Jami Davidson's Library
Barksdale Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780823962266 | A Day in the Life of a Colonial Lighthouse Keeper | Laurie Krebs | Looks at the daily life of a lighthouse keeper at Boston Light in colonial Massachusetts, describes the duties and responsibilities of a colonial lighthouse keeper, and tells the history of Boston Light. | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| 9781589258280 | A Magical Christmas | Claire Freedman | Little Mouse wants to know what makes Christmas magic, so the other mice tell him what they love most about the season. | |
| 9780688101923 | A More Perfect Union | Betsy Maestro | This easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. "Simple, attractive, informative....The most accessible history of the Constitution to date."--School Library Journal. | Collins |
| 9780698113640 | A Mother for Choco | Keiko Kasza | Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not. Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she's his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together. Keiko Kasza's twist on the "Are you my mother?" theme has become one of the most highly recommended stories about adoption for children. | Penguin |
| 9780140503524 | A Pocket for Corduroy | Don Freeman | A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat. | Penguin |
| 9780824958602 | A Snowman Named Just Bob | Mark Molton | One magical snowy night, a child builds a snowman and learns about friendship. | WorthyKids |
| 9780064431576 | A Three Hat Day (Reading Rainbow Book) | Laura Geringer | R. R. Pottle the Third has a truly wonderful, extra-extraordinary collection of hats. But happiness eludes him. He is lonely and dreams of meeting a perfect wife ' who will, of course, be wearing a perfect hat.One day, a day so bad that R. R. Pottle wears not one, not two, but three hats at once, his dream comes true in the best possible way.This warm, comical story by talented new author Laura Geringer is crowned with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Medal winner Arnold Lobel. Notable Children's Books of 1985 (ALA)A Reading Rainbow Featured Selection | HarperCollins |
| 9781585360024 | A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree | Colleen Monroe | Feeling sad because no one chooses it as a Christmas tree, a bedraggled forest pine discovers the importance of being appreciated all year long. | |
| OS_64399FA9FB791F00B44A9D1A | Abe's Honest Words | Doreen Rappaport | Hyperion Books | |
| 9781559942423 | Air Is All Around You Book and Tape | Franklyn M. Branley | HarperFestival | |
| OS_6437217148A40B00B5B86F1D | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Judith Viorst | ||
| OS_643721ED609EED00B593C1D1 | Alexander, Who's Not Going to Move | Judith Viorst | ||
| 9780679802167 | All Stuck Up (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2) | Linda Hayward | A retelling of Uncle Remus's classic tale of Brer Rabbit written for emergent readers!Brer Fox is always trying to catch Brer Rabbit. But Brer Rabbit is smart! Will he escape from a sticky trap set by that wily fox?Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story."About fifty sentences, with one or two per gracefully color-cartooned page, this tale is reduced to the most basic motifs, but it does respect the ones it keeps. It will be a book to hand to kids who clamor for a version they can read for themselves."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| OS_643720B9609EED00B593C0BB | All the Places to Love | Patricia Maclachlan | ||
| 9780590330732 | Amazing Lizards! | Fay Robinson | Rhyming text and illustrations introduce the colorful world of lizards. Includes a reference section providing more information about the lizards mentioned in the text. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780545078436 | Amazing Snakes! | Sarah L. Thomson, Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.) | Simple text discusses the physical characteristics and typical behaviors of snakes as well as their place in the world. | |
| 9781553373384 | Animal Groups | Etta Kaner | Describes how various types of animals form groups to find food, defend themselves from their enemies, care for their young, play, groom themselves, and travel, and suggests some of the things a creature within such a group would do. | Kids Can Press |
| 9780448451909 | Anna Sewell's Black Beauty | Cathy East | Black Beauty, published in 1877 and set in Victorian London, was Anna Sewell?s only novel. Yet it has remained a classic for 140 years. Now the beloved story of Black Beauty is retold for beginning readers with full-color illustrations on every page. | Penguin |
| 9780316571203 | Annie and the Old One | Patricia Miles Martin | Annie is a young Navajo girl who refuses to believe that her grandmother, the Old One, will die. Sadly, Annie learns that she cannot change the course of life. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439800112 | Apples to Oregon | Deborah Hopkinson | A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling. |