Cynthia Hudgings' Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781442457355 | Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops | Jill Biden | Natalie, a young girl whose soldier father has deployed to Iraq, tells the reader what life is like for her and her mother in the year that her father is away. | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman |
| 9781442411906 | Dork Diaries 3 | Rachel Renée Russell | When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780439585491 | Double Fudge | Judy Blume | Fudge, Peter, and the rest of the gang are back in this long-awaited, New York Times bestselling continuation of Blume's beloved series, now in mass market paperback. | Scholastic |
| 9780547398488 | Dying to Meet You | Kate Klise | Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man--and the abandoned kid? Well, let's just say his last name's Hope. Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, the creators of the award-winning Regarding the . . . series, offer up this volume in a clever epistolary series told in letters, drawings, newspaper articles, a work-in-progress manuscript, and even an occasional tombstone engraving. | Clarion Books |
| 9780590136983 | Each Orange Had 8 Slices | Paul Giganti | An illustrated introduction to counting and simple addition. | |
| 9780531213506 | Earthquakes | Ker Than | A study of earthquakes and the science behind them. | Childrens Press |
| 9780590437714 | Eating Fractions | Bruce McMillan | Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780064434645 | Eight Hands Round | Ann Whitford Paul | "Paul provides information about pioneer life through speculation about the origins of 26 quilt patterns, one for each letter of the alphabet. The variety of colors and designs makes the quilts themselves the real stars of the book [and] will [encourage] students to develop their own creations in cloth or on paper." —SLJ. Outstanding Books of 1991 (NYT) Notable 1991 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Books for Vacation Reading (NYT) | Harper Collins |
| 9781419022876 | Escape From Nazi Berlin | Steck-Vaughn, Debra Hess | Three Jewish children run from the Nazis. | |
| 9780545241991 | Extra Credit | Andrew Clements | As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other. | |
| 9780439750462 | Falling for Rapunzel | Leah Wilcox | To rescue Rapunzel from her tower, a prince yells for her to throw down her hair; but being too far away to hear clearly, she tosses out various items from her room, including her maid. | |
| 9780545153775 | Family Huddle | Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Archie Manning | Peyton and Eli Manning are now NFL superstars, but they are still kids in Family Huddle. Readers of all ages will follow along as Eli and Petyon pile into the car with older brother Cooper for a trip to visit their grandparents. Their dad, former NFL star Archie Manning, isat the wheel. The boys joke around and play football at every opportunity. Readers learn about the famous family and football too, as the boys run fun plays like the buttonhook, quarterback sneak, and hook and ladder.Family and football have always been a big deal in the Manning family. Family Huddle is based on some of the Mannings' memories from their days in Louisiana and Mississippi. | |
| 9780547073958 | Frindle | Reading | When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | |
| 9780375810152 | George Washington and the General's Dog | Frank Murphy, Richard Walz | Recounts events in the life of George Washington which focus on his fondness for animals. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545820189 | Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears | Corey Rosen Schwartz, Beth Coulton | In this fractured fairy tale, the Three Bear Band holds tryouts for a lead singer. | |
| 9780439851237 | Hana's Suitcase | Karen Levine | A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her. | |
| 9780545901796 | Hanukkah Bear | Eric A. Kimmel | On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi. Includes a recipe for latkes. | |
| 9780545156639 | Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent | Thomas B. Allen | As he did in his highly acclaimed George Washington, Spymaster, author Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave who led hundreds of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad--was also a spy for the Union Army. More specifically she worked behind Confederate lines in South Carolina getting information about troop movement and Rebel fortifications from slaves that she was leading to freedom on the Underground Railroad. | |
| 9780439676083 | Heroes of the Holocaust | Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun | Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager whose family took in two Jewish men in Nazi-occupied Poland and hid them under their barn floor. She brought them food and books, but they were caught and paid a terrible price. Maria's stirring story is one of five featured in this important book of young people putting their lives on the line for others. | Scholastic |
| 9780439638258 | Hitler's Daughter | Jackie French | After hearing a fictional tale about Hitler's daughter, Mark, an Australian boy, wonders what it would be like if someone he loved and trusted turned out to be evil. |