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Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator
During the summer before 9th grade, brave Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his 13-year-old daughter. There she uses her psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
321 p. 2005
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Anderson, M. T.
Whales On Stilts
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
188 p. 2005
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Ardagh, Philip
A House Called Awful End : Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become a bit crinkly round the edges, he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
119 p. 2002
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Benton, Jim
Lunch Walks Among Us
Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in--which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.
102 p. 2003
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Blume, Judy
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Peter finds his demanding two-and-a-half-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
120 p. 2003
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Child, Lauren
Utterly Me Clarice Bean
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice pretends to be her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective, in order to get it back.
190 p. 2003
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Colfer, Eoin
Legend Of-- the Worst Boy in the World
Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
101 p. 2007
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank
Millions
It was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands right at Damian's feet. Suddenly the Cunningham brothers are rich. Very rich. They can buy anything they want. There's just one problem -- they have only seventeen days to spend all the money before it becomes worthless. And the crooks who stole the cash in the first place are closing in -- fast.
247 p. 2004
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Dahl, Roald
The Witches
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
201 p. 1983
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Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Phineas L. Macguire-- Erupts!
Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas L. MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.
167 p. 2006
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Gantos, Jack
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
To the constant disappointment of his mother and teacher, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medicine wears off and he starts acting wired.
153 p. 1998
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Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
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.
91 p. 2007
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Gliori, Debi
Pure Dead Magic
When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle.
182 p. 2001
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Greenburg, Dan.
The Onts
Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin have had it bad at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in the Dripping Fang Forest.
131 p. 2005
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Gutman, Dan
Miss Daisy is Crazy!
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
83 p. 2004
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Hale, Bruce
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse : from the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko Private Eye
When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team.
97 p. 2000
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Hiaasen, Carl
Scat
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
371 p. 2009
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Horvath, Polly
The Pepins and Their Problems
The reader is invited to help solve the Pepin family's unusual problems, which include having a cow who creates lemonade rather than milk and having to cope with a competitive neighbor.
182, [10] p. 2008
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Howe, Deborah
Bunnicula : A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
98 p. 1979
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Jonell, Lynne
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.
346 p. 2007
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