Sophia Land's Library
Rossview Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781416950820 | Roberto Clemente: Pride Of The Pittsburgh Pirates | Winter, Jonah | on An Island Called Puerto Rico, There Lived A Little Boy Who Wanted Only To Play Baseball. Although He Had No Money, Roberto Clemente Practiced And Practiced Until--eventually--he Made It To The Major Leagues. America! As A Right-fielder For The Pittsburgh Pirates, He Fought Tough Opponents--and Even Tougher Racism--but With His Unreal Catches And Swift Feet, He Earned His Nickname, The Great One. He Led The Pirates To Two World Series, Hit 3,000 Hits, And Was The First Latino To Be Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame. But It Wasn't Just Baseball That Made Clemente Legendary--he Was Was Also A Humanitarian Dedicated To Improving The Lives Of Others.publishers Weeklywinter's (fair Ball!: 14 Great Stars From Baseball's Negro Leagues) Uneven Narrative Offers An Overview Of Baseball Great Clemente. The Opening Spreads Introduce Roberto As A Child In Puerto Rico, With Very Little/ But A Fever To Play/ And Win At Baseball. He Made A Bat From A Guava Tree Branch And Fashioned A Glove From A Coffee-bean Sack. The Narrative Quickly Moves To Pittsburgh, Where Clemente Played For The Pirates, And His Finesse On The Field Helped This Last-place Team Go On To Win The World Series His First Season There (unfortunately, The Text Does Not Specify Which Year). Fueling The Player's Desire To Excel At The Game, Winter Suggests, Was The Fact That Although Adored By His Fans, Clemente Did Not Receive Respect Or Credit From American Sportswriters ( `it's Because I'm Black, Isn't It?/ .../ It's Because I Am Puerto Rican,' He Asks The Sneering Reporters). The Narrative Highlights His One-man Show During The 1971 World Series, In Which The Pirates Beat The Favored Baltimore Orioles, And His 3,000th Hit In 1972. Clemente's Story Ends Tragically When His Plane Crashed As He Headed To Central America To Aid Earthquake Victims There. Rendered In Watercolor, Colored Pencils And Litho Pencils, Colon's (a Band Of Angels) Art Is Inconsistent, Juxtaposing Evocative, Richly Textured And Warmly Hued Paintings With Less Successful Pen-and-inks. For Baseball Fans, This Spotty Biography Leaves Out Many Of The Tantalizing Details On The Field, While Newcomers May Find Clemente's Personality Curiously Distant And Vague. Ages 4-8. (mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780689866876 | Room One | Andrew Clements | In his very small town of Hamilton, Nebraska, fifth-grader Ted Hammond looks for a connection between the dying town's dwindling school numbers and the face in the window of the empty Anderson house. Reprint. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9781575131054 | Rose's Magic Touch (Magic Attic Club) | C. Hapka | On another adventure through the mirror in the magic attic, Rose assists famous magician Peter Presto in an internationally televised performance in Salzburg, Austria | Magic Attic Pr |
| 9780448455945 | Ruby's Cupcakes (Max And Ruby) | Grosset & Dunlap | While Ruby is making cupcakes for the Bunny Scout Bake Sale, Max keeps flying his remote-control airplanes into the kitchen and making a mess. At first Ruby thinks Max is being a pest, but she soon realizes that Max?-and his planes?-can be very helpful! | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9780439443838 | Rules | Cynthia Lord | Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545102346 | Schooled | Gordon Korman | Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school. | |
| 9781338531664 | Secondhand Wishes | Anna Staniszewski | Lexi has to keep the universe in balance. If she does enough good things, like being on time, then the bad things, like her little brother needing more surgery, won''t happen. It doesn't always work, but she has to keep trying. Just in case. On an extra bad day, Lexi finds a bag of four wishing stones in the antique shop in town, and wishes that her BFF Cassa and the new girl would stop talking to each other. That night, Cassa calls Lexi, crying over the end of her friendship with Marina. The wishes work!Sort of. When she wishes on the Success stone for the courage to try out for dance club, Lexi wows the entire auditorium with...singing? And when she wishes on the Health stone, her little brother starts squeaking like a hamster. This isn't the first time those wishing stones have been wished on--and secondhand wishes come with unexpected consequences!This sweet and funny story from Anna Staniszewski is perfect for anyone who's wished for a dash of magic in their day! | scholastic |
| 9780545542494 | Secret Agent Splat! | Rob Scotton, Kevin McLaughlin, Wren Ross, Brian McNamee, Mike Liane, Listen Inn | Secret agent Splat armed with his spy kit sets out to solve a mystery. | |
| 9780153143809 | Shh! We're Writing The Constitution, Grades 4 | Jean Fritz | Describes how the Constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | Houghton Mifflin School |
| 9780545702775 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. | |
| 9781453052761 | Shrinky Pinky! | Jim Jinkins | Pinky Dinky Doo, an imaginative young girl, tells her brother a story about how she had to deal with a bully. | |
| 9780545508056 | Sideways Stories From Wayside School | Louis Sachar | Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | |
| 9780736425087 | Silvermist And The Ladybug Curse (Disney Fairies) | Gail Herman | NOTHING RATTLES SILVERMIST. She’s the calmest water-talent fairy around, and as cool as a deep mountain lake. But then an “unlucky” white ladybug lands on Silvermist’s head, and her orderly world goes topsy-turvy. She’s never been the type of fairy to lose things or have accidents or make mistakes . . . until now. Silvermist doesn’t believe in bad luck and silly old fairy superstitions. But all her troubles began after she found the white ladybug. Could the other fairies be right? Is Silvermist really under a curse? | RH/Disney |
| 9780439701815 | Snarf Attack Underfoodle, And The Secret Of Life (Riot Brothers) | Mary Amato, Y Ethan | Riot Brothers Rule #1: Make something exciting happen every day. After you stop laughing at Orville and Wilbur's adventures, you can play their hilarious games with rules included at the end of the book. | Scholastic |
| 9780545663991 | Snowman Magic | Katherine Tegen | A boy builds a snowman and has fun playing all day. | |
| 9780545445504 | Snowmen All Year | Caralyn Buehner | Dial Books For Young Readers | |
| 9780061442025 | So B. It | Sarah Weeks | Laura Geringer | |
| 9780618933068 | Soar To Success: Soar To Success Student Book Level 4 Wk 16 The Lost Lake | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results. | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |
| 9780618933075 | Soar To Success: Soar To Success Student Book Level 4 Wk 18 Amelia's Road | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results. | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |
| 9780618932962 | Soar To Success: Soar To Success Student Book Level 4 Wk 2 Potato | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results. | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |