Jamie Rodriguez's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780873519502 | Rhoda's Rock Hunt | Griffin, Molly Beth | On A Backpacking Trip With Her Aunt And Uncle, A Young Girl Collects Rocks While Hiking In The Forest, By The River, And At The Lake, But When Her Pack Becomes Too Heavy Too Carry, She Finds The Perfect Solution. | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| 9781419749834 | Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure | Jeff Kinney | "From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions. Join Roland and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock. Will our heroes survive? Find out in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure!"--Publisher's description. | |
| Sheepdog In The Snow | ||||
| 9781627797405 | Sophie the Squirrel | Lily Small | This eighth book in the Fairy Animals series focuses on Sophie the Stardust Squirrel. | Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks |
| 9781665951807 | Super Turbo - 4 Books In 1 | Lee Kirby (Fictitious character) | Meet the Superpet Superhero League in this awesome bind-up of the first four Super Turbo books! Join Super Turbo as he meets the rest of the class pets and they form the Superpet Superhero League. Together the pets battle some flying ninja squirrels who turn out not to be so evil, face off against the Pencil Pointer, and then protect the school-and the world-from the evil rat Whiskerface! | Little Simon |
| 9781338820539 | The Bad Guys #16 | Aaron Blabey | NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious! -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series. Coming soon, the next installment in the sidesplitting chapter book series! | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| The Berenstein Bear Scouts And Tehe Sinister Smoke Ring | ||||
| 9780064402750 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson, Barbara Robinson | Harper Trophy | |
| 9780590060196 | The Bfg | Roald Dahl | Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. | Scholastic |
| 9780152047337 | The Borrowers Afloat | Mary Norton | The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield." | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780590426909 | The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Describes episodes about children who make a boxcar their home. | |
| 9780439894036 | The Boys Start the War | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | A rambunctious tale of the age-old feud between the boys and the girls. | |
| 9780439137393 | The Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards | James Preller | Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they seem to be missing. It's up to Jigsaw Jones and his partner Mila to solve this puzzling case. | |
| 9780439523578 | The Cookcamp | Paulsen, Gary | when?: World War Iiwhere?: A Cookcamp In The Canadian Woodswhy?: He's Not Really Sure. One Summer, A 5-year-old Boy Goes To Live With His Grandmother In A Cookcamp. The Camp Is Home To 9 Men Who Are Building A Road Through The Woods. The Boy Misses His Mother, But At The Same Time The Camp Becomes Home--a Special Home Where He Learns To Spit And Rides The Tractor. It's A Wonderful Summer, But Then He Lets Slip To His Grandmother About Uncle Casey And She Writes Seven Letters To His Mother. Seven Letters That She Mails Good And Hard. A Short While Later, The Boy Returns Home.publishers Weeklythis Short, Lyrical Novel Concerns A Five-year-old Boy Who Is Sent To The North Woods Of Minnesota To Live With His Grandmother, A Cook For A Rough-and-tumble Road-building Crew, Because His Father Is Off Fighting In World War Ii And His Mother Has Taken A Job In A Factory. Paulsen's Simply Told Story Strikes Extraordinary Emotional Chords, From The Boy's Wide-eyed Wonder At The Giant Men And Their Giant Machines, To His Searing Rage At His Mother's New Boyfriend (the Real Reason He's Been Packed Off To The Woods), To His Profound Love For His Grandmother, To His Aching Loneliness For His Mother. Paulsen Expertly Balances Sensitive Probing Of The Boy's Mental And Emotional Life With Superb Descriptions Of The Boy Helping The Men Build The Road, Making Paulsen's Unnamed Hero One Of The Most Fully Realized Characters In Recent Memory. Those Hungry For Adventure Stories, As Well As More Introspective Readers, Will Be Spellbound By This Stirring Novel, Which Is Every Bit The Equal Of The Winter Room And Paulsen's Other Works. Ages 10-12. (mar.) | Scholastic |
| 9780689317224 | The Grand Escape | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Yearning to find one of the ranches he has heard so much about, Marco, one of Mr. and Mrs. Neal's house cats, sets out with Polo, who longs to find the mother cat he barely remembers, on an adventure. | Atheneum |
| 9780439445566 | The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce | Ann Rinaldi | A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621. | |
| 9780593174753 | The Knight at Dawn Graphic Novel | Mary Pope Osborne | The #1 bestselling chapter book is now a graphic novel! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back to the time of medieval knights with Jack and Annie! A castle. A knight. A quest! When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the Middle Ages, they're looking for a knight. Instead, they find the Great Hall of a castle where a feast is under way. But Jack and Annie aren't exactly welcome guests! For the first time in graphic novel--live the adventure again with new full-color vibrant art that brings the magic to life! | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9781368025621 | The Magical Yet | Angela DiTerlizzi | This Yet finds a way, even when you don't,And, Yet knows you will, when you think you won't. Each of us, from the day we're born, is accompanied by a special companion--the Yet. Can't tie your shoes? Yet! Can't ride a bike? Yet! Can't play the bassoon? Don't worry, Yet is there to help you out. Told in tight rhyme reminiscent of the great Dr. Seuss himself, this rollicking, inspirational picturebook is perfect for every kid who is frustrated by what they can't do . . . YET! | Disney-Hyperion |
| 9780439873116 | The Real Slam Dunk | Charisse K. Richardson | Ten-year-old Marcus plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream. | |
| 9780439906784 | The Report Card | Andrew Clements | Fifth-grade Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control. |