The Heavenly Village

Author	Sheela Chari
ISBN	1423131630

Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument was a gift from her grandmother-intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon.

When this special family heirloom...

Author	Kathryn Lasky
ISBN	0439449626

In Book One of Sofia's Ellis Island Diary, renowned author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of Sofia Monari's arrival in America from Italy.

When Sofia and her family arrive in Ellis Island after a long and difficult journey from Italy, a cruel twist of fate separates Sofia from her parents and...

Author

Alma Flor Ada

For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?"

But María Isabel has been named for her Papi's mother...

Author	Kathryn Erskine
ISBN	0399247742

Don't call her Matilda. Her name is Matt. And don't even think about getting close to her. She doesn't need anyone. Can't you tell by looking at her, dressed all in black with a spider painted on her face and her ice-cold stare? But most of all, do not bully her. She has been through it all already. But everything...

Author	Douglas Evans
ISBN	0439431344

why i choose this book because i wonted to read it because i had never read this book in my life.So i wonted to read it,the book looked interesting to read because it looked funny.And the teachers in the book now they made the kids do a lot of homework.But then they are nice to them when the kids are nice to the...

Author	Esther Averill
ISBN	1590171594

One wintry day a lonely stray cat wandered into the Royal Hotel. He chased mice so well that he was given the job of Hotel Cat. Tired of always spending time in the cellar Tom ventured upstairs and met the gentle Mrs. Wilkins, a longtime hotel resident who had the ability to communicate with cats. She encouraged...

Author	Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN	0440238005

SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.

Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.

When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany...

Author	Meg Wiviott
ISBN	0822599295

Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...

Author	Polly Horvath
ISBN	0374479917

Aunt Sally is beyond any of Melissa, Amanda, and Pee Wee's expectations. She has come all the way from Vancouver Island, Canada, to take care of the children while their parents are away, and right from the start Aunt Sally enchants them with tales of her childhood with their father. Odd characters figure...

Author	Elizabeth Orton Jones
ISBN	1930900058

Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...

Author	Joyce Sidman
ISBN	0618616802

When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes,...

Author	Sue Stauffacher
ISBN	0440419344

Franklin Delano Donuthead is a fifth grader with a lot of problems: For starters, his last name is Donuthead. He considers himself handicapped because one arm and leg are shorter than the other (by less than half an inch), his mother is trying to poison him with non-organic foods (like salami), he doesn’t...

Author	Gail Giles
ISBN	1416909265

I WAS THE GHOST OF THE SCHOOL CORRIDORS.SKYE WAS THE DEVIL.AND I WAS DOOMED FROM THE DAY SHE SPOKE TO MESkye Colby? She's the multi-pierced, multi-tattooed girl hanging around the cybercafés, always out at odd hours in marginal places. The jocks call her "slut puppy," the bland blondes in the plaid...

Author	Kate Klise
ISBN	0312570392

A middle grade novel about a 12-year-old girl dealing with loss, who uncovers a rather grisly scam involving a crematorium.

After her brother, sister, and father die in a plane crash, Daralynn Oakland receives 237 dolls from well-wishers, resulting in her nickname: Dolly. But dolls are little...

Author	Bruce Coville
ISBN	0399256563

Beloved Amber Brown returns in a new book!

Amber can't wait to be Best Child when her mom and Max get married, but planning a wedding comes with lots of headaches. Amber can't find the right dress, her dad keeps making mean cracks about Max, and Mom and Max have very different ideas about how much...

Author	Kevin Henkes
ISBN	0688152325

It had been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he was worried that he would forget her. That's why he needed something of Gram's - something special that had belonged to her, something to remember her by.

Spoon wasn't quite sure what the something was, though...

Author	H.M. Bouwman
ISBN	0761454411

I didn't think I'd like this book. Yes, it had a fantasy element, but it was written like historical fiction, which I've been avoiding.

Anyway, I liked it. It read extremely fast - the plot builds and builds but isn't predictable at all. I couldn't believe I was more than half way through when I...

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	0440414822

An easy 'tween read, not worth an adult's hour. The way grandma teaches the girl a lesson borders on abuse, imo. I have no idea how Molly can forgive her even before dinner time, while exhausted, in pain, hungry, and hopped on caffeine. Molly obviously already has resilience and, erm, 'balls,' and if the...

Author	Rosemary Wells
ISBN	0763637238

An intimate, moving portrait of Abraham Lincoln as rarely seen--through the eyes of his children--and captured in exquisite illustrations.

Historians claim him as one of America's most revered presidents. But to his rambunctious sons, Abraham Lincoln was above all a playful and loving...

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596433205

May 22, 1856: A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA WALKS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Brooks lifted...

Author	Ann Rinaldi
ISBN	0439445566

Once I had time to get into this book I really enjoyed it. I liked how the characters in the story were all real people and we could learn what happened to them in the historical note, and how some of them connected to more modern day events. Like the ancestor who FDR descended from. I liked how real locations...

Author	Jon Scieszka
ISBN	0142401153

Summer readings, indeed they are killer. When three boys, Joe, Sam, and Fred, get transported into a world of their summer reading list, they find themselves trapped where the villains of the books are trying to take over the good guys. With a crazed teddy bear directing the madness, the boys must figure...

Author	Florence Parry Heide
ISBN	0152063943

Dillweed’s parents go on adventures and leave him behind with Umblud the butler and Perfidia the maid, who treat him like their slave. Neither Umblud or Perfidia or the parents appreciate Dillweed’s cherished pet, a creature named Skorped. When they threaten Skorped’s life and well-being,...

Author

Barbara Park

Life hasn't been the same for Jake Moon since his grandfather, Skelly, got Alzheimer's disease. At first Jake thought, no big deal, it was just a disease that made old people forget where they put their car keys. But he was wrong. It is a big deal. A very big deal.For one thing, he can't invite friends over...