Emily Samples' Library
Glenellen Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780545650380 | The Matchbox Diary | Paul Fleischman | Follow A Girl's Perusal Of Her Great-grandfather's Collection Of Matchboxes And Small Curios That Document His Poignant Immigration Journey From Italy To A New Country. | |
| The Monster In The Third Dresser Drawer | ||||
| The Night Swimmers | ||||
| The Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon | ||||
| The Picture Of Dorian Gray | ||||
| 9780395681923 | The Pomegranate Seeds: A Classic Greek Myth | Laura Geringer, Nathaniel Hawthorne | In a modern interpretation of the myth of Persephone, the young daughter of Demeter is kidnapped by the king of the underworld, and her mother declares that nothing will grow on Earth until her daughter is returned. | Houghton Mifflin |
| 9780688083403 | The Popcorn Dragon | Jane Thayer | You could hardly blame Dexter, ordinarily a well-behaved young dragon, for showing off when he suddenly found that he could make clouds of smoke. The temptation is irresistible, but Dexter quickly becomes insufferable. First he watches his own reflection in the river in order to admire the smoke. Then he puffs it in the faces of his friends: the zebra, the giraffe, and the elephant. He even blows smoke rings around his own tail to prove how clever he is.Soon Dexter has no friends left. He is a very lonely dragon indeed, until quite by accident he discovers a way his talent can be used to win back his playmates.This wonderful story -- first published in 1953 -- will delight both young readers and their parents, and so will Lisa McCue's appealing new pictures of this lovable show-off. | HarperCollins |
| 9780021850013 | The Pup And The Cat (Book 5) | Elizabeth King | New with very light shelf wear.. | McGraw-Hill School Division |
| 9780689717383 | The Relatives Came | Cynthia Rylant | In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer. | Atheneum |
| 9780792227144 | The Return Of The Buffaloes | Paul Goble | Dispatched to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their people, two Great Plains Native American scouts encounter a mysterious spirit woman who helps them out of their predicament. 20,000 first printing. | National Geographic Kids |
| 9780329034658 | The Return of the Indian | Lynne Reid Banks | A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back. | |
| 9780803715455 | The Rooster Who Lost His Crow | Wendy Cheyette Lewison | After a bee scares the cock-a-doodle-do out of him, Rooster anxiously searches the entire barnyard for it | Dial |
| 9780618055234 | The Rumpelstiltskin Problem | Vivian Vande Velde | Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story.Vivian Vande Velde has wondered too, and she’s come up with these six alternative versions of the old legend. A bevy of miller’s daughters confront their perilous situation in very different ways — sometimes comic, sometimes scary. Most of the time, it’s the daughter who gets off safely, but sometimes, amazingly, Rumpelstiltskin himself wins the day. And in one tale, it is the king who cleverly escapes a quite unexpected fate. | HMH Books for Young Readers |
| 9781450996563 | The Secret Life Of Wally Smithers | Amanda Jenkins, Benchmark Education Co., LLC | Wally Would Rather Play His Video Game, But He's Forced To Run Errands With His Mother And Sister. To Pass The Time, He Uses His Imagination To Transform Humdrum Settings Into Action Adventures. | |
| 9780440479000 | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Dell | |
| 9780374371975 | The Story Of A Blue Bird | Tomek Bogacki | Curiosity overcomes fearA little blue bird is afraid to learn to fly, but is still very curious about the world beyond his nest. "Mama, mama, what is out there?" he asks. "Nothing," his mother replies. "Now go to sleep." But the little bird can't stop thinking about what his mother said. What is this nothing? Finally, curiosity draws the little bird from his nest into the wonders of the great outside world - and he learns to fly. When he returns, his family asks him, "What happened?" "Nothing!" replies the little blue bird, happily. With his characteristcally expressive and richly textured illustrations, Tomek Bogacki - whose fables for the very young have been likened to those of Leo Lionni - shows how a little bird, in his search for nothing, finds everything. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| 9780803706194 | The Talking Eggs | A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded. | Dial | |
| The Three-Legged Cat | ||||
| 9780374479558 | The Treasure | Uri Shulevitz | Three times a voice comes to Isaac in his dreams and tells him to go to the capital city and look for a treasure under the bridge by the royal palace. Feeling a little foolish perhaps, but determined to see for himself if the dream is true, Isaac sets out on his long journey. What he finds makes a surprising and heart-warming ending to this retelling of a well-known folk tale. In a few words, Cadelcott Medal winner Uri Shulevitz draws a man who is innocent enough to have faith in a dream, and wise enough to understand the greatest reward of all. Isaac's solitary journey, his arrival at hte vast city, and his discovery there are all enriched by Mr. Shulevitz's beautifully detailed illustrations, which masterfully capture the spirit of the original tale while keeping it simple enough for the very youngest reader. The Treasure is a 1980 Caldecott Honor Book and a 1979 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. | Square Fish |
| 0439831032 | The Trumpet of the Swan |