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Ardagh, Philip
A House Called Awful End
When 11-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become a bit crinkly round the edges, he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
119 p. 2002
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Avi
The Good Dog
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
243 p. 2001
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Bergen, Lara
A Masterpiece for Bess
Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.
112 p. 2006
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Birdsall, Jeanne
The Penderwicks
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
262 p. 2005
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Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
228 p. 2004
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DiCamillo, Kate
Because of Winn-Dixie
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
182 p. 2000
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DuPrau, Jeanne
The People of Sparks
The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn'st long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town's resources are limited and it isn't long before resentment begins to grow between the two groups. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it's up to Lina and Doon to discover who's behind the vandalism and why, before it's too late.
338 p. 2004
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Ferris, Jean
Once Upon a Marigold
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
266 p. 2002
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Gaiman, Neil
The Wolves in the Walls
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house, although others in her family disagree, and when the wolves come out, the adventure begins.
56 p. 2003
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Nory Ryan's Song
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
148 p. 2000
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Grant, K. M.
Blood Red Horse
A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades.
277 p. 2005
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Gutman, Dan
Ms. Todd is Odd!
A.J. and his friends think that Ms. Todd is the strangest substitute teacher in the world, and they decide to investigate her.
98 p. 2006
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Hobbs, Will
Jackie's Wild Seattle
Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jacke's Wild Seattle.
200 p. 2003
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Hobbs, Will
Jason's Gold
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
221 p. 1999
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Hobbs, Will
The Maze
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
198 p. 1998
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Holm, Jennifer L.
Babymouse. 10 The Musical
As tryouts for the school musical begin, Babymouse takes the starring role in several imaginary Broadway productions, which also feature her debonair new classmate, Henry the hedgehog.
91 p. 2009
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Horvath, Polly
Everything On a Waffle
Eleven-year-old Primrose, living in the small fishing village of Coal Harbour, British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. Eventually the village authorities locate an uncle of Primrose's, Jack, who becomes her guardian.
149 p. 2001
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Hunter, Erin
Into the Wild
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
272 p. 2003
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Kinney, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Greg Heffley's Journal
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
217 p. 2007
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Kinney, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : The Last Straw
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
217 p. 2009
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