| Fifth Grade(초등5학년) |
| Traditional Literature |
| -Andersen, Hans Christian. |
| Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. |
| Thirteen classic fairy tales are brought to life with irresistible humor in this new translation by Naomi Lewis. (398.2 And) |
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| -Caduto, Michael. |
| Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children. |
| An exceptional collection of tales which combines Native American folklore with excellent indoor and outdoor learning science |
| activities focusing on ecology. (398.2 Cad) |
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| -Hamilton, Virginia. |
| A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America,the West Indies, and Africa. |
| Eleven trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies. (398.2 Ham) |
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| -Hausman, Gerald. |
| Cats of Myth and Dogs of Myth. |
| Two collections of traditional tales about cats and dogs from around the world. (398.2 Hau) |
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| -Lester, Julius. |
| The Tales of Uncle Remus: the Adventures of Brer Rabbit. |
| The hair-raising and hilarious adventures of Brer Rabbit by Atlanta’s own Joel Chandler Harris, speak again in a voice that is at once contemporary and timeless. Series (398.2 Les) |
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| -McKissack, Patricia. |
| Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily |
| Characters. A collection of tales, told to the author by her grandparents, combines |
| humor, legend, and horror and is based on early twentieth century African-American oral history. (SC McK) |
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| -Ness, Caroline. |
| The Ocean of Story: Fairy Tales from India. |
| An unusual collection of nineteen enchanting fairy tales from the Indian subcontinent. (398.2 Nes) |
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| -Osborne, Mary Pope. |
| Favorite Greek Myths. |
| Retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the story of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche. (292.13 Osb) |
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| -Philip, Neil. |
| The Illustrated Book of Myths: Tales and Legends of the World. |
| A beautifully illustrated collection of myths from many different cultures. (291.13 Phi) |
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| -Philip, Neil. |
| Robin Hood: Eyewitness Classics. |
| Centuries of storytelling have made Robin Hood the world’s favorite outlaw-hero and this book’s |
| innovative use of narrative illustration brings to life the real world of the famous legend. (398.2 Phi) |
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| -Philip, Neil. |
| Stockings of Buttermilk: American Folktales. |
| An exhilarating collection that brings together some of the best traditional stories told in the |
| United States—tales that combine practicality and imagination in a uniquely American |
| way. (398.2 Phi) |
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| Fantasy |
| -Barry, Dave. |
| Peter and the Starcatchers. |
| Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, |
| whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island. Series (Fic Bar) |
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| -Carman, Patrick. |
| The Dark Hills Divide. |
| Twelve-year-old Alexa explores an old lodge, with its cozy library and maze of passages and is eager to finally solve |
| the mystery of what lies beyond the immense walls that were built to keep out an unnamed evil that lurks in the forests and the dark hills. Series (Fic Car) |
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| -Cooper, Susan. |
| Over Sea, Under Stone. |
| Simon, Jane and Barney embark upon a search for an ancient treasure linked with King Arthur. Series (Fic Coo) |
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| -Dashner, James. |
| The Journal of Curious Letters. |
| Atticus (“Tick”) begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only “M.G.,” and the clues contained herein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil. Series (Fic Das) |
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| -Deming, Sarah. |
| Iris Messenger. |
| After discovering that the immortals of Greek mythology reside in her hometown of Middleville, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Iris listens to their life stories, gaining wisdom, beauty, and startling revelations about her past. (Fic Dem) |
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| -Funke, Cornelia. |
| Inkheart. |
| Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Series (Fic Fun) |
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| -Kerr, P. B. |
| The Akhenaten Adventure. |
| When twelve-year-old twins John and Philippa discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their |
| extraordinary powers. Series (Fic Ker) |
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| -Kingsley, Kaza. |
| Erec Rex: The Dragon’s Eye. |
| Erec stumbles upon a world where magic has not been forgotten, and must survive the ultimate test in order to save the |
| magical kingdom he was born to rule. Series (Fic Kin) |
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| -Kirk, Daniel. |
| Elf Realm: The Low Road. |
| When Matt and his family move to a new development, they stumble into the middle of massive upheaval in the Fairy |
| World, and as the elves’ territory disintegrates and dark factions try to seize control, an apprentice mage sees in Matt the key to saving the realms from destruction. Series (Fic Kir) |
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| -Kladstrup, Kristin. |
| The Book of Story Beginnings. |
| After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle. (Fic Kla) |
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| -Mull, Brandon. |
| The Candy Shop War. |
| When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy thatendows them with superpowers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences. (Fic Mul) |
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| -Mull, Brandon. |
| Fablehaven. |
| When Kendra and Seth go to stay at theirgrandparents’ estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming. Series (FicMul) |
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| -Nimmo, Jenny. |
| Griffin’s Castle. |
| After years of having moved around, eleven-year-old Dinah determines to make a huge, dilapidated old mansion into a home for her mother and herself, but the wild beasts she summons from a stone wall to protect her may also imprison her. (Fic Nim) |
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| -Paolini, Christopher. |
| Eragon. |
| A fifteen-year-old boy called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, |
| magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. Series (Fic Pao) |
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| -Pierce, Tamora. |
| First Test. |
| Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill herdream of becoming a knight. Series (Fic Pie) |
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| -Regan, Dian Curtis. |
| Princess Nevermore. |
| When a fifteen-year-old Mandrian princess makes a wish in a wizard’s circle, she winds up on Earth alone and without the ability and desire to return home. Series (Fic Reg) |
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| -Riordan, Rick. |
| The Lightning Thief. |
| After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Series (Fic Rio) |
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| -Rowling, J.K. |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. |
| The seventh and final book of this magical series! Series (Fic Row) |
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| -Sorrells, Walter. |
| Erratum. |
| Always a reader, Jessica is intrigued by an old bookshop that appears in her small town where, she is given a |
| curious book about herself that keeps changing. Our world, she learns, has alternate histories and her role is to keep it on the one true, correct path--she is, in fact, the guardian of the universe. (Fic Sor) |
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| Science Fiction |
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| -Boniface, William. |
| The Hero Revealed: the Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy. |
| Ordinary Boy, the only resident of Superopolis without a superpower, uncovers and foils a sinister plot to destroy the town. Series (Fic Bon) |
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| -Bunting, Eve. |
| The Lambkins. |
| After being kidnapped by the lonely widow of a brilliant geneticist, Kyle finds himself shrunk to doll-size and living with three other children in adollhouse from which there seems to be no escape. (Fic Bun) |
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| -DuPrau, Jeanne. |
| The City of Ember. |
| In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. Series (Fic Dup) |
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| -Haddix, Margaret. |
| Among the Hidden. |
| In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family’s farm, until another “third” convinces him that the government is wrong. Series (Fic Had) |
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| -Haddix, Margaret. |
| Found. |
| When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving |
| time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. Series (Fic Had) |
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| -Key, Alexander. |
| The Forgotten Door. |
| A boy able to talk to animals and read people’sminds finds himself in danger after falling through a door to the strange planet Earth. (Fic Key) |
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| -L’Engle, Madeline. |
| A Wrinkle in Time. |
| An adventurous tale involving space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe as they search for Meg’s |
| father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Series (Fic Len) |
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| -Nimmo, Jenny. |
| Midnight for Charlie Bone. |
| Charlie’s life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear |
| people in photographs talking. Series (Fic Nim) |
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| -Park, Linda Sue. |
| Archer’s Quest. |
| Twelve-year-old Kevin Kim helps Chu-mong, a legendary king of ancient Korea, return to his own era in this time-travel fantasy. |
| (Fic Par) |
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| -Prevost, Guillaume. |
| The Book of Time. |
| Sam travels back in time to medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt and Renaissance Bruges in search of his missing father. (Fic Pre) |
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| -Sleator, William. |
| The Boy Who Reversed Himself. |
| When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there. (Fic Sle) |
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| -Voake, Steve. |
| The Dreamwalker’s Child. |
| Sam is plunged into anightmare adventure in an alternative world where evil plotters plan to |
| annihilate humans. Series (Fic Voa) |
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| Realistic Fiction |
| -Amato, Mary. |
| The Naked Mole-Rat Letters. |
| When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated |
| email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship. (Fic Ama) |
