Alphabet Animals by Suse MacDonald.
It's a guessing-game/puzzle book of animals--each assuming the shape of the first letter of its name. Every clean, colorful, crisply graphic page is actually a pocket in which is concealed a sliding card revealing the letter hinted at by the animal.

Metal Man by Aaron Reynolds.
Devon loves to watch "Metal Man" create art out of junk in his city workshop. When he envisions a house in a shining star, the sculptor helps him to bring his idea into reality.

Yoko Writes Her Name by Rosemary Wells.
When Yoko writes her name in Japanese instead of English, two classmates mock her, gleefully predicting—“She won’t graduate from kindergarten.” But soon all the class wants their name written in Japanese.

Hello Night / Hola Noche by Amy Costales.
The sun sets, the night emerges and Mother and child go for a walk saying hello to everything that passes the stroller on their way. Their walk ends when they arrive home and greet the bed and the boy's duckie pajamas.

Mail Harry to the Moon by Robie H. Harris.
"Mail Harry to the moon!-- Put Harry back inside Mommy--Flush Harry down the toilet!" -- are just a few of the suggestions made by baby Harry’s older brother, after Harry steals all the limelight.

Round Like a Ball! by Lisa Campbell Ernst.
It’s round like a ball. It’s made up of many colors. It’s big and strong. What is it?--the Earth. Die-cut pages and information about the earth and how kids can help protect our planet add to the fun.

Madam President by Lane Smith.
A confident girl walks readers through a typical day at home and at school (Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary) as she fantasizes about herself as president. Her first executive order is for waffles. She then negotiates a treaty between a cat and dog, and appoints a toy cabinet; Mr. Potato Head is a dapper Secretary of Agriculture.

I Love My New Toy! and I Will Surprise My Friend! by Mo Willems.
Accidently breaking your friend’s new toy and sneaking up on your friend have new twists when Mo Willems writes about them.

The New Girl by Meg Cabot.
“Rule #1: When you are starting your first day ever at a brand new school, you have to wear something good, so people will think you’re nice.” Allie’s first day starts out badly when her parents insist on walking her to school, then gets worse when the class bully makes fun of her clothes.

Brand New School, Brave New Ruby by  Derrick Barnes.
Third-grader Ruby Booker is going to school with her three older and immensely popular brothers for the first time, and she plans to show the school that she is a star too.

Smelly Locker by Alan Katz.
The fourth collection of "silly dilly" song parodies finds Katz in the classroom, rhapsodizing on tests --"I'm very stressed, / stressed, stressed!" to the tune of Miss Mary Mack, math --"The teacher knows the answer / so why's she asking me?"  to the tune of Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and more.

Benny and Penny in Just Pretend by Geoffrey Hayes.
A graphic novel for the beginning reader features simply worded episodes about a mouse brother “pirate” and his younger tag-along sister.

Lost and Found by Andrew Clements.
Ray and Jay Grayson are "the twins," nearly indistinguishable even to their parents. So when their new school unexpectedly combines their records, Ray and Jay decide to try being just one person, taking turns going to school and keeping their experiment a secret.

Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs by Charles Smith Jr.
Teamwork, pride, taking chances while fearing failure, winning, losing are all part of playing any sport.   Smith puts readers directly into the minds and bodies of athletes—you can almost feel the sweat.

Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri Smith.
When their 8th grade graduation dance is canceled, Ana invites her crush, Jamie, to her house for dinner. But her Chinese grandmother and her African-American grandmother can not get along in the kitchen and it looks like the meal will be a disaster.

Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye.
When a 20-foot-tall marshmallow bear explodes at the Mall of Generica in Kansas, young Marlo and Milton are killed and sent to Heck, where "the souls of the darned toil for all eternity—or until they turn eighteen, whichever comes first."

Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
Young Coraline Jones discovers a strange door in her otherwise boring flat. Once over the door's mysterious threshold, she meets her ghastly "Other Mother," a horrid-looking witch with sinister, button eyes. The graphic format is suitably creepy.

Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman.
When Mark Twain first started giving speeches, the poster advertising them read, “Doors open at 7. The trouble begins at 8." Twain, was an author of course, but also a steamboat pilot, a journalist, a prospector, and a lecturer—in other words, an adventurer who didn’t mind a little trouble.

Trash Crisis On Earth! by Alexander Stadler.
When “Maternal Unit” insists Julian (undercover alien) take out the trash or be grounded, the Mother Ship offers to annihilate Earth.