Theme- Risks and Consequences

The Big Balloon Race by, Eleanor Coerr (easy)

A Day’s Work by, Eve Bunting (easy)

Poppy by, Avi (average)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by, Patricia MacLachlan (average)

The Landry News by, Andrew Clements (advanced)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by, E.L. Konigsburg (advanced)

Theme- Dollars and Sense

Max Malone Makes a Million by, Charlotte Herman (easy)

What’s Cooking, Jenny Archer? by, Ellen Conford (easy)

The Toothpaste Millionaire by, Jean Merrill (average)

Better Than a Lemonade Stand!: Small Business Ideas for Kids by, Daryl Bernstein (average)

Odd Jobs: The Wackiest Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of! by, Ellen Weiss (advanced)

Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors by, Tom Tucker (advanced)

Germs Make Me Sick! by, Melvin Berger (easy)

Fever 1793 by, Laurie Halse Anderson (easy)

Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium by, Ann E. Steinke (average)

Kids to the Rescue!: First Aid Techniques for Kids by, Maribeth and Darwin Boelts (average)

The First Woman Doctor by, Rachel Baker (advanced)

Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes by, Beverly Birch and Christian Birmingham (advanced)

Harry the Poisonous Centipede by, Lynne Reid Banks (easy)

My Grandmother’s Journey by, John Cech and Sharon McGinley-Nally (easy)

Whichaway by, Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout (average)

Frozen Fire by, James Houston (average)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by, Scott O’Dell (advanced)

The Voyage of the Frog by, Gary Paulsen (advanced)

The Cat’s Elbow and Other Secret Languages by, Alvin Schwartz (easy)

The Chimpanzee Family Book by, Jane Goodall (easy)

Dear Mr. Henshaw by, Beverly Cleary (average)

Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello by, Marilyn Singer (average)

Burton and Stanley by, Frank O’Rourke (advanced)

Julie’s Wolf Pack by, Jean Craighead George (advanced)