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Second and Third Grade Fiction

Whether silly or sweet, adventurous or magical, these titles will satisfy your independent reader's hunger for a good story. Created by the Sunnyvale Public Library.

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  • Priya Chakraborty plans a birthday party for her first client, Layla Aunty, personalizing everything from the invitations to the menu in Aunty's favorite color, but as party-time finally arrives, Priya is nervous something will go wrong.
    Book, 2023New York : Scholastic Inc., 2023. — JA RUTHS Mitali
  • Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.
    Book, 2020New York : Aladdin, 2020. — JA LEE Lyla
  • Disgusting Critters

    a Creepy Crawly Collection

    Gravel, Elise,
    "Three of Elise Gravel's previously published Disgusting Critters book combined in one paperback bind-up. Contained within is The Fly, The Worm and The Spider."
    Book, 2024Toronto : Tundra, 2024. — J 595.7 GRA
  • Eight-year-old Mia Macarooney is delighted to learn she is from a family of superheroes, but her acceptance into the Program for In Training Superheroes requires she take a placement exam.
    Book, 2018New York : Little Simon, 2018. — JA WEST
  • Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it…
    Book, 2018San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2018] — JA KUIPERS
  • Beatrice is afraid she is losing her best friend so she uses her topsy-turvy way of thinking to get things looking up.
    Book, 2017Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2017. — JP J
  • With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.
    Book, 2022New York : Amulet Books, 2022. — JA FARUQI Saadia
  • The Chicken Squad

    the First Misadventure

    Cronin, Doreen
    When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object.
    Book, 2014New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014] — JA CRONIN
  • Chronicles the everyday adventures of Mr. Wolf, a new teacher at Hazelwood Elementary school, and his class of wild and special students.
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2018. — JGN MR.
  • 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.
    Book, 2014New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014] — JA HANLON
  • Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! Did you know your city is protected by a secret squad of crime-fighting pigeons? It's true! With master of disguise Rock Pigeon,…
    Book, 2020New York : Random House, [2020] — J MCDONALD
  • Agatha Mistery, a twelve-year-old detective with a photographic memory, travels to Egypt, where rumors of a mysterious tablet unearthed in the Valley of the Kings may be just the clue that she needs to unlock the secret curse of an ancient pharaoh.
    Book, 2013New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013. — JPS AGATHA
  • While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.
    Book, 2006New York : Random House, 2006. — JPS A to Z
  • Having discovered a magical society beneath the exhibits at the Clarksville City Zoo where animals and humans live harmoniously together as equals, Noah and his friends must protect the secret zoo at all costs.
    Book, 2011New York : Greenwillow Books, c2011. — J CHICK
  • "The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the…
    Book, 2019Boston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — J 811.6 A
  • 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.
    Book, 2013New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013] — J HENKES
  • Bunnicula

    a Rabbit-tale of Mystery

    Howe, Deborah, 1946-1978,
    Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
    Book, 2019New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. — JP H
  • When Stick Dog's quest for hamburgers turns out to be more difficult than he could have ever imagined, he challenges his friends to come up with a master plan that includes unconventional solutions.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers, 2023. — J WATSON Tom
  • When Ellie and her friends help elderly Mrs. Curran around the house, Ellie cannot resist using her engineering prowess but it is no fun for the girls when Toby gets the credit.
    Book, 2018New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books. 2018. — JA PEARCE
  • Perodia is threatened by Thorn, a powerful vulture, who is using magic to spread a terrible darkness--but when a young owl named Tag, and his best friend, the squirrel Skyla, rescue a golden egg from Thorn's Tiger bats they may have found the key to…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Branches/Scholastic Inc., 2017. — JPS LAST