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Fire diary
Par Lily Rosenblatt. 1994
One night April wakes up and her house is on fire. She is rescued along with her mother and grandmother,…
but the house is destroyed. It is hard for April to get over being scared, so she talks to the school psychologist, Dr. Brandon. For grades 3-6Odds on Oliver
Par Constance Greene. 1993
Even in nursery school Oliver knows he wants to grow up to be a hero. Although his dad says he…
will lay odds on Oliver any day of the week, as Oliver gets older he keeps blowing his chances to be heroic. Instead, people keep rescuing him. He is sat on by the enormous town clerk, he gets stuck in a tree, and he is held hostage in a grocery store robbery. For grades 3-6Bats: mysterious flyers of the night
Par Dee Stuart. 1994
The shy, gentle bat is one of the most misunderstood creatures. Bats are more helpful than harmful, eating tons of…
insect pests each night. Others pollinate plants while eating fruit and nectar. Only the vampire bat drinks blood, by making small cuts in other animals. Bats feed at night, using their ears to "see." One kind of bat is as small as a jellybean. For grades 2-4 and older readersPark's quest
Par Katherine Paterson. 1988
Like the knights in his Arthurian fantasies, Park has a quest--to find out about his father who was killed in…
Vietnam. The Vietnam War Memorial arouses his need to know, and he goes to visit his father's family at their Virginia farm. There he finds a disabled grandfather, an uncle, a Vietnamese girl, her mother, and a host of other surprises. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe fear place
Par Phyllis Naylor. 1994
Doug is camping with his geologist parents and his hateful brother Gordon in Colorado for the summer. When their parents…
have to fly out for an uncle's funeral, the brothers argue until Gordon stalks off to camp by himself on his favorite ridge. Days pass and Gordon doesn't return, so, despite his fear of the ridge, Doug is forced to look for his brother. A surprisingly friendly cougar helps him face the "fear place." Some strong language. For grades 4-7Rats on the range and other stories
Par James Marshall. 1993
Eight humorous stories about an unusual assortment of animals including a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch owned…
by rat terriers, a mouse who is the housekeeper for a tomcat, and a buzzard who may or may not leave his money to the Society for Stray Cats. Companion to Rats on the Roof and Other Stories (RC 35447, BR 8896). For grades 2-4 and older readersNed Feldman, space pirate
Par Daniel Pinkwater. 1994
Ned Feldman is home alone one day when he hears a noise under the kitchen sink. When Ned summons enough…
courage to check it out, he discovers Captain Lumpy Lugo aboard a spacecraft that looks just like the sink. Inviting Ned aboard, the Captain announces that he is Bugbeard the Pirate, famous for doing bad things. Ned goes along and soon they land on the planet Jivebone where they encounter giant space chickens. For grades 3-6The great Gilly Hopkins
Par Katherine Paterson. 1978
Gilly Hopkins is nobody's real kid. Because she keeps hoping to find her real mother, a beautiful woman who deserted…
her at birth, Gilly schemes against almost everyone who tries to love her along the way. For grades 5-8Freaky Friday
Par Mary Rodgers. 1972
After thirteen-year-old Annabel Andrews and her mother have a hot argument over freedom and responsibility, Annabel wakes on Friday morning…
and finds that she has turned into her mother. For grades 5-8Doodle Dandy!: the complete book of Independence Day words
Par Lynda Graham-Barber. 1992
Describes, explains, and provides historical information on a myriad of words and customs associated with America's Independence Day. Included are…
such words and phrases as "justice and equality," "wave the flag," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "barbecue," and "picnic." For grades 4-7 and older readersThe wish giver: three tales of Coven Tree
Par Bill Brittain. 1983
When a peculiar little man appears at the Coven Tree Church social, promising to give people exactly what they ask…
for, three young believers-in-magic make wishes that come disastrously true. Sequel to Devil's Donkey (BR 5172). For grades 4-7The complete Just so stories
Par Rudyard Kipling. 1993
Kipling began writing his Just So Stories as bedtime stories for his children. They began appearing in magazines in 1897,…
and in 1902 the twelve standard tales were collected and published in book form. This volume includes two additional stories, "The Tabu Tale" and "Ham and the Porcupine," the very last story that Kipling wrote. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe up & down spring
Par Johanna Hurwitz. 1993
Bolivia Raab, soon to be eleven, invites her two best friends from New Jersey, Rory Dunn and Derek Curry, to…
spend spring break with her in upstate New York. Rory tries to hide his dread of flying when Bolivia's uncle, Harold, invites them for a spin in his small plane. For grades 3-6George, the drummer boy
Par Nathaniel Benchley. 1977
George, a drummer boy with the king's army, is stationed in Boston in the British colony of Massachusetts in 1775.…
Swept away on a secret mission, George witnesses the events in Lexington and Concord that helped to ignite the American Revolution. For grades 2-4Skylark
Par Patricia MacLachlan. 1994
In this sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall ( BR 09531 ), mail-order bride Sarah goes back East with children…
Anna and Caleb, leaving husband Jacob, whose name is "written in the land," to deal with their drought-stricken farm. The children are impressed with Sarah's home in Maine, but they miss their father and fear that they will never return to their beloved prairie. For grades 3-6The bears on Hemlock Mountain
Par Alice Dalgliesh. 1952
Jonathan's mother has invited twenty members of the family for dinner, and she needs to borrow a big iron pot…
from Aunt Emma, who lives on the other side of Hemlock Mountain. Although his mother says there are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, Jonathan is not sure he wants to go over the mountain alone to get the pot. When darkness falls and the animals come out of the forest, Jonathan learns to be brave. For grades 2-4The magic finger
Par Roald Dahl, William Dubois. 1966
When an eight-year-old girl is cross, the forefinger on her right hand starts to tingle. The last time that happened,…
her teacher turned into a cat. Now she's put the magic finger on the whole Gregg family, next door, because she's angry with them for hunting animals. When the Greggs wake up, they realize they are tiny birds, and their house has been taken over by large ducks. For grades 2-4 and older readersGeorge Washington's mother (All aboard reading)
Par Jean Fritz. 1992
A biography of Mary Ball Washington, the strong-willed mother of the first president. Mary married Augustine Washington, a widower with…
two children, at the age of twenty-one (considered late at that time). George was their first child. Mary, who preferred living on a farm without close neighbors, never condoned George's soldiering, remained loyal to King George, smoked a pipe, and died at age eighty-one. For grades 2-4Sounder
Par William Armstrong. 1969
The mother and son of a black sharecropper family in the South struggle for survival when the sheriff arrests the…
father for stealing and shoots their devoted coon dog. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalA new frontier: the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe
Par Brent Ashabranner. 1994
The Peace Corps has been helping people since 1961, mostly in countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. When the…
Soviet Union broke up, former Communist-bloc countries began asking for help and soon more than 500 Americans were working in Eastern Europe. The author describes the volunteers and the jobs they do in places such as Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. For grades 5-8 and older readers