Joy Coy's Library
Woodlawn Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781338681604 | Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters | Dan Sasuweh Jones | Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations. Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-two short stories -- from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday -- are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, la llorona, and deer woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone. Dan SaSuWeh Jones of the Ponca Nation tells of his own encounters and selects his favorite spooky, eerie, surprising, and spine-tingling stories, all paired with haunting art by Weshoyot Alvitre of the Tongva Nation. So dim the lights (or maybe turn them all on) and pick up a story...if you dare. | Scholastic Nonfiction |
| 9781481450256 | Lu | Jason Reynolds | “Pure gold.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “The perfect anchor leg for a well-run literary relay.” —Kirkus Reviews Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds. Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that’s got nothing to do with being a track star. Lu has swagger, plus the talent to back it up, and with all that—not to mention the gold chains and diamond earrings—no one’s gonna outshine him. Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu’s way—literally and not-so-literally—and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means. Expect the unexpected in this final event in Jason Reynold’s award-winning and bestselling Track series. | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| 0590672975 | M.C. Higgins, the Great | |||
| 9780316809061 | Maniac Magee | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 9780816744602 | Many Nations | Joseph Bruchac | A collection of children's books on the Alphabet. | Troll Communications |
| 9780439405119 | Martin's Big Words | Doreen Rappaport | A brief biographical sketch of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest figures in the American civil rights movement. | |
| 9781523507719 | Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring | Enigma Alberti | Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring introduces an exciting interactive series for middle grade readers—Spy on History, where the reader gets to experience history in a whole new way, now in paperback. Meet Mary Bowser, an African American spy who was able to infiltrate the Confederate leadership at the highest level. Enigma Alberti dramatizes Mary Bowser’s suspenseful story—how she pretended to be illiterate, how she masterfully evaded detection, how she used her photographic memory to “copy” critical documents. Using spycraft materials included in a sealed envelope inside the book, a canny reader will be able to discover and unravel clues embedded in the text and illustrations, and solve the book’s ultimate mystery: Where did Mary hide her secret diary? | Workman Publishing Company |
| 0439207304 | Mary on Horseback | |||
| 9781338756838 | Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop The Sanitation Strike of 1968 | |||
| 9780618404414 | Messenger | Lois Lowry | Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that welcomed strangers, Village will soon be cut off to all outsiders. As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village’s closing and try to convince Seer’s daughter Kira to return with him before it’s too late. But Forest is now hostile to Matty, too, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it. Messenger is the masterful third novel in Lois Lowry’s Giver Quartet, which includes The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Son—all newly designed! | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780061827396 | Michelle | Deborah Hopkinson | An inspiring picture book biography of our First Lady. | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 0553159925 | Mississippi Bridge | |||
| 9780439775281 | More Perfect than the Moon | Patricia MacLachlan | Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her. | |
| 0439140609 | Morning Girl | |||
| 9780590865258 | Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | G. Clifton Wisler | Recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer, who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. | |
| 9780545284073 | Mudshark | Gary Paulsen | Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark. | |
| 0590420585 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | |||
| 0590962264 | Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure | |||
| 0439372909 | My America A Poetry Atlas of the United States | |||
| 9781338610727 | My Year in the Middle | Lila Quintero Weaver | "Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along with everyone in her class. The trouble is, Lu's old friends have been changing lately -- acting boy-crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow runner Belinda Gresham, but in 1970 Red Grove, Alabama, blacks and whites don't mix. As segregationist ex-governor George Wallace ramps up his campaign against the current governor, Albert Brewer, growing tensions in the state -- and in the classroom -- mean that Lu can't stay neutral about the racial divide at school. Will Lu find the gumption to stand up for what's right -- and to choose friends who do the same?"--Back cover. |