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• Chicken Sunday

  Polacco, Patricia

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• The Littles

  Peterson, John Lawrence, 1924-

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• Pippi Longstocking

  Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002

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• Catwings

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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• Muggie Maggie

  Cleary, Beverly

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• The Chocolate Touch

  Catling, Patrick Skene

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• A Bear Called Paddington

  Bond, Michael

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  From the day Paddington was discovered on a railway platform in London, he was seldom far from imminent disaster, but it always seemed to turn into hilarious fun.

• The Chalk Box Kid

  Bulla, Clyde Robert

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  Nine-year-old Gregory’s house does not have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising one in an unusual place.

• Miss Daisy Is Crazy!

  Gutman, Dan

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• Herbie Jones

  Kline, Suzy

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  Herbie’s experiences in the third grade include finding bones in the boy’s bathroom, wandering away from his class on their field trip, and being promoted to a higher reading group.

• Henry's Freedom Box

  Levine, Ellen

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• Sarah, Plain and Tall

  MacLachlan, Patricia

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• The Hundred Penny Box

  Mathis, Sharon Bell

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  Michael’s love for his great-great-aunt who lives with his family leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all her old things.

• Ruby, the Red Fairy

  Meadows, Daisy

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• Winnie the Pooh

  Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956

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  Christopher Robin and his friends have adventures including Pooh Bear using a balloon to get honey, Piglet meeting a Heffalump, and Eeyore having a birthday.

• The New Kid on the Block

  Poems

  Prelutsky, Jack

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  Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

• Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

  Roop, Peter

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  In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper’s return to an island off the coast of Maine, and so his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.

• The Absent Author

  Roy, Ron, 1940-

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• The Talking Eggs

  a Folktale From the American South

  San Souci, Robert D.

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  A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

• The Skirt

  Soto, Gary

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  When Miata leaves the skirt she needs for a dance performance on the school bus, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents finding out that she has lost something yet again.