Rex Cummings' Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780590406208 | Stuart Little | Elwyn Brooks White | A mouse and his trials as the smallest "person" in Manhattan. | Scholastic |
| 046594003508 | Stuart Little | E.B.White | ||
| 9780545349161 | Sugar Plum Ballerinas | Whoopi Goldberg, Deborah Underwood | Alex's ballet-crazy Mom enrolls her at the Nutcracker Ballet School. Even though Alex is a terrible dancer, she is chosen for the starring role in the school recital. | |
| 9780439227476 | Sunset of the Sabertooth | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. | |
| 9780590426893 | Surprise Island | Gertrude Chandler Warner | The children share a mysterious island for the summer with their grandfather. | Scholastic Incorporated |
| 9780439669962 | Survivors | Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun | Tells the stories of nine Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780399176913 | Ten Thank-You Letters | Daniel Kirk | While Pig is trying to finish a thank-you note to his grandmother, his best friend Rabbit repeatedly interrupts to borrow supplies for a series of his own notes, thanking all of the special people in their lives. -- Publisher. | Nancy Paulsen Books |
| 9780439895958 | Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble | Abby Klein | Freddy is unhappy about playing the turkey in his first-grade Thanksgiving Day play, especially with Max bullying and teasing him, but his grandfather and principal both give him ideas for making the part fun. | Blue Sky Press (AZ) |
| 9780679881681 | The Absent Author | Ron Roy | Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780380715640 | The Adventures of King Midas | Lynne Reid Banks | The Kings Foolish Wish King Midas loved gold so much he wished everything he touched would turn to gold. But what a terrible curse it became when his wish was granted and everything he touched -- his food, his dog. . . and his beloved daughter -- instantly changed into cold and lifeless matallic objects. Lynne Reid Banks has re-created the ever-popular legend of King Midas into an exciting story that brings to life the reality of having greedy and thoughtless wishes come true. | HarperCollins |
| 9780439825917 | The Anybodies | N. E. Bode | After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home." | |
| 9780590603799 | The Berenstain Bear Scouts in Giant Bat Cave | Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain | Hoping to save the Giant Bat Cave from becoming an underground theme park, Bear Scouts Brother, Sister, Freddy, and Lizzy fight to keep the Bear Country bats from becoming homeless | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545133821 | The Best [Worst] Halloween Ever | Barbara Robinson | The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that's not nailed down. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. There won't be any Herdmans to contend with this year, but there won't be any candy, either. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween ever into the best Halloween ever in this uproarious sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. | |
| 9780152047375 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton | What happens when a human boy befriends one of the people in a fascinating world where the inhabitants, no taller than a pencil live in a quiet old house and skillfully borrow what they need. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 9780590426909 | The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner | Describes episodes about children who make a boxcar their home. | |
| 9780439405577 | The Capture | Kathryn Lasky | When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780439114271 | The Case of the Great Sled Race | James Preller, R. W. Alley, John Speirs | Jigsaw Jones and Mita search for Bigs Maloney's sled when it gets stolen only days before a big race. | Little Apple |
| 9780545066846 | The Case of the Thanksgiving Thief | Nancy Star | "Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Fruitvale is abuzz with its yearly window-decorating contest. All the stores participate, and it's Casey, Dottie, and Leon's job to make sure Mrs. Calendar's bakery wins first place!. As if the three friends don't have enough on their hands making pinecone turkeys and pilgrim hats, they learn that people all over town are missing jewelry. Can the Calendar Club crack the case of the missing jewels and get the bakery window looking fabulous in time for the contest?" -- p. [4] of cover. | |
| 9780316769488 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. | Little, Brown |
| 9780439795692 | The Coming of Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world. | Scholastic Paperbacks |