Christine Ramsey's Library
Barksdale Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781338157628 | The Quickest Kid in Clarksville | Pat Zietlow Miller | Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals. | |
| OS_6436AA53BBC2D200B486E80A | The quilt story | |||
| 9780689717383 | The Relatives Came | Cynthia Rylant | In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer. | Atheneum |
| 9780698116269 | The Rough-Face Girl | Rafe Martin | In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. | Puffin |
| 9780545401203 | The Run Away Wok | Ying Chang Compestine | With a skippity-hoppity-ho, a magical, mysterious wok rolls into town. The clever wok knows just where to go to get treats for the poor families and it might be just the ticket to a festive Chinese New Year! | |
| The Slug | ||||
| 9780545017664 | The Snow Day From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | After getting so bundled up that he can hardly move, Hubie tries to enjoy his snow day off from school. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| OS_644001A774D51200B54A43D4 | The Snowy Day | |||
| 9781338132281 | The Spell Thief | Tom Percival | "Jack (of the beanstalk fame) and his magical talking chicken, Betsy, have always been great at making new friends, like their BFFs Red and Rapunzel. But when Jack spots Anansi, the new kid in town, talking to a troll in the Deep Dark Woods, everything changes. Everyone knows that trolls mean trouble, and Jack will do anything to prove to the rest of his friends that Anansi is a troll spy. Even if that means using stolen magic!"-- | |
| 9780545072236 | The Spring Dance from the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | scholastic | |
| 9781512458640 | The Spy Who Played Baseball | Jones, Carrie | By Carrie Jones ; Illustrated By Gary Cherrington. | Kar-Ben Publishing ® |
| 9780590476768 | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | Jon Scieszka | Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales. | |
| 9780142419472 | The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers is entered in a bullfight. | |
| 9780439472265 | The Story of Ruby Bridges | Robert Coles | For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780545553995 | The Summer Camp From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | Hubie is being sent far away to summer camp and he can't even bring his TV or computer. But there's plenty for him to do there, like avoiding the snakes in the lake. Will Hubie survive his "vacation"? | |
| 9780545072243 | The Summer Vacation From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | After getting so bundled up that he can hardly move, Hubie tries to enjoy his snow day off from school. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781338325621 | The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal | Nick Seluk | ||
| The Superlative A. Lincoln | ||||
| 9780763680893 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out. With black-and-white illustrations and a refreshed cover by Timothy Basil Ering. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780439701679 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | The adventures of Desperaux 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. | Scholastic |