2006 3-5 Master List
- Buttermilk Hill / Ruth White
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0374351120 $16.00
- When Lindy's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own way.
- Christopher Mouse / William Wise
- Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1582349614 $15.95
- After being sold to an unscrupulous pet store owner, a young mouse lives with several owners and has many adventures, before ending up with an appreciative family.
- City of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau
- Random House Children's Books ISBN: 0375890807 $3.99
- The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she's sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters. From the Hardcover edition.
- Donuthead / Sue Stauffacher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375824685 $15.95
- 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 have a father, and Sarah Kervick, the new girl, who's mean and totally unhygienic, is attached to him, warts and all, like glue....
- Heartbeat / Sharon Creech
- Thorndike Press ; ISBN: 0786269022 $23.95
- Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
- House on the Gulf / Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated ISBN: 0689854226 $15.95
- A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a house sitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.
- Ida B. / Katherine M Hannigan
- HarperCollins Children's Book Group ISBN: 0060730250 $16.89
- In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
- The Little Gentleman / Philippa Pearce
- Greenwillow ISBN: 0060731605 $16.89
- A young girl's dull life is transformed when she meets and befriends an extraordinary talking mole that likes to be read to and tell of his own past exploits throughout the centuries.
- Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me / Katy Kelly; Adam Rex
- Random House Children's Books ISBN: 0385732031 $12.95
- Eight-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her first year in Washington, D.C., her home since her parents' separation, where she spends time with her grandparents, makes new friends, and longs to convince her teacher to let her take care of the class pet during a holiday.
- Report Card / Andrew Clements
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; ISBN: 0689845154 $13.90
- Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has a problem with grades, and her latest report card, with five D's and one C, proves it. What nobody knows because she's kept it a secret is that she is really a genius and has earned those low marks on purpose because of her friend Stephen.
- Several Lives of Orphan Jack / Sarah Ellis
- Groundwood Books ISBN: 0888996187 $ 6.95
- For Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings, where he has to avoid trouble with the wrathful Schoolmaster Bane and Edwin, the school bully. But when he turns twelve, trouble finds him. Apprenticed to a bookkeeper, he believes he has the job of his dreams. He loves the idea of taking care of books. What could be better for a boy whose most treasured possession is a grubby, torn dictionary that he received from the Benevolent Ladies Auxiliary one year for Christmas?...
- Snowed In with Grandmother Silk / Carol Fenner; Amanda Harvey
- Dial Books ; ISBN: 0803728573 $14.99
- Ruddy is disappointed to learn that he must spend 10 days in late October with Grandmother Silk while his parents go on a cruise. This grandmother has "designer hair," wears high heels around the house, calls him Rudford, doesn't like loud noises, and, in general, isn't much fun. When a sudden, furious snowstorm hits the woman's remote country home, the power goes out, a tree tumbles down, and the roads are closed, leaving Ruddy and his grandmother to fend for themselves.
- Taking Care of Moses / Barbara O'Connor
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0374380384 $16.00
- When dissension erupts in the town of Foley, South Carolina, after a baby is left on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist Church, eleven-year-old Randall must decide whether or not to keep secret his knowledge of who the foundling's mother is.
- Some Friend / Marie Bradby; Brooks Frederick
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ISBN: 0689856156 $15.95
- In 1963, Pearl, an eleven-year-old black girl in Fairfax, Virginia, learns about the real nature of friendship from the popular but untrustworthy Lenore, and Artemesia, a poor girl who moves into the neighborhood for a brief time.
- Yankee Girl / Mary Ann Rodman
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0374386617
- When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
updated: Thursday, 03-Aug-2006 14:18:48 EDT