Jacqueline-Ann Tibbitts' Library
Barkers Mill Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781453084786 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | ||
| 9780807510094 | Caboose Mystery | Gertrude Chandler Warner | A trip in a caboose at the end of a freight train leads to an old clown and a search. | Albert Whitman |
| 9781609588755 | Camille's Mermaid Tale (American Girl: Wellie Wishers) | Valerie Tripp | Camille loves the ocean, the warm sand, the pretty shells, and the sparkling waves that tickle her toes. Sometimes she even imagines that she's a mermaid with whales and dolphins for friends! When the other WellieWishers see how much Camille misses her summers by the sea, they want to help, but how can four girls turn a garden into an ocean? | American Girl |
| 9780763673789 | Can We Save the Tiger? | Martin Jenkins | Highlights the ways human behavior can either threaten or conserve the amazing animals that share our planet. | Candlewick Press (MA) |
| 9781416912545 | Case of the Sneaky Snowman | Carolyn Keene | When Nancy's friend Deirdre predicts the future by reading hot cocoa marshmallows and many of the visions come true, Nancy and the gang wonder what it is going on and get even more suspicious when their snowman disappears. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780140328691 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka's orders? In Dahl's most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded. "From the Hardcover edition." | Puffin |
| 9780786816583 | Crispin: The Cross Of Lead | Avi | Winner of the Newbery Medal, Crispin: The Cross of Lead is an action-packed mystery and adventure from master storyteller Avi.Sometimes I ran, sometimes all I could do was walk. All I knew was that if the steward overtook me, I’d not survive for long....Crispin is a poor thirteen-year-old peasant in medieval England. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he has been declared a "wolf’s head," meaning he may be killed on sight, by anyone. He flees his tiny village with nothing but his mother’s cross of lead.In the English countryside, Crispin meets a man named Bear, who forces Crispin to become his servant yet encourages him to think for himself. But as Crispin’s enemies draw ever closer, he is pulled right into the fortress of his foes, where he must find a way to save their very lives.A master of breathtaking plot twists and vivid characters, award-winning author Avi brings the full force of his storytelling powers to the world of medieval England. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9781493527489 | Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja | Marcus Emerson, Noah Child, Sal Hunter | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and upMy name is Chase Cooper, and I'm a 6th grade ninja. It's my first day at a different school and the only person I know is my cousin, Zoe (but she might be a little too cool for me). I was just another scrawny kid until a group of ninjas recruited me into their clan. It was a world of trouble I wasn't prepared for, which is why I kept this diary (or "chronicle" as my dad would call it) - to warn other kids about the dangers of becoming a ninja. They say history is destined to repeat itself... well, not if I can help it.Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja is a funny thriller that's entertaining for kids, middle school students, and adults. | |
| 9780679824114 | Dinosaurs Before Dark | Mary Pope Osborne | Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780590623520 | Dinosaurs Before Dark | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to the prehistoric past. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780618293193 | Duke Ellington | Erick Montgomery, Houghton, Mifflin and Company | Discover how Duke Ellington changed music in America. | |
| 9780673625465 | Ella Fitzgerald | Kana Riley | Pearson Scott Foresman | |
| 9780590445757 | Encyclopedia Brown Carries on (Encyclopedia Brown #14) | Donald J. Sobol | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780307931474 | Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library | Chris Grabenstein | Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape. | Yearling |
| 9780142426425 | Fish in a Tree | Lynda Mullaly Hunt | "Fans of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder will appreciate this feel-good story of friendship and unconventional smarts.” —Kirkus Reviews Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there’s a lot more to her—and to everyone—than a label, and that great minds don’t always think alike. The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in. This paperback edition includes The Sketchbook of Impossible Things and discussion questions. A New York Times Bestseller! * “Unforgettable and uplifting.”—School Library Connection, starred review * "Offering hope to those who struggle academically and demonstrating that a disability does not equal stupidity, this is as unique as its heroine.”—Booklist, starred review * “Mullaly Hunt again paints a nuanced portrayal of a sensitive, smart girl struggling with circumstances beyond her control." —School Library Journal, starred review | Penguin |
| 9780316059015 | Fries Alive! (Freddy and the French Fries No.1) | David Baldacci | Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very funny French fries who come to life and wreak havoc in Freddy's family and community. With some help from his cheese-cube-loving best friend Howie Kapowie, and armed with his dad's inventions, Freddy and the French Fries set out to bring Spanker and his gang down in a final showdown, proving that brains have an edge over brawn any time. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780689818769 | Frindle | Andrew Clements | From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9781432719197 | Glorified Chicken Coops | Tanya I. Cole | In grungy work camp, "Okie", children gain a fighting chanceIn the early 1940s, Herbert and Iva Cole moved their large family to Wasco, California, where the poor crowded into camps consisting of thin plywood shacks originally designed to house a few Mexican immigrants for the spring and summer months. But it was the Great Depression, and there was work in Wasco, so families like the Coles came en masse; they ended up living there for years. Glorified Chicken Coops, its title evoking the living conditions of that period, tells the story of the hard-scrabble existence that led up to the experience in the camp, as well as the family's eventual escape to their own house in Southern California in 1952.An uncommonly accessible and entertaining family history, Glorified Chicken Coops is packed with extensively researched anecdotes and vignettes that describe not only the travails of one lineage that struggled against all odds to make it, but also this country's most formative years. Through it all is a compelling cast of characters weaved through an often humorous narrative that stretches from the backwoods of Oklahoma to the valleys of California. Glorified Chicken Coops merges historical research with engaging storytelling, shedding light on a period of American life that built this country's character while showing how a couple of backwoods "Okies" with little education but a lot of pluck learned to survive. | Outskirts Press |
| 9780439693547 | Goosebumps #17: Why I'm Afraid of Bees | R. L. Stine | Gary Lutz, a boy constantly picked on by bullies, welcomes the chance to exchange bodies with another child for a week, but he soon discovers that his new body is not exactly human. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780816731039 | Grounded For Life? (The Cool Karate School) | Alex Simmons, Steve DeMasco | Afraid he will have to drop out of karate class if his math grade doesn't improve, Matthew is tempted to cheat on a big test | Troll Communications Llc |