David Capotosti's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780679881063 | The Monkey Bridge | Rafe Martin | A human king learns wisdom and compassion from a monkey king willing to make a great sacrifice for the good of his subjects. | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 9780782508857 | The Nystrom Junior Geographer Atlas. | Nystrom (Firm), Herff Jones, Inc | Text and illustrations describe how to read a map and present information about the regions represented in each map. | |
| 9780545849135 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. | |
| 9780061992278 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Soon to be a major motion picture! Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes. In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create an unforgettable story of friendship, art, and hope. The One and Only Ivan features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). Plus don't miss Katherine Applegate's Endling series! | HarperCollins |
| 9780060209186 | The Pinballs | Betsy Byars | "What else is on your 'Bad Things' list?" Carlie urged. "Nothing. I've just got the appendectomy so far." "Well, write down two broken legs," Carlie suggested. "I wouldn't exactly call them the fun event of the year." She paused. "If it was me, I'd make that number two and three, wouldn't you, Thomas J? Number two, right leg. Number three, left." After all, when your own father drives over your legs, you really should account for both of them. Harvey has other lists, too, lists of people he is afraid of and of gifts he got that he didn't want. Carlie has it figured that his problem, like her own and Thomas J's, is that he is a pinball. Pinballs don't get to settle where they want. But under the influence of their foster parents and each other, Carlie's cynicism is eclipsed by her determination to bring Harvey out of his despondency; and the earnest Thomas J begins to find his own identity. Even Carlie is willing to conclude that the three are not pinballs, after all. Betsy Byars' upbeat story of children disappointed by their parents is often funny and always poignant. | HarperCollins |
| 9780545354110 | The Secret Zoo | Bryan Chick | Noah and his friends follow a trail of mysterious clues to uncover a secret behind the walls of the Clarksville City Zoo--a secret that must be protected at all costs. | |
| 9780590108416 | The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | ||
| 9781338166194 | The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle | Gabrielle Kent | Anticipating a dreadful summer alone, young Alfie Bloom unexpectedly inherits a castle which conceals a centuries-old, dangerous secret that threatens everyone who lives within one thousand miles. | |
| 9780545081504 | The Talented Clementine | Sara Pennypacker | Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show. | |
| 9780803702714 | The Tales of Uncle Remus | Julius Lester | Pinkney's lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Lester's contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these 48 tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore. Illustrations. | Dial |
| 9780358394082 | The Thirteenth Cat | Mary Downing Hahn | From master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, a new thriller about bravery, unexpected friendship, and sinister cats that will captivate readers with its chilling mix of mystery and magic. Zoey loves spending the summer with her Aunt Alice, and her aunt's new house is the perfect place to cozy up with a good book. But she's unnerved by the overgrown forest next door, which is creepy even in the daytime and full of eerie sounds at night. Worse, there are rumors in town of a dark force in those woods. And Zoey can't deny that the wild black cats who live there seem to be watching her. When she encounters a mean old woman who claims to be their owner, Zoey realizes there's more to the cats than meets the eye. But little does she know that the closer she comes to discovering their secret, the more danger she's in . . . | Clarion Books |
| 9780439457088 | The Twelve Dancing Princesses | Ellen Miles | A retelling of a classic fairy tale finds twelve princesses dancing their shoes to pieces night after night, much to the dismay of their father the king, who offers the hand of the princess of his choice to the man who can get to the bottom of things. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780194228718 | The Usa | Alison Baxter | What does America mean to you? Skyscrapers, President Kennedy, fast food,big cars, cowboys and Indians? But what about the mountains, the deserts and thevast lakes? And what exactly is an American?From the time before Columbus up to the present day, this book looks at thehistory of the USA and the many different people who live there. | Oxford University |
| 9780439680905 | The Vampire's Vacation | Ron Roy | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate a mysterious man in black who Josh believes is a vampire. | |
| 9780439441421 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks shee(tm)son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a womane(tm)s sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds shee(tm)s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined. | Scholastic |
| 9780440495963 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut. | Yearling Books |
| 9780439785525 | The Yellow Yacht | Ron Roy | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen gold from Sammis parents, the king and queen of Costra. | |
| 9780545417198 | There Is No Such Thing as Monsters! | Steve Smallman | Little Bear is excited about his first night in his own bedroom, but the room seems far too quiet and dark and he calls for Big Bear to chase away the monsters. | |
| 9780531213520 | Thunderstorms | Chana Stiefel | Describes how thunderstorms are formed and predicted, and includes information on how these storms affect plants, animals, and humans. | Childrens Press |
| 9781338565300 | Took | Mary Downing Hahn | "A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years"-- |