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“The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs”

By: Jon Scieszka

Illustrated by: Lane Smith

Tells the story of the three little pigs in the perspective if the Big Bad Wolf.

“Why the Banana Split”

By: Rick Walton

Illustrator: Jimmy Holder

Tells the story of how a Tyrannosaurs Rex moved to town and everyone was scared so everyone left. However, he was vegetarian, so everyone came back except the bananas.

“The Frog Prince Continued”

By: Jon Scieszka

Illustrator: Steve Johnson

This book takes place after the “Frog Prince”, and tells the story of how the prince and princess are living. They are not very happy so the prince goes out and tries to get himself turned back into a frog. On his he asks a lot of people but no one will turn him back into a frog. Final he finds someone, but she turn both the prince and the princess into frogs and they live happily ever after.

“Frog Went A-Courtin”

By: John Langstaff

Illustrator: Feodor Rojankoosky

Tells the story of a frog trying to find a wife. He goes out to find a wife and no one will marry him, until he find a mouse that will.

“Antics! An Alphabetical Anthology”

By: Cathi Hepworth

Goes though the alphabet and in every word the word Ant can be found.

“Who ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons”

By: Jon Agee

Show pictures of oxymorons, for example “Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp”, shows a picture of a waiter caring a plate with a shrimp the size of a person on it.

“Frog and Toad are Friends”

Written and Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel

Tells the story of two friends a Frog and a Toad, and the good friends that they are.

“Frog and Toad Together”

Written and Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel

Tells the story of two friends a Frog and a Toad, and the adventures they have together.

“Frog and toad all Year”

Written and Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel

Tells the story of two friends a Frog and a Toad, and they many things that they do all year around.

“Amelia Bedelia”

By: Peggy Parish

Illustrated by: Fritz Siebel

Amelia Bedelia goes to work for Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, on her first day they leave her a list of things to do, but Amelia Bedelia is a little different, she does everything she is told, quit literally.

“Thank You, Amelia Bedelia”

By: Peggy Parish

Illustrated by: Barbara Siebel Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. Roger are getting ready for their Great Aunt Myra to come, and once again Amelia was left with a list, and she did as she was told exactly.

“Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower”

By: Peggy Parish

Illustrated by: Barbara Siebel Thomas

This time she is helping to plain a shower for a friend, and as Amelia Bedelia always does, he does exactly as she told.

“And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”

By: Dr. Seuss

Tells the story of a boy who walked to school on Mulberry street, and on his way he saw many fantastic things.

“The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins”

By: Dr. Seuss

Tells the story of Bartholomew and how every time he took his hat off another one would appear on his head, this happened until there was a great and magnificent hat appeared.

“Horton Hatches the Egg”

By: Dr. Seuss

Horton an elephant kind as he is agrees to set on and bird because the bird was tired, but the bird didn’t come back and Horton is stuck setting on this until the bird comes back.

“Yertle the Turtle”

By: Dr. Seuss

Yertle lives on Sals-ma-Sond Island and he is the King of the pond. One day he wants to rule all that he can see, so he make all the other turtles in the stand on top of one another so that he will be able to see more. He gets so high that the turtle fall and he is no longer the king of the pond.

“How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

By: Dr. Seuss

Tells the story of the Grinch and how he hate Christmas and he tries to still it, but in the end he find that there is more to Christmas then what he thought.

“If I Rand the Zoo”

By: Dr. Seuss

Tells the story of a little boy going to the zoo and how he starts to tell all the things that he would do if he ran the zoo.

“Horton Hears a Who!”

By: Dr. Seuss

Horton the kind elephant, finds a speck of dust and soon find out that there is a whole town called Who-ville on it. He does everything that he can to protect the town but no one believe him.

 

Fantasy

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”

By: J.K. Rowling

Tells the story of a young boy who finds out he is a wizard, and faces many challenges in the world that he enters.

“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

By: J.K. Rowling

Continues the story of Harry Potter and he faces a giant snake that is trying to kill everyone that is not a “true born wizard”.

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

By: J.K. Rowling

Continues the adventure of Harry. In this story everyone believes that Sirius Black is trying to kill Harry, but to everyone’s surprise he is really trying to save Harry.

“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

By: J.K. Rowling

In his forth year Harry thinks it will be a normal year, but he is pulled into a deadly game, and in the end Lord Voldemort returns.

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

By: J.K. Rowling

Do to Lord Voldemort’s returns and Harry and his friends forms an Order to fight Voldemort and his followers. This is done in secret because most people don’t want to believe that Voldemort is back.

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

By: J.K. Rowling

Now that everyone believes that Voldemort is back, the task at hand is to find a way that to beat him. Though Harry does not know how he can trust, and to make matters worst someone every important will be lost.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”

By: J.K. Rowling

Everything come to an end when Harry and his friends try to find a way to defeat Voldemort once and for all.

“Eragon”

By: Christopher Paolini

A young boy Eragon finds an egg and it hatches into a dragon, and he is pulled into a world of elves, dwarfs, mysterious creatures, and right into the middle of a war.

“Eldest”

By: Christopher Paolini

Eragon finds himself in the middle of a was and is then sent to live with the elves to train, but what he find there he did not expect.

“Midnight for Charlie Bone”

By: Jenny Nimmo

Tells the story of Charlie Bone and how he find out that he is endowed and has to go to a school for children like this. As he gets there he finds himself in a world that he was not prepared for.

“Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”

By: Jenny Nimmo

Continues the adventure of Charlie Bone, this time he finds a boy named Henry. Henry is really from the past, and Charlie has to save him from those that don’t want others to now that he is still alive.

“Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy”

By: Jenny Nimmo

Charlie seems to always find trouble this year he finds an Invisible boy, his Uncle is missing and like always his Great Aunts are up to no good.

“Charlie Bone and the Castle of Morrors”

By: Jenny Nimmo

As Charlie’s powers grow, and as new people come to Bloor’s Academy and Billy is missing, Charlie is now trying to save Billy from the mysterious people that have adopted him.

“Charlie Bone and the Hidden King”

By: Jenny Nimmo

With strange things happening at Bloor’s Academy, and someone or something helping Charlie, he is getting closer to finding out what really happened to his father.

“Charlie Bone and the Beast”

By: Jenny Nimmo

Asa one of Charlie’s endowed friend is missing, once again he and his friend try to save Asa from what could happen to her.

“The Bridge to Terabithia”

By: Katherine Paterson

Tells the story of a boy and a girl that become friends and invent a magical world called Terabithia.

“The Giver”

By: Lois Lowry

Tells the story of a boy and how he because the Giver. The Giver is a man that holds all the stories of the past. Is set in the future is a “utopian society”, which is really an anti- utopian society.

“Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo”

By: Obert Skye

Leven Thumps a kid from Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma, thinks his life is normal, but all is about to change as he finds a gateway, that connects two worlds together.

Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret”

By: Obert Skye

Leven Thumps is in Foo, and he must save the heir to the throne, before Foo falls into the wrong hands. Leven is also having to control is powers along the way.

“Leven Thumps and the eyes of the Want”

By: Obert Skye

The evil that is trying to take over Foo is also trying to take over Leven’s world. In order to do this Leven travel across Foo to find the Want, he well give Leven a power that will help Leven to save two worlds.

“The Lightning Thief”

By: Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson has more to worry about then just being kicked out of boarding school. The mythological Mount Olympus Gods and monsters are coming to life, and some don’t like him. Now he has to find Zeus’s master lightning bolt, because he is being blamed for taking it.

“The sea of Monsters”

By: Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson thinks that his life is going normally, but all is about to change when the Mount Olympus Gods and monsters start to reappear and he is sucked back into their world.

“The Titan’s Curse”

By: Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson seems to not be able to stay away from the Mount Olympus Gods. He is pulled back into their world when the Titan Lord is threatening their world.

Poetry

“Paul Revere’s Ride”

By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Illustrated: Ted Rand

Tells the story of Paul Revere’s Ride to worn the people that the British were coming.

"The Giving Tree"

By: Shel Silverstein

Tells the story of a boy and a tree that gave almost every thing it had to make the boy happy.

"Where the Sidewalk Ends"

By: Shel Silverstein

Collection of poems and illustration.

“The Missing Piece”

By: Shel Silverstein

Collection of poems and illustration.

“The Missing Piece Meets the Big O”

By: Shel Silverstein

Tells the story of a pie shaped piece trying to find were it fits.

"ALight in the Attic"

By: Shel Silverstein

Collection of poems and illustration.

"Runny Babbit"

By: Shel Silverstein

Collection of poems and illustration.

"Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies"

By: Shel Silverstein

Collection of poems and illustration.

“The Complete Mother Goose”

A collection of most, if not all the Mother Goose rhymes.

Realistic Fiction

“Rescue Josh McGuire”

By: Ben Mickaesen

Tells the story of Josh McGuire and how he is lost is the wilderness.

“Sparrow Hawk Red”

By: Ben Mickaesen

Tells the story of a young boy who runs away and finds himself homeless and struggling to stay alive.

“Stranded”

By: Ben Mickaesen

Tells the story of a young girl who is lost at sea and is also trying to save a dolphin that has been badly injured.

“The Da Vinci Code”

By: Dan Brown

Is a different version of the life of Christ and the many secret that have been keep from the world, so that no well really know the “true story “ of Christ.

Biography

“Night”

By: Elie Wiesel

Tells the story of a man and the many things he went through while in a concentration camp during WWII.

“The Diary of Ann Frank”

By: Ann Frank

Is the diary of Ann Frank and tells the story of what she and her family went through during WWII.

Historical Fiction

“All the Pretty Horses”

By: Cormac McCarthy

Tells the story of two friends that leave the U.S. to go to Mexico to find work. They find work, but one also finds love and the both spend time in a jail in Mexico.

Folktales

“The Names Upon the Harp”

By: Marie Heaney

Illustrated By: P.J. Lynch

Is a collection of Irish Myths and Legend>

“Treasury of Fairy Tales”

Is a collection of Fairy Tales, from “Cinderella” to “The Little Mermaid”.

Graphic Novels

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

By: Jeff Kinney

Is the dairy of Greg Heffley, a kid in middle school. This book tell the life of a kid in middle school, at lest in the perspective of Greg.

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules”

By: Jeff Kinney

The next school year in Greg’s life and this year he is trying to keep secret about what happened to him over the summer, but Rodrick his older brother is not making it very easy.

Favorites

Some of the books that I like the most are fantasy ones, like the Harry Potter and Eragon series.