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  • Spider Boy

    Ralph Fletcher

    School & Library Binding (San Val, Aug. 16, 1998)
    Humorous story about a boy's adjustment to new surroundings and kids in a new school. Packed with fascinating facts about spiders, the story is told through journal entries and scenes of events. Contains a spider bibliography.
    R

  • The War with Grandpa

    Robert Kimmel Smith, Richard Lauter

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1984)
    Peter thinks the only way he can reclaim his room is by declaring war on his grandfather."Captures the anger and frustration that accompanies a child's inability to control his life."-- "School Library Journal." Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, William Allen White Award, Tennessee Children's Choice Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, Mark Twain Award, Young Hoosier Award, South Carolina Children's Book Award, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, Georgia Children's Book Award.
    Z

  • 100 Cupboards

    N. D. Wilson

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Dec. 23, 2008)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Waking one night to discover plaster in his hair that has fallen from a wall above his bed, Henry York pulls down the wall coverings and discovers cupboards of various shapes and sizes--each holding a world of its own.
    W

  • The Winter Room

    Gary Paulsen

    Paperback (Yearling, April 1, 1991)
    The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes.Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter," and what happens next is terrible--then wonderful.
    U

  • Falcon's Egg

    Luli Gray

    Paperback (Yearling, Aug. 11, 1997)
    Eleven-year-old Falcon has just found a mysterious egg in Central Park--a dragon's egg, though she doesn't know it yet. And when the egg hatches, magic will hatch with it. Falcon will begin to see her hectic life and eccentric family in a different and altogether more joyous way. After all, when magic comes into someone's life, it comes for a reason.
    T

  • The return of the Great Brain

    John Dennis Fitzgerald

    Paperback (Dell, Aug. 16, 1976)
    None
    T

  • HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS

    Thomas Rockwell

    Paperback (Yearling, May 1, 1994)
    A perennial kids' favorite since its first publication in 1973, How to Eat Fried Worms is the story of Billy, who, because of a bet, is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days. The worms are supplied by his opponent, whose motto is, unfortunately, "The bigger and juicier, the better!"From the Paperback edition.
    R

  • Blubber

    Judy Blume

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 1986)
    Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.
    T

  • Nate The Great

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 15, 1977)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Nate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture.
    K

  • Sammy Keyes And The Skeleton Man

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 20, 1999)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. On Halloween night, seventh-grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a 20-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
    T

  • Sammy Keyes And The Hotel Thief

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 18, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the ""seedy"" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
    T

  • Hugo and Josephine

    Maria Gripe

    Unknown Binding (Dell Publishing Co, March 15, 1972)
    None