Elizabeth Nelson's Library
Liberty Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780871975829 | Ask Me About Highlights In History (Who Lived In Castles?) | Contains highlights from all the previous Ask Me books combined in a single volume. | ||
| 9780884485742 | Astronaut Annie | Suzanne Slade | Chosen for Read to Me Day by Appalachian Power CompanyBrightly List: Best Children's Books of March 2018Selected for the Red Tricycle Ultimate Summer Reading List! http://redtri.com/summer-reading-list-amazon-kids-edition-tablet/slide/1Annie’s joyful exuberance and her family’s whole-hearted support leave no doubt that her dream is within her grasp.Career Day is approaching, and Annie can’t wait to show her family what she’s planning to be when she grows up. But she must keep it a secret until Friday! Curious family members each ask Annie for a clue. Convinced that she’ll be a news reporter like he once was, Grandpop gives her his old camera and notebook to use for her presentation. Grandma is sure Annie wants to be a champion baker like her, so she offers a mixing bowl and oven mitts to Annie. Hopeful she'll become the mountain climber he aspired to be; Dad gives Annie an old backpack. Mom presents Annie with a pair of high-top sneakers to pursue Mom's favorite sport in high school - basketball.Grateful for each gift, Annie cleverly finds a way to use them all to create her Career Day costume. When the big day arrives, Annie finally reveals HER out-of-this-world dream to everyone.This delightful story―with backmatter about women astronauts―encourages young readers to pursue their dreams and reach for the stars.Color throughout | Tilbury House Publishers |
| 9780803733657 | Attack Of The Ninja Frogs | Ursula Vernon | Danny Dragonbreath knew girls were trouble. But the new foreign exchange student, Suki the Salamander, is beyond trouble. Not only has she reduced his best friend, Wendell, to a blithering, lovesick tadpole, but she's apparently the object of an elaborate ninja frog kidnapping plot. Danny is never one to pass up an adventure (especially one involving ninja frogs), and so he and Wendell and Suki set out on a dangerous quest through the mythical Japanese bamboo forests to find out what these fearsome frogs want. Danny may not be able to breathe fire like a normal dragon, but he and Wendell have watched lots of kung fu movies and can totally take on a bunch of ninja frogs. Or, um, so he hopes . . .Using her trademark hybrid style of comic-book panels and text, Ursula Vernon has packed this second book in the hilarious Dragonbreath series with lots of kung fu, a little bit of loooove, and plenty of everyday school drama. A perfect fit for fans of Wimpy Kid and Bad Kitty. | Dial Books |
| 9781789890204 | Awesome Project Files | unknown author | Get stuck into the core subjects of the human body, science and weather with lots of awesome hands-on activities. Flaps to lift and three spectacular fold-out feature spreads allow children to delve deeper into everything from how the brain works to why climate change occurs. | Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd |
| 9781250035851 | Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse To Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math Series) | Laura Overdeck | Our mission: to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives.We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many generations of Americans are uncomfortable with math and numbers, and too often we hear the phrase, "I'm just not good at math!" For decades, this attitude has trickled down from parents to their kids, and we now have a culture that finds math dry, intimidating, and just not cool.Bedtime Math wants to change all that. Inside this book, families will find fun, mischief-making math problems to tackle―math that isn't just kid-friendly, but actually kid-appealing. With over 100 math riddles on topics from jalapeños and submarines to roller coasters and flamingos, this book bursts with math that looks nothing like school. And with three different levels of challenge (wee ones, little kids, and big kids), there's something for everyone. We can make numbers fun, and change the world, one Bedtime Math puzzle at a time. | Feiwel & Friends |
| 9780698116986 | Behind the Mask | Explores through rhyming text the subject of prepositions and how they're used. | Puffin Books | |
| 9781580890731 | Big Test Jitters (The Jitters Series) | Julie Danneberg | Fans of First Day Jitters will loves spending time with everyone’s favorite teacher, Mrs. Hartwell, as she prepares her anxious students before the big test.A perfect school year gift for kindergarteners, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders that have been studying, are nervous, and need a fun reminder to relax!From the best-selling series that brought you First Day Jitters, Mrs. Hartwell takes on another nervy adventure as she prepares her class to take the Big Test.Knowing they have studied and are well-prepared, she helps the students practice how to sit quietly, fill in the bubbles, and follow the directions. As her students grow increasingly anxious about the Big Test, Mrs. Hartwell realizes she has to teach the most valuable test-taking skill of all: learning to relax.A fun, classroom storytime leading up to the end of the school year, Big Test Jitters reminds students they’ve worked hard and learned a lot—now they just have to show it! | Charlesbridge |
