Book List

  • James and the Giant Peach

    by Roald Dahl Year Published:

    Difficulty: Average

    James Henry Trotter loses his parents and is forced to live with his evil aunts. Luckily, he is given magic crystals, which he accidentally spills on his aunts' decrepit peach tree. One of the peaches begins to grow, and grow, and grow. Finally, James climbs into the peach and it rolls away from his aunts' yard and his miserably lonely life. With the giant peach, he begins a new life, making friends along the way with hilarious characters like the Grasshopper and the Earthworm.

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  • Racing the Sun

    by Paul Pitts Year Published:

    Difficulty: Challenging

    Being an American in ian wasn't something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who neededembarrassing mumbo-jumbo to make you look different? But then Brandon's Navajo grandfather moved off the reservation and into the lower bunk in Brandon's room! It wasn't easy having a roommate who chanted himself to sleep and got you out of bed before sunrise to race the sun. But now Brandon's learning lessons he'll never forget. Like how to take on the old ways without giving up the new. And how to grow up proud and strong ... with a heritage as real as an old man's love.

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  • Stone Fox

    by John Reynolds Gardiner Year Published:

    Difficulty: Average

    The book centers on a boy named Little Willy who enters a dog sled race in order to win $500 to pay back the taxes on his grandfather's farm.

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  • The Indian in the Cupboard

    by Lynne Reid Banks Year Published:

    Difficulty: Challenging

    When Omri's big brother has no birthday present for him, he gives Omri an old wooden medicine cabinet he's found. The cabinet doesn't seem like much of a present to nine-year-old Omri, until he deposits inside it another present he receives for his birthday: a miniature plastic Indian. His mother comes up with a key for the cabinet, and the real magic begins. When Omri turns the key once, the Indian, named Little Bear, comes alive; but turn the key a second time and it's an ordinary plastic Indian again.

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  • The Landry News

    by Andrew Clements Year Published:

    Difficulty: Average

    Fifth-grader Cara Landry has a passion for journalism and publishes "The Landry News" in her new school. When Cara publishes a searing editorial about her teacher's inability to teach, changes are inevitable. When "The Landry News" is expanded to a class

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