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Girls Read, Jr.
Books for girls in 1st-3rd grade. Many are part of a series.
See also Girls Read for older girls.
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  Cover Art: Please Write in this Book 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
  Cover Art: Brand-new School, Brave New Ruby Barnes, Derrick
Brand-new School, Brave New Ruby
When Ruby Booker starts third grade at Hope Road Academy, the same school her three older brothers attend, she tries hard to make an impression of her own.
130 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book BARNES
  Cover Art: Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter Barrows, Annie
Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter
When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.
122 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book BARROWS
  Cover Art: The Fran with Four Brains Benton, Jim
The Fran with Four Brains
The newest adventure for Franny, a fantastic mad scientist.
104 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book BENTON
  Cover Art: Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Bruel, Nick
Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
In this book, take a funny look at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water.
125 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book BRUEL
  Cover Art: The Case of the Mixed-up Mutts Butler, Dori Hillestad
The Case of the Mixed-up Mutts
While attending obedience class with his new humans, Buddy the dog helps solve a mystery involving two Pomeranians that were switched at the dog park.
128 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book BUTLER
  Cover Art: Welcome to the Bed & Biscuit Carris, Joan Davenport
Welcome to the Bed & Biscuit
The family animals at the Bed and Biscuit begin to feel slighted when Dr. Bender returns from a fire with something that occupies the time usually reserved for them.
116 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Ramona Quimby Age 8 Cleary, Beverly
Ramona Quimby Age 8
The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
190 p. 1981
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink Coville, Bruce
Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
154 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Mercy Watson Fights Crime DiCamillo, Kate
Mercy Watson Fights Crime
Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
70 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book DICAMILLO
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  Cover Art: Abuela Dorros, Arthur
Abuela
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
[34] p. 1991
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Sassy : the Birthday Storm Draper, Sharon M.
Sassy : the Birthday Storm
While in Florida to celebrate her Grammy's birthday, nine-and-a-half-year-old Sassy worries that an approaching hurricane will ruin not only the party but a nest of sea turtle eggs as well.
106 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book DRAPER
  Cover Art: Nikki Deja : Birthday Blues English, Karen
Nikki Deja : Birthday Blues
As her eighth birthday approaches, Deja's biggest concern is whether her father will attend her party, until her aunt is called away on business and a classmate schedules a just because party on the same afternoon.
92 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book ENGLISH
  Cover Art: Be Brave Willa Bean! Galante, Cecilia
Be Brave Willa Bean!
Cupid Willa Bean does not want to admit that she does not like flying high, or in the dark, but during a sleepover she has to face her fears.
102 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Call Me Oklahoma! Glassman, Miriam
Call Me Oklahoma!
Paige Turner starts fourth grade with a new name in hopes of being more bold and brave, especially when dealing with class bully Viveca and overcoming her stagefright.
123 p. 2013
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel Grimes, Nikki
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
74 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Sadie and Ratz Hartnett, Sonya
Sadie and Ratz
Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around.
59 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Letters to Leo Hest, Amy
Letters to Leo
In a series of letters to her new dog, fourth-grader Annie Rossi relates her daily exploits and remembers her mother.
154 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Babymouse: The Musical Holm, Jennifer
Babymouse: The Musical
As tryouts for the school musical begin, Babymouse takes the starring role in several imaginary Broadway productions, which also feature her new classmate, Henry the hedgehog.
91 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book HOLM
  Cover Art: Piper Reed the Great Gypsy Holt, Kimberly Willis
Piper Reed the Great Gypsy
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
152 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book HOLT
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