Cynthia Hudgings' Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780590400237 | The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad | Linda Beech, Joanna Cole, Scholastic Productions | Ms. Fizzle's class tours a rotten log | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780590922401 | The Magic School Bus Plays Ball | Joanna Cole, Nancy E. Krulik | Join Ms. Frizzle and the class as they explore the world of physics. The class learns about forces by playing a game of baseball in a world without friction. | |
| 9780439133371 | The Night Before Christmas | Unknown | Landoll | |
| 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 |
| 9780590975445 | The Patchwork Quilt | Valerie Flournoy | Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. | |
| 9781438071596 | The Real Titanic | Peter/ Vongprachanh Chrisp (Somchitch (ILT)) | ||
| 9780439906692 | The Report Card | Andrew Clements | Fifth-grade Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control. | |
| 9781419022920 | The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall | Steck-Vaughn, John DiConsiglio | Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, explaining why it was built, how it was constructed, and the impact it had on the lives of people on both sides, and describes the events leading up to the wall's destruction. | |
| 9780679861874 | The Salamander Room | Anne Mazer | A boy finds a salamander in the woods and imagines the many things he can do to turn his room into a perfect salamander home. Together, Anne Mazer and Steve Johnson have created a woodland paradise that any salamander would love to share with a child. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780439822213 | The School Story | Andrew Clements | After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. Natalie uses a pseudonym to write her first book, and her friend, Zoe, pretends to be an agent. With a little help from an English teacher, the book exceeds everyone's expectations and becomes a bestseller! | |
| 9780439133487 | The Snow Lambs | Debi Gliori | Because she is on a rescue mission, Bess, the sheep dog, fails to respond when Sam's dad calls her to return home as a winter storm approaches. | |
| 071009004993 | The Tent | |||
| 9780545686624 | The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf | Mark Teague | In this original version of the traditional tale, the three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the somewhat bad wolf--who is really just very hungry and frustrated that the pizza parlor will not serve him. | |
| 9780689815287 | The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig | Eugene Trivizas | When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers to provide a surprising and satisfying solution to the little wolves' housing crisis. Eugene Trivizas's hilarious text and Helen Oxenbury's enchanting watercolors have made this delightfully skewed version of the traditional tale a contemporary classic. | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| 9780439814270 | The Umbrella | Jan Brett, John Gabriel, Steve Blane, Richard DeRosa, Blane and DeRosa Productions, Inc | Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella. | |
| 9780147516817 | The War I Finally Won | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | A New York Times bestseller Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighter for the ages. Her triumphant World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor–winning The War that Saved My Life When Ada awakes from surgery on her club foot, the news that greets her will change the course of her life. Doors that her mother had shut tightly are swinging open— But World War II rages on. Ada and her brother, Jamie, are forced to move into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth arrives. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. A German? Could Ruth be a spy? As the fallout from the war intensifies, calamity creeps closer to Ada’s doorstep, and life grows more complicated. Who will Ada decide to be? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save? Ada’s first story, The War that Saved My Life, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won a Newbery Honor, the Schneider Family Book Award, and the Josette Frank Award, in addition to appearing on multiple best-of-the-year lists. This second masterwork of historical fiction continues Ada's journey of family, faith, and identity, showing us that real freedom is not just the ability to choose, but the courage to make the right choice. "Honest . . . Daring." —The New York Times "Stunning." —The Washington Post ★ "Ada is for the ages—as is this book. Wonderful." —Kirkus, starred review ★ "Fans of the first book will love the sequel even more." —SLJ, starred review ★ "Bradley sweeps us up . . . even as she moves us to tears." —The Horn Book, starred review ★ "Perceptive . . . satisfying . . . will stay with readers." —PW, starred review "Beautiful." —HuffPost | Penguin |
| 9780439412810 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. | |
| 9780439441421 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks shee(tm)son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a womane(tm)s sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds shee(tm)s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined. | Scholastic |
| 9781338610239 | The Word Collector | Peter Hamilton Reynolds | Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others. | Orchard Books |
| 9780021794942 | The Wump World | The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus. |