Age: 10+ years Lexile: 830 Author: Tarshis, Lauren Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Puffin Books (6/1/2008) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches A heartwarming story from the author of the I SURVIVED series. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School....

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 830 Author: Clements, Andrew Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (2/1/1998) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.6 inches From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 800 Author: Ray, Delia Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (8/28/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 7.6 inches When 12-year-old Linc Crenshaw decides he wants to go to public school, his professor mom isn't so happy with the idea. He's convinced it will be the ticket...

Age: 4-8 years Lexile: 850 Author: Tresselt, Alvin Paperback: 40 pages Publisher: HarperCollins (4/22/1988) Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 9.8 inches

Age: 10+ years Lexile: 660 Author: Sachar, Louis Paperback: 233 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (5/9/2000) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations...

Age: 10-13 years Lexile: 620 Author: Avi Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (8/1/2009) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages...

Age: 10-12 years Author: Park, Linda Sue Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (10/4/2011) Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.2 x 8 inches The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 570 Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M. Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (2/8/2011) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches A beautifully written and deeply moving middle-grade novel with characters to cherish and a story that deals with tragedy and loss in a fresh way....

Age: 12+ years Lexile: 830 Author: Meyer, Carolyn Paperback: 227 pages Publisher: Gulliver Books (4/1/2001) Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to inherit the throne of England is separated from her mother; abused by...

Age: 10-13 years Lexile: 660 Author: Avi Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (9/1/2004) Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 7.5 inches Reintroducing a magical, bestselling medieval mystery from a Newbery-winning author! The release coincides with Avi's exciting new companion to this book,...

Age: 8-12 years Author: Hesse, Karen Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Scholastic (1/1/1999) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.5 inches This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression....

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 730 Author: Holm, Jennifer L. Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (12/26/2007) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.7 inches Newbery Honor winning , New York Times bestselling, and as full of fun and adventure as it is of deeper family issues--now with striking new cover...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 1020 Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (2/1/1999) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches DOES EVERYONE DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE? Marty's parents think so -- even Judd Travers, whose history of drinking and violence keeps Marty...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 890 Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (9/1/2000) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh in this Newbery Medal winning novel from Phillis Reynolds Naylor. When Marty Preston...

Age: 12+ years Lexile: 690 Author: Bunting, Eve Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks (3/20/2012) Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7 inches Irish teenager Barry ONeill is journeying to New York on the Titanics fateful maiden voyage. Hes homesick and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in...

Age: 7-10 years Lexile: 580 Author: Scieszka, Jon Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (3/8/2011) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches The perfect combination of the age old experience of holding and pouring over a physical book with newest media technology that...

Age: 7-10 years Author: La Fevers, R. L. Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (5/1/2008) Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches Theodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Her father may be head curator, but it is Theo and only Theo who...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 490 Author: Sachar, Louis Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House (NY) (8/12/1988) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.7 inches Give me a dollar or Ill spit on you. Thats Bradley Chalkers for you. Hes the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights...

Age: 9-13 years Lexile: 460 Author: DeVillers, Julia Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (12/22/2009) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.6 inches In Trading Faces , identical twin sisters Emma (the smart one) and Payton (the popular one) start seventh grade at a brand-new school and discover...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 740 Author: Rex, Adam Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Hyperion Books (5/1/2009) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 7.5 inches It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National...

Age: 10-14 years Lexile: 870 Author: McMann, Lisa Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (7/10/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.1 x 7.6 inches A riveting middle-grade dystopian novel from New York Times bestselling Wake author Lisa McMann that Kirkus Reviews calls The Hunger Games meets...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 770 Author: Kehret, Peg Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (10/1/1998) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches Working on a class project on Mount Saint Helens, Warren and Betsy are accidentally sent through time to the day of the volcano's eruption and must...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 640 Author: Smith, Robert Kimmel Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (9/1/1984) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.4 x 7.6 inches Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right into Peters room, forcing him upstairs. Peter...

Age: 11-15 years Lexile: 580 Author: Trivas , Tracy Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (8/8/2011) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.6 inches Griffin Penshine is always making wishes. But when an eccentric old woman named Mariah gives Griffin a box of shiny pennies, it sets in motion a...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 460 Author: Scrimger, Richard Paperback: 156 pages Publisher: Tundra Books (4/4/1998) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.6 inches How do you shut up when your nose is doing all the talking? Alan is not big or strong. He hates playing soccer and can barely keep up in math class....

Age: 4-7 years Author: Eichenberg, Fritz Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company (10/10/1988) Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.2 x 11 inches The richness of coloring; the strength, action and humor in the drawing; and the original rhyme for each letter make this an alphabet book to treasure....

