Illus. by Nicoletta Ceccoli

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

Small Image The Horse and His Boy 1954, 1994 reissue
by C.S Lewis

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

Small Image The Hotel Cat 1969, 2005 reissue
by Ester Averill

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

Small Image The Hundred Dresses 1944, reissue 2004
by Eleanor Estes

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

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Small Image I, Coriander 2005
by Sally Gardner

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

Small Image I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader 2005
by Kieran Scott

As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
246 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Mean Girls

Small Image Imitate the Tiger 1998
by Jan Cheripko

A high school football player struggles with alcohol dependency and ends up at a rehab school for teenagers.
224 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Football, High School

Small Image The Impossible Journey 2003
by Gloria Whelan

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father were exiled for opposing Stalin.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Russia

Small Image Ingo 2006
by Helen Dunmore

When the sea called to Sapphy's father, he vanished from her life. When the sea called to her brother, he started disappearing for hours on end. And now the sea is calling to Sapphy, and she feels its pull more strongly than she's ever felt anything in her life. 336 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Small Image In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984
by Betty Bao Lord

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

Small Image Inkdeath 2008
by Cornelia Funke

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

Small Image Inkheart 2003
by Cornelia Funke

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

Small Image Inkspell 2005
by Cornelia Funke

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

Small Image Inside the Walls of Troy 1996
by Clemence McLaren

The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra.
208 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Small Image Into the Volcano: A Volcano Researcher at Work 2005
by Donna O'Meara

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

Small Image Into Thin Air 1997
by Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, the year which would prove to be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. This is his definitive account of that day when five of his team were killed, and the sixth was so horribly frostbitten that his right hand had to be amputated.
320 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Small Image The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007
by Brian Selznick

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

Small Image The Iron Ring 1997
by Lloyd Alexander

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

Small Image Isabel of the Whales 2005
by Hester Velmans

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

Small Image Island 2002
by Gordon Korman

Six kids alone on a sinking ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean have to find a way to survive.
416 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

Small Image Island of the Aunts 2000
by Eva Ibbotson

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

Small Image It's All Greek to Me 1999
by Jon Scieszka, Illus. by Lane Smith

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

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Small Image Jackie and Me 1999
by Dan Gutman

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

Small Image Jenny and the Cat Club 1973, 2003 reissue
by Ester Averill

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

Small Image Jenny Goes to Sea 1957, 2005 reissue
by Ester Averill

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

Small Image Jimmy Coates: Assassin? 2005
by Joe Craig

Book 1 of the Jimmy Coates series. Eleven-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, Spies

Small Image Jimmy Coates: Target 2007
by Joe Craig

Book 2 of the Jimmy Coates series.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects: