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The Next-Door Dogs

by Rodowsky, Colby

Although terrified of dogs, nine-year-old Sara forces herself to face a labrador retriever and a dalmatian when she must help her next-door neighbor, who has f...

My Best Friend

by Rodman, Mary Ann

Six-year-old Lily has a best friend all picked out for play group day, but unfortunately the differences between first-graders and second-graders are sometimes...

Runny Babbit

A Billy Sook

by Silverstein, Shel

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Big Surprise in the Bug Tank

by Horowitz, Ruth

Two brothers get two giant hissing cockroaches as pets and then must figure out a way to deal with the resulting population explosion.

The Champ

The Story of Muhammad Ali

by Bolden, Tonya

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The Greatest Skating Race

A World War II Story from the Netherlands

by Borden, Louise

During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating...

The Peterkins' Christmas

by Spurr, Elizabeth

Meet the Peterkins. There's Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin, Agamemnon, Solomon John, Eliza-beth Eliza, and the three Little Boys (who everyone forgot to name when they ...

Odd Boy Out

Young Albert Einstein

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Birthday Pony

by Haas, Jessie

Grandma Aggie tries to help her granddaughter Jane and the independent pony Popcorn, who were born on the same day, become riding partners.

Hachiko

The True Story of a Loyal Dog

by Turner, Pamela S.

Relates the true story of a dog who accompanied his master to and from a Tokyo train station for a year and, after his master died, continued to wait for him t...