JF Banks The Indian in the Cupboard 181pgs 
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

JF Blume Ellen Tebbits 160pgs 
The part of third grade Ellen Tebbits likes most is having Austine Allen for her best friend.

JF Blume Fudge-a-Mania 147pgs 
Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.

JF Blume Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing 160pgs
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.

JF Burnford The Incredible Journey 145pgs 
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

NEWB Coatswor The Cat Who Went to Heaven 62pgs 
A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.

JF Clements Frindle 105pgs 
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

JF Clements The Last Holiday Concert 
Life is usually easy for popular fifth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.

JF Cowell How to Train Your Dragon 214pgs 
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.

JF Creech Granny Torelli Makes Soup 141pgs 
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

JF Dahl James and the Giant Peach 146pgs 
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

JF DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux 267pgs 
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

JF Erickson The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog 137pgs Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.

JF Gantos Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue 197pgs 
When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.

JF Gardiner Stone Fox 81pgs 
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

JF George My Side of the Mountain 177pgs 
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

JF Gleitzman Toad Rage 165pgs 
Determined to understand why humans hate cane toads and to improve relations between the species, Limpy embarks on a dangerous trek from his swamp to the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

JF Horvath Everything on a Waffle 149pgs 
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in 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.

JF Kehret Earthquake Terror 132pgs 
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family has been camping, 12-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his little sister and their dog alive until help arrives.

NEWB Lawson Rabbit Hill 127pgs 
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.

PBJ/JF Lowry Anastasia Krupnik 113pgs 
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

JF MacLachlan Arthur For the Very First Time 117pgs 
Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.

JF Manes Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days 76pgs 
Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days.

JF Nagda Meow Means Mischief 92pgs 
A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.

NEWB O'Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 233pgs 
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

JF Peck Soup 96pgs 
The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.

JF Sachar Sideways Stories from Wayside School 124pgs 
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

PBJ/JF Selden A Cricket in Times Square 149pgs 
The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.

JF White Charlotte's Web 184pgs 
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.