juvenile fiction

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juvenile fiction

Here lies the librarian

2006
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

Prairie dog rescue

2007
Diego helps mama and papa prairie dog find their five pups and get them safely to the burrow before the coyote finds them.

The doll in the garden

a ghost story
2007
Ashley, who has recently moved from Baltimore to a new town with her widowed mother, finds an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden and discovers she can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.

Utterly me, Clarice Bean

2005
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.

Time to eat, Panda!

2003
A hungry panda wakes from a nap to search for its favorite food--bamboo.

Night of the twisters

1984
A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends.

Judy Moody, M.D.

the doctor is in!
2006
Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.

Judy Moody declares independence

2007
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a larger allowance and her own bathroom.

How to (almost) ruin your school play

2005
Third-grader Willimena is unhappy when she is rejected for the leading role in a school play and instead is given the role of a tree in the play.

Herbie Jones and the second grade slippers

2006
Herbie, Ray, and their second-grade classmates learn more about treating each other with respect.

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