Merci Suárez Plays It Cool

Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever

Juana & Lucas

Emily Sparkes and the Competition Calamity

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

Judy Moody Predicts the Future

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind. There's just one problem: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too. And there is simply not enough room at the top for the two of them.

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Merci Suárez Plays It Cool

Meg Medina, 2022

Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever

Judith Viorst, Isidre Monés, 2014

Juana & Lucas

Juana Medina, 2016

Emily Sparkes and the Competition Calamity

Ruth Fitzgerald, 2015

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Booki Vivat, 2017

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

Peter Johnson, 2014

Judy Moody Predicts the Future

Megan McDonald, 2003

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

Lauren Child, 2006