The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with the new girl in town. They create a fantasy world, Terabithia, in the pine forests, and it is there they share their innermost secrets. 

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. 

 Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, Grace, a Taiwanese-American girl, tries to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog to her life, making best friends and finding her true self. 

 When Nick decides to start calling his pen a “frindle,” the new word spreads like wildfire. His classmates, the townspeople, everyone is calling their pens “frindles.” Nick’s crotchety teacher wants to end all the nonsense, but it’s too late.  There’s no stopping the frindle phenomenon. 

Washed ashore in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend, Dale, turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook Miss Lana, seem implicated in a murder. 

Fourth-grader Peter Hatcher’s little brother, Fudgie, is constantly meddling with Peter’s stuff and throwing tantrums. But the worst trouble comes when Fudge gets his hands on Peter’s pet turtle, Dribble.  

 Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. 

While trying to dodge the pestering Mary Lou, Jeremy finds himself in a small magic shop where he purchases a strange egg. Out of the egg hatches a dragon that only Jeremy and Mary Lou can see. 

Snatched from her orphanage by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other mean maneating giants. 

 Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island’s hostile inhabitants. 

A country cricket falls into a picnic basket and ends up in New York city.

When 11-year-old Marty finds a mistreated beagle pup, he has to face tough questions. Should he return the dog to its owner, only to have the animal abused again? Should he tell his parents? Should he steal food to help the poor creature?

The unexpected arrival of an Antarctic penguin changes the life of a house-painter who dreams of exploring the Poles. The Popper family soon includes twelve penguins, and they have hilarious adventures touring as “Popper’s Performing Penguins.”

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures 
After his father’s death, 12-year-old Hugo finds himself living within the walls of a Paris train station. He’s determined to restore his father’s robot-like structure in hopes of discovering a hidden message. He befriends an old filmmaker and his daughter.

Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

James is miserable living with his two nasty aunts. When he spills magic crystals on a peach tree, a giant peach grows and grows until James climbs inside the fruit and rolls away to a fantastic adventure.

Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.