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Alfie gets in first
Par Shirley Hughes. 1981
Alfie accidentally locks his mother and baby sister, Annie Rose, out of the house, and he can't reach the latch…
to let them in. Soon the whole neighborhood is involved in getting the door open. For grades 2-4Then again, maybe I won't: a novel
Par Judy Blume. 1971
Tony Miglione believes that if his parents were to read his mind, they would be surprised and shocked at his…
thoughts. He reflects on his shoplifting neighbor and friend, on the way his parents change in response to money, and on his own sexual development. For grades 5-8Sarah, plain and tall
Par Patricia MacLachlan. 1985
Anna and Caleb have lived alone with their father since their mother died. When Sarah comes to live with them…
in response to their father's newspaper advertisement, the whole family falls in love with her. But they fear that Sarah's homesickness for the Maine coast will keep her from staying with them in their prairie home. For grades 3-6. Newbery MedalMarie Curie
Par Andrew Dunn. 1991
In the 1890s, when women scientists were rare and it was believed that the atom was the smallest unit of…
matter, Marie Curie, the first European woman to become a doctor of science, believed that atoms had an internal structure. With her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium. The author traces Curie's life from her birth in Poland in 1867 through a career that included two Nobel prizes. For grades 4-7 and older readersSunny-side up
Par Patricia Giff. 1986
Richard "Beast" Best and his friend Matthew Jackson plan to have the best summer yet, until they learn that Matthew…
will be moving away. Will hiding Matthew in the Bests' garage keep their summer from being ruined? Sequel to Say Cheese. A Kids of the Polk Street School book for grades 2-4The house on Maple Street
Par Bonnie Pryor. 1987
Crissy and Jenny, their mother and father, and their dog and cat live at 107 Maple Street. Over the last…
300 years, however, many people have passed by or lived on that very same spot. When the family finds a tiny china cup and an arrowhead, they wonder about the people who left them. For grades 2-4Smell
Par Alvin Silverstein. 1992
Examines the complex nature of the sense of smell and the importance of the nose. Chapters include "How We Smell,"…
"Smell Disorders," "Communicating by Smell," and "Frontiers of Smell Research." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe moon of the gray wolves
Par Jean George. 1969
The leader of the Toklat River wolf pack--which included his mate, three adult helpers, and five pups--sniffed the subzero November…
air heavy with the scent of caribou. A herd 1,000 strong was approaching Toklat Pass in Alaska on their yearly migration. The gray wolves would strike down for food the sick, weak, or old, and the pups would have the major test of their first year of life. For grades 3-6 and older readersChoosing sides
Par Carolyn Keene. 1993
Nancy Drew first meets Caroline Hill, the district attorney for River Heights, through Nancy's father, Carson Drew, a criminal lawyer.…
When Caroline announces her candidacy for mayor, Nancy eagerly signs on as a volunteer. She does not know that she will soon be working to clear her candidate of murder charges. Bobby Rouse, who threatened to implicate Caroline in a bribery scandal, has been found dead. A Nancy Drew mystery for grades 4-7Tagged for terror
Par Franklin Dixon. 1993
Eddings Air has hired Joe and Frank Hardy to investigate a series of luggage thefts that are threatening to send…
the airline into bankruptcy. Disguised as baggage handlers, the Hardys discover a conspiracy that threatens more than the survival of the young airline. It includes sabotage and murder. A Hardy Boys mystery for grades 4-7Hand, heart & mind: the story of the education of America's deaf people
Par Lou Walker. 1994
Surveys the education of deaf people since ancient times. The author describes discrimination; early schools in Europe; and the feud…
between the Gallaudets, father and son, and Alexander Graham Bell over the methods used to educate deaf people in America. She also discusses the 1988 demand by deaf students for a deaf president at Gallaudet University. For grades 5-8 and older readersThe moon of the monarch butterflies
Par Jean George. 1993
The warm, moist weather and lengthening days of May that trigger the migration of birds in groups of uncountable numbers…
also cause a monarch butterfly's solitary migration. She leaves her winter home in Mexico and flies northeast, on her way to the place where she was born--a meadowland in Ontario, Canada. Along the way she mates and lays eggs that will hatch, repeating the life cycle. For grades 3-6 and older readersJennifer Murdley's toad: a magic shop book
Par Bruce Coville. 1992
Jennifer, a fifth grader with few friends, longs to be beautiful. While being chased by a group of teasing girls,…
she finds herself on a street she's never seen before and enters a magic shop. Mr. Elives, the owner, persuades her to buy a toad. Jennifer does not know that Bufo is a talking toad hatched from the mouth of a witch and that she is in for a series of extraordinary adventures. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the fox pups
Par Jean George. 1992
Five fox pups, nine weeks old, are brought out of their den in Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley by the dog fox…
and vixen--their father and mother. June is the "growing up" month for the pups--when they will explore the woods and fields with their parents and learn to hunt so that by fall they will be ready to survive on their own. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the chickarees
Par Jean George. 1992
Red squirrels, who live across North America, are known as the chatterboxes of the forest, and they scream and scold…
to protect their rights. The author describes the activities of a feisty red squirrel, called a chickaree in the West, during the month of April. Now she is particularly frantic and loud as she nurtures her newborns in the Bitterroot River valley in Montana. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the alligators
Par Jean George. 1991
The six-foot alligator that lives in Sawgrass Hole in the Florida Everglades is hungry. She has eaten little since June,…
when the rainy season flooded her water hole and the wildlife she fed upon left. Now it is October, the beginning of the dry season in southern Florida. The water will fall, and the fish, frogs, and birds will come back to Sawgrass Hole. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the wild pigs
Par Jean George. 1992
On a July morning in the Great American Desert, as temperatures soar over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, a peccary piglet stands…
lost and squealing for his clan. In the Northern Hemisphere, July is the hottest and driest time of the year--with violent thunderstorms. These conditions are most extreme in the desert, where the piglet learns the discomfort of aloneness and explores his environment. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the salamanders
Par Jean George. 1992
On a wet March night--the night of the first spring rain after the first spring thaw--a spotted salamander in Michigan…
comes out of hibernation to act out a strange mating drama that is more than 300 million years old. Hidden in caves and under rocks and logs, and moving around only in the darkest hours of the night, salamanders have evolved but little from the first salamanders on earth. For grades 3-6 and older readersIt's like this, Cat
Par Emily Neville. 1963
The story of a fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a…
troubled older boy, his first female friend, and his father. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalThe enormous egg
Par Oliver Butterworth. 1956
A twelve-year-old New Hampshire boy finds a huge egg in the henhouse, and to everyone's amazement a baby triceratops hatches.…
The next problem is how to raise a dinosaur. For grades 4-7