Joanna Newsome's Library
Rossview Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439697385 | Pleasing the Ghost | Sharon Creech | Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business. | |
| 9780060526337 | Roxaboxen | Alice McLerran | Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo -- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination. In glowing desert hues, artist Barbara Cooney has caught the magic of Alice McLerran's treasured land of Roxaboxen -- a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is. | Harper Collins |
| 9781338110791 | Save Me a Seat | Sarah Weeks | Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives. | |
| 9780531070314 | Shoes From Grandpa | Mem Fox | 'Jessie, an active girl of nine or so, is growing out of her clothes, and all of the members of her large and loving family get carried away in their eagerness to provide her with a new wardrobe. . . As each of Jessie's relatives gets into the act, the rhythmic cumulative tale builds momentum. . . Finally . . . she tactfully speaks her mind: 'You're all so kind that I hate to be mean, but please, would one of you buy me some jeans?' Youngsters will enjoy seeing Jessie's free spirit gently triumph.' | Orchard Books (NY) |
| 9780439095105 | Stone Fox | John Reynolds Gardiner | Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. | |
| 9780545289382 | The Birthday Party of No Return! | R. L. Stine | In order to win a scholarship to summer sports camp, Lee Hargrove plans to change his rival Cory "Lucky Duck" Duckworth's good luck streak with a birthday present he will never forget. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780590426909 | The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Describes episodes about children who make a boxcar their home. | |
| 9780439192811 | The Bunyans | Audrey Wood | Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments. | Scholastic |
| 9780545071925 | The Chocolate-Covered Worms | Barbara Seuling | When Robert's teacher assigns the class to write reports on things weird and horrible, the funs begins! | |
| 9780064432795 | The Egyptian Cinderella | Shirley Climo | In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen. | Harper Collins |
| 9780439204217 | The Great Shark Escape | Jennifer Johnston | What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class about different shark species, including the goblin shark, angel shark, and the enormous whale shark. Illustrations. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439685153 | The Hero of Third Grade | Alice DeLaCroix | When Randall changes to a new school, he pretends to be an anonymous hero until, when his third grade class plans a fundraiser, he finds that being himself is good enough. | |
| 9780448452463 | The Holocron Heist | Rob Valois | "The ruthless Cad Bane has snuck into the Jedi Temple. With the fate of the galaxy in question will Ahsoka be able to stop this bounty hunter before he can make off with a secret Holocron that could bring an end to the Jedi forever?"--Page 4 of cover. | |
| 9780545598125 | The Last Holiday Concert | Andrew Clements | ||
| 9781419736025 | The Posh Puppy Pageant (Jojo and Bowbow #3) | JoJo Siwa | "JoJo Siwa and her cute and furry sidekick, BowBow . . . take down bullies and spread the Siwanator message: Kindness, fun, and doing what's right are what matter most!"-- | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780531147849 | The Presidency | Christine Taylor-Butler | Examines the status and many duties of the presidency, discussing its history and some of the men who have filled the political office in the past. | Childrens Press |
| 071009004993 | The Tent | |||
| 9780545105811 | The White Giraffe | Lauren St. John | After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe. | |
| 9781453064603 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Suzi Alexander | After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard to return to Kansas. | |
| 9781338349245 | Tracker | Gary Paulsen | Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and hating his role as hunter. |