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| -Bauer, Marion Dane. |
| On My Honor. |
| hen his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience. (Fic Bau) |
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| -Birdsall, Jeanne. |
| The Penderwicks: a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. |
| While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four |
| through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. Series (Fic Bir) |
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| -Creech, Sharon. |
| Replay. |
| While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager, and ponders how people change as they grow up. (Fic Cre) |
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| -Giff, Patricia Reilly. |
| The Pictures of Hollis Woods. |
| Abandoned at birth, Hollis has lived in about a half dozen foster homes and has always wished for a family, although her |
| foster parents describe her as “a mountain of trouble.” (Fic Gif) |
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| -Green, Tim. |
| Football Genius. |
| Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his |
| favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players. (Fic Gre) |
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| -Gutman, Dan. |
| The Million Dollar Putt. |
| Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed “Bogie” Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot |
| putt in Hawaii’s fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament. Series (Fic Gut) |
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| -Jennings, Patrick. |
| Out Standing in My Field. |
| Although fifth-grader Ty Cutter is named after baseball great Ty Cobb, he is the worst player on the Brewer’s team— which happens to be coached by his overly-competitive father. (Fic Jen) |
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| -Lowry, Lois. |
| A Summer to Die. |
| Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister, Molly’s beauty and popularity and her feelings make it difficult to cope with |
| Molly’s strange illness. (Fic Low) |
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| -Voigt, Cynthia. |
| Homecoming. |
| Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity. Series (Fic Voi) |
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| -Yee, Millicent. |
| Millicent Min, Girl Genius. |
| In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn |
| to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother’s departure, and make friends over the course of a summer. (Fic Yee) |
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| Historical Fiction |
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| -Avi. |
| The Man Who was Poe: a novel. |
| In Providence, Rhode Island, in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist. (Fic Avi) |
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| -Avi. |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. |
| As the lone “young lady” on a trans-Atlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew |
| is rebellious. (Fic Avi) |
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| -Ayres, Katherine. |
| Stealing South: a Story of the Underground Railroad. |
| Sixteenyear- old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada. Series (Fic Ayr) |
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| -Bradley, Kimberly. |
| The Lacemaker and the Princess. |
| In 1788, eleven-yearold Isabelle, living with her lacemaker mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette’s daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people. (Fic Bra) |
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| -Collier, James. |
| My Brother Sam is Dead. |
| Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution, when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. (Fic Col) |
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| -Curtis, Christopher Paul. |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963. |
| The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in |
| Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama. (Fic Cur) |
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| -Gutman, Dan. |
| Abner and Me. |
| With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to |
| 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. Series (Fic Gut) |
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| -Kadohata, Cynthia. |
| Weedflower. |
| After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese- American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on an Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop. (Fic Kad) |
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| -Lowry, Lois. |
| Number the Stars. |
| In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend, Ellen Rosen from the Nazis. (Fic Low) |
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| -Lyons, Mary. |
| Letters from a Slave Boy: the Story of Joseph Jacobs. |
| A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush. |
| Sequel: Letters from a Slave Girl: the Story of Harriet Jacobs. (Fic Lyo) |
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| -McKissack, Patricia. |
| A Friendship for Today. |
| In 1954, when desegregation comes to Kirkland, Missouri, ten-year-old Rosemary faces many changes and challenges at school |
| and at home as her parents separate. (Fic McK) |
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| -Paulsen, Gary. |
| Mr. Tucket. |
| In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Series (Fic Pau) |
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| -Ryan, Pam Munoz. |
| Esperanza Rising. |
| In 1930, Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth in Mexico to work in the labor camps of California. (Fic Rya) |
