Amber Atkins' Library
Sango Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780395779125 | The Lost Lake | Allen Say | A young boy and his father become closer friends during a camping trip in the mountains. | |
| 9780590407601 | The Magic School Bus | Joanna Cole | Rock collecting has never been quite like this! When the class forgets to do its homework, a fieldtrip through the Earth's crust, into the center of the Earth, and out through a volcano will teach them not to forget their assignments again. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780590508353 | The Magic School Bus Blows It's Top | Gail Herman, Joanna Cole | Once again, Ms. Frizzle gets her class right in the "thick" of things--this time, they're right in the thick ooze of an underwater volcano's magma chamber! As Arnold and Carlos watch from a raft above, the Magic School Bus "erupts" with the magma and lava, and lands atop a brand-new island! Full color. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780590222952 | The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry | Joanna Cole | When the class tries to bake a cake for Ms. Frizzle's birthday, they wind up inside it and have some delicious fun learning all about mixtures and reactions that occur when ingredients are combined. Original. TV tie-in. | Scholastic |
| 9780590484138 | The Magic School Bus Hops Home | Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole | Oh, no! Wanda's best friend, Bella the bullfrog, is missing. The class wants to help look for her. Ms. Frizzle says, "The best way to find a frog is to be a frog!" So, the kids take a ride on the Magic School Bus. Join them as they shrink to frog size and learn all about animal habitats! | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781338607215 | The Monster Squad | Joe McGee | Although Wolfy, Franky, and Vampyra are children of classic monsters, all they want to do is help those in need and make friends, so they join the Junior Monster Scouts with the hopes of helping their community. | |
| 9781554537044 | The Most Magnificent Thing | Ashley Spires | Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. “She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy-peasy!” But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl tries and fails, repeatedly. Eventually, the girl gets really, really mad. She is so mad, in fact, that she quits. But after her dog convinces her to take a walk, she comes back to her project with renewed enthusiasm and manages to get it just right.For the early grades’ exploration of character education, this funny book offers a perfect example of the rewards of perseverance and creativity. The girl’s frustration and anger are vividly depicted in the detailed art, and the story offers good options for dealing honestly with these feelings, while at the same time reassuring children that it’s okay to make mistakes. The clever use of verbs in groups of threes is both fun and functional, offering opportunities for wonderful vocabulary enrichment. The girl doesn’t just “make” her magnificent thing --- she “tinkers and hammers and measures,” she “smoothes and wrenches and fiddles,” she “twists and tweaks and fastens.” These precise action words are likely to fire up the imaginations of youngsters eager to create their own inventions and is a great tie-in to learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. | Kids Can Press |
| 9780590687331 | The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary | A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 2 15 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. | Scholastic |
| 9780545085434 | The New Kid From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | Mrs. Green tells the class that a new kid will be joining their class from far away. His name is Xu. Is the new kid really from Mars? Will he have blue skin, laser breath, and tentacle toes? | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780448421889 | The Night Before Valentine's Day | Natasha Wing | It's the sweetest holiday of the year! Celebrate love and Valentine's Day with card-making, tasty treats, and more in this installment of Natasha Wing's best-selling series. Join in on all of the colorful fun, and then come along to school the next morning for a day of parties and games! | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9780439824040 | The Nutty Nut Chase | Scholastic Inc. | ||
| 9780064438568 | The Raft | Jim LaMarche | A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. It drifteddownstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now I could tell that it was a raft. I reached down and pushed some of the leaves aside. Beneath them was a drawing of a rabbit. It looked like those ancient cave paintings I'd seen in books--just outlines, but wild and fast and free. Nicky isn't one bit happy about spending the summer with his grandma in the Wisconsin woods, but them the raft appears and changes everything. As Nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him--the animals of river and woods, his grandmother's humor and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist. | HarperCollins |
| 9781338660661 | The Return of Thelma the Unicorn | Aaron Blabey | Told in rhyming text, Thelma is a pony who created a big splash when she dressed up and posed as a unicorn, but she returned to her best friend Otis the donkey when fame proved to be stressful; now her many fans want her back, and Thelma is reluctant--until Otis agrees to go along as her manager and backup, so she can concentrate on being awesome. | |
| 9780545462907 | The Sandwich Swap | Al Abdullah, Queen Rania (consort of Abdullah II, King of Jordan), Kelly DiPucchio | Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds. | |
| 9780395779231 | The Secret Room | Helen Cowcher, Read, Uri Shulevitz | Describes the daily activities and dangers shared by the penguins and other animal inhabitants of Antarctica. | Houghton Mifflin School |
| 9780794512484 | The Shocking Story of Electricity | Anna Claybourne | Not so long ago there were no electrical inventions at all. No computers, no televisions... not even any light bulbs. Here you can read the fascinating story of electricity from the very beginning, when people first realized what electricity was - and just what it could do. | Usborne Books |
| 9780395779170 | The Snow Walker | Margaret K. Wetterer, Charles M. Wetterer | ||
| 9780545556262 | The Spanish Dance Mission | Thea Stilton | At a festival in Spain, the Thea Sisters become involved in a mystery after a valuable fan is stolen. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781556617270 | The Stinky Sneakers Mystery | Beverly Lewis | Jason Birchall's been bragging all week about his science fair project--alfalfa sprouts growing in a carpet square! But on the morning of the fair, Jason's super sprouts are missing. Will Miss Hershey give him a big, fat zero? And why does Eric Hagel look so sneaky?Then, during P.E., globs of rotten-smelling cheese show up in the Cul-de-sac Kids' sneakers. Who would make such a stink? And why? | Bethany House Publishers |
| 9780663592463 | The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote | Tony Johnston | Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon. |