Angela Murrell's Library
Rossview Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780544225008 | The Candy Smash | Jacqueline Davies | Lemonade war competitors Jessie and Evan Treski learn about the power of poetry during a Valentine's Day holiday marked by a mysterious benefactor who leaves candy hearts for the students of Class 4-0. | HMH Books For Young Readers |
| 9781442469020 | The Case Of The Mysterious Dognapper: Can You Solve The Mystery #4 (4) | M Masters | Twelve-year-old amateur sleuths, and best friends, Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams love to solve cases. They invite readers to follow the clues and sketches to solve crimes in their hometown of Lakewood Hills. All of the books in the “Can You Solve the Mystery” series contain 9-10 short mysteries. Readers are given written clues as well as visual clues to help them solve the crime. The answers and a brief wrap-up are given in the back of the book.The Case of the Imperfect Crime; The Case of the Mysterious Dognapper; The Mystery of the Moody Medallion; The Case of the Stashed Cash; The Mystery of the Double-Crossed Inheritance; The Secret in the Stands; The Case of the Reptile Rip-Off; The Mystery of the Musical Phone Call; The Secret of the Smuggler's Car; The Secret of the Ancient Treasure. Part 4: The Treasure Trove | Meadowbrook |
| 9780545326438 | The Chocolate Touch | Patrick Skene Catling | When John Midas acquires a magical gift, everything his lips touch turns into chocolate. | |
| 9781338212242 | The Collector | K. R. Alexander | A spooky doll story filled with thrills and chills, for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Neil Gaiman. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781338038316 | The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium #2) (2) | Holly Black, Cassandra Clare | From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the second installment in the New York Times bestselling series ― Now in Paperback!Callum Hunt’s summer break isn’t like other kids’. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course,most kids aren’t heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall.It’s not easy for Call . . . and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc.Call escapes to the Magisterium ― but things only intensify there. The Alkahest ― copper gauntlet capable of separating certain magicians from their magic ― has been stolen. And in their search to discover the culprit, Call and his friends Aaron and Tamara awaken the attention of some very dangerous foes ― and get closer to an even more dangerous truth.As the mysteries of the Magisterium deepen and widen, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take readers on an extraordinary journey through one boy’s conflict -- and a whole world’s fate.All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. Now that he’s entered the Magisterium, Call’s sure the school can only bring bad things. A place both sensational and sinister, the Magisterium has dark ties to his past ― and a twisty path to his future. A path that will forever change everything Call thought he knew about the worlds of good and evil. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781338216219 | The Force Oversleeps (Star Wars: Jedi Academy #5). | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | "Victor Starspeeder is back at Jedi Academy for year two, but it's not going the way he'd planned. He was thrilled about Drama Club and hoped to get the lead in this year's musical... But a new kid got the role! What gives?! Plus, he keeps oversleeping and getting to class late . . . Worst of all, his big sister Christina is getting ready to graduate from Jedi Academy, and there are rumors going around that she's a Sith! What's a Padawan to do? In times when he feels more alone than ever, Victor will have to trust the ways of the Force and his friends if he's going to survive year two in this all-new chapter in the Jedi Academy series."-- | |
| 9781338547191 | The Girl in the Locked Room | Mary Downing Hahn | Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.-- | |
| 9780689876790 | The Homework Machine | Dan Gutman | Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780545840675 | The Iron Trial (Magisterium, Book 1) | Black, Holly; Clare, Cassandra | Scholastic Inc. | |
| 9781416991526 | The Journal Of Curious Letters (1) (The 13Th Reality) | James Dashner | What if every choice you made created an alternate reality? In The Journal of Curious Letters, Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day he receives a strange letter informing him that dangerous— perhaps even deadly—events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick will be sent twelve riddles that, when solved, will reveal the time and place of an extraordinary happening. Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues and discover the life he was meant to live? Tick’s journey continues in The Hunt for Dark Infinity! Mistress Jane and the Chi karda are back. Tick and Mistress Jane race to find the deadly Dark Infinity weapon. But who will destroy it—and who will become its master? | Aladdin |
| 9781338030129 | The Key to Extraordinary | Natalie Lloyd | Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations. | |
| 9780547722375 | The Lemonade Crime (The Lemonade War Series) | Davies, Jacqueline | just As The Lemonade War, Which Sold More Than 260,000 Copies, Put Business Into The Hands Of Evan And His Younger Sister, Jessie, This Equally Exciting Follow-up Puts The Law Into Their Hands. Using The Rules Of Our Legal System As A Guide, They Turn The Playground Into A Courtroom And Put Scott Spencer, Alleged Thief, On Trial, With Fourthgraders Serving As Judge And Jury.turn To Page 56 To Read About The Next Book In The Lemonade War Series! | HMH Books for Young Readers |
| 9780547237657 | The Lemonade War | Jacqueline Davies | Evan Treski, who is people-smart, and his younger sister Jesse, who is math-smart, battle it out through competing lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn one hundred dollars. Reprint. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9781423134947 | The Lightning Thief (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Percy Jackson And The Olympians) | Rick Riordan | Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. | Disney-Hyperion |
| 9780545559553 | The Lions Of Little Rock (Friendship Is More Than Skin Deep) | Krsitin Levine | In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, these best friends refuse to give up on each other, no matter the cost. Twelve-year-old Marlee, who is shy & quiet, feels like her whole world is falling apart. And she's sure that starting middle school is only going to make things worse, until she meets Liz, the new girl. It may look like they have nothing in common - Liz always knows the right thing to say, & Marlee can barely stand to speak in class - but they become fast friends. Then Liz is caught 'passing' for white & leaves the school without even a good-bye. Marlee decides she wants her friend back. But to stay friends Marlee & Liz must be willing to take on segregation - & the dangers their friendship could bring to both their families. | Puffin Books |
| 9780316024556 | The Mousehunter | Alex Milway | In Emiline's world, there are thousands of species of mice, some rarer than others. Mousehunters travel the world collecting the rarest and most special breeds, from the wily and deadly Sharpclaw Mouse to the dog-sized Elephant Mouse and the quick-as-lightning Comet Mouse.For Emiline, a mousekeeper in the employ of wealthy Isiah Lovelock, there is no greater dream than becoming a famous mousehunter. So when she is given the opportunity to join the hunt for the legendary pirate Mousebeard, she sets off on the most dangerous, most thrilling, most swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime.The Mousehunter is an extremely accessible, dark and thrilling story, featuring original black & white illustrations, maps and character portraits. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780316113694 | The Name of This Book Is Secret | Pseudonymous Bosch | Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. | Little Brown & Company |
| 9781423101482 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse | Rick Riordan | When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever. | Hyperion |
| 9781423103349 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan | Percy and his friends battle to save Camp Half-Blood, which is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. | Disney Press |
| 9780763648305 | The Sisters Club: Rule Of Three | Megan McDonald | Book Two of Megan McDonald’s Sisters Club series! "Here’s hoping for a third act." — Kirkus ReviewsAlex has always been the Actor with-a-capital-A in the Reel family, and middle-sister Stevie has always been content behind the scenes. But when the school play turns out to be a musical, Stevie decides that she’s tired of being the Sensible One. Maybe, for once, she’d like to be in the spotlight! Soon the dueling divas — with little sister Joey egging them on — are in a fierce competition to see who has what it takes to play the Princess. Has Stevie broken the rules by going for what she wants, or will it be Alex who hands down the biggest betrayal of all? | Candlewick |