Books about friends, dealing with parents, siblings, school, and other great real life situations.
Ivy + Bean
Annie Barrows ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall
2006
ISBN: 9780811849036
Bink & Gollie
Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee ; illustrated by Tony Fucile
2010
ISBN: 9780763632663
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Wolfie and Fly
Cary Fagan ; illustrated by Zoe Si
2017
ISBN: 9781101918203
Wolfie, a lone wolf who does not like using her imagination, reluctantly befriends Fly, a slightly weird and wordy boy, and soon they find themselves navigating through deep water in a submarine made from a cardboard box.
A series about a very serious girl and the friend that helps her discover her imagination.
Miss Daisy is crazy!
Dan Gutman ; pictures by Jim Paillot
2004
ISBN: 9780060507008
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Alvin Ho : allergic to girls, school, and other scary things
by Lenore Look ; pictures by LeUyen Pham
2008
ISBN: 9780375849305
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
Judy Moody
Megan McDonald ; illustrated by Peter Reynolds
2010
ISBN: 9780763648497
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
Junie B. Jones and the stupid smelly bus : 20th-anniversary full-color edition
by Barbara Park ; illustrated by Denise Brunkus
2012
ISBN: 9780375868412
In her own words, a young girl describes her feelings about starting kindergarten and what she does when she decides not to ride the bus home.
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker ; pictures by Marla Frazee
2008
ISBN: 9780786838837
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Frindle
Andrew Clements ; pictures by Brian Selznick
1996
ISBN: 9780689806698
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon
2014
ISBN: 9780803740884
Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts.
The year of Billy Miller
Kevin Henkes
2013
ISBN: 9780062268129
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Bink & Gollie, best friends forever
Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee ; illustrated by Tony Fucile
2013
ISBN: 9780763634971
Bink and Gollie's friendship remains strong, even in the face of Gollie's "royal blood," Bink's Stretch-O-Matic machine, and the pursuit of a world record.
Jasmine Toguchi, flamingo keeper
Debbi Michiko Florence ; pictures by Elizabet Vuković
2018
ISBN: 9780374304201
Jasmine makes a wish for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsible enough for a pet.
my stylish life
by Kyla May
2013
ISBN: 9780545496131
Kiki and her best friends, Coco and Lulu, all live on Lotus Lane, attend Amber Acres Elementary School, and have their own club, so when a when a Japanese girl named Mika moves in next door and also chooses fashion design for her art project, Kiki is seriously annoyed.
Rise of the balloon goons
by Troy Cummings
2013
ISBN: 9780545493239
Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.