The Night Before Christmas - Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by Gennady SpirinThe Boy Who Ate Stars - Kochka
Upon moving to a new apartment, twelve-year-old Lucy befriends an autistic boy who lives upstairs and, along with her friend Theo and a pampered pooch, takes Matthew on neighborhood adventures hoping to open him up to the world around them.
Thumb on a Diamond - Ken Roberts
The kids from New Auckland are dying to see something outside of their little villiage. Then, Thumb come up with a plan to form a baseball team so the kids can go to the big tournament in Vancouver, but there are a few problems with their plan. There is no grass in New Auckland, no baseball diamond and no place large enough to put one. Also, none of the kids have ever played baseball before.
Cyrano - Geraldine McCaughrean
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Emily's Balloon - Komako Sakai
A little girl's new friend is round, lighter than air, and looks like the moon at night.
Regards to the Man in the Moon - Ezra Jack Keats
With the help of his imagination, his parents, and a few scraps of junk, Louie and his friends travel through space.
Tree Ring Circus - Adam RexIn this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant.
Hardworking Puppies - Lynn Reiser
One by one, ten energetic puppies find important jobs as dogs who help people in different ways, including by pulling sleds and saving swimmers.
Playing it Cool - Joaquin Dorfman
While tracking down the long-lost father of his best friend Jeremy, popular eighteen-year-old Sebastian calls on a network of favors and debts and begins to question his way of life.
Letters to My Mother - Teresa Cardenas
A young African-Cuban girl is sent to live with her aunt and cousins after the death of her mother and begins to write letters to her deceased mother telling of the misery, racial prejudice, and mistreatment at the hands of those around her.
Mind-Bending Math & Science Activities for Gifted Students - Rosemary Callard-Szulgit
