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Picture Books | Juvenile Fiction | Juvenile Non-Fiction

Picture Books & Easy Readers

De Paola, Tomie                   
Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka (JE DEP)
While his wife is away, a lazy man relies on a pooka to clean up the messes that he and his friends make.

Everitt, Betsy                        
Mean Soup (JE EVE)
Horace feels really mean at the end of a bad day, until he helps his mother make Mean Soup.

Snyder, Dianne                     
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (JE SNY)
A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.

Stanley, Diane                       
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter (JE STA)
Rumpelstiltskin's daughter may not be able to spin straw into gold, but she is more than a match for a monarch whose greed has blighted an entire kingdom.

Wood, Audrey           
Elbert's Bad Word (JE WOO)
Young Elbert snatches a bad word from adult conversations at a garden party and stuffs it in his pocket, where it waits for an opportunity to spring out through Elbert's unsuspecting mouth.

Juvenile Fiction

Hurwitz, Johanna                  
Rip-Roaring Russell (JUV FIC HURWITZ)
Five-year-old Russell's adventures involve his nursery school, his baby sister, and his friends in his apartment building.

Konigsburg, E. L.      
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (JUV FIC KONIGSBURG)
Claudia and her brother run away and hide for six days in the art museum.

Krensky, Stephen         
Francine, Believe It or Not ([SERIES] JUV FIC BROWN)
Muffy is so sure that Francine can't be nice for an entire week that she bets her Princess Peach watch on it now it's up to Francine to keep her temper, will she be able to do it?

Juvenile Non-Fiction

Krull, Kathleen   
Wilma Unlimited : How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman (JUV 921 RUDOLPH)
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.