Kara Eastman's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439130257 | Taking Chances | Lauren Brooke | Amy's life has drastically changed. She's found herself taking on the huge responsibility of running Heartland, the horse refuge that was her mother1s life work. The one constant for Amy has been her friendship with Ty, Heartland1s 17-year-old stable hand. But the arrival of a new hand, Ben, throws everything off balance. By the time Amy realizes she1s taken Ty for granted, it could be too late. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780152047375 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton | What happens when a human boy befriends one of the people in a fascinating world where the inhabitants, no taller than a pencil live in a quiet old house and skillfully borrow what they need. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780152047320 | The Borrowers Afield | Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush | The further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields. | HMH Books For Young Readers |
| 9780152047337 | The Borrowers Afloat | Mary Norton | The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield." | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780439507240 | The Danger | Gordon Korman | Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star have a final faceoff with the adults wanting to keep the discovered sunken treasure for themselves, and with the hungry sharks surrounding the riches. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780312367497 | The Gardener | Sarah Stewart | By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting. The Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book. | Square Fish |
| 9780439182980 | The Golden Wasp | Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell | Julie makes a big mistake when she brings a bracelet home from Droon. Now she has upset the balance between worlds -- and strange things are starting to happen. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780439567640 | The Great Ghost Rescue | Eva Ibbotson | A young English boy decides to establish a sanctuary for an assortment of ghosts when the homes they have haunted are replaced by highways and other modern "improvements." | |
| 9780439445566 | The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce | Ann Rinaldi | A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621. | |
| 9781423140566 | The Kane Chronicles, the, Book Two: Throne of Fire | Rick Riordan | Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. | Hyperion |
| 9780439873116 | The Real Slam Dunk | Charisse K. Richardson | Ten-year-old Marcus plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream. | |
| 9780439855839 | The Seasons | John N. Serio | Contains a collection of poems related to the changing seasons. | |
| 9780590108416 | The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | ||
| 9780679858096 | The Shortest Kid in the World | Corinne Demas, Corinne Demas Bliss | Emily the Shrimp is in despair because she is shorter than everybody--even her own little brother. Then a tiny new girl comes to town. Her upbeat attitude teaches Emily that, if you're clever, "shortcomings can become towering assets. "From the Trade Paperback edition. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439692533 | The Slippery Slope | Lemony Snicket | Klaus and Violet attempt to follow their sister, who is trapped by Count Olaf in a car driving fast up the mountain. First they must stop the caravan they are travelling in hurtling over a cliff. | Scholastic |
| 9780545302364 | The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance | Glenn Dakin | Thirteen-year-old Theo, who has lived in seclusion his entire life, discovers he is the descendant of the Candle Man, a Victorian vigilante with the ability to melt criminals with a single touch. | |
| 9780545795937 | The Spider Ring | Andrew Harwell | ||
| 9780064400480 | The Trumpet of the Swan | E. B. White | Harper & Row | |
| 9780545030175 | They're Poets and They Know It! | Meredith Hamilton | ||
| 9781599901268 | Trolls United | Alan MacDonald | Mr. Troll and Mr. Priddle bet on which of their sons will make the school soccer team. | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |