Laura Wicks' Library
Norman Smith Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780395137192 | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare | A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus of Nazareth teaches him love and understanding of others. A Newbery Medal book. Reissue. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780590691277 | The Case of the Secret Valentine | James Preller | Second-grade sleuth Jigsaw Jones gets another opportunity to solve a bizarre mystery and join forces with his friend Mila to solve a baffling Valentine's Day puzzle. Original. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 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. | |
| 9780140363135 | The Corn Grows Ripe | Dorothy Rhoads | Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured. | Puffin Books |
| 9780439203074 | The Great Fire | Jim Murphy | An account of the Great Chicago Fire combines archival photographs and drawings with personal accounts by its survivors and historical documents. | Scholastic Nonfiction |
| 9780156423502 | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes | In winning a medal she is no longer there to recieve, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | Voyager Books |
| 9780590483476 | The Monster Blood Collection | R. L. Stine | Gabe just got lost in a pyramid in The curse of the mummy's tomb. Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb, but that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. Does it? | |
| 9780142400456 | The Not-so-Jolly Roger | Jon Scieszka | Once again, three friends are sent back in time by a magic book and they find themselves prisoners of the evil pirate Blackbeard. | Puffin |
| 071009004993 | The Tent | |||
| 9780140312584 | The White Stag | Kate Seredy | Winner of the Newbery Medal For generations the tribes of Huns and Magyars had moved relentlessly westward, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. They swept Europe, all the while pursuing their vision of the stag. Their leader was called Attila, and the land Hungary. Here is the epic story of their tribal migration and their fierce leader—known to us even today. “The wonder of a fairy tale, the stirring romance of a heroic legend, rounded out with the color, atmosphere, and poetry of this artist’s retelling of the story of Attila.”—The New York Times | Puffin Books |
| 9780545220750 | Thea the Thursday Fairy | Daisy Meadows | No fun in Fairyland? The Fun Day Fairies are each responsible for adding spunk and sparkle to one day of the week! But when Jack Frost steals their magic, they need Rachel and Kirsty's help. Without the fairies' special flags, every day of the week will be gloomy and glum. The goblins will do whatever it takes to find Thea the Thursday Fairy's flag first -- even swim with sharks! How can Rachel and Kirsty stop them? Find the magic flag in each book, and help fill every day of the week with fun! | |
| 9780545448710 | Titanic | Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne | Explores the history of the steamship Titanic, from Thomas Andrews' plans for "the safest ship on the ocean" to the lingering questions concerning its disastrous maiden voyage in 1912. | |
| 9780439336840 | Twister on Tuesday | Mary Pope Osborne | When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado. | |
| 9780545571753 | Twisters and Other Terrible Storms | Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne | Describes the changing nature of weather and how meteorologists predict and study such storms as tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. | |
| 9780439077590 | Vacation Under the Volcano | Mary Pope Osborne | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | |
| 9780064405171 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. | Harper Collins |
| 9780448478630 | Who Is Michelle Obama? | Megan Stine, Who HQ | Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. It is undeniable that President Barack Obama has changed the United States but so has Michelle Obama, the self proclaimed "Mom in Chief." This compelling, easy-to-read biography is illustrated by New Yorker artist John O'Brien. | Penguin |
| 9780448448862 | Who Was Abraham Lincoln? | Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ | Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford’s Theater—the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included. | Penguin |
| 9780448424965 | Who Was Albert Einstein? | Jess Brallier, Who HQ | Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780448444826 | Who Was Anne Frank? | Ann Abramson, Who HQ | In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Anne’s life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding, and the legacy of her diary. Black-and-white illustrations including maps and diagrams provide historical and visual reference in an easy-to-read biography written in a way that is appropriate and accessible for younger readers. | Penguin |