Sonya Elliott's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978043973827 | ||||
| 9781561453993 | ||||
| GHT2708SDNW03272012H7830A | ||||
| LPNRR334681833 | ||||
| T0001888 | ||||
| T0014161 | ||||
| 9780316123082 | "Who Could that Be at This Hour?" | Lemony Snicket | Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue. | |
| 0670059587 | A Friend Called Anne | Jacqueline van Maarsen | Details the friendship of Anne Frank and Jacqueline van Maarsen during the terrible Holocaust times in the Netherlands. | Viking Children's Books |
| 9781416967767 | A Gift of Days | Stephen Alcorn | Beginning with January 1 and arranged by birth date, a collection of quotations from 366 noteworthy figures. | Simon and Schuster |
| 0439276179 | A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass | David A. Adler | A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century. | |
| 9781416953616 | A Sweet Smell of Roses | Angela Johnson | There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice. Inspired by countless children and young adults who took a stand, two Coretta Scott King honorees offer a heart-lifting glimpse of children's roles in the civil rights movement. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9781590783535 | A Writing Kind of Day | Ralph Fletcher | It's easy to make one, lying on your back in the newest snow. You move your arms like wings. Later you forget about your creation, go inside for a mug of hot chocolate. That's when she rises from the snow takes a feathery breath, tries out her wings. So begins a poem about making a snow angel, but it might also refer to the mysterious way that a poem comes into being and takes on a life of its own. In this new collection, Ralph Fletcher shows us how you can write a poem about almost anything: a baby sister, a Venus's-flytrap, a failing grandmother, a squished squirrel, grammar homework, and more. These poems take us inside the creative process as they reveal both the playfulness and the power of poetry. More than anything, they invite us to pick up pen and paper and write some poems of your own. | Boyds Mills Press |
| 9781591941804 | Abraham Lincoln: a Giant Among Presidents (Townsend Library) | Tanya Savory | "Abraham Lincoln grew up with little more than a second-grade education. His father thought school was a waste of time and wanted young Abe to learn carpentry and farming instead. Even so, Lincoln developed a love of reading so great that he would often walk five miles just to borrow a book. In time, his reading would help to shape a sharp mind, a keen sense of humor, and a kind heart. Lincoln carried these qualities with him from a dirt-floor cabin in Kentucky all the way to the White House. As President, he would fight to keep our country from breaking apart, and he would ultimately free 4,000,000 slaves. However, there would be a price to pay for these triumphs--a very high price, indeed." --Publisher | Townsend Press |
| 9780545338714 | Al Capone Shines My Shoes | Gennifer Choldenko | Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose. | |
| 9780590470704 | Aliens Don't Wear Braces | Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones | The kids at The Bailey School begin to suspect that their art teacher, a strange woman with white hair and braces, is an alien from outer space. Original. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545789400 | Alive and Kicking | Chris Lynch | Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead. | |
| 9780439631563 | Almost to Freedom | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson | Tells the story of a young girl's dramatic escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad, from the perspective of her beloved rag doll. | |
| 9780590031738 | Always My Dad | Sharon Dennis Wyeth | Although she doesn't get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm. | |
| 9780545253093 | April Adventure | Ron Roy | Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy follow clues on an Easter treasure hunt, while trying to figure out who set it up for them. | |
| 9780689830266 | At Ellis Island | Louise Peacock | Accounts from children, police, immigration officers, and the immigrants themselves come to life in a moving tale about the history of Ellis Island, enhanced will black-and-white photographs. | Simon and Schuster |