Grades 3-5 Staff Picks 2024 | Chattanooga Public Library

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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

2) Beezus and Ramona

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Cleary, Beverly

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"Big sister Beezus Quimby tries to be patient with her ltitle sister, Ramona, but it isn't easy, not when Ramona powders her nose with marshmellows and invites her nursery school classmates to Beezus's birthday party without telling her family. Sometimes Beezus doesn't like Ramona, but the girls are sisters and that means they will always love each other...just not every single minute."--Page 4 of cover.

3) Bud, not Buddy

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Curtis, Christopher Paul

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Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
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4) James and the giant peach: a children's story

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Dahl, Roald

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Young James Henry Trotter is snatched by cruel fate from the perfect childhood into an existence as the unwilling ward of two terrifying relatives.

5) Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh

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O'Brien, Robert C

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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

6) Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective

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Sobol, Donald J

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Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.

7) Stuart Little

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White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)

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The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.

8) Monster and boy

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Barnaby, Hannah Rodgers

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"When Monster (who lives under the bed) meets Boy (who sleeps in the bed), Boy starts to scream--and Monster promptly swallows him. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship!--Page 4 of cover.

9) The total eclipse of Nestor Lopez

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Cuevas, Adrianna

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All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad's latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want anyone to find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted...

10) The International House of Dereliction

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Davies, Jacqueline

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In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door, only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too! Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own? Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken...

11) Flat Stanley's adventures in classroom 2E: class pet surprise

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Egan, Kate

12) The clockwork crow

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Fisher, Catherine

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"Orphan Seren Rhys is on her way to a new life at the remote country mansion of Plas-y Fran when she is given a package by a stranger late at night in an empty train station. The package contains a crotchety, mechanical talking crow, which Seren reluctantly brings to her new home. But when she gets there, the happy Christmas she had hoped for turns out to be an illusion--the young son of the house, Tomos, has been missing for almost a year, rumored...

13) Hummingbird

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Lloyd, Natalie

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A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book

From the bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic comes a heartfelt story about a girl who — armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair — refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure

Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as "fragile" just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle

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14) The sheep, the rooster, and the duck

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Phelan, Matt

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Wherever there is injustice, nefarious plots, or threats to society, the Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck are there to stop them!

A sly villain with a plan to cause havoc across the globe is no match for three extraordinary animals—and their two young human friends. From acclaimed author and artist Matt Phelan, The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck is a hilarious and action-packed middle grade adventure perfect

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15) The story of Gumluck the wizard

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Rex, Adam

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Meet Gumluck the Wizard, the star of a new chapter book series by the inimitable Adam Rex! This is a story about magic, if you like that kind of thing. It is also a story about a ghost with amnesia, an unpopular fairy, an ungrateful little town, and an extremely wise and helpful raven (who happens to be a pretty talented storyteller). But mostly, it is about a friendly little wizard who lives inside a big hill and really, really, really wants to...

16) The last mapmaker

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Soontornvat, Christina

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A Newbery Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book for Teen Readers

"An engrossing adventure."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In a fantasy adventure every bit as compelling and confident in its world building as her Newbery Honor Book A Wish in the Dark, Christina Soontornvat explores a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets.

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17) The lost library

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Stead, Rebecca

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The New York Times bestselling authors of Bob, Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, introduce readers to a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe...

18) Skandar and the unicorn thief

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Steadman, A. F

19) A place to hang the moon

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Albus, Kate

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In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.

20) Mr. Lemoncello's very first game

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Grabenstein, Chris

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THE PREQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD!

Discover the origins of what James Patterson calls “the coolest library in the world.” Follow along and solve the clues in this interactive adventure to reveal how Mr. Lemoncello became everyone’s favorite game maker! From the co-author of Murdle Jr.: Sleuths on the Loose…

“An...