Joanna Newsome's Library
Rossview Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780545723381 | Book of the Dead | Michael Northrop | When Alex Sennefer's mother uses the Lost Spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son from the brink of dying, she also brings back five Death Walkers, leaving Alex and his best friend to find his mother and save the world. | Scholastic |
| 9780590129022 | Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery | David A. Adler | When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door-to-door to raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime. | |
| 9780142412251 | Cam Jansen: Cam Jansen and the Sports Day Mysteries | David A. Adler | No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to her school's Sports and Good Nutrition Day. Cam's class is going to Franklin Park to run races, play soccer and baseball, and have a picnic lunch. Cam is ready for lots of sporting fun, but she doesn't expect a mystery--much less three of them! It's going to be on exciting day! The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. | National Geographic Books |
| 9781419740350 | Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid | Jeff Kinney | Amulet Books | |
| 9780545477079 | Divided We Fall | C. Alexander London | Compelled to serve the Confederate States of America but too young to enlist, Andrew joins the Home Guard with his dog Dash to track down deserters only to discover that hunting down humans is very different from hunting raccoons. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780141301693 | Eagle Song | Joseph Bruchac | A contemporary middle grade story about confronting bullying and prejudice Danny Bigtree's family has moved to Brooklyn, New York, and he just can't seem to fit in at school. He's homesick for the Mohawk reservation, and the kids in his class tease him about being an Indian—the thing that makes Danny most proud. Can he find the courage to stand up for himself? “A worthy, well-written novella.” —Kirkus Reviews “This appealing portrayal of a strong family offers an unromanticized view of Native American culture, and a history lesson about the Iroquois Confederacy; it also gives a subtle lesson in the meaning of daily courage.” —Publishers Weekly "With so many Native American stories set in the misty past, it's great to read a children's book about an Iroquois boy who lives in the city now. Bruchac weaves together the traditional and the realistic as Danny's ironworker father tells stories of his people's history and heroes, stories that give Danny courage to confront his schoolyard enemies and make friends with them.” —Booklist | Penguin |
| 9780545202961 | Flying Solo | Ralph J. Fletcher | Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up. | |
| 9780531249826 | George Washington Carver | Dana Meachen Rau | Chronicles the life and career of the slave-turned-agricultural scientist. | Childrens Press |
| 9780545071826 | Hachiko Waits | Lesléa Newman | Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story. | |
| 076714003996 | Hanging on to Home | Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski | ||
| 9780439692427 | Hatching Magic | Ann Downer | Poore Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Loas without her, her two best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward to ... | |
| 9780545003278 | Heat | Mike Lupica | Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. | |
| 9780802775771 | Heat Wave! | Helen Ketteman | What happens when a heat wave descends on the family farm? Why, the corn stalks turn into popcorn in the fields, flowers pluck themselves and hide under the porch, and the cows jump so much from the hot air that they churn their own milk into butter, that's what! In this delightful tall tale, illustrated by Scott Goto (Shooting Star, Shoeshine Whittaker), a young girl saves the day (and the farm) using her own ingenuity, every crow in Kansas, and a packet of lettuce seeds. | Walker Childrens |
| 9780439651417 | Hunting the Hunter | Gordon Korman | When Aiden and Meg Falconer discover that Hairless Joe, a killer and madman, holds the key to freeing their parents from prison, they decide to try and trap him, despite the dangers. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545060462 | In Too Deep | Jude Watson | Could Amy and Dan's biggest enemy be . . . a friend? The 39 Clues Book 6 challenges everything you thought you knew about the Clue race. JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN! The 39 Clues gets treacherous. Book 6 takes Amy and Dan across oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439022996 | Martin Luther King, Jr | Rob Lloyd Jones | Highlights the life of the Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement. | |
| 9780395259399 | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Virginia Lee Burton | Mike Mulligan proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful. | Clarion Books |
| 9780545812146 | New Year's Eve Thieves | Ron Roy | While investigating a mystery on New Year's Eve, four friends encounter a big surprise. | |
| 9780545447843 | One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. | |
| 9780439697385 | Pleasing the Ghost | Sharon Creech | Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business. |