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Willow Falls: Finally

Written by Wendy Mass

Rory Swensen can finally do all of the things on her 12th-birthday list, but in hilarious style...

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Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists: Luis Alvarez

Written by Mike Venezia
The perfect introduction to the men and women whose scientific discoveries and inventions have...
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Ella Enchanted

Written by Gail Carson Levine
Based on the Cinderella story, Ella of Frell tries to overcome the "gift" of obedience, a curse...
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Love That Dog

Written by Sharon Creech
A charming tale of a boy who finds his own voice with the help of a teacher who won't stop giving...
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The Best Love Poems Ever (Scholastic Classics)

Written by David Levithan (editor)
The beauty. The pain. Being together. Being separated. Love has long been one of the greatest...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins

Written by Katherine Paterson
Gilly Hopkins finds herself in a foster home that she wants to hate, but comes to love. "Genuinely...
5th - 6th
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Scholastic Classics: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A colonel receives five seeds in the mail - and dies within weeks. A young bride disappears...
5th - 7th
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Whatever After: Fairest of All

Written by Sarah Mlynowski
Mirror, mirror, on the basement wall . . .

Once upon a time my brother and I were normal kids. The...

3rd - 7th
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Just Juice

Written by Karen Hesse
Sweet, resilient Juice Faulstich faces terrible poverty, and is repeating third grade because...
5th - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet Together (And Alive!) At Last

Written by Avi
The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a Shakespeare's play has...
6th - 8th
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The Time Machine

Written by H. G. Wells
This H.G Wells masterpiece tells the story of a scientist who time-travels to the year 802701, and...
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Little Rock Nine

Written by Carolyn Clark
Describes events during the fall of 1957 when nine African-American students became the first to...
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And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Written by Jean Fritz
This entertaining biography presents fascinating anecdotes and facts that illuminate Paul Revere's...
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In Their Own Words: Lewis and Clark

Written by George Sullivan
"Short chapters, large print, simple vocabulary, straightforward narrative, and attractive...
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The Story of My Life

Written by Helen Keller
The fascinating account of Helen Keller’s handicaps and triumphs, and the extraordinary work of her...
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Freak the Mighty

Freak The Mighty

Written by Rodman Philbrick
Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force.
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The Circuit

Written by Francisco Jimenez
These autobiographical stories tell of hardship, poverty, and love within a family of migrant...
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Written by Betty Bao Lord and Illustrated by Marc Simont

Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is...

3rd - 7th
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Dear America: The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow

Written by Ann Turner

As one of the latest editions to the Dear America series, this tale provides the first-hand account...

6th - 8th
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The Call of the Wild

Written by Jack London
After a series of savage adventures and the loss of a loving master, Buck—part Saint Bernard, part...
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Riding Freedom

Written by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Charlotte Parkhurst never acted like most other girls. She climbed trees and fought with the boys...

4th - 6th
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Written by Louis Sachar and Illustrated by Adam McCauley

Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was very sorry for...

3rd - 7th
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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

Written by Lauren Tarshis
History's most exciting and terrifying events come to life in these stories of amazing kids and how...
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Koya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues

Written by Eloise Greenfield
In this warm and humorous story by the award-winning poet and author, a young girl whose laughter...
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