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Ardagh, Philip | Eddie Dickens Trilogy |
It all begins when his parents become "a bit crinkly around the edges," and he goes to live with is aunt and uncle through a series of outrages adventures.
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Avi | Never Mind: A Twin Novel |
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
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Blume, Judy | Fudge series |
Funny stories about a family that inclues four year old Fudge.
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Child, Lauren | Clarice Bean Spells Trouble |
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinary" spy, Ruby Redford. |
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Gantos, Jack | Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade |
Jack is irresistably attracted to all things disgusting, gross and weird. |
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Gordon, Amy | The Gorillas of Gill Park |
A story of eccentric characters a 7th grader befriends at a park. |
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Heide, Pam | Banana Twist |
Follow a boy’s attempts to elude his seemingly banana obsessed neighbor. |
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Hicks, Bette | Animal House and Iz |
Join Iz in her family chaos and assortment of odd pets. |
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Horvath, Polly | Everything on a Waffle |
A witty tale of an 11 year old learning about human nature. |
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Jenning, Patrick | Out Standing in My Field |
Although fifth-grader Ty Cutter is named after baseball great Ty Cobb, he is the worst player on the Brewer's team - which happens t be coached by his overly-competative father. |
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Kelly, Katy | Melonhead |
Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention. |
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Kennemore, Tim | Circle of Doom |
Lizzie makes a series of potions that somehow keep working to the astonishment of her brothers. |
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Kinney, Jeff | Diary of a Wimpy Kid series |
Greg records his sixth grade experience in a middle school wehre he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need shave twice daily, hope just to survive… |
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Kline, Suzy | Who’s Orp’s Girlfriend |
Orp faces the predicament of liking two girls at one time. |
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Korman, Gordon | The Chicken Doesn’t Skate |
Meet science project, Henrietta the chicken, recently appointed school mascot. |
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Korman, Gordon | The 6th Grade Nickname Game |
Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley have nicknames for everyone in school- and they need to come up with the right one for a new girl, Cassandra… |
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Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking series |
Follow the escapades of a little girl who has no parents but lives with a monkey and a horse. |
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Lowry, Lois | The Willoughbys |
The children set out to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.. |
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MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series |
Stories of the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who lives in an upside-down house. |
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Manes, Stephen | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days |
Milo finds a book at the Library that promises to make him a perfect person in just three days. |
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Moss, Marissa | Amelia's Notebook (series) |
A hand-written notebook in which Amelia records all her thoughts and feelings about friends, family and school. |
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Park, Barbara | My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters |
Twelve-year-old Charlie has a lot to adjust to with a new step family. |
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Peck, Robert | Soup series |
Follow the funny events of Rob and Soup in their small town in Vermont. |
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Pinkwater, Daniel | The Hoboken Chicken Emergency |
Instead of a turkey, a 260 pound chicken is obtained for Thanksgiving… |
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Pullman, Philip | I Was a Rat! |
Is Roger a rat turned boy? He sure is acting that way… |
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Rex, Adam | The True Meaning of Smekday |
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. |
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Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms |
Two boys set out to prove that worms make a delicious meal. |
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Sachar, Louis | Sideways Stories from Wayside School |
A lot of very strange things go on in this wacky school… |
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Scanback, Mindy | Princess from Another Planet |
A series of weird events start to convince 14-year-old Gracie that her mother's delusions about being the deposed queen of a distant planet just might be true. |
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Schirripa, Steven | Nicky Neuce: Welcome to the Family |
While his parents are on a cruise, twelve-year-old Nicky spends the summer with his grandmother and Uncle in Brooklyn. |
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Smallcomb, Pam | The Last Burp of Mac McGerp |
Everyone loves Mac McGerp, national burping champion – but a new repressive principle is causing problems! |
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Smith, Robert K. | Chocolate Fever |
A boy starts to break out in brown bumps after eating too much chocolate. |
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Smith, Robert K. | The War with Grandpa |
Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandpa, Pete decides to delare war in an attempt to get it back. |
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Stolz, Mary | The Explorer of Barkham Street |
Meet a 13 year old boy with a very active and humorous imagination. |
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Whybrow, Ian | Little Wolf’s Book of Badness |
Little Wolf is sent to Uncle Big Bad Wolfs school to learn to be a proper wolf. |
summaries copied or adapted from WLS catalog
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©Briarcliff Manor Public Library
This website was created by Amy B.G. Kaplan
(abgkaplan@westchesterlibraries.org)
Last revised February 14, 2010
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