Joy Perkins' Library
Ringgold Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780670784868 | Road Work Ahead | Anastasia Suen | On the drive to Grandma's house, a boy and his mother encounter work crews using machinery and tools to perform roadwork. | Viking |
| 9781617419225 | Run, Swim, Fly | Julie K. Lundgren | Emergent Readers Learn How Some Living Things Move In Water, In Air, And On Land. | Rourke Publishing Group |
| 9780060241025 | Sarah, Plain And Tall: A Newbery Award Winner (Sarah, Plain And Tall, 1) | Patricia MacLachlan | This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language, and it's a strong choice for independent reading. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss, and love.Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance. | HarperCollins |
| 9780689814600 | Saving Shiloh (The Shiloh Quartet) | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Marty Preston wonders why it is that despite Judd Traver's attempts to redeem himself everyone is still so willing to think the worst of him. Marty's friend David is sure that Judd will be named as the murderer of a man who has been missing. Others are sure that Judd is behind a series of burglaries in the area. But Marty's parents and, with some trepidation, Marty himself persist in their attempts to be good neighbors and to give Judd a second chance. Now that Marty has Shiloh, maybe he can help Judd to take better care of his other dogs. Then again, maybe folks are right -- there's no way a Judd Travers can ever change for the good. Then a terrifying life-or-death situation brings this dilemma into sharp focus. Saving Shiloh is a powerful novel that brings this trilogy to a close. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545323963 | Scat, Cat! | Alyssa Satin Capucilli | A lost and lonely cat finally finds its way back home. | |
| 9780439322973 | Scholastic Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library | Marilyn Burns | A collection of 25 books are featured with instructions on how to use each title to launch a classroom math lesson. | |
| 9780807572634 | Schoolhouse Mystery (Boxcar Children) | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Albert Whitman & Company | |
| 9781617419324 | Science Safety Rules | Kelli Hicks | Introduces seven basic rules of safety in the science laboratory, including following directions, washing hands, and looking and listening, but never tasting or smelling, materials. | My Science Library |
| 9780439876575 | Science Vocabulary Readers; Life Cycles - Frog | Justin McCory Martin, Scholastic, Incorporated | Scholastic | |
| 9780807507551 | Secret On The Thirteenth Floor (The Boxcar Children Mysteries) | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Black cats? Broken mirrors? The number thirteen? The owner of the art deco apartment building in nearby Silver City believes in all kinds of superstitions. The Aldens aren't so sure about most of them, but there's one thing they do know: something strange is going on on the thirteenth floor. Are they just coincidences, or is the building manager onto something? | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9781419710544 | Separate Is Never Equal | Duncan Tonatiuh | "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"-- | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780689806476 | Shiloh Season | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | After Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over. He could not rescue all the dogs that Judd mistreated, but since shiloh was the one who ran away and came to him, Shiloh was the one he loved.Judd, however, has other problems. Anyone who cheats and swears and lies and kicks his dogs has troubles inside himself, and when the man starts drinking, Marty realizes that Shiloh is in danger once again. As hunting season approaches and Judd begins hunting on their land, the Prestos know that something is bound to happen.They're right. Marty does the only thing he can think of to do, and discovers just how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439639057 | Shoo, Fly Guy! (Fly Guy, No. 3) | Arnold, Tedd | The third book in a humorous, easy-to-read series about a boy and his fly! Each book in the series has a different fun foil cover! Fly Guy returns home to discover that Buzz has gone on a picnic without him! Sad and hungry, Fly Guy takes off in search of his favorite food. He gets shooed away from a hamburger, a pizza, a dog's bones, and even roadkill--leaving readers to guess what Fly Guy's favorite oozy, lumpy, smelly, and brown food could possibly be! Why, it's shoo-fly pie, of course! Using hyperbole, puns, slapstick, and silly drawings, bestselling author/illustrator Tedd Arnold creates an easy reader that is full of fun. With an eye-catching holographic foil cover, this is the third in a series of four books. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780547727387 | Sisters & Brothers | Steve Jenkins, Robin Page | Investigates sibling relationships in the animal kingdom, providing such examples as falcons that play-hunt together in the sky and hyena cubs that fight to the death. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780673612786 | Sleepy Pig | Librarian Rare Book Collection Linda Lott, Linda Lott | Scott Foresman | |
| 9781614792062 | Snow Day From The Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures) | Mike Thaler | A blizzard covers the town with snow and school is cancelled. Hubie, who doesn't like winter, is convinced it will mean a no day--nothing moving, nothing happening. But after spending all afternoon putting on so many layers of clothes that he can barely move, he plows through the snow (and his worries) and has fun exploring the winter wonderland, drinking hot chocolate, and telling scary snowman stories with his friends.Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO. | Abdo Group |
| 9780545014236 | Snow Day! Snow Play! | Jenne Abramowitz | Rhyme time reader focused on the fun activities of a snow day. | |
| 9780807575161 | Snowbound Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries) | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Four brave siblings were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Join the Boxcar Children as they investigate the mystery of their snowbound cabin in this illustrated chapter book series beloved by generations of readers.A sudden snowstorm traps the Aldens in a mountain cabin! The cabin is cozy, but the children hear strange noises at night and find a coded message carved into the closet door. Can the children crack the code and solve their snowbound mystery?What started as a single story about the Alden Children has delighted readers for generations and sold more than 80 million books worldwide. Featuring timeless adventures, mystery, and suspense, The Boxcar Children® series continues to inspire children to learn, question, imagine, and grow. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780380709267 | Socks | Beverly Cleary | Socks, the Bricker's cat, finds a new rival in the form of the Bricker's new baby, Charles William, until he and the baby become partners in mischief. | Harpercollins Childrens Books |
| 9781617419287 | Solid or Liquid? | Amy Hansen | Explains the difference between solids and liquids and provides examples of each. |