Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


Alphabet Mystery
By: Audrey Wood
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When the lower case x from Charley's alphabet disappears, the other letters set off to find...

Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do
By: Katherine Heling, Deborah Hembrook
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Follow That Map! A First Look at Mapping Skills
By: Scot Ritchie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
One day when Sally and her friends are playing, they notice that her dog and cat are missing....

I Spy Mystery: A Book of Picture Riddles
By: Jean Marzollo
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Polo: The Runaway Book
By: Regis Faller
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The chase is on when Polo's book is stolen by a small alien. Polo, an engaging hound, pulls...

When You Wander: A Search-and-Rescue Dog Story
By: Margarita Engle
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A golden retriever with a "smart nose" is doing his job: tracking down a young child lost in the...

Why?
By: Richard Torrey
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction

Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth
By: David Adler
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Age Level: 6-9 years old


7 Ate 9
By: Tara Lazar
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Private I tries to assuage 6 who just knows that 7 is coming to get him! Why? Because 7 8 9, of...

A Big Day for Baseball
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When Jack and Annie don the magic baseball hats given to them by Morgan, they find themselves...

Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective
By: David Biedrzycki
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Archaeologists Dig for Clues
By: Kate Duke
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Archaeologists on a dig work very much like detectives at a crime scene. Every chipped rock,...

Around the World: Three Remarkable Journeys
By: Matt Phelan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Follow three long ago adventurers who traveled around the world by bike, by herself, and on a...

Baby Monkey, Private Eye
By: Brian Selznick , David Serlin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Who is Baby Monkey? Well, he’s a baby and a monkey but one with a job: he’s a Private Eye!...

Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
By: Tracey Fern
Age Level: 6-9 years old

By the Great Horn Spoon!
By: Sid Fleischman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jack leaves the comfort of his aunt's Boston home lured west by the California Gold Rush....

Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Cam (short for "Camera") uses her photographic memory to help solve the theft of the...

Chasing Vermeer
By: Blue Balliett
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As mysterious things happen in and around their Chicago school, Petra and Calder use their...

Chet Gecko, Private Eye Series
By: Bruce Hale
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Chet Gecko is a sassy, wisecracking fourth-grade detective. Along with Natalie Attired, his...

Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud
By: Tracey Fern
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation
By: Mark Teague
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Encyclopedia Brown Series
By: Donald Sobol
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Boy detective Encyclopedia Brown is the fifth-grade mastermind behind Idaville's police...

Flotsam
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Gold in the Hills: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Rush
By: Candice Ransom
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Hermelin the Detective Mouse
By: Mini Grey
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Offley is a vibrant street where a delightful white mouse named Hermelin lives and narrates his...

How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
By: Jessie Hartland
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The history of the Hatshepsut sphinx: from its carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the...

Hurricane
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As the sky grays and the leaves swirl by in a "green blizzard," two young boys and...

Julian, Secret Agent
By: Ann Cameron
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Julian narrates the story of how he, his little brother Huey and best friend Gloria become...

Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Matthew Henson, the African American who accompanied Robert Peary on an expedition to the North...

King & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code
By: Dori Hillestad Butler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Kayla is a human girl who solves mysteries with a bit of help from her dog, King. Together they...

Letters from Camp: A Mystery
By: Kate Klise
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Three pairs of siblings, sent to a summer camp that helps brothers and sisters get along, must...

Melonhead and the Undercover Operation
By: Katy Kelly
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Melonhead and his friend Sam go undercover thinking that they have identified a notorious...

Monster Hunt: Exploring Mysterious Creatures
By: Jim Arnosky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Author/illustrator and self-taught naturalist Jim Arnosky introduces mysteries that surround...

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
By: Brian Floca
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Relive the journey of the Apollo 11 where the first people stepped on the moon's surface...

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
By: Alicia Porter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

Nate the Great
By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Meet Nate the Great, the neighborhood detective. He's just finishing up breakfast (pancakes...

Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning
By: Cindy Neuschwander
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
By: James Rumford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt...

Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello,...

Super Sniffers: Dog Detectives On the Job
By: Dorothy Hinshaw Hinshaw Patent
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Boxcar Children: Houseboat Mystery
By: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with heir...

The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing?
By: Shelly Rotner, Anne Woodhull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Bees have been around for over 65 million years but have been in decline since early in the 21st...

The Capital Catch (Ballpark Mysteries)
By: Dsavid A. Kelly
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Mike and Kate are back to solve a new mystery. This one is in the Nation’s Capital, where the...

The Dinosaur Museum
By: National Geographic
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This interactive guide takes you on a room-by-room tour of a natural history museum.You can open...

The Great Art Caper
By: Victoria Jamieson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
GW, the hamster enjoys his evenings with his animal friends and is even beginning to like the...

The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
By: Jan Mark
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux
By: Emily Arnold McCully
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
While looking for gold, four French boys accidentally discovered what was to be considered the...

The Stunning Science of Everything: Science with the Squishy Bits Left In
By: Nick Arnold, Tony De Saulles
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Sophisticated young scientists will enjoy dipping in and out of this funny but edifying...

The Talking T. Rex (An A to Z Mystery)
By: Ron Roy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Friends and amateur detectives Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose set out to help their friend whose...

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Exploring its history, geography, climate, and culture, this unique book takes readers on the...

The Wrigley Riddle
By: David Kelly
Age Level: 6-9 years old

What Darwin Saw: The Journey that Changed the World
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Archaeology for Kids
By: Richard Panchyk
Age Level: 9-12 years old
This activity book features 25 projects such as building a screen for sifting dirt at a dig,...

Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers (Science Comics Series)
By: MK Reed
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
In this graphic novel, learn all about the history of paleontology! This fascinating look at...

Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond
By: Martin Jenkins
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
From the ancient astronomers to the latest ideas about building a space elevator to make...

Flush
By: Carl Hiaasen
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the...

Historium: Welcome to the Museum
By: Jo Nelson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Welcome to the museum! Discover a collection of curated objects on every page, accompanied by...

Homer on the Case
By: Henry Cole
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A homing pigeon teams up with a parrot and their humans to investigate an animal crime spree in...

How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The Lewis and Clark expedition was well-documented by the explorers themselves; their travels...

I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Matthew Henson, an African American explorer, accompanied Robert Peary to the North Pole where...

If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge
By: Marc Aronson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
No matter how much is known, there's always more to learn. In a fascinating re-examination of...

Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13
By: Tod Olson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
From "Houston, we've had a problem" to the final tense moments at Mission Control, Lost in Outer...

Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Muddy Max: The Mystery of Marsh Creek
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Max and his soil scientist parents live in a marsh where Max discovers mud’s special properties...

Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America’s Own Backyard
By: Mary Kay Carson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Real Pigeons Fight Crime
By: Andrew McDonald
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
What do real pigeons do? They fight crime, of course! Meet the heroic pigeons secretly flying...

Saving Kabul Corner
By: N.H. Senzai
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from...

Secret Coders
By: Gene Yang
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Hopper dreads moving but dreads attending Stately Academy. Is it creepy beyond imagination; but...

Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences
By: Gene Luen Yang
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Can the three friends — Eni, Hopper, and Josh — foil the dastardly principal to save the day?...

Secrets of Stonehenge
By: Mick Manning
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones...

Sharuko: Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello / El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and...

Stones, Bones, and Petroglyphs: Digging into Southwest Archaeology
By: Susan Goodwin
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Ancestral Puebloan people lived in the Mesa Verde region of Colorado for over a thousand years,...

Tesla’s Attic
By: Neal Shusterman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The first in the Accelerati Trilogy, 14-year old Nick, his younger brother and his father have...

The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
By: Claudi Logan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
It is 1924, two years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Readers are invited to join a...

The Mighty Mars Rovers
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 9-12 years old
This book tells the greatest space robot adventure of all time through the eyes — and heart — of...