Jessica Holden's Library
Barksdale Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780140544510 | The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka, A. Wolf | The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. | Puffin |
| 9780807592076 | The Woodshed Mystery | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Scholastic | |
| 9780807593660 | The Yellow House Mystery | Gertrude Chandler Warner | The spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny. | Albert Whitman |
| 9780064400084 | These Happy Golden Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book. | HarperCollins |
| 9780021477128 | Thomas Alva Edison (The World Was Never the Same) | Bryant, Tamera | Lake Street Pubs | |
| 9780060782139 | Time for Kids: Butterflies! | Editors of TIME For Kids | Butterflies There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies in the world. Many have brightly colored wings. But butterflies don't start life as beauties. Every butterfly begins as a tiny egg that hatches into a caterpillar. Then an amazing change takes place. The caterpillar turns into a fluttering butterfly! | Harper Collins |
| 9780060576301 | Time for Kids: Henry Ford | Editors of TIME For Kids, Dina El Nabli | As a young boy, Henry Ford was fascinated by technology and how objects worked. His childhood interests led him to leave the Ford family farm in Michigan in search of a career with machinery, and the rest is automotive and economic history. TIME For Kids® Biographies help make a connection between the lives of past heroes and the events of today. Henry Ford made cars affordable, turning them into the primary means of travel for Americans. His innovations, including the assembly line, are still benefiting us today. | Harper Collins |
| 9780060782023 | Time For Kids: Planets! (Time For Kids Science Scoops) | Editors of TIME For Kids | take A Trip Around Our Solar System, Find Out How Pluto Was Named, See Amazing Snapshots From Space & Learn More Than Forty Fun Facts About Our Universe level 2 Includes Longer Sentences With Richer Vocabulary, Type Set Line To Line To Aid Readability, Varied Photographic Treatments, And Brief Chapters With Simple Illustrated Diagrams And A Glossary.special Features Include How Big?, Take A Close Look, Did You Know?, Words To Know, Fun Facts And Full Color Photographs, As Well As A Full Page, Simply Labeled Diagram Showing Body Parts.ages 6+marilyn Courtot - Children's Literaturethis New Series Of Early Readers, Time For Kids Science Scoops, Is Taken From Material Prepared By The Editors Along With Lisa Jo Rudy. Like Any Other Early Reader Series, The Books Are Leveled—level 1 Is Targeted For Beginning Readers, Level 2 For Developing Readers And Level 3 Is Designed For Confident Readers. The Full-page Photographs Have Text Boxes Superimposed, But The Judicious Layout Of The Text Boxes Is Such That No Important Information Is Lost From The Images. The Books In The Series Are Nonfiction And While The Text Is At Times Choppy And Often Just A Litany Of Facts, They Are Interesting Facts. The Universe Is So Vast It Is Really Beyond Comprehension. Our Own Solar System Is Pretty Impressive And The Planets Are Introduced With A Few Facts About Each. Olympus Mons, A Martian Mountain, Is As Wide As The State Of Missouri. The Level 1 Books Contain A Words To Know Picture Glossary, While Level Two Also Adds A Section Of Interesting Factoids Entitled Did You Know? Level 3 Adds Even Another Small Section Of Fun Facts. planets! Is A Level 2 Book, Guided Reading Level J-k, Spache Reading Level 2.33. Lesson Plans Can Be Found At Www.harperteachers.com. 2005, Harpercollins, Ages 5 To 7. | HarperCollins |
| 9780060782047 | Time for Kids: Storms! | Editors of TIME For Kids, Leslie Dickstein | Storms Get the inside scoop on the world's stormy weather! Find out what causes thunder, see the eye of a hurricane, get caught up in a tornado, and discover more than twenty–five facts about storms | Harper Collins |
| 9780824914134 | Tornadoes (My First Discovery) | David Armentrout, Patricia Armentrout | Ideals Publications | |
| 9780545007139 | Tree Homes | Carol Ghiglieri | ||
| 9780028308074 | True elephant stories (A Dolch classic basic reading book) | Dolch, Edward W | SRA/McGraw-Hill | |
