Bania, Michael

On a beautiful Arctic morning when Kumak and his family go ice fishing, Kumak hooks what seems like an enormous fish, and the entire village gets involved.

Child, Lauren

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

Demas, Corinne

When her dog Lulu dies, a girl grieves but then continues with her life.

English, Karen

After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until the lure of a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad.

Gelman, Rita Golden

Teachers teach, flyers fly, painters paint, climbers climb--and teachers fly, climbers paint...

Joosse, Barbara

Mimi and her little brother Joe escape from home and the city's summer heat to read and dream about princesses and dinosaurs in the cool, quiet library.

LaRochelle, David

A young boy enlists the help of a dragon to persuade his mother to let him have a dog as a pet.

McGhee, Alison

A first grader is frightened on her first day of school after hearing a rumor that her teacher is a 300-year-old alien with a purple tongue who steals baby teeth from her students.

Sierra, Judy

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

Wells, Rosemary

Every day, Emily and her kindergarten classmates learn something new from Miss Cribbage.

Almond, David

Bobby Burns observes his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, yet still finds reasons to to have hope for the future.

Baggott, Juliana

After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home."

Fox, Helen

Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.

Hamilton, Virginia

James Lee and Uncle Big Anthony become victims of Wee Winnie Witch, who takes them on a ride up into the sky, but Mama Granny saves them.

Horvath, Polly

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.

Koponen, Libby

A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from the United States to England, and attending a boarding school.

Matthews, L. S.

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.

Oppel, Kenneth

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Shreve, Susan

Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

Demi

After being forced to change to a fancy new coat to attend a party, Nasrettin Hoca tries to feed his dinner to the coat, reasoning that it was the coat that was the invited guest.

Rupp, Rebecca

Contains twenty-two experiments designed to help students learn about different weather patterns and how they occur.

Curlee, Lynn

A detailed history of the Parthenon, exploring its construction and restoration.

Pericoli, Matteo

Designed for young people, but with the drawings of the original MANHATTAN UNFURLED, this switchback book is divided into two sections: East Side and West Side. Bound in Z format, the simple text explains how the drawings were created.

Macy, Sue

A detailed look at the history of the Olympic Games, from their origins in Ancient Greece, through their rebirth in nineteenth century France, to the present, highlighting the contributions of individuals to the Games' success and popularity.

Lujan, Jorge

Simple text (in English and Spanish)and colorful illustrations provide a poetic explanation of how the rooster clears away the night and ushers in the day.

Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.