William Bowers' Library
Moore Magnet Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780746004340 | The Stephen Cartwright Abc | Heather Amery, Stephen Cartwright | A rhyming ABC book with illustrations. | Usborne Books |
| 9780448095547 | The Strange Message in the Parchment | Carolyn Keene | While trying to recover a set of stolen parchment paintings, Nancy Drew becomes involved in tracking a kidnapper and extortionist. | |
| 1579731112 | The Truth Pops Out | Marc Tolon Brown | At Arthur's garage sale, Binky finds out why honesty is the best policy. | |
| 9780439285162 | The Wide Window | Lemony Snicket | Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery. | Scholastic |
| 1577595394 | The Wind in the Willows | One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales, of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars. | ||
| 9780525464402 | This Little Pirate | Philemon Sturges | Two bands of pirates fight over a box, but when they raise the white flag and open the box together, they find a treasure to share. | Dutton Juvenile |
| 0590189239 | Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a 6-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. An icon of the Civil Rights movement, Ruby chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history. | |
| 1559029854 | Trouble Maker | Crystal DiMeo, Elle Wolfe | Kye Baldwin turns the Palm Beach Preparatory School upside-down. She labels Quinn as a teacher's pet, gets away with wearing whatever she wants, and accuses Quinn's best friends of being snobs before they have a chance to introduce themselves. | |
| 9780545681186 | Ultimate Ocean Rumble | Jerry Pallotta | What would happen if sixteen sea creatures met in a tournament? Who will be the ocean champion? Who do you think would win? -- | Who Would Win |
| 9780142427651 | Under the Egg | Laura Marx Fitzgerald | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. There’s just one problem: Theo’s grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen. With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city—and her grandfather—that she never knew. To solve the mystery, she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time. “Uniquely readable, entirely charming, and a pleasure from start to finish. Debuts this good are meant to be discovered.” —SLJ Fuse 8 Blog “Riveting from start to finish.” —BookPage | National Geographic Books |
| 9780061742675 | Ungifted | Gordon Korman | From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel in which one middle-school troublemaker accidentally moves into the gifted and talented program—and changes everything. For fans of Louis Sachar and Jack Gantos, this funny and touching underdog story is a lovable and goofy adventure with robot fights, middle-school dances, live experiments, and statue-toppling pranks! When Donovan Curtis pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he’s finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students. Although it wasn’t exactly what Donovan had intended, the ASD couldn’t be a more perfectly unexpected hideout for someone like him. But as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything), he shows that his gifts may be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed. | Balzer + Bray |
| 0590257838 | Unicorns Don't Give Sleigh Rides | Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones | Helping transform the Bailey city Stables into an animal shelter for the holidays, the Bailey School kids encounter a beautiful white horse that lives there and begin to suspect that it is a unicorn. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 0064405176 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. | Harper Collins |
| 9781338240948 | Wallace and Grace Take the Case | Heather Alexander | In their first adventure, Wallace and Grace meet a rabbit who is sure he saw a ghost! Something is spooking the garden . . . Can Wallace and Grace solve this case? | |
| 9781338730234 | War Stories | Gordon Korman | Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone Loves Playing War-based Video Games And He Idolizes His Great-grandfather Jacob Who Came Home From World War Ii A Celebrated Hero; Now Ninety-three Jacob Wants To Retrace His Journey In Memory And Reality And Return To The Small French Village That His Unit Liberated, And Trevor Is Going With Him--but Not Everyone In The Town Want Jacob To Come, And Trevor Is Going To Learn An Important Lesson: Real War Is Not A Video Game, And Valor And Heroism Can Be Very Murky Concepts. | |
| 0380713586 | Weasel | Cynthia DeFelice | The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal... Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, the weasel, he hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills not because he is hungry, but for the sport of it...I know what I have to do. Weasel is out there. He could come here and hurt us. Maybe Pa can wait for the day when we'll have the law to take care of men like Weasel. But I can't... | Harper Collins |
| 9780877791782 | Webster's School Thesaurus | Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff | Includes more than 43,000 synonyms, antonyms, and contrasted and related words. | Merriam Webster |
| 9780545733120 | What if You Had Animal Feet? | Sandra Markle | Explains how certain animals use their feet to help them survive, including a gray wolf, barn owl, and mountain goat. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781338871111 | What Is Lego? | Jim O'Connor | "The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. In this book, author Jim O'Connor describes how a simple concept--small plastic bricks that snap together--morphed into a cultural phenomenon"-- | |
| 0553274295 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |