Cosette Roberts' Library
West Creek Middle
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Life And Words Of Martin Luther King Jr. | ||||
| The Light In The Forest | ||||
| 9780439692410 | The Meanest Doll in the World | Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin | Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind. | |
| The Nanny Diaries | ||||
| The Outsiders | ||||
| 9780439436533 | The Pied Piper (Scholastic Junior Classics) | Ellen Miles | A fun retelling of Robert Browning's classic tale for beginning chapter book readers!The town of Hamelin is filled with rats! There are rats in the cupboards, rats in the marketplace, rats in the doghouses, even rats in the pots and pans. The rats are eating all the food, chewing through the houses, and chasing away the cats. The people of Hamelin don't know what to do!Then a mysterious stranger comes to town and promises to kick out the rats for good. Can the townspeople trust this oddly dressed man? And is getting rid of the rats worth the price? | Scholastic |
| The Red Rose Box Brenda Woods | ||||
| 9780689845246 | The Report Card | Andrew Clements | Having always stood out for fantastic grades and a brilliant mind, Nora decides to put a new plan into action where she will challenge the importance of grades by purposefully lowering her scores--demonstrating that grades aren't as important as they seem when it comes to judging a person. Reprint. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 0140360778 | The Road to Memphis | Mildred D. Taylor | Cassie Logan, a young black woman in 1940s Mississippi, becomes caught up in a tense confrontation between blacks and whites--three days of turmoil and unrest that will change her life forever. Reprint. Coretta Scott King Award. | Puffin |
| 9780439107990 | The Search for the Missing Bones | Eva Moore | Ms. Frizzle and her class visit the Hugh Mann Costume Company to learn all about skeletons: why we need them, what different bones are for, how doctors fix them when they're broken, and lots more. Illustrations. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 0590450700 | The Shuteyes | Mary James | Embarrassed by his drum-beating and dream-interpreting mother and his swamp-prowling neighbor, Gower Pyle, who plays country music and eats M&Ms all day, Chester Dumbello is swept away by a parrot to a planet where sleeping is a crime. Reprint. | Apple |
| 9780440400219 | The Story Of Benjamin Franklin: Amazing American (Dell Yearling Biography) | Margaret Davidson | Ben Franklin was an amazing American because he was:* a printer and businessman who created Poor Richard's Almanac* the inventor of the lightning rod and the Franklin stove* a community leader who started the first public library in America* a statesman who helped to gain our country's freedom from the BritishThese are only a few ways in which Ben was amazing. This book tells you much more about him. | Yearling |
| The Tiger's Appretice | ||||
| 9780439077293 | The Well | Mildred D. Taylor | One hot summer in the early 1900s, all the wells in David Logan's part of Mississippi have gone dry - except their family's. But David doesn't want to share the water with one white racist white boy, Charlie, and the tensions between the two of them build and build until they eventually explode. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 0816710384 | The Whipping Boy | |||
| 9780439454568 | The Year of Miss Agnes | Kirkpatrick Hill | Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher. | |
| 9780156899697 | Thirteen Stories (Harvest Book) | Eudora Welty | Thirteen outstanding short stories by Welty, written between 1937 and 1951. “Miss Welty has written some of the finest short stories of modern times” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Selected and with an Introduction by Ruth M. Vande Kieft. | Mariner Books |
| 9780763621544 | Trail Of Bones: Danger Boy Episode 3 | Mark London Williams | Danger Boy and his time-traveling companions are in for some shocking surprises when they meet up with an earlier expedition — the historical journey of Lewis and Clark.Fresh from a dangerous time-traveling mission, Eli Sands and his friends Clyne, the evolved dinosaur, and Thea, the scholar from Alexandria, are thrown into nineteenth-century America after an accident with their time-travel vessel. Unfortunately, Clyne is stranded alone in potentially hostile territory, while Thea and Eli pop up at the beginning of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition. After Thea is mistaken for an escaped slave and taken into custody, Eli joins Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery in hopes of finding Clyne, a means to rescue Thea, and transportation home. While trying to escape and regroup, Eli and his friends make important discoveries about their "accidental" stumble into 1804. It looks like they were lured by a Prime Nexus, which they may have caused, and which will surely change all of history to come. | Candlewick |
| Tucker's Gold | ||||
| Twenty And Ten |