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Abbott, Tony, 1952-
The Battle Begins
Owen Brown is your average fourth grader. Or he was, until his best friend, Dana, disappeared right in front of his face, through the floor of the school. Owen's average life has turned upside down. He's determined to find Dana -- before anyone realizes she's missing. Owen sets out on a mysterious, mythological rescue mission with his friends Jon and Sydney. But what none of them know is that Dana's disappearance is part of a much larger riddle. And they're at the center of it.
101 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Amato, Mary
Please Write in this Book
When Ms. Wurtz leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner with a note encouraging those who find it to talk to each other in its pages, the student's entries spark a classroom-wide battle.
97 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book AMATO
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Atinuke
The No 1 Car Spotter
When the cart breaks down and the villagers can't get their goods to market, Oluwalase Babatunde Benson, otherwise known as the No. 1 car spotter in his village, comes up with a brilliant solution.
110 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Bauer, Marion Dane.
Shelter from the Wind
When twelve-year-old Stacy gets fed up with her pregnant stepmother and leaves her Oklahoma panhandle home, she is led by a pair of dogs, one about to whelp, to the home of Old Ella, who gives her a new perspective on life.
106 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Blume, Judy.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem. Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter feel like a fourth grade nothing. Fudge is never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything-and Peter's had enough. When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw.
120 p. 2003
Children's Fiction Book
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Cameron, Ann, 1943-
Spunky Tells All
Called a troublemaker by his human family, a reflective dog defends himself and then relates the family's adoption of an aristocratic but incompetent cat, who gives him a life purpose and and new way of looking at his world.
105 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Catling, Patrick Skene
The Chocolate Touch
A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate.
126 p. 1979
Children's Fiction Book
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Cheng, Andrea
Brushing Mom's Hair
A fourteen-year-old girl, whose mother's breast cancer diagnosis and treatment have affected every aspect of their lives, finds release in ballet and art classes.
59 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book CHENG
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Cleary, Beverly
Muggie Maggie
Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her.
66, 8, 8 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Clements, Andrew, 1949-
Frindle
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
105 p. 1996
Children's Fiction Book
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank
The Unforgotten Coat
When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.
42 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Creech, Sharon.
Love That Dog
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
86 p. 2001
Children's Fiction Book
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Cronin, Doreen
The Trouble with Chickens : a J.J. Tully Mystery
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.
119 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Dahl, Roald
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Every time Mr. Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean grow wild with rage. They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr. Fox has a fantastic plan of his own.
81 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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DiCamillo, Kate
Bink & Gollie Best Friends Forever
79 pages 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010
The Whipping Boy
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
90 p. 1986
Children's Fiction Book
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Gardiner, John Reynolds.
Stone Fox
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
81 p. 1983
Children's Fiction Book
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Holm, Jennifer L.
Squish. No. 1 Super Amoeba
Squish, a meek amoeba who loves the comic book exploits of his favorite hero, "Super Amoeba," tries to emulate him when his best friend is threatened by a bully.
90 p. 2011
Children's Graphic Novel
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Hurwitz, Johanna
Magical Monty
First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joey's dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing.
104 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Jones, Diana Wynne
Earwig and the Witch
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
110 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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