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| -Taylor, Theodore. |
| The Cay. |
| Phillip Enright, and an initially fearsome West Indian native, Timothy, as well as the ship’s cat are castaways on a barren |
| Caribbean island after their ship is torpedoed during World War II. Series (Fic Tay) |
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| Mystery |
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| -Avi. |
| Something Upstairs. |
| When he moves from California to Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a boy who was a slave and he asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder. |
| (Fic Avi) |
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| -Balliett, Blue. |
| Chasing Vermeer. |
| When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Calder and Petra combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. Series (Fic Bal) |
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| -Bellairs, John. |
| The House with a Clock in its Walls. |
| A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is |
| mysteriously ticking off the minutes until doomsday. Series (Fic Bel) |
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| -Buckley, Michael. |
| The Sisters Grimm: Fairy Tale Detectives. |
| Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother and are immediately swept up in a mystery that includes giants, pixies, fairies, and witches. Series (Fic Buc) |
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| Cavendish, Grace. |
| Assassin. |
| Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed. |
| Series: The Lady Grace Mysteries (Fic Cav) |
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| -Dowd, Siobhan. |
| The London Eye Mystery. |
| When Ted and Kat’s cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must |
| work together to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim. (FicDow) |
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| -Gaiman, Neil. |
| Coraline. |
| Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself and her parents. (Fic Gai) |
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| -Hahn, Mary Downing. |
| The Old Willis Place: a Ghost Story. |
| Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since “the bad thing happened,” twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother’s warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil woman who once ruled the old Willis place. (Fic Hah) |
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| -Hamilton, Virginia. |
| The House of Dies Drear. |
| An African-American family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway |
| slaves and mysterious sounds and events lead the family to believe that they are in grave danger. Series (Fic Ham) |
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| -Korman, Gordon. |
| Kidnapped, Book 1: The Abduction. |
| When Aiden’s sister Meg, is kidnapped, he teams up with the FBI to try to find her by tracking down |
| clues only a brother could recognize. Series (Fic Kor) |
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| -Raskin, Ellen. |
| The Westing Game. |
| In this Newbery Medal award-winning book, the mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their |
| inheritance. (Fic Ras) |
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| -Shearer, Alex. |
| Canned. |
| Fergal, an eccentric boy who collects cans, is surprised to find some unexpected—and even alarming—things in a few of his treasures, and when he meets Charlotte, another collector, they begin an investigation that leads them into dangerous territory. (Fic She) |
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| -Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. |
| The Egypt Game. |
| A group of children, fascinated with their studies of Egypt, play a game, are visited by a secret oracle, and become involved in a murder. Series (Fic Sny) |
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| -Wallace, Barbara Brooks. |
| Peppermints in the Parlor. |
| Sent to SanFrancisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned, elevenyear-old Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors. Series (Fic Wal) |
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| -Wright, Betty. |
| The Dollhouse Murders. |
| A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from |
| where she has left them, lead Amy and her sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place decades ago. (Fic Wri) |
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| Adventure |
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| -Alexander, Lloyd. |
| The Xanadu Adventure. |
| Vesper Holly (a female version of the movies’ Indiana Jones), travels with her friends and guardians to Asia Minor in search of |
| the ancient city of Troy, but falls into the trap of an old nemesis. Series (Fic Ale) |
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| -Bosch, Pseudonymous. |
| The Name of this Book is Secret. |
| Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L. and Mrs. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. Series (Fic Bos) |
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| -Funke, Cornelia. |
| The Thief Lord. |
| Two brothers, having run away fromthe aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with—and protection from— Venice’s “Thief Lord.” (Fic Fun) |
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| -George, Jean Craighead. |
| Julie of the Wolves. |
| While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of |
| Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. Series (Fic Geo) |
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| -Gutman, Dan. |
| Getting Air. |
