Jacqueline-Ann Tibbitts' Library
Barkers Mill Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781328753632 | Midnight Without A Moon | Linda Williams Jackson | "A powerful story." —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson’s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States. | Clarion Books |
| 9780062402639 | Miss Ellicott's School For The Magically Minded | Sage Blackwood | From the author of the acclaimed Jinx trilogy comes a spellbinding fantasy, perfect for fans of the School for Good and Evil series, about a young heroine fighting to save a world that would dare to tame her.Chantel would much rather focus on her magic than on curtsying, which is why she often finds herself in trouble at Miss Ellicott’s School for Magical Maidens. But when Miss Ellicott mysteriously disappears along with all the other sorceresses in the city, Chantel’s behavior becomes the least of her problems.Without any magic protecting the city, it is up to Chantel and her friends to save the Kingdom. On a dangerous mission, Chantel will discover a crossbow-wielding boy, a dragon, and a new, fiery magic that burns inside her—but can she find the sorceresses and transform Lightning Pass into the city it was meant to be? | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 9780545575997 | Miss Kraft Is Daft! | Dan Gutman | Oh no! Mr. Granite is sick. A.J. and the gang will have a substitute teacher all week. Yay! But Miss Kraft is weird. She wears a clown costume and uses hand puppets to talk. She likes to do magic tricks. And she's happy all the time. What is her problem? | |
| 9780545390804 | My Best Frenemy | Julie Bowe | Almost-ten-year-old Ida May finally has a new best friend at school, but after bossy Jenna Drews starts an increasingly dangerous game of Truth or Dare, Ida is not quite sure who her friends really are. | |
| 9780545289986 | My Sister the Vampire Love Bites | Sienna Mercer | Olivia and Ivy are headed to Transylvania to meet their dad's side of the family, which just happens to be vampire royalty. | |
| 9780448490052 | Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Books 1-4 | Carolyn Keene | A special treat for Nancy Drew fans, and any reader who is new to the series.This stunning box set features the reissued editions of books 1-4, all with gorgeous covers that hark back to the era in which the series was first published. This beautiful and deluxe set is a must-have for all collectors and is also the perfect gift for hooking new readers on the girl sleuth. | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9780440461913 | Nate the Great and the Missing Key | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat | Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! Annie has lost her house key. Now she can’t set up for Fang’s birthday party. Nate doesn't want to go to a party for Annie's ferocious dog. But he can't resist a mystery. Nate the Great and his trusty dog, Sludge, are hot on the trail! Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book! Visit Nate the Great and Sludge! NatetheGreatBooks.com “Casual and comic, Simont’s drawings are . . . lively, adding vitality to the brisk first-person account of yet another deductive triumph. . . . Satisfying, nicely structured and written, this can also be used for reading aloud to younger children.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | Yearling |
| 9781419708572 | NERDS: Book Five: Attack Of The BULLIES | Michael Buckley | The grand finale to the New York Times bestselling series, Attack of the BULLIES stars Ruby Peet, aka Agent Pufferfish, the team captain with super nanobyte-enhanced allergies. Pufferfish leads the team in their latest case: the kidnapping of the president’s daughter. But the NERDS discover she hasn’t been kidnapped—she’s been recruited. Their former librarian, Ms. Holiday, has started a rival organization called BULLIES, who each have their own nanobyte-enhanced upgrades. The BULLIES’ plan: go back in time to make sure NERDS never existed! When Ruby’s teammates begin to vanish one by one, she enlists Agent Brand and Heathcliff Hodges to go back to the 1970s and help the original nerdy secret agents make sure that the future is not erased from existence! Attack of the BULLIES promises action, humor, and a dramatic conclusion to the series. | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780545285957 | Never Glue Your Friends To Chairs | Katherine A. Applegate | Scholastic | |
| 9780439825962 | Never Underestimate Your Dumbness | Jim Benton | While preparing for her aunt's marriage to her school's assistant principal, Jamie Kelly still manages to document in her diary all of the stupid things her archrival Angelina does, which is most relevant because they will soon be cousins. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780448431628 | Niagara Falls, Or Does It? #1 (Hank Zipzer) | Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver | Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part. So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great! Now Hank has found the perfect science project! But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one?Illustrated by Carol Heyer. | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9781419772962 | No Brainer: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid | Kinney, Jeff | Amulet Books | |
| 9780064400046 | On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder | The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles. And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story. | HarperCollins |
| 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. | |
| 9780545060424 | One False Note | Gordon Korman | Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780673625212 | Pet-Sitting Partners | Catherine Murphy | Pearson Scott Foresman | |
| 9780590629850 | Pirates Past Noon | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel to the time of pirates and buried treasure. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781434215963 | Pitcher Pressure (Jake Maddox Sports Stories) | Jake Maddox | Allen's grandpa has never missed a baseball game until tonight. While Allen plays his most important game ever, Grandpa fights for his life at the hospital. Allen wants to win the game for his grandpa, but he's facing his biggest challenge, Hank "The Tank" Steele. | Capstone Press |
| 9781416918158 | Pony Problems (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew) | Carolyn Keene | Aladdin | |
| 9781338160246 | Pop Girl | Tallia Storm | Fourteen-year-old Storm Hall Lives To Sing. Forget Parties. Forget Boys. When Storm Is Told She's Going To Miss A National Competition, To Go On A Once-in-a-lifetime Holiday To Hawaii, Her Life Is Over. What Could Be Worse Than Having To Give Up Singing To Visit An Island Paradise? What If Her (former) Best Friend Is Taking Her Place? A Family Trip To Hawaii Is Just The Beginning. Storm Meets A Hawaiian Band Who Need A Singer Last Minute. When The Song Is On Local Radio The Next Day All Of Storm's Dreams Are Coming True Until The Band Introduce Their Singer On Air. It's Not Her. | Scholastic |