Stony Creek Library: 2011-12 Elementary Reading Olympics Annotated Book List

Attack of the Turtle : a novel

2011-07-18T19:15:00.002-07:00

by Drew Carlson

During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

Be a perfect person in just three days!

2011-07-18T19:15:00.001-07:00

by Stephen Manes

Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days.

Bridge to Terabithia

2011-07-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

by Katherine Paterson

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

The castle in the attic

2011-07-18T19:13:00.000-07:00

by Elizabeth Winthrop

A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.

The cricket in Times Square

2011-07-18T19:12:00.002-07:00

by George Selden

The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.

Danny the champion of the world

2011-07-18T19:12:00.001-07:00

by Roald Dahl

Danny, a young English boy, describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.

The devil's arithmetic

2011-07-18T19:11:00.002-07:00

by Jane Yolen

Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Drizzle

2011-07-18T19:11:00.001-07:00

by Kathleen Van Cleve

When a drought threatens her family's magical rhubarb farm, eleven-year-old Polly tries to find a way to make it rain again.

Everest: Book Two, The Climb

2011-07-18T19:09:00.001-07:00

by Gordon Korman

The climbing contest to see who will be the youngest person to climb Mount Everest turns into a life-or-death rescue mission.

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

2011-07-18T19:08:00.002-07:00

by E. L. Konigsburg

Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

George Washington’s Socks

2011-07-18T19:08:00.001-07:00

by Elvira Woodruff

In the midst of a backyard campout, five children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.

The great serum race : blazing the Iditarod Trail

2011-07-18T19:07:00.000-07:00

by Debbie S. Miller

The story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome. Includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it.

Hatchet

2011-07-18T19:06:00.002-07:00

by Gary Paulsen

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Ida B-- : and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world

2011-07-18T19:06:00.001-07:00

by Katherine Hannigan

In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

Jake Drake, bully buster

2011-07-18T19:05:00.002-07:00

by Andrew Clements

Jake faces the challenge of cooperating with the school bully on a class project.

James and the giant peach

2011-07-18T19:05:00.001-07:00

by Roald Dahl

Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearsome aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.

John Henry

2011-07-18T19:04:00.001-07:00

by Julius Lester

Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe

2011-07-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

by C.S. Lewis

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

Love that dog

2011-07-18T19:02:00.002-07:00

by Sharon Creech

A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Masters of disaster

2011-07-18T19:02:00.001-07:00

by Gary Paulsen

Twelve-year-old Henry Mosely, having decided his life is boring, ropes his friends Riley and Reed into a series of hair-raising adventures, including trying to break world records, visiting a haunted house, and solving a century-old murder.

The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

2011-07-18T19:01:00.000-07:00

by Kate DiCamillo

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

Moon Runner

2011-07-18T18:52:00.000-07:00

by Carolyn Marsden

Mina discovers that she can run faster than her athlete friend Ruth, and becomes confused thinking she must choose between running and friendship.

The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg

2011-07-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

by Rodman Philbrick

Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.

A mouse called Wolf

2011-07-18T18:50:00.002-07:00

by Dick King-Smith

A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist.

The night I flunked my field trip

2011-07-18T18:50:00.001-07:00

by Henry Winkler

Fourth-grader Hank, while on a field trip aboard "The Pilgrim Spirit," tries to learn knot tying in his own unique way, which causes unforeseen problems.

Night of the twisters

2011-07-18T18:49:00.002-07:00

by Ivy Ruckman

A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends.

No more dead dogs

2011-07-18T18:49:00.001-07:00

by Gordon Korman

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

No talking

2011-07-18T18:48:00.001-07:00

by Andrew Clements

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Peter and the Starcatchers

2011-07-18T18:47:00.000-07:00

by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin.

Philip Hall likes me. I reckon maybe

2011-07-18T18:46:00.002-07:00

by Bette Greene

Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder.

Poppy

2011-07-18T18:46:00.001-07:00

by Avi

Poppy, a deer mouse, urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

The reptile room

2011-07-18T18:45:00.000-07:00

by Lemony Snicket

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

2011-07-18T18:44:00.002-07:00

by Eleanor Coerr

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Savvy

2011-07-18T18:44:00.001-07:00

by Ingrid Law

Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.

The Secret School

2011-07-18T18:38:00.000-07:00

by Avi

In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher
when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.

Shakespeare's secret

2011-07-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

by Elise Broach

Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.

Shelter dogs : amazing stories of adopted strays

2011-07-18T18:36:00.001-07:00

by Peg Kehret

Tells the stories of eight stray dogs that were adopted from animal shelters and went on to become service dogs, actors, and heroes.

Shoeless Joe & me : a baseball card adventure

2011-07-18T18:35:00.002-07:00

by Dan Gutman

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.

Stuart Little

2011-07-18T18:35:00.001-07:00

by E. B. White

The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.

Superfudge

2011-07-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

by Judy Blume

Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.

Time for Andrew : a ghost story

2011-07-18T18:32:00.001-07:00

by Mary Downing Hahn

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.

Tuck everlasting

2011-07-18T18:31:00.002-07:00

by Natalie Babbitt

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

The whipping boy

2011-07-18T18:31:00.001-07:00

by Sid Fleischman

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Wild girl

2011-07-18T18:28:00.000-07:00

by Patricia Reilly Giff

When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.

Who was Ben Franklin?

2010-07-23T20:31:00.001-07:00

by Dennis Brindell Fradin

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.