Megan Smith's Library
Kirkwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780670011810 | Suzy Kline | Third-grader Harry thinks of a way to patch up a conflict with his schoolmate Mary and include his friends in a fun detective case with rewards for everyone, including Grandpa. | Viking Childrens Books | |
| 9780679869818 | Scott Ciencin | During a mutiny on a prison ship, two boys are tossed overboard and end up stranded on Dinotopia. | Random House Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780689832628 | Patricia C. McKissack | Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack and Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life for a single black mother and her son in this sweet picture book. Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is. He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing, a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma’s spirits. And so it goes until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn’t have to wear an apron and they can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves. | Aladdin | |
| 9780689841040 | Patricia Lakin | A true incident in the life of young Helen Keller in which she gets stuck in a storm and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, rescues her. | Simon and Schuster | |
| 9780688216986 | Beverly Cleary | "Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right. Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard the toy motorcycle left there by a young guest. His thrill ride does not last long. The ringing telephone startles Ralph, and he and the motorcycle take a terrible fall - right to the bottom of a metal wastebasket. Luckily, Keith, the owner of the motorcycle, returns to find his toy. Keith rescues Ralph and teaches him how to ride the bike. Thus begins a great friendship and many awesome adventures. Once a mouse can ride a motorcyle ... almost anything can happen! !--CX001-- | Harper Collins | |
| 9780689851247 | Kirkpatrick Hill | When a new teacher comes to their remote Alaskan town, ten-year-old Frederika and her classmates believe that this teacher will leave as quickly as all the rest, but Miss Agnes is different. | Simon and Schuster | |
| 9780698113817 | Eloise Greenfield | A heartwarming story of a granddaughter's love for her grandfather—a perfect gift for both Father's and Grandparents Day! Tamika loves everything about her grandpa, especially his expressive face. But one day, when Tamika watches Grandpa rehearsing for a play, she sees a different face, one she has never seen before. “Muted realistic paintings complement this story of Tamika, a young girl who grows emotionally through love . . . The carefully chosen combination of visual details and large abstract areas support the notion that love is not always clearly definable.”—School Library Journal “Poet Greenfield tells this warm family story with tenderness and grace, and Cooper makes an outstanding debut. The realistic, full-color double spreads are rich in earth tones and vibrant colors . . . A treasure to set beside [Ann Herbert] Scott’s Sam.”—Kirkus Reviews | Puffin Books | |
| 9780698115972 | Jane O'Connor | Ten-year-old Abby faces two months of summer camp without her best friend. | Puffin Books | |
| 9780698117730 | Tomie dePaola | Tommy's so excited that his mom is having a baby, and he asks her for a baby sister with a red ribbon in her hair. But he didn't ask for stern Nana Fall-River to come while his mom is in the hospital. Tommy and Nana don't get along very well, but when little Maureen is born, all the trouble is forgotten. | Puffin Books | |
| 9780698117914 | Jan Brett | Trolls sure know how to make trouble, but Treva is too smart and wily to fall for their tricks! Treva's trouble with trolls begins when she climbs Mount Baldy with her dog Tuffi. The trolls who live there long for a dog, and they try to kidnap him. But Treva is brave and quick-thinking. She outwits one troll after another until she reaches the very top of the mountain, where five trolls are waiting--and they want her dog! From underground to mountain peak, Jan Brett's story is filled with adventure and eye-catching detail. | Penguin | |
| 9780698118553 | From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems and more. This celebration of the wonder and variety of earth's animals is "joyous...a book to be shared" (Booklist, starred review). | Penguin | ||
| 9780716616023 | Bernice E. Cullinan | Three Little Pigs tells the story of three pigs who each build a house and then have to defend themselves against the big bad wolve. | ||
| 9780721456782 | Dougal Dixon, Unauthored | Illustrated By Julian Baker, Madeline David, Josephine Martin, and Rodger Stewart. | Dutton Juvenile | |
| 9780736426862 | Melissa Lagonegro | When a human captures Tinkerbell, Vidia leads the other fairies to the rescue. | RH/Disney | |
| 9780736428859 | Kitty Richards | Tinker Bell is back in an all-new adventure! Girls ages 5-8 will love reading this Step 3 reader that retells the latest Disney Fairies movie, The Secret of the Wings, releasing on DVD and Blu-ray in fall 2012. | RH/Disney | |
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| 9780746012840 | Susannah Leigh | Puzzle adventure. 7 yrs+ | E.D.C. Publishing | |
| 9780746054086 | Carol Watson, Nick Price | FOXES, STORKS AND THIRSTY CROWS: THEY'RE ALL GATHERED HERE IN A COLLECTION OF EIGHT OF AESOP'S BEST-LOVED TALES. YOU MAY KNOW THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE LION AND THE MOUSE? | USBORNE | |
| 9780746084403 | Lesley Sims | Part of the 'Young Reading Series 2', 'The Wind in the Willows' is a re-telling of the beloved Kenneth Grahame story following the adventures of four riverside companions: Mole, Ratty, Badger and, of course, Mr Toad. | Usborne Publishing Limited | |
| 9780753455760 | David Burnie | Kingfisher |