Kristen Harrison's Library
Liberty Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 0589687336 | ||||
| 0590687336 | ||||
| 9780439226783 | Nancy White, John Speirs, Joanna Cole | When a mysterious animal suddenly appears in Ms. Frizzle's classroom, she and the entire class travel around the world to find the right home for this lost creature. Original. | Scholastic Inc. | |
| 9780064402385 | A Taste of Blackberries | Doris Buchanan Smith | What do you do without your best friend? Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend. But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie, there are so many impossible questions to answer -- how can your best friend be gone forever? How can some things, like playing games in the sun or the taste of the blackberries that Jamie loved, go on without him? | Harper Collins |
| 9781577482307 | Adventure in the Wilderness | Veda Boyd Jones | Betsy Miller and her cousin, George Lankford, move with their families to Cincinnati. The journey will take weeks of travelling on ships, wagons, and flatboats. Unfortunately, Betsy and George just can't seem to get along. They learn to work together, though, after facing one adventure after another in the wilderness. | Barbour Publishing |
| 9781101951538 | Amber Brown's Reading Collection | Paula Danziger | Meet Amber Brown, the unforgettable third-grader whose spunk and good humor help her survive the joys and sorrows that life delivers in this collection of four stories. | |
| 9780679817345 | Baseball Ballerina | Kathryn Cristaldi | A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780486275703 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell, Thea Kliros | A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. | Courier Corporation |
| 9780670200375 | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball | David A. Adler | A baseball autographed by Babe Ruth is stolen from the community hobby show, and Cam thinks she knows who took it. Is she right, or has the thief thrown a curve ball? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9780794541927 | Clever Rabbit and the Lion | The rabbit has to be clever because the lion is eating up all of the jungle animals. | ||
| 9781577482598 | Danger on the Railroad | Susan Martins Miller | Charles Fisk and his sister, Tina, discover that a friend's family is involved in the Underground Railroad. When they see an escaping slave being followed by a slave catcher, Tina and Charles know they must help without raising the slave catcher's suspicions. | Barbour Publishing |
| OS_642AFA3EF8F82500B5AC7135 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 9781543593792 | Dinosaur Discoveries | Kathryn Clay, Sally Lee, Janet Riehecky, A. L. Wegwerth | "Travel back to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Feel the ground shake as the gigantic Apatosaurus thunders by. See the deadly Tyrannosaurus rex attack its prey with its razor-sharp teeth. New discoveries, old bones, and lots of amazing facts tell the stories of these prehistoric animals and their journey through time."--Cover. | |
| 9781577482581 | Enemy or Friend | Norma Jean Lutz | Fred Allerton's father refuses to trust him with the very machines Fred built to make their furniture factory work faster. When there is an explosion in the factory and Fred is falsely accused by the supervisor, Mr. Purlee, Fred goes to live with his cousin. Even worse in Fred's eyes is the fact that Mr. Purlee helps slave owners. Fred learns the lesson of 'love thy enemies.' | Barbour Publishing |
| 9780439576178 | Esperanza Rising | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. | Scholastic |
| 9780062964434 | Fancy Nancy Treasury | Jane O'Connor | Collects six stories depicting Fancy Nancy's humorous adventures as she wears her nightgown to school, visits an aquarium, plans a surprise party, has backward day at school, reads with a friend and takes her dog to puppy school. | Harper |
| 9781577482574 | Fight for Freedom | Norma Jean Lutz | Siblings Meg and Fred Allerton just can't get along. They even argue about the slavery issue. Fred gets excited when William Lloyd Garrison opens a store in Cincinnati that won't sell anything produced by slave labor. Meg hopes people will deal with the slavery issue peacefully. She becomes very ill, and she and Fred learn some valuable lessons about relationships. | Barbour Publishing |
| 073642130 | Finding Nemo | Gail Herman | ||
| 9780545858014 | Flat Stanley and the Very Big Cookie | Lori Haskins Houran | Flat Stanley loves to help Mr. Pete the Baker make his treats. When another baker begins taking away all his business, Mr. Pete comes up with an idea to save his bakery, but he needs help from Stanley -- Publisher. | |
| 9780140322057 | Friedrich | Hans Peter Richter | "Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."--The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported. For Friedrich was Jewish. | Puffin Books |