Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
E BARRETT, J.
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Smoky Night
by Eve Bunting
E BUNTING, E.
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
Grandpa's Teeth
by Rod Clement
E CLEMENT, R.
Soon after Grandpa's teeth disappear from a glass of water near his bed, Inspector Rate has the whole town under investigation.
Fairy Trails: A Story Told in English and Spanish
by Susan Middleton Elya
E ELYA, S.
Miguel and Maria meet various fairy tale characters as they walk to their aunt's house.
Miss Alaineus : A Vocabulary Disaster
by Debra Frasier
E FRASIER, D.
When Sage's spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade.
Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
by Michael Garland
E GARLAND, M.
When the new teacher, Miss Smith, reads to her class, Zack and his classmates are amazed to find that the storybook characters come to life.
The Smushy Bus
by Leslie Helakoski
E HELAKOSKI, L.
- When the regular schoolbus is in the shop, a clever driver must use all that he knows about addition and subtraction to ensure that seventy-six children get on--and off--of the four-seat substitute bus.
The Scrambled States of America
by Laurie Keller
E KELLER, L.
The states become bored with their positions on the map and decide to change places for a while. Includes facts about the states.
An Undone Fairy Tale
by Ian Lendler
E LENDLER, I.
Tikki Tikki Tembo
by Arlene Mosel
J 398.209 CHI MOS
This traditional folktale explains why the people of China started giving their children short names.
The Paper Bag Princess
by Robert N. Munsch
E MUNSCH, R.
When a dragon burns her clothes and steals her prince, Elizabeth puts on a paper bag and sets off to rescue her prince.
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
by Kevin O'Malley
E O'MALLEY, K.
- Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
The Cheese
by Margie Palatini
E PALATINI, M.
After they all agree to ignore the story of "The Farmer in the Dell," the rat, cat, dog, child, farmer, and his wife have a party featuring the tempting hunk of cheese.
Dog Breath! : The Horrible Terrible Trouble with Hally Tosis
by Dav Pilkey
E PILKEY, D
Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog.
Mrs. Katz and Tush
by Patricia Polacco
E POLACCO, P.
- A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
Punctuation Takes a Vacation
by Robin Pulver
E PULVER, R.
When all the punctuation marks in Mr. Wright's class decide to take a vacation, the students discover just how difficult life can be without them.
Epossumondas
by Coleen Salley
E SALLEY, C.
- A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.
Grandfather's Journey
by Allen Say
E SAY, A.
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
Math Curse
by Jon Scieszka
JF SCIESZKA, J.
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
E SCIESZKA, J.
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These madcap revisions of fairy tales feature such favorites as Rumpelstiltskin and the Little Red Hen.
The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss
E SEUSS, DR.
The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.
The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate School
by Judy Sierra
E SIERRA, J.
A girl sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as her science fair project and then has to cope with the funny disaster that follows.
A Bad Case of Stripes
by David Shannon
E SHANNON, D.
In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
E STEVENS, J.
When a tennis ball lands in a prairie dog town, the residents find that their newfound frenzy for fuzz creates a fiasco.
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
E VAN ALLSBURG, C.
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
Falling for Rapunzel
by Leah Wilcox
E WILCOX, L.
To rescue Rapunzel from her tower, a prince yells for her to throw down her hair; but being too far away to hear clearly, she tosses out various items from her room, including her maid.
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