2010 3-5 Master List
- Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales /By Ann Shelby
- University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, writer and storyteller Anne Shelby creates fourteen lively, original stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world.
- Eleven/ By Patricia Reilly Giff
- Random House, 2008.
- When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
- Iron Thunder/By Avi
- Hyperion, 2007.
- Tom's job as an assistant to Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, makes him a target of Confederate spies.
- Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little/By Peggy Gifford
- Random House, 2008.
- With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.
- My Dog May Be a Genius/By Jack Prelutsky
- HarperCollins, 2008.
- Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch in a hardware store? Have you ever sat with a skunk in a courtroom, shopped for a dinosaur, or conversed with a Bupple, a Wosstrus, a Violinnet, or a Celloon? You will have, once you've read this collection of poems.
- The Puzzling World of Winston Breen/By Eric Berlin
- Penguin, 2009.
- Puzzle-crazy, twelve-year-old Winston and his ten-year-old sister Katie find themselves involved in a dangerous mystery involving a hidden ring. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
- The Runaway Dolls/By Ann Martin
- Hyperion, 2008.
- Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
- Saving the Griffin /by Kristin Wolden Nitz
- Peachtree Press, 2007.
- When eleven-year-old Kate and her younger brother Michael encounter a baby griffin in an Italian garden, they vow to help the creature find its way back home and to keep Griffo's existence a secret.
- Slam Dunk!/By Sharon Robinson
- Scholastic, 2009.
- At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a Student Council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.
- Swindle/By Gordon Korman
- Scholastic, 2009.
- After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
- That Book Woman/By Heather Henson
- Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
- When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone/By Dorothy Patent
- Walker & Co., 2008.
- When wolves were eliminated from Yellowstone National Park the natural system was out of balance. Shows the return of the wolves to the park and the natural balance being restored.
- The Willoughby's/By Lois Lowry.
- Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny. .
updated: Friday, 24-Apr-2009 11:08:55 EDT