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Slam Dunk Saturday
(age 7-10) by Jean Marzollo friendship ... sports ... school It's almost time for Slam Dunk Saturday, and Billy is practicing like crazy for the Shoot-Out Contest. Will he beat Chad--who's huge, rude, and the best player in school? This play-by-play story reveals an important message about friendship. |
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Mean, Mean, Maureen Green
(age 7-10) by Judy Cox friendship ... school With help from Adam, a boy in her third grade class, Lilley gains enough confidence to stand up to the school bus bully, Mean Maureen Green. |
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The Arthur Series (age 7-10) by Marc Brown school ... friendship Arthur and his friends deal with school, friends, and family...just like you! title: Arthur and the Big Blowup title: Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest title: Arthur and the Lost Diary title: Arthur and the Poetry Contest title: Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club title: Arthur Makes the Team title: Arthur's Mystery Envelope title: Binky Rules title: Francine the Superstar |
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The Pain and the Great One Series (age 7-10) by Judy Blume friendship ... family Catalog: A six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) see each other as troublemakers and the best-loved in the family. title: Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One title: Going, Going, Gone with the Pain and the Great One title: Cool Zone with the Pain and the Great One title: Friend or Fiend? with the Pain and the Great One |
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Dear Max
(age 7-10) by Sally Grindley friendship ... authorship ... humor ... letters/journal When nine-year-old Max writes a fan letter to his favorite author, Max has no idea what's in store for him. Told through hilariously illustrated letters and postcards, this book tells the story of an unlikely friendship. |
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A Christmas Memory
(age 7-10) by Truman Capote traditions ... friendship ... folklore A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them. |
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Albertina the Practically Perfect
(age 7-10) by Susi Fowler friendship Molly and her best friend spend a summer building a tree house, but their project and their friendship nearly end when Albertina proves to be less than perfect. |
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The Best-Laid Plans of Jonah Twist
(age 7-10) by Natalie Honeycutt friendship ... school Busy third grader Jonah Twist must endure giving a school report on elephant seals with the bossy Juliet Fisher, while worrying that his new kitten may have eaten his older brother's hamster. Sequel to "The All New Jonah Twist." |
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The Losers Fight Back: a Wild Willie Mystery
(age 7-10) by Barbara Joosse friendship ... mystery ... sports With some help from his detective partner King Kyle in Cleveland, Wild Willie and his friend Lucy figure out how to turn their soccer team into winners. |
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The Clementine Series (age 7-10) by Sara Pennypacker friendship ... humor ... school Clementine notices everything...especially when adults would prefer her not to. This chapter book finds her sorting through all kinds of trouble, in her own hilarious way. title: Clementine |
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Roxie and the Hooligans
(age 7-10) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor humor ... friendship ... adventure ... survival What do you do if you're buried in an avalanche? Roxie Warbler knows what to do in all kinds of situations. And she's learned it all from her favorite book: Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them. But there's one situation Roxie doesn't know how to handle and that's dealing with Helvetia's Hooligans, the meanest band of bullies in school. Then Roxie and the hooligans are stranded together on a desert island, the hideout of a couple of criminals on the lam. Can five kids, armed with only a load of survival tactics and a little bit of teamwork, vanquish the villains and find their way home? |
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Get Ready for Gabi Series (age 7-10) by Marisa Montes humor ... friendship ... school With her friends and familia by her side, Gabi is ready for anything--sort of. Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado (Gabi for short) has big problemas. Her worst enemy, Johnny Wiley, is driving her crazy. He makes fun of her name. He picks on her friends. And now Gabi has to spend an entire month working with him on a school project! Gabi is so upset she can't even talk straight. Her English words keep getting jumbled up with her Spanish words. Now she's speaking a crazy mix of both, and no one knows what she's saying! Will Gabi ever make sense again? title: A Crazy Mixed-up Spanglish Day title: Who's that Girl? |
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Jake Drake Series (age 7-10) by Andrew Clements friendship ... school Kidalog: Jake Drake takes on bullies, boring classes, science fairs, and more! title: Jake Drake, Know-it-all title: Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet |
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Shoeshine Girl
(age 7-10) by Clyde Robert Bulla enterprise ... friendship ... growing up Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoe shine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes. |
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The Flimflam Man
(age 7-10) by Darleen Baile Beard enterprise ... friendship On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying...all, that is, except old man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey...and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends...unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake, Morrison is on his way out of town, leaving her disappointed but intact, and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man. |
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The Family Under the Bridge
(age 7-10) by Natalie Savage Carlson family ... friendship This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them. But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend seemed a trifle unwilling at the start. And it did not take Armand very long to realize that he had gotten himself ready-made family; one that he loved with all his heart, and one for whom he would have to find a better home than the bridge. |
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The Berenstain Bear Scouts (age 7-10) by Stan Berenstain friendship ... school ... humor The Berenstain Bears take on scouting, in their own hilarious way. title: The Berenstain Bear Scouts And the Sci-Fi Pizza title: The Berenstain Bear Scouts In Giant Bat Cave |
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The Berenstain Bears (age 7-10) by Stan Berenstain friendship ... family ... humor The Berenstain Bears muddle their way through real-life situations, in their own hilarious way. title: The Berenstain Bears Phenom in the Family |
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The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates
(age 7-10) by Susan Shreve humor ... friendship ... family ... school Driving home from the beach on Labor Day, Joshua receives some shocking news from his mother: he must repeat third grade. sequel: Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again sequel: Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge |
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Don't Call Me Slob-o
(age 7-10) by Doris Orgel identity ... friendship Shrimp must decide whether to befriend the new boy in his neighborhood, who is a Croatian American, or to join the kids who make fun of his name and his accent. |
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Class Clown
(age 7-10) by Johanna Hurwitz humor ... friendship ... school Lucas Cott, the most obstreperous boy in the third grade, finds it very hard to turn over a new leaf when he decides to become the perfect student. sequel: Teacher's Pet sequel: School's Out sequel: School Spirit |
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Starring Grace
(age 7-10) by Mary Hoffman friendship ... family Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, and more. |
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The Beany Adventures (age 7-10) by Susan Wojciechowski humor ... growing up ... friendship Beany worries about everything whether she is at home or school. title: Beany and the Meany |
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Not My Dog
(age 7-10) by Colby Rodowsky animals ... friendship ... realistic Eight-year-old Ellie desperately wants a puppy, and she's not happy when her parents tell her they're adopting a full-grown dog named Preston who belonged to a distant relative. |
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Dog Days
(age 7-10) by Colby Rodowsky authorship ... friendship ... humor Rosie and her babysitter's niece become friends when they discover they have a common interest in their neighbor Dawn O'Day, author of their favorite Super Dog books series. |
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The Littles Series
(age 7-10) by John Peterson adventure ... fantasy ... friendship Meet the Littles, a tiny family with a big heart. sequel: The Littles |
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The Stink Series (age 7-10) by Megan McDonald realistic ... enterprise ... friendship ... humor Meet Judy Moody's little brother Stink. Whether he's corresponding with candy companies to get free samples or drawing special inspiration from a visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, Stink Moody is always up to something. title: Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express title: Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers |
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Judy Moody Series (age 7-10) by Megan McDonald realistic ... friendship ... humor Publisher comments: "Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood. A mad-faced mood." Judy also has an abundance of individuality and attitude, and when Mr. Todd assigns a very special class project, she really gets a chance to express herself! The mercurial Judy Moody will delight any kid who's known a bad mood or a bad day--and managed to laugh anyway. title: Judy Moody |
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Horrible Harry Series (age 7-10) by Suzy Kline humor ... friendship ... school Horrible Harry of classroom 2B is known for his mischievous pranks, and his unexpected moments of insight into the elementary school experience. title: Song Lee and the "I Hate You" Notes |
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My Dog, Cat
(age 7-10) by Marty Crisp realistic ... friendship ... animals It's bad enough being a boy with a girl's name, but now Abbie's dog is making him a target for bullies. He's worried about being seen with his aunt's ``sissy'' dog... but feisty Catullus proves that big isn't necessarily better! |
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My Father's Dragon Series (age 7-10) by Ruth Stiles Gannett adventure ... friendship ... knights/castles/dragons 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: Elmer and the Dragon title: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon |