These books have less than 100 pages and some pictures. They can be found in the Juvenile Fiction area.
Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery - by David A. Adler
On Green Day,
Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the school's new skylights disappears,
Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery
.
Series:
A Cam Jansen Adventure
Call Number: J ADLER
Call Number: J ADLER
The Children Who Smelled a Rat - by Allan Ahlberg
All the Gaskitts have a bad day when the baby rolls away in a shopping cart, the twins' teacher acts peculiar, and a lost bird tries to hypnotize the cat.
Call Number: J AHLBERG
Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs - by Katherine Applegate
When the first-graders' bee antennae would not stay on their heads and the drummers would not stay in their seats for the open house play, Roscoe decides to help by using the "don't-you-dare" glue. Series:
Roscoe Riley Rules
Call Number: J APPLEGAT
Prairie School: Story - by Avi
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
Call Number: J AVI
The Mount Rushmore Calamity - by Sara Pennypacker
Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a Wild West adventure at Mount Rushmore. Series:
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures
Call Number: J BROWN
Boo's Dinosaur - by Betsy Cromer Byars
After being teased by her brother about her invisible dinosaur friend, Boo finally parts ways with her pal. Realizing how sad she has become after it's gone, Sammy starts to think that maybe Boo's friend had a real purpose after all.
Call Number: J BYARS
The Secret Lunch Special - by Peter Catalanotto
After being picked up by a new school bus and forgetting to take her sparkling lunch bag with her, Emily is forced to face the school lunch line and eat the Secret Lunch Special of the Day, in an amusing tale about surviving second grade and coming to terms with the definition of "mystery meat." Series:
Second Grade Friends
Call Number: J CATALANO
Super Hero Splash Down - by Jane B. Mason
When Sinestro Dog Corps show up at the water park, B'dg and Dex-Starr must put aside their differences to save their favorite
place to relax. Series:
DC Super-Pets!
Call Number: DCSUPER
Mercy Watson to the Rescue - by Kate DiCamillo
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor. Series:
Mercy Watson
Call Number: J DICAMILL
Gruffen - by Chris D'Lacey
Lucy thinks there is a monster lurking outside her bedroom window, so her mother makes a dragon out of clay to protect her while she sleeps. Series:
The Dragons of Wayward Crescent
Call Number: J DLACEY
Dodsworth in New York - by Tim Egan
When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase. Series:
Dodsworth
Call Number: J EGAN
The Return of the Killer Cat - by Anne Fine
Tuffy the pet cat narrates his escapades as he attempts to escape his family's cat-sitter and suffers through a humiliating episode of mistaken identity.
Call Number: J FINE
Number One Kid - by Patricia Reilly Giff
When Mitchell's father gets a new job and his family moves, he and his sister go to a new school where they must make new friends and adjust to new routines. Series:
Zigzag Kids
Call Number: J GIFF
Moose's Big Idea - by Stephanie Greene
Moose fancies himself an artist after his best friend, Hildy the pig, gives him art materials to help him while away the hours during hunting season as he waits for his beloved antlers to grow back after shedding them one autumn. Series:
Moose and Hildy
Call Number: J GREENE
Birthday Pony - by Jessie Haas
Grandma Aggie tries to help her granddaughter Jane and the independent pony Popcorn, who were born on the same day, become riding partners.
Call Number: J HAAS
Uh-oh, Cleo - by Jessica Harper
What starts out as a perfectly ordinary day in the Small house turns into Stitches Saturday when Cleo gets a cut on the head after her twin brother, Jack, accidentally pulls down their "Toy House."
Call Number: J HARPER
Cinder Rabbit - by Lynn E. Hazen
Zoe is chosen for the role of Cinder Rabbit in her school play and is also supposed to lead the class in the Bunny Hop at the end, but ever since wicked Winifred laughed at her for landing in a mud puddle, Zoe has forgotten how to hop.
Call Number: J HAZEN
Pinky and Rex - by James Howe
Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals or dinosaurs, find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister Amanda. Series:
Pinky and Rex
Call Number: J HOWE
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off - by Jacqueline Jules
Freddie finds a mysterious package outside his apartment containing sneakers that allow him to run faster than a train and inspire him to perform heroic deeds. Series:
Zapato Power
Call Number: J JULES
The Fenway Foul-up - by David A. Kelly
Cousins Mike and Kate are at Fenway Park when the lucky baseball bat of a star Boston Red Sox player is stolen. Can they find the missing bat before the game is over? Includes baseball trivia about Fenway Park. Series:
Ballpark Mysteries
Call Number: J KELLY
Horrible Harry Bugs the Three Bears - by Suzy Kline
Harry incorporates his fascination with earwigs into Miss Mackle's class project of acting out a fairy tale in front of the other third-graders. Series:
Horrible Harry and Song Lee
Call Number: J KLINE
Marmee's Surprise: A Little Women Story - by Monica Kulling
Based on the first chapter of Louisa May Alcott's
Little Women
, this is a retelling of the story of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. The March family doesn't have much money, but that doesn't stop the sisters from having fun or from pulling together to get through a difficult winter holiday.
Call Number: J KULLING
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! - by Grace Lin
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.
Call Number: J LIN
The Case of the Stinky Socks - by Lewis B. Montgomery
Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz join forces to tackle their first big case, finding out who stole the lucky socks from the high school baseball team's star pitcher. Series:
The Milo & Jazz Mysteries
Call Number: J MONTGOME
January Joker - by Ron Roy
Seven-year-olds Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy make observations and gather clues that convince them that their older siblings, cousin, and animals have been captured by hungry space aliens. Series:
Calendar Mysteries
Call Number: J ROY
In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen - by Cynthia Rylant
While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and a customer. Series:
Cobble Street Cousins
Call Number: J RYLANT
Misty to the Rescue - by Gillian Shields
Misty and five fellow mermaids, on a quest to retrieve six magic crystals that will protect the Coral Kingdom for the next year, face a storm sent by the evil Mantora and are driven off-course to the Kelp Forest, where they find a different kind of trouble. Series:
Mermaid S.O.S.
Call Number: J SHIELDS
Maybelle in the Soup - by Katie Speck
When Mr. and Mrs. Peabody invite a guest to dinner, Maybelle the cockroach, who lives under their refrigerator, ignores the warnings of Henry the flea to be sensible and ends up "splashing" into a big adventure.
Call Number: J SPECK
Kate Larkin, the Bone Expert - by Lindsey Tate
When Kate breaks her arm, she learns all about bones, from how x-rays work to how bones heal, and by the time she gets her cast removed at the end of the summer, she is an expert.
Call Number: J TATE
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