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Too Smart Jones and the Pool Party Thief (Too Smart Jones #3)
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Gilbert Morris |
Juliet "Too Smart" Jones moves to a new town and lands right in the middle of a mystery when someone steals a camera. Juliet hates her nickname, so she decides she won't be smart anymore. Also see wh… |
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The Worm family
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Tony Johnston |
Unwelcomed by their neighbors because they are squiggly, skinny, and long, the Worm family moves from place to place before finally finding friends who accept and appreciate those who are different. |
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Just Henry
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Michelle Magorian |
When Henry develops an old camera film he uncovers a mystery and events spiral until his life resembles the drama of the big screen. |
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The meeting
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Brigitte Luciani |
Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires. |
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The fight
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Elizabeth Karre |
Bella doesn't know whether Dominic was gay, but she knows he was bullied, and she knows the adults who could have helped didn't because of some policy. After Dominic's death, Bella decides to stand u… |
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Candy shop
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Jan Wahl |
When a boy and his aunt find that a bigot has written something on the sidewalk outside the candy shop owned by a new immigrant from Taiwan, they set out to comfort the owner. |
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Wishtree
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Katherine Applegate |
Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . .
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie… |
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Clothes minded
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Chloe Taylor |
Zoey worries that she is closed-minded when she fouls things up trying to help someone who has a crush on her friend and when she tries to bar someone from joining the school's fashion club. |
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The garden of my imaan
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F. Zia |
The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya come to terms with her own lukewarm practice of the faith and her embarrassment over others' reactions to t… |
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Cheech and the spooky ghost bus
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Cheech Marin |
When Cheech drives his school bus through a graveyard, he picks up some unusual students there who teach him, and his "Cheecharrones," a lesson about making friends. |
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The Sneetches and other stories
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Dr. Seuss |
A book of humorous stories in rhyme.
The stories are The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What Was I Scared Of? |
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The sandwich swap
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Queen Rania Al Abdullah |
A beautiful book written by an actual queen. This book teaches about tolerance and accepting others. It is about two girls in school who learn how to accept each other's lunches, even though they a… |
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The big umbrella
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Amy June Bates |
A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain. |
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Sheetzucacapoopoo
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Joy Behar |
When a little dog goes to doggy day care and discovers that the big dogs are in charge, he decides to do something to remedy the situation. |
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Nobody's perfect
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Elliott, David |
A young boy reflects on the idea that nobody is perfect, including the other members of his family, but decides that, on the whole, with a little patience, they come close. |
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A boy of Old Prague
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Sulamith Ish-Kishor |
When a young peasant in sixteenth-century Prague is caught stealing, the lord of the manor sentences him to service in the Jewish ghetto, where he discovers unexpected kindness. |
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One enchanted evening
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Mark Kimball Moulton |
Queen Spider and Sir Fieldmouse find love at the Annual Midsummer Eve Dance in the land just beyond sunrise, where loons sing love ballads, caterpillars tap dance, and shared dreams mean more than di… |
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Fade to black
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Alex Flinn |
An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assult has changed their li… |
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The giant king
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Kathleen T. Pelley |
Long ago in Scotland, a talented young wood carver named Rabbie suggests a way to handle a giant who is terrorizing a far-off town--treat the giant as if he were a king, and he might behave like one. |
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Catch a tiger by the toe
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Ellen Levine |
In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the s… |
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