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Indian shoes
Cynthia Leitich Smith ; illustrated by Jim Madsen.
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66 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
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The lost train of thought
John Hulme and Michael Wexler ; illustrations by Gideon Kendall.
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289 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Suspended for a year from his duties as a Fixer in the parallel universe called the Seems, fourteen-year-old Becker is called back into service when an entire Train of Thought is lost in the deserts of the Middle of Nowhere.
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Mystery at the Washington Monument
by Ron Roy ; illustrated by Timothy Bush.
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87 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
When KC and Marshall see lights flickering at night in the Washington Monument, their investigation turns up a monkey, a hole in one of the monument stones, and a hundred-year-old mystery.
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Ottoline goes to school
Chris Riddell.
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170 p. : some col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.
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Puppy power
by Judy Cox ; illustrated by Steve Bjorkman.
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91 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Boisterous third-grader Fran has trouble controlling herself, but learning how to train her gigantic Newfoundland puppy helps her gain enough self-control to win the part of princess in the class play. Includes instructions on puppy training.
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Rat trap
Michael J. Daley.
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viii, 212 p. ; 22 cm.
Bioengineered Rat and her twelve-year-old human companion, Jeff, stand together when Dr. Vivexian, who considers Rat his masterpiece, arrives at the space station to capture her.
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Rissa Bartholomew's declaration of independence
by Lynda B. Comerford.
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250 p. ; 22 cm.
Having told off all of her old friends at her eleventh birthday party, Rissa starts middle school determined to make new friends while being herself, not simply being part of a "herd."
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Road to Tater Hill
Edith M. Hemingway.
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213 p. ; 22 cm.
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, eleven-year-old Annie Winters, grief-stricken by the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, finds comfort in holding an oblong stone "rock baby" and in the friendship of a neighbor boy and a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
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The secret of zoom
Lynne Jonell.
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291 p. ; 22 cm.
Ten-year-old Christina lives a sheltered life until she discovers a secret tunnel, an evil plot to enslave orphans, and a mysterious source of energy known as zoom.
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A thief at the National Zoo
by Ron Roy ; illustrated by Timothy Bush.
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87 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
KC and Marshall are helping out with the baby tigers at the National Zoo when they meet a new friend, Sunwoo from China. Sunwoo’s father is lending the zoo a precious jewel called the Tiger’s Eye to raise money for endangered tigers. But during the zoo’s big party, the lights suddenly go out. And when they’re turned back on, the jewel is missing! Who stole the Tiger’s Eye? And how did someone sneak it out of a room with no windows and a guarded door? From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Valentine cat
by Ann Whitehead Nagda ; illustrated by Stephanie Roth.
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119 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Jenny writes an editorial for her fourth-grade classroom newspaper urging that her beloved cat, Munchkin, become the official school cat, despite his mischievous behavior before and during a Valentine's Day pet party.
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Waggit's tale
Peter Howe ; drawings by Omar Rayyan.
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275, 16 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
When Waggit is abandoned by his owner as a puppy, he meets a pack of wild dogs who become his friends and teach him to survive in the city park, but when he has a chance to go home with a kind woman who wants to adopt him, he takes it.
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