Joy Coy's Library
Woodlawn Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439914413 | Drums of War | Edith Morris Hemingway, Jacqueline Cosgrove Shields | Charley King, a twelve -year-old boy from Pennsyvania, is caught in the excitment and patriotism of the Civil War. | |
| 9780439133111 | Duke Ellington | Andrea Davis Pinkney | A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category. | |
| 9780545053365 | Dunk Under Pressure | Rich Wallace | Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player. | |
| 9780439881760 | Each Little Bird that Sings | Deborah Wiles | Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger knows a thing or two about death. Her family owns the funeral home and she has attended 247 funerals. | |
| 0590673033 | Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco | |||
| 9780375926709 | Eldest | |||
| 9781590840313 | Ellis Island | Hal Marcovitz | On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island Immigration Center opened in New York Harbor. The first people processed were Europeans who had come to America on ships Nevada, City of Paris, and Victoria. By the time Ellis Island was closed in 1954, more than 12 million immigrants had walked through its gates to make a fresh start in the United States. | |
| 9780439728201 | Enemies of Slavery | David A. Adler | ||
| 0375826688 | Eragon | |||
| 9781499811698 | Escape From . . . the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 | Elaine Berkowitz | Sixth graders Tony and Elizabeth are taking a field trip with their class to the World Trade Center. But when terrorists hijack and fly airplanes into the Twin Towers, they will need to work together in order to survive one of the most horrific attacks on US soil. Tony is excited to start middle school. He's curious to meet new kids and looking forward to the first field trip of the year. Tony's sixth grade class is visiting his dad's office in the World Trade Center, one of the tallest buildings in New York City! Meanwhile, Elizabeth misses her old school and her old friends in Queens. So, the thought of spending a whole day watching her new classmates make jokes and play around on a field trip has her feeling anxious. Then, the unthinkable happens. Airplanes have been flown into each of the World Trade Center buildings, and in an instant the world has turned upside down. Elizabeth and Tony are separated from their class and need to rely on each other to survive one of the worst attacks in American history. | little bee books |
| 0375801545 | Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman | |||
| 9781543575378 | Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport | Emma Carlson Berne | Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life. | |
| 9780439120425 | Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 0590673017 | Facing West A Story of the Oregon Trail | |||
| 9781423106296 | Fairest of All | Serena Valentino | For anyone who’s seen Walt Disney’s Snow White, you’ll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman! After all, it’s not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter’s heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if this sort of thing is a common urge, we don’t know many people who have acted upon it.) Now, for the first time, we’ll examine the life of the Wicked Queen and find out just what it is that makes her so nasty. Here’s a hint: the creepy-looking man in the magic mirror is not just some random spooky visage—and he just might have something to do with the Queen’s wicked ways! /DIVDIV | Disney Press |
| 9781338643084 | For Which We Stand: How Our Government Works and Why It Matters | Jeff Foster | "Now more than ever, it's so important for everyone to understand our government: where it came from, how it works, and how we can bring about change. And, after all, in the words of author and government teacher Jeff Foster, "If you don't participate, you can't complain." This book is a comprehensive and entertaining guide that answers questions like: What is the Constitution? What are the branches of the government? What is the Electoral College? What are the political parties? What are the different responsibilities of the city, state, and federal governments? Plus, discover the complete backstory on some of our government's most important moments, like why we wrote the Declaration of Independence, and how people since then have worked with -- and protested against -- the government to improve the lives of all Americans"-- | |
| 9781338188295 | Four-Four-Two | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | ||
| 0439380820 | Frederick Douglass A Voice for Freedom in the 1800s | |||
| 9780803728608 | Freedom on the Menu | Carole Boston Weatherford | the Greensboro sit-ins | Dial Books for Young Readers |
| 9780689711817 | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |