Allysa Williams' Library
Sango Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Burning Questions Of Bingo Brown | ||||
| 9780590819206 | The Canary Caper | Ron Roy | Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town. | |
| 9780140345353 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | "A triumphantly moving book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder—she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942. Why is she there, and who is this "Chaya" that everyone seems to think she is? Just as she begins to unravel the mystery, Nazi soldiers come to take everyone in the village away. And only Hannah knows the unspeakable horrors that await. A critically acclaimed novel from multi-award-winning author Jane Yolen. "[Yolen] adds much to understanding the effects of the Holocaust, which will reverberate throughout history, today and tomorrow." —SLJ, starred review "Readers will come away with a sense of tragic history that both disturbs and compels." —Booklist Winner of the National Jewish Book Award An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" | Penguin |
| The Disappearing Jewel Of Madagascar | ||||
| 9780545046435 | The Dog Who Saved Christmas | Allan Zullo | Real animals help turn the holidays into a magical season. --Goodreads. | |
| The Dolphin Prince Of The Waves | ||||
| 0590441698 | The Family Under the Bridge | |||
| OS_643D9912FCEDC800B5808D44 | The First Four Years | |||
| The Forests Of Silence | ||||
| 9781338867459 | The Fort | Gordon Korman | Five Middle Schoolers Find A Fully Stocked Bomb Shelter Constructed Decades Ago In The Local Woods By An Eccentric Tycoon And Lost Until A Hurricane Exposes The Entrance. So, How To Keep The Hideout Secret From Interfering Grown-ups--and, More Particularly, From Scary Teen Psychopath, Jaeger Devlin. | |
| 9780152066147 | The Garden of Eve | Kelly L. Going | Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious birthday present takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town flourishes. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| The Ghost Ship Mystery | ||||
| 9780439204217 | The Great Shark Escape | Jennifer Johnston | What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class about different shark species, including the goblin shark, angel shark, and the enormous whale shark. Illustrations. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439739504 | The Hatchling (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 7) | Kathryn Lasky | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780545061179 | The Hidden Girl A True Story Of The Holocaust | Kaufman, Lola Rein | After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences. | Scholastic |
| 9781416950202 | The Ironwood Tree | Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black | After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780439405584 | The Journey | Kathryn Lasky | Wishing to fight off evil that exists among the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger must endure harsh training from the elders to become Ga'Hoolian owls, and carry out their good deeds. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780394805719 | The Kid in the Red Jacket | Barbara Park | If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny! Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends? Howard Jeeter’s parents have ruined his life. They’ve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like he’s totally invisible. At least, all of them except for his six-year-old neighbor, Molly Vera Thompson. Howard could use a friend. But a little girl who talks nonstop? Not what he had in mind. Still, when you’re really lonely, you’ll be friends with anyone…right? An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice A Library of Congress Children’s Book of the Year A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner * “Park writes in a witty and bittersweet style about the awkward, supersensitive age of early adolescence. Another first-rate addition to the middle-grade popular reading shelf.” —School Library Journal, Starred “[A] witty middle-grade novel.” —Publishers Weekly | Yearling |
| The Kids In Ms. Coleman's Class Class Play | ||||
| 9780553494167 | The King of Mulberry Street | Donna Jo Napoli | In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and not only survives, but thrives by starting his own business. A vivid, fascinating story of an exceptional boy, based in part on the author’s grandfather. | Yearling |