Angleberger, Tom. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. J ANG
Barnett, Mac & Jory John. The Terrible Two.
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen. J BAR
Blume, Judy. Superfudge.
Catastrophes are certainly nothing new to Peter Hatcher, thanks to his younger brother Fudge. J BLU, J-PBK BLU
Cala, Caroline. Best Babysitters Ever.
Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business. J CAL
Catling, Patrick Skene. The Chocolate Touch.
A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate. J CAT, J-PBK CAT
Clements, Andrew. Frindle.
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that go out of control. J CLE, J-PBK CLE
Costner, Arianne. My Life as a Potato.
When Ben Hardy is forced to become the school's mascot, Steve the Spud, he wants to keep the embarrassing gig a secret at all costs. J COS
Cowell, Cressinda. How to be a Pirate.
Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search of a pirate's treasure. J-FAN COW
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. J-HF CUR, YA CUR, YA-PBK CUR
Dahl, Roald. The BFG.
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. J-FAN DAH, J-PBK DAH
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever.
Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips. J-SS FUN
Gantos, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt.
Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. J-HF GAN
Gibbs, Stuart. Spy School.
Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school. J GIB
Grabenstein, Chris. The Smartest Kid in the Universe.
Jake rendered a child genius by the accidental ingestion of experimental information pills, before using his newfound smarts to save his middle school from being shut down. J GRA
Greenwald, Tom. Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading.
Middle schooler Charlie Joe
is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far. J GRE
Griffin, Adele. Oona Finds an Egg.
Oona finds a giant egg and brings it back to West Wog to care for it, and see what hatches--but others in the cave want to claim her egg, particularly the nasty kid Bruce Brute, and when the baby stegosaurus hatches it will have to choose who it wants to live with. J GRI
Griffiths, Andy. The 13-Story Treehouse.
Follows the efforts of Andy and Terry to meet a latest book deadline despite numerous distractions in their sophisticated tree house home, including flying cats, giant bananas, and sea monsters pretending to be mermaids. J GRI
Harrell, Rob. Wink.
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school. J HAR
Hautman, Pete. Slider.
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his younger brother. J HAU
Higuera, Donna Bar. Lupe Wong Won’t Dance.
Lupe Wong needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite baseball pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, but her plan goes awry when she has to learn square dancing in gym. J HIG
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. J-M HOW, J-PBK HOW
Johnson, Varian. The Great Greene Heist.
Reformed schemer and middle schooler Jackson Greene comes out of retirement, assembling a top-notch team to pull off Maplewood Middle School's biggest con ever in a fast-paced caper. J JOH
Kline, Suzy. Letters From Camp.
Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp. J-M KLI
Korman, Gordon. The Unteachables.
Discover what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher! J KOR
Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi Longstocking.
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey - but without any parents.
J LIN
McCloskey, Robert. Homer Price.
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price; including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage. J MCC
MacDonald, Betty. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis. J-FAN MAC
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody series
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage. J MCD
Park, Barbara. Skinnybones.
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world. J PAR
Patterson, James and Chris Tebbetts. Public School Superhero.
In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test. J PAT
Peck, Richard. A Long Way From Chicago.
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. Also by the author: A Year Down Yonder. J-HF PEC, J-PBK PEC
Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday.
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. J-SF REX
Reynolds, Justin A. It’s the End of the World and I’m in my Bathing Suit.
When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere. J-SF REY
Rockwell, Thomas. How to Eat Fried Worms.
A small boy is challenged by a friend to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars. J-PBK ROC
Rodkey, Geoff. The Tapper Twins Go to War (with each other).
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between the twins. J ROD
Sachar, Louis. Holes.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Also by the author: Wayside School series J SAC, J-PBK SAC
Scieszka, Jon. Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories of Growing up Scieszka.
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner. J-B SCIESZKA
Scieszka, Jon. Time Warp Trio series
Joe receives a magic book for his birthday present from his uncle. Joe, Fred and Sam are transported to a time when evil knights, fire-breathing dragons and vile-smelling giants roamed the land. J-PBK SCI
Smith, Robert Kimmel. Chocolate Fever.
From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence. J SMI, J-PBK SMI
Uhrig, Betsy. Welcome to Dweeb Club.
Jason Sloane and his friends are the first to sign up for a strange new club that monitors school security footage, but when the new computers show the club members themselves as unlikable high school seniors five years in the future they scramble to solve the mystery. J-SF UHR
Wallace, Matt. The Supervillain’s Guide to Being a Fat Kid.
A young boy writes to an imprisoned supervillain for help after he is bullied relentlessly for being fat. J WAL
Weeks, Sarah. Save Me a Seat.
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives. J WEE
Winkler, Henry. Niagara Falls, or Does It?
Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show. J WIN |