Rebecca Griskey's Library
West Creek Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439448062 | Stage Fright on a Summer Night | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear. | |
| 9780545839358 | Stallion by Starlight | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie are migically transported to Ancient Greece to find the meaning of greatness. There they meet the young Alexander the Great and take part in the famous story of how he tamed his horse, Bucephalus. | |
| 9780399234163 | Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell | Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that. | Penguin |
| 9780439669719 | Stanley in Space (Flat Stanley) | Brown, Jeff | HarperTrophy | |
| 9781617419515 | Studying Weather and Climates | Conrad J. Storad | Intermediate Readers Explore The Difference Between Climate And Weather. | Rourke Publishing Group |
| 9780545382663 | Summer of the Sea Serpent (Magic Tree House #31) | Scholastic | ||
| 9780152019525 | Sunflower House | Eve Bunting | A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780590988247 | Sunset of the Sabertooth | Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780439577724 | Superfudge | Judy Blume | Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge. | |
| 9780064450973 | Switch on, Switch Off | Melvin Berger | Explains how electricity is produced and transmitted, how to create electricity using an electrical wire and a magnet, how generators supply electricity for cities, and how electricity works in homes. | Collins |
| 9780439540131 | Thanksgiving on Thursday | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony. | |
| 9780439179331 | The Big Bug Dug | Mary Serfozo | A My First Hello Reader book, this humorous rhyming story, with game cards and activity pages, becomes a quick nature study as it follows a delightful bug in his quest for solitude. "The big bug dug...and dug...and dug. Down in the dirt, the big bug dug..." As the big bug digs his way down under -- "to find a quiet place to sleep!" -- readers are treated to a short lesson in nature science. We meet underground insects and animals: snakes, slugs, worms, and more. We also discover such things as roots, rocks, and fossils found at different levels below. The book comes with eight pairs of picture-word game cards that can be punched out and used to reinforce the story in a fun way. In addition, there are six pages of skill-building puzzle activities. Whimsical illustrations by Jeffrey Scherer make this book totally engaging for young readers. | Scholastic |
| 9780803735118 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer | A picture book adaptation of a best-selling memoir follows the experiences of 14-year-old William Kamkwamba, who built a windmill out of junkyard scraps to bring electricity to his famine-stricken Malawi village. | Penguin |
| 9780385755573 | The Boy Who Invented Tv | Kathleen Krull | An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to “make pictures fly through the air.” This boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius and just eight years later he made his brainstorm in the potato field a reality by transmitting the world’s first television image. This fascinating picture-book biography of Philo Farnsworth covers his early interest in machines and electricity, leading up to how he put it all together in one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The author’s afterword discusses the lawsuit Farnsworth waged and won against RCA when his high school science teacher testified that Philo’s invention of television was years before RCA’s. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780439703147 | The Chalk Box Kid | Clyde Robert Bulla | Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising and very different garden in an unusual place. | |
| 9780316015479 | The Curious Garden | Peter Brown | Liam discovers a hidden garden and, with careful tending, spreads color throughout the dark, gray city, in this imaginative picture book with an environmental theme. | Little Brown & Company |
| 9781883220679 | The Dandelion Seed | Joseph Anthony, Cris Arbo | A dandelion seed has an adventure and when spring comes it begins to grow and become a new dandelion. | Dawn Publications (CA) |
| 9780064432276 | The Important Book | Margaret Wise Brown | The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K. | Harper Collins |
| 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 |
| 9780590623513 | The Knight at Dawn | Mary Pope Osborne | Peacocks for dinner and boys in skirts? |