
Go Long By Tiki & Ronde Barber
After Coach Spangler leaves their junior high, 13-year-old twins Tiki and Ronde wonder if his replacement, history teacher Mr. Wheeler, can coach the Eagles to another winning football season.
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How to Train Your Dragon By Cressida Cowell
This silly chapter book tells the story of Viking boy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, son of the chief. Hiccup finds himself needing to find and train a dragon, and he becomes an unlikely hero in the process. |

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his or her own way. |

Annie and Helen By Deborah Hopkinson
Expressive and inspired illustrations combine with poetic text in this poignant story of the relationship between Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, with personal citations by Annie from her letters home. |

Flight of the Phoenix By R.L. LaFevers
Ten-year-old Nate is sent to live with a family cousin, the world's last beastologist, after his parents are declared lost at sea. Danger mounts when he is brought on an expedition to the Arabian Desert, gets lost, must protect a newly hatched phoenix egg and rescue his guardian!
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Sarah, Plain and Tall By Patricial MacLachlan
This sweet prairie tale of a family's experiences with Sarah, a mail-order bride from Maine, begins with children Anna and Caleb worried that their new mother might not like being away from the sea. |

Bad to the Bone
By Lucy Nolan
Neighboring dogs Down Girl and Sit are discovering that their owners are very hard to train. |

The Keeping Quilt By Patricia Polacco
Follow the author's family's quilt through several generations, from its creation by the first-generation immigrant family all the way to the present generation.
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