Good Grief...Third Grade

Author	William Kent Krueger
ISBN	1476749299

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...

Author

Cornelia Funke

Classic Coming of Age Story

--Minus the love triangles, savior complexes, and completely stupid decisions that plague many of the YA fiction I've read

The Dragons of this world are scattered. The packs have long been broken up and devoured by the Golden One. Firedrake the Dragon remembers...

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0142408794

Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs.

When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come...

Author

Maeve Binchy

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem during the usually turbulent teens. Now Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next....

Author	Barbara Park
ISBN	0375802940

As a retired elementary teacher, I know young children really enjoy the Junie B book series. They are full of humor and contain stories and events that Pre-K through second grade children can relate. But I have to admit that as a teacher some of Junie's behavior does not set a good example. Also now that...