By the middle grades young
readers often have favorite authors or story types. Librarians
are well supplied with "If you like.." ideas
that will provide your reader with a long list of possibilities. Below
is a sampling of our recommendations.
If you don't find what you want, please ask us to help
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OUCH! by
Natalie Babbitt |
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HONUS
AND ME by
Dan Gutman
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In
this version of a Grimms' tale, a birthmark heralds
a boy's bright future, including marriage to a princess.
The fulfillment of the prophecy, however, is not
the end of the story.
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Joey,
who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds
a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back
in time. |
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THE
LANDRY NEWS by
Andrew Clements |
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BEETLES,
LIGHTLY TOASTED by Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor |
| A fifth-grader starts
a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out
classroom teacher to really begin teaching again,
but he is later threatened with disciplinary action
as a result. |
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A boy
competes with his know-it-all cousin by creating
recipes from unusual food sources and testing them
on unaware friends and family |
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FANTASTIC
FLIGHTS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FLYING ON THE EDGE by
Patrick O'Brien |
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MILLICENT
MIN, GIRL GENIUS by Lisa Yee |
| Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic
flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers
to the
space shuttles. |
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In a series of journal entries, 11 year-old Millicent
records her summer struggles to learn volleyball,
tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure,
and make friends. |
Selected
by Barbara Bruxvoort, Foster City Library 2004 |
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