| After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their plane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness—summer vacation suddenly becomes about finding food, shelter, and a rescue. (Fic Gut) |
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| -Haddix, Margaret. |
| Running Out of Time. |
| When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers that it is actually a 1996 tourist site under |
| unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it’s up to Jessie to escape the village andsave the lives of the dying children. (Fic Had) |
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| -Higson, Charlie. |
| SilverFin: a Young James Bond Adventure. |
| Introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure. Series (Fic Hig) |
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| -Horowitz, Anthony. |
| Stormbreaker. |
| After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle’s dangerous work for Britain’s intelligence agency, M16. Series (Fic Hor) |
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| -Korman, Gordon. |
| Swindle. |
| After an unscrupulous collector cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into the heavily guarded store and steal the card back. (Fic Kor) |
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| -Naylor, Phyllis. |
| The Fear Place |
| When twelve-year-old Doug and his older brother Gordon are camping alone in the Rocky Mountains, he faces his fear of heights and his feelings about Gordon—with the help of a cougar! (Fic Nay) |
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| -Sachar, Louis. |
| Holes. |
| As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a horrific correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Series (Fic Sac) |
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| -Wallace, Bill. |
| Trapped in Death Cave. |
| A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather’s killer. (Fic Wal) |
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| Animals |
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| -Armstrong, Alan. |
| Whittington. |
| Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington’s famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown |
| barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor’s story. (Fic Arm) |
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| -DiCamillo, Kate. |
| The Tale of Despereaux. |
| The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, a servant girl, and a rat determined to bring them all to ruin. (Fic Dic) |
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| -Hiaasen, Carl. |
| Hoot. |
| Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy’s attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. (Fic Hia) |
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| -Hunter, Erin. |
| Into the Wild. |
| The four clans of wild cats who have lived peacefully in the forest for generations are thrown into war when ShadowClan begins growing stronger and many warriors are mysteriously killed. Series (Fic Hun) |
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| -Jacques, Brian. |
| Redwall. |
| When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shatteredby the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse,vows to destroy the enemy. Series (Fic Jac) |
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| -Knight, Eric. |
| Lassie Come-Home. |
| After being sold to a wealthy duke livingin the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey to |
| Yorkshire in order to be reunited with her former master, the son of a poor farmer. (Fic Kni) |
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| -Lasky, Kathryn. |
| The Capture. |
| When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie’s, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie’s. |
| Series: Guardians of Ga’Hoole (Fic Las) |
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| -Michael, Livi. |
| City of Dogs. |
| Sam’s new dog, Jenny comes from a parallel world ofNorse mythology where her attempt to save the life of her first boy interrupted the gods’plans for the world’s final battle, and now her escape from them threatens Sam’s world.(Fic Mic) |
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| -Mikaelsen, Ben. |
| Stranded. |
| Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she |
| tries to rescue two stranded whales near her home in the Florida Keys. (FicMik) |
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| -Naylor, Phyllis. |
| Shiloh. |
| When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog’s real owner, a meanspirited hunter. Series (Fic Nay) |
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| -O’Brien, Robert C. |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. |
| Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long-lived. Series (Fic Obr) |
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| -Wallace, Bill. |
| Beauty. |
| Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa’s farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty. (Fic Wal) |
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| Informational |
| -Armstrong, Jennifer. |
| Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. |
| Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition. (919.89 Arm) |
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| -Ballard, Robert D. |
| Ghost Liners: Exploring the World’s Great Lost Ships. |
| Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times: the Empress of Ireland, the |
| Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Britannic, and the Titanic. (910.45 Bal) |
|
| -Blumberg, Rhoda. |
| The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark. |
