Parris Horsley's Library
West Creek Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780439888196 | Princess Academy 1ST Edition Us | Shannon Hale | From the author of The Goose Girl comes this fabulous tale of a group of mountain girls who find themselves in training as possible royal brides. Talk about a clash of cultures! | Scholastic, Inc |
| 9781524701611 | Purrmaids #1: The Scaredy Cat | Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen | Get totally smitten with mermaid kittens in the first book in this new chapter book series! It’s purrfect for fans of Magic Kitten and the Fairy Animals of Misty Wood series. Coral, Shelly, and Angel are best friends. They love exploring their home in Kittentail Cove. On the first day of sea school, their teacher asks everyone to bring in something special to share with the class. Shelly and Angel can’t wait to visit Tortoiseshell Reef to find an extra-special treasure. But the reef is all the way on the edge of the cove and Coral is scared to swim that far away from home. Can this scaredy-cat learn to be brave? These adorable purrmaids will have young readers paws-itively hooked from page one! | Random House Children's Books |
| 9780545873529 | Recess Is a Jungle! | Jack Chabert | At the end of recess at Eerie Elementary, everything on the school grounds suddenly comes alive and turns into a fog-filled jungle maze intent on trapping and disposing of hall monitor Sam Graves and his friends Antonio and Lucy. | Eerie Elementary |
| 9780545156691 | Secret Identity Crisis | Jake Bell | Sixth grader Nate Banks, who's obsessed with comic books, leads a normal life until he discovers his history teacher may be a superhero.As the three-time winner of the Ultimate Comic Book Trivia Championship of Knowledge, Nate Banks has always been the sixth grade's biggest comic book expert. But when a mysterious new superhero shows up in town, not even Nate knows who she really is. And when he sets out to discover Ultraviolet's secret identity, all of the clues seem to lead Nate to the least likely suspect-his uptight history teacher, Ms. Matthews! Could she really be moonlighting as a super-powered crime fighter? It's up to Nate to find out! | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781534438590 | Seekers Of The Wild Realm | Alexandra Ott | Fablehaven meets How to Train Your Dragon in this action-packed fantasy about a young boy and girl who become reluctant allies when caring for a baby dragon—the first in brand-new duology!Twelve-year-old Bryn has always dreamed of becoming a Seeker, just like her dad. Only the Seekers are allowed to journey from their small village into the fantastical, untamed wilderness of their island known as the Wild Realm. Once there, they obtain magical items for the village and use magic to protect and heal the incredible creatures native to the Realm. When one of the elderly Seekers retires, leaving a vacant position, Bryn knows this may be her chance. There’s just one problem: Only boys have ever been Seekers. And the training master makes it clear he will not be training a girl. But then Bryn’s biggest rival for the Seeker position, a boy named Ari, shows up at her door. He reveals the baby dragon he’s been hiding, and the two strike a deal—if Bryn helps care for the dragon, Ari will share all his training with her. Even as the two bond over their love of magical animals and their secret trips into the Wild Realm, Bryn doesn’t completely trust Ari’s motives. Especially as she suspects Ari may know more than he’s letting on about the enemy clan stirring up unrest in their village. When all these secrets come to a head and the stakes are at their highest, Bryn realizes it’s up to her to save her family…and the Realm. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9781338038842 | Shadows Of Sherwood A Robyn Hoodlum Adventure | Kekla Magoon | When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780545069908 | Snow Monsters Do Drink Hot Chocolate | Marcia Thornton Jones, Debbie Dadey | "It's snowing ... and snowing ... and snowing! Will the snow ever stop? Or does that wild snowboarder have something to do with it?"--Page 2 of cover. | |
| 9781338163902 | Splat! Another Messy Sunday | scholastic | ||
| 9781595665331 | Start Reading Set Books Are Fun Edition | Sally Hewitt | ||
| 9781338815771 | Stink And The Hairy Scary Spider | Megan McDonald | Creepy! Crawly! Criminy! Stink Is Bonkers About Most Scientific Things. But Dangle A Spider In Front Of Him And He Goes Berserk! Stink Is So Freaked Out By Spiders That He Can't Read About Them. He Can't Look At Them. He Can't Think About Them. And He For Sure Can't Touch Them! Stink Has Arachnophobia (a Fear Of Spiders), And He Has It Bad. But When A Hairy Backyard Emergency Arises, Stink Is Forced To Face His Fear--and Eight Beady Eyes--head-on. Will He Manage To Tame The Heebie-jeebies, Or Will He Remain Stuck In His Web Of Tarantulan Terror? -- | |
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| 9780439301831 | Stuart Goes to School | Sara Pennypacker | The first day of school is here, and Stuart is worried. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439566759 | Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. | |
| OS_64381A5330632D00B4564E8D | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume | ||
| 9780545373258 | The 100th Day of School From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | To Celebrate The 100th Day Of School Everyone Must Bring In 100 Of Something. Hubie Can't Decide What To Bring. | Scholastic |
| 9780439847773 | The Abduction | Gordon Korman | Gordon Korman offers another edge-of-your-seat action/adventure in a return to the trilogy format that sold more than 1 million copies of Island, Everest, and Dive. It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister Meg are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? Is it for ransom? As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden's parents? Or is there an even bigger conspiracy at work? While Meg fends off her kidnappers and plans an escape, Aiden must team up with the FBI to try to find her--tracking down clues only a brother could recognize. | Scholastic |
| 9780439895040 | The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room | Patricia Reilly Giff | Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way. | |
| 9780888994165 | The Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis | The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media Ñ the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, or go to school, or work outside the home, the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. She cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to earn money for her family. ParvanaÕs determination to survive is the force that drives this novel set against the backdrop of an intolerable situation brought about by war and religious fanaticism. Deborah Ellis spent several months talking with women and girls in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and Russia. This suspenseful, timely novel is the result of those encounters. Royalties from the sale of The Breadwinner will go toward educating Afghan girls in Pakistani refugee camps. Ò...a potent portrait of life in contemporary Afghanistan, showing that powerful heroines can survive even in the most oppressive ... conditions.Ó Ñ Booklist | Groundwood Books Ltd |
| 9780545149679 | The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street | Sharon G. Flake | Ten-year-old Queen, a spoiled and conceited African American girl who is disliked by most of her classmates, learns a lesson about friendship from an unlikely "knight in shining armor." | |
| 9780439184748 | The Case of the Class Clown | James Preller | When Athena Lorenzo becomes the target of a class clown, she hires Jigsaw and Mila to figure out who is behind the practical jokes. | Scholastic Paperbacks |