Jill Johnson Jackson's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439314343 | Electric Storm | Anne Capeci, Joanna Cole | Keesha and the rest of Ms. Frizzle's class, after a boring lesson about weather, are gearing up for an exciting trip through the world of electricity when they collectively become a bolt of lightning. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780312602369 | Elizabeth Leads the Way | Tanya Lee Stone, Rebecca Gibbon | ||
| Escape From Slavery | ||||
| 9781543575378 | Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport | Emma Carlson Berne | Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life. | |
| 9781984893017 | Fast Pitch | Nic Stone | From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field.Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way.Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat.Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup.Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified.It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past—and fast—before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever. | Crown Books for Young Readers |
| 9781419746789 | Ferdinand Magellan (The First Names Series) | Candy Gourlay | An illustrated biography of the famous explorer with “plenty of engaging action scenes and historical facts” (School Library Journal).Before he led the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth, Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese noble who loved the sea. A skilled sailor, he led a number of voyages and is known for his incredible navigation skills. Over the course of his sailing career, he faced terrible storms and mutinies but always managed to get his crew home safely. He set off with his crew to circle the globe―a trip that no other ship had ever completed.Though Magellan died in combat in the Philippines before he could complete the voyage, his ship went on to complete the first circumnavigation of the world, and he is still known as one of the greatest explorers. However, as historians today note, many of the places that Magellan “discovered” already had people living there, and his fame is one rooted in colonialism. Ferdinand Magellan tackles the legacy―both good and bad―of this famous explorer.First Names is a highly illustrated nonfiction series that puts young readers on a first-name basis with some of the most incredible people in history and of today! | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780439649988 | Flipped | Wendelin Van Draanen | In alternating chapters, two eighth-graders describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. | |
| 9780679819974 | Follow the Drinking Gourd | Winter, Jeanette | Dragonfly Books | |
| 9780439555678 | George Washington and the General's Dog | Frank Murphy | scholastic | |
| Get Well Soon, Mallory! | ||||
| 9780876145043 | Go Free Or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman (Creative Minds Biographies) | Jeri Ferris | For the first twenty-eight years of her life. Harriet Tubman lived as a slave on a southern plantation. Finally, with the help of a Quaker woman, she was able to escape to Philadelphia by way of the Underground Railroad. After her escape, Harriet began her quest to help free other slaves. Over a ten-year period she led more than three hundred people through the Underground Railroad. In Go Free or Die, young readers will learn about this courageous woman who refused to be a slave and who fought for freedom for everyone. | LernerClassroom |
| 9780590929219 | Good Children Get Rewards A Story Of Williamsburg In Colonial Times | Eva Moore | As a brother and sister follow the directions in a rebus letter they discover in their father's shop, they are led to help people in various places throughout eighteenth-century Williamsburg. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780810954755 | Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas | Bardoe, Cheryl | The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!How do mothers and fathers―whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans―pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world’s first geneticist, Mendel overcame poverty and obscurity to discover one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science: animals, plants, and people all inherit and pass down traits through the same process, following the same rules.Living the slow-paced, contemplative life of a friar, Gregor Mendel was able to conceive and put into practice his great experiment: growing multiple generations of peas. From observing yellow peas, green peas, smooth peas, and wrinkled peas, Mendel crafted his theory of heredity―years before scientists had any notion of genes.Children will be inspired by Gregor’s neverending search for knowledge, and his famous experiments are easy to understand as an introduction to genetics. F&P level: Q | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780590433853 | Hello, Mallory | Ann M. Martin | Eleven-year-old Mallory is excited when it looks like the eighth-grade girls will invite her to join their Baby-sitters Club and she might become best friends with the new African American girl in the neighborhood, but the club members have to learn some lessons in fairness first. | |
| 9780142419601 | Hero | Mike Lupica | From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw. Zach Harriman knew that his dad was something of a hero, a man trusted by the president to solve international crises at a moment's notice. Suddenly people are telling him he has powers - people who know much more about his father than Zach ever did. But there are the Bads, who appear out of nowhere and attack him and his best friend. One thing is clear: he can do things ordinary people cannot. Like fend off grown men as though he possesses the strength of a hundred. Like sense when evil is about to strike. And evil is about to strike in a very big way. Zach Harriman is his father's son. And he, too, is a hero. "Every kid wants to be a superhero. Well, be careful what you wish for - you might get it. This is the amazing story of Zach Harriman and nothing Mike Lupica has written will thrill you like this." - William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride | Penguin |
| 9781338565898 | How to Eat Fried Worms | Thomas Rockwell | Because of a bet, Billy's in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545685320 | How to Speak Dolphin | Ginny Rorby | Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help. When Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom. | |
| 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 |
| 9780545206945 | I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 | Lauren Tarshis | Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, 10-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Simultaneous. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780152063542 | If You Find a Rock | Peggy Christian | Celebrates the variety of rocks that can be found, including skipping rocks, chalk rocks, and splashing rocks, as well as the mysterious and wonderful places they are found. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint. | Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros |