Mary Jackson's Library
Glenellen Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9781338547184 | Aliens For Dinner?! | A. I. Newton | Harris and Roxy visit Zeke's house after school, then Harris's parents invite Zeke's family to dinner, but trying to convince anyone that they are aliens only gets Harris grounded. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781610673792 | Being Jack | Susanne Gervay | The fourth and concluding book about Jack - an ordinary boy who does extraordinary things. Jack is in Year 6 now and still loves his photography, surfing, and crazy family. Things are going well for him, particularly at school, where he isn't bullied any more. But he notices that his best friend Christopher is being taunted and is starting to miss school and hiding out and avoiding everyone. And when a football match turns ugly and Jack and Christopher witness some unfair dirty play, they know that, again, the bullying has to stop. | Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing |
| 9780064432979 | Cactus Flower Bakery | Harry Allard | A nearsighted armadillo meets an ostracized snake in the desert and, not realizing what kind of animal she is, helps her open a bakery | HarperCollins Publishers |
| 9781423104629 | Hannah Montana: Nightmare on Hannah Street - #7 | Laurie McElroy | Series Description: Miley Stewart looks like a regular girl-next-door, but she’s got a big secret. When the lights go down, Miley is the famous teen pop sensation Hannah Montana! Miley may be a celebrity when she’s on stage, but she wants the rest of her life to be as normal as possible. The only people who know the truth about Miley’s dual identity are her father, brother, and best friends Lilly and Oliver. But keeping that secret—and balancing school with her newfound fame and fortune—is harder than Miley ever thought it would be. Hannah Montana #7: When Miley’s scheming, look-alike cousin Luann pays a visit, she’s surprisingly well behaved. Miley thinks they finally might have gotten over the rough patch from their childhood, and even invites Luann to the coolest Halloween party in town. But when Luann hog-ties Miley in her pop-star closet, Miley realizes she’s made a big mistake! Will Miley’s friends rescue her in time to stop Luann from revealing Miley’s secret identity? Plus, when Miley’s grandmother comes for a visit, Miley’s brother Jackson seems to be getting more than his fair share of attention. Didn’t anyone teach Grandma Stewart not to play favorites? Hannah Montana #8: Ever since Jake Ryan started acting on the TV show, Zombie High, Miley thinks he’s become a huge egomaniac. So when he invites Miley to the school Seventies Dance, she says no. Then Hannah Montana guest stars on Jake’s show, and Miley realizes she might have been wrong about her former crush—but is it too late? Plus, when Miley and Jake start using other people to make each other jealous, it’s bound to backfire—Miley just never expected it would be on her! Hannah Montana #9: When Hannah Montana becomes a spokesmodel in a TV commercial for a new perfume, there’s only one problem—she hates it! But when she gets an incredibly hot gift for being the new face of Eau Wow, Miley starts to reconsider. . . . But could she really go on TV and lie to the whole world? Plus, when Miley accidentally gets her brother Jackson fired from his job, she makes him Hannah Montana’s assistant—with serious consequences! | Disney Press |
| 9780375975967 | Home For a Bunny | Margaret Wise Brown | ||
| OS_643ED5438514C500B5E30B3D | Hop on Pop | |||
| 9780618062140 | Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks, Below-Level Grade 3.1 Theme 1 - The Bravest Cat | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | The true story of a mother cat that becomes a celebrity when it rescues its kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996. | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |
| 9780618286164 | In The Forest, Above Level Level 1.8.1: Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled Readers | Read | Holt McDougal | |
| 9780735229907 | Lion Lessons | Jon Agee | "Learning to be a lion takes some serious lessons, but luckily, this kid has a teacher who is a real pro"-- | |
| 9781435143050 | Little Penguin's Snowy Playtime | Ruth Martin | One bored little penguin decides there's nothing to do at the South Pole. His friends leap into action, building swings, slides and sleighs to show him how to have some frosty fun!The colorful Pop-up Stories series combines fun rhyming texts and bright, bold pop-up art to engage and delight young readers. | Sterling |
| 9780425287422 | Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa | Anna Dewdney | "It's an exciting day for Llama Llama; he's going to visit Gram and Grandpa Llama and spend the night His first night away from home .and from Mama. But he makes sure to pack everything he needs. And there are so many fun things to do with Gram and Grandpa. It's not until he gets ready for bed that he realizes that he's forgotten something important. Fuzzy Llama. Fortunately, Grandpa Llama has a wonderful solution and soon Llama Llama is having sweet dreams" -- | |
| 9780140502077 | Madeline's Rescue | The story of a dog who saved Madeline from the Seine River in Paris. | ||
| 9780670833870 | Maggie And Silky And Joe | Amy Ehrlich | From School Library Journal Kindergarten-Grade 3-The personalities of young Joe's two dogs and their relationships with the animals and humans around them are the focal point of this long picture book. When Maggie, the older dog, dies, the family buries her on a sunny hillside. Afterwards, Joe and Silky go to the swimming pool in the woods, and he cries while holding her. The story ends with the two returning home. Ehrlich tells this "boy loses dog" story with skilled restraint: Maggie's disappearance during a bad thunderstorm (she had always been frightened by them), and Joe's discovery of her body under the steps are described simply and in a straightforward manner. And Blake's paintings show the beauty of this pastoral world and sadness at the family's loss. His use of light, sense of movement, and artful composition show his talent at painting pictures that are both aesthetically pleasing and also effective at creating a mood and moving a story along. However, the ending is not totally successful; while a happy ending would have been jarring, a concluding sentence or two is needed to wrap things up a bit. And the farm life depicted here occasionally looks so pretty that the book takes on a sentimental tone. All in all, though, this is a title that anyone who has ever loved and lost an animal will appreciate.Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, ILCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Joe, a young boy who grows up under the protection and companionship of his family's cow dog, Maggie, and later with a stray puppy called Silky, must learn how to cope with loss when Maggie dies during a thunderstorm From Publishers Weekly Ehrlich's (Lucy's Winter Tale) tender story of the death of a beloved pet respects the bitterness of grief by avoiding sentimentality and letting honest facts speak for themselves. Her account of young Joe's lifetime association with the cow dog Maggie ("she'd lived on their farm before he was even born") draws readers in, permitting them to gauge for themselves the depth of the relationship between boy and dog and thus to identify with it. When a skinny red puppy (later named Silky) strays onto the family farm, Maggie, already old, has the largesse to welcome and teach her, and "from then on, it was the three of them"-until an August storm drives thunder-fearful Maggie under the back steps, where Joe finds her that night, dead. Blake's (Riptide) glorious and realistic paintings echo both the joy and sorrow in the story; in the spread following Joe's discovery of Maggie's body, the family's mourning is underplayed but palpable, just as in the text. Ages 5-up. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Ages 4-8. From the picture-book farce Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub (Booklist's 1993 Top of the List picture book), Ehrlich swings here to a very different farm story, a tender picture book about a family pet. Blake's realistic paintings show the wide spaces and changing light of the Vermont farm and spreading landscape. The cow dog, Maggie, has always been there for Joe ever since he was a baby. Then a stray puppy arrivesJoe names her Silkyand Maggie, Silky, and Joe are together. Maggie is afraid of thunder, and one day after a huge storm, she's nowhere to be found until Joe discovers her still body under the porch steps. Kids will feel Joe's sorrow, the physicality of his loss. A double-page-spread painting shows the family and Silky grieving in the moonlit farmyard. But in most of the pictures, the people are in the background, a small part of the open fields under the sky. It's that sense of space that helps Joe with his loss. Quietly, words and pictures show that he's comforted by his family and Silky and that all of them are part of a continuing world that includes woods and fields and the stream that travels by. Hazel Rochman | Viking Childrens Books |
| 9780439231916 | My Man Blue | Nikki Grimes | A collection of poems describes a young boy's life with his working mother as he establishes his own identity and develops a close relationship with his mother's friend, Blue. | |
| 9780062042125 | My Weirder School #6: Mayor Hubble Is In Trouble! | Dan Gutman | With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!In this sixth book in the My Weirder School series, Election Day is almost here, and guess who's running for third grade class president? A.J. and Andrea! To help them, Mayor Hubble is stopping by Ella Mentry School to teach the kids all the ins and outs of politics, and why every vote counts. Who's going to win? Who's going to lose? And who's going to kiss a baby? Ew, gross!Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman’s hugely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don’t miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang. | HarperCollins |
| 9781546140832 | Noodle The Cavoodle | Louis Shea | Noodle the Cavoodle is the smartest pup in town. Can she use her creativity to help her friends get along?Noodle the Cavoodle loves playing with oodles of poodles! She races with Boo the Jackapoo, plays hide-and-seek with a Peekapoo named Zeke, and tug-of-war with a Great Danoodle called Thor!Every Saturday, all the poodles go to the park to play together. But these poodles can't decide what game to play, and everyone heads home alone. Can Noodle find a way for her friends to all play together?A sweet story full of friendship, fun, and of course, oodles of poodles! | Scholastic Press |
| 9780399255625 | Old Bear and His Cub | Although they love each other, Old Bear and his little Cub have a tug of war over which one knows best in a variety of situations. |