Michaela Westerman's Library
Kenwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780937295014 | Meet Kirsten | Janet Beeler Shaw | Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854. | Amer Girl Pub |
| 9780590988254 | Midnight on the Moon | Mary Pope Osborne | The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780671775902 | Miss Tizzy | Libba Moore Gray | The neighbors may think Miss Tizzy quite peculiar, but the children love her. They love her colorful house and her colorful clothes, but most of all they love the special attention she pays to them all. Together, they bake cookies, make pictures full of sunshine and butterflies for folks who have stopped smiling, play dress-up, put on puppet shows and parades, or stretch out on bright quilts in Miss Tizzy's backyard of an evening to sing moon songs. When Miss Tizzy becomes ill and takes to her bed, the children know just what to do to let her know she is missed and loved. Here's a picture book certain to touch the hearts of children of any age. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9781606845097 | Missing Monkey! | Mary Amato | Tired of being pressured to help commit crimes and yearning for a more normal life, twins Jillian and Billy band together to do good deeds while their parents kidnap a monkey from the zoo, hoping to teach it to steal. Includes activities. Simultaneous. | Darby Creek |
| 9780439023542 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings of anger and distrust and serve as their pawn. She must accept responsibility for countless lives in order to change the course of the future of Panem. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781574715798 | Monarch Butterfly | David M. Schwartz | Learn about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. | Creative Teaching Press |
| 046594003959 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 9780590629843 | Mummies in the Morning | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. | |
| 9780060822231 | My Weird School #8: Ms. LaGrange Is Strange! | Gutman, Dan | Ms. LaGrange talks funny and she's from some other country called France. She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant. Plus, she's writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes! Ms. LaGrange is the weirdest lunch lady in the history of the world! In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? Will lunchtime ever be the same? Never before has school been this mixed up-or this much fun. Popular author Dan Gutman pulls out all the stops for this right-on second-grade hilarity. Be sure to read all the zany stories in this series: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!; Mr. Klutz Is Nuts!; Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!; Ms. Hannah Is Bananas!; Miss Small Is Off The Wall!; Mr. Hynde Is Out Of His Mind!; and Mrs. Cooney Is Loony! | HarperCollins |
| 9781338680652 | Naomi the Rainbow Glitter Dragon (Dragon Girls #3) | Maddy Mara | Each book in this new series is a high interest, adventure-packed story that follows a girl who discovers that she has an amazing power-she can change into a magical dragon! We are Dragon Girls, hear us roar! Naomi loves being a Glitter Dragon Girl. She can fly above treetops and roar glittery bursts of magic. Best of all, she and the other Glitter Dragons are keeping their beloved Magic Forest safe from the Shadow Sprites. But all is not as it seems in this special place. The Shadow Sprites' power is growing. . . and they may not be alone. Naomi must harness all the dragon magic she's learned to lead the Glitter Dragon Girls against this new threat. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780618968695 | Nascar Below Level Independent Books Unit 4 Level 4 | Social Studies | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 9780545293464 | Night Fires | George Edward Stanley | In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father. | |
| 9780679863717 | Night of the Ninjas | Mary Pope Osborne | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545447249 | No Passengers Beyond This Point | Gennifer Choldenko | With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time. | |
| 9781563974908 | No Such Thing | Jackie French Koller | There is no such thing as a monster, and certainly no such thing as a monster under the bed. That's what Howard's mother tells him. There is no such thing as a boy, and certainly no such thing as a boy on top of a bed. That's what Monster's mother tells him. But no matter what their mothers say, Howard and Monster remain afraid of the dark. Then one spooky night Howard and Monster come face-to-face with each other. Jackie French Koller and Betsy Lewin have created a "monster-under-the-bed" story that offers the perfect cure for fear of the dark. | Archie Comic Publications (Trade) |
| 9780545074735 | No Talking | Andrew Clements | The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. | Thorndike Pr |
| 9780590930031 | No, David! | David Shannon | For use in schools and libraries only. A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug. | |
| 9780439809559 | Nobody Was Here | Alison Pollet | Life in New York in the 1980s is made more difficult for a middle school girl by problems at home and at school. | |
| 9780545812122 | November Night | Ron Roy | Bradley and Brian's new neighbors are up to something! They've built a tall fence in their backyard. They've covered the old hollow tree with a mysterious tarp. They even have a huge, scary dog to guard it. Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy are dying to know what the sneaky couple is hiding. And on the night before Thanksgiving, they're going to find out! | |
| 9780439159630 | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson | At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene. Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller? 1957 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1940¿ 1970 (ALA)1959 William Allen White Award1959 Sequoya Award (Oklahoma)1959 Young Readers' Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association) |