Suzanne Wolard's Library
Montgomery Central Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780545547840 | Lucky Cap | Patrick Jennings | Enzo starts middle school after an amazing summer trip with his father, a new manager at a popular sporting goods company, with a prototype baseball cap that seems to bring Enzo popularity and success. | |
| 9780593118665 | My Life as a Potato | Arianne Costner | ||
| 9781416909842 | No Talking | Andrew Clements | The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9781338627466 | Out of Hiding | Ruth Gruener, Rachel Klein | "Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks of her time during World War II. The family's perseverance is a classic story of the American dream, but also illustrates the difficulties that millions of immigrants face in the aftermath of trauma. This is a gripping and human account of a survivor's journey forward with timely connections to refugee and immigrant experiences worldwide today"-- | |
| 9781481470278 | Pablo and Birdy | Alison McGhee | A Parent’s Choice Award Gold Member Winner A boy who drifted into the seaside town of Isla as a baby searches for answers about where he and his parrot came from in this “memorable, fantastical tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee. The seaside town of Isla has many stories, the most notable being the legend of the Seafaring Parrot. Locals claim that the Seafarer remembers every sound, every whisper, cry, laugh, or snort ever uttered. But, though there have been rumored Seafarer sightings, no one has actually seen the bird before. Other stories surround a boy named Pablo, who had washed up on shore in a blow-up swimming pool as an infant with only a lavender parrot as a companion. Now, on the eve of his tenth birthday, the stories are repeated. “At first I thought it was a huge fish,” Emmanuel, the man who found and took Pablo in, says. Pierre, the baker’s guess was a good one: Perhaps Pablo has come from an undiscovered country, one unknown to the rest of the world. Maybe the inhabitants there lived in tree houses, or underground. Or maybe he’s a pirate baby. But Pablo wants the truth, and the only one who might know it is Birdy, his parrot. After all, she was there, holding onto the raft. But unlike most birds who live in Isla, Birdy can neither talk or fly. Or, at least, she never has. Until…one day, when strong winds begin to blow—winds similar to the ones that brought Pablo to shore—Birdy begins to mutter. Could Birdy be a Seafaring parrot? If she is, then she will be able to tell Pablo the true story of where he came from—of who tied him so lovingly and safely to that raft? But, if she is, that also means the second part of the Seafarer myth is true…that Seafaring Parrots will, eventually, fly away. As Pablo is buzzing with questions, hopes, and fears, an old saying echoes in his mind: winds of change mean fortune lost or fortune gained. And while the winds rise in Isla, Pablo holds tight to Birdy. Would losing his companion, his dearest link to his past, be that loss? | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| 9780439692397 | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Giff | A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her. | Scholastic |
| 9781328781505 | Prairie Lotus | Linda Sue Park | ||
| 9781338181197 | Prisoner of War | Michael P. Spradlin, Patrick Robert Reid | Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor. | |
| 9781338169959 | Reformed | Justin Weinberger | Ian Hart has always been the kid most likely to be bullied, which is why he appreciates having aggressive Devon as a friend--but when one of Devon's pranks goes terribly wrong Ian finds himself the youngest student in the Juvenile Academy for Noncompliant and Underachieving Students, otherwise know as reform school, and somehow he is going to have to learn how to stand up for himself. | |
| OS_6436E040FB791F00B442A184 | Runaway Ralph | Louis Darling | ||
| 9781524717667 | Shine! | JJ and Chris Grabenstein | ||
| 9781338255829 | Show Me a Sign | Ann Clare LeZotte | ||
| 9781338229646 | Sink or Swim! | Steve Watkins, Thomas Morton | Everyone keeps telling Coll she should be over Art by now. However passionate the relationship, however devastating the split its time to move on. Sick of suffering, Coll sets out to make a real change in her life. | |
| 9780545478465 | Stat | Amar'e Stoudemire | ||
| 9781338325119 | Strays Like Us | Cecilia Galante | Twelve-year-old Fred (never Winifred) is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her. | |
| 9780593121252 | The Elephant's Girl | Celesta Rimington | ||
| 9781338114003 | The Enemy Above | Michael P. Spradlin | In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming. | |
| 9780545224185 | The Fences Between Us | Kirby Larson | Desperately waiting to learn the fate of her soldier brother who was stationed aboard the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Piper struggles with strict rationing and blackouts in her Seattle home before her pastor father moves the family to an internment camp with his Japanese-American congregants. 60,000 first printing. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781534461598 | The Girl and the Witch's Garden | Erin Bowman | ||
| 9780545688406 | 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. |