Sonya Elliott's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781452110233 | Telephone | Mac Barnett | It's time to fly home for dinner! In this witty picture book from award-winning and bestselling author Mac Barnett, a mother bird gives the bird next to her a message for little Peter. But passing messages on a telephone line isn't as simple as it sounds. Each subsequent bird understands Mama's message according to its own very particular hobbies. Will Peter ever get home for dinner? This uproarious interpretation of a favorite children's game will get everyone giggling and is sure to lead to countless rereads. | Chronicle Books |
| Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! | ||||
| The Adventures Of Sparrowboy | ||||
| 0590997289 | The Alien | K. A. Applegate | The Animorph kids are joined in their fight against the evil Yeerks by Ax, an Andalite who is stranded on earth until his alien pals return and who is seeking revenge against the alien who killed his brother. Original. | Apple |
| The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes The Best Is Yet To Come | ||||
| The Armadillo From Amarillo | ||||
| 9781338541984 | The Bad Seed | Jory John | The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy. | |
| The Basket Counts | ||||
| 9780689841156 | The Bat Boy and His Violin | Gavin Curtis | Reginald is more interested in practicing his violin than in his father's job managing the worst team in the Negro Leagues, but when Papa makes him the bat boy and his music begins to lead the team to victory, Papa realizes the value of his son's passion. A Coretta Scott King Honor winner. Reprint. | Aladdin Picture Books |
| 9780590162432 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson | The six horrible Herdmans, the worst children in the history of the world, take over the annual Christmas pageant. | |
| 9780803730557 | The Best Story | Eileen Spinelli | The best story is one that comes from the heart. The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this book just has to win that rollercoaster ride with her favorite author! But what makes a story the best? Her brother Tim says the best stories have lots of action. Her father thinks the best stories are the funniest. And Aunt Jane tells her that the best stories have to make people cry. A story that does all these things doesn't seem quite right, though, and the one thing the whole family can agree on is that the best story has to be your own. Anne Wilsdorf's hilarious illustrations perfectly capture this colorful family and their outrageous stories in Eileen Spinelli's heartfelt tale about creativity and finding your own voice. | Penguin |
| 9780590060196 | The Bfg | Roald Dahl | Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. | Scholastic |
| 9780545204002 | The Big Field | Mike Lupica | When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too. | |
| 9780545206983 | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 | Lauren Tarshis | Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, 11-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction and chaos to make his way back home. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Simultaneous. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780061892387 | The Boy on the Porch | Sharon Creech | Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler will love her latest tween novel about finding family when you least expect it. The Boy on the Porch is a singular story about opening your heart and discovering home in unexpected places. Extras in the paperback tell of Sharon Creech's inspiration for the book! When a young couple finds a boy asleep on their porch, their lives take a surprising turn. Unable to speak, the boy, Jacob, can't explain his history. All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for him. And, as their connection and friendship with Jacob grow, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family and begin to see the world in brand-new ways. | HarperCollins |
| 9780399225031 | The Bracelet | Yoshiko Uchida | Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship. | Philomel Books |
| 9780545157001 | The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street | Sharon Flake, Bahni Turpin | Ten-year-old Queen, a spoiled and conceited African American girl who is disliked by most of her classmates, learns a lesson about friendship from an unlikely "knight in shining armor." | |
| 9780399226717 | The Butterfly | Patricia Polacco | A story of two girls' friendship and bravery while hiding from the Nazis during the French Resistance is based on the author's aunt's own experiences. 40,000 first printing. | Philomel Books |
| 9780374410421 | The Canning Season | Polly Horvath | Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy – whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly’s open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts. By turns dark and humorous, Polly Horvath offers adolescent readers enough quirky characters and outrageous situations to leave them reeling! The Canning Season is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| 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 |