Bartek, Mary.  Funerals & Fly Fishing.  When Brad Stanislawski is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom he has never met, at the family-owned funeral home he learns to love his grandfather and be proud of his family and his name.   Word

Beard, Darleen Bailey.  Operation Clean Sweep.   Corn finds himself in an impossible situation when he discovers that his mother is secretly planning to run against his father for the office of mayor. Based on a historic event, Operation Clean Sweep is set in Umatilla, Oregon in 1916.   Word

Birney, Betty G.  The World According to Humphrey.  Humphrey the hamster enjoys his life in the classroom.  He has friends, adventures, and a cage with a lock that doesn't work. His life would be perfect if only the teacher Mrs. Brisbane liked him.  Word

Clements, Andrew.  Lunch Money. Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at money making projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.  Word

Dahlberg, Maurine.  Escape to West Berlin.  In 1961 East Berlin, 13-year-old Heidi and her family cope with government pressure on her father to leave his job in West Berlin and the ever-present threats to close the border.  Word

Davies, Jacqueline.  The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon.   Described as America's greatest painter of birds, John James Audubon came to America at the age of eighteen and learned the habits of birds not only through studying books, but through observation as well.   Word

Delaney, M. C.  The Great Sockathon.  When a ghost named Eliza Baker asks four girls to save the historic tree she has haunted for seventy years, they decide to host a sockathon, a zany fund raiser involving a chain of socks.  Word

Fleischman, Sid.  Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates Galore.  A swashbuckling pirate saves a young boy and takes him on as a cabin boy.   Word

Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Willow Run.  While Meggie's brother is away fighting during WWII, her family moves from Rockaway, New York to Willow Run, Michigan so that her father can work in an assembly-line factory that produces B-24 bombers.    Word

Harlow, Joan Hiatt.  Thunder From the Sea.  A giant dog, rescued from the sea, becomes a hero to a small village in Newfoundland, especially to thirteen-year-old Tom Campbell, who names the dog "Thunder".   Word

Kehret, Peg.  Escaping the Giant Wave. A fire.an earthquake.then a giant wave! Can Kyle and his sister survive disaster without their parents?   Word

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry.  Everything is conspiring to drive the citizens of Middleburg, Indiana crazy-deadly Indiana Aztec bats.church bells that play music every fifteen minutes.AND Halloween!  It's time for Bernie Magruder and his friends to take action.  Word

Newman, Leslea.  Hachiko Waits.   Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, even after the professor unexpectedly dies at work.  Based on a true story.  Word

Park, Linda Sue.  Project Mulberry.  Raising silkworms as an after-school club project teaches Julia (a Korean-American girl) and her friend, Patrick, patience, tolerance, friendship-and the art of compromise.    Word

Repka, Janice. The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco.  Eleven-year-old Phillip's dream of running away from the circus comes true when his parents allow him to stay with relatives in Hardington, Pennsylvania, where dodgeball is practically a religion and life is anything bur normal.   Word

Schanzer, Rosalyn.  George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides.  Focusing on two men, George Washington and King George III, this book tells the story of the American Revolution from the perspectives of both countries. Word

Spiotta-DiMare, Loren.  Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog. In this fictionalized story about Norman Rockwell, young Scotty Ingram searches for the perfect dog to grace Norman Rockwell's "Four Seasons" paintings.   Word

Voigt, Cynthia.  Angus and Sadie. Two very different Border collie puppies are adopted by a young couple who live on a farm in Maine. Over the course of a year, the dogs learn their way around the farm.   Word

Wiles, Deborah.  Each Little Bird That Sings.  Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town. However, the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.   Word

Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion. Through poetry, Lonnie discovers a way to share his feelings about his parents' death in a fire and his sister being adopted while he lives in a foster home.  Word