Melissa Capotosti's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781453064832 | Sharks (Reading Discovery - Nature) | Dalmatian Press | ||
| 9780545112758 | Sharks! | Anne Schreiber | Describes the life cycle and behavior of sharks. | |
| 9781338666366 | Signs of Survival | Renée G. Hartman, Joshua Greene | "Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories"-- | |
| 9780439439619 | Skeleton Man | Joseph Bruchac | After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life. | |
| 9780544873315 | Sled Dog School | Terry Lynn Johnson | When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780399234071 | So You Want to Be President? (CALDECOTT MEDAL BOOK) | St. George, Judith | Presents An Assortment Of Facts About The Qualifications And Characteristics Of U.s. Presidents, From George Washington To Bill Clinton. | Philomel |
| 9780380709267 | Socks | Beverly Cleary | Socks, the Bricker's cat, finds a new rival in the form of the Bricker's new baby, Charles William, until he and the baby become partners in mischief. | Harpercollins Childrens Books |
| 9781250028983 | Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Lisa Graff | For a third grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. She enjoys teaching herself advanced calculus and has performed successful heart surgery on an earthworm. She’s also very clever when it comes to dealing with her clueless parents. But Sophie is no genius when it comes to calculating the high value of friendship—until, that is, she has to use her incredible IQ to help out some classmates with their own parental troubles. | Square Fish |
| 9780553483031 | Space Bingo | Tony Abbott | Sticking out like a sore thumb at his new school, Ned Banks finds his life turning around when he accidentally beams time surfers Roop and Suzi from the year 2099 into his closet. Original. | Yearling Books |
| 9780375806117 | 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. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545849159 | Stink and the Shark Sleepover | Megan McDonald | When Stink's parents win an aquarium sleepover, he and his two friends enjoy a scavenger hunt before trying to fall asleep while worrying about the frankensquid on the loose. | |
| 9781338538717 | Stolen Girl | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch | When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question: who is she, and where was she stolen from. | |
| 9780399255816 | Strega Nona's Harvest | Tomie DePaola | After helping Strega Nona plant her vegetable garden just so, Big Anthony takes some extra seeds and sows another garden willy nilly, then must find a way to deal with the consequences. | |
| 9781338175912 | Talent Showdown | Tracey West | It's Showtime! The stage is set for an explosive Pokmon Talent Showdown! There's a juggling Exeggutor, a singing Charmander-even a dancing Farfetch'd. Ash wants to beat Gary, but he doesn't have an act. And that's not all he has to worry about. Team Rocket's grand finale has the audience glued to their seats and all the Pokmon under their spell! It's curtains for the Pokmon -- unless Ash can steal the show. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780590291439 | The Computer Nut | Betsy Cromer Byars, Guy Byars | Ten-year-old Kate begins a communication exchange on a computer with someone purporting to be from outer space, who says he is going to pay a visit to Earth soon. | |
| 9781338606058 | The Forgotten Girl | India Hill Brown | When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it seems that if Avery gets everything she wants Iris will join her as a ghost, best friends forever. | |
| 9781534467590 | The Hedgehog of Oz | Cory Leonardo | The Wizard of Oz meets The Wind in the Willows in this next middle grade novel from the author of The Simple Art of Flying, in which a theater-dwelling, Oz-loving hedgehog goes on the journey of a lifetime to find his way home in this tale of loyalty, friendship, loss, and hope. Marcel the hedgehog used to live with his beloved owner Dorothy, but since getting hopelessly lost, he’s tried to forget the happy home he left behind. Now, Marcel lives a quiet life in the abandoned balcony of The Emerald City Theater where he subsists on dropped popcorn and the Saturday showings of The Wizard of Oz. But when he’s discovered, Marcel is taken far away from everything he knows and ends up lost once more. His quest to return to The Emerald City Theater leads him to Mousekinland, where he meets Scamp, a tiny mouse armed with enormous spirit (and a trusty sling-shooter). Before long, they’re joined by an old gray squirrel, Ingot, who suffers from bad memories and a broken heart and Tuffy, a baby raccoon lost and afraid in the forest. And the travelers attract the attention of an owl named Wickedwing, who stalks them as they search for the old theater. From field to forest, glittering theatre to the gutter, the animals’ road home is a dark and winding journey. But sometimes you need to get a little lost before you can be found. | Aladdin |
| 9780763679736 | The History of Money | Martin Jenkins | “A snappy course in the evolution of exchange. . . . Thoughtful and entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews What can take the form of a stone with a hole in the middle, a string of shells, a piece of paper, or a plastic card? The answer is money, of course. But when did we start using it? And why? What does money have to do with writing? And how do taxes and interest work? From the Stone Age to modern banking, Martin Jenkins and Satoshi Kitamura take readers on a fascinating tour of the history of money. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780545689403 | The Knight at Dawn | Mary Pope Osborne | Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight. | |
| 9780545427135 | The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin | Joe Troiano | Spookley is ridiculed for his odd shape until his uniqueness saves the day. |