Fantasy & Other Worlds (Ages 8 and Up)

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

Coraline has just moved with her parents to a flat in a big old house where the other tenants are eccentric and odd. Behind the big, brown, carved wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room is a wall of bricks. At night, she dreams of black shadows...


D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths

by Ingrid and Edgar d'Aulaire

Peer into just one chapter of this oversized collection of Greek myth character stories and you'll see why it's been such a favorite classic for fifty years. Husband and wife team Edgar and Ingri…


My Dog May Be a Genius

by Jack Prelutsky

How delicious, how delightful, how utterly sensational it is to have a chunky-sized new book of Prelutsky poems. Our first Children's Poet Laureate does not disappoint, with a rousing compendium of 105 rhyming verses about a dog who can s-p-e-l-l; an underwater marching band, impossible to hear and perennially wet;...


Pandora Gets Jealous

by Carolyn Hennesy

The Prologue of this nifty, tongue-in-cheek little novel explains how, during the golden age of men and gods, Zeus became enraged at the lazy humans who took the gods for granted and removed fire from the earth as punishment. Prometheus, the Titan, stole the fire from Mount Olympus to give...

Robot Dreams

by Sara Varon

In a wordless graphic novel, a gray dog assembles, from a mail-order Tin Robot Kit, a new robot companion. Together, the dog and robot check books out at the library, cook popcorn, watch TV, and take a Greyhound bus to the beach where they cavort in the water and fall...


The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia series)

by C. S. Lewis

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy evacuate London during the Blitz of World War II to live in a Professor Kirke's house on the English countryside. One rainy, dull day, while playing hide and seek in the house, Lucy falls through the back of the wardrobe in which she chose to...


Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses its turning." This magical tale about drinking from a spring of immortality centers on a ten-year-old girl, Winnie Foster, who longs...


The Magic Thief

by Sarah Prineas, Illustrated by Antavier Caparo

Connwaer, an orphan boy who makes his living picking pockets and locks, nicks a locus magicalicus, a wizard's stone, from the pocket of an old man, and somehow survives the ensuing explosion of magic. The old man is a wizard named Nevery, who was banished from the city of Wellmet...


James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Lane Smith

After his dear parents are eaten by an enormous and angry rhinoceros, escaped from the London Zoo, James Henry Trotter spends his next four years doing the bidding of the most odious and awful of relatives, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. His life seems hopeless until the day he encounters...


The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

by Julie Edwards

Lindy, Thomas, and Benjamin, three ordinary siblings, ages 7 to 13, are at the zoo when they first encounter Professor Savant. You'll excuse me for butting in," he says to them. "But if you're looking for something really unusual, have you ever considered a Whangdoodle?" According to the professor, the...


The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

by James Patterson

"I wish that I didn't sometimes, but I remember everything about that cursed, unspeakably unhappy night twelve years ago, when I was just three years old and both my parents were murdered." That's just the start of Daniel's extraordinary narrative that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and...


Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter series)

by J.K. Rowling

This past decade, we have been blessed with the Harry Potter effect, and that fantastical boy wizard is still casting his dazzling spell across the Earth. What is it about Harry Potter that has worked its way into the lives and psyches of readers worldwide? There have been many good...


City of Dogs

by Livi Michael

On Sam's birthday, the one he thinks will be the worst ever, his Aunty Dot brings to the house a small white dog she has just hit with her car. The dog, which Sam names Jenny, has no obvious injuries, though in her mouth, she is holding a sprig of...

The City of Ember (Books of Ember series)

by Jeanne DuPrau

In the City of Ember in year 241, the sky is always dark. There is no moon, or even sun in Ember. The electric lights come on every morning at six, and go out every night at nine. The city is old, and everything, including the power lines, needs repair....


The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson series)

by Rick Riordan

      "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.      If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.      Being a half-blood...


Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White, Illustrated by Garth Williams

"Where's Papa going with that ax?" eight-year-old Fern Arable asks her mother at breakfast, and from that first line, we're pulled right into a masterfully told story filled with compassion, humor, and heart. Yes, Fern saves the runt of the litter, but it's not just a story about a girl...


Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

by Shel Silverstein

Fut a whunny bew nook! There are tworty-foo feally runny pyming rhoems about Runny Babbit and pots of his lals in this bazy crook. Didn't understand those last sentences? They are filled with Spoonerisms, where consonants are switched for pairs of words. Or, as the introductory poem says, "If you...


The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Tale of Despereaux series)

by Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by Timothy B. Ering

"It is such the disappointment," says the mouse mother, Antoinette, upon learning that all of her newborn litter of babies has died, save one. Despereaux, his mother names him, for all the sadness and despairs in the castle where the mice live. Despereaux Tilling is a ridiculously small mouse with...



Real World Fiction (Ages 8 and Up)

Dave at Night

by Gail Carson Levine

After his adored father dies falling off a roof in 1926 and no one else in the family is able or willing to take him in, eleven-year-old troublemaker Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys in Harlem, New York. At the HHB, nicknamed the Hellhole for Brats, Dave...


Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

by Katherine Hannigan

Ida B Applewood has a pretty perfect life, with her loving parents and her floppy-eared dog, Rufus. She's been home-schooled by her parents ever since the disastrous two weeks and three days she lasted in kindergarten class at the local public school. She's never missed having school friendships, as she...


Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

Jeffrey Magee, orphaned at three years old, runs away from his aunt and uncle's house once he hits eleven. And literally runs—he runs for days and finally slows down when he gets to the town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania. He wows the residents of Two Mills with his extreme athletic...


Sideways Stories from Wayside School

by Louis Sachar

There are strange things afoot on the thirtieth story of Wayside School. The classroom's first teacher, the wicked Mrs. Gorf, turned all her children into apples, but had to be replaced when they reversed her spell, turned her into an apple, and she accidentally was eaten by Louis, the schoolyard...


Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell awakens, that first night in his new foster home, feeling like something is stuck in his nose. Opening his eyes, he sees Todd Amos, the bullying son of his latest set of foster parents, holding a #2 Ticonderoga pencil and exclaiming, "I've never gotten it in as...


Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Wimpy Kid series)

by Jeff Kinney

The surprise hit of the year, this easy-to-read first person expose of middle school life told by sixth grader Greg Heffley through cartoons and hand-written journal entries has sold more than a million copies. It's throw-yourself-on-the-floor-and-roll-around-howling hilarious, and boys, especially, are inhaling this book. All those 97-pound weaklings out there...


Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

by Lauren Tarshis

When seventh grader Emma-Jean Lazarus encounters the popular Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl's bathroom, she ignores her usual instincts to stay out of the messy lives of her classmates, and promises to help. Emma-Jean's adored father, a brilliant and eccentric mathematician, died in a car accident two years ago,...

How to Steal a Dog

by Barbara OConnor

Sometimes you pick up a book and it just says, "Read me." This one has an irresistible cover, a compelling title, and a most unexpected first line that will hook readers and keep them riveted: "The day I decided to steal a dog was the same day my best friend,...


The Lemonade War

by Jacqueline Davies

Evan Treski has been feeling angry and humiliated ever since he found out that his little sister Jessie will be skipping third grade. "You ruin everything . . . I hate you," he tells her, even though he really doesn't. Evan has always been her friend and protector, and Jessie...


Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls: Moving Day

by Meg Cabot

"Rule #1: Don't Stick a Spatula Down Your Best Friend's Throat." That's the first of Allie Finkle's many engaging chapter headings and rules, along with her explanations of each one, which she's been recording in a notebook. There's "Never eat anything red." Which is partly to blame for her little...


No Talking

by Andrew Clements, Illustrated by Mark Elliott

Meet fifth grader Dave Parker, a known loudmouth who is in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking. In spite of being called on to give his oral social studies report on India, he is determined to stick with his experiment of staying silent for an entire day....


The Road to Paris

by Nikki Grimes

When eight-year-old Paris and her ten-year-old brother Malcolm run away from their abusive foster family in New York City, they hope their grandmother will take them in. She doesn't want them. Instead, Paris is taken by Children's Services to a new foster home with the Lincoln family in upstate New...



Action/Adventure/Mystery (Ages 9 and Up)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E.L. Konigsburg

"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away . . . Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place, and preferably a...


Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story

by Daniel Pinkwater

I've been a Pinkwater fan forever. Or at least since the 1970s when he started publishing bizarrely comical children's fiction books like Lizard Music and Fat Men from Space and one near and dear to New Jersey's little heart, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. Who...


Qwerty Stevens Back in Time: The Edison Mystery

by Dan Gutman

Nicknamed "Qwerty" after the six letters on the top left side of a keyboard, 13-year-old Robert Edward Stevens, a computer-loving boy, digs up a mysterious box labeled "Thomas A. Edison" in his West Orange, New Jersey back yard. Inside is an unusual machine which appears to have been buried for...


Say Cheese And Die! (Goosebumps series)

by R.L. Stine

Shari, Michael, Bird and Greg have nothing to do in the boring, remote town of Pitts Landing, and decide to explore the creepy ramshackle Coffman house down their street. After pillaging the basement, they find old treasures: boas, old coats, and even a working automatic camera. Greg takes a photo...


Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

by Alvin Schwartz

On the American Library Association's list of the 100 most-challenged books of the 1990's, Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is number one with a bullet. The first volume in Schwartz's three-part Scary Stories series is, in film terms, the Citizen Kane of books that...

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

Sixteen confused people with little in common arrive at Sunset Towers, a sleek apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan in fictional Westingtown, WI. They are here because the will of paper magnate Sam Westing is about to be read. The group is diverse in the extreme: their professions include doctor, judge,...


The Witches

by Roald Dahl

"In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work...


The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride series)

by James Patterson

Many kids daydream about having wings and being able to soar across the sky. Be careful what you wish for. For the narrator, 14-year-old Max, it's no dream. "Welcome to our nightmare," she says in her Prologue to the first book in the electric Maximum Ride series. Maximum Ride is...


The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events series)

by Lemony Snicket, Illustrated by Brett Helquist and Michael Kupperman

In Book the Fifth of the melodramatic but farcical and vocabulary-enhancing saga of the unremittingly unfortunate Beaudelaire siblings, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," the three orphans are sent to Prufrock Prep, a dreadful boarding school whose uplifting motto is "Memento Mori" (Latin for "remember you will die").On the back cover...


Canned

by Alex Shearer

Fergal Banfield's reputation for being clever weighs heavily on him. It makes him want to hide from the world. The boy looks like an eccentric genius, with his untamable hair sticking up in clumps, and glasses that make his eyes look big. And then one day, at the market with...


Flush

by Carl Hiaasen

Noah's idealistic dad is spending Father's Day in a holding cell in their little Florida Keys town and he doesn't want to get bailed out just yet. Dad admits he went a little overboard this time, though he's not at all sorry he sank Dusty Muleman's 73-foot gambling boat, the...


The Homework Machine

by Dan Gutman

Starting with a stern statement from the Grand Canyon, Arizona Police Chief Rebecca Fish, meet four fifth graders in big trouble. There's long-haired, rebellious, cool guy Sam Dawkins; fun-loving, unacademic, pink-haired Kelsey Donnelly, African American grind Judy Douglas, and friendless genius Brenton Damagatchi. The whole thing starts because Sam is..


The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick, who won a Caldecott Honor for his spectacular illustrations in Barbara Kerley's extraordinary biography, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, has written and illustrated a wholly original, innovative and breathtaking masterpiece that bends all the rules of novel writing and illustrated stories. And it was just awarded...


Night of the Howling Dogs

by Graham Salisbury

Camping with his Boy Scout troop on a remote beach on the Big Island of Hawaii on November 29, 1975, Graham Salisbury's cousin, then 13, survived a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami. Now the author has retooled that momentous experience into a fine and thrilling adventure novel narrated by...

Ruby Holler

by Sharon Creech

At thirteen, twins Florida and Dallas are the oldest kids in the ramshackle Boxton Creek Home for Children, a place where rules are king. The two siblings—daydreamy Dallas and his spitfire of a sister, Florida—have broken all those rules many times, spending untold hours in the damp, dark, cobwebby basement...


Swindle

by Gordon Korman

Sixth grader Griffin Bing is known as the Man with the Plan. But out of the 29 kids he invited to his secret sleepover at the old Rockford house the night before it is to be torn down, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up. Just because...


Just the Facts

Drawing Comics is Easy! (Except When It's Hard)

by Alexa Kitchen

"Art is a thing that everybody does different. Nobody's drawing is better than someone else." That's what the author/illustrator states in her remarkable and instructive first book, though you may soon conclude that her drawings are way better than your own. Mind you, the author was only 8 when this...

Guinness: World Records 2009

by Guinness World Records

Longest snowmobile journey? Largest monkey? Most valuable guitar? Longest fingernails? (The record holder, Lee Redmond, has fingernails 28 feet, 4.5 inches long, and they're still growing strong.) Who publishes the best collection of superlatives year after year? Only one name is on the tip of everyone's tongue, no matter how...

Hana's Suitcase: A True Story

by Karen Levine

Here's a book that will break your heart. In 2000, when Fumiko Ishioka, Director of the Tokyo Holocaust Center, acquired the suitcase of a Jewish child who was at Auschwitz during World War II, she set out to discover what happened to that child. First, there's the photograph of the...


So You Want to be President?

by Judith St. George

"There are good things about being president and there are bad things about being president." Thus starts the 2001 Caldecott Medal winner, a riotously funny, trivia and anecdote-loaded picture book tribute to the number one job I the U.S., illustrated with grandly humorous but affectionate watercolor caricatures of our presidents...


The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer

by Barbara Kerley

While the cover looks like a large picture book fantasy story about dinosaurs, you'll quickly realize that this is the astonishing true account of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who in 1853 put together the first ever life-sized cement-cast models of dinosaurs, including an iguanadon and a forty-foot long megalosaurus. Until Hawkins...


Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer

by Deborah Kogan Ray

In 1841, seven-year-old Wes Powell was taunted, beaten, and stoned by classmates angry at his father, Reverend Powell's, abolitionist sermons. Wes left school and was tutored by a neighbor, a self-taught naturalist who believed in learning through observation and firsthand experience. Unnerved by a wave of anti-abolitionist violence, the Powells...

First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane

by Peter Busby

Arguably the finest of the many books published for children in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903, this scrapbook has it all: good looks; a meaty, quote-filled text that reads like a dream; scientific explanations children will inhale and understand; huge...

Henry's Freedom Box

by Ellen Levine, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson

The first page of this eloquent picture book will stun readers and listeners of all ages. Look at the handsome full-page painting of a somber young African American boy, barefoot, sitting on an upturned wooden barrel, his back against a brick wall. The text on the facing page states, simply,...


Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball

by James Charlton and Sally Cook, Illustrated by Ross MacDonald

What was the game of baseball like when it began, more than a century ago? First off, back then, you could get a runner out by soaking him. What's that? First, examine the old-timey yellow and red watercolor and pencil-crayon cartoon illustration on the second page, and you'll see a...

Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever

by Eva Blank, Alison Benjamin, Rosanne Green, and Ilana Weitzman, Illustrated by Mike Wright

Kids might not read this whole big compendium cover to cover, but as a book to dip into for truly funny and classic jokes, riddles, practical jokes, spotlights on major comedians, and advice on becoming a comedian, it's an endless source of material. There are more than 1,700 jokes here,...


Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka

by Jon Scieszka

Look at this book's comic book cover with tanks blazing and airplanes dropping bombs and explosions everywhere. See that helmeted soldier coming up from the hatch, his fist pumping the air triumphantly? Hold on a minute—that soldier looks like a kid. Hey, it is a kid—it's Jon Scieszka when he...

Many Rides Of Paul Revere

by James Cross Giblin

Get to know the man behind the legend and the famous ride in a clearly written and handsomely laid out biography amply illustrated with stately brown-toned portraits, paintings, reproductions, maps, and photographs. As an apprentice to his French-born father, a master silversmith, Paul learned the family trade but also served...


Pocket Babies And Other Amazing Marsupials

by Sneed B. Collard

"Marveling at Marsupials," is the first of many lively chapter headings, and that's just what you will do when you pore over the amiable narrative, fascinating descriptions, astonishing facts, and the plethora of color photos of that third group of mammals, the metatherians. What's the largest living marsupial? It's the...

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