Cynthia Hudgings' Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780679882039 | Mick Harte Was Here | Barbara Park | An award-winning, heartrending young middle grade novel from Barbara Park—the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Junie B. Jones series—just right for readers of Frindle, Love That Dog, The Lemonade War, and other classic young middle grade favorites. Kids aren’t supposed to die. Phoebe’s brother, Mick, was one of the funniest, coolest kids you’d ever meet—the kid who made you laugh until your stomach hurt, even if you were mad at him. The kid who freaked his and Phoebe’s mom out by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken; who went trick-or-treating as Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the modern-day flush toilet; who did a wild solo dance in front of the entire school. He was the kid you’d want to be friends with. So how can he be gone? And how will Phoebe’s family survive without him? Winner of 12 State Awards! An IRA-CBC Young Adults’ Choice A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * “Genius . . . excruciatingly real . . . powerful.” —Publishers Weekly, starred “[A] wrenching story permeated with humor and hope.” —School Library Journal For the Review section (please add the two reviews and the state awards below): “A very moving story about a terrific 12-year-old boy. By the end of the book, readers miss him, too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Park skillfully interweaves humor and pain in this unique, utterly believable account of Phoebe’s attempt to cope with a heartbreaking loss.” —The Horn Book WINNER—Georgia Children’s Book Award WINNER—Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award WINNER—Kansas William Allen White Children’s Book Award WINNER—North Dakota Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award WINNER—Rhode Island Children’s Book Award WINNER—South Carolina Children’s Book Award WINNER—Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award WINNER—Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award WINNER—Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award WINNER—Iowa Children’s Choice Award WINNER—Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award NOMINEE—Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award WINNER—Kentucky Bluegrass Master List | Yearling |
| 9780439849296 | Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook | Michael Garland | When the new teacher, Miss Smith, reads to her class, Zack and his classmates are amazed to find that the storybook characters come to life. | |
| 9780937295434 | Molly Saves the Day | Valerie Tripp | The story of Molly, who schemes and dreams on the home front around the year 1944 during World War Two. | |
| 046594003959 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 9780545888783 | Ninja Red Riding Hood | Corey Rosen Schwartz | In this twist on "Little Red Riding Hood," a certain wolf trains to be a ninja in order to catch his prey, but he is not the only one mastering a martial art. | |
| 9780395510605 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter a Jewish friend from the Nazis. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780590635738 | Olive, the Other Reindeer | Vivian Walsh | Thinking that "all of the other reindeer" she hears people singing about include her, Olive the dog reports to the North Pole to help Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. | |
| 9780440411772 | On Beyond a Million | David M. Schwartz | Professor X and his dog, Y, teach kids how to count exponentially by powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.), beginning at 1 and working all the way up to a googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) and beyond. Children fascinated by large numbers will be amazed how quickly they can count to really BIG numbers, and they’ll also find answers to questions like “What comes after a trillion?” or “What’s the biggest number in the world?” Real-life examples provide plenty of fun facts, such as how much popcorn Americans eat in one year, or how many hairs are on a square inch of a person’s head. Along with the fun comes some powerful learning, as this unique counting book helps kids understand our number system, which is based on multiples of 10. | Dragonfly Books |
| 9780060085605 | One Candle | Eve Bunting | For one family the traditional Hanukkah celebration has a deeper meaning. Amidst the food and the festivities, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose begin their story -- the one they tell each year. They pass on to each generation a tale of perseverance during the darkest hours of the Holocaust, and the strength it took to continue to honor Hanukkah in the only way they could. Their story reaffirms the values of tradition and family, but also shows us that by continuing to honor the tragedies and the triumphs of the past there will always be hope for the future. | Harper Collins |
| 9780545458283 | One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. | |
| 9780590486026 | Only One | Marc Harshman | At a county fair there are five hundred seeds in one pumpkin, ten cents in one dime, eight horses on one merry-go-round, four wheels on one wagon, and so on. | |
| 9780764147128 | Painless Grammar | Rebecca Elliott | Introduces the dos and don'ts of English grammar--ranging from punctuation to spelling and sentence construction--using humorous, down-to earth examples. | Barrons Educational Series Incorporated |
| 9780064430401 | Peter's Chair | Ezra Jack Keats | Peter is jealous of his new sister and decides to leave when he sees all of his old things being painted pink for her. | HarperCollins Publishers |
| 9780439800808 | Pinduli | Janell Cannon | Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the savannah. Includes backmatter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African savannah. | |
| 9780974362700 | R. Friend Swallows Her Pride | Ronda Friend, Sunflower Seeds Press | All about R. Friend (Ronda) and her family who live on a very happy farm. | |
| 9780590982078 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. | |
| 9780545795449 | Rufus Goes to School | Kim T. Griswell | Rufus Leroy Williams III wants to go to school to learn to read but the principal at first refuses because Rufus is a pig. | |
| 9780140558647 | Rumpelstiltskin | Paul O. Zelinsky, Jacob Grimm | A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child. | Allen Lane |
| 9780545385077 | Scary Stories 3 | More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things. | ||
| 9780590484145 | Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Gets Eaten | Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole | It's beach day, and the whole class is excited. Everyone except Arnold and Keesha, that is. They forgot their report on two beach things that go together. All Arnold and Keesha have is a tunafish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum. What could those two things possibly have in common? "The best way to learn about something is to jump right in," Ms. Frizzle announces. A second later the bus dives right into the ocean! Come on an underwater adventure and learn about food chains. | Scholastic Inc. |