Books for 3rd - 4th Grade

Summer Bibliographies 2002

J/F/BARNES
Barnes, Emma - Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher
When Jessica's mom decides to start her own business (she's going to be a professional witch!), Jessica is horrified and devises various plans to put an end to her mom's new career. 151p.

J/F/BECKER
Becker, Bonny - My Brother, the Robot
Chip is flunking 5th grade so his parents buy a SIMON robot to serve as a role model. Instead, Chip hatches a plan to take care of this "perfect son" once and for all. 136p.

J/F/CLEMENTS
Clements, Andrew - The Jacket
After Phil, a white boy, accuses Daniel, a black boy, of stealing his brother's jacket, Phil begins to seriously wonder if he himself is prejudiced. 89p.

J/F/DOHERTY
Doherty, Berlie - The Famous Adventures of Jack
A girl wandering through the forest stops at a cottage to meet a boy named Jack, but between beanstalks, giants and beautiful princesses, she meets more Jacks than she knows what to do with! 148p.

J/F/DUFFEY
Duffey, Betsy - Fur-ever Yours, Booker Jones
When his parents take off on vacation, Booker is left in charge to deal with his sister, his elderly grandfather, and his best friend-turned-enemy. In his spare time, he battles with a book editor to get his latest stories, Monsteroid and Monsteroid II, published. 100p.

J/F/ECCLES
Eccles, Mary - By Lizzie
Lizzie, a middle child with divorced parents, finds her mother's old typewriter and uses it to write about the events in her life the year she turns ten. 116p.

J/F/ELLIOTT
Elliott, David - The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle
Roscoe's always been a pretty normal kid, so why is he transmogrifiying into a giant bug??? 115p.

J/F/EVANS
Evans, Douglas - Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales
The students at M.T. Melon Elementary School learn about proper classroom behavior the hard way during the "new-school-year full moon!" They suffer from a case of math rash, are taken to Playground Court, and visited by both their fairy godteacher and the homework gnome. 112p.

J/F/GRIFFIN
Griffin, Adele - Witch Twins
Twin witches Claire and Luna don't want their father to marry his new girlfriend, Muffy, but if they use their magic to stop the wedding, they won't be able to earn their witch stars. 154p.

J/F/HADDIX
Haddix, Margaret Peterson - The Girl with 500 Middle Names
Janie doesn't fit into her new, rich suburban school. She tries to create a bit of mystery about herself by wearing a new sweater each day, each one with a different first name sew on it. 81p.

J/F/HORVATH
Horvath, Polly - Everything on a Waffle
Everyone in town believes that Primrose's parents are dead—killed in a fishing accident out at sea. But Primrose, despite being shuffled from home to home, holds on to her unshakable belief that her parents are castaways who will return one day. 149p.

J/F/HURWITZ
Hurwitz, Johanna - Lexi's Tale
When a human saves PeeWee, a guinea pig, from the jaws of a hungry dog, PeeWee and his friend Lexi, a squirrel, try to free the stranger from jail. 108p.

J/F/KING-SMITH
King-Smith, Dick - Lady Lollipop
Against her parents' wishes, spoiled Princess Penelope takes a pig as a house pet. The king hopes the pig's former owner can train the pig, as well as the princess, to live peacefully in the palace. 122p.

J/F/LEVY
Levy, Elizabeth - Big Trouble in Little Twinsville
The twins Amy and May always make trouble for their older sister Eve who is left to deal with the broken toys and dirty messes that the twins leave behind. 89p.

J/F/MACDONALD
MacDonald, Amy - No More Nasty
When Simon's eccentric great-aunt Matilda becomes his substitute teacher, he is afraid she will bring her farm animals to school. Instead, his aunt helps the worst class in the school win the math bee and the science fair. 171p.

J/F/MCDONALD
McDonald, Megan - Judy Moody Gets Famous!
Judy Moody's classmate Jessica gets her picture in the newspaper for winning a spelling bee, so Judy decides she wants to be famous too! 126p.

J/F/MCDONOUGH
McDonough, Yona Zeldis - The Dollhouse Magic
An elderly neighbor lets Lila and Jane play with her beautiful doll-house. The death of the neighbor and their parents' tough finances create a very unhappy Christmas season. 83p.

J/F/MCDONOUGH
McDonough, Alison - Do the Hokey Pokey
Brendan just wants to blend in at his new school, but when his mother is hired to D.J. the school dance, he must stop this potential disaster! 112p.

MJ/F/MAGUIRE
Maguire, Gregory - Three Rotten Eggs
The students of Miss Earth's class have an eventful spring when a bullying new student stirs up trouble in the annual egg hunt and the class discovers genetically-altered eggs that hatch into fire-breathing chickens. 192p.

J/F/SPINNER
Spinner, Stephanie - Expiration Date: Never
Tod and Tessa's outer space friend Jack is back asking for their help—his planet has been overrun by vacationing Vorons and he needs their help. 118p.

J/F/WALTER
Walter, Mildred Pitts - Ray and the Best Family Reunion Ever
When his family goes to Louisiana for a reunion, Ray learns about his Creole ancestors and the family rift between his father and his grandfather. 119p.

J/F/WESLEY
Wesley, Valerie Wilson - Willimena and the Cookie Money
When Willimena spends the money she was supposed to give her Girl Scout troop, the plans she and her sister made to sell lemonade and hold an animal beauty contest don't turn out as planned. 124p.

J/F/YEP
Yep, Laurence - When the Circus Came to Town
Ursula has vowed never to leave her room after a bout of small pox left her face badly scarred. But when Ah Sam, her parent's Chinese cook, brings a wild and acrobatic circus to town to lure her out of her room, Ursula helps create the biggest Chinese New Year celebration ever. 112p.

Prepared by Sonya Carlson and Sara Pemberton, May 2002