The Good Master / Kate Seredy
A Hungarian farm family is visited by their city cousin.
How to Eat Fried Worms / Thomas Rockwell
Billy must eat 15 worms or lose a bet.
Younguncle Comes to Town / Vandana Singh
Younguncle brings fun to his three nieces and nephews
in Northern India.
Clementine, Friend of the Week /
Sara Pennypacker
It’s Clementine’s turn to be “Friend of the Week” when
she gets to be line leader and feed the fish.
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins / R.A. Spratt
A widower hires a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows
nothing about children to be his children’s nanny.
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie / Julie Sternberg
When nine-year-old Eleanor’s beloved babysitter Bibi
moves away, Eleanor spends the summer adjusting to
a new babysitter while still missing her old one.
FUNNY STORIES
The No. 1 Car Spotter / Atinuke
When the cart breaks down and the villagers can't get
their goods to market, Oluwalase Babatunde Benson,
otherwise known as the No. 1 car spotter in his village,
comes up with a brilliant solution. (j pb-A)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School /
Louis Sachar
Humorous stories from a class in Wayside School.
Math Curse / Jon Scieszka
One day everything is a math problem.
ANIMAL STORIES
Poppy / Avi
A deer mouse tries to persuade her family to move, but
an owl has other plans for them.
Chicken Feathers / Joy Cowley
Josh has a pet chicken who talks, but only to him.
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing / Judy Blume
Peter’s little brother, Fudge, is never far from trouble.
Hurry Home, Candy / Meindert DeJong
A dog is accidentally left behind during a family outing.
The BFG / Roald Dahl
Sophie concocts a plan to save the Big Friendly Giant.
Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo
Good things happen to a ten year-old girl because of
her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Babymouse: Queen of the World!/Jennifer Holm
An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the
world. One of a series. (j GRAPHIC BABYMOUSE)
The Mousewife / Rumer Godden
Story of a devoted mouse and a dove.
Melonhead / Katy Kelly
Adam “Melonhead” Melon, a budding inventor with a
knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest .
Runaway Radish / Jessie Haas
Radish the pony grows too big for the girls who own
him, but then finds another nice life at a horse camp.
The Princess Test / Gail Carson Levine
Humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The
Princess and the Pea.”
Catwings / Ursula LeGuin
Four cats are born with wings.
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science
Projects, and Other Man-Made Catastrophes
/ Lenore Look
A young Chinese boy who loves superheroes tries to
overcome his fear of everything.
Marty McGuire Digs Worms! / Kate Messner
Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school
cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.
Calvin Coconut: Dog Heaven /
Graham Salisbury
Fourth-grader Calvin wants a dog more than
anything in the world.
Lulu and the Brontosaurus / Judith Viorst
When Lulu’s parents don’t give her a brontosaurus
for her birthday, she sets out to find her own.
Stories about Rosie / Cynthia Voigt
The daily life of Rosie, a dog.
TRUE STORIES
Lizards / Nic Bishop (j 597.95 Bis)
Fun facts about lizards are paired with full-page
images by an award-winning photographer.
Ask Dr. K. Fisher about Dinosaurs /
Claire Llewellyn (j 567.9 Lle)
When dinosaurs ask Dr. Fisher about their concerns,
his witty replies include lots of prehistoric facts.
Owen and Mzee / Isabella Hatkoff (j 599.635 Hat)
Meet two unlikely friends: an orphaned baby hippo
and a giant 130-year old tortoise.
You wouldn't want to be a medieval knight! :
armor you'd rather not wear/Fiona Macdonald
(j 940.1 Mac)
The real story about the life of knights.
Dark emperor & other poems of the night /
Joyce Sidman (j 811 Sid)
Poems that celebrate the wonder, myster, and
danger of the night and describe the many things
that hide in the dark.
Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of
the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade / Melissa Sweet
Story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, who inspired
helium balloons that would become the trademark of
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (j 92S SARG Swe)
Roberto Clemente / Jonah Winter
(j 92C CLEMENTE Win)
The life of the legendary Pittsburgh Pirate.
MYSTERIES & ADVENTURES
The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully
Mystery / Doreen Cronin
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve
a complicated missing chicken case.
The Courage of Sarah Noble / Alice Dalgliesh
True story of a brave little girl in colonial America.
Love That Dog / Sharon Creech
A boy writes a poem about an event close to him.
14 Cows for America / Carmen Agra Deedy (j Ea DEEDY)
Maasai tribal members present the American people with 14
sacred cows as a healing gift after the September 11th attacks.
The Whipping Boy / Sid Fleischman
A prince and his whipping boy meet some outlaws.
Half Magic / Edward Eager
Four children find that wishes made on an ancient coin
only come half-true.
Stone Fox / John Reynolds Gardiner
A boy enters an important dog sled race.
The Secret of Platform 13 / Eva Ibbotson
Three unlikely companions travel through a magic
tunnel to rescue the king’s stolen son.
The Year of the Dog: A Novel / Grace Lin
A young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the
lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog to her own life.
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat /
Lynne Jonell
Emmy discovers that she and her parents are being
drugged with rodent potions by their evil nanny .
Word After Word After Word / Patricia MacLachlan
An author teaches five friends about the power of words.
Starry River of the Sky / Grace Lin
An innkeeper’s chore boy discovers that a visitor’s
stories hold the key to returning the moon to the sky.
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester / Barbara
O’Connor
Three friends find a valuable mechanical treasure that
fell from a passing train.
Riding Freedom / Pam Munoz Ryan
The adventure-filled story of a girl who posed as a boy
and fooled everyone.
The Mysterious Howling / Maryrose Wood
A governess finds herself in charge of three young
children who have been raised by wolves.
Twelve Kinds of Ice / Ellen Bryan Obed
The 12 different kinds of ice that surround the days of a
loving family’s Maine winter.
Many Moons / James Thurber
A princess wants the moon.
POETRY
Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems / Kate Coombs
(j 811 Coo)
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) / Linda Sue
Park; pictures by Istvan Banyai (j 811 Par)
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys / Bob Raczka
(j Ea RACZKA)
OUR FAVORITES
Look for these and other great books in the
Twenty and Ten /Claire Bishop
Twenty fifth graders hide ten children from the Nazis.
Children’s Library
Mt. Lebanon Public Library
16 Castle Shannon Blvd.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15228
412.531.1912
www.mtlebanonlibrary.org
2/13 (grades 3 & 4)
Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot / Anna Branford
A creative seven-year-old girl devises an imaginative
plan to get a blue china bird that she desperately wants.
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FRIENDS & FAMILY
The Penderwicks / Jeanne Birdsall
Four loving sisters have a memorable summer.
Bink & Gollie / Kate DiCamillo
Two roller-skating best friends—one tiny, one tall—share
three comical adventures.
The Dunderheads / Paul Fleischman
When Miss Breakbone confiscates Junkyard’s crucial
find, the Dunderheads plot to teach her a lesson.
Sadie and Ratz / Sonya Hartnett
Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly
get into trouble, especially when her brother is around.
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express /
Megan McDonald
Stink and his friends try to give away 101 guinea pigs
rescued from a laboratory.
Secret Letters from 0 to 10 / Susie Morgenstern
Ernest’s boring life is enlivened when a spunky girl
named Victory enters his class.
The Moffats / Eleanor Estes
The adventures of four Connecticut children.
Sarah, Plain and Tall / Patricia MacLachlan
Siblings want their father’s mail order bride to stay.