Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Under 150 Pages
The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Tarshis, Lauren.
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore ... More
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Blume, Judy.
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem. ... More
Skinnybones
Park, Barbara.
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his... More
Gossamer
Lowry, Lois.
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the ef... More
Firegirl
Abbott, Tony, 1952-
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attendin... More
The Homework Machine
Gutman, Dan.
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as th... More
The Higher Power of Lucky
Patron, Susan, 1948-
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scie... More
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Angleberger, Tom.
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, w... More
Wild Girl
Giff, Patricia Reilly.
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York... More
The Million Dollar Shot
Gutman, Dan.
Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National ... More
The Tiger Rising
DiCamillo, Kate.
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but ... More
The Field Guide
DiTerlizzi, Tony.
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they dis... More
The Show Must Go On!
Klise, Kate.
Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performan... More
Flight of the Phoenix
LaFevers, R. L.
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his fa... More
Nim
Orr, Wendy, 1953-
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away... More
Gooseberry Park
Rylant, Cynthia.
When a storm separates Stumpy the squirrel from her newborn babies, her animal friends come to the r... More
Shipwreck
Korman, Gordon.
Luke, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian are shipwrecked on a desert island. ... More
Skeleton Man
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle,"... More
Secret Identity
Van Draanen, Wendelin.
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shre... More
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald.
Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his fam... More
The Year of the Dog
Lin, Grace.
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to a... More
About Average
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, int... More
Breaking Stalin
Yelchin, Eugene.
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communis... More
Fortunately, the Milk
Gaiman, Neil.
While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himse... More
How I became a ghost : a Choctaw Trail of Tears story / Tim Tingle.
Tingle, Tim, author.
A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever kno... More
Salt : a story of friendship in a time of war / Helen Frost.
Frost, Helen, 1949-
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fo... More
After Tupac & D Foster / Jacqueline Woodson.
Woodson, Jacqueline.
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Sh... More
Sunny / Jason Reynolds.
Reynolds, Jason, author.
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother... More
Clayton Byrd goes underground / Rita Williams-Garcia ; illustrations by Frank Morrison.
Williams-Garcia, Rita, author.
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Blues... More
Dancing home / Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta.
Ada, Alma Flor.
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, L... More
The wild book / Margarita Engle.
Engle, Margarita.
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles wi... More
Until I find Julian / Patricia Reilly Giff.
Giff, Patricia Reilly, author.
Mateo's big brother Julian works in the United States. When the family doesn't hear from J... More
Ruby on the outside / Nora Raleigh Baskin.
Baskin, Nora Raleigh, author.
Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether... More