Michaela Westerman's Library
Kenwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780590402279 | Whale and Dolphin | Vincent Serventy | Shows the whale and dolphin in their natural surroundings and describes their life and struggle for survival. | Scholastic |
| 9780618481972 | What Grows There? | Jan Mader | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 9780865058866 | What Is a Life Cycle? | Bobbie Kalman, Jacqueline Langille | Introduces the life cycles of plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, and humans, discussing birth, growth, parental care, and reproduction. | Crabtree Publishing Company |
| 9780865059641 | What Is Hibernation? | John Crossingham, Bobbie Kalman | Hibernation is one of nature's greatest miracles, allowing animals to sleep through periods of extreme cold and heat. Interesting information describes how different animals use body fat to survive, how they can wake themselves up, and how some give birth during hibernation. | New York ; St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub. |
| 9780865058897 | What Is the Animal Kingdom? | Bobbie Kalman, Greg Nickles | Introduces the animal kingdom, showing and describing the main groups of animals and discussing their anatomy, habitats, reproduction, and classification. | New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| 9780022858919 | What on Earth Is a Platypus? | Christina Wilsdon | ||
| 9780022835460 | What on Earth Is a Platypus? | Christina Wilsdon | Macmillan / McGraw-Hill | |
| 9780022858957 | What's the Matter? | Sandy Damashek | ||
| 9781338137224 | Where Is Alcatraz? | Nico Medina | "Escape from the ordinary and break into Alcatraz, America's most famous prison! The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascinated visitors, from the Native American tribes who believed it was home to evil spirits to the Spanish explorers who discovered the island. In modern times, it was a federal prison for only 29 years, but now draws over a million visitors each year. Learn the history of America's most famous prison, from its initial construction as a fort in the 1800s, to its most famous residents such as Al Capone and 'Machine Gun' Kelly. Where Is Alcatraz? also chronicles some of the most exciting escape attempts--even one that involved chipping through stone with spoons and constructing rafts out of raincoats!"-- | |
| 9781338557213 | Where Is Area 51? | Paula Manzanero | Describes the isolated Nevada air base known as Area 51, covering its use for testing top-secret aircraft, and discusses speculation about a connection to unidentified flying objects. | |
| 9781338237597 | Where Is Stonehenge? | True Kelley | "Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious site to honor the dead? Or a sacred place of healing? Or perhaps an astrological calendar? These are much harder questions to answer. However, in an engaging and easy-to-read account, True Kelley puts forth all theories--past as well as current ones--about Stonehenge and the people who four thousand years ago managed to build this amazing monument."--Provided by publisher. | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 9781338557190 | Where Is the Bermuda Triangle? | Megan Stine | "Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic reputation. The Bermuda Triangle became famous for making boats and ships vanish, and for snatching planes right out of the sky. But are these stories true? And if they are true, is there a more sensible reason that refutes the bad karma of the region? With so many mystifying events to learn about, readers will love disappearing into this story"-- | |
| 9780064431781 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king. | Harper Collins |
| 9780439236195 | White Fang | Jack London | The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780545120487 | White House White-Out | Ron Roy | When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit Washington, D.C., just before Christmas, they are inadvertently caught up in a kidnapping plot that was intended for the president's dog, but also involves the president's stepdaughter and her friend Marshall. | |
| 9780439711685 | White Star | Marty Crisp | Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic's maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner. | Scholastic |
| 9780316247719 | Who Could that Be at This Hour? | Lemony Snicket | Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue. | |
| 9780448433196 | Who Was Mark Twain? | April Jones Prince | Presents the life of Mark Twain, a steamboat pilot who became the great American humorist and writer of the 19th century. | Penguin Workshop |
| 9780590464727 | Who's that Stepping on Plymouth Rock? | Jean Fritz | Relates the history of Plymouth Rock since the Pilgrims first landed on it to the present day. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780022858889 | Why Does It Rain? | Daniel Greenberg |