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Tap dancing on the roof by Linda Sue Park
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Do you like funny poetry with a twist at the end? Sijo, a form of Korean poetry similar to haiku, will capture your imagination.Subjects: Poetry, Korean Form of Poetry,...
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Swindle by Gordon Korman
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:How far would you go to get back what is rightfully yours? When Griffin Bing is cheated out of a priceless baseball card he makes a plan. With an unlikely group of sixth...
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Amulet. Book 1, The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibushi
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Emily and her brother Navin are lost in an alternative world of Alledia as they chase the tentacled beast that kidnapped their mother. The key to their survival lies in...
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Squirrel world by Johanna Hurwitz
Grades: 3-4Committee Annotations:Two curious squirrels living in Central Park embark on an exciting, though sometimes dangerous, adventure into the heart of New York City. Will they make it safely back...
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Someone named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
Grades: 5-6Committee Annotation:Eleven-year-old Milada is not Jewish, so why did German soldiers take her from her family in Czechoslovakia in 1942, and will she ever see them again?Subjects:...
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Shooting the moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Grades: 5-6Committee Annotation:Jamie's father is the commander of an army base and her life is the army but when her brother is reported missing in Vietnam, she starts questioning her idealism about...
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The seer of shadows by Avi
Grades: 5-6Committee Annotations:Horace Carpetine, an apprentice to an unscrupulous photographer, is forced to deceive a client by planting a ghostly image in a photograph. He finds that he has the...
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Savvy by Ingrid Law
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Mibs must use not only her magical gift, but also her wits to get to the hospital to see her injured father. When she and her companions sneak onto a bible salesman's...
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Rickshaw girl by Mitali Perkins
Grades: 3-5Committee Annotation:When Naima damages her father's new rickshaw, she knows she could use her artistic ability to earn the money to have it repaired, but in Bangladesh girls are not allowed...
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Puppy power by Judy Cox
Grades: 3-4Committee Annotation:Boisterous Fran has trouble controlling herself, but learning how to train her gigantic Newfoundland puppy helps her gain enough self-control to win the part of the...
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Pale male: citizen hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman
Grades: 3-6Committee Annotation:The birdwatchers of Central Park were buzzing about a young red-tailed hawk that had been spotted. What adventure would the hawk find in the park?Subjects: Red-Tailed...
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The magic half by Annie Barrows
Grades 4-6Committee Annotation:Look through the lens and travel back in time to 1935. Could a daring rescue of a girl named Molly bring Miri the twin sister she's always longed to have?Subjects: Twins,...
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The leanin' dog by KA Nuzum
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Dessa Dean hasn't left her family's cabin since her mother died. Left alone while her father hunts she hears the whimpering of a injured animal. Can she overcome her...
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Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:How much trouble can one boy and his five brothers get into? A lot! These memories of Halloween, sword fighting, brother sitting, school, and sports will make you laugh...
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Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Sam, a non-reader, sees his picture in an old newspaper clipping but what does it say? When he asks the new girl at school to help him, what he learns, and the questions...
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Dexter the tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Grades: 3-5Committee Annotation:Just how tough is he? At his new school, Dexter's journal entry claims that he beat up a student but what really happened?Subjects: Friendship, Authorship, Schools,...
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Brendan Buckley’s universe and everything in it by Sundee Frazier
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Brendan's love of rocks and minerals leads him to his grandfather, whom he has never met. Will their common interest bring them close together, or will family...
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Boys of steel: the creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Grades: 3-6Committee Annotation:Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster, two super- nerdy teens bonded over their love of science fiction. Together they created a new superhero, Superman, in a new format, the...
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Alvin Ho allergic to girls, school and other scary things by Lenore Look
Grades: 3-5Committee Annotation:In a series of laugh-out-loud vignettes, Alvin, a boy who is afraid of everything, tells us about his inability to talk at school, his quirky, but supportive family, and...
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Along came Spider by James Preller
Grades: 4-6Committee Annotation:Spider, trying to fit in with the "in-crowd," struggles with loyalty to his life-long friend and neighbor, Trey, whose quirky personality is seen as uncool. Can the...
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