Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements is about a boy named Ted. He lives in a small town and goes to a one-room schoolhouse. While delivering the newspaper one day, Ted goes by the abandoned Anderson […]
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Nurse Matilda
Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand is about the Brown family. The Browns are not an average family. They have lots of children (so many the book says “There were so many of them that I shan’t even tell you their […]
Continue reading »Nancy Drew, Girl Detective
OK, so pretty much everyone knows about the original Nancy Drew Series, which is one of my faves. But now there are new ones coming out! Nancy Drew, Girl Detective by Carolyn Kenne (the author’s code name) are new stories […]
Continue reading »Extra Credit
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements is a book about a girl named Abby who needs extra credit to go on to 6th grade. Her teacher gives her a few options for what to do, and Abby picks a having a pen […]
Continue reading »Drita, My Homegirl
Drita is a girl who is from Kosovo, which is located in southeastern Europe. She moves to America to escape the war, but it’s hard to be happy when she can’t speak English. Maxie is a kid who is very […]
Continue reading »Out of My Mind
Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper is about a 11-year- old girl named Melody. She is a genius- she can make up poems and songs, her vocabulary is advanced, and she has a photographic memory. But there is a catch. […]
Continue reading »Main Street
The Main Street series by Ann M. Martin is about Flora and Ruby, two girls whose parents died. They come to Camden Falls, where their grandmother lives, to stay with her. The sisters meet Olivia, a girl who lives next […]
Continue reading »Elvis and Olive
Natalie Wallis is bored. Summer has just started, and she doesn’t know what to do. So she writes down an assignment in her notebook: “See how fast you can ride your bike around the block.” So she hops on her […]
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