Robyn Brumblay's Library
Carmel Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439099394 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. | Scholastic Inc. |
| The Secret In The Woods | ||||
| The Seventh Wish | ||||
| 9780763680893 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out. With black-and-white illustrations and a refreshed cover by Timothy Basil Ering. | National Geographic Books |
| 9780439865173 | The Teacher's Funeral | Richard Peck | In rural Indiana in 1904, 15-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." Includes questions and activities following the text. | |
| 9780763680879 | The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | An extraordinary new novel of friendship by Kate DiCamillo, author of the celebrated debut novel BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. | Candlewick Press (MA) |
| The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle | ||||
| The Two Princesses Of Bamarre | ||||
| 9780590129015 | The View From Saturday | E. L. Konigsburg | Four students, each with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. | |
| 9780440414124 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. | Yearling Books |
| 9780439441421 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks shee(tm)son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a womane(tm)s sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds shee(tm)s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined. | Scholastic |
| 9780545508575 | Three Times Lucky | Sheila Turnage | Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. | |
| 9780590440981 | Tracker | Paulsen, Gary | Only Thirteen, John Must Track A Deer In The Minnesota Woods For His Family's Winter Meat, And In Doing So Finds Himself Drawn To The Doe Who Leads Him And Hating His Role As Hunter. | Scholastic |
| 9781338600827 | Trials Of Apollo 03 Burning Maze | Rick Riordan | Scholastic | |
| 9780545053372 | Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters | Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce | Designed for younger readers, this is an informative, fact-filled guide to all kinds of natural disasters. | |
| 9780590988865 | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? It's 1880, and the members of the Tuck family (Ma, Pa, and their two sons) haven't aged since the day 80 years ago when they unknowingly drank from a magical spring. | |
| Ways To Live Forever | ||||
| What My Sister Remembered | ||||
| Whirligig | ||||
| 9781339011066 | Who Would Win?: Wild Warriors Bindup | Jerry Pallotta | Eight fierce animals battle it out in this exciting bindup featuring four books in the action-packed Who Would Win series!Which dangerous animals would win in a fight? Find out in this awesome bindup of four books in the popular Who Would Win? series. The collection features a range of mammals, sea creatures, reptiles, insects, and birds to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, including Rattlesnake vs. Secretary Bird, Lobster vs. Crab, Jaguar vs. Skunk, and Green Ants vs. Army Ants.Kids will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more, alongside photos, charts, illustrations, and amazing facts. | Scholastic Inc. |