"Munch a Bunch of Books"
Children's Book Lists - 2002



PRIMARY GRADES   (Grades K-3)
Open BookDon't Miss! Open BookFamily Share Open BookPicture Books Open Book Beginning Readers Open Book First Chapter Books  
INTERMEDIATE GRADES   (Grades 4-6)
Open Book Don't Miss! Open Book Family Share Open Book Gr. 3 to 4 Open Book Gr 4 to 5 Open Book Gr 5 to 6 Open Book Nutmeg 2003


The 2000 list, 1999 list and an edited version of the 1998 list are still available.


Here is an explanation of the Dewey Decimal system
and of call numbers used in the Children's Department.



PRIMARY GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 2002
DON'T MISS THESE!
J 811.54 AYLESWORTH The Burger and the Hot Dog
JE BEST Shrinking Violet
JE BRUSS Book! Book! Book!
JE CRONIN Giggle,Giggle, Quack
JE FALCONER Olivia Saves the Circus*
JE FLEMING Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
JE HOPKINSON Under the Quilt of Night*
JE JOHNSON Henry Builds a Cabin*
J 567.9 HAWKINS Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
JE NAPOLI Albert
JE TABACK Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
J 323 KING Martin's Big Words
JE SIMONT Stray Dog
JE WIESNER Three Pigs
FAMILY SHARE BOOKS
J 811 BATES America the Beautiful
J 579.8 CERULLO Sea Soup: Phytoplankton
JE HEPWORTH Antics!
J 641.5 HOPKINSON Fannie in the Kitchen
J 591.47 JENKINS What Do You Do
When Something Wants to Eat You?
J 782.4216 KATZ Take Me Out of the Bathtub
and Other Silly Dilly Songs
JE/JE PPB PRICEMAN How to Make an Apple Pie
JE STEVENS And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon
J 793.73 WICK Can You See What I See?

PICTURE BOOKS
*(other books with the same characters)
JE AGEE Milo's Hat Trick
JE ARMOUR Stop That Pickle!
JE CHILD I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go To Bed
JE BIRDSEYE Look Out, Jack! The Giant is Back!
JE BROWN The Picnic
JE CALMENSON The Frog Principal
JE COCCA-LEFFLER Bravery Soup
JE EHLERT Waiting for Wings
JE FRAUSTINO The Hickory Chair
JE GIBBONS Behold - The Unicorns!
J 634.7 GIBBONS The Berry Book
JE GOLDSTONE The Beastly Feast
JE GRAHAM Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate
JE HUTCHINS We're Going on a Picnic
JE KALMAN What Pete Ate From A-Z
JE KELLOGG Pinkerton and the Penguin Pup*
J CASSETTE BOOK The Teddy Bears' Picnic
JE LAMM Gauchada
JE LESTER A is for Salad
JE LESYNSKI Boy Soup, or When Giant Caught a Cold
JE LIN Dim Sum for Everyone
JE LONDON Froggy Eats Out*
JE McKISSACK Goin' Someplace Special
J 513.26 McMILLAN Eating Fractions
JE MALONEY His Mother's Nose
JE MARTIN Storytelling Princess
J 513.2 MURPHY Shark Swimathon
JE NAPOLI How Hungry Are You?
JE NUMEROFF If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
JE O'NEILL The Recess Queen
JE PALATINI The Web Files
JE PATTOU Mrs. Spitzer's Garden
JE PINCZES One Hungry Hungry Ants
JE PINKWATER Irving and Muktuk
JE POLACCO Mr. Lincoln's Way
JE ROOT Rattletrap Car
JE RYAN Mice and Beans
JE SHANNON Duck on a Bike
JE SPINELLI Sophie's Masterpiece
JE STADLER Beverly Billingsley Borrows a Book
JE STEEN Car Wash
JE TALBOT O'Sullivan Stew
JE VAN ALLSBURG Two Bad Ants
JE VINCENT Ernest and Celestine's Picnic
JE WABER Fast Food! Gulp! Gulp!
JE WILLEY Clever Beatrice
JE WOOD Sweet Dream Pie
JE YACCARINO The Lima Bean Monster
BEGINNING READERS
*(other books with the same characters)
JE READER ADLER Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery*
JE READER AVI Prairie School
JE READER BOLAND A Dog Named Sam
JE READER BOOK My Soccer Mom from Mars
JE READER CAZET Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine*
JE READER COWLEY Agapanthus Hum and Major Bark
JE READER CUSHMAN Inspector Hopper
JE READER DANZIGER What a Trip, Amber Brown*
JE READER GANTOS Rotten Ralph Helps Out*
JE READER GUEST Iris and Walter and Baby Rose*
JE READER 818.54 HALL Kitty Riddles
JE READER HOLUB The Pizza That We Made
JE READER HOROWITZ Breakout at the Bug Lab
JE READER JOHNSTON Wild, Wild Rodeo!
JE READER MAITLAND Bookstore Burglar
JE READER MEISTER Tiny the Snow Dog*
JE READER MILLS Gus and Grandpa at Basketball*
J 641.8 OLDER Ice Cream
JE READER PARISH Amelia Bedelia*
JE READER PATERSON Marvin One Too Many
JE READER RYLANT Henry and Mudge*
JE READER RYLANT Mr. Putter & Tabby Row the Boat*
JE READER RYLANT Poppleton*
JE READER RYLANT The High-Rise Private Eyes and the Case of the Troublesome Turtle*
JE READER SHARMAT Nate the Great and the Big Sniff*
JE READER STERN George and Diggety*
JE READER TORREY Beans Baker, Number Five
JE READER Van LEEUWEN Tales of Oliver Pig
JE READER WELLS The Germ Busters*
JE READER ZIEFERT Magic Porridge Pot
JE READER ZIEFERT So Hungry!

FIRST CHAPTER BOOKS
J ADLER Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery*
J 595.796 ALLEN Are You an Ant?
J BAKER Digby and Kate*
J BANKS Howie Bowles, Secret Agent*
J BOS Good Times with the Molesons*
J BROWN Arthur and the Double Dare*
J CHRISTOPHER Heads Up!
J CONFORD A Job For Jenny Archer*
J 641.8 COOPER Ice Cream
J DE PAOLA What a Year*
J GIFF Mary Moon is Missing*
J GILSON You Cheat
J HAAS Runaway Radish
JE READER HOWE Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right Pet*
J HURWITZ Lexi's Tale*
J JOHNSON When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street
J KING-SMITH Billy the Bird
J KING-SMITH Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig
J KLINE Mary Maroney and the Chocolate Surprise*
J KLINE Molly Gets Mad*
J KRENSKY Louise, Soccer Star?*
JE READER LOSI The 512 Ants on Sullivan Street
J McKENNA Third Grade Ghouls
J MEDDAUGH Lulu's Hat
J NIXON Gus and Gertie and Lucky Charms*
J/J PPB OSBORNE Stage Fright on a Summer Night*
J PARK Junie B., First Grader at Last*
J/J PPB ROCKWELL How to Eat Fried Worms
J ROY Invisible Islands*
J RYLANT Wedding Flowers*
J SACHS Jojo & Winnie*
J/J PPB SMITH Chocolate Fever
J WILLNER-PARDO Spider Storch, Rotten Runner*
J WOJCIECHOWSKI Beany Goes to Camp


INTERMEDIATE GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 2000
DON'T MISS THESE!
J CREECH Love that Dog
J HORVATH Everything on a Waffle
J MacLACHLAN Caleb's Story*
J PARK A Single Shard
J PECK Fair Weather
J 641.3 SOLHEIM It's Disgusting - And We Ate It!
FAMILY SHARE BOOKS
JE BUNTING Riding the Tiger
J 641 CRESPO The Secret Life of Food
J 599.885 GOODALL The Chimpanzees I Love
J 613.2 HADUCH Food Rules!
J 811.008 JANECZKO A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems
J 811.54 NELSON Carver, A Life in Poems
JE VAN LEEUWEN Sorry


GRADE 3 INTO 4
*Other books with these characters
J ADLER Andy Russell, Not Wanted by the Police*
J AMATO The Word Eater
J AUCH I Was a Third Grade Spy*
J CLEMENTS Jake Drake Know-It-All*
JE COMPESTINE The Story of Chopsticks
J DeGROAT Annie Pitts, Artichoke*
J DELANEY Deep Doo-Doo and the Mysterious E-mail*
J 641.5974 ERDOSH Food and Recipes of the Revolutionary War (series)
J GREENE Owen Foote, Super Spy*
J GRIFFIN Witch Twins
J GUTMAN The Million Dollar Kick*
J HALE Farewell, My Lunchbag*
J 641 JONES Eat Your Words
J JOOSE Alien Brain Fryout: A Wild Willie Mystery*
J KIMMEL Website of the Warped Wizard
J KING-SMITH Lady Lollipop
J McDONALD Judy Moody Gets Famous!*
J PATERSON The Field of the Dogs
J PILKEY The Adventures of Captain Underpants*
J 796.357 ROSENTHAL America at Bat
J SACHAR Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Control!*
J SCIESZKA Hey, Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge*
J SHIPTON Bug Muldoon
J WALLACE Upchuck and the Rotten Willy*
J PPB WARNER The Candy Factory Mystery*
GRADE 4 INTO 5
*Other books with these characters
J ADLER One Unhappy Horse
J AVI Secret School
J BUNTING Summer of Riley
J CLEMENTS School Story
J COONEY The Beloved Dearly
J FLEISCHMAN Bo and Mzzz Mad
J GAUTHIER The Hero of Ticonderoga
J JONES Dear Mrs. Ryan, You're Ruining My Life
J KEHRET Hideout
J McARTHUR The Return of the Plant that Ate Dirty Socks*
J MANES Chicken Trek
J MILLS Standing Up to Mr. O
J MOSS Amelia Lends a Hand*
J NAYLOR Beetles, Lightly Toasted
J NAYLOR The Healing of Texas Jake*
J NAYLOR The Great Chicken Debacle
J 394.109 PENNER Eating the Plates
J SNICKET The Bad Beginning*
J WILLIAMS One Thing I'm Good At
J WRIGHT The Moonlight Man



GRADE 5 INTO 6
*Other books with these characters
J AVI The Good Dog
J CARBONE Storm Warriors
YA COVILLE The Monsters of Morley Manor
J CREECH Ruby Holler
J 362.4 KELLER World at Her Fingertips
J DeFELICE The Ghost of Mrs. Hobbs
J EDWARDS The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
J 394.1 GIBLIN From Hand to Mouth
J GIFF All the Way Home
J HADDIX Among the Betrayed*
J HESSE Witness
J HURST Through the Lock
J IBBOTSON Dial-a-Ghosst
J JACQUES Taggerung*
J KARR Skullduggery
J KLASS Little Women Next Door
J LAWRENCE The Wreckers*
J NAPOLI Three Days
J RINALDI Girl in Blue
J SNYDER Spyhole Secrets
YA STANLEY A Time Apart
J SKURZYNSKI Valley of Death*
J VAN DRAANEN Sammy Keys and the Search for Snake Eyes*
J WALLACE Secret in St. Something
J YEP Angelfish*
2003 NUTMEG BOOK AWARD NOMINEES
J/J PPB AVI Perloo the Bold
YA ANDERSON/J PPB ANDERSON Fever 1793
J/J PPB BODETT Williwaw!
J/J PPB BRUCHAC The Heart of a Chief
J/J PPB DiCAMILLO Because of Winn-Dixie
J PPB EVANS The Elevator Family
J/J PPB FLETCHER FLYING SOLO
J/J PPB HARLOW Star in the Storm
J/J PPB LEVINE Dave at Night
J/J PPB WHELAN HOMELESS BIRD


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Updated July 8, 2002