Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Eleanor Coerr Ages 8-10 The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based…
Rules Cynthia Lord Ages 9-12 Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life, which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules…
Rolling of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Ages 10-12 Why is the land so important to Cassie’s family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white…
Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood Liesl Shurtliff Ages 8-11 Red is not afraid of the big bad wolf. She’s not afraid of anything . . . except magic. But when Red’s granny falls ill, it seems that…
Rebel McKenzie Candice Ransom Ages 9-13 Rebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids’ Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker…
Ramona Quimby Series Books 1-8 Ages 4-9 The appeal of Beverly Cleary’s stories about the wonderful, blunderful Ramona Quimby has never faded. Each new generation feels connected to Ramona’s unique way of looking at the world as she tries to…
Racing in the Rain. My Life as a Dog Garth Stein Ages 9+ In this young readers’ edition of the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, meet one funny mutt—Enzo, the lovable dog who…
Pie Sarah Weeks Ages 8-11 When Alice’s Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily…
Out Of Darkness: The Story of Louise Braille Russell Freedman Memoir A biography of the modest Frenchman who, after being blinded at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind…
Otherwise Know as Sheila the Great Judy Blume Ages 7-10 Who is Sheila Tubman? Even Sheila isn’t sure. Sometimesshe feels like confident Sheila the Great, and other timesshe’s secret Sheila, who’s afraid of spiders, swimming,and, most of all, dogs. When…