Morgen Culver's Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780062110664 | Pete the Cat: Play Ball! | James Dean | New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean takes readers along for a fun, groovy adventure with Pete the Cat! Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete’s team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn’t go Pete’s way, what will Pete do? Pete the Cat: Play Ball! is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child. | HarperCollins |
| 9780062303851 | Pete the Cat's Train Trip | James Dean | Pete the Cat is back in New York Times bestselling artist James Dean's beginning reader Pete the Cat's Train Trip. Pete can't wait to visit Grandma, especially because he gets to take a train ride to see her! The conductor gives Pete a tour of the train, and Pete gets to see the engine and honk the horn. Pete even makes new friends and plays games on board. What a cool ride! Pete the Cat's Train Trip is a My First I Can Read Book, which means it's perfect for shared reading with a child. Fans of Pete the Cat will delight as Pete takes the grooviest train trip in this hilarious I Can Read adventure. | HarperCollins |
| 9780590477611 | Peter Cottontail | Amanda Stephens | Charming, full-color illustrations and a delightful text follow a happy bunny in a tale that describes how the great tradition of hunting for Easter eggs began. Reissue. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780140564419 | Peter's Chair | Ezra Jack Keats | From the Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats, Peter's Chair is a picture book classic about a sibling rivalry. Peter, the hero of many of Ezra Jack Keats' award-winning books, has a new baby sister. When she arrives, his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for the new baby. There's only one thing they haven't painted yet, though: his little blue chair. He'll do whatever it takes to save it—even run away! This is a gentle and reassuring story about sibling rivalry and a perfect gift for any family expecting a new baby. | Penguin |
| 9781328740502 | Pinduli | Janell Cannon | From the creator of the bestselling classic "Stellaluna" comes this triumphant story of an endearing young hyena who learns about self-image, self-acceptance, and treating others with respect. Full color. | Clarion Books |
| 9780590016551 | Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether Pippi's scrubbing floors, doing arithmetic, or stirring things up at a fancy tea party, her flair for the outrageous always seems to lead to another adventure. | |
| 9780545206303 | Pirates Go to School | Corinne Demas, J. C. Haze, Lemon Krasny, Brian McNamee, Tristan Olly, Listen Inn | A rhyming tale of pirates who go to school accompanied by their parrots, learn arithmetic and letters, and want to hear sea stories at storytime. | |
| 9780590629850 | Pirates Past Noon | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie travel to the time of pirates and buried treasure. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780439098328 | Plenty of Penguins | Sonia W. Black, Turi MacCombie | Illustrations and brief text describe different kinds of penguins. | Cartwheel Books |
| 9780399255748 | Pretend | Jennifer Plecas | A father and son embark on an imaginary adventure and discover how much they love each other. | |
| 9780778717744 | Protecting Earth's Surface | Natalie Hyde | Earth's surface is constantly being changed by heat, water, ice, salt, plants, and animals. Sometimes the changes are destructive to human activities such as farming and the building of structures. This interesting title shows the different ways people try to stop or reduce this change in the land. Examples feature such structures as dikes to hold back water and windbreaks, and adding shrubs, grass, and trees to an area of land to prevent erosion. Teacher's guide available. | Earth's Processes Close-Up |
| 9780545034555 | Pugsley | Ellen Miles | Charles and LIzzie Peterson find homes for animals and the next one is for a pesty pug named Pugsley. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780807566657 | Pumpkin Jack | In the course of one year, a jack-o-lantern, discarded after Halloween, decomposes in the backyard and eventually grows new pumpkins from its seeds. | Albert Whitman & Company | |
| 9780590687300 | Ralph S. Mouse | Beverly Cleary | In this third and final Mouse novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, Ralph heads to school to see what humans do all day . . . and to discover what the S in Ralph S. Mouse stands for With his rowdy cousins constantly wearing out his motorcycle and the Mountain View Inn manager threatening to take care of the mouse infestation once and for all, Ralph decides it's time to get away for a while. He convinces his human friend Ryan to take him along to school, where Ralph instantly becomes the center of attention. But when Ryan's class decides to see how smart Ralph is by making him run a maze, the usually confident mouse starts to fret. What if he's not as clever as he thought? Supports the Common Core State Standards | |
| 9780153052057 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade. | Harcourt Brace College Publishers |
| 9780439219631 | Ramona's World | Beverly Cleary | Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class. | |
| 9780763687748 | Randy Riley's Really Big Hit | Chris Van Dusen | “With all the bases covered — musical text, entertaining artwork, and surefire subject matter — this title bats 1,000 for group or lapsit read-alouds.” — School Library Journal Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. Then, one night, Randy sees something shocking through his Space Boy telescope: it’s a fireball, and it’s headed right for his town! Randy does the math, summons all his science smarts, and devises a plan that will save the day in a spectacular way. Once again, with visual humor, dizzying perspectives, perfect pacing, and rollicking rhyme, Chris Van Dusen delivers a hit that will make readers stand up and cheer. | National Geographic Books |
| 9781402784446 | Rango | Annie Auerbach | When Rango, a lost pet chameleon, stumbles into the town of Dirt, Bad Bill the gila monster and his gang threaten him, and Rango must face a showdown with Bill and a dangerous hawk. | Sterling |
| 9780736423755 | Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon | Lisa Papademetriou | Since cutting off her wings to save Never Land, Rani, a water-talent fairy, feels out of place with the fairies and wonders if she should live with the mermaids instead. | RH/Disney |
| 9781609584634 | Read All About It | Valerie Tripp | When Kit's family has to take in boarders, it seems as if they may be able to keep their house although her father lost his business, but the changes put a strain on Kit's friendship with Ruthie, especially as Kit spends her days helping cranky Uncle Hendrick. | American Girl: Beforever |