Brandi Goodwin's Library
Liberty Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780375977442 | Pup and Bear | Kate Banks | A stranded wolf cub is rescued and raised by a loving polar bear, and years later when he is grown into a wolf and on his own, he comes upon a lost polar bear cub, and the cycle begins again. | |
| 9780380709564 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona feels quite grown-up taking the bus by herself, helping big sister Beezus make dinner, and trying hard to be nice to pesky Willa Jean after school. Turning eight years old and entering the first grade can do that to a girl. So how can her teacher call her a nuisance? | HarperCollins |
| 9780380709540 | Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary | Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it's the greatest day of her life. So why is she sitting on the bench while the rest of the students play the game gray duck? Laughs and minor upsets abound in an enormously popular story starring the one and only Ramona Quimby! | HarperCollins |
| 9780763687748 | Randy Riley's Really Big Hit | Chris Van Dusen | “With all the bases covered — musical text, entertaining artwork, and surefire subject matter — this title bats 1,000 for group or lapsit read-alouds.” — School Library Journal Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. Then, one night, Randy sees something shocking through his Space Boy telescope: it’s a fireball, and it’s headed right for his town! Randy does the math, summons all his science smarts, and devises a plan that will save the day in a spectacular way. Once again, with visual humor, dizzying perspectives, perfect pacing, and rollicking rhyme, Chris Van Dusen delivers a hit that will make readers stand up and cheer. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780328132959 | Reading 2007 Leveled Reader Grade 2 Unit 5 Lesson 2 Below Level Below Level | Kelly Kong | Pearson Scott Foresman | |
| 9780328133659 | Reading 2007 Leveled Reader Grade 3 Unit 3 Lesson 4 on-Level on-Level | Pearson Scott Foresman | ||
| 9780328215188 | READING 2008 SIDEWALKS FOR READING INTERVENTION STUDENT READER GRADE 4 VOLUME 3 | Scott Foresman | My Sidewalks on Scott Foresman Reading Intensive Reading Intervention ((c)2008) components for Grade 4. | Scott Foresman |
| 9780312376024 | Rosa | Nikki Giovanni | A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement. | Macmillan |
| 9780531212042 | Rosa Parks (Rookie Biographies) | Wil Mara | Meet Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.Fact-filled Rookie Read-About Biographies introduce the youngest readers to influential women and men, both past and present. Colorful photos and age appropriate text encourage children to read on their own-as they learn about people like Serena Williams, Neil Armstrong, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank and many more. Rosa Parks was born in the South at a time when African Americans were treated like second-class citizens. By refusing to accept the status quo, Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and went on to become known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. | Children's Press |
| 9781629798486 | Rosa's Bus | Jo S. Kittinger | Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950's, Bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front and black passengers sat in the back—until Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights movement led by a young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery. | Astra Publishing House |
| 9781614932178 | Rounding Rescue, A Rounding Numbers Story | Eric Lostorto | Her name is Underlina and she sure knows her "place" as she rescues numbers with a smile on her face. She uses idioms, that assist her along the way, as she helps numbers when their confidence has gone astray. So don't be alarmed if she appears under your shoe. It's just Underlina making another rounding rescue. | The Peppertree Press |
| 9780615378398 | Rudolph's Nose Knows | Marcia Fishman | Rudolph's Nose Knows is the fictional story of a blind and deaf dachshund. While the story may be imaginary, Rudolph is a real dog who was rescued by the author of the story. In this book, Rudolph is teased by the other dogs because of his disabilities. However, when a baby bird falls down a hole, it is only Rudolph, with his knack for burrowing and his keen sense of smell, who can come to the rescue. With the baby bird safe, all of the other dogs celebrate Rudolph's deeds and proclaim him a hero. | Limeade Publishing House |
| 9780439201643 | Screech!: A Book About Bats (HELLO READER SCIENCE LEVEL 3) | Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger | Enhanced with colorful photos, this book provides young readers with a fact-filled book about the many different types of bats there are in the world. Original. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780448402215 | Scrooge: All Abroad Reading, Level 2, Grades 1-3 | Cathy East Dubowski | An easy-to-read version of the classic tale in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas from three ghostly visitors | PRICE STERN SLOAN |
| 9780823413737 | Sea Turtles | Gail Gibbons | Dive into the world's oceans to explore the adventurous lives of one of the oldest living animals. Descended from enormous prehistoric creatures, sea turtles are fascinating. Hatched from eggs smaller than a baseball, some can grow to weigh over a thousand pounds. Once adults, they can live to be around 100 years old. And when it's time to nest, they migrate more than 1,000 miles. With colorful, clear illustrations and straightforward text, Gail Gibbons introduces the eight kinds of sea turtles living in the ocean today. Learn the similarities and differences with labeled diagrams and experience the hatching of the tiny turtle babies with detailed illustrations. This updated edition now includes the most up-to-date information about these beloved reptiles, as reviewed by an expert vetter in the field of herpetology. Sea Turtles also gives young readers an accessible overview of how the lives of these large reptiles have become threatened and discusses the conservation efforts currently taking place. Ideal for aspiring oceanographers, this brightly-illustrated book is a perfect introduction to the subject. | Holiday House |
| 9780062699459 | Shaking Things up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World | Susan Hood | "Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women—each paired with a noteworthy female artist—to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada’s Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a prehistoric fossil. You’ll meet Ruby Bridges, the brave six-year-old who helped end segregation in the South. And Maya Lin, who at twenty-one won a competition to create a war memorial, and then had to appear before Congress to defend her right to create. And those are just a few of the young women included in this book. Readers will also hear about Molly Williams, Annette Kellerman, Nellie Bly, Pura Belprè, Frida Kahlo, Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne, Frances Moore Lappè, Mae Jemison, Angela Zhang, and Malala Yousafzai—all whose stories will enthrall and inspire. This book was written, illustrated, edited, and designed by women and includes an author’s note, a timeline, and additional resources. With artwork by notable artists including Selina Alko, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Hadley Hooper, Emily Winfield Martin, Oge Mora, Julie Morstad, Sara Palacios, LeUyen Pham, Erin Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Shadra Strickland, and Melissa Sweet. | HarperCollins |
| 9780823416387 | Shape Up! | David A. Adler | A hands-on introduction to polygons that takes the fear out of math and puts the fun back in! Draw three dots on a piece of paper. Or maybe-- draw three dots on a slice of cheese. What happens when you connect the dots? With bright, colorful illustrations and a simple, funny text, Shape Up! introduces triangles, quadrangles, and other polygons to young readers, encouraging them to play along, and learn everything there is to know about shapes. Explaining basic geometric concepts and offering definitions for important vocabulary, this introduction to shapes, lines, and angles is to good to miss-- even if the jokes can be a little . . . cheesy. Created by a respected children's nonfiction author and former math teacher, this is a perfect grounding in basic shapes-- and a lot of fun, too. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780590412018 | Shh! We're Writing the Constitution | Jean Fritz | Describes how the Constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | |
| 9780312384494 | Shrek! | William Steig | Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world.Ordinary, that is, if a foul and hideous being who ends up marrying the most stunningly ugly princess on the planet is what you consider ordinary. | Square Fish |
| 9780316070164 | Sit-In | Andrea Davis Pinkney |