Mackenzie Bowers' Library
East Montgomery Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780807565285 | The Pet Shop Mystery | Gertrude Chandler Warner | While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals. | Albert Whitman |
| 0590409174 | The Phantom Tollbooth | |||
| 9780545018593 | The Real Deal About Third Grade | Leslie McGuire | Babette doesn't tell the truth all the time. Her teacher, Ms. Sims, thinks of a plan to help Babette tell the truth. | |
| 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. | |
| 9780590203630 | The Stories Julian Tells | Ann Cameron | Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend. | |
| 9780439701679 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | Scholastic |
| 071009004993 | The Tent | |||
| 9780439389952 | The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | For use in schools and libraries only. Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky, but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger. | |
| 9780439872461 | The Trouble with Violet | Anne Mazer | Bestselling Amazing Days of Abby Hayes author Anne Mazer reaches out to younger readers with this magical take on sibling rivalry. 8-year-old Mabel likes her room to be neat, her day to be planned, and her life to be organized. If only she could organize her younger sister! 5-year-old Violet is messy and out of control. Just before Violet starts kindergarten, a surprise visit from mysterious Uncle Vartan exposes a big secret; there's magic in their family. Mable is sure she'll know just how to use her powers. After all, she's used to being mature and responsible. But her orderly world begins to fall apart when she learns she's not the one with magic -- it's adorable, annoying Violet. Life will never be the same! | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780816737185 | The Vampires Went Thataway! | Nancy Lamb, Muff Singer | The members of the Canal Street Club have a chance to be extras in a vampire cowboy film. | Troll Communications |
| 9781416919162 | The Very First Thanksgiving Day | Rhonda Gowler Greene | This is the food, gathered and blessed, the corn and sweet berries, and wild turkey dressed, shared on the very first Thanksgiving Day. Join author Rhonda Gowler Greene and illustrator Susan Gaber on a journey back to the very first Thanksgiving Day, when two societies came together to feast and honor the earth's bounty in peace. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9780439441421 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks shee(tm)son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a womane(tm)s sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds shee(tm)s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined. | Scholastic |
| 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. | |
| 0590426931 | The Woodshed Mystery | Gertrude Chandler Warner | The Boxcar children become involved in a mystery going back to Revolutionary War days. | |
| 9780590335119 | There's an Owl in the Shower | Jean Craighead George | Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees, until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780439188852 | Tigers at Twilight | Mary Pope Osborne | Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals. | |
| 9780375827655 | Toad Heaven | Morris Gleitzman | Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won’t be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head with folding chairs. Limpy’s determined to find this place if it takes him the rest of his life, but his plans are waylaid when he’s kidnapped by some sinister-looking humans and tossed into a bucket. Will Limpy be able to save cane toads? Will he be able to find toad heaven? First he has to get out of the bucket . . . in this hysterically funny sequel to Toad Rage. | Yearling Books |
| 9780679890638 | Tonight on the Titanic | Mary Pope Osborne | The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the decks of that ill-fated ship, the "Titanic". There they help a toddler find her way to a lifeboat before they, themselves, are in grave danger of becoming two more victims of the tragic event. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 0439086728 | Tonight on the Titanic | Mary Pope Osborne | The Magic Treehouse | Random House |