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Middle Guys: Grades 4 to 6

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Fiction
Nonfiction
Series
Authors

Fiction

Balliett: Chasing Vermeer

j Balliet
Choldenko: Al Capone Does My Shirts

j CHOLDENKO
Cleary: Dear Mr. Henshaw

j CLEARY
Clements: Frindle

j CLEMENTS
Colfer: Artemis Fowl

j COLFER
Curtis: Bud, Not Buddy

j CURTIS
D'Adamo: Iqbal: A Novel

j DADAMO
Du Bois: The Twenty-One Balloons

j DUBOIS
DuPrau: The City of Ember

j DUPRAU
Feldman: The Gollywhopper Games

j FELDMAN
Gaiman: The Graveyard Book

j GAIMAN
Gantos: Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

j GANTOS
Gutman: The Homework Machine

j GUTMAN
Higgins: The Black Book of Secrets

j HIGGINS
Korman: Schooled

j KORMAN
Lupica: Travel Team

j LUPICA
Morey: Gentle Ben

j MOREY 2006
Mowat: Owls in the Family

j MOWAT
Naylor: Shiloh

j NAYLOR
Nesbit: The Book of Dragons

j NESBIT
Paulsen: Hatchet

y PAULSEN
Reid: I, Houdini: The Autobiography of a Self-Educated Hamster

j REID
Rylant: Gooseberry Park

j RYLANT 2007
Salisbury: Night of the Howling Dogs

j SALISBURY
Selznick: The Houdini Box
j SELZNICK 2008
Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

j SELZNICK
Smith: Cryptid Hunters
j SMITH
Umansky: The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow
j UMANSKY
Whitehouse: The Strictest School in The World: Being the Tale of A Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Amazing Flying Machines, Mostly Broken

j WHITEHOUS
Yee: Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time

j YEE

Nonfiction

Burns: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion

j 551.462 B967t 2007
Collard: Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials

j 599.2 C697p 2007
Fleischman: Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini

j B-H836fL 2006
Griffith: Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless

jgn 507.8 GRIFFITH
Halls: Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures that May or May Not Exist

j001.944 H193t 2006
Lewin: At Gleason's Gym

j796.83 L672a 2007
Manning: Dinomummy: The Life, Death and Discovery of Dakota, a Dinosaur from Hell Creek

j567.914 M284d 2007
Masoff: Oh, Yuck!: The Encyclopedia Of Everything Nasty

j031.02 M398o 2000
Murphy: Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America

j974.7 M978b 2000
Nishida: Drawing Manga Martial Arts Figures

j 741.5 N724dm 2008
North: Rascal

jB-N867r
Paulsen: My Life in Dog Years

jB-Pa285m 1998
Platt: Forensics

j363.25 P719f 2005
Rex: Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich : And Other Stories You're Sure to Like, Because They're All About Monsters, and Some of Them Are Also about Food

j811.6 R455f 2006
Schyffert: The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins

jB-Co694s 2003
Singer: What Stinks?

j591.51 S617w 2006
Thimmesh: Team Moon: How 400,000 Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

j629.454 T443t 2006

Series

: Eyewitness books
Abbott: The Secrets of Droon

j ABBOTT
Brooks: Freddy the Pig

j BROOKS
Collins: The Underland Chronicles

j COLLINS
Herge: Tintin

j HERGE
Lasky: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

y LASKY
Riordan: Percy Jackson & the Olympians

j RIORDAN
Rowling: Harry Potter

j ROWLING
Snicket: Series of Unfortunate Events
j SNICKET
Uderzo: Asterix

ygn GOSCINNY, ygn UDERZO

Authors

Matt Christopher
Bruce Coville
Gary Paulsen
Dav Pilkey
Rick Riordan
Seymour Simon

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