JFIC Stand Alone Books

 

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1. Abel's island

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Author:
Steig, William, 1907-2003
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

2. Black Beauty

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Author:
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

3. Bridge to Terabithia

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Author:
Paterson, Katherine
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.

4. The cat who came in off the roof

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Author:
Schmidt, Annie M. G.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Minou, formerly a cat but now a woman with many cattish ways, helps Tibbs, a newspaper reporter, with information she gets from her many feline friends.

5. The cay

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Author:
Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

6. Charlotte's web

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Author:
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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A little girl named Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away. At his new home, Wilbur is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

7. Chitty chitty bang bang: the magical car

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Author:
Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964
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Two children persuade their inventor father to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.

8. A Christmas carol

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

9. Dear Mr. Henshaw

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Author:
Cleary, Beverly, 1916-
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Leigh Botts writes letters to his favorite author asking for information and describing his own life since his parents got divorced. In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

10. The door in the wall

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Author:
De Angeli, Marguerite, 1889-1987
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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The crippled son of a powerful nobleman in fourteenth-century England sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the King. A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

11. Frindle

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Author:
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

12. The Frindle files

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Author:
Clements, Andrew, 1949-2019
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"Josh Willet is a techie, a serious gamer. Which is why Josh and his friends can't stand Mr. N's ELA class: it's a strict no-tech zone. Mr. N makes them write everything out by hand, he won't use a SMART board, and he's obsessed with some hundred-year-old grammar book. Then Josh discovers a secret: turns out Mr. N's been keeping a lot more than technology from his students. Together with his best friend Vanessa, and using all the computer skills they've...

13. George's marvelous medicine

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Author:
Dahl, Roald
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.

14. Growing home

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Author:
Ferry, Beth
Average Rating:
1 stars
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"A motley crew of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human"--

15. Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates

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Author:
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
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A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

16. Heidi

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Author:
Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

17. The hundred dresses

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Author:
Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.

18. The incredible journey

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Author:
Burnford, Sheila, 1918-1984
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

19. Johnny Tremain

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Author:
Forbes, Esther
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

20. The jungle book

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Author:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories.