Rosa Wolford's Library
Barksdale Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780517885567 | How I Spent My Summer Vacation | A schoolboy tell his class about his summer vacation, during which he joined a group of cowboys and stopped a cattle stampede. | Dragonfly Books | |
| 9780395547779 | How Many Days to America? | Eve Bunting | Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780062382030 | How Mountains Are Made | Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld | A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. This classic picture book explores how mountains are made—including how Mount Everest grew from a flat plain under an ocean to become 29,028 feet tall! Now rebranded with a new cover look, this book features simple activities and fascinating cross-sections of the earth’s moving crust that clearly explain plate tectonics. Both text and artwork were vetted for accuracy by an expert in the field. This is a Level 2 Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science title, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and supports the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series. | HarperCollins |
| 9781626721784 | How To Be An Elephant | Katherine Roy | The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary to keep up, from projecting her voice across a 10-octave range to using the 100,000 muscles in her trunk to stay hydrated. But this giant-to-be has the perfect classroom--a family herd made up of her mother, sisters, cousins, and aunts. With their help and protection, she'll learn how to survive, how to thrive, and how to be an elephant.Award-winning author-illustrator Katherine Roy's How to Be an Elephant delves into the intricate family dynamics at play in a typical African herd. Drawing upon the latest scientific research and Roy's own expedition to Kenya, and brimming with lush watercolor illustrations and detailed diagrams, this book vividly portrays the life and development of an elephant from an uncertain newborn into a majestic adult. As informative as it is beautiful, Roy's unique portrait of an elephant's life will captivate young explorers and animal lovers alike. | David Macaulay Studio |
| 9781574715583 | Hummingbird (Life Cycles) | Schwartz, David M. | Creative Teaching Pr | |
| Humpty Dumpty And Other Nursey Rhymes | ||||
| 9780394874715 | Hungry, Hungry Sharks | Joanna Cole | A simple discussion of the kinds of sharks and their behaviour. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780823422975 | Hurricanes! | Gail Gibbons | Winds howl. Rain pours down. Violent waves crash on to the shore and the storm surge causes flooding. The dangerous, spinning storm is a hurricane.This best-selling introduction to the most powerful storms in the world explains how and where hurricanes form. Readers will also learn how hurricanes cause damage, how they are named, and how hurricane strength is assessed from Category 1 to Category 5.The book uses major hurricanes through history as examples—from Galveston in 1900 to Katrina in 2005—and explains how to prepare for a hurricane.A fascinating science book for younger kids interested in understanding weather, storms and natural disasters, Hurricanes! provides straight-forward explanations to the complex facts behind these massive storms—without being too scary.One of the world's most trusted children's nonfiction author-illustrators, Gail Gibbons' signature combination of bold, clear art and detailed, accessible descriptions creates an invaluable resource for young readers seeking to learn more about the world. | Holiday House |
| 9780816743469 | I Can Read About Reptiles (I Can Read About) | Cutts, David | Troll Communications Llc | |
| 9781481465595 | I Dissent | Debbie Levy | Text and illustrations look at the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg the second woman justice named to the United States Supreme Court. | Simon and Schuster |
| I Hate English | ||||
| 9781515818762 | I Know Sasquatch | Jess Bradley | ||
| orcalftub7xn01ac51qp6sqq7l7p | I Like Bugs | |||
| 9780545075312 | I Lost My Tooth in Africa | Penda Diakite | Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali. More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali, West Africa. Only then can she put it under a gourd for the African tooth fairy, who will exchange it for two chickens! Happily this happens, and even better, the chickens lay eggs. But will the eggs hatch before it's time to return home to America? In this fresh, spontaneous story that is infused with close family warmth, Penda June Diakite joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Mali. | Schoalstic |
| 9781338189315 | I See a Robot | Liza Charlesworth | ||
| 9780399237171 | I Wanna Iguana | Karen Kaufman Orloff | Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive.Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home.Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own houseHis mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile?Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights. | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| I Was All Thumbs | ||||
| 9780439778114 | I Was so Mad | Mercer Mayer | A child tries a variety of ways to dissolve anger. | |
| 9781338189322 | I Will Not Eat the Cake | |||
| I Wonder What A Rainforest Is |