Crystal Mccoin's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780439316484 | Twister on Tuesday | Mary Pope Osborne | When Jack and Annie travel back to Kansas, they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers. | |
| 9780395618011 | Ty's One-Man Band | Mildred Pitts Walter | On a hot, humdrum day Ty meets a man who, using a washboard, comb, spoons, and pail, fills that night with music. | |
| 9781560652823 | U.S. Navy SEALs (Serving Your Country) | Streissguth, Thomas | Uncover the history of specialized military forces, their mission, and the role they have played in international conflicts. This series shows young readers how special forces personnel infiltrate behind enemy lines to support guerrilla warfare operations, then go on to organize, train, equip, and direct the use of non-U.S, forces in guerrilla operations. Learn how special forces personnel are trained in survival techniques, languages, communications, weapons, first aid, and explosives. Most important, these specialized units can move quickly to any area of the world, striking by land, sea, and air, and all are specially trained to make surprise raids behind enemy lines and participate in other similarly daring operations. A celebration of true esprit de corps, these books show how special forces meet the stark challenges faced by today's modern military. Traces the history of this special forces unit, the training its members must undergo, and its deployment in modern conflicts. | Capstone Press |
| 9781423105527 | Urchin of the Riding Stars (The Mistmantle Chronicles, Book 1) | M.I. Mcallister | Miramax Books | |
| 9780590706391 | Vacation Under the Volcano | Mary Pope Osborne | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | Hippo Books |
| 9780021794966 | Very Last First Time | Jan Andrews | Macmillan/McGraw-Hill | |
| 9780590706438 | Viking Ships at Sunrise | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel to ancient Ireland. | |
| 9780064405171 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. | Harper Collins |
| 9780021850297 | Walking Through the Jungle | A young explorer discovers the different animals and terrains of the world before making it home, safe and sound, for supper. | Orchard Books | |
| 9780545403351 | War Horse: (Movie Cover) | Morpurgo, Michael | Scholastic Press | |
| 9780060525507 | Warriors #1: Into the Wild | Erin Hunter | Fire alone can save our Clan... For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying -- and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty . . . Who may yet turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all. | Harper Collins |
| 9780060525613 | Warriors #3: Forest of Secrets | Erin Hunter | Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. With tensions so delicately balanced, former friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want. Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of brave ThunderClan warrior Redtail. But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden. | Harper Collins |
| 9780395941706 | Washing the dog (Invitations to literacy) | Sloan, Peter | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 9780590453653 | Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, No. 1) | R.L. Stine | Scholastic | |
| 9780026859462 | What a Wonderful World | George David Weiss, Bob Thiele, Ashley Bryan | Sra | |
| 9781338101089 | What if You Had Animal Eyes? | Sandra Markle | What if you woke up one morning and your eyes weren't yours? What If You Had Animal Eyes?--the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series--explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an pair of animal eyes instead of your own! From the chameleon's eyes that can point in different directions, to the colossal squid's eyes that shine in the dark, discover what it would be like if you had these special eyes--and find out why your eyes are just the right ones for you! | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780399541599 | What Was the San Francisco Earthquake? | Hoobler, Dorothy, Hoobler, Thomas, Who HQ | Penguin Workshop | |
| 9780590049801 | When I Lived with Bats | Faith McNulty | A girl describes how she spent a summer observing the bats around and inside her house and what she discovered about their characteristics and behavior. By the creators of Dancing with Manatees. Original. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780142417379 | Where Butterflies Grow | Joanne Ryder | Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Includes gardening tips to attract butterflies. |