Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Voyager Books
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A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Katie Davis
Publisher: Voyager Books
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Dexter already knows everything there is to know about kindergarten. His big sister, Jessie, told him all about it. So Dexter is not scared. Not even a little bit. But his stuffed dog, Rufus, is scared. Actually, he’s terrified. But Dexter–er, Rufus–has nothing to [...]
Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Joseph Slate
Publisher: Puffin
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On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color–a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her [...]
Rating: (143 reviews)
Author: Louise Fitzhugh
Publisher: Yearling
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Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children’s literature forever. Happily, it has neither dated nor become obsolete and remains one of the best children’s [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Sterling
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Great Big Schoolhouse is lovingly remembered by generations of American children whose first day at school was undoubtedly made easier by Scarry’s warm, friendly, and comforting classroom. Huckle’s life changes forever as he joins his classmates on the school bus; meets Miss Honey, his sympathetic [...]
Rating: (222 reviews)
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Joey Pigza has problems. Big problems. He was emotionally abused by his grandmother. He has never met his dad. He can’t get along in his elementary school classroom because of his mood swings and his “dud meds.” We gradually see that Joey must have Attention Deficit [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Stanley Lambchop is just a normal boy, with a normal younger brother named Arthur, and two normal parents. That is, until a bulletin board falls on him during the night and flattens him to half an inch thick! From this point on, Stanley will [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl
Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin
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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the familys escape from Cuba, Michaels only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Max is an irresistibly cute but persistent little bunny who wants what he wants when he wants it–any parent with an active toddler will relate. And like most little kids, Max thinks the grass is always greener on the other side; to be more [...]
Rating: (39 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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In this well-loved Little Critter picture book, our funny young hero has to get used to a new baby sister. What a problem. The baby doesn’t pay attention when Little Critter reads to her. She cries when he makes [...]
Rating: (152 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Although her books have been enjoyed by generations of kids, Beverly Cleary herself didn’t enjoy reading as a child at least not at first. In first grade she was grouped with the slowest readers in her class.
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When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an [...]
Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Publisher: Hyperion
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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It’s the night before the Big Day—first grade. Penny is excited to start the year with her best friend right beside her in the same classroom. This humorous take on Clement C. Moore’s classic tale has a perfect twist ending that will [...]