Rachel Evans' Library
Woodlawn Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781328851024 | Earth | Steve Jenkins | "How old is the earth? Where is the ice three miles thick? Why are volcanoes so dangerous? Where are the wettest and driest spots on the planet? Find the answers to these questions--and many more--in Earth by the numbers."-- | HMH Books For Young Readers |
| 9780805044553 | Emmett's Snowball | Ned Miller | Emmett's snowball gets so big that he needs more and more friends to help push it. | Owlet Paperbacks |
| 9781499811087 | Escape From . . . Hurricane Katrina | Judy Allen Dodson | Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms in American history. In this fictional tale, daring twins Jo Jo and Sophie battle the raging floodwaters in a fight for their lives. For twins Jo Jo and Sophie Dupre, Hurricane Katrina isn't the most important thing on their minds-not compared their mother's cancer treatments, Sophie's swim meet, and Jo Jo's upcoming coding competition. But when the storm intensifies and there's only one seat their aunt's car, Mom has to be the one to evacuate. The twins and their father are stuck at home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The winds rise-and with them, the waves. The levees break and floodwater rages through the city. During the chaos, Jo Jo and Sophie are swept away. Together, they must find their way to the Superdome, where their father should be waiting-but can they escape the wrath of one of the deadliest storms in history? | little bee books |
| 9781499811070 | Escape From . . . Pompeii | Benjamin Richmond | Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt, threatening to destroy the city of Pompeii and everyone who lives there. Will new friends Thalia and Felix be able to escape, or are they destined to be buried under rock and ash? Thalia is excited to visit the bustling city of Pompeii, while Felix longs to leave it. As Thalia prepares to perform with her traveling troupe of actors, Felix is searching for a life of adventure away from his strict, politician father. Despite living such different lives, when their paths cross, they quickly become friends. Meanwhile, deep in the heart of Mount Vesuvius, a lethal fire is brewing. In its shadow, Pompeii awaits total destruction. The ground shakes, and the mountain rumbles. But when the volcano roars and clouds of ash rain down upon the city, will Thalia and Felix manage to escape one of the deadliest natural disasters in history? | little bee books |
| 9781499811698 | Escape From . . . the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 | Elaine Berkowitz | Sixth graders Tony and Elizabeth are taking a field trip with their class to the World Trade Center. But when terrorists hijack and fly airplanes into the Twin Towers, they will need to work together in order to survive one of the most horrific attacks on US soil. Tony is excited to start middle school. He's curious to meet new kids and looking forward to the first field trip of the year. Tony's sixth grade class is visiting his dad's office in the World Trade Center, one of the tallest buildings in New York City! Meanwhile, Elizabeth misses her old school and her old friends in Queens. So, the thought of spending a whole day watching her new classmates make jokes and play around on a field trip has her feeling anxious. Then, the unthinkable happens. Airplanes have been flown into each of the World Trade Center buildings, and in an instant the world has turned upside down. Elizabeth and Tony are separated from their class and need to rely on each other to survive one of the worst attacks in American history. | little bee books |
| 9781499811063 | Escape From . . . the Titanic | Mary Kay Carson | Patrick is an Irish bellboy working on the Titanic to help his family back home. Sarah is a passenger excited to return to America. Neither of them knows that they are about to embark on the most dangerous trip of their lives. The unsinkable Titanic is not quite what Sarah expected. Instead of dining with movie stars, she finds herself having more fun in steerage with the family of her new friend, Patrick, a bellboy. He shows her all the secrets that the greatest ship in the world has to offer, like heated swimming pools and first-class cabins. But then . . . disaster! The ship crashes into an iceberg, and water begins rushing into the lower decks. The Titanic is going down fast-into the deep, icy Atlantic. Can Sarah find her new friends in time? Can Patrick do his duty and also save himself? Will either of them manage to escape one of the deadliest shipwrecks in history? | little bee books |
| 9780307931474 | Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library | Chris Grabenstein | Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape. | Yearling |
| 9780395732335 | Everybody Cooks Rice | Norah Dooley | A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited. | Holt McDougal |
| 9780838833643 | Exploring Mars | John Lockyer | Find out how scientists are finding out about Mars through space probe expeditions and robots. | |
| 9781426306976 | Face to Face with Whales | Flip Nicklin, Linda Nicklin | Close-up photographs and personal stories of encounters with whales by the authors. | National Geographic Books |
| 9781595668967 | Farmyard Friends Pack Scholbc | Camilla De la Bédoyère | ||
| 9780064440141 | Father Bear Comes Home Book and Tape | Else Holmelund Minarik | Little Bear and his friends are on hand to welcome Father Bear home from his fishing trip. ‘Little Bear has endeared himself as a character with irresistible, child-like charm.’ —H. Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA) 1960 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1959 (NYT) | HarperFestival |
| 9780736425070 | Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster | Laura Driscoll | Fawn and her best friend, fellow animal-talent fairy Beck, get into an all-out "pranking battle" before realizing that someone else may be getting in on the fun. | RH/Disney |
| 9780736424172 | Fira and the Full Moon | Gail Herman | Fira, a light-talent fairy, makes it her mission to help anyone she can, but all that volunteering wears her down, just when her light is needed most--on an underground mining expedition. Original. | RH/Disney |
| 9780590469449 | Fireflies | Caroline Arnold | Scholastic | |
| 9780439598460 | First Pets | Nell Fuqua, Michelle Martin | Find out how hundreds of animals have brought love and devotion to our first families, from dogs to badgers and snakes to hippos. | |
| 9781783123742 | Football Superstars 2018 | Jon Richards | Come face to face with the NFL's star players! Get the lowdown on 20 of the 2018 season's top athletes. Discover amazing facts, stats, and records, plus vital info about each player's style and technique. Football Superstars 2018 is your ultimate companion as the season progresses toward the Super Bowl. | |
| 9780439649841 | Freddy in Peril | Dietlof Reiche | A cat, two guinea pigs, and a colony of brave sewer rats band together in order to save Freddy, a golden hamster, from an evil scientist who's discovered that Freddy can read and write, and plans to hamster-nap him in order to dissect his brain. | |
| 9780689878299 | Freedom Summer | Deborah Wiles | John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me. He's not allowed. Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts. | Aladdin |
| 9781426326400 | Fun & Games Almanac | For all you gamers out there, the creators of the best-selling National Geographic kids almanac have created this special edition just for you! You'll spend hours playing these hilarious games--and you'll be getting smarter, too! -- Back cover. |