Victoria Chandler's Library
Liberty Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780545776035 | Minecraft Ultimate Book of Battle | Stephanie Milton | The Official Combat Handbook will teach you everything you need to know to defend yourself from hostile monsters and enemy players. You can learn how to build a fort, craft armor and weapons, set mob traps, defeat your enemies in one-on-one combat, and battle your way out of the Nether and the End. | |
| 9780142417751 | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERS Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon was killed in a school shooting, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure--and she realizes this is what she needs. And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be so black and white after all. "Powerful."--Publishers Weekly "A strong and complex character study."--The Horn Book "Allusions to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the portrayal of a whole community's healing process, and the sharp insights into Caitlyn's behavior enhance this fine addition to the recent group of books with narrators with autism and Asbergers."--Booklist | National Geographic Books |
| 9780394824574 | Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) | Donnelly, Judy | The thrill of man's first steps on the moon is recreated for beginning readers. The suspense builds over five chapters, which cover the take-off, the history of the space race, the development of rockets, the astronauts' training, and finally the astronauts experience in space. Actual photographs taken from the space capsule are included in this exciting read.School Library JournalGr 2-3-- The story of Apollo II' s historic flight 20 years ago from lift-off, through ``The Eagle has landed,'' to splashdown and subsequent quarantine (fear of ``moon germs''). Except for occasional side comments, Donnelly doesn't go into great detail, but she does a good job of setting the stage, with chapters on the history of the idea of flight to the moon, one on astronaut selection and training, concluding with a penetrating look at the flight's effect both on the three astronauts and on people in general. Despite our space program's huge and beautiful legacy of photographs, most of the illustrations here are bland color paintings that rob the narrative of a sense of reality and give the book a cheap look. Too bad--aside from Fradin's Moon Flights (Children's, 1985), there's little available on the subject for younger readers. --John Peters, New York Pub . Lib . | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780064401487 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald | From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis. | Harpercollins Childrens Books |
| 9780440847731 | My Side of the Mountain | In his diary, Sam Gribley tells of a year spent living alone in a tree house in the Catskill Mountains learning about plant and animal life during the changing seasons. | ||
| 9780545074735 | 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. | Thorndike Pr |
| 9780439159630 | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson | At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene. Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller? 1957 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1940¿ 1970 (ALA)1959 William Allen White Award1959 Sequoya Award (Oklahoma)1959 Young Readers' Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association) | |
| 9780865055209 | Old-Time Toys | Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky | Featuring photos from leading toy museums around the country, Old Time Toys takes young readers back to the rough and tumble days of the 1800's when toys were homemade, often crudely, yet with great craftsmanship. | Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| 9780141322438 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Portrays the adventures of poor orphan Oliver Twist in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London. | Penguin UK |
| 9780064420273 | One Day in the Alpine Tundra | Jean Craighead George | "The Teton mountain range of Wyoming is the setting for this lightly fictionalized treatment, which perceptively describes the mammals, plants, climate, and geological features unique to the area directly above a mountain tree line. Detailed drawings are as informative as the text."-BL. "A meaningful, meaty presentation."-K. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1984 (NSTA/CBC) | Harper Collins |
| 9781416971719 | Out of My Mind | Sharon M. Draper | Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780399246555 | Peace, Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson | Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. | Penguin |
| 9781419704215 | Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes | Jonathan Auxier | Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime. | Harry N. Abrams |
| 9780375938894 | R My Name Is Rachel | Patricia Reilly Giff | Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away. | Wendy Lamb |
| 9781599902883 | Rapunzel's Revenge | Shannon Hale, Dean Hale | This stunning, hilarious and action-packed graphic novel re-imagines Rapunzel's story . . . in the wild west! Rapunzel escapes her tower-prison all on her own, only to discover a world beyond what she'd ever known before. Determined to rescue her real mother and to seek revenge on her kidnapper would-be mother, Rapunzel and her very long braids team up with Jack (of Giant killing fame) and together they preform daring deeds and rescues all over the western landscape, eventually winning the justice they so well deserve. | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| 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 |
| 9780375851230 | Return to Sender | Julia Alvarez | After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders. | Yearling Books |
| 9781338166255 | Rock On! | C. J. McDonald | "The world's most valuable and rare treasures are found in the earth just beneath your feet." -- Page [4] of cover. | Tangerine Press |
| 9780064402057 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay? | Harper Collins |
| 9780689846212 | Star in the Storm | Joan Hiatt Harlow | A RISKY SECRET All non-sheepherding dogs have been outlawed from the rocky coastal village where Maggie lives. Unwilling to give up her beloved Newfoundland, Sirius, Maggie defies the law and hides Sirius away. But when a steamer crashes into the rocks during a violent storm and starts to sink with a hundred passengers on board, Maggie faces a difficult choice. She knows Sirius can help rescue the people trapped on the ship, but bringing him out of hiding would put his own life in jeopardy. Is Maggie's brave dog a big enough hero to save the desperate passengers -- and himself? | Margaret K. McElderry Books |