Grades 3–5, 2025–26

Mr. Popper, who dreams of exploring the polar regions, receives a penguin as a gift — and soon he training an entire penguin family to be part of Popper's Performing Penguins.

A middle-schooler nicknamed Bat, a boy on the autism spectrum, learns to take care of a baby skunk in this first book of The Bat series.

After meeting the Tucks, a family that is able to live forever after drinking from a magical spring, Winnie Foster questions whether immortality is a blessing or a curse.

A friendly young polar bear named Duane moves to the Far North and meets several new friends, including an owl, a musk ox, and a puffin. Duane’s charming attitude of childlike wonder seems to turn every day into an adventure for him and his new friends.

Young Eben, who lives in a small farming community, longs to experience the wonders of the world. But can he discover seven "wonders" in his own hometown, Sassafras Springs?

A robot named Roz attempts to make a home for herself on an island inhabited only by wild animals.

When Emily and her friend James find an odd book in the subway station, they get caught up in a puzzling and dangerous literary game.

Ralph convinces his friend Ryan to take him to school, but trouble soon arises after Ralph becomes the center of attention while Ryan's class works on mouse-related projects.

Based on a true story, Hiroshima-born Sadako, a lively Japanese girl, contracts the "atom bomb disease" — leukemia. She faces her reality with courage and the hope of a thousand paper cranes.

Sixth grader Jeremy Thatcher learns how to hatch a dragon's egg. Now he has to learn how to take care of a growing dragon until it must return to its own world.

Twins Dallas and Florida have been in and out of foster homes their entire lives—will they be able to trust their unconventional new guardians and find a home in Ruby Holler?

During the Great Depression, a ten-year-old boy hits the road in search of the father he has never known.

When Charlie Bucket and four other children find golden tickets in their chocolate bars, they are invited to tour Willy Wonka's famous candy factory.

Renata Wolfman (Wolfie) likes to do things herself and doesn’t need friends. But her quirky next door neighbor, Livingston Flott (Fly), invites himself into her next project, and Wolfie learns that maybe a friend isn’t such a bad thing.

Fred is your average, lovable dog who looks like his favorite hero, Duke, on the crime-fighting hit show Dog Squad. When Duke needs a stand-in, Fred fills in for him and discovers that Dog Squad action doesn't always stop on the screen.

Eleven-year-old Eddie enters a poetry contest and wins the grand prize — a trip to New York City to see the NBA finals and a chance to take a foul shot worth a million dollars.

Twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer; his six-year-old and partially-paralyzed sister, Abby; and their parents are camping in Northern California when an earthquake hits. Separated from their parents, and without food, water, or help, Jonathan, Abby, and their dog, Moose, have to survive the devastating quake and find their way to safety.

Set in Nebraska during the late 19th century, this novel follows the lives of Nathaniel, a boy recovering from a farm injury, and John, an orphan adopted by Nathaniel's father to help work on the farm, as they form a friendship and help each other navigate through the challenges of small-town life.

Inspired by her father's fantastical stories, Minli sets off on a journey to change her family's fortune.

The Krupnik's — Mom, Dad, and daughter Anastasia — receive their newest family member, Sam. From newborn to nursery school, Sam experiences every aspect of life with wonder, energy, and humor.

Beth Bradley, her sixth-grade classmates, and all of Woodrow Wilson Elementary School have to survive another school year with the Herdmans—Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys—who are "the worst kids in the history of the world." But maybe there is something good about them.

Hugo is an orphan living in a train station in Paris when he meets two strangers who will change his life. Learn these words from Brian Selznick's captivating mystery, told through a combination of images and words.

Chase Masters and his father travel the country chasing the most destructive storms and trying to help those in need. Then, devastating Hurricane Emily slams the Gulf Coast of Florida, and Chase and two other middle schoolers have to survive the storm of the century.

In this fourteenth book of the historical fiction I Survived series, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends go into a Washington forest to look for proof of a legendary Skeleton Woman and end up shaken.

In this classic novel, a pig named Wilbur befriends a spider, who attempts to save his life.

The first book of the Little House series introduces the Ingalls family, pioneers living in Wisconsin in 1871.