Rebecca Robertson's Library
Byrns L. Darden Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780516204420 | The Hubble Space Telescope | Diane M. Sipiera, Paul P. Sipiera | Describes how the Hubble Space Telescope was placed into orbit and how it has brought us more information about outer space. | Childrens Press |
| 9780545251860 | The Intrepid Canadian Expedition | Sara Pennypacker, Jeff Brown | While acting as a snowboard, Stanley Lambchop gets carried away by a strong wind, sending him and his new friend Nick on a cross-country Canadian adventure. | |
| 9780545291514 | The Invasion | Katherine Applegate | Endowed by a dying alien with the power to morph into any animal they touch, friends Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco investigate the wonders of the world with their unusual powers. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781582464503 | The Invisible Boy | Trudy Ludwig | Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes. | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 9780316017763 | The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters | Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg | A collection of letters from famous fairy-tale characters features an apology from Goldilocks to the Three Bears, an advertisement for the Wicked Witch from Hobgoblin Supplies Ltd., and other correspondence delivered by the Jolly Postman. | Little Brown & Company |
| 9780399250781 | The Junkyard Wonders | Patricia Polacco | Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders." | Penguin |
| 9780064433976 | The Korean Cinderella | Shirley Climo | ‘Climo and Heller conflate several Korean variants of Cinderella to offer up the story of Pear Blossom, a lovely girl who is sorely mistreated by her nasty stepmother and stepsister.… At once comfortingly familiar and intriguingly exotic, the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words.’—Publishers Weekly. ‘Heller’s paintings are exotically lush and colorful as well as engaging.… An agreeable retelling of the Cinderella story.’ —BL. Notable 1994 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) | Harper Collins |
| 9780545598125 | The Last Holiday Concert | Andrew Clements | ||
| 0590426036 | The Legend of the Bluebonnet | A retelling of the Comanche Indiana legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas. Grade 4.2; Points 0.5. | Scholastic | |
| 9780698113602 | The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush | Little Gopher follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth. | Puffin Books | |
| 9780439871624 | The Little League Team From the Black Lagoon | Mike Thaler | With everyone excited about baseball tryouts, Hubie hopes that practice and a new mitten nicknamed Grabber will help him make the team. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780978510046 | The Little Man in the Map | Elod Andrew Martonyi | Elementary school children identify the shapes formed by U.S. state boundaries in this rhyming story that teaches mnemonic devices for learning the names and locations of the fifty states. | |
| 9780590463829 | The Lucky Baseball Bat | Matt Christopher | Marty loses his lucky baseball bat, and his confidence along with it, and wonders if he will recover both in time to help the Tigers win the championship. | |
| 9780590132053 | The Magic Finger | Roald Dahl | Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an 8-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them. | |
| 9781481432870 | The Map Trap | Sixth-grader Alton Ziegler loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them. | ||
| 9780399219207 | The Mitten | Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780394804248 | The Most Beautiful Place in the World | Ann Cameron | "Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Finally gathering his courage, he is surprised when she not only agrees to send him to school but also chides him about the importance of standing up for himself. Juan tells this bittersweet story, which reads smoothly and powerfully on several levels, with warmth and dignity."--Booklist. | National Geographic Books |
| 9781554537044 | The Most Magnificent Thing | Ashley Spires | Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. “She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy-peasy!” But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl tries and fails, repeatedly. Eventually, the girl gets really, really mad. She is so mad, in fact, that she quits. But after her dog convinces her to take a walk, she comes back to her project with renewed enthusiasm and manages to get it just right.For the early grades’ exploration of character education, this funny book offers a perfect example of the rewards of perseverance and creativity. The girl’s frustration and anger are vividly depicted in the detailed art, and the story offers good options for dealing honestly with these feelings, while at the same time reassuring children that it’s okay to make mistakes. The clever use of verbs in groups of threes is both fun and functional, offering opportunities for wonderful vocabulary enrichment. The girl doesn’t just “make” her magnificent thing --- she “tinkers and hammers and measures,” she “smoothes and wrenches and fiddles,” she “twists and tweaks and fastens.” These precise action words are likely to fire up the imaginations of youngsters eager to create their own inventions and is a great tie-in to learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. | Kids Can Press |
| 9780545687423 | The Ocean | Lorraine Gregory | The ocean is vast and mysterious place. It covers more than 70 percent of the surface of Earth, but most of it has never been seen by people. From the crests of the highest waves to the depths of the darkest crevasse, this book will take you on the tour of a lifetime through one of Earth's most amazing habitats -- Back cover. | |
| 9780545842006 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. |