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Amato, Mary. Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: the Riot Brothers Tell All. New York: Holiday House. 2004. Grades 3 – 6. Just like the famous Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville Riot are inventors—only their inventions require milk,  underwear, white paper, and a whole lot of patience from their school principal, who also happens to be their mom.

Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. New York: Scholastic Press. 2004.Grades 3 – 6. What appear to be unrelated, strange events take on new meanings as Petra and Calder collaborate to solve an international art mystery.

Barry, Dave. Peter and the Starcatchers. New York: Disney Editions/Hyperion. 2004.  Grades 3 – 6. Aboard the ship “Never Land”, Peter experiences a swashbuckling voyage filled with magical things where he must overcome pirates to keep a fantastic secret treasure safe and save the world from evil.

Beard, Darleen Bailey. Operation Clean Sweep. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2004.  Grades 3 – 6. Soon after women were given the right to vote, Cornelius, nicknamed Corncob, becomes caught in the middle as his mother and other women secretly plan to run for city offices, putting his father, the present mayor, and other male city officials out of office.

Birney, Betty G. The World According to Humphrey. New York: Puffin. 2004. Grades 3– 6. In room 26, classroom pet hamster, Humphrey, has silly escapades in a cage with a lock that doesn’t lock, where he learns to read, write, shoot rubber bands, and experiences sleepovers at the students’ home every weekend.

Bruchac, Joseph. The Dark Pond. New York: Harper Trophy. 2004. Grades 5 – 8. Armie, armed with stories from his mother, seeks to destroy the mysterious creature that has unexplainable power and lives in the dark pond.

Collins, Suzanne. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane. New York: Scholastic. 2004.  Grades 3 – 6. After his sister, Boots, is kidnapped and taken back to the Underland, Gregor must return to save her and his friends by fulfilling the Prophecy of Bane.

Gorman, Carol. A Midsummer Night’s Dork. New York: HarperCollins. 2004. Grades 3 – 6. Newly elected sixth-grade president, Jerry Flack, tries to organize an Elizabethan festival while dealing with the school bully, finally proving to himself and others that he is not a dork.

Kehret, Peg. Abduction! New York: Dutton’s Children’s Books. 2004. Grades 5 – 8.  Overwhelmed with fear, thirteen-year-old Bonnie has an unsettling dream that allows her to follow her instincts and become involved in a frightening adventure to find her kidnapped six-year-old brother, Matt, and their dog Pookie.

Lupica, Mike. Travel Team. New York: Puffin. 2004. Grades 5 – 8. Danny Walker could play basketball, so when he was cut from the travel team for being too small, 12-year-old Danny, with his dad’s help, showed all the “clipboard dads” how the game should be played.

Nolan, Lucy. A. Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels. New York: Marshall Cavendish. 2004. Grades K – 3. Down Girl and Sit, two dogs, try to keep the world safe for their owners from dangerous squirrels, the paper boy, and a frightening creature called Here Kitty, Kitty.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. The Right Dog for the Job: Ira’s Path from Service Dog to Guide Dog. New York: Walker. 2004. Grades 3 – 6. The story of Ira, a Golden Retriever, is told through photographs and narrative as he is trained from a puppy to be a service dog, and later a guide dog for the blind.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Becoming Naomi Leon. New York: Scholastic. 2004. Grades 5 – 8.  Naomi and her little brother have lived with their great-grandmother since their mother abandoned them, but when her mom comes back to claim only Naomi, the family runs away to Mexico in search of Naomi’s father.

Sheth, Kashmira. Blue Jasmine. New York: Hyperion. 2004. Grades 3 – 6.  When 12-year-old Seema’s family moves to the United States from India, she misses her best friend and favorite cousin, deals with new food, new customs, a new school, and a class bully.

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The Unseen. New York: Dell Yearling. 2004. Grades 5 – 8.  12-year-old Xandra Hobson feels like an outsider in her own family and one day discovers a magic feather that acts as a key to unlocking a mysterious world that seems to exist between the senses.

Turner, Pamela S. Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. Grades K – 3. In the 1920’s, loyal dog Hachiko tirelessly waits at the Tokyo train station for his owner to return home from work. When his owner dies, Hachiko continues waiting at the station for the next ten years.

Van Draanen, Wendelin. Shredderman: Secret Identity. New York: Knopf. 2004. Grades 3 – 6. Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd finds a unique solution to the classroom bully when he assumes the secret identity of Shredderman and fights back!

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