Victoria Chandler's Library
Liberty Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780440403272 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Yearling Book | |
| 9780439159630 | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson | At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene. Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller? 1957 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1940¿ 1970 (ALA)1959 William Allen White Award1959 Sequoya Award (Oklahoma)1959 Young Readers' Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association) | |
| 9780865055209 | Old-Time Toys | Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky | Featuring photos from leading toy museums around the country, Old Time Toys takes young readers back to the rough and tumble days of the 1800's when toys were homemade, often crudely, yet with great craftsmanship. | Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| 9780141322438 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Portrays the adventures of poor orphan Oliver Twist in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London. | Penguin UK |
| 9780064420273 | One Day in the Alpine Tundra | Jean Craighead George | "The Teton mountain range of Wyoming is the setting for this lightly fictionalized treatment, which perceptively describes the mammals, plants, climate, and geological features unique to the area directly above a mountain tree line. Detailed drawings are as informative as the text."-BL. "A meaningful, meaty presentation."-K. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1984 (NSTA/CBC) | Harper Collins |
| 9781416971719 | Out of My Mind | Sharon M. Draper | Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780399246555 | Peace, Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson | Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. | Penguin |
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| 9781419704215 | Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes | Jonathan Auxier | Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime. | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780375938894 | R My Name Is Rachel | Patricia Reilly Giff | Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away. | Wendy Lamb |
| 9780590687300 | Ralph S. Mouse | Beverly Cleary | In this third and final Mouse novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, Ralph heads to school to see what humans do all day . . . and to discover what the S in Ralph S. Mouse stands for With his rowdy cousins constantly wearing out his motorcycle and the Mountain View Inn manager threatening to take care of the mouse infestation once and for all, Ralph decides it's time to get away for a while. He convinces his human friend Ryan to take him along to school, where Ralph instantly becomes the center of attention. But when Ryan's class decides to see how smart Ralph is by making him run a maze, the usually confident mouse starts to fret. What if he's not as clever as he thought? Supports the Common Core State Standards | |
| 9781599902883 | Rapunzel's Revenge | Shannon Hale, Dean Hale | This stunning, hilarious and action-packed graphic novel re-imagines Rapunzel's story . . . in the wild west! Rapunzel escapes her tower-prison all on her own, only to discover a world beyond what she'd ever known before. Determined to rescue her real mother and to seek revenge on her kidnapper would-be mother, Rapunzel and her very long braids team up with Jack (of Giant killing fame) and together they preform daring deeds and rescues all over the western landscape, eventually winning the justice they so well deserve. | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| 9781338331493 | Resistance | Jennifer A. Nielsen | In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781338053807 | Restart | Gordon Korman | When Chase returns to middle school after falling off the roof and losing his memory, he learns that the person he was before the amnesia is not someone he likes. | |
| 9780375851230 | Return to Sender | Julia Alvarez | After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders. | Yearling Books |
| 9780439087964 | Riding Freedom | Pam Muñoz Ryan | A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781338166255 | Rock On! | C. J. McDonald | "The world's most valuable and rare treasures are found in the earth just beneath your feet." -- Page [4] of cover. | Tangerine Press |
| OS_6442891574D51200B54D4234 | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor Coerr | ||
| 9780064402057 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay? | Harper Collins |
| 9780545356398 | Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | SUMMARY: A young Navajo Indian girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers. |