Author Title Description Kate Dicamillo The Tale of Despereaux: Being a Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread A new baby mouse falls in love with Princess Pea and has many adventures within the castle while searching for love, hope and forgiveness.  Newberry Winner, 2004 Neil Gaiman Coraline Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. Gail Levine The Wish When granted her wish to be the most popular girl in school, Wilma, an eighth grader, forgets that she will graduate in three weeks and her popularity will vanish. Sharon Creech Love That Dog A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. Polly Hovarth Everything on a Waffle Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. Patricia Reilly Giff All the Way Home In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past. Gordan Korman No More Dead Dogs Eighth-grade football hero Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. Peter Busby First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane Two brothers turned their boyhood dreams into reality through dedication, determination, and resourcefulness. Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin The Meanest Doll in the World When dolls Annabelle & Tiffany are carried to another house, they come up against Mean Mimi, a bullying princess, who rides roughshod over the toys in her realm.