Age: 10-13 years Lexile: 820 Author: Spinelli, Jerry Paperback: 180 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers(11/1/1999) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac"Magee might have...

Age: 10-13 years Author: Patterson, James Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Little Brown and Company (11/6/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 7.8 inches It's Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it's shaping up to be the worst year ever. He has enough problems at home without...

A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry (Author), Marc Simont (Illustrator) Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches....

Age: 3-7 years Lexile: 510 Author: Daugherty, James Paperback: 72 pages Publisher: Puffin Books (3/1/1989) Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 0.2 x 8.9 inches While walking to school one day, Andy meets a lion and soon makes a new friend. A tale of gratitude and helping out our neighbors, children of all ages...

Age: 4-7 years Lexile: 930 Author: Wolff, Virginia Euwer Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Scholastic Signature (4/1/2000) Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.2 inches Bat 6an annual softball game between two rivalrous teams of sixthgrade girlsexplodes catastrophically in 1948 because of the prejudice surrounding...

Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora (Author, Illustrator) The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page...

Age: 8-11 years Lexile: 550 Author: Byars, Betsy Cromer Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Puffin Books (11/8/2007) Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.1 inches At the eerie Hunt mansion, Herculeah Jones has been reading aloud to Lionus Hunt, an elderly stroke victim who can only communicate by blinking his...

Age: 8-11 years Lexile: 850 Author: Creech, Sharon Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: HarperTrophy (12/4/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches The kidnappers are actually her Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max, but that doesn't matter to Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie. She feels as if...

Age: 4-7 years Lexile: 660 Author: Plume, Ilse Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Dragonfly Books (2/9/1998) Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.1 x 10.2 inches Once there lived a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster who had grown too old to be useful to their masters. Because their masters want to get rid of them,...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 970 Author: Woodruff, Elvira Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (8/8/2000) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.3 x 7.6 inches In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 850 Author: Ibbotson, Eva Paperback: 195 pages Publisher: Puffin Books (4/14/2003) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches The Dial-a-Ghost Agency finds good homes for ghosts. And Fulton and Frieda Snodde -Brittle are looking for a few frightening ghosts to "accidentally" scare...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 670 Author: Pyron, Bobbie Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (4/24/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.6 inches Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, A Dog's Way Home is an unforgettable tale of the many miles, months, and mountains that divide two loyalfriends...

Age: 9-12 years Lexile: 590 Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M. Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (7/24/2012) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches Elise and Franklin have always been best friends. Elise has always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt , because Elise's parents...

Cinderella's Rat by Susan Meddaugh (Author) Life is full of surprises for the rat who gets turned into a coachman by Cinderellas fairy godmother. Susan Meddaugh uses her wit and animated artwork to give a hilarious new take on an old tale in this story of an ordinary rat caught in extraordinary circumstances....

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 900 Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Yearling Books (6/14/2011) Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 7.6 inches When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other. Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 920 Author: Epstein, Adam Jay Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (6/7/2011) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.6 inches WhenAldwyn, a young alley cat on the run, ducks into a mysterious pet shop, he doesnt expect his life to change. But thats exactly what happens when...

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator) Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses...

Free Fall by David Wiesner (Author, Illustrator) When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land. And you can come along. Age Range: 4 - 8 years Grade Level: Preschool - 3 Paperback: 32 pages Publisher:...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 590 Author: Feldman, Jody Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Greenwillow Books (12/23/2013) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.6 inches Jody Feldman's popular, award-winning novel about a group of kids playing the Gollywhopper Games the fiercest toy company competition in the country...

Age: 12+ years Lexile: 1320 Author: Burnford, Sheila Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library (12/18/1995) Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.4 x 6.9 inches Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable...

Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes (Author, Illustrator) The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into...

Age: 8-12 years Lexile: 730 Author: Morpurgo, Michael, M.B.E . Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Scholastic (7/1/2004) Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches A spellbinding tale of survival and self-discovery from award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, who is poised for breakthrough U.S. success. When...

Library Lil by Suzanne Williams (Author), Steven Kellogg (Illustrator) From the day she was born, Lil had a book in her hand...so it's no surprise when she grows up to become a librarian herself. She even manages to turn the people of Chesterville-who are couch potatoes-into readers. But then Bust-'em-up...

Age: 8-12 years Author: Bauer, Marion Dane Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (5/7/2013) Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.6 inches Mark is a boy who needs a dog. But he cant get his mom on board with his plan. Buddy is a dog who needs a boy. Buddy has an owner already,...