2008 3-5 Master List
- Clementine/By Sara Pennypacker
- Hyperion Press, 2006. $14.99
- While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
- The Coastwatcher/ By Elise Weston
- Peachtree Junior Publications, 2005. $14.95
- While eleven-year-old Hugh, his family, and his cousin Tom are spending the summer of 1943 on the South Carolina shore to escape the polio epidemic, Hugh uncovers clues that point to a German plot to sabotage a nearby naval base.
- Counting on Grace/By Elizabeth Winthrop
- Random House: Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. $15.95
- It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
- Gabriel’s Horses/By Alison Hart
- Peachtree Publishers, 2007. $14.95
- In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
- Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghosts/By Cornelia Funke
- Chicken House Ltd., 2007. $16.99
- A timid boy named Tom reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.
- The Invention Of Hugo Cabret/By Brian Selznick
- cholastic Press, 2007. $22.99
- When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
- Ivy & Bean/By Annie Barrows
- Chronicle Books, 2007. $5.95
- When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
- Larger Than Life Lara/y Dandi Daley Mackall
- Dutton Juvenile, 2006. $16.99
- Using the writing techniques she has learned in school, fourth-grader Laney relates how an obese girl new to the class changes the lives of those around her, despite being bullied by her peers.
- Lunch Money/By Andrew Clements
- Dutton Children’s Books, 2005. $16.99
- Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
- My Name Is Sally Little Song/By Brenda Woods
- Putnam Juvenile, 2006. $15.99
- When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.
- On Christmas Eve/By Ann M. Martin
- Scholastic Press, 2006. $15.99
- Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.
- Punished!/By David Lubar
- Darby Creek Publishing, 2005. $15.95
- Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
- Sheep/By Valerie Hobbs
- Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. $15.95
- After a fire destroys the farm where he was born, a young border collie acquires a series of owners and learns about life as he seeks a home and longs to fulfill his life’s purpose of shepherding sheep.
- Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Sting Ray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic/By Emily Jenkins
- Schwartz & Wade, 2006. $16.95
- Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.
- Water Street/by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. $15.95
- In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
updated: Thursday, 03-Aug-2006 14:19:28 EDT