CHILDREN'S LIBRARY PAST AND PRESENT
BOOK GROUP BOOKS
 
 

JUNIOR READERS BOOK CLUB

2007-2008

Skinnybones by Barbark Park

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

The Chalk Box Kid by Robert Clyde Bulla

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson

 

2006-2007

Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar

A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth by Eoin Colfer

Shredderman: Secret Identity by
Wendelin Vandraanen

2005-2006

Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me by Katy Kelly

The Lucky Baseball Bat by Matt Christopher

The Courage of Sarah Noble
by Alice Dalgleish

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer

2004-2005

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Knights of the Kitchen Table: the Time

Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka

The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie S. Carlson

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla

Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? By Louis Sachar

Gooney Bird Green by Lois Lowry

 

 

FAMILY BOOK CLUB

2007-2008

Jennifer Murdley’s Toad by Bruce Coville

The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Replay by Sharon Creeech

2006-2007

Heat by Mike Lupica

Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice)
by John Flanagan

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong

On My Honor by Marian Dane Bauer

Indigo’s Star by Hilary McKay

2005-2006

Magyk by Angie Sage

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

Hoot by Carl Hiasson

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter

2004-2005

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Jackie’s Wild Seattle by Will Hobbs

The Case of the Baker Street Irregular
by Robert Newman

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Surviving the Applewhites
by Stephanie S. Tolan

2003-2004

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

Rascal by Sterling North

The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

2002-2003

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Forests of Silence by Emily Rodda

Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen

Williwaw! by Tom Bodett

Squire’s Tale by Gerald Morris

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

2001-2002

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
by Louis Sachar

I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman

The Trolls by Polly Horvath

You’re a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman
by Claudia Mills

Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel

Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise

Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman

Holes by Louis Sachar