Sonya Elliott's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781338621013 | Rescue | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | Scholastic Press | |
| 9781338331493 | Resistance | Jennifer A. Nielsen | In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780439376471 | Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Uranium Unicorns From Uranus | Dav Pilkey, Martin Ontiveros | Ricky Ricotta fears the worst when he hears rumors that Uncle Unicorn is hatching a plan to build a destructive robot of his own that will finally help him succeed in taking over the Earth and becoming sole ruler of it. | Blue Sky Press |
| 9780439266451 | Ride Like the Wind | Bernie Fuchs | In Nevada in 1861, a young Pony Express rider races for his life, pursued by seven Paiute warriors who are determined to drive white settlers out of their territory. | Blue Sky Press (AZ) |
| 9781585363247 | Riding to Washington | Gwenyth Swain | A young white girl rides the bus with her father to the March on Washington in 1963--at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his I Have a Dream speech. She comes to see that Dr. King's dream belongs not just to Blacks but to all Americans. | Tales of Young Americans |
| Robert And The Clickety-Clackety Teeth | ||||
| 9780590982078 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. | |
| 9780545291460 | Ron's Big Mission | Rose Blue & Corinne J Naden | Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden ... - 2009 - 32 pages - No preview One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439899949 | Rosa | Nikki Giovanni | The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. | |
| 9780803706736 | Rosa Parks | Rosa Parks, James Haskins, Jim Haskins | Rose Parks tells of her vital role in the struggle for equality for all Americans. | |
| 9780763646417 | Rose's Garden | Peter Reynolds | Rose finds a neglected patch of earth in the middle of a bustling city where she can plant the flower seeds collected from her travels in her magical teapot. | Candlewick Press |
| 9780380709533 | Runaway Ralph | Beverly Cleary | "The rousing notes of the bugle and the laughter and shouting increased the feeling of rebellion within Ralph. As the last strains of the bugle call hovered in the clear mountain air, Ralph made up his mind. He knew now what he was going to do. He was going to run away. Fed up with his timid mother and uncle and his squirmy little cousins, Ralph hops onto his toy motorcycle and zooms down the road to summer camp. It turns out camp is not all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and fun. A strict watchdog, a mouse-hungry cat, and a troubled boy named Garf lead Ralph on some fur-raising escapades. Perhaps home isn't such a bad place to be, if only Ralph can find a way to get there again. | HarperCollins |
| 9780761352556 | Ruth and the Green Book | Calvin A. Ramsey, Gwen Strauss | Ruth and the Green Book is the story of one black family's trip from Chicago to Alabama by car in the late 1940s. Along the way they encounter prejudice, but they also discover The Green Book, a real guide to accommodations which was published for decades to aid African-American travelers as they faced prejudice on the roads across the country. | Carolrhoda Books |
| 9781585364398 | S Is for Story | Esther Hershenhorn | What is a first draft? What is a writer's notebook? In this work, author and writing coach Hershenhorn uses the alphabet to help explain, explore, and examine the tools, techniques, and strategies for those hoping to live the literary life. Full color. | Alphabet Books (Sleeping Bear |
| 9780545290074 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare. | Scholastic |
| 9781534412620 | Sam The Man & The Cell Phone Plan (5) | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Sam Graham wants a cell phone to help him with his research, but when his parents say no, he has to come up with another way to keep all the info he needs in his pocket in this hilarious fifth chapter book in the Sam the Man series from Frances O’Roark Dowell.Here are the facts: Sam Graham is an information man. But to get information, you need to do research. You never know when you’ll need an urgent piece of info—like, say, the number for a chicken emergency hotline—so a resource for instant research is a must! This is why Sam needs a cell phone.Unfortunately, Mom and Dad disagree. So, Sam has to come up with a plan. But what is small enough to fit in your pocket and can hold all the information you need? Sam will have to go old-school with his latest plan and use a handy notebook instead. Luckily, retro is in, and à la Nick in Andrew Clements’s Frindle, Sam might just start the latest trend! | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| 9781402289859 | Santa Is Coming to Charleston | Steve Smallman | It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over: •St. Matthew's GEL Church •Old Slave Mart •Arthur Revenel Jr Bridge •Exchange & Provost •Pineapple Fountain •French Protestant Church •Gibbes Art Gallery •Morris Island Lighthouse •South Carolina Aquarium •Dock Street Theater •Marion Square Christmas Tree •Calhoun Mansion "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Charleston!" | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| 9780525471233 | Saving Grace | Priscilla Cummings | When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father. | Dutton Juvenile |
| 9780978758929 | Scampering Through Savannah | ON Words Publishing, LLC, Renée Newell, Mac Newell | Raccoon children, Noah and Olivia, visit Savannah, Georgia and see historical sites such as old homes, a lighthouse, and a fort. | |
| 9780140566215 | Sea Otter Rescue | Roland Smith | Describes the rescue of the sea otters following the 1989 oil spill in Valdez, Alaska. | Puffin Books |