Cathy Carpenter's Library
Northeast Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439929523 | The Legend of Skull Cliff | Kristiana Gregory | When a rich city kid disappears from nearby Camp Whispering Pines, the three cousins find themselves in the middle of a serious mystery. A ransom note raises the stakes, and the police start tracking down a kidnapper. But Jeff, David, and Claire learn that the boy was last seen headed toward fabled Skull Cliff, possibly in search of its sparkly treasure. The clues just don't add up. As they put all of the evidence together, the cousins start to believe that there never was a kidnapping. But that doesn't mean the boy is out of trouble. He's in more danger than ever. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780064405058 | The Magician's Nephew (Rpkg) (Narnia) | C. S. Lewis | HarperTrophy | |
| 9780061992278 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Soon to be a major motion picture! Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes. In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create an unforgettable story of friendship, art, and hope. The One and Only Ivan features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). Plus don't miss Katherine Applegate's Endling series! | HarperCollins |
| 9780545018593 | The Real Deal About Third Grade | Leslie McGuire | Babette doesn't tell the truth all the time. Her teacher, Ms. Sims, thinks of a plan to help Babette tell the truth. | |
| 9780345339737 | The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the One Ring, ruler of the accursed Rings of Power, must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he begins finally to despair. | Del Rey |
| 9781338565676 | The Ruby Princess Runs Away | Jahnna N. Malcolm | Issued with a detachable page of stickers. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780439444637 | The School Skeleton | Ron Roy | At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears. | |
| 9780545665858 | The Secret of Midway | Steve Watkins | When Anderson and his friends discover a trunk full of old military memorabilia, the ghost of a World War II sailor visits them, asking for help to solve a seventy-year old mystery. | |
| 9780439929509 | The Secret of Robber's Cave | Kristiana Gregory | Jeff, his brother David, and their cousin Claire investigate the deserted Lost Island to search for the treasure that local legend has it was hidden in a secret cave on the island by robbers. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545200448 | The Seer of Shadows | Avi | In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. | |
| 9780723237754 | The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse | Beatrix Potter | Beetles, bees, spiders, and even a friendly toad keep the tidy Thomasina Tittlemouse extremely busy. Illustrated with 27 timeless Potter watercolors. | Frederick Warne Publishers |
| 9780891075936 | The Tombs of Anak | Frank E. Peretti | In Jay and Lila Cooper's search for a missing treasure-seeker, they learn of a fearsome man-eating creature worshiped by the local inhabitants. Can the Coopers defeat the creature and save a people--and themselves? | Thomas Nelson |
| 9781338139303 | The Twisted Ones | Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley | The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes. It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school-bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar-she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780439680899 | The Unwilling Umpire | Ron Roy | When the umpire at the baseball game fundraiser is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780689817212 | The View From Saturday | E.L. Konigsburg | From the Newbery Medal–winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories—one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team—that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers. How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski’s team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan’s grandmother and Nadia’s grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780689843587 | The War Within | Carol Matas | Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1862 Hannah Green can't believe what happens to her family after the war breaks out. First, her sister Joanna falls in love with a Union soldier -- an enemy. Next, the same soldier tells Hannah and her family about General Grant's General Order #11, which commands all Jews to evacuate the territory for violating trade regulations. The Greens escape from Holly Springs just before their home is destroyed. They lose everything -- even their slaves, when Lincoln declares them free. Now, because she is Jewish, Hannah cannot go home to Mississippi -- a Confederate state that's dear to her heart. Confusion sets in. Who is on her side, and whose side does she want to be on? | Aladdin |
| 9780974362717 | Time Out at Home | Ronda Friend, Bill Ross | Ronda gets in trouble while playing a baseball game. | |
| 9780439469562 | Time to Fly | Laurie Halse Anderson | Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles. | |
| 9780439316484 | Twister on Tuesday | Mary Pope Osborne | When Jack and Annie travel back to Kansas, they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers. | |
| 9780590706391 | Vacation Under the Volcano | Mary Pope Osborne | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | Hippo Books |