Valerie Flippen's Library
Barkers Mill Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780817272661 | The Lion And The Mouse | Steck-Vaughn | Pairs of fiction and nonfiction books share high-interest topics and encourage children to compare and contrast, distinguish between fact and fiction, and make the transition between fiction and nonfiction reading strategies. | Steck-Vaughn Company |
| 9780399557552 | The Losers Club | Andrew Clements | The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down.So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or else—Alec takes action. He can’t lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn’t a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec’s club—including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like—Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it’s just as interesting.With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that’s a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page—our own!Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019)Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018)Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020)2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award NomineeA Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019)A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019)A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019)A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019)A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019)A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019)An Oregon Reader’s Choice Award Nominee (2019)Praise for The Losers Club!* "Clements’s latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms."—School Library Journal, Starred Review"Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and...tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will. "—The New York TimesPraise for Andrew Clements!“Clements is a genius.” —The New York Times“We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven’t loved.” —The Washington Post | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780142402627 | The Mansion In The Mist | John Bellairs | John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Now, the ten top-selling titles feature an updated cover look. Loyal fans and enticed newcomers will love the series even more with this haunting new look! | Penguin Young Readers Group |
| 9780440422143 | The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. | Yearling |
| 9781571985545 | The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids | Old Farmer's Almanac | Offers a compilation of facts and folklore on a range of topics, including weather, astronomy, gardening, animals, history, sports, and health. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780061992278 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Soon to be a major motion picture! Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes. In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create an unforgettable story of friendship, art, and hope. The One and Only Ivan features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). Plus don't miss Katherine Applegate's Endling series! | HarperCollins |
| 9780152046996 | The Secret School | Avi | More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she must finish eighth grade, then go on to high school. But her dream falters when the one-room school in her remote Colorado town shuts down. Her only hope is to keep the school open without anyone finding out. Yet even a secret school needs a teacher. Ida can't be it. . . . Or can she? In the spirit of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Newbery Medal winner Avi creates an inspiring story of a headstrong girl determined to control her own destiny. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| The Story Of D-Day | ||||
| 051604611X | The Story of Fort Sumter | Eugenia Burney | ||
| The Story Of The Battle Of The Bulge | ||||
| The Story Of The Declaration Of Independence | ||||
| 0516066544 | The Story of The Gettysburg Address | Kenneth Richards | ||
| The Story Of The Liberty Bell | ||||
| The Story Of The Lincoln Memorial | ||||
| The Story Of The Star-Spangled Banner | ||||
| 9780439329668 | The Time Bike | Jane Langton | Eddy receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time. | HarperCollinsPublishers |
| 9781338212709 | The Titanic Mission | Dan Gutman | "In New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman's all-new series, which blends fascinating real history with an action-packed adventure, four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic. Their mission? Capture a shot of the sinking ship, then come right back. The only problem is, once they arrive aboard the ship, the four friends can't agree on what to do next. Should they try to save the passengers? Or maybe bring back a priceless book before it sinks with the ship? With real historical photographs to put young readers right in the action, plus back matter that separates fact from fiction, The Titanic Mission tells the story of the ship's fateful last voyage like you've never seen it before."-- | |
| 9780064403702 | The Upstairs Room | Johanna Reiss | A Life in Hiding When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse. Most people thought the war wouldn't last long. But for Annie and Sini -- separated from their family and confined to one tiny room -- the war seemed to go on forever. In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week-tulips in the spring, roses in the summer-stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being cap-tured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse. Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. "It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well," those families said. "What can happen?" They did not know, and they could not imagine.... But millions of Jews found out. Mrs. Reiss's picture of the Oosterveld family with whom she lived, and of Annie and Sini, reflects a deep spirit of optimism, a faith in the ingenuity, backbone, and even humor with which ordinary human beings meet extraordinary challenges. In the steady, matter-of-fact, day-by-day courage they all showed lies a profound strength that transcends the horrors of the long and frightening war. Here is a memorable book, one that will be read and reread for years to come. | Harper Collins |
| 9780545238021 | The Winter of Red Snow | Kristiana Gregory | Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780439737661 | There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat! | Lucille Colandro, Jared Lee | In a Halloween-themed twist on the classic "Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", the old lady manages to swallow a bat, owl, cat, ghost, goblin, and even a wizard. Original. | Cartwheel Books |