Morgan Vandermeiren's Library
Byrns L. Darden Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780140314205 | The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars | A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. | Puffin |
| 9780439692687 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | |
| 9780375813696 | The Talking T. Rex (A To Z Mysteries) | Ron Roy | Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z!Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look!T is for T. Rex . . . It’s the biggest mystery yet! The kids’ friend Jud brings a surprise to Green Lawn—a giant talking, moving T. rex statue! This touring T. rex will help raise funds for a dinosaur museum. But after the show, Jud’s money disappears. Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose track down the cash and solve this prehistoric pickle? | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439389952 | The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | For use in schools and libraries only. Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky, but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger. | |
| 9780673609878 | The Time Machine | Fay Robinson | ||
| 9780810984912 | The Ugly Truth | Amulet Books | ||
| The Vampire's Assistant | ||||
| 9780689817212 | The View From Saturday | E.L. Konigsburg | From the Newbery Medal–winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories—one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team—that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers. How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski’s team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan’s grandmother and Nadia’s grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780590254793 | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C. S. Lewis | After sailing to Narnia, two children find that their peevish cousin is temporarily transformed into a dragon. | |
| 9780786839179 | The Warrior Heir (The Heir Chronicles, 1) | Cinda Williams Chima | A teen from Ohio discovers he's the last in a long line of magical warriors chosen to fight to the death.Before he knew about the Roses, sixteen-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small town of Trinity, Ohio. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Then one day Jack skips his medicine. Suddenly, he is stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. And it feels great—until he loses control and nearly kills another player during soccer team tryouts.Soon, Jack learns the startling truth about himself: He is Weirlind, part of an underground society of magical people living among us. At the head of this magical society sit the feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose, whose power is determined by playing The Game: a magical tournament in which each house sponsors a warrior to fight to the death.As if his bizarre magical heritage wasn't enough, Jack finds out that he's not just another member of Weirlind—he's one of the last of the warriors, at a time when both houses are scouting for a player. Can he learn to control his magic and fight off the Wizards who would claim him? Find out in the first book in the epic Heir Chronicles series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima! | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780440414124 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. | Yearling Books |
| 9780545838283 | The Way to Stay in Destiny | Augusta Scattergood | Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery. | |
| 9780141371481 | The Witches | Dahl, Roald | Puffin | |
| 9780440497271 | The Witches Of Worm | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Lonely, Twelve-year-old Jessica Is Convinced That The Cat She Finds Is Possessed By A Witch And Is Responsible For Her Own Strange Behavior. | Yearling |
| 9781423104889 | The Wizard Heir (The Heir Chronicles, 2) | Cinda Williams Chima | The sequel to The Warrior Heir by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima.Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his attitude that's the problem: it's the trail of magical accidents—lately, disasters—that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained, and his powers are escalating out of control.After causing a tragic fire at an after-hours party, Seph is sent to the Havens, a secluded boys' school on the coast of Maine. At first, it seems like the answer to his prayers. Gregory Leicester, the headmaster, promises to train Seph in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards. But Seph's enthusiasm dampens when he learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students' powers to serve his own wicked agenda.In this companion novel to The Warrior Heir, everyone's got a secret to keep: Jason Haley, a fellow student who's been warned to keep away from Seph; the enchanter Linda Downey, who knew his parents; the rogue wizard Leander Hastings; and the warriors Jack Swift and Ellen Stephenson. The only question is: Does Seph have the strength to survive this wizard war? | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545638128 | The Wonder Of Charlie Anne | Kimberly Newton Fusco | Charlie Anne is devastated when her father must go north to build roads after the Depression hits. She and her siblings are left with their rigid cousin, Mirabel, and a farm full of chores. The only solace Charlie Anne finds is by the river, where the memory of her mother is strongest. Then her neighbor Old Mr. Jolly brings home a new wife, Rosalyn, who shows up in pants— pants! —the color of red peppers. With her arrives Phoebe, a young African American girl who has also lost her mother. Phoebe is smart and fun and the perfect antidote to Charlie Anne's lonely days. The girls soon forge a friendship and learn from each other in amazing ways. But when hatred turns their town ugly, it's almost more than they can bear. Now it's up to Charlie Anne and Phoebe to prove that our hearts are always able to expand. | Scholastic |
| 9781416950219 | The Wrath Of Mulgarath: Movie Tie-In Edition (The Spiderwick Chronicles, 5) | Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black | After narrowly escaping the dwarven quarry, a battered and bruised Jared, Simon, and Mallory return home to find it has been ransacked by the evil Mulgarath, and that he's made off with Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You along with something far more precious to the Grace kids -- their mother. With the help of Thimbletack, Hogsqueal, and Byron, the Grace kids have to figure out how to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from the domain of elves so that he can help them stop Mulgarath and defeat his goblin army before it's too late. | Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
| 9780689871337 | The Wyrm King (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) | Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi | In the final installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way!It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra, a dragon like creature that is creating sinkholes all over Florida. But with the mermaids refusing to return the giants to the shore, the nixie's still missing and the threat of a destroyed Florida drawing closer, the kids have to take matters in their own hands.Will Nick and Laurie be able to stop the destruction they unwittingly caused? Can a new giant hunter help save the day? Can Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide help them out of this or are they on their own?Find out in the final conclusion of the Spiderwick saga! | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439785518 | The X'ed-Out X-Ray | Ron Roy | Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink attend a concert during which someone steals the star's diamond pendant, and they are soon on the trail of the thief. | |
| 9780816729951 | Third Grade Stars (Tales From Third Grade) | Candice F. Ransom | Third grader Amber experiences jealousy of her friend Delight, a longing to recapture her lost popularity, and a new passion for gymnastics | Troll Associates |