Laura Wicks' Library
Norman Smith Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780843105896 | Morgan and Yew | Stephen Cosgrove | A sheep wishes for a horn like his unicorn friend has, but it costs him more than he can bear. | Price Stern Sloan |
| 9780843105919 | Morgan Morning | Stephen Cosgrove | When the young horse, Morgan, is swept over a waterfall and breaks his leg, he is rescued by a magical unicorn, who changes Morgan into a unicorn. | Price Stern Sloan |
| 9780890847060 | Mountain Born | Elizabeth Yates | Wolves, weather, a black lamb, a trusty dog--all are part of Peter's life on a mountain farm. His best friend is Benj, a wise old shepherd, and Benj teaches him to care for the sprightly lamb that becomes his own special pet, his cosset. As Biddy grows into her place as leader of the flock, Peter grows too, learning the skills and joys of the shepherd's life. Book jacket. | Pennant |
| 0689710682 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh | Robert C. O'Brien | Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service. | Aladdin |
| 046594003959 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 9780545270489 | Nia the Night Owl Fairy | Daisy Meadows | When Jack Frost's goblins steal the night fairies' special bags of magic dust and the forest creatures do not know when to sleep, Kirsty and Rachel must help Nia the Night Owl Fairy set things right again. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780380719075 | Nothing but the Truth | Avi | A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. | Harper Collins |
| 9780802774033 | Old Ramon | Jack Schaefer | Jack Schaefer, author of the classic Shane, has written a timeless story about the friendship of a wise old shepherd and a young boy set in the Mojave Desert. | Walker Childrens |
| 9780141303123 | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Bette Greene | Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder. | Puffin |
| 9012900399 | Revolutionary War on Wednesday | Mary Pope Osborne | The Magic Treehouse | Random House |
| 9780545571722 | Sabertooths and the Ice Age | Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce | What was it like to live in the Ice Age and why was the world so cold? Who made the first cave paintings? What ever happened to sabertooth cats and wooly mammoths? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Sabertooths and the Ice Age, Jack and Annie's guide to unlocking the mysteries of the Ice Age! This is the nonfiction companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth. A great place to begin research for a report. | |
| 9780689835827 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. | New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International Publishing Group |
| 9780545220774 | Sienna the Saturday Fairy | Daisy Meadows | Jack Frost is going to steal the fairies' magic before the fashion show unless Rachel and Kirsty help out. | |
| 9780060935481 | Sounder | William H. Armstrong | A timeless classic, winner of the John Newberry Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder is a novel that tells of the courage and love that bind a black family together despite the extreme prejudice and inhumanity it faces in the Deep South . | Harper Collins |
| 9780439448062 | Stage Fright on a Summer Night | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear. | |
| 046594003508 | Stuart Little | E.B.White | ||
| 9780689710810 | Sugaring Time | Kathryn Lasky | Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780439227476 | Sunset of the Sabertooth | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. | |
| 9780545220736 | Tara the Tuesday Fairy | Daisy Meadows | Rachel and Kirsty must help Tara, the Tuesday fairy, find her magic flag so that everyone can have a good time at Field Day at Rachel's school. | |
| 9780679881681 | The Absent Author | Ron Roy | Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace. | Random House Books for Young Readers |