Christy Talbert's Library
Carmel Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780545571753 | Twisters and Other Terrible Storms | Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne | Describes the changing nature of weather and how meteorologists predict and study such storms as tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. | |
| 9781338833898 | Ultimate Jungle Rumble | Jerry Pallotta | What would happen if sixteen sharks met in a tournament? What if the jungle's fiercest creatures battled it out? Which dinosaur is the strongest of them all? | |
| 9780547577098 | Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade 4 | Lucy Calkins | ||
| 9780063080089 | Unti Ka Mid Grade Novel #2 - Weikum | Katherine Applegate | From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob. Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob. In the timeless way that only Katherine Applegate could craft, this highly anticipated novel in verse is the perfect mix of heartfelt and humorous, poignant and sweet. Artist Patricia Castelao returns to the world of Ivan and his friends with gorgeous black-and-white interior illustrations to complete the story. The One and Only Ruby features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). This highly anticipated middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 8, for independent reading, homeschooling, and sharing in the classroom. Don't miss the film adaptation of The One and Only Ivan, now streaming on Disney+! | HarperCollins |
| 9781415582053 | Watch Your Whiskers, Stilton! | Larry Keys | Un misterioso ratón con un solo ojo quiere arruinar El Eco del Roedor…¡Yo lo salvaré participando en un espeluznante concurso en el que me arriesgo a perder la cola! Finalmente descubriré quién es el misterioso ratón gracias al mítico Ratigoni... ¿Quién es Geronimo Stilton? ¡Soy yo! Soy un tipo distraído, con la cabeza en las nubes... Dirijo un periódico, pero mi verdadera pasión es escribir. ¡Aquí en Ratonia, en la Isla de los Ratones, todos mis libros son unos bestsellers! Pero ¿cómo?, ¿no los conocéis? Son esas historias cómicas, tan tiernas como un queso de bola, tan gustosas como un gorgonzola y tan entretenidas como contarle los agujeros a una loncha de gruyer... En definitiva, historias morrocotudas, ¡palabra de Geronimo Stilton! | Scholastic |
| 9781338255751 | We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus) | Deborah Hopkinson | Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recommended book and a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Title. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if they'd ever be reunited. Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognizable lives, where food, clothes -- and, for many of them, language and religion -- were startlingly new. Meanwhile, the onset of war and the Holocaust visited unimaginable horrors on loved ones left behind. Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward, to hope. Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced to give up in order to save these children. | Scholastic Focus |
| 9781338736298 | We Own The Sky | Rodman Philbrick | A thrilling historical adventure by the master of adventure himself, Rodman Philbrick.It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise.Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative--a famous aviator--they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes.The KKK is on the rise in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial fears promoted in Birth of a Nation. They spew hatred of immigrants, Blacks, Jews, and French Catholics--that last, a rage that will be directed at Davy and Jo.When Davy and Jo cross paths with the Klan, they get tangled up in a terrible revenge plan, and held as hostages. Can they escape with their lives? | Scholastic, Incorporated |
| 9780590738880 | West To A Land Of Plenty: The Diary Of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York To Idaho Territory, 1883 (Dear America) | Murphy, Jim | The first humorous addition to the historical fiction series is narrated by Teresa, a first generation American of Italian descent, who travels by train and then by wagon with her family from New York to a utopian community in Idaho. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9.78134E+12 | What Does a Veterinarian Do? | Karen Alexander | Would you like to work with animals? - back cover | |
| 9780593095614 | What Is a Presidential Election?: with Activities, Stickers, and a Poster! (What Was?) | Yacka, Douglas, Who HQ | Penguin Workshop | |
| 9781524786038 | What Is Nasa? | Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ | Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken place since then. NASA has a rich history and still plays an important role in uncovering the mysteries of the universe. Readers are sure to get sucked into this book. | Penguin |
| 9781524786090 | What Is the Constitution? | Patricia Demuth | ||
| 9780448486925 | What Is the Declaration of Independence? | Michael C. Harris | Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation--The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom, and the Declaration of Independence made that official. Discover the true story of one of the most radical and uplifting documents in history and follow the action that fueled the Revolutionary War. | Penguin |
| 9780448484075 | What Was D-Day? | Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ | In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere. D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time. | Penguin |
| 9780448464626 | What Was Pearl Harbor? | Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ | A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World War II. In a compelling, easy-to-read narrative, children will learn all about a pivotal moment in American history. | Penguin |
| 9780593225936 | What Was Reconstruction? | Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ | In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.Learn about a pivotal time in American history and its momentous effects on civil rights in America in this enlightening title about Reconstruction.Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn’t last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. Find out what went wrong in this fascinating overview of a troubled time. | Penguin Young Readers Group |
| 9780448462868 | What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? | Jim O'Connor, Who HQ | "Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-illustrations throughout and sixteen pages of photos, this turning point in history is brought vividly to life. | Penguin |
| 9780448462882 | What Was the Boston Tea Party? | Kathleen Krull, Who HQ | Describes the Boston Tea Party, including the events leading up to the party, its immediate effects on American-British relations, and why it is still an important event today. | Penguin |
| 9780451533906 | What Was the Holocaust? | Gail Herman, Who HQ | A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history. This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers. | Penguin |
| 9780448479019 | What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? | Judith St. George, Who HQ | Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically. | Penguin |