Children's choices for 2004 Intermediate readers 3rd-4th graders

ABC Math Riddles. Jannelle Martin. Ill. Freddie Levin. Children will have fun solving math riddles as they read!

Alice in Blunderland. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.Nine-year-old Alice is always up to something.

Amber Brown Is Green With Envy. Paula Danziger.

Bow Wow Meow Meow. Douglas Florian. Ill. by the author.

Can You See What I See? Dream Machine. Walter Wick. Ill. with photos.

Everything Cat: What Kids Really Want to Know About Cats. Marty Crisp. Ill. with photos.

Fire Storm. Jean Craighead George. Ill. Wendell Minor. 2000, Axel and his dog Grits go on a kayaking trip. Lightning strikes start fires all around them.

Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist: Lunch Walks Among Us. Jim Benton. Ill. by the author.

Grady's in the Silo. Una Belle Townsend. Ill. Bob Artley.

Hoop Queens. Charles R. Smith Jr. Ill. with photos. Poems about outstanding women basketball players. C

Horace Splattly, the Cupcaked Crusader: The Terror of the Pink Dodo Balloons.- Barry Gott.

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. Rosalyn Schanzer. Ben Franklin's endless curiosity and energy led him to invent many contraptions, including the famous lightning rod.

Jackalope. Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. Ill. by the authors.

Let's Rock! Rock Painting for Kids. Linda Kranz. Ill. with photos.

Little Pierre: A Cajun Story From Louisiana. David Catrow.A Tom Thumb—sized hero.

Metal Mutz! David Ellwand.A robot from outer space has landed in a junkyard.

Millions to Measure. Steven Kellogg.

Moon's Cloud Blanket. Joan C. Waites.A flood in a southern Louisiana bayou causes a woman and her children to take refuge in a cypress tree.

My Brother Dan's Delicious. Steven Layne.

My Momma Likes to Say. Jane Donovan.Clever illustrations take common English idioms literally in this humorous book. Informative notes tell the origins of each phrase.

Mystic Horse. Paul Goble. This tale, based on a Pawnee legend, tells of a neglected horse that is cared for by a poor boy and his grandmother.

The Nine Lives of Aristotle. Bob Graham. About Aristotle, an adventurous kitten.

Paul Revere's Ride: The Landlord's Tale. Charles Santore. The magnificent illustrations of Longfellow's poem clarify for the reader the events that took place as Revere daringly devised and executed his plan to warn the colonists of the arrival of the British soldiers.

The Picture of Morty & Ray. Jack E. Davis.Imitating a movie youngsters Morty and Ray paint a self-portrait to see if it will turn ugly as they say and do rude things.

Pizza Counting. Matthew Holmes. pizzas are divided into slices of different sizes to introduce fractions.

Sacagawea. Julie Buffalohead. re-create the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark.

Scary Sharks. Elaine Landau. A true story about an 8-year-old attacked by a shark.

The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 1, The Field Guide. Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.

Stuart Goes to School. Martin Matje.Stuart, the classic worrywart, imagines the worst-case scenario for all his fears as he starts a new school.
Thunder Rose.

Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Twister on Tuesday. Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne.

Vote!. Eileen Christelow.Two dogs and cartoon illustrations explain how voting takes place in a democracy.

The Wolves in the Walls. Dave McKean.