Elementary+Chapter+Books

Gertrude Chandler Warner 2nd grade- 5th grade (maybe some very advanced 1st graders) Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny and four orphans and siblings, and “no one knows where they came from.” Their parents passed away in a car accident. There grandfather is looking for them but the children do not know their grandfather and they are afraid he will be mean to them. They try and stay hidden. One day the children come across and old train boxcar and decide to make this their new home. They make beds out of pine needles, and they find dishes from the dump and clean them. The oldest, Henry, gets a job doing yard work and chores for a man named Dr. Moore. Little do the children know that Dr. Moore is friends with their grandfather, who is a nice and wealthy man in the town. After the children meet James Henry and find out he is their grandfather they are more than delighted to move into his big house. Their grandfather even decides to move their boxcar to his backyard so the children do not get too homesick. This the first book in a long series of many adventures that “The Boxcar Children” go on. These books are very popular among elementary school students. - EP
 * The Boxcar Children #1**

Debbie Dadey
 * Cupid Doesn’t Flip Hamburgers **

This book is one of the many books in the Bailey School Kids series of intermediate literature. Strange things always seem to happen to the people in Bailey City. At school, there is a new cook that started working in the cafeteria. Once she is hired, weird things start happening. It seems like all the students are getting sick..lovesick! The Bailey School Kids suspect something is up, and are determined to find out if the cook is cooking up lunch or potions!

This is definitely a series I would like to have in my classroom library. Even they are unrealistic, they are fun books to read. I think that even those students who do not like to read will enjoy this series because it does relate to them and it is funny. I loved reading these books when I was younger! - LP

Andrew Clements 3rd grade- 5th grade (maybe advanced 2nd graders) “Frindle” by Andrew Clements is a story about a fifth grade boy named Nick Allen. Nick is one of those kids who teachers would consider a trouble maker, but really he is just a very creative boy. One day Nick’s English teacher, Mrs. Granger, discussed how words were formed. Everyone in the fifth grade was a little scared of Mrs. Granger and her high expectations and love of the dictionary. Her previous students considered her very strict and warned the younger students. However, all this talk about forming new words got Nick Allen thinking. The next day he came to school and started calling a pen a “frindle.” Then he got other kids to start using the word. As expected Mrs. Granger was furious, she decided to try and put a stop to all the madness, and enforce discipline for using the new word. Soon almost the whole school was staying after school writing “I am writing with a pen” over and over. Then the media got involved and soon kids all over the country were using Nick’s new word. This left everyone wondering if Nick’s new word would eventually fade out or would it become a new word. - EP
 * Frindle **