Jed Mathews' Library
West Creek Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780545055918 | Swindle | Gordon Korman | After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780142408810 | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume | Celebrate 45 years of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! The #1 New York Times bestselling author's first book in her classic Fudge series. Two is a crowd when Peter and his little brother, Fudge, are in the same room. Grown-ups think Fudge is absolutely adorable, but Peter and his pet turtle, Dribble, know the truth. From throwing temper tantrums to smearing mashed potatoes on the wall, Fudge causes mischief wherever he goes! “As a kid, Judy Blume was my favorite author, and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was my favorite book.”—Jeff Kinney, author of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series Love Fudge, Peter, and Sheila? Read all these books featuring your favorite characters: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Superfudge Fudge-a-Mania Double Fudge | Penguin |
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| 9780545385664 | The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey | I en blanding af billeder, tekst og tegneserie berettes om de to spasmagere, George og Harold, som hypnotiserer skoleinspektøren, Mr. Krupp til at optræde som superhelten Captain Underpants. | |
| 9780545133821 | The Best [Worst] Halloween Ever | Barbara Robinson | The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that's not nailed down. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. There won't be any Herdmans to contend with this year, but there won't be any candy, either. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween ever into the best Halloween ever in this uproarious sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. | |
| 9780545206983 | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 | Lauren Tarshis | Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, 11-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction and chaos to make his way back home. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Simultaneous. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439883757 | The Book Of Time | Guillaume Prévost | Scholastic introduces the next name in YA adventure: Guillaume Prevost, whose Book of Time trilogy is one part DA VINCI CODE, one part DRACULA, one part THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, and all thrilling. A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time -- to Scotland in 800 A.D. -- where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, World War I, even Dracula's castle -- and a mystery that will end only when Sam saves his father, or loses him in time . . . | Scholastic, Incorporated |
| 9780780797147 | The Case Of The Bad-Luck Bike Ride Across Iowa | Dorothy Brenner Francis | We all stared at the note. For a moment, nobody spoke. "Who could have written this?" Gram finally asked. I looked around. Suddenly the gym felt cold. The hairs at my nape bristled. There were a jillion people here. Book jacket. | Perfection Learning |
| 9780374412296 | The Clay Marble | Minfong Ho | Fleeing war-torn Cambodia in 1980, Dara, her mother, and her older brother find sanctuary in a refugee settlement on the Thailand border, but when fighting erupts, Dara finds herself separated from everyone and everything she loves. | Square Fish |
| 9781338359022 | The Conspiracy | Andy Marino | "Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: 'For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die!' Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany--and the world" -- Page [4] cover. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781534455368 | The Great Pet Heist | Emily Ecton | Ocean’s Eleven meets The Secret Life of Pets in this hilarious and delightfully illustrated novel following a ragtag group of pets who will do whatever it takes to avoid being sent to the pound.Butterbean knew she wasn’t always a good dog. Still, she’d never considered herself a BAD dog—until the morning that her owner, Mrs. Food, fell in the hallway. Admittedly the tile was slipperier than usual, mostly because Butterbean had just thrown up on it. Now Butterbean and her fellow pets have to come up with a grand plan to support themselves in case Mrs. Food is unable to keep taking care of them. When they discover a mysterious man in their building who seems to have lots of loot, they plan a heist. Oscar the mynah bird is the brains of the operation. Walt the cat has the necessary slyness and slink. Marco and Polo are the reconnaissance rats. And Butterbean...well, no one would ever suspect a cute little wiener dog, right? Can these animal friends can pull off the heist of the century? | Simon and Schuster |
| 9781368051835 | The Incredibly Dead Pets Of Rex Dexter | Aaron Reynolds | Rex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for crying out loud. It's a dog's name. Any pooch is preferable, but a chocolate Labrador is the pinnacle. The best of the best. The dream of all dreams.When Rex's B-Day for Me-Day finally arrives, his parents surprise him with a box. A box with holes. A box with holes and adorable scratchy noises coming from inside. Could it be? Yes! It has to be! A . . . a . . . Chicken? Pet poultry?How clucky. One hour and fourteen minutes later, the chicken is dead (by a steamroller), Rex is cursed (by the Grim Reaper), and wild animals are haunting Rex's room (hounding him for answers). Even his best friend Darvish is not going to believe this, and that kid believes everything. Rex's uninvited ghostly guests are a chatty, messy bunch. And they need Rex to solve their mysterious deadly departures from the Middling Falls Zoo before it happens again.But how? New York Times best-selling author Aaron Reynolds delivers a wickedly funny debut title in The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter series. | Disney-Hyperion |
| 9780545397230 | The Jaguar Stones Middle World | J. & P. Voelkel, Pamela Voelkel | When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9781453076279 | The Jungle Book | W. T. Robinson, Rudyard Kipling, Kathryn R. Knight | ||
| 9780439574242 | The Jungle Book | Jane B. Mason, Sarah Hines Stephens, Rudyard Kipling | Retells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves in an Indian jungle. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780590939881 | The Kid Who Ran for President | Dan Gutman | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 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 |
| 9780684800851 | The LAST BANNER: The Story Of The 1985-86 Celtics And The NBA's Greatest Team Of All Time | May, Peter | A portrait of the most recent Boston Celtics championship team, a squad that included Larry Bird and Robert Parrish, follows their amazing sixty-seven win season and march to the NBA title | Simon & Schuster |
| 9780440422143 | The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. | Yearling |
| 9780545849135 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. |