Joy Perkins' Library
Ringgold Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780516240312 | I Can Play Soccer | Edana Eckart | A simple introduction to soccer, describing the equipment used and how the game is played. | Childrens Press |
| 9780448431000 | I Hate Rules! | Nancy E. Krulik | Third-grader Katie Carew gets into trouble for breaking school rules, but when she magically turns into the school's principal and eliminates all rules, things get out of hand. Includes directions for playing Four Square, Statue Tag, and Poison. | Penguin |
| 9781607191384 | I Like the Spring! | Tammy Jones | There are many nice things in Spring. What is your favorite part of Spring? | Newmark Learning |
| 9780439500708 | I Stink! | Kate McMullan | A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini. | |
| 9780545206969 | I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Lauren Tarshis | Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545919739 | I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived #15) | Lauren Tarshis | The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. This Revolutionary War had started as a thrilling fight for freedom. The 13 American colonies were breaking apart from England, away from King George III. The colonies would band together to become a brand-new country: The United States of America! But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody war. And America was being crushed by the mighty British army. Thousands of American troops were either dead or dying in filthy British prison ships. General George Washington's army was in tatters. All Nate wanted was to find his father...and to get out of here alive. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545919821 | I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17) | Lauren Tarshis | New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the historic grizzly bear attacks in Glacier National Park in this latest installment of the groundbreaking I Survived series. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781338317381 | I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 | Lauren Tarshis | A fictional survival story celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy landings. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545459365 | I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 | Lauren Tarshis | Witnessing the harrowing events of the Civil War from the Pennsylvania sidelines, 11-year-old Henry endures the most grueling challenges of his life throughout a hot July week when he becomes inadvertently involved in the historic battle. Original. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781338317442 | I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20), Volume 20 | Lauren Tarshis | California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes. The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history. In the 20th I Survived book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to. Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness and -- possibly -- their town. Josh needs to confront the family issues burning him up inside, but first he'll have to survive the flames blazing all around him. | I Survived |
| 9780545919777 | I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16) | Tarshis, Lauren | When John Hale's Parents Moved From Chicago To A Farm In The Dakota Territory In The Late 1880s, He Was Not Happy (too Hot In Summer, Too Cold In Winter, And That Is Just The Beginning); But After A Year, And Now Eleven, He Has Settled In And Made Some Friends At School--but When A Sunny Day In January 1888 Turns Abruptly Into A Deadly Blizzard He Will Need All His Strength And Courage To Survive What Became Known To History As The Children's Blizzard. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545459396 | I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, 79 a. D. | Lauren Tarshis | Follows the experiences of a young boy who struggles to escape the catastrophic A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780545658522 | I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 | Lauren Tarshis | On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545658461 | I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 | Lauren Tarshis | Originally not wanting to come to Chicago, young Oscar Starling finds himself not only in the middle of the city, but trying to survive when the town is ablaze. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781338317411 | I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 | Tarshis, Lauren | One Hundred Years Ago, A Killer Wave Of Molasses Struck A Crowded Boston Neighborhood. Discover The Story Of This Strange Disaster In The Next Book In The New York Times Bestselling I Survived Series. There Were Warning Signs That The Molasses Tank Would Break. The Steel Sides Moaned And Groaned. Molasses Oozed From Its Seams. But The People Of Boston's North End -- Mostly Poor Immigrants -- Were Powerless To Complain To The Big Molasses Company. On A Bright January Day In 1919, The Tank Finally Broke And Almost Three Million Gallons Of Molasses Rushed The Neighborhood. At 15 Feet Tall, 160 Feet Wide, And Traveling At 35 Miles Per Hour, The Gooey Wave Was More Destructive Than Any Flood Of Water Would Have Been. Lauren Tarshis Tells The Riveting Story Of One Child Who Was Swept Up In The Sticky Storm And Lived To Tell The Tale. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545658508 | I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (I Survived #13) | Lauren Tarshis | A birds-eye view of one of the most ghastly accidents ever be captured on film-- Hindenburg Disaster of 1937. In May of 1937, the Hindenburg, a massive German airship, caught fire while attempting to land in New Jersey, killing 35 people. Lauren Tarshis's latest thrilling addition to the New York Times bestselling I Survived series, will feature an 11-year-old boy in the middle of this historic disaster. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545459372 | I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 | Lauren Tarshis | A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545658485 | I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived #12) | Lauren Tarshis | The next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will place readers right in the middle of the deadly Joplin Tornado of 2011. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947. | |
| 9780545459389 | I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 | Lauren Tarshis | In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy struggles to survive... In this gripping new addition to the bestselling I Survived series, a young Jewish boy joins the resistance "partisan" fighters outside Warsaw the ghetto. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis -- and fight back? | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545206990 | I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 | Lauren Tarshis | Earning money to help his family at the beginning of the 20th century, 10-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Original. | Scholastic Paperbacks |