Battle
Setting: The Monroe household
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
by Deborah & James Howe
Main Character(s): Leroy and Maybelline - the Horse
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
by Kate DiCamillo
Main Character(s): Franny & Stein family, Miss Shelly - teacher
Franny K. Stein: Lunch Walks among Us
by Jim Benton
Setting: hospital, Hiroshima, Japan 1954 following WWII
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
Setting: Newsstand - NYC street
The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
Main Character(s): Sadako, 11, Chizuko, best friend, parents, siblings
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
Main Character(s): James, Old Man, Aunts Spiker & Sponge, centipede, spider, grasshopper, lady bug, glow worm
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Main Character(s): Amelia Earhart, George Putman, husband & published, Fred Noonan, aviator, Elanor Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
by Kate Boehm Jerome
Main Character(s): Princess Magnolia, her alter ego, Blacky - pony, Duchess Wigtower
Setting: castle, surrounding monster infested kingdom
The Princess in Black
by Shannon & Dean Hale
Setting: city, bakery, science lab, sewers
InvestiGators
by John Patrick Green
Main Character(s): Mango, Brash, alligators, Crocodile and Houdino, villans
InvestiGators
by John Patrick Green
Main Characters: Harold, dog, Chester, cat, mom & Dad Monroe & 2 brothers
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
by Deborah & James Howe
Setting: Franny’s house
Franny K. Stein: Lunch Walks among Us
by Jim Benton
Setting: Outside and Drive-In Movie Theater
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
by Kate DiCamillo
Main Character(s): Thomas, age 11-slave, Birdie, little sister
Setting: July 2, 1863 - Gettysburg, PA - war
I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
by Lauren Tarshis
Setting: a neighborhood in a city around a large red oak tree
Wishtree
by Katherine Applegate
Main Character(s): Becky & Toby - twins, Mrs. Brattle, librarian, Grandpa, Mrs. Chesterton
Setting: local library in Checkerton, Ohio (fictional town)
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?
by Avi
Setting: Home - New York City, Princeton, NJ
Superfudge
by Judy Blume
Main Character(s): John, boy; mom / dad, Susan, & the storekeeper
The Chocolate Touch
by Patrick Catling
Main Character(s): Peter age 8, little brother Fudge, mom & dad, baby Tootsie, friends - Jimmy & Danny
Superfudge
by Judy Blume
Main Character(s): Mario, Momma & Poppa. Tucker, mouse, Chester, cricket; Harry, mouse
The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
Main Character(s): Red, 200 year old tree and narrator, Samar, new girl, Bongo, crow, Stephen, classmate and neighbor
Wishtree
by Katherine Applegate
Shirley Temple Wong, Chinese immigrant; Jackie Robinson,
Setting: 1947 New York City,
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord
Setting: 1930s, Kansas, Chicago, Pennsylvania, in the air
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
by Kate Boehm Jerome
Setting: England, Atlantic Ocean, New York City
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl