Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins): This philosophical epic, with a large cast of characters, addresses the fervent desire of the human race to overcome the tyranny of aging and physical death.

Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky): An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.

The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck): A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.

Previously by Allan Ahlberg (2007)

Cannery Row (John Steinbeck): Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.

Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons): Ellen Foster is the often heart-wrenching tale of an 11-year-old girl who loses her dearly loved mother through suicide and is left to coexist with her alcoholic father. Gibbons has produced a warm and caring first novel about a backwoods child persevering through hard times to establish a new and satisfying identity. (Note: Beginning August 20, participants can pick up a copy of the book at the Canton Public Library's Adult Reference Desk).

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story (Amanda Vaill): A finely written biography brings to life the globe-trotting, high-living socialites who were models for works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso until tragedy struck their children at the end of the Roaring Twenties.

Location	Author	Title
J 398.238 AES		Aesop's Fables
J Fiction ALCOTT	Alcott, L.M.	Little Women
J Fiction ALEXANDER	Alexander, L.	The Black Cauldron
YA Paperback A	Andersen, H.C.	Andersen's Fairy Tales
J 398.235 PHI		The Arabian Nights
J Fiction ATWATER	Atwater, Richard	Mr.

Author	Title
For 2nd-4th graders
Kawai, Ritsuko	The Adventures of Hamtaro
Wise, William	Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler
For 4th-6th graders
Allende, Isabel	Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Alton, Steve	The Malifex
Ashby, John	Sea Gift
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane	The Antarctic Scoop
Bredsdorff, Bodil

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The escape from home by Avi

Egg-drop blues by Jacqueline Turner Banks

The lost years of Merlin by T.A. Barron

The ghost in the mirror by John Bellairs ; completed by Brad Strickland

Also check out the Harry Potter series for great 5th Grade reads.

Where the red fern grows : the story of two dogs and a boy by Wilson Rawls

Titanic crossing by Barbara Williams

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 by a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ramona's world by Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen

The birthday room by Kevin Henkes

The Blue Hill Meadows by Cynthia Rylant ; illustrated by Ellen Beier

Frindle by Andrew Clements ; pictures by Brian Selznick

Location	Author	Title
J Easy Fiction ADLER	Adler	Cam Jansen Mysteries
J Series B	Berenstain	Berenstain Bears Big Chapter Books
J Paperback B	Blume	Fudge-a-Mania
J Paperback B	Byars	Beans on the Roof
J Paperback C	Catling	Chocolate Touch
J Easy Fiction CHRISTIAN	Christian	Sebastian (Super Sleuth) Books
J Paperback C	Christophe

Location	Author	Title
J Paperback	Adler	Cam Jansen
J Series A		American Girl Series
J Paperback B	Bauer	Alison's Puppy
J Reader B	Brenner	The Magic Box
J Paperback B	Brown	Arthur Chapter Books
J Easy Fiction BULLER	Buller	Space Mall
J Reader B	Byars	The Golly S

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

The story about Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish ; pictures by Fritz Siebel

Arthur's pet business by Marc Brown

Trouble with trolls by Jan Brett

Stone soup : an old tale by told and pictured by Marcia Brown

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

A house for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

A visit to grandma's by Nancy Carlson

Good job, Little Bear! by Martin Waddell ; illustrated by Barbara Firth

McDuff moves in by Rosemary Wells ; illustrated by Susan Jeffers

Lilly's purple plastic purse by Kevin Henkes

A hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Auto Racing

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: driven by destiny by Mark Stewart

Jeff Gordon by Anthony B. Cain

Bicycling

Lance Armstrong: a biography by Bill Gutman