| Describes the expedition led by Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. (917.8 Blu) |
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| -Bowen, Gary. |
| Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626. |
| The story of one boy’s fortuitous shipwreck and a reconstruction of the everyday life of the seventeenth century Puritan settlers in Massachusetts. (973.21 Bow) |
|
| -Freedman, Russell. |
| Freedom Walkers: the Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, a movement was set in motion that led to other nonviolent boycotts, marches, and walks—resulting in the civil rights movement and major social |
| changes throughout the nation. (323.11 Fre) |
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| -Freedman, Russell. |
| Immigrant Kids. |
| Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late |
| 1800’s and the early 1900’s. (305.8 Fre) |
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| -Jackson, Donna. |
| The Bone Detectives. |
| Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes. (363.25 Jac) |
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| -Jones, Charlotte. |
| Mistakes that Worked. |
| Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, Frisbees, silly putty, and Velcro. Series (609 Jon) |
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| -Leedy, Loreen. |
| There’s a Frog in My Throat. |
| Presents a collection of 440 animal sayings with each one explained, including “I have butterflies in my stomach,” “that will |
| get his goat,” and “bear hug.” (428.1 Lee) |
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| -Macaulay, David. |
| The New Way Things Work. |
| Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of |
| hundreds of machines. (600 Mac) |
|
| -Travis, Cathy. |
| The Constitution Translated for Kids. |
| Presents a sentence-by-sentence interpretation of the U.S. Constitution for elementary students, with the first half of the |
| work arranged with the original wording in the left column and a translation in simple language on the right. (342.73 Tra) |
|
| -Walker, Sally. |
| Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth. |
| Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent |
| research about it. (597.39 Wal) |
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| -Walker, Sally. |
| Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. |
| Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to |
| understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship’s captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others. (614.17 Wal) |
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| Biography |
| -Bryan, Ashley. |
| Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song. |
| An illustrated autobiography in which African-American author Ashley Bryan describes his life. (B Bry) |
|
| -Davis, Kenneth C. |
| Don’t Know Much About Thomas Jefferson. |
| Illuminates the life of President Thomas Jefferson who not only made great contributions to freedom and democracy, but also to science, architecture, and literature. (B Jef) |
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| Delano, Marfe. |
| -Genius: a Photobiography of Albert Einstein. |
| A lavishly illustrated biography of one of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century. (B Ein) |
|
| -Fleming, Candace. |
| Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life. |
| Brings together eighteenth-century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin. (B Fra) |
|
| -Krull, Kathleen. |
| Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought). |
| The lives of twenty composers and musicians, ranging from Vivaldi, Mozart, and Bach to Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Woody Guthrie, are profiled in this eclectic, humorous, and informative collection. Series (920 Kru) |
|
| -Lawlor, Laurie. |
| Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit. |
| A compelling biography that reveals a lesser-known Helen—a high-spirited, opinionated, and defiant rebel by describing her fun-loving nature, as well as her trials with her teacher and family. (B Kel) |
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| -Levine, Karen. |
| Hana’s Suitcase: a True Story. |
| A biography of a Czech |
| girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana’s suitcase was sent to her. (940.53 Lev) |
|
| -McKissack, Patricia. |
| Black Diamond: the Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues. |
| Traces the history of baseball in the Negro Leagues and its great heroes, including Monte Irwin, Buck Leonard, and Cool Papa Bell. (920 McK) |
|
| -Schyffert, Bea. |
| The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon. A biography of Michael Collins, the astronaut who circled the moon in the Apollo 11 space capsule while his colleagues, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on |
| the moon. (B Col) |
|
| -Stanley, Diane. |
| Michelangelo. |
| A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel |
| and St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome. (B Mic) |
| -Thimmesh, Catherine.
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women.
Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers. (920 Thi) |
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Memoirs |
| -Barber, Tiki. Kickoff!
Twelve-year-olds Tiki and Ronde tryout for the junior high football team and hope to not only get a spot, but also to be a part of the starting lineup. (B Bar) |
| -Blos, Joan.
A Gathering of Days: a New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832.
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New |
| Hampshire town, her father’s remarriage, and the death of her best friend. (Fic Blo) |
| -Dahl, Roald.
Boy: Tales of Childhood.
