Candice Baldridge's Library
Kirkwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780399246531 | The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson | ||
| 9780864172853 | The Echidna (Picture Roo Books Series) | Reilly, Pauline | Jarrold Pub | |
| 9780439204200 | The Giant Germ | Anne Capeci, Joanna Cole | When Keesha discovers mold on her sandwich, the class takes off on a tour of the mini microbe world, and they learn first hand that these little creatures can have huge effects. Ms. Frizzle proves that there is always more than meets the eye in this gigantic adventure. Illustrations. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439163675 | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me | Roald Dahl | A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true. | |
| 9781402255441 | The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes | Mark Pett, Gary Rubinstein | Beatrice is so well-known for never making a mistake that she is greeted each morning by fans and reporters, but a near-error on the day of the school talent show could change everything. | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| 9780152026141 | The Great Kapok Tree | Lynne Cherry | The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 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. |
| 9780156423502 | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes | In winning a medal she is no longer there to recieve, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | Voyager Books |
| 9780147511645 | The Journey Of The One And Only Declaration Of Independence | St. George, Judith | Puffin Books | |
| 9780439618472 | The Middle Moffat | Eleanor Estes | Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century. | |
| 9780439154550 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Story of a ten-year-old orphan who goes to live in a lonely house n the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. | |
| 9780590254809 | The Silver Chair | Clive Staples Lewis | Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch. | |
| 9780763625290 | The Tale of Despereaux Book Group Kit | The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | ||
| 9780439389952 | The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | For use in schools and libraries only. Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky, but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger. | |
| 0439831032 | The Trumpet of the Swan | |||
| 9780439107983 | The Truth About Bats | Eva Moore | Grab a flashlight and join the fun! The Magic School Bus is heading across the country in search of all kinds of bats: the biggest, smallest, and most endangered. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9791027605620 | The Ultimate Book Of Planet Earth | Baumann, Anne-Sophie | Twirl | |
| 9781429601641 | The Underground Railroad: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) | Lassieur, Allison | You are slave in the 1850s, trying to escape your harsh life, OR..., You are a slave catcher hoping to get rich catching escaped slaves, OR..., You are part of the Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape to freedom. Everything in this book happened to real people. And You Choose which side you're on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to freedom, capture, survival, or death. In You Choose Books, only You can Choose the path you take through history. What will it be?School Library JournalGr 3-7- This volume has 3 Story Paths, 37 Choices, 16 Endings to give children an interactive reading experience and varied outcomes. The text is short and has a somewhat robotic tone. Readers can be a runaway slave, a slave catcher, or an abolitionist. If they opt for the first choice, they are instructed to turn to page 13 to continue the story. There they find out that their father wants to escape, but their mother wants to stay behind. Now readers must decide whether to remain with one parent or go with the other. The text exclaims, What a terrible choice! Good point. Perhaps this is not the best topic for the series. After all, most slaves' options were not really good ones, so the story is somewhat of an exercise in futility. Throughout the book, reproductions of photos and illustrations from the period make the information visually appealing. Underground Railroad offers some historically accurate details but the choice of theme coupled with stilted writing makes it a limited purchase.-Carole Phillips, Greenacres Elementary School, Scarsdale, NY | Capstone Press |
| 9780545001465 | The Universe (Scholastic First Discovery) | Scholastic Inc. | Scholastic Reference | |
| 0439386012 | The Vile Village | Lemony Snicket | Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results. |