When Isaac’s parents move home for a new job, the boy makes a friend on a whole new world.

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Tyrell is convinced that sixth grade is going to be the greatest year of his life, but between a best friend acting strange, harder schoolwork, and a terrifying school show, things are not going according to plan.

Edgar is worried when his weird new neighbors invite him over for a Halloween celebration!

RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. One moment Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep, and the next, a failed dam is sending a wall of water straight toward his campsite. With their counselors gone and five kids completely alone in the Montana wilderness, survival becomes the only thing that matters.

A boy and his dog discover how the laws of force and motion affect their everyday lives. An example...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1968. Corduroy is a little teddy bear sitting on a store shelf, waiting and hoping for someone to take him home. When a girl named Lisa spots him, she knows right away that he is the perfect bear for her.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2001. Twelve-year-old Rob has been keeping all of his sadness locked up tight inside himself, like a suitcase he refuses to open, ever since his mother died. Then one day he discovers a caged tiger hidden in the woods, and meets a bold new girl named Sistine who is not afraid to say exactly what she feels.

Right before Wavie's mother died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her find her way in...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1967. Ponyboy thinks he knows exactly where he stands in life: a greaser, loyal to his brothers and his crew, always one run-in away from trouble with the wealthy Socs. But when one violent night changes everything, he's forced to question who he really is and what he's willing to fight for. Can he figure out who he is before the world decides for him?

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2011. Every day Amos McGee visits his five animal friends at the zoo, sharing a race with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos comes down with a cold and cannot make it to the zoo, his friends decide it is time to return the favor. What does it look like when the animals take care of Amos for a change?

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1977. The story of two children, Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke, who become friends. Jesse was lonely and angry until he meets Leslie.

Rags was just a stray mutt—until the day he met Private James Donovan and found not only a home, but...

Composer Igor Stravinsky and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky teamed up to create an original work called The...

Two pigs go on a nature walk, returning to find their friends Bear and Mouse have inhabited and...

This story connects Thomas Jefferson’s garden pea contest to a gardening contest in a classroom 200...