| 9780375813580 | Twisters and Other Terrible Storms | Mary Pope Osborne | The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday, they had lots of questions. How do tornadoes form? What kinds of tools can help predict bad storms? Where did the biggest snowfall on record happen? How fast are hurricane winds? Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com! | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9781421531328 | ULTIMO, Vol. 1 (1) | Takei, Hiroyuki | reads R To L (japanese Style). Pure Vice Vs. Pure Virtue. Can One Win Without Corrupting The Other?! kurenai Doji: With Girl And Money Troubles, Life Is Hard Enough For Hgh School Student Yamato, But Then He Stumbles Upon Ultimo, A Peculiar-looking Puppet. Things Only Get Stranger When Ultimo Awakens And His Archenemy Vice Shows Up. Will This Be The Battle That Finally Decides Good Versus Evil, Or Is This Just The Beginning Of A Fantastic Adventure?publishers Weeklyin This Bizarre International Coproduction, Marvel Comics Legend Lee (spider-man; X-men) Pairs Up With Artist Takei (shaman King). Lee Himself Cameos As A Crazy Inventor-cum-scholar In 12th-century Japan Transporting Two Doll-like Robot Boys To His Clients. Bandits Attack And Activate The Robots As Lee Reveals That One Is An Incarnation Of Pure Good And The Other Pure Evil, Named Ultimo And Vice, Respectively. Lee Has Invented The Robots To Discover, Outlandishly Enough, “which Is Stronger, Good Or Evil.” Cut To Present-day Japan, Where Average High School Kid Yamato Stumbles Upon An Inanimate Ultimo In An Antiques Shop. Yamato Turns Out To Be The Reincarnation Of One Of The 12th-century Bandits, A Good-hearted Freedom Fighter Also Named Yamato. Lee's Premise Is Dead In The Water, And Ultimo Proves To Be A Laughably Bad Adventure. Ultimo's Fights With Vice Play Out The Empty Old Good Versus Evil Stock Premise Of American Comics. The Book Also Captures Several Of Manga's Worst Clichés. In One Scene A School Friend Walks In On Yamato Kneeling Over Ultimo In Bed; It's Simultaneously A Nod To Unappealing Erotic Romantic Comedies And Yaoi. The Artwork Is Adequate Yet Unmemorable—lee's Character Is Ridiculously Manly And His Caricatured Face Appears Throughout The Book, Well After The Joke Has Worn Thin. (feb.) | VIZ Media LLC |
| 9780590674096 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. | |
| 9781426326394 | Weird But True Fact Pack 10 | N/a | ||
| 9780440419440 | When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | Publisher Description | Yearling |
| 9781416900344 | Where's Nancy? (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Super Mystery #1) | Keene, Carolyn | where's Nancy?nancy Was Going To Tell You About This Big Mystery, But She Disappeared. poof. Just Like That.so Now Bess, Ned, And Me, George, Have The Case Of The Missing Detective On Our Hands. We've Got To Find Nancy!let Me Tell You, This Sleuthing Thing Is No Joke. We've Worked With Nancy On Lots Of Cases, But We've Never Had To Do It Ourselves — And The Stakes Have Never Been So High. We Think This Might Have To Do With That Possible Museum Theft Nancy Was Talking About — We're Just Not Sure Yet. But We're Woking On It.wish Us Luck! | Aladdin |
| 9780448479859 | Who Was Galileo? | Demuth, Patricia Brennan, Who HQ | Like Michelangelo, Galileo Is Another Renaissance Great Known Just By His First Name--a Name That Is Synonymous With Scientific Achievement. Born In Pisa, Italy, In The Sixteenth Century, Galileo Contributed To The Era's Great Rebirth Of Knowledge. He Invented A Telescope To Observe The Heavens. From There, Not Even The Sky Was The Limit! He Turned Long-held Notions About The Universe Topsy Turvy With His Support Of A Sun-centric Solar System. Patricia Brennan Demuth Offers A Sympathetic Portrait Of A Brilliant Man Who Lived In A Time When Speaking Scientific Truth To Those In Power Was Still A Dangerous Proposition-- | Penguin Workshop |
| 9780545101288 | Wild Amazon | Lisa L. Ryan-Herndon | Provides information about the unusual animals of the Amazon and the habitats in which they live, discussing the the green anaconda, the giant river otter, and the red howler monkey. |