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Booklists are available in the publication rack of the Youth Services Department.

Make the move from ETR to J with these easy Juvenile Fiction books.

Animals | Sports | Stories About Kids | Make Believe
Funny Stories | Science Fiction and Space
Mysteries | Stories of Long Ago

Animals

Tornado (J BYA)

       by Sharon Phillips Denslow

 Runaway Radish (J HAA)

       by Jessie Haas

Pee Wee’s Tale (J HUR)

Lexi’s Tale (J HUR)

       by Johanna Hurwitz

 Gus and Gertie and the Lucky Charms (J NIX)

       by Joan Lowery Nixon

 Smarter than Squirrels (J NOL)

       by Lucy A. Nolan

 The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D (J SAC)

       by Marilyn Sachs

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Sports

Patrick Doyle is Full of Blarney (J ARM)

       by Jennifer Armstrong

 Arthur and the Race to Read (J ART GOO V1)

   First book in the Arthur Good Sports Chapter Book series

       by Marc Tolon Brown

 The Dog That Called the Pitch (J CHR)

       by Matt Christopher

 Owen Foote, Soccer Star (J GRE)

   Part of the Owen Foote series

       by Stephanie Greene

 Just Like Mike (J HER)

       by Gail Herman

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Stories About Kids

Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret Life:       

   The Riot Brothers Tell All (J AMA)

       by Mary Amato

 The Stories Julian Tells (J CAM)

       by Ann Cameron

 Jake Drake Know-it-All (J CLE, J LP CLE)

       by Andrew Clements

Winnie (Dancing) On Her Own (J JAC)

       by Jennifer Jacobson

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (J JUN V1, J CD PAR)

   First book in the Junie B. Jones series

       by Barbara Park

Ivy and Bean (J IVY V1)

   First book in the Ivy and Bean series

       by Annie Barrows

Anyone But Me (J KAT V1, J CD KRU)

   First book in the Katie Kazoo series

       by Nancy E. Krulik

Herbie Jones (J KLI)

Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion (J KLI)

       by Suzy Kline

7 x 9 = Trouble (J MIL, J CD MIL)

       by Claudia Mills

The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room (J POL KID V1)

   First book in the Kids of the Polk Street School series

       by Patricia Reilly Giff

Camp Buccaneer (J SMA)

       by Pam Smallcomb

Beany and the Meany (J WOJ)

       by Susan Wojciechowski

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Make Believe

The Dragon of Doom (J COV)

   First book in the Moongobble and Me series

       by Bruce Coville

Spoon in the Bathroom Wall (J JOH)

       by Tony Johnston

My Father’s Dragon (J GAN)

       by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Dinosaurs Before Dark (J MAG V1, J CD OSB)

   First book in the Magic Tree House series

       by Mary Pope Osborne

Stuart’s Cape (J PEN)

       by Sarah Pennypacker

Once Upon a Blue Moose (J PIN)

       by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Ruby the Red Fairy (J RAI V1)

   First book in the Rainbow Magic series

       by Daisy Meadows

Knights of the Kitchen Table (J TIM V1, J CD SCI)

   First book in the Time Warp Trio series

       by Jon Scieszka

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Funny Stories

The Cat Who Got Carried Away (J AHL)

       by Alan Ahlberg

The Legend of Spud Murphy (J COL)

       by Eoin Colfer

The Elevator Family (J EVA)

       by Douglas Evans

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little (J GIF)

       by Peggy Elizabeth Gifford

Mostly Monty (J HUR)

       by Johanna Hurwitz

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid (J STI)

   First book in the Stink series

       by Megan McDonald

Miss Daisy is Crazy (J MY V1)

   First book in My Weird School series

       by Dan Gutman

Hiccup Harry (J POW)

       by Chris Powling

Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? (J MAR V1)

   First in the Marvin Redpost series

       by Louis Sachar

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Science Fiction and Space

Alien for Rent (J DUF)

       by Betsy Duffey

Aliens for Lunch (J ETR)

       by Jonathan Etra

Let Me off This Spaceship (J GRE)

       by Grey Greer

Space Brat #1 (J SPA V1)

   First book in the Space Brat series

       by Bruce Coville

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Mysteries

The Absent Author: A (J AtoZ VA)

   First book in the A to Z Mysteries series

       by Ron Roy

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds (J CAM V1)

  First book in the Cam Jansen series

       by David A. Adler

Who Cloned the President? (J CAP V1)

   First book in the Capital Mysteries series

       by Ron Roy

Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (J GER VI, J CD STI)

   First book in the Geronimo Stilton series

       by Geronimo Stilton

The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster  (J JIG V1)

   First book in the Jigsaw Jones series

       by James Preller

Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries (J NAP)

       by Donna Jo Napoli

Mystery of the White Elephant (J THR V1)

   First book in the Three Cousins Detective Club series

       by Elspeth Campbell Murphy

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Stories of Long Ago

A Lion to Guard Us (J BUL)

       by Clyde Robert Bulla

The Boy Who Saved Cleveland (J GIB)

       by James Giblin

Pioneer Summer (J HOP)

   First book in the Prairie Skies series

       by Deborah Hopkinson

Sarah, Plain, and Tall (J MAC, J CD MAC)

       by Patricia MacLachlan

The Battle For St. Michaels (J MCC)

       by Emily Arnold McCully

Cutlass in the Snow (J SHU)

       by Elizabeth Shub

When Mack Came Back (J STR)

       by Brad Strickland

Hannah’s Helping Hands (J VAN)

   Part of the Pioneer Daughters series

       by Jean Van Leeuwen

Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 (J YEP)

       by Lawrence Yep

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Revised 8/08