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Pick of the Decade 1995-2005: Best Fiction Amato, Mary. Snarf Attack, Underfoodle and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All , 2004. Prankster siblings Orville and Wilbur Riot, plot to catch a crook, search for treasure and design a catapult capable of defeating a bully, with hilarious results. Ardagh, Philip. The House Called Awful End , 2002. With tongue firmly in cheek, Ardagh tells the tale of Eddie Dickins, who is shipped off to live with Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud and ends up in St. Horrid's Horrible Home for orphans. (Sequels: Dreadful Acts and Terrible Times .) Armstrong, Jennifer. Black-Eyed Susan , 1995. Susie and her father love living in the sod house on the prairie in the Dakota Territory, but her mother longs for her life in Ohio . Concerned that her mother never laughs or smiles any more, Susie searches for ways to share her joy. Bauer, Marion Dane. Runt , 2002. Runt, the smallest wolf cub of the litter, struggles mightily to prove his worth to his father and his pack. Black, Holly. The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1 ), 2003. The Grace siblings, Mallory, Jared and Simon, move with their mother into their Aunt Lucinda's old house and discover a host of hidden magical creatures. (Sequels: The Seeing Stone ; Lucinda's Secret ; The Ironwood Tree and The Wrath of Mulgarth .)
Blume, Judy. Double Fudge , 2002. The mischievous, five-year-old Fudge, drives his brother crazy with his antics as the family takes a trip to Washington, D. C. and unexpectedly meets up with their cousins from Hawaii . (Previous titles: Fudge and Superfudge ; see also: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing .) Bowdish, Lynea. Brooklyn , Bugsy and Me , 2000. In 1953 nine-year-old Sam moves with his mother from West Virginia to Brooklyn and finds that his grandfather, a well-liked neighborhood character nicknamed Bugsy, does not seem to want him in his life. Brisson, Pat. Sky Memories , 1999, o.p. When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead. Bruchac, Joseph. Skeleton Man , 2001. When Molly's parents disappear and Social Services turns her over to a great-uncle she's never met, Molly relies on visions of a Mohawk legend to unravel the mystery in order to save her parents' lives and her own. Butler , Dori. Trading Places with Tank Talbott , 2003. Jason, who would rather work on his horror movie screenplay than learn to swim, finds an unlikely ally in Tank, the class bully, who is being forced to take ballroom dance lessons. Burgess, Melvin. The Copper Treasure , 2000. In Victorian England, three boys set out to retrieve the copper pipe at the bottom of the Thames , but their struggle has unforeseen consequences. Byars, Betsy. The Keeper of the Doves , 2002. In late 1800s Kentucky , Amie, the youngest of six daughters, lives with her family on a farm. Amie is afraid of and fascinated by the strange Mr. Tominski who cares for their doves. When her sisters' cruelty has dire consequences, Amie, the family writer, commemorates his life with a poem. (See also: Me Tarzan , Tornado and The Seven Treasure Hunts .) Carbone, Elisa. Starting School with an Enemy , 1998. Ten-year-old Sarah has just moved from Maine to Maryland . All she wants to do is make new friends, but accidentally, she makes an enemy of Eric, her next door neighbor, and things go down hill from there.
Clements, Andrew. Frindle , 1996. When Nicholas Allen's fifth grade Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Granger, insists that people determine what words wind-up in the dictionary, he decides to invent a new word for pen-frindle, which he sticks with, an action that has repercussions beyond his small town and school. (See also: The Laundry News ; School Story and The Report Card .) Coman, Carolyn. What Jamie Saw , 1996. Waking in the middle of the night, Jamie witnesses his mother's boyfriend, Van, picking up his baby sister and throwing her against the wall. His mother catches her and then rushes both children away from this brutal life. Fear haunts them as they struggle to rebuild a secure environment together. Coman, Carolyn. The Big House , 2004. When Ivy and Ray's parents are sent to jail, and left in the custody of their parent's accusers, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" their parents. Cowell, Cressida. How to Train Your Dragon , 2004. Young Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III must go forth and capture a dragon to train like the rest of the lads in his Viking tribe. He brings home the scrawniest of the lot, named Toothless, but with training, he and his sidekick save the day. DeFelice, Cynthia. The Ghost of Fossil Glen , 1998. When the ghost of Lucy Stiles saves Allie from falling off a cliff in Fossil Glen, Allie becomes determined to solve the mystery of her murder. (Sequels: The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs and The Ghost of Cutler Creek .) DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie , 2000. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni finds friends in her new home of Naomi , Florida , when she adopts the endearing dog who knows how to smile that she met in a grocery store. Dickinson, Peter. Chuck and Danielle , 1996. Danielle's pet whippet, Chuck, is terrified of absolutely everything, but Danielle is sure that Chuck is going to save the universe one day. Doyle, Roddy. The Giggler Treatment , 2000. A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children. (Sequels: Rover Saves Christmas and The Meanwhile Adventures .) |
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