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Phineas L. MacGuire...Blasts Off!

by Dowell, Frances O'Roark

Houston,we have a problem!Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) is less than up-to-date on planetary happenings. (Marsquakes? Who knew?) If he's going to be the bes...

Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing)

by McGhee, Alison

Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot ...

Clementine's Letter

by Pennypacker, Sara

While finding new vegetable names to call her little brother, eight-year-old Clementine hatches a plan to prevent her beloved teacher from being selected to go...

Lady Liberty

A Biography

by Rappaport, Doreen

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The Year of the Rat

by Lin, Grace

In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, s...

Where the Steps Were

by Cheng, Andrea

The third-graders are sad that this will be their last year at Pleasant Hill Elementary before their school is torn down. Poems narrated in the voices of five ...

The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

by Mills, Claudia

While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writ...

Chicken Feathers

by Cowley, Joy

Feather-flapping fun by one of the best-loved storytellers of our time. A talking chicken! Josh knows it sounds ridiculous, but that’s just what Semolina is....

Keep Your Eye on the Kid

The Early Years of Buster Keaton

by Brighton, Catherine

FAMOUS AT FOUR! Four-year-old Buster Keaton became one of the best-known comedians of his age and inches when his father threw him across a vaudeville stage, s...

I, Matthew Henson

Polar Explorer

by Weatherford, Carole Boston

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