Jeremy Liebler's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781861991522 | The Book of Planets | Clint Twist, Kuo Kang Chen | Starting with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, this book introduces the nine planets in our solar system. | |
| 9780761189282 | The Book Of Wildly Spectacular Sports Science 54 All-Star Experiments | Sean Connolly | Why does a knuckleball flutter? Why do belly flops hurt so much? Why would a quarterback prefer a deflated football? Here are 54 all-star experiments that demonstrate the scientific principles powering a wide variety of sports and activities—and offer insights that can help you improve your own athletic skills. How does a black belt karate chop her way through a stack of bricks? Use Popsicle sticks to understand why it’s possible and learn the role played by Newton’s second law of motion. Does LeBron James really float through the air on the way to a dunk? Use a tennis ball, a paperback book, and the help of a friend to understand the science of momentum and the real meaning of hang time. Using common household objects, each project includes step-by-step instructions, tips, and a detailed explanation of how and why the experiment worked. It’s a win-win. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat—it’s all in the science. | Workman Publishing |
| 9780440846017 | The Camel Who Took a Walk | Jack Tworkov | A camel out for her morning stroll is secretly watched by a tiger and other scheming creatures. Suspense builds and builds ... until a surprise changes all their plans. | |
| 9780545054737 | The Case of the Sneaky Snowman (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew) | Keene, Carolyn | Scholastic | |
| 9780439569576 | The Children's Book Of Home And Family | William John Bennett | A selection of fictional and non-fiction stories, folktales, poems, and prayers that emphasize the importance of family and home. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780545071925 | The Chocolate-Covered Worms | Barbara Seuling | When Robert's teacher assigns the class to write reports on things weird and horrible, the funs begins! | |
| 9780545109987 | The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | Scholastic | |
| The Final Gambit | ||||
| The First World War | ||||
| 9780439560528 | The Fishy Field Trip | Martin Schwabacher, Joanna Cole | When their class project for Ocean Awareness Day falls into Ms. Frizzle's fish tank, Tim and his classmates board the Magic School Bus with their teacher for a real underwater adventure. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 0307168026 | The Fox and the Hound | Walt Disney Productions | Copper the hound puppy and Tod the little fox get lost in the forest while playing hide and seek. | |
| 9780689846526 | The Ghost Of P.S. 42 | Frank Asch | Jake and his sister, Molly, are looking for a new place to live. When the mice discover Public School 42, they wonder if they should make it their new home. But Jake has scary encounters with an owl and the bully cat Big Gray, and wants to go back to his family. Meanwhile, Molly makes friends with a gentle hamster named Gino (who is also a ghost!) and with Miss Clark's class pets, and wants to stay. Can she convince her brother to live at P.S. 42, even though it is haunted? | Aladdin |
| 9780439598408 | The Grapes of Math | Greg Tang | Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems by looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations within the eye-catching pictures. Reprint. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545071932 | The Great Egghead Challenge | Barbara Seuling | When Robert's teacher, Mrs. Bernthal, teams Robert with Susanne Lee, the class know-it-all, for a science experiment, Robert learns Susanne Lee isn't so bad after all. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780590257213 | The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive | Joanna Cole | Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a fieldtrip to a beehive in her magic school bus. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781416915553 | The Magician's Boy | Susan Cooper | Only a child can find the way to bring Saint George back to the play. The Boy works for the Magician, and he wants more than anything to learn magic. But the Magician always says, "Not yet, Boy. Not till the time is right." So the Boy has to be content with polishing the Magician's wand, taking care of the rabbits the Magician pulls out of hats, and doing his favorite job: operating the puppets for the play Saint George and the Dragon, which the Magician always performs as part of his act. Until one day the Saint George puppet disappears, and the angry Magician hurls the Boy into the strange Land of Story to find Saint George. His quest is full of adventures with oddly familiar people, from the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe to the Giant at the top of Jack's beanstalk. But the Boy's last adventure is the most amazing of all -- and changes his life forever. | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| 9780439773201 | The Million Dollar Shot | Dan Gutman | Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals. | |
| 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 |
| 9780439851176 | The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map To Freedom | Bettye Stroud | The images stitched into Hannah's quilt lead to secret signposts on the Underground Railroad as she and her father take flight from slavery on a perilous path to freedom.Now that Hannah’s papa has decided to make the run for freedom, her patchwork quilt is not just a precious memento of Mama — it’s a series of hidden clues that will guide them along the Underground Railroad to Canada. A fictionalized account of a fascinating oral history, The Patchwork Path tells the story of a two of the thousands who escaped a life of slavery and made the dangerous journey to freedom — a story of courage, determination, and hope.- A Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book, Honorable Mention | Candlewick |
| The Plot Against Santa |