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author’s childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and years spent in an English boarding school. (B Dah) |
| -Gantos, Jack.
Jack’s Black Book.
Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel--these experiences are all based on the author’s own trials and tribulations growing up in Florida and Barbados. Series (Fic Gan) |
| -George, Jean Craighead.
The Tarantula in My Purse: and 172 Other Wild Pets.
A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets, including crows, skunks, and raccoons. (639.9 Geo) |
| -Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Don’t Tell the Girls: a Family Memoir. |
| Through a review of her Irish ancestry, family stories, childhood photos, and more, the |
| author talks about her rich background that was the inspiration for many of her books. (B Gif) |
| -Greenfield, Eloise.
Childtimes: a Three-Generation Memoir. |
| Childhood memoirs of three African-American women—grandmother, mother, and daughter—who grew up between the 1880’s and the 1950’s. (920 Gre) |
| -Hodgman, Ann.
The House of a Million Pets.
Learn about Ann and her life with all of her many, many pets! (639.9 Hod) |
| -Holt, Kimberly.
Part of Me.
Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 to 2004, a journey charted by the books they’ve read and loved. (Fic Hol) |
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| -Millman, Isaac.
Hidden Child. The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940’s. (B Mil) |
| -Mortenson, Greg.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace— One School at a Time.
Describes the author’s efforts to create and build schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Young Readers Edition (371 Mor) |
| -Ripken, Cal.
Cal Ripken, Jr.: My Story.
Tells (in his own words), the story of the personal life and baseball career of the star player for the Baltimore Orioles. (B Rip) |
| -Scieszka, Jon.
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka.
How did author Jon Scieszka get to be so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with lots of comic books, lazy summer at the lake, and several babysitting misadventures! (B Sci) |
| -Spinelli, Jerry. |
| Knots in My Yo-Yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid.
This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and |
| youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (B Spi) |
| Poetry |
| -Clinton, Catherine, ed.
A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today.
Presents a collection of more than twenty poems by American women published between 1678 to 2001. (811 Poe) |
| -Fletcher, Ralph. |
| Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out. |
| This book provides practical ideas for young poets, it’s not about “smashing poems into tiny pieces and analyzing them.” (808.1 Fle) |
| -Foster, John, ed. |
| My First Oxford Book of Poems. |
| The poets included range from the traditional, such as Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Longfellow, through |
| Christina Rossetti, D.H. Lawrence, Langston Hughes, to modern writers such as Ted Hughes and Spike Milligan. (808.81 My) |
| -Janeczko, Paul. |
| Poetry from A to Z: a Guide for Young Writers. |
| The seventy poems in this anthology/writing guide cover dozens of subjects and range from thoughtful and wise to whimsical and zany—poetry for many different themes, styles, and moods. (808.1 Poe) |
| -Koch, Kenneth, ed. |
| Talking to the Sun: an Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. |
| Poems from various time periods and many countries are organized by theme and illustrated with reproductions of art works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (808.81 Tal) |
| -McGough, Roger, ed. |
| The Kingfisher Book of Funny Poems. |
| Laugh out loud with this comic collection of poems—from classic verse to ridiculous rhymes, sure to tickle the funny bone of any rising fifth grader! (821 Kin) |
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| -Philip, Neil, ed. |
| Singing America: Poems that Define a Nation. |
| Here you’ll find great American poets such as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and feel their legacy in the poets of later generations, as they all describe, celebrate and bring to vivid life the American experience. (811 Phi) |
| -Prelutsky, Jack, ed. |
| Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom. |
| An illustrated collection of poems about animals, insects, and birds by poets from different parts of the world. (811 Pre) |
|
| -Stevenson, Robert Louis. |
| Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis |
| Stevenson. An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” and includes an introduction about the poet’s life and work. Series (821.8 STE) |
| -Woodson, Jacqueline. |
| Locomotion. |
| In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life in a foster home by finding his poetic voice at school. (811.54 Woo) |
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