Grade 3 & 4
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 | Angleberger, Tom |
| Strange Case of the Origami Yoda |
Dwight, the weirdest kid in school, has an origami Yoda finger puppet that gives advice. Tommy has to know if the Yoda is real, because he has a very important question to ask it.
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 | Bosch, Pseudonymous |
| The Name of This Book is Secret |
Offbeat detectives Cass and Max-Ernest discover the Symphony of Smells, a dead magician’s diary, a mysterious society, and a terrible secret.
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 | Buckley, Michael |
| The Fairy Tale Detectives |
Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are the descendants of the Brothers Grimm, whose fairy tales were actually case files. The two sisters are next in a long line of fairy tale detectives.
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 | Clements, Andrew |
| Frindle |
Nick is assigned a report on how new words are added to the dictionary. This gives him a brilliant idea: he begins calling a pen a “frindle”, resulting in his teachers’ annoyance and major school controversy.
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 | Dahl, Roald |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox |
A clever fox with help from his family outwits a trio of farmers.
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 | Dowd, Siobhan |
| The London Eye Mystery |
When Ted and Kat’s cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye Ferris Wheel, the two siblings must work together to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
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 | Henkes, Kevin |
| Junonia |
Alice is going to the beach, her beloved vacation spot, for her tenth birthday. When she gets there, she finds that much has changed. Will she have a happy birthday? Can she find a junonia shell at last?
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 | Konigsburg, E.L. |
| The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Claudia runs away to live at the elegant Metropolitan Museum of Art with the help of her brother, Jamie, and they solve a mystery surrounding an angel statue in the museum.
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 | Lai, Thanha |
| Inside Out and Back Again |
Ha loves her friends and her very own papaya tree in Saigon, but when the Vietnam war threatens her home and her father doesn’t return, Ha must learn to survive in an unfamiliar new place: Alabama.
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 | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| Waiting For the Magic |
Mama makes a spur of the moment decision to adopt four dogs and one cat when Papa is away, and two children find that they can communicate with the animals, who might just help their family reunite.
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 | Peck, Richard |
| Secrets at Sea |
A family of wealthy mice finds that the human family with which they live is moving, and the mice hide in their luggage and embark on a sea voyage full of adventure, romance and rodent aristocracy.
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 | Stein, Garth |
| Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog |
Enzo is a dog who longs to race cars. He knows about them through his racecar driver owner, and ultimately Enzo finds that the rules of racing are the rules his family needs to beat their own obstacles.
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 | West, Jacqueline |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows |
Olive discovers that she can travel in and out of the paintings in the Victorian house her family has moved into. The land inside is full of dark shadows, and Olive must protect her home before it’s too late.
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