Action/Adventure and Mystery/Detective
38 Weeks Till Summer
by Mona Kirby
The Absolute True Story by Willo D. Roberts
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
The Alaskan Adventure by Franklin Dixon
Aloha, Baby-Sitters! by Ann M. Martin
Amazing Valvano and the Mystery of the Hooded...
by Mary Robinson
Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston
The Amusement Park Mystery by Gertrude C. Warner
Anastasia at Your Service by Lois Lowry
Baby-Sitters Club Mystery #1 Stacey and the Missing... by Ann M.
Martin
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen
Bandit's Moon by Joseph A. Smith and Sid Fleischman
The Battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop
The Boy Who Saved the Town by Brenda Seabrooke and Howard M. Burns
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Cam Jansen series by David Adler
Can of Worms by Kathy Mackel
The Case of the Goblin Pearls by Laurence Yep
Class Trip to the Cave of Doom by K.H. McMullan
Dolphin Adventure by Wayne Grover
Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol
Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge by Bill Wallace
Freddy the Detective by Walter R. Brooks
Harry and the Poisonous Centipede by Lynne Reid Banks and Tony Ross
Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding by Suzy Kline
Jennifer the Jerk is Missing by Carol Gorman
Joining the Boston Tea Party by Diane Stanley
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne and Val Calaguian
Martha Walks the Dog by Susan Meddaugh
More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
My Hairiest Adventure by Michael Short, R.L. Stine, and Diane Umansky
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Mystery of the Computer Game by Gertrude C. Warner
The Night Crossing by Elizabeith Sayles and Karen Ackerman
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock
An Occasional Cow by Polly Horvath
One of the Third Grade Thonkers by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phoebe the Spy by Judith B. Griffin
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes
The Summer of the Bonepile Monster by Aileen K. Henderson and Kim
Cooper
Top Secret by Marc Simont and John R. Gardiner
The Twenty-Four-Hour Lipstick Mystery by Bonnie Pryor
A Walk in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? by Avi
With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier
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Funny
Backward Bird Dog by Bill Wallace
Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
Give Me Bach My Schubert by Brian Cleary
Great Grandpa's In the Litterbox by Dan Greenburg
Hoover's Bride by David Small
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Red Ranger Came Calling by Berkeley Breathed
Secret Life of the Underwear Champ by Betty Miles
See You Around, Sam by Lois Lowry
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Soup's Hoop by Robert Newton Peck
Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Szieszka
The Problem with the Pulcifer by Florence Parry Heide
This is a Great Place for a Hotdog Stand by Barney Saltzberg
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Helen Oxenbury
The TV Kids by Betsy C. Byers and Richard Cuffari
Upchuck and the Rotten Willy by Bill Wallace
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sacher
What Are Drugs? by Gretchen Super
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Social Situations and Growing Up
Abel's Island by William Steig
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Addie's Forever Friend by Laurie Lawlor and Helen Cogancherry
Addy Learns a Lesson by Connie Rose Porter
Aldo Applesauce by Johanna Hurwitz
All the Money In the World by Bill Brittain
Allergic to my Family by Liza K. Murrow
Almost Starring Skinnybones by Barbara Park
Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit by Paula Danziger
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Anastasia Again by Lois Lowry
Anna All Year Round by Mary Downing Haun
Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Baseball In April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
Beauty in the Least by Bill Myers
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Benny and the No-Good Teacher by Janet Wilson
Best Worst Day by Bonnie B. Graves
The Big Stink by Richie Chevat
Binya's Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond
A Boy in the Doghouse by Betsy Duffey
Callie and Zora by Barbara Burris
Canning Season by Margaret Carlson
Carnival by Robin Billard
Changes for Molly by Valerie Tripp
Cheater, Cheater by Elizabeth Levy
Child of the Warsaw Ghetto by David A. Adler
Chocolate Touch by Margot Apple
Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz
Coco Grimes by Mary Stolz
Competition Fever by Gabrielle Charbonnet
The Copper Angel of Piper's Mill & How She Saved Her Town by
Grace Goldberg
Dakota Spring by Ronald Himler
A Day for Vincent Chin and Me by Jacqueline Turner Banks
Do You Know Me by Nancy Farmer
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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Ellen Anders on her Own by Karen Hirsch
Emily In Love by Susan Goldman-Rubin
Face Off by Matt Christopher
The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
Fig Pudding by Arthur Howard
Figment, Your Dog, Speaking by Laura Hawkins
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Flying Chickens of Paradise Lane by Anita Horrocks
Fourth Grade Loser by Ellen Kahaner
Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli
Fourth Grade Wizards by Barthe Declements
Friends on Ice by Sharla S. Whalen
Get Real: Girl Reporter Sinks School! by Linda Ellerbee
Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein by Marjorie W. Sharmat
The Girl Who Cried Monster by R.L. Stine
Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole by Sheila Greenwald
Great Grandfather's House by Rumer Godden
Hannah by Gloria Whelan
Herbie Jones and the Monster Ball by Richard Williams
Horrible Harry and the Purple People by Frank Remkiewicz
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I Hate Company by P.J. Peterson
Jumping Into Nothing by Gina Willmer-Pardo
Kirsten and the New Girl by Janet Beeler Shaw
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lizzie Logan Gets Married by Eileen Spinelli
The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones
The Many Troubles of Andy Russell by David A. Adler
Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd by Mame Farrell
Molly & the Movie Star by Valerie Tripp
On Top of Concord Hill by Maria D. Wilkes
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume
Pickle Song by Barthe DeClements
The Problem with the Pulcifer by Florence Parry Heide
Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary
Sam and the Moon Queen by Alison C. Herzig
Samantha's Winter Party by Valerie Tripp
Secret World of the Underwear Champ by Betty Miles
The Singing Man by Angela Medearis
Skinnybones by Barbara Park
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
Striped Ice Cream by Joan M. Lexau
Summer on Wheels by Gary Soto
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Supergrandpa by David Schwartz
Tae's Sonata by Haemi Balgassi
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They're Torturing the Teachers in Room 104 by Jerry Piasecki
Third Grade Bullies by Elizabeith Levy
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
Top Wing by Matt Christopher
Turnabout Shop by Colby Rodowsky
Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend by Marilyn Singer
Volcano Disaster by Samuel Beckoff
When Andy's Father Went to Prison by Martha W. Hickman
Who's Orp's Girlfriend? by Suzy Kline
Wump World by Bill Peet
You Can't Scare Me! by R.L. Stine
Youn Hee and Me by C.S. Adler
Zucchini by Barbara Dana
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Ethnic Studies
Addie's Forever Friend by Laurie Lawlor
Again, Josefina! by Valerie Tripp
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
Between Earth and Sky by Joseph Bruchac
Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman
Brave Bear and the Ghosts by Charles Reasoner
The Burnt Stick by Mark Sofilas
Charlotte Forten: A Black Teacher in the Civil War by Peter Burchard
Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
The Courage Seed by Pat Finney
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The Crazy Cristmas Angel Mystery by Beverly Lewis
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb by R.L. Stine
Doesn't Fall Off His Horse by Virginia A. Stroud
Drylongso by Virginia Hamilton
Eagle Boy: A Traditional Navajo Legend by Barry Moser
The Earliest Americans by Jean D. Zallinger
Ellis Island by Conrad R. Stein
The Family Under the Bridge by Garth Williams
From Sea to Shining Sea by Amy L. Cohn
Gift of the Nile by Charles Reasoner
Great Grandfather's House by Rumer Godden
High Hopes for Addy by Connie Rose Porter
Josefina series by Valerie Tripp
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. by James T. DeKay
My Name is Not Gussie by Machlin Mikki
Remember My Name by Sarah Harrell Banks
Sadako by Eleanor Coerr
Striped Ice Cream by Joan M. Lexau
The Sunday Outing by Gloria J. Pickney
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson
Toussaint L'ouverture: Fight of Haiti's Freedom by Jacob D. Lawrence
When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor
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Science Fiction/ Fantasy
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Alex Mack Close Encounters by David Cody Weiss
Alien Alert by Susan Korman
Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
Aliens for Breakfast by Jonathan Etra
Among the Dolls by Trina S. Hyman
Amos & the Alien by Gary Paulsen
Attack of the Mutant by R.L. Stine
Awfully Short for the Fourth Grade by Elvira Woodruff
The Battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown by David A. Adler
Clan of the Shape-Changers by Robert Levy
Door in the Lake by Nancy Butts
Dracula is a Pain in the Neck by Elizabeth Levy
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Elmer & the Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks
Fat Men From Space by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Figure In Shadows by Mercer Mayer
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Great Grandpa's in the Litterbox by Dan Greenburg
Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Imp That Ate My Homework by Laurence Yep
Inside My Feet: Story of a Giant by Ronald Himler
Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Let Me Off this Spaceship by Gery Greer
The Letter, the Witch and the Ring by John Bellairs
The Lost Farm by Charles Robinson
The Lucky Stone by Dale Payson
Magic and Michief: Tales from Cornwall by Climo Shilrey
A Moon in Your Lunchbox by Ib Ohlsson
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My Name is Amelia by Donald J. Sobol
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
No Bean Sprouts, Please! by Constance Hiser
Passager: The Young Merlon Trilogy by Jane Yolen
Sam and the Moon Queen by Alison C. Herzig
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka
The Thieves' Market by Dennis Haseley
Vogage of the "Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis
What Are Drugs? by Gretchen Super
The Winds of Mars by H.M. Hoover
Biographical
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington by Cheryl Harness
Albert Geronimo by Lee Templeton
American Tall Tales by Michael McCurdy
Amish Home by Raymond Bial
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
Annie Oakley by John Wukovits
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield by Rae Bains
Country Artist: A Story About Beatrix Potter by David R. Collins
Finding the Titanic by Robert Duane Ballard
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Queen Elizabeth I of England by Diane
Stanley
Harry Truman by Paul Joseph
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I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks
Joan of Arc by Josephine Poole
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy In Vietnam by Quang N. Huynh
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman by Floyd Cooper
Mark Twain & the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. by James T. DeKay
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkney
My Name is Amelia by Donald J. Sobol
My Name is Not Gussie by Mikki Machlin
One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong by Don Brown
Ralph J. Bunche: Peachmaker by Frederick McKissack
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
Sammy Sosa: He's the Man by Laura Driscoll
Seeker of Knowledge by James Rumford
So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George
The Story of Clara Barton by Zachary Kent
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
Talking With Artists by Pat Cummings
They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
True North by Elliot Merrick
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School and Learning
1000 Facts About the Earth by Moira Butterfield
50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet by Dennis Denenberg
Adventures of the Greek Heroes by Anne Molly McLean
After Fifth Grade, The World! by Claudia Mills
Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian
The City Kid's Field Guide by Richard Maurer
Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? by Rebecca Caudill
Dinah for President by Claudia Mills
Don't Split the Pole by Eleanora E. Tate
Ellen Anders On Her Own by Karen Hirsch
Emma's Rug by Allen Say
Encyclopedia Brown series by Ib Ohlsson
Eyewitness Science: Chemistry by Ann Newmark
Eyewitness Science: Energy by Jack Challone
For Your Eyes Only by Joanne Rocklin
Herbie Jones by Richard Williams
Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline
Itchy Richard by Diane De Groat
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Journey to Freedom by Nicholas Dima
Keep Ms. Sugarman in Fourth Grade by Elizabeth Levy
Kid Who Ran For President by Dan Gutman
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco DeYoung
Little Pet Werewolf by Tom B. Stone
Losers, Incorporated by Claudia Mills
Marvin and the Meanest Girl by Suzy Kline
Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story by Valerie Tripp
My Sister, My Science Report by Margaret E. Bechard
Prairie School by Lois Lensky
The President's Cabinet and How It Grew by Nancy W. Parker
Rent a Third Grader by B.B. Hiller
Report to the Principal's Office by Jerry Spenelli
Seal Island School by Susan Bartlett
Shark In School by Patricia R. Giff
The Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
Spaceman by James Cutler
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Joel Schick
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar
When Andy's Father Went to Prison by Martha W. Hickman
Who's Orp's Girlfriend? by Suzy Kline
Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
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