Mariel Tomes' Library
Glenellen Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS_644057E0FCEDC800B5853E9E | The Big Balloon Race | Eleanor Coerr | ||
| The Boxcar Children The Mystery At The Alamo | ||||
| 9780689856747 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Rugged, outdoor story of the sled dog Buck, who, mistreated by his master, breaks free to roam the Alaskan wilderness. | Aladdin Paperbacks |
| The Cat In The Hat Movie Storybook | ||||
| 9780439930109 | The Chestnut Soldier (The Magician Trlogy) | Jenny Nimmo | The thrilling conclusion to magician Gwyn's epic battle against evil!Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who lived long ago. When Gwyn discovers that the prince's dark soul has escaped from the horse and is seeking revenge Gwyn, Emlyn, and Nia have to figure out how to save the mysterious soldier who claims to be Nia's distant cousin. With the help of the Snow Spider, can they recapture the prince's soul without hurting the Chestnut soldier?Nimmo's fast-paced page turner fantasies appeal to boys and girls with its magical adventures. | Orchard Books |
| 9780590025706 | The Classroom at the End of the Hall | Douglas Evans | In nine stories about the peculiar happenings at W. T. Melon Elementary, Roger is granted three wishes by a chalk dust genie, tidy Emily meets the Messy Desk Pest, and more. Reprint. | Apple |
| 9780385738781 | The Death Cure | James Dashner | As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus. | Random House Digital, Inc. |
| 9780439114943 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Barbara Kerley | Introduces the true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like. | Scholastic Inc. |
| The Door In The Wall | ||||
| 9780593121252 | The Elephant's Girl | Celesta Rimington | ||
| 9780440422297 | The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School | Candace Fleming | Here's a chapter book of contemporary fables about a rambunctious group of fourth graders and their amazing teacher—the globe-trotting, Mayan-ceremonial-robe-wearing Mr. Jupiter—that is sure to delight students and teachers alike. Kids will laugh out loud as they learn tried-and-true lessons in this funny, fast-paced book. The fourth graders at Aesop Elementary are, well, unusual. There's Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten. But when he actually gets the chance, he's forced to do the squirrel dance and wear a school bus name tag. The moral of his story? Be careful what you wish for. Then there's Amisha Spelwadi, who can spell wildebeest, no problem. But when Mr. Jupiter asks the class to spell cat, all Amisha can come up with is kat. The moral: Don't count your chickens before they hatch. And don't miss the class's continued adventures in The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming. | National Geographic Books |
| The Fear Place | ||||
| 9780425287477 | The First Strawberries | A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth. | ||
| The Gator Girls | ||||
| 9781616205676 | The Girl Who Drank The Moon (Winner Of The 2017 Newbery Medal) | Kelly Barnhill | Winner of the 2017 Newbery MedalThe New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016Named to KirkusReviews’ Best Books of 20162017 Booklist Youth Editors’ ChoiceEvery year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge--with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . .The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy. | Workman Publishing Company |
| 9780448089096 | The Great Airport Mystery | Franklin W. Dixon | Frank and Joe find themselves on an uninhabited Caribbean island when they follow clues left by a gang of platinum thieves. | |
| The Haunting Of Freddy | ||||
| 9781338346466 | The Haunting of Hounds Hollow | Jeffrey Salane | "Twelve-year-old Lucas Trainer does not want to move from the city to the town of Hounds Hollow, and the giant manor in the middle of nowhere that his mother just inherited, but he and his CPAP machine have no choice; however he soon finds that this town is not really the boring village he imagined--people have been disappearing, ghostly dogs prowl the woods at night, and Sweetwater Manor hides a family secret that Lucas and his new friends, Bess and Lens, have to discover before it kills them." -- | |
| 9781338244724 | The Hidden Oracle | Rick Riordan | How Do You Punish An Immortal? By Making Him Human. After Angering His Father Zeus, The God Apollo Is Cast Down From Olympus. Weak And Disoriented, He Lands In New York City As A Regular Teenage Boy. Now, Without His Godly Powers, The Four-thousand-year-old Deity Must Learn To Survive In The Modern World Until He Can Somehow Find A Way To Regain Zeus's Favor. | |
| 9780763664268 | The Incredible Shrinking Kid | Megan McDonald, Peter Reynolds | The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. | Candlewick Press |