Sarah Ferrell's Library
Sango Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439114943 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Barbara Kerley | Introduces the true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439560580 | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders | Jack Prelutsky | A collection of poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon. | |
| 9780816736560 | The Gift of a Traveler | Wendy Matthews | Seven-year-old Christine spends Christmas Eve helping her great-grandmother decorate her tree and sharing the story of a very special ornament that came from Rumania many years before. | Bridgewater Books |
| 9781846869310 | The Girl with a Brave Heart | Riṭah (Singer), Rita Jahanforuz | After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, OMother Hulda, O reset in Tehran, Iran. Illustrations. | |
| 9780679890799 | The Haunted Hotel | Ron Roy | When the guests of the Shangri-La Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545940238 | The Hero Two Doors Down | Sharon Robinson | Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship. | |
| 9780764154065 | The Hoppameleon | Paul Geraghty | A small bug eating creature goes through the swamp looking for another one like himself. | Barron's Educational Series |
| 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. | |
| 9781416950202 | The Ironwood Tree | Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black | After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins. | Simon and Schuster |
| 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 |
| 9780316107617 | The Last Basselope | Berke Breathed | In hopes of making a Great Discovery, Opus the penguin leads his friends into the forest to search for the legendary, ferocious Basselope. | Little Brown |
| 9780786838653 | The Lightning Thief | Disney-Hyperion Books | ||
| 9782894296707 | The Little Mermaid ; Includes, the Twelve Dancing Princesses | H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen, Krenz, Carol | ||
| 9780590225618 | The Little Mouse. the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear | Don Wood, Audrey Wood | ||
| 9780681454422 | The Littlest Rabbit | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 9780448461847 | The Machine of Doom | Cavan Scott | Based on the expansive universe of the Skylanders video game and the vast array of fantastical characters, this 160-page illustrated novel kicks off a series of original fiction. | Price Stern Sloan |
| 9780439895316 | The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition | Joanna Cole | Ms. Frizzle takes the gang on a tour through the history of science so they can get ideas for their science expedition. | |
| 9781602185746 | The Magic School Bus, Inside the Human Body | Cole | ||
| 9780440422143 | The Mighty Miss Malone | Christopher Paul Curtis | With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. | Yearling |
| 9780525460329 | The Monkey Tree | Janet Anderson | Susanna's great-uncle hasn't left his bedroom for twenty years. Her mother says that he was one of those children born without skin, so sensitive that everything hurt him. With her artist's eyes and feelings, Susanna can understand the appeal of the beautiful little sanctuary to Uncle Louis. It's a treasure room'a place for hoarding and holing up against the world. Susanna would like to hide there with him.In this powerful new novel, Janet S. Anderson, acclaimed author of Going Through the Gate, shares the observations and stinging emotions of a fourteen-year-old girl in retreat from the world. The brutal betrayal of a friend and the scathing comments of a teacher send Susanna deep within herself, searching fearfully for a way to safely connect again. Uncle Louis, with his silences and shared artist's skills, seems to offer that.But a fiercely determined, funny neighbor and the demands of her own curiosity pull Susanna back into experience. And when tragedy comes, she learns that what she has to give can be enough.Ms. Anderson's previous novel, Going Through the Gate, received a starred review from School Library Journal and a pointer from Kirkus. And Publishers Weekly noted that it ?brilliantly evokes the fear and exhilaration of growing up.' | Dutton Juvenile |