Akiak : A Tale from the Iditarod / by Robert J. Blake.
Akiak the sled dog refuses to give up after being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.
Amanda Pig, School Girl / by Jean Van Leeuwen.
Amanda Pig's first day of school is every bit as wonderful as she always hoped it would be.
Arthur's Computer Disaster / by Marc Brown.
Arthur disobeys his mother by playing his favorite game on her computer, which leads to a lesson in
taking responsibility for one's actions.
Burnt Toast on Davenport Street / written and illustrated by Tim Egan.
Arthur and Stella Crandall, two dogs, are for the most part content with their lives until a fly gets
mixed up while granting Arthur three wishes.
The Gardener / by Sarah Stewart.
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to
live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam / written by Angela Shelf Medearis.
To win a $5000 reward, a chef named Dan agrees to stay in a haunted house overnight and when
he meets a very hungry ghost, he gets more than he had expected.
Ginger / by Charlotte Voake.
When Ginger the cat gets fed up dealing with her owner's new kitten, it takes drastic measures
to make the two of them friends.
The Gingerbread Boy / by Richard Egielski.
A freshly baked gingerbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes his pursuers
until he meets a clever fox.
The Hat / by Jan Brett.
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the
amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
Heat Wave at Mud Flat / by James Stevenson.
The animals of Mud Flat pay Raymond the Rainmaker to bring relief from the hot weather, but even
though he fails, rain finally comes.
Henry and Mudge in the Family Trees : the fifteenth book of their adventures / story by Cynthia Rylant.
Henry and his big dog Mudge attend a family reunion.
Look to the North : A Wolf Pup Diary / by Jean Craighead George.
Brief diary entries that mark the passage of the seasons introduce the events in the lives of three
wolves as they grow from helpless pups to participants in their small pack's hunt.
My Life with the Wave / based on the story by Octavio Paz ; translated and adapted for children by Catherine Cowan.
A child befriends a wave at the seashore and brings her home.
Nate the Great saves the King of Sweden / by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.
As Nate the Great sets to work on his first international case, he searches for a lost "something" and
saves the King of Sweden from a troublesome traveler.
Pickles to Pittsburgh : the sequel to Cloudy with a chance of meatballs / written and colored by Judi Barrett ; drawn by Ron Barrett.
Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow,
where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.
Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud / by Lynn Plourde.
A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so
the family can pass in their T-Model Ford.
Seal Surfer / by [author and illustrator] Michael Foreman.
Although he is on crutches, a boy goes to the beach with his grandfather, where they watch a seal
being born, and over the following seasons, the boy and the seal develop a special bond.
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly / Simms Taback.
On die-cut pages, the English folksong.
Verdi / by Janell Cannon.
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure / written and illustrated by Don Brown.
Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New
York to San Francisco in an automobile in 1909.
Author : A True Story / by Helen Lester.
Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how
she writes.
If You were Born a Kitten / by Marion Dane Bauer.
Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human
baby is born.
Mysterious Thelonious / by Chris Raschka.
Matches the tones of the diatonic scale to the values of the color wheel in presenting a portrait of the
work of the Afro-American jazz musician and composer of "Mysterioso."
One Grain of Rice : A Mathematical folktale /retold by Demi.
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is
outwitted by a clever village girl.
Rapunzel / retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.
A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely
tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter / by Diane Stanley.
Rumpelstiltskin's daughter may not be able to spin straw into gold, but she is more than a match for
a monarch whose greed has blighted an entire kingdom.
Books on this list were purchased by the Garrison School and the Desmond-Fish Library with a grant from the Readers Digest Foundation
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