Joanna Blanton's Library
Sango Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780763664268 | The Incredible Shrinking Kid | Megan McDonald, Peter Reynolds | The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. | Candlewick Press |
| 9780663594139 | The Kite that Flew Away | Joanna Austin | Annie and her Aunt Sue make a kite. | |
| 9780316107617 | The Last Basselope | Berke Breathed | In hopes of making a Great Discovery, Opus the penguin leads his friends into the forest to search for the legendary, ferocious Basselope. | Little Brown |
| 9781338271522 | The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt | In the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named Rock. Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom's Home Office, there was a second great warrior Paper. In the Kitchen Realm, in the tiny village of Junk Drawer, lived a third warrior Scissors. These three were the strongest, smartest, and fastest in all the land. Time and again they beat the most fearsome opponents they could find. | |
| 9781338125702 | The Lion Inside | Rachel Bright | A little mouse decides to seek lessons in roaring from the mighty lion--who happens to be afraid of mice--and the two become good friends. | |
| 9780899193496 | The Little Red Hen | Paul Galdone | Unaided by her three lazy animal companions, an industrious hen tends to all the chores on their New England farm. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780395779125 | The Lost Lake | Allen Say | A young boy and his father become closer friends during a camping trip in the mountains. | |
| 9780590407601 | The Magic School Bus | Joanna Cole | Rock collecting has never been quite like this! When the class forgets to do its homework, a fieldtrip through the Earth's crust, into the center of the Earth, and out through a volcano will teach them not to forget their assignments again. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780590508353 | The Magic School Bus Blows It's Top | Gail Herman, Joanna Cole | Once again, Ms. Frizzle gets her class right in the "thick" of things--this time, they're right in the thick ooze of an underwater volcano's magma chamber! As Arnold and Carlos watch from a raft above, the Magic School Bus "erupts" with the magma and lava, and lands atop a brand-new island! Full color. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439899345 | The Magic School Bus in the Bat Cave | Jeanette Lane, Joanna Cole | Bats are living at Tim's house ... but where did they come from? Ms. Frizzle and her class are on the case. | Scholastic |
| 9780590414296 | The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System | Joanna Cole | On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780590415262 | The Mud Pony | A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when Mother Earth turns his mud pony into a real one, but after the pony turns back to mud, he must find his own strength. | Scholastic Inc. | |
| 9780440417996 | The Name Jar | Yangsook Choi | After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be. | Dragonfly Books |
| 9781338129960 | The Ninjabread Man | C. J. Leigh | In this adaptation of the traditional Gingerbread man, Ninjabread Man escapes the Sensei, and defeats Ninja Bear, Ninja Snake and Ninja Mouse, only to be eaten by the clever Ninja Fox. | Orchard Books |
| 9780027110555 | The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo | Judy Blume | Lately second grader Freddy Dissel has that left-out kind of feeling. Life can be lonely when you're the middle kid in the family who feels like "the peanut butter part of a sandwich," squeezed between an older brother and little sister. But now for the first time it's Freddy's chance to show everyone how special he is and, most of all, prove it to himself! | Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books |
| 9780920236161 | The Paper Bag Princess | Robert Munsch, Robert N. Munsch, Michael Martchenko | Elizabeth decides to chase the dragon and get Ronald back. | Firefly |
| 9780531071397 | The Paperboy | Dav Pilkey | A boy and his dog savour the silence of the early morning as they deliver papers. | Scholastic |
| 9780545154512 | The Perfect Nest | Catherine Friend | Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken. | |
| 9780545902519 | The Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School | Deborah Diesen | Mr. Fish recalls how, on his very first day of school, he anxiously went to one classroom after another watching students do things he could not, until Miss Hewitt showed him to the room that was right for beginners. | |
| 9781338273359 | The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate | Shannon Hale, Dean Hale | Noseholes and elephants! A pet-eating monster interrupts a perfect playdate with Princess Sneezewort ... but who is that new masked avenger? Princess Magnolia and Princess Sneezewort have plans ... mysterious plans, like a princess playdate! They dress-up slam! They karaoke jam! They playhouse romp and snack-time stomp! But then a shout from outside Princess Sneezewort's castle interrupts their fun. It's a monster trying to eat someone's kitty! This is a job for the Princess in Black. Yet when the Princess in Black gets there, she finds only a masked stranger and no monster in sight ... or is there? Action and humor abound in this ode to friendship that proves that when shape-shifting monsters intrude on your plans, two heroes are better than one. |