Carol Easterling's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780399246081 | Five Little Gefiltes | Dave Horowitz | When five curious young gefilte fish have the chutzpah to sneak out of their jar and set off to explore the world, they are followed by a loud OY VEY!Mama Gefilte isnt too happy to see her little ones leaving the nest. But shes taught them well, and at the end of their adventures, each one proves himself a menschmaking Mama one proud gefilte indeed.Dave Horowitzs playful rhyming tale, its illustrations packed with comic asides, will have readers giggling out loud and looking for opportunities to practice their Yiddishwith help from the handy glossary at the end of the book. | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| 9780062884589 | Fresh Princess: Style Rules! | Denene Millner | Join Destiny the Fresh Princess in her second adventure! Based on The Fresh Prince created by Will Smith.Now that Destiny settled in to her new neighborhood, she is on her way to the next big thing: a new school!Destiny loves everything about school, but when she shows up to Paul Robeson Prep, it’s bigger than she ever imagined, the uniforms are plain, and all her friends already have a “thing.” Destiny suddenly doesn’t feel so fresh and wonders how she’ll ever stand out. That’s when she notices something super cool about her uniform jacket…Will Destiny find a way to make her mark?Written by celebrated author, blogger, and editor Denene Millner and illustrated by Gladys Jose, Fresh Princess: Style Rules! is the perfect book to encourage kids to be creative, be smart, and most importantly, be themselves!Perfect for fans of Juno Valentine created by Eva Chen and Fancy Nancy created by Jane O'Connor. | HarperCollins |
| 9781338145274 | Fuzzy Fights Back (Class Pets 4), Volume 4 (Class Pets) | Bruce Hale | Will Fuzzy and his friends be able to fight against a plan to ban class pets, or will they be thrown out like yesterday's juice box?Is this the end of class pets?When Fuzzy accidentally gets a kid hurt, he feels awful. But worse -- the PTA president demands to get rid of all the class pets!Fuzzy and his friends get to work. A cuteness campaign? Their selfies fall short. A hunger strike? The pets get hungry. Could the PTA president's daughter be the key to staying in their classrooms, or will the pets get thrown out like yesterday's juice box? | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781338145243 | Fuzzy Freaks Out | Bruce Hale | The pets of class 5-B investigate when Fuzzy the guinea pig believes there is a ghost haunting Leo Gumpus Elementary. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780395883983 | Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather | Bruce Koscielniak | When Geoffrey Groundhog pops out of his hole to predict the weather, he is blinded by television cameras and lights and is unable to see if he has a shadow. No one in town knows how to proceed, so Geoffrey needs help fast. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780448441245 | Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka: Dragon Slayer's Academy 17 | Kate McMullan | It’s the last day of the school year, so it must be time for Wiglaf and all his friends at Dragon Slayers’ Academy to go home and enjoy the lazy hazy days of a medieval summer. Ummm, not quite. Not when Mordred the gold-hungry headmaster realizes there’s money to be made running a camp. This double-sized summer super special packs in twice the fun for fans of DSA, and there’s a full-color 8-page insert that pulls out and includes a ghost story, jokes, and more. The Horn Book calls DSA "a hilarious and deservedly popular magic-propelled series set in the Middle Ages. | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9780380709120 | Henry Huggins | HarperTrophy | ||
| 9780316318709 | How to Be a Supervillain | Michael Fry | A NATIONAL BESTSELLER for ten straight weeks! In this rollicking middle-grade adventure, Michael Fry's witty text and hysterical artwork combines superhero action with classic fish-out-of-water humor. Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But to his family's utter disappointment, Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. He won't run with scissors, he always finishes his peas, and he can't stand to be messy. Hopeless! As a last-ditch effort before they give up and let him be a--gasp!--civilian, Victor's exasperated parents send him to apprentice under a disgraced supervillain called The Smear. This matchup starts off as a complete disaster, but Victor and The Smear eventually find that they have a lot to learn from each other. When the stakes get high as Victor is forced to choose between his mentor and his family morals (or lack thereof)...what will the world's nicest bad guy do? | jimmy patterson |
| 9780451480903 | I'm Trying To Love Math | Bethany Barton | Children's Choice Award winner Bethany Barton applies her signature humor to the scariest subject of all: math!Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways -- like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies! This isn't a how-to math book, it's a way to think differently about math as a necessary and cool part of our lives! | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9780062338419 | Jess's Story (Backyard Witch, 2) | Christine Heppermann, Ron Koertge | The second book of the Backyard Witch series, by acclaimed authors Christine Heppermann and Ron Koertge, starring Ms. M, the witch who the Horn Book calls “a combination of Mary Poppins and a stand-up comedian.” A must-have for newly independent readers and fans of Ivy + Bean, Clementine, and the Food Network!Jess is a superstar on the field and on the court. Soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis—you name it, she loves it. But she’s a disaster in the kitchen, much to the dismay of her chef mother. When Jess’s mom gets a chance to work in a famous kitchen for a week, Jess and her friends, Sadie and Maya, try to help out by making dinner. And . . . let’s just say that it goes up in flames. Enter Ms. M, the mysterious witch who appears right when you need her! Ms. M is a heroine to rival Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Ms. Frizzle. She doesn’t save the day herself, but she helps everyone save it for themselves.Short chapters filled with illustrator Deborah Marcero’s striking, lively black-and-white illustrations make the Backyard Witch series a must-have for young middle grade readers. Includes a recipe and information about cooking and gardening. | Greenwillow Books |
| 9780439135023 | Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Barbara Park | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind. | |
| 9780823440177 | Let's Estimate: A Book About Estimating And Rounding Numbers | David A. Adler | Partying dinos explain estimation in this entertaining introduction by a tried-and-true team of fun math book creators.How much pizza do you need for a dinosaur party? If you don't know exactly, you have to estimate! This lively introduction to the mathematical concept of estimation is straightforward and fun.With brilliant clarity, David A. Adler explains what an estimate is and the difference between estimating and rounding. Edward Miller's colorful and energetic artwork offers the perfect accompaniment to concise, engaging text. Filled with graspable examples and simple explanations, Let's Estimate will have kids estimating like pros! | Holiday House |
| 9780735840775 | Little Polar Bear Lars And The Brave Little Hare (Little Polar Bear (Paperback)) | Hans de Beer | One quiet day at the North Pole, Lars, the Little Polar Bear, hears a cry coming from a deep hole in the ice. It‘s Hugo, a scared little hare, who is trapped and needs to be rescued. The two fast become friends, but Lars teases Hugo for being timid, and Hugo wishes Lars would be just a little more careful! Then Lars lands himself in trouble, and Hugo has to show just how brave he can be in an emergency. | NorthSouth |
| 9780794545338 | Look Inside Science | Minna Lacey | A fun and informative flap book introducing young children to the wonders of science. Science topics from nature to forces and the human body are brought to life with colorful illustrations, flaps to lift, simple facts and fun experiments to try at home. Full of surprises to keep inquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps, sliding tabs and even a mini booklet crammed with information on the planets. Includes simple practical experiments for children to try themselves. | EDC Publishing / UBAM |
| 9780375851599 | Love, Aubrey | Suzanne LaFleur | A beautifully written and deeply moving middle-grade novel with characters to cherish and a story that deals with tragedy and loss in a fresh way. Aubrey has suffered an unbelievable loss, and goes to live with her grandmother in Vermont in order to heal. There she makes new friends, learns to cope with what has happened, and begins to figure out how to move on. Readers will fall in love with Aubrey from page one, and hold their breath until the very end, when she has to make one of the biggest decisions of her life. | Yearling |
| 9781338120882 | Mango, Abuela and Me | Meg Medina | scholastic | |
| 9780545685757 | Minecraft | Nick Farwell | It's time to wire up and get connected to one of the most complex areas of Minecraft--Redstone. Redstone experts guide you through all aspects of working with Redstone including mining, smelting, using repeaters, circuit components and circuit designs. This handbook also includes exclusive tips from game creator Notch himself and some of the most extraordinary Redstone creations ever made. So power up and get switched on to Redstone--it's electrifying --Provided by publisher. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781338835274 | Moon! | Stacy McAnulty | "A light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon and its history in relation to earth--told from the perspective of the moon itself!"-- | |
| 9781338654479 | Narwhal and Jelly | Ben Clanton | A collection of stories featuring Narwhal and Jelly, including one in which they meet Otty, a super-adventurous otter, who causes Jelly to worry that she will take his place as Narwhal's best friend. | |
| 9781338557510 | Nerdy Birdy |