Morgen Culver's Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781593693213 | Really Truly Ruthie | Valerie Tripp | "Ruthie, the beloved best friend of Kit Kittredge, tries to find a way to help the family when she learns that they may be evicted from their house"--Publisher description. | American Girl Publishing Incorporated |
| 9780803734531 | Roar Of A Snore | Marsha Diane Arnold | Dial Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780312376024 | Rosa | Nikki Giovanni | A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement. | Macmillan |
| 9781629798486 | Rosa's Bus | Jo S. Kittinger | Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950's, Bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front and black passengers sat in the back—until Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights movement led by a young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery. | Astra Publishing House |
| 9780374463557 | Rotten Ralph Helps Out | Jack Gantos | "Rotten Ralph is one cat who can make reading fun for kids. And he does!" --Marc Brown Sarah needs a topic for her school project on ancient Egypt. Her rotten red cat, Ralph, thinks history is a bore. Only after he spoils a research trip to the library does Ralph decide to help. According to Sarah, the ancient Egyptians believed cats were wise and had special powers. And Rotten Ralph knows he can prove them right! This antic adventure is the first Rotten Ralph Rotten Reader, a rambunctious new series for beginning readers. | Square Fish |
| 9781609581664 | Saige | Jessie Haas | Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help. | American Girl Publishing Incorporated |
| 9781338337174 | Scarecrow Magic | Ed Masessa | When night falls and the moon appears, magic is in the air and Scarecrow comes alive and plays with all his ghoulish and ghostly friends. | |
| 9780823413737 | Sea Turtles | Gail Gibbons | Dive into the world's oceans to explore the adventurous lives of one of the oldest living animals. Descended from enormous prehistoric creatures, sea turtles are fascinating. Hatched from eggs smaller than a baseball, some can grow to weigh over a thousand pounds. Once adults, they can live to be around 100 years old. And when it's time to nest, they migrate more than 1,000 miles. With colorful, clear illustrations and straightforward text, Gail Gibbons introduces the eight kinds of sea turtles living in the ocean today. Learn the similarities and differences with labeled diagrams and experience the hatching of the tiny turtle babies with detailed illustrations. This updated edition now includes the most up-to-date information about these beloved reptiles, as reviewed by an expert vetter in the field of herpetology. Sea Turtles also gives young readers an accessible overview of how the lives of these large reptiles have become threatened and discusses the conservation efforts currently taking place. Ideal for aspiring oceanographers, this brightly-illustrated book is a perfect introduction to the subject. | Holiday House |
| 9781602860780 | Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 9: the Deadly Race to Space: Russia | Elizabeth Singer Hunt | Destination: Russia. On the eve of the first manned mission to Mars, Secret agent Jack Stalwart learns that the mission's chief rocket engineer has disappeared. When he finds out that engineer is his father, Jack vows the kidnapper will live to regret it. Can Jack keep his cool to save the day? | Running Press Kids |
| 9780545494205 | Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie | Jill Esbaum | Discusses how pumpkins grow, the different varieties of pumpkins, and the many ways people use them. | |
| 9780062699459 | Shaking Things up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World | Susan Hood | "Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women—each paired with a noteworthy female artist—to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada’s Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a prehistoric fossil. You’ll meet Ruby Bridges, the brave six-year-old who helped end segregation in the South. And Maya Lin, who at twenty-one won a competition to create a war memorial, and then had to appear before Congress to defend her right to create. And those are just a few of the young women included in this book. Readers will also hear about Molly Williams, Annette Kellerman, Nellie Bly, Pura Belprè, Frida Kahlo, Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne, Frances Moore Lappè, Mae Jemison, Angela Zhang, and Malala Yousafzai—all whose stories will enthrall and inspire. This book was written, illustrated, edited, and designed by women and includes an author’s note, a timeline, and additional resources. With artwork by notable artists including Selina Alko, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Hadley Hooper, Emily Winfield Martin, Oge Mora, Julie Morstad, Sara Palacios, LeUyen Pham, Erin Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Shadra Strickland, and Melissa Sweet. | HarperCollins |
| 9780688147389 | Sheila Rae, the Brave | Kevin Henkes | Sheila Rae is not afraid of anything. She walks backwards with her eyes closed, steps on every crack, growls at stray dogs, and bares her teeth at stray cats. But when Sheila Rae becomes lost on the way home from school, it is her "scaredy cat" sister, Louise, who shows her a thing or two about bravery and sibling love. | Harper Collins |
| 9780439164566 | Shipwreck | Gordon Korman | The first title in a new survival trilogy introduces six kids who are sent on a boating trip to the Pacific Ocean as a character-building experience. When a terrifying storm hits, the ship is wrecked on an island and only the kids survive. Now that the adults are gone, the quest for survival begins. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439691413 | Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands | Geronimo Stilton, Johnny Stracchino, Mary Fontina | Geronimo's sister Thea convinces him to help her find a haunted pirate treasure buried on a desert island, even thought he hates travel and ghosts. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545603324 | Sink Your Teeth Into Sharks! | L. J. Tracosas | "Look inside the jaws of 20 species of sharks"--Cover. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780316070164 | Sit-In | Andrea Davis Pinkney | ||
| 9780439227766 | Sleepy Bears | Mem Fox | When winter comes, six sleepy bears are rhymed to sleep by Mother Bear. | |
| 9780439158084 | Song Lee in Room 2b | Suzy Kline | Spring becomes a memorable time for Miss Mackle's second-grade classroom because of the antics of Horrible Harry and the special insights of shy Song Lee. | |
| 9780545146050 | Sophie the Hero | Lara Bergen | Reading level: 3, Ages: 7-10. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439217873 | Sounder | William Howard Armstrong | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. |