Anna Musick's Library
Oakland Elementary
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9780439139601 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, Book 4) (4) | Rowling, J. K. | In Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Harry Is Midway Through Both His Training As A Wizard And His Coming Of Age. He Wants To Get Away From The Malicious Dursleys And Go To The Quidditch World Cup With Hermione, Ron, And The Weasleys. He Wants To Dream About His Crush, Cho Chang (and Maybe Do More Than Dream). And Now That He’s Gotten The Hang Of Things At Hogwarts—he Hopes—he Just Wants To Be A Normal Fourteen-year-old Wizard. But Even By His Standards, Harry's Year Is Anything But Normal. First Dumbledore Announces The Revival Of A Grand Competition That Hasn't Taken Place For One Hundred Years: The Triwizard Tournament, Where A Hogwarts Champion Will Compete Against Rivals From Two Other Schools Of Magic In Three Highly Dangerous Tasks. Then Someone Frames Harry To Participate In The Tournament—which Really Means Someone Wants Him Dead. Harry Is Guided Through The Competition By Professor Alastor Moody, This Year's Defense Against The Dark Arts Teacher, But He Must Also Contend With A Nasty Reporter Named Rita Skeeter, Who Digs Up Some Highly Unflattering Secrets About Hagrid; A Terrible Fight With Ron, Who Is Deeply Jealous Of Harry's Fame; Hermione's Newfound Activism On Behalf Of House-elves; And The Terrifying Prospect Of Asking A Date To The Yule Ball. Worst Of All, Lord Voldemort May Finally Have Gathered The Materials Necessary For His Rejuvenation... And He Has A Faithful Servant At Hogwarts Waiting Only For A Sign. No, Nothing Is Ever Normal For Harry Potter. And In His Case, Different Can Be Deadly. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780439785969 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) | J.K. Rowling | The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.And yet . . . as with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. And with Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the full, complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thus finds what may be his only vulnerability. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780439358071 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Scholastic Inc. | ||
9780439136365 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Book #3 | J. K. Rowling | During his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. | |
9780590353427 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry, an orphan, lives with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. One day just before his eleventh birthday, an owl tries to deliver a mysterious letter-the first of a sequence of events that end in Harry meeting a giant man named Hagrid. Hagrid explains Harry's history to him: When he was a baby, the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, attacked and killed his parents in an attempt to kill Harry; but the only mark on Harry was a mysterious lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.Now he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the headmaster is the great wizard Albus Dumbledore. Harry visits Diagon Alley to get his school supplies, especially his very own wand. To get to school, he takes the Hogwarts Express from platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross Station. On the train, he meets two fellow students who will become his closest friends: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.Harry is assigned to Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, and soon becomes the youngest-ever Seeker on the House Quidditch team. He also studies Potions with Professor Severus Snape, who displays a deep and abiding dislike for Harry, and Defense Against the Dark Arts with nervous Professor Quirrell; he and his friends defeat a mountain troll, help Hagrid raise a dragon, and explore the wonderful, fascinating world of Hogwarts.But all events lead irrevocably toward a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who seeks an object of legend known as the Sorcerer's Stone... Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. | Scholastic |
9781338299144 | Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (1) | Rowling, J. K. | Rescued From The Outrageous Neglect Of His Aunt And Uncle, A Young Boy With A Great Destiny Proves His Worth While Attending Hogwarts School For Witchcraft And Wizardry. | Arthur A. Levine Books |
9780545462204 | Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | Scholastic | |
9780375821813 | Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes.Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
OS_642DB07D8DA3FA00B5242BA9 | Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon | Suzy Kline | ||
9780140385526 | Horrible Harry in Room 2b | Suzy Kline | Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun. | Puffin Books |
9780545104425 | How to Steal a Dog | Barbara O'Connor | Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer. | |
9780545206969 | I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Lauren Tarshis | Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780545919821 | I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17) | Lauren Tarshis | New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the historic grizzly bear attacks in Glacier National Park in this latest installment of the groundbreaking I Survived series. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780545207003 | I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 | Lauren Tarshis | When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9781338317442 | I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20), Volume 20 | Lauren Tarshis | California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes. The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history. In the 20th I Survived book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to. Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness and -- possibly -- their town. Josh needs to confront the family issues burning him up inside, but first he'll have to survive the flames blazing all around him. | I Survived |
9780545919777 | I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16) | Tarshis, Lauren | When John Hale's Parents Moved From Chicago To A Farm In The Dakota Territory In The Late 1880s, He Was Not Happy (too Hot In Summer, Too Cold In Winter, And That Is Just The Beginning); But After A Year, And Now Eleven, He Has Settled In And Made Some Friends At School--but When A Sunny Day In January 1888 Turns Abruptly Into A Deadly Blizzard He Will Need All His Strength And Courage To Survive What Became Known To History As The Children's Blizzard. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780545459396 | I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, 79 a. D. | Lauren Tarshis | Follows the experiences of a young boy who struggles to escape the catastrophic A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. | Scholastic Incorporated |
9780545658522 | I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 | Lauren Tarshis | On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
9780545658461 | I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 | Lauren Tarshis | Originally not wanting to come to Chicago, young Oscar Starling finds himself not only in the middle of the city, but trying to survive when the town is ablaze. | Scholastic Incorporated |
9780545658508 | I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (I Survived #13) | Lauren Tarshis | A birds-eye view of one of the most ghastly accidents ever be captured on film-- Hindenburg Disaster of 1937. In May of 1937, the Hindenburg, a massive German airship, caught fire while attempting to land in New Jersey, killing 35 people. Lauren Tarshis's latest thrilling addition to the New York Times bestselling I Survived series, will feature an 11-year-old boy in the middle of this historic disaster. | Scholastic Paperbacks |