Jed Mathews' Library
West Creek Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780547073873 | Gets Slimed! | Reading | When his new best friend, Ben, decides to run for class president, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire reluctantly agrees to be his campaign manager in exchange for help with his latest experiment--cultivating exhibits for a mold museum. | Journeys |
| 9781338345315 | Hamlet and Cheese | Megan McDonald | "It's spring break, and Stink is faced with a difficult choice: hang out at home with his sister, Judy, or become a Shakespeare Sprite with his friend Sophie of the Elves. Hanged be! When Sophie tells Stink that there will be swordplay and cursing at Shakespeare camp, his choice is made. But wait! How now? The eager young thespian hadn't counted on Riley Rottenberger being a Sprite, too. And he positively had not counted on being the only boy! Fie upon't!"--Amazon.com. | |
| 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 |
| 9781416936473 | Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother’s infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skills—how to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fire—and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780140309270 | Homer Price | Robert McCloskey | Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage. | New York : The Viking Press |
| 9780440419396 | Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | A book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls. A hilarious Floridian adventure! | Yearling Books |
| 9780545902687 | I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive. Now Malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee. In this Young Readers Edition of her memoir, which includes exclusive photos and material, we hear firsthand the story of a girl who knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world -- and did. Malala's story will open your eyes to another world and will make you believe in hope, truth, miracles and the possibility that one person -- one young person -- can inspire change in her community and beyond. | ||
| 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 |
| 9781338317381 | I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 | Lauren Tarshis | A fictional survival story celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy landings. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 9780545459372 | I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 | Lauren Tarshis | A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545658485 | I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived #12) | Lauren Tarshis | The next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will place readers right in the middle of the deadly Joplin Tornado of 2011. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947. | |
| 9780545459389 | I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 | Lauren Tarshis | In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy struggles to survive... In this gripping new addition to the bestselling I Survived series, a young Jewish boy joins the resistance "partisan" fighters outside Warsaw the ghetto. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis -- and fight back? | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545206990 | I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 | Lauren Tarshis | Earning money to help his family at the beginning of the 20th century, 10-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Original. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545206952 | I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 | Lauren Tarshis | In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories. | Scholastic Paperbacks |