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Title |
Author |
NS |
Copies |
AR Lvl. |
AR Pts. |
Summary |
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Who was that Masked Many, Anyway |
Avi |
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6 |
2.7 |
3 |
During World War II, Frankie gets in trouble at home and at school
because of his favorite radio programs. |
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Diary of a Monster's Son |
Conford |
|
8 |
2.9 |
1 |
Bradley Fentriss keeps an account of life with his loving, if
somewhat unusual, father. |
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Fudge-a-mania |
Blume |
|
5 |
3.3 |
3 |
Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans,
highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge. |
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Nasty, Stinky Sneakers |
Bunting |
|
5 |
3.3 |
2 |
Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to
enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest? |
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School |
Sachar |
|
5 |
3.3 |
3 |
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of
Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one
classroom on each story. |
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Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger |
Sachar |
|
7 |
3.3 |
3 |
Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth
floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with
one classroom on each story. |
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Does Third Grade Last Forever? |
Schanback |
|
6 |
3.3 |
2 |
When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Tracy has to get used to a
new school and a new obnoxious stepbrother. |
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Shredderman: Secret Identity |
Van Draanen |
|
8 |
3.3 |
2 |
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class
bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman! |
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Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life |
Amato |
|
8 |
3.4 |
2 |
Contains three stories in which brothers and best friends Wilbur and
Orville Riot catch a thief, overthrow a king, and find a treasure,
and includes rules to some of their made-up games. |
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Superfudge |
Blume |
|
13 |
3.4 |
4 |
The comical adventures of the Hatcher family continue in this lively
story about sixth grader Peter's trials and tribulations when his
younger brother Superfudge begins school for the first time. |
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Judy Moody Gets Famous! |
McDonald |
|
7 |
3.5 |
1 |
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for
winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become
famous herself. |
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Finding Buck McHenry |
Slote |
|
6 |
3.5 |
6 |
Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to
be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries
to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his
identity to the world. |
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Goosed! |
Wallace |
|
8 |
3.5 |
2 |
When Jeff's girlfriend leaves a Labrador retriever puppy with his
family for a week, his dog T.P. and cat Cord hope the energetic
puppy does not stay any longer. |
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Dave at Night |
Levine |
|
8 |
3.6 |
8 |
When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is
treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the
music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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Abby Takes a Stand |
McKissack |
|
5 |
3.6 |
1 |
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in
Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while
her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch
counters to protest segregation. |
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Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit |
Danziger |
|
8 |
3.7 |
2 |
Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max,
nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering. |
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Cody Unplugged |
Duffy |
|
7 |
3.7 |
1 |
Concerned that his television and video habits have gotten out of
hand, Cody's parents send him to Camp Bear where he learns to
experience real life rather than virtual reality. |
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Stumptown Kid |
Gorman |
|
6 |
3.7 |
7 |
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska,
whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meaning of both
racism and heroism when he befriends Luther Peale, a young man who
once played for the old Negro Baseball League. |
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My Mother Got Married |
Park |
|
5 |
3.7 |
4 |
Eleven-year-old Charles experiences many difficulties in adjusting
to a new stepfather, stepsister, and stepbrother. |
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Cockroach Cooties |
Yep |
|
5 |
3.7 |
3 |
Teddy and his little brother Bobby devise strategies using bugs to
defeat the school bully. |
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The Legend of Spud Murphy |
Colfer |
|
6 |
3.8 |
1 |
When their mother drops them off at the library several afternoons a
week, William and his brother dread boredom and the overbearing
librarian, but they are surprised at how things turn out. |
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Rip-roaring Russell |
Hurwitz |
|
6 |
3.8 |
1 |
Five-year-old Russell's adventures involve his nursery school, his
baby sister, and his friends in his apartment building. |
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Colder than Ice |
Patneaude |
|
8 |
3.8 |
4 |
Josh Showalter, an insecure and overweight sixth-grader, hopes for a
new start when he transfers to a school in northern Idaho, but he
and his new friends are soon the target of a cold-hearted bully. |
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Dogs Don't Tell Jokes |
Sachar |
|
6 |
3.8 |
4 |
Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning
and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at
school. |
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Not-so-jolly Roger |
Scieszka |
|
5 |
3.8 |
1 |
Blackbeard, the meanest pirate ever, has our accidental time
travelers cornered. Should Fred, Sam, and Joe the Time Warp Trio
join his pirate crew, or become shark munchies? |
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Dark Stairs |
Byars |
|
5 |
3.9 |
3 |
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private
investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case. |
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Gloria Rising |
Cameron |
|
8 |
3.9 |
1 |
A chance meeting with a woman astronaut encourages Gloria to try to
be her best self, even with her difficult fourth-grade teacher, Mrs.
Yardley. |
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Pickle Song |
DeClements |
|
6 |
3.9 |
4 |
When Paula attempts to befriend the new girl on the block, she
learns that there is more to friendship than simply sharing good
times. |
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Because of Winn-Dixie |
DiCamillo |
|
10 |
3.9 |
3 |
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the
town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her
because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. |
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George Speaks |
King-Smith |
|
8 |
3.9 |
1 |
George is an extraordinary baby who is born with the ability to
speak in complete sentences. |
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T.F. Letters |
Ryan |
|
8 |
3.9 |
3 |
Seven-year-old Alex starts to lose her baby teeth, begins a
correspondence with the Tooth Fairy, and tries to accept the fact
that her family is moving to a distant state. |
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Doing Time Online |
Siebold |
|
8 |
3.9 |
2 |
After he is involved in a prank that leads to an elderly woman's
injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating
in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home
resident. |
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Little Wolf's Book of Badness |
Whybrow |
|
8 |
3.9 |
2 |
Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send
him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf. |
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Defiance |
Hobbs |
|
6 |
4.0 |
3 |
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer
patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from
an elderly poet and her cow. |
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Princess Test |
Levine |
|
7 |
4.0 |
1 |
In this humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess
and the Pea," Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to
prove that she is a true princess and win the hand of Prince
Nicholas. |
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Haunting at Home Plate |
Patneaude |
|
6 |
4.0 |
4 |
After they hear stories about their baseball field being haunted by
the ghost of a boy who died there many years ago, twelve-year-old
Nelson and his teammates start finding mysterious messages written
in the dirt. |
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Liars |
Petersen |
|
5 |
4.0 |
6 |
Life in Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam,
until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying
involves him in a series of mysterious events. |
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When the Circus Came to Town |
Yep |
|
6 |
4.0 |
3 |
An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old
girl regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face. |
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Mummy's Mother |
Johnston |
|
6 |
4.1 |
3 |
When his mother is stolen from her tomb, Ramose, a 4000-year-old
mummy, tries to find her in the Egyptian desert, aboard an ocean
liner, and in New York City's Metropolitan Museum. |
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