Edgar Badger's fishing day, by Monica Kulling
Summary: Edgar Badger and his best friend Duncan Bear have a squabble when they go on a fishing trip.

Harry the dirty dog, by Gene Zion
Summary: When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.

Kumak's house: a tale of the Far North, by Michael Bania
Summary: Set in an Inupiat village in the northwest Arctic, this retelling of a familiar tale describes how a wise woman helps a complaining Eskimo family realize that they should appreciate the home they have. Includes a note describing the traditional Inupiat activities seen in the story.

Lizards for lunch: a roadrunner's tale, by Conrad J. Storad
Summary: Provides you with a glimpse of the world as it is known to the speedy roadrunner. The life and habits of the roadrunner are accurately depicted in this book through a witty rhyme and fantastically vibrant illustrations.

Possum magic, by Mem Fox
Summary: Two Australian possums go in search of the magic that will make the invisible one of them visible.

Ben Franklin and the magic squares, by Frank Murphy
Summary: Shows how Benjamin Franklin, inventor, writer and scientist, created a puzzle called the magic square to keep from being bored while serving as clerk for the Pennsylvania Assembly. Includes step-by-step instructions for creating your own magic squares.

Clara and the bookwagon, by Nancy Smiler Levinson
Summary: Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

Giant cabbage: an Alaska folktale, by Cherie B. Stihler
Summary: Moose grows an enormous cabbage, sure to win a prize at the fair, but needs the help of all his friends to load it onto a truck in this Alaskan version of a Russian folktale.

How my parents learned to eat, by Ina R. Friedman
Summary: An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

Three days on a river in a red canoe, by Vera B. Williams
Summary: Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe.

A Stranger came ashore, by Mollie Hunter
Summary: Twelve-year-old Robbie becomes convinced that the stranger befriended by his family is one of the Selkie Folk and tries to get help against his magical powers from the local wizard.

Bud, not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Countdown, by Ben Mikaelsen
Summary: In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.

Dovey Coe, by Frances O'Roak Dowell
Summary: When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.

House on Hackman's Hill, by Joan Lowery Nixon
Summary: Jeff and Debbie come to the house on Hackman's Hill to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy that old Mr. Karsten has told them about.

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, by Bruce Coville
Summary: Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

Mandy, by Julie Edwards
Summary: Longing for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage in the village of St. Martin's Green.

Rascal, by Sterling North
Summary: The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

Riding freedom, by Pam Munoz Ryan
Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.

Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn
Summary: Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.

Secret in St. Something, by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Summary: Fleeing from a cruel step-father, eleven-year-old Robin takes his baby brother and finds shelter with street boys living in a church in a tenement area of New York City.

Time for Andrew: a ghost story, by Mary Downing Hahn
Summary: When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.

White mountains, by John Christopher
Summary: Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.

Wind is not a river, by Arnold Griese
Summary: As the only ones not captured when the Japanese take over their Aleutian island village during World War II, two children must survive on their own.

Art of keeping cool, by Janet Taylor Lisle
Summary: In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.

Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis
Summary: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Ear, the eye and the arm, by Nancy Farmer
Summary: In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Hidden talents, by David Lubar
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.

Last book in the universe, by W. Rodman Philbrook
Summary: After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz
Summary: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Tarzan of the apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Summary: An orphaned infant boy is rescued by a tribe of giant apes. The child, named Tarzan by his gorilla family, grows up to challenge the rule of the mighty ape leader, Kerchak. But his life changes forever when he comes to the rescue of a beautiful young English girl named Jane.

Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner
Summary: Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen
Summary: After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Wind Singer: an adventure, by William Nicholson
Summary: Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee. She, her twin brother and a tagalong classmate follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people.

Z for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'Brien
Summary: Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

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