William Bowers' Library
Moore Magnet Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780673124906 | My Second Picture Dictionary | Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Incorporated | Alphabetically arranged words with brief definitions and illustrative sentences. | Pearson Scott Foresman |
| 0553485105 | My Worst Friend, Woody | Effin Older | School's out for the summer! Randi plans on spending lots of time with Woody now that Anna is away at sleep-over camp. But Woody wants to play roller hockey at the park with the boys--no girls allowed! Randi is furious. She'll show those boys that she can play hockey just as well as they can-- even better! | Skylark |
| 9780763662325 | Mysterious Traveler | Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham | Rescuing a baby girl found in an African cave, desert guide Issa raises the child and establishes a loving bond that is threatened by a visiting stranger who wears a medallion matching the one worn by the girl. | Candlewick Press (MA) |
| 0440410134 | Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat | Perfect for beginning readers, this timeless chapter book is a fun introduction to the detective mystery genre. And for Valentine's Day, kids can follow Nate as he unravels the problem, all the while learning about the importance of friendship--with people and dogs! Nate the Great hates mushy stuff. Then he spies a big red paper heart taped to Sludge’s doghouse. Who left Nate’s dog a secret valentine? Nate will solve the case, and then there will be no more mushy stuff. At least that’s what he thinks. . . . Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book! “A most appealing choice.”—Booklist, Boxed Review | Yearling |
| 9780679446835 | National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southeastern States | National Audubon Society | The most comprehensive field guide available to the American Southeast--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of the southeastern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, and the night sky; An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, hiking trails, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 13 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as more than 100 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals. For everyone who lives or spends time in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States. | Knopf |
| 0831763272 | National Parks of America | James V. Murfin | Shows the mountains, canyons, rivers, lakes, forests, beaches, and wildlife of national parklands, and briefly describes their history | Gallery Books |
| 9780063225145 | Nic Blake And The Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy | Angie Thomas | Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore. It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events launch Nic and two friends on a hunt for a powerful magic tool she's never heard of...to save her father from imprisonment for a crime she refuses to believe he committed. | HarperCollins Publishers |
| 9780545035170 | Night of the Living Dummy | R. L. Stine | Lindy and Kris become interested in ventriloquism, but they hardly suspect that Kris' new dummy has a mind of its own. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 0064401766 | Night of the Twisters | |||
| 9781339036557 | Nightmare King | Hermon, Daka | Things Haven't Been The Same Since Shane's Accident. One Minute He Was A Normal Kid Playing A Game Of Tag With His Friends, And The Next He's The Boy Who Came Back From The Dead. Now, Every Time Shane Falls Asleep, He's Pulled Into A Dark World Where The Evil Nightmare King Reigns. The King Is Collecting Children And Keeping Them As Treasure. Despite The Threat Of Capture By The Nightmare King, He Can't Stay Awake Forever. Shane Will Have To Take Matters Into His Own Hands . . . If He Gives Himself Over To His Nightmares, Can He Hold On To The Good In Himself Long Enough To Bring Down The King? -- Publisher's Description. | New York : Scholastic Press, |
| 9781416903819 | No Dogs Allowed! | Bill Wallace | After losing her family's beloved horse, Kristine decides that she will never have another pet. When her father surprises her with a new puppy, Kristine learns to to take a chance and open her heart again in this latest novel by the beloved author of "Red Dog." | Simon and Schuster |
| 0448172712 | No Promises in the Wind | Irene Hunt | A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s. | |
| 0440403278 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Yearling Book | |
| 9780547722405 | On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | Joel's best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt. | Sandpiper |
| 0064400042 | On the Banks of Plum Creek | |||
| 9780064435284 | On the Same Day in March | Marilyn Singer | On the same day in March... Polar bears ride on Artic ice. People in French cafes turn up their faces to the sun. Hailstones roll over Indian hillsides. Rain makes a river in Kenya. On the same day that it's icy cold in the Artic, it's foggy in Louisiana, sunny in Barbados, and blowing wild winds called willy-willies in Austrailia. In this poetic exploration of longitude and weather, with bright and detailed paintings of seventeen different places, Marilyn Singer and Frane Lessac show us what's happening from the poles to the equator-- all on the same day in March. Top 10 Science Books for Children 2000 (Booklist) and Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council | Harper Collins |
| 9780590634748 | Out of Darkness | Russell Freedman | A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. | |
| 9780590371254 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. | |
| 9780590420440 | Owl Moon | Jane Yolen | This timeless and beautiful classic--the winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal--celebrates its 20th anniversary with this edition featuring letters from Yolen and Schoenherr and a stunning silvery cover. Full color. | |
| 9781426304262 | Penguins! | Anne Schreiber | Learn about penguins and how they live. | National Geographic Books |