Kaci Townsend's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780153624049 | Surprises In Grandma's Garden | Sharon M. Luster | ||
| Sylvester And The Maggie Pebbble | ||||
| 9780590980661 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Winner of The Caldiecott Medal) | William Steig | Scholastic, Inc. | |
| 9780517885444 | Tar Beach | Faith Ringgold | CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.” | Dragonfly Books |
| 9780545000734 | Team Rocket Truce (Pokemon: Battle Frontier #1) | Tracey West | When May's Mynchlax and James's Chimecho both get sick, both teams end up at the same house to wait while their Pokâemon are cured. | Scholastic |
| 9780394873367 | The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble at School | Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain | Get ready to go back to school with the Berenstain Bears! This story is a perfect way to teach children about responsibility and the importance of doing your schoolwork--with over 50 bonus stickers that make a great reward for tests and homework!Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic storybook from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother isn’t doing his schoolwork, and it’s starting to catch up with him. Now that he got a bad grade on his quiz, how is he going to tell Mama and Papa? | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780394856407 | The Berenstain Bears and the Truth | Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain | This classic Berenstain Bears story is a perfect way to teach children about the importance of honesty! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. When Mama goes to the market, Brother and Sister play soccer in the house . . . and end up breaking a lamp! When Mama asks them what happened, they tell her a series of whoppers that just get bigger and bigger. Will they ever tell her the truth? | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545206983 | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 | Lauren Tarshis | Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, 11-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction and chaos to make his way back home. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Simultaneous. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780440846208 | The Caterpillar and the Polliwog | Jack Kent | Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too. | |
| 9780805071634 | The Colors of Us | Karen Katz | Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. | Macmillan |
| The Great Space Chase | ||||
| 9781338116564 | The Last Kids On Earth And The Zombie Parade! | Max Brallier | The Zombies Are Disappearing. This Might Seem Like A Good Thing, Since Zombies Eat Your Brains, But Normal Human Kid Jack Sullivan Is Suspicious. He Keeps Hearing An Eerie Shrieking Noise That Seems To Be Almost Summoning The Zombies--but To Where, And For What (probably) Foul Purpose?--page 4 Of Cover. | |
| 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. |
| 9780590687331 | The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary | A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 2 15 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. | Scholastic |
| 9780060743864 | The Nutcracker | Susan Jeffers | New York Times bestselling artist Susan Jeffers has created a Nutcracker unlike any that has gone before, with a lovely spare text based on the ballet. This is the perfect gift to share with children before they see The Nutcracker. Everyone who has seen the ballet will cherish it—as will anyone who enjoys stories where love triumphs. Come, take a front-row seat. The world's most beloved holiday fairy tale is about to begin. | Harper Collins |
| 9780823405329 | The Quicksand Book | Tomie DePaola | Poor Jungle Girl. She falls into quicksand. Jungle boy finds her. Jungle Girl starts to sink while Jungle Boy tells her where and how quicksand forms; why people sink in quicksand; what happens to animals in quicksand; how people can watch out for quicksand; and what people should do if they fall into quicksand. But Jungle Girl does not sink forever. There is a happy and surprising ending. And a quicksand experiment. For someone who has not fallen into quicksand, author-artist Tomie de Paola knows a lot about it. | |
| 9780545570916 | The Revolutionary War | Scholastic | ||
| 9780440846031 | The Ship That Flew | Hilda Lewis | When Peter sees the model ship in the shop window, he wants it more than anything else on Earth. But this is no ordinary model. The ship takes Peter and the other children on magical flights, wherever they ask to go. Time after time the magic ship takes them on different exciting adventures, to different countries, and to different times. And why should magic ever end? | S G Phillips |
| 9781552976944 | The Story Of Flight: From The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum | Judith Rinard | The dream of being able to fly is as old as human history. This book, based on the outstanding collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., tells the story of the remarkable people -- dreamers, inventors, and pilots -- who turned that dream into a reality.Richly illustrated with photographs and illustrations The Story of Flight takes you on an exciting journey through time. Here you'll read about the development of ballooning; the earliest gliders; the Wright brothers' first sustained flights; Charles Lindbergh's solo trip across the Atlantic; Amelia Earhart's courageous flights; the explosion of the airship Hindenburg; the dogfights of World Wars I and II; Chuck Yeager's blast through the sound barrier; the Apollo astronauts' first steps on the moon and the building of the International Space Station.More than 150 photographs and drawings, most in full color, illustrate and explain the amazing developments in the story of flight. | Firefly Books |
| OS_643ED4AB02E76700B538AE6C | The Velveteen Rabbit |