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The 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 4-7Freckle juice
Par Judy Blume. 1971
Roller skates (Puffin Newbery library)
Par Ruth Sawyer. 1964
Lucinda is a lively, happy ten-year-old who spends her spare time exploring New York on roller skates. Her happy personality…
wins many friends, and her adventures reveal a picture of city life in 1890. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Newbery MedalRobinson Crusoe
Par Daniel Defoe. 1991
First published in the early eighteenth century. Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary existence on…
an uninhabited island near the Orinoco River for twenty-four years. He meets the difficulties of primitive life with ingenuity and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibalsThe door in the wall
Par Marguerite Angeli. 1949
Just before ten-year-old Robin is about to begin his duties as a page, he is stricken with an illness that…
leaves him unable to walk. Both his parents are away, and the servants, fearing the plague that has devastated London, leave him all alone. Then, Brother Luke takes Robin to St. Mark's hospice, where he learns new skills and the patience that will allow him to become a hero. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Newbery MedalEmily's runaway imagination
Par Beverly Cleary. 1961
Emily lives on a farm near the town of Pitchfork, Oregon, in the 1920s. She has a wonderful imagination that…
leads her into all kinds of difficulties, like when she tries to change a farm horse into a snow-white steed by washing it with Clorox! Nevertheless, Emily and her mother are determined to bring a library to Pitchfork. For grades 3-6Banner in the sky
Par James Ullman. 1954
The people of the Alpine villages say that no one will ever conquer the greatest mountain in Switzerland. Nevertheless, young…
Rudi Matt, whose father lost his life to the peak, joins an expedition to do what no one else has ever done. An authentic adventure based on the original ascent of the Matterhorn. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalHenry and the paper route
Par Beverly Cleary. 1957
Henry, eleven, feels it's high time he did something important, and he believes a paper route is just what he…
needs. When he takes over Scooter's route while he's out with the chicken pox, Henry feels certain he'll get Chuck's route when basketball season starts. But when Murph, the new "genius" in the neighborhood lands the job, Henry's pesky friend Ramona comes to his rescue. Companion to Henry Huggins (RC 35642, BR 7178). For grades 3-6Homer Price
Par Robert McCloskey. 1943
Nothing much happens in Centerburg, the home of the hero of this story, but then things get exciting as he…
catches burglars with his pet skunk, makes nonstop doughnuts in his uncle's lunchroom, and comes to the aid of the Super Duper. For grades 4-7Henry and the clubhouse
Par Beverly Cleary. 1962
Henry has his hands full with a paper route and a clubhouse project, but things get even more complicated when…
his friend's little sister keeps interfering and his dog gets in a fight. For grades 3-6Farmer boy
Par Laura Wilder. 1933
Story about a traditional farm family in upper New York state in the 1860s. Tells about work, school, and simple…
amusements and introduces nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who later married Laura Ingalls. For grades 4-7 and older readersA wrinkle in time
Par Madeleine L'Engle. 1962
When an atomic physicist disappears, his children begin a bizarre search. Led by three whimsical characters, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who,…
and Mrs. Which, they manage their interplanetary journey by "wrinkling" to span space and time. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalThe scarlet letter
Par Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1962
First published in 1850, this symbolic novel set in Puritan New England traces the effects of one particular sin on…
the lives of four people. Hester Prynne is forced to wear her sin openly in the form of a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. The other characters are Hester's child; her husband, who seeks vengeance; and the minister, who conceals his guiltThe good earth
Par Pearl Buck. 1931
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Describes the rise of Wang Lung, a poor…
Chinese peasant. The story begins with his wedding day, as he ponders his good fortune that now he will have a woman to take over the chore of lighting a fire to heat the water for his bath. With the help and patience of his new wife, O-lan, Wang Lung becomes a rich landowner. For high school and older readersThree classics
Par Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin. 1990
These novels were first published around the turn of the century. The Awakening is the story of a woman's growing…
awareness of her love for a man who is not her husband. Ethan Frome is a tale of retribution about a couple whose lives change when the wife's cousin joins their household. O Pioneers portrays the struggles of immigrantsTristram Shandy
Par Laurence Sterne. 1991
This classic tale, written in 1760, created a scandal when it was first published. Masquerading as an autobiography, Tristram's novel…
is a chaotic and droll account of his life from the time of his conception. In mock disdain for all rules of writing a novel, he creates highly original characters, digresses to offer his opinions at the slightest whim, and yields to suggestive humorNorthanger Abbey ; Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; and Sanditon
Par Jane Austen. 1990
A collection of four works from the early nineteenth century. In "Northanger Abbey", the daughter of a well-to-do clergyman is…
taken to Bath for the season by friends and there falls in love with a man, but causes difficulties by conjuring up a gruesome mystery about his eccentric father. "Lady Susan" is written in the form of letters. "The Watsons" was left incomplete by choice and "Sandition" by the author's deathGerminal
Par Emile Zola. 1991
Novel, originally published in 1885, about life in the mines of France and the grim struggle of the poor. Etienne…
Lanier, a socialist who is forced to work in the mines, becomes a strike leader. He counsels moderation, but low wages, fines, and hunger drive the miners to desperation, and several men are killed when violence erupts. Lanier is deported, and the miners are forced to return to the old slaveryTyphoon and other stories
Par Joseph Conrad. 1991
Three short stories that provide psychological portraits of men who face tests of physical or moral courage. In "Typhoon," a…
ship's captain faced with mutiny and a typhoon deals shrewly and bravely with his men and his ship. "The Nigger of the "Narcissus" is about a man dying of tuberculosis, and "The Shadow-Line" deals with the the effect of a mental or a moral shock on a young manRiceyman steps
Par Arnold Bennett. 1923
First published in 1923, this James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner depicts a miserly London bookseller's life with his new…
wife and their kindhearted maid. The husband's frugality causes him and his wife to fall ill with malnutrition and reduces the servant to stealing household food and delaying living her own life with her troubled ex-soldier lover