Kara Eastman's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439894036 | The Boys Start the War | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | A rambunctious tale of the age-old feud between the boys and the girls. | |
| 9780439137393 | The Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards | James Preller | Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they seem to be missing. It's up to Jigsaw Jones and his partner Mila to solve this puzzling case. | |
| 9780395731666 | The Cats Of Tiffany Street (Houghton Mifflin Leveled Library: Little Big Book Plus) | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | A close knit group of cats who like to gather at the end of Tiffany Street are surprised by the cat catcher and are in desperate straits until Shadow thinks of a plan that will set them all free. | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |
| 9780439523578 | The Cookcamp | Paulsen, Gary | when?: World War Iiwhere?: A Cookcamp In The Canadian Woodswhy?: He's Not Really Sure. One Summer, A 5-year-old Boy Goes To Live With His Grandmother In A Cookcamp. The Camp Is Home To 9 Men Who Are Building A Road Through The Woods. The Boy Misses His Mother, But At The Same Time The Camp Becomes Home--a Special Home Where He Learns To Spit And Rides The Tractor. It's A Wonderful Summer, But Then He Lets Slip To His Grandmother About Uncle Casey And She Writes Seven Letters To His Mother. Seven Letters That She Mails Good And Hard. A Short While Later, The Boy Returns Home.publishers Weeklythis Short, Lyrical Novel Concerns A Five-year-old Boy Who Is Sent To The North Woods Of Minnesota To Live With His Grandmother, A Cook For A Rough-and-tumble Road-building Crew, Because His Father Is Off Fighting In World War Ii And His Mother Has Taken A Job In A Factory. Paulsen's Simply Told Story Strikes Extraordinary Emotional Chords, From The Boy's Wide-eyed Wonder At The Giant Men And Their Giant Machines, To His Searing Rage At His Mother's New Boyfriend (the Real Reason He's Been Packed Off To The Woods), To His Profound Love For His Grandmother, To His Aching Loneliness For His Mother. Paulsen Expertly Balances Sensitive Probing Of The Boy's Mental And Emotional Life With Superb Descriptions Of The Boy Helping The Men Build The Road, Making Paulsen's Unnamed Hero One Of The Most Fully Realized Characters In Recent Memory. Those Hungry For Adventure Stories, As Well As More Introspective Readers, Will Be Spellbound By This Stirring Novel, Which Is Every Bit The Equal Of The Winter Room And Paulsen's Other Works. Ages 10-12. (mar.) | Scholastic |
| 9780439507240 | The Danger | Gordon Korman | Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star have a final faceoff with the adults wanting to keep the discovered sunken treasure for themselves, and with the hungry sharks surrounding the riches. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780881068443 | The Flag We Love | Pam Muñoz Ryan | This spirited tribute to Old Glory will inspire readers, young and old, to take a new look at the greatest emblem of the United States of America. With patriotic verse and historical facts, THE FLAG WE LOVE explores how our flag has become an enduring part of our nation's proud history and heritage. From its earliest designs to its role in peace-time and war, the Star-Spangled Banner will take on a whole new meaning for all readers. The bold, rich illustrations by Ralph Masiello highlight significant points in history, as well as commonplace moments of American life, when our flag symbolizes the people and ideals of the United States of America. | Charlesbridge Publishing |
| 9780312367497 | The Gardener | Sarah Stewart | By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting. The Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book. | Square Fish |
| 9780439182980 | The Golden Wasp | Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell | Julie makes a big mistake when she brings a bracelet home from Droon. Now she has upset the balance between worlds -- and strange things are starting to happen. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
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| 9780439567640 | The Great Ghost Rescue | Eva Ibbotson | A young English boy decides to establish a sanctuary for an assortment of ghosts when the homes they have haunted are replaced by highways and other modern "improvements." | |
| 9780439445566 | The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce | Ann Rinaldi | A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621. | |
| 9781423140566 | The Kane Chronicles, the, Book Two: Throne of Fire | Rick Riordan | Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. | Hyperion |
| 9780689844478 | The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco | "We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
| 9780545202121 | The Leanin' Dog | K. A. Nuzum | "More than anything, Dessa Dean needed a friend. A friend to love and confide in, a friend with whom she could share her heart. A friend who would delight in all the beauty and joy and fun of Christmas, only four days away. Hope had just about run out, but then ... there came a scratchin' at the door and Dessa Dean's life was forever changed." | Scholastic, Inc. |
| 9780439762977 | The Leprechaun's Gold | Pamela Duncan Edwards | A leprechaun intervenes with gold and magic when a greedy, boastful young harpist gains an unfair advantage for a royal harping contest. | |
| 9780590386333 | The Library Card | Jerry Spinelli | The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books. Four humorous, poignant stories about how books changed the lives of several youngsters. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 0439265746 | The Lion and the Mouse | Bernadette Watts | ||
| 9780064431835 | The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything | Linda Williams | 0nce upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . CLOMP, CLOMP, SHAKE, SHAKE, CLAP, CLAP. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life! | Harper Collins |
| 9780590446877 | The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane | Joanna Cole | The magic school bus takes a close look at the inside of a hurricane | Scholastic Press |
| 9780689851223 | The Mary Celeste | Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. Stemple | In this spooky book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, set off on the high seas to a ghost ship left completely abandoned and adrift on the waves. The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift on the open sea by another ship in 1872—with no sign of captain or crew. What happened? Did the crew mutiny? Were they attacked by pirates? Caught in a storm? No one ever found out. Inside this book are the clues that were left behind and the theories of what people think happened aboard that ship. Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history! | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |