Winner's Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson

Case Callahan is part of a family of winners. His mother is a stage actor, his dad is a champion horse trainer, and his sister is a star swimmer. There is nothing he can do to keep up with the rest of his family and he is determined to find something wonderful he can do. He tries all sort of things and doesn't succeed until he finds a lost dog. Noah is a special dog and can do a lot of things dogs don't normally do. Case quickly finds a way to become a winner while finding some special friends along the way.

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Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Roxie Warbler is prepared for any problem or catastrophe. She can survive anything, and this is all thanks to her uncle's book, Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them. You may think that you would never need to know these things, but knowing them helped save Roxie's life.

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Room One: a Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements

Ted Hammond is a fifth grader in a one room school. He lives in a small town with not very many kids and there is danger of the school closing. On top of this, Ted sees that someone is living in an empty house and he gets to work trying to solve this mystery.

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Pompeii: Lost and Found by Mary Pope Osborne

In AD 79, there was a huge volcanic explosion and the Roman city of Pompeii was covered and lost for many centuries. This book tells about the people that lived and died during the explosion and what they went through.

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Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo

Edward Tulane is a three foot tall china rabbit and belongs to a little girl named Abilene. Traveling on a ship with Abilene, Edward is accidentally thrown overboard and lost. From the ocean, Edward travels to many places and has many adventures. Through these adventures, Edward begins to learn more and more about himself and become more thoughtful to the world around him.

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Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt

Jack Plank was tired of his life as a pirate and wanted a change. He found a town and a house and, with the help of his friends at his boardinghouse, tried to find his next job. Each job he tries he can't do because of something that happened at one time with one of his pirate friends. Each chapter has a different job and a different crazy tale.

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How To Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor

Georgina Hayes really wants to help her mom out with her money problems. When she sees a poster for a missing dog with a reward for five hundred dollars, she gets a brilliant idea. All she needs to do is find the right dog and "borrow" it. Surely the owner would offer an award for its return...

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