 | Title: The gold dust letters Author: Janet Taylor Lisle Summary: When nine-year-old Angela and her friends begin investigating the letters she has received from her fairy godmother, it helps take Angela's mind off her strained relationship with her father. |
 | Title: See you around, Sam! Author: Lois Lowry Summary: Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska. |
 | Title: Baseball saved us Author: Ken Mochizuki Summary: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over. |
 | Title: Sarah, plain and tall Author: Patricia MacLachlan Summary: When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. |
 | Title: The kid in the red jacket Author: Barbara Park Summary: When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by a little girl in a nearby house. |
 | Title: How to eat fried worms Author: Thomas Rockwell Summary: Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal. |
 | Title: The Cobble Street cousins : in Aunt Lucy's kitchen Author: Cynthia Rylant Summary: 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 one of their former customers. |
 | Title: The Van Gogh Cafe Author: Cynthia Rylant Summary: The Van Gogh Cafe, located in Flowers, Kansas, has magic in its walls, causing strange and mysterious events to occur there. |
 | Title: The four ugly cats in apartment 3D Author: Marilyn Sachs Summary: After a neighbor in her apartment building dies, ten-year-old Lily tries to find homes for his four ugly, noisy cats. |
| Title: I was a third grade science project Author: Mary Jane Auch Summary: While trying to hypnotize his dog for the third grade science fair, Brian accidentally makes his best friend Josh think he's a cat. |
 | Title: Prairie school : story Author: Avi Summary: 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. |
 | Title: The velveteen rabbit Author: Margery Williams Summary: The adventures of a stuffed rabbit and how the love of a boy turns him into a real rabbit. |
 | Title: Nasty stinky sneakers Author: Eve Bunting Summary: Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest? |
 | Title: Some frog! Author: Eve Bunting Summary: Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence. |
 | Title: Freckle juice Author: Judy Blume Summary: Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents. |
 | Title: Me Tarzan Author: Betsy Byars Summary: When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals. |
 | Title: Tornado Author: Betsy Byars Summary: As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy. |
 | Title: The bookstore mouse Author: Peggy Christian Summary: A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon Censor. |
| Title: The dog that pitched a no-hitter Author: Matt Christopher Summary: Mike's telepathic dog Harry is able to send him secret signals about the opposing players on the baseball field, but Mike's weak pitching arm requires them to find another plan to save the game. |
 | Title: Muggie Maggie Author: Beverly Cleary Summary: Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her. |
 | Title: Jake Drake bully buster Author: Andrew Clements Summary: It is up to Jake Drake to take matters into his own hands when Link Baxter, SuperBully moves into the neighborhood. |
 | Title: Love that dog Author: Sharon Creech Summary: A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. |
 | Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox Author: Roald Dahl Summary: Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family. |
 | Title: Esio Trot Author: Roald Dahl Summary: Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. |
 | Title: How to be cool in the third grade Author: Betsy Duffey Summary: It's not easy to seem cool when the whole class knows you wear superhero underwear and your mom still kisses you goodbye at the bus stop. But Robbie York has a plan, in this delightful chapter book that's well tuned-in to third-grade cool (Kirkus Reviews). |
 | Title: The hundred dresses Author: Eleanor Estes Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. |
 | Title: My father's dragon Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett Summary: A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. |
 | Title: Dinosaur habitat Author: Helen V. Griffith Summary: After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive. |
| Title: Sable Author: Karen Hesse Summary: Tate Marshall is delighted when a stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go. |
 | Title: Harriet's hare Author: Dick King-Smith Summary: A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien. |
 | Title: Mysterious Miss Slade Author: Dick King-Smith Summary: When eight-year-old Patsy and her younger brother befriend their old neighbor and her many animals, the children help the mysterious lady change her life. |
 | Title: The dragonling Author: Jackie French Koller Summary: Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother's dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons. |