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One evening she transforms her parents and her little sister for a life on the town. The book is designed for a primary level audience.

Swanson, Susan. The House in the Night. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2008. Print.

A young girl is offered a golden key to a house. A giant bird leads her on a fantastic journey that begins small and is confined within the house but grows and takes on celestial proportions as the repetitive story continues. This book will most appeal to preschoolers and early primary level children.

Weisner, David. Flotsam. New York: Clarion Books. 2006. Print.

A young beachcomber is searching the beach for anything that has washed up when he finds a rare treasure, a Melville underwater camera. He develops the film and as he looks at the pictures, he finds amazing fantastic shots of underwater mechanical fish, civilizations living on the backs of starfish, and most amazingly, a picture of a girl holding a picture of a boy holding a picture, and so on. As he looks through the magnifying class, he discovers that the pictures continue back to the very first pictures ever taken. After taking a picture of himself with the amazing camera, he tosses it back into the water for the next beachcomber to find. This book is designed for a primary audience.

Willems, Mo. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! New York: Hyperion Books for Children. 2003. Print.

The bus driver has to leave his post for a moment, and as he leaves, he instructs the readers not to let the pigeon drive the bus. The pigeon starts out sweetly requesting to drive, and he becomes more and more demanding as the readers tell him no, until finally he begins screaming. The bus driver returns and the pigeon leaves, only to find a tractor trailer where he begins the whole process over again. The book is geared towards preschoolers.

Zelinsky, Paul. Rapunzel. New York: Dutton Children's Books. 1997. Print.

This picture book is a retelling of the story of Rapunzel. Richly illustrated in Renaissance-like artwork, the Caldecott Award book adds a new twist: in this version, Rapunzel is pregnant with the Prince's baby and celebrates a hasty wedding in the tower after he manages the long climb up to the window via her reddish-gold locks. The book is appropriate for early readers and up.

Fiction for Middle-Elementary Grades

Clements, Andrew and Mark Elliott. No Talking. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2007. Print.

Dave, a fifth-grader, is astonished to learn in a report about India that Mahatma Gandhi spent one day of each week in silence to give his mind a rest. Dave attempts to give it a try, but being a constant talker, he finds it difficult to remain silent. He and a friend convince the entire fifth grade class to try the experiment. Despite a long-standing animosity, the boys and girls in the classroom form a bond during their periods of silence by trying to find other ways to communicate.

DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press. 2000. Print.

India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida when her father obtains a position as a preacher in a local church. Opal's mother left the family when she was only three years old and she has no friends in Naomi. One day she finds a big, ugly dog wandering around in a READ MORE

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