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...And Now Miguel

Written by Joseph Krumgold and Illustrated by Jean Charlot

Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains...

5th - 8th

Adam of the Road

Written by Elizabeth Janet Gray and Illustrated by Robert Lawson

Adam, aged 11, loves to travel with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. They travel...

3rd - 7th

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Written by Judith Viorst and Illustrated by Ray Cruz

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1972. From the moment Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair, he knows it is going to be the worst day ever, and things keep getting more and more terrible from there!

Pre-K - 2nd

Ginger Pye

Written by Eleanor Estes

The Pye family wouldn't be complete without Ginger, the dog Jerry Pye bought for a dollar. Ginger is...

2nd - 5th

Miracles on Maple Hill

Written by Virginia Sorensen

The story of a family who leaves the city and go to Maple Hill so that the father can recover from...

2nd - 5th

Strawberry Girl

Written and Illustrated by Lois Lenski

Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer's family has moved to Florida to start their own farm growing strawberries...

3rd - 7th

Thimble Summer

Written and Illustrated by Elizabeth Enright

The story of Garnet Linden, who finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed that brings good luck...

3rd - 7th

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

Written by Joan W. Blos

A novel about New England between 1830 and 1832, written in the form of a journal by a girl named...

3rd - 7th

A Year Down Yonder

Written by Richard Peck

Mary Alice has spent many summers with Grandma Dowdel in a small town in Illinois, but now, at age...

3rd - 7th

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Written by Beverly Cleary and Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

Sixth grader Leigh Botts is struggling. His parents just got divorced, and he and his mom move to a...

3rd - 7th

Dicey's Song

Written by Cynthia Voigt

Part of a series of seven books, this one is about what happens to Dicey and her three siblings...

7th - 10th

Jacob Have I Loved

Written by Katherine Paterson

The story of Sara Louise Bradshaw, a twin who is physically stronger than her beautiful sister...

7th - 11th

Kira-Kira

Written by Cynthia Kadohata

Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, has a wonderful way of looking at the world. Everything is kira-kira...

5th - 9th

Last Stop on Market Street

Written by Matt de la Peña and Illustrated by Christian Robinson

This 2016 Caldecott and Newbery medal winner tells the story of CJ and his grandma riding across town on the bus and the many sights they encounter.

Pre-K - K

Maniac Magee

Written by Jerry Spinelli

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee's life took a strange turn after his parents died and left him an...

4th - 7th

Missing May

Written by Cynthia Rylant

Summer is very sad following the sudden death of her beloved Aunt May. When Uncle Orb claims that...

3rd - 7th

Out of the Dust

Written by Karen Hesse

Written in spare, first-person free-verse poems, the book is about how Billie Jo survives during the...

5th - 8th

Shiloh

Written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Marty Preston is in love with a beagle he found. He names the dog Shiloh and wants to keep her. But...

3rd - 7th

The Crossover

Written by Kwame Alexander

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2015. "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell.

5th - 7th