| 9781598893137 | Billions Of Bats: A Buzz Beaker Brainstorm (Graphic Sparks) | Scott Nickel | When Sarah uses her pet bat to help show off her new cosmic copy machine to the class, something horrible goes wrong resulting in Buzz Beaker and Sarah having to save the day. Written in graphic-novel format. | Stone Arch Books |
| 9780590478052 | Booby-Trapped! (Clue, Book 6) | A. E. Parker | Mr. Boddy has invited his six best friends to his mansion for the weekend, and when he outwits them with security cameras, they plan revenge | Apple |
| 9780142413814 | Boy: Tales Of Childhood | Roald Dahl | Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood!From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Or that he was once a chocolate candy tester for Cadbury's? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don’t yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed! | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9780860204374 | Brain Puzzles (Brainbenders) | Jenny Tyler | -- Puzzle books full of thought provoking problems and brain teasers-- Clues at the end of each book help with the more difficult problems | Usborne Pub Ltd |
| 9780064401845 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | A secret world of their own Jess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side of the playground and outruns everyone. That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. It doesn't matter to Jess that leslie dresses funny, or that her family has a lot of money -- but no TV. Leslie has imagination. Together, she and Jess create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand the strength and courage Leslie has given him. | Harper Collins |
| 9780761385035 | But And For, Yet And Nor: What Is A Conjunction? (Words Are Categorical ®) | Brian P. Cleary | What is a conjunction?You'll find the answer inside this book―because it's chock-full of conjunctions! Brian P. Cleary's playful yet informative rhymes and Brian Gable's humorous but helpful illustrations creatively clarify the concept of conjunctions for young readers. Key conjunctions appear in color for easy identification, and comical cats reinforce each idea. While you read this book aloud, share in the delight of the sense―and nonsense―of words. | Millbrook Press ™ |
| 9781416940289 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | An illustrated edition of the Newberry Medal–winning Caddie Woodlawn, which has been captivating young readers since 1935. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors—neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. | Aladdin |
| 9781416953685 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | Mafatu has been afraid of the sea for as long as he can remember. Though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru - an island whose seafaring people worship courage - Mafatu feels like an outsider. All his life he has been teased, taunted, and even blamed for storms on the sea.Then at age fifteen, no longer willing to put up with the ridicule and jibes, Mafatu decides to take his fate into his own hands. With his dog, Uri, as his companion, Mafatu paddles out to sea, ready to face his fears. What he learns on his lonesome adventure will change him forever and make him a hero in the eyes of his people. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439895033 | Carnival at Candlelight | Mary Pope Osborne | While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. Merlin has asked Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy, in the 1700s. With the help of some new friends, a research book, and a mysterious rhyme from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Yet another Magic Tree House book that will engage kids with history, magic, and nonstop action from beginning to end. Merlin has a new mission for Jack and Annie: save the Grand Lady of the Lagoon from a terrible disaster! To find her, they must travel back over 250 years ago to Venice, Italy, on the night of the annual Carnival celebration. But Merlin's directions are very confusing! As Jack and Annie wander among the costumed crowd, no one is who they seem to be, the clocks all tell different times, and water is mysteriously rising in the streets. Seeking help from Venice's ruler, they find themselves thrown into a dark dungeon filled with rats. How will Jack and Annie save themselves and the Grand Lady, too? There can only be one solution-magic! Mary Pope Osborne is a master of bringing faraway places to life. In Carnival at Candlelight she sends young readers to one of the most glorious cities in the world for an adventure filled with history, mystery, and magic. | |
| 9780062676283 | Case Closed #1: Mystery In The Mansion | Lauren Magaziner | Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziner’s hilarious and high-stakes four-book middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his mom’s detective agency.In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. You pick the path—you crack the case!Carlos Serrano has never solved a mystery in his life. But when Carlos’s mom gets sick with a flu on the morning of an investigation that could save her failing detective agency, Carlos takes on the case.With the help of his best friend, Eliza, and her wild little brother, Frank, Carlos must uncover a mystery involving an eccentric local millionaire, anonymous death threats, and a buried treasure. But with tricky riddles, cagey suspects, hidden secrets, and dozens of impossible choices, they need your help!Can you help Carlos and his friends find the culprit and save Las Pistas Detective Agency? Or will it be case closed?Middle grade readers will enjoy all four books in this favorite series: Mystery in the Mansion (#1), Stolen from the Studio (#2), Haunting at the Hotel (#3), and Danger on the Dig (#4)! | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 9780062676344 | Case Closed #3: Haunting At The Hotel | Lauren Magaziner | Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the third book in Lauren Magaziner’s hilarious and interactive middle grade series. In the Case Closed books, the reader helps Carlos and his friends hunt ghosts at a haunted hotel.In this wildly entertaining adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. You pick the path—you crack the case!Carlos Serrano is now officially an apprentice detective at Las Pistas Detective Agency. He finally earned his mom’s trust, but his next case will be his most difficult one yet. Guests at a creepy mountain hotel are complaining of weird disturbances, threatening messages, and hair-raising howls!Carlos, along with his best friend, Eliza, and her wacky little brother, Frank, arrive on the scene to investigate a . . . ghost? What secrets is this haunted hotel hiding? With tricky puzzles, ghoulish secrets, ectoplasmic enemies, and dozens of impossible choices, these junior detectives need your sleuthing skills!Can you help Carlos and his friends unravel the mystery before it’s too late? Or will it be case closed?Middle grade readers will enjoy all four books in this favorite series: Mystery in the Mansion (#1), Stolen from the Studio (#2), Haunting at the Hotel (#3), and Danger on the Dig (#4)! | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 9781532110115 | Cassini: Unlocking The Secrets Of Saturn (Xtreme Spacecraft) | John Hamilton | Simple text and "out-of-this-world" photography introduce readers to NASA's Cassini-Huygens space probe, and its mission to explore the gas giant Saturn. Important details include the probe's construction, its launch, the landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan, and Cassini's continuing mission to unlock the secrets of Saturn's rings and other unique features. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. | A & D Xtreme |
| 9780062499639 | Cece Loves Science And Adventure | Kimberly Derting, Shelli R. Johannes | “Smart girls, friendship, and fun: a winning combination.” —Kirkus“A wonderful book.” —School Library JournalCece loves science and adventure!In this STEM-themed Girls in Science picture book, Cece and her Adventure Girls troop use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve problems and earn their camping pin. Illustrated by New York Times–bestseller Vashti Harrison, Cece Loves Science and Adventure is perfect for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and anyone who enjoys asking questions and figuring out how things work.Cece loves being an Adventure Girl almost as much as she loves science, which is why she can’t wait for her troop’s camping trip. Nature is full of science for Cece to explore!Along with her friends, her mom, and her dog, Einstein, Cece learns how to pitch a tent, set up a campsite, and document landmarks on the trail. Then thunder booms in the distance! Working together, the girls use meteorology and math to determine the location of the storm; engineering to build a shelter; and technology and math to calculate the length of the trek back to the campsite. After all that teamwork, Cece’s mom gives them an Adventure Girl surprise!Illustrated by Vashti Harrison, author and illustrator of the New York Times–bestselling Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, Cece Loves Science and Adventure is just right for curious kids and anyone who loves to explore the great outdoors.Includes a glossary. | Greenwillow Books |