Jed Mathews' Library
West Creek Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780525604976 | ||||
| 9780545801393 | "Pay It Forward" | Catherine Ryan Hyde | Scholastic | |
| 9781338224924 | A Crazy Day with Cobras | Mary Pope Osborne | The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell. | |
| 9780679887553 | A To Z Mysteries: The Deadly Dungeon | Ron Roy | Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look! D is for Dungeon . . . Get ready for a sleepover—in a castle! Soon after the kids arrive at Moose Manor in Maine, they hear strange sounds behind the walls. Does this castle have a hidden dungeon? And could it be haunted? Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are dying to find out! | Random House Children's Books |
| 9780142300701 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year | Penguin |
| 9781338224504 | Afternoon on the Amazon | Mary Pope Osborne | Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. | |
| Agent Rookie's Secret Mission | ||||
| 9781338185188 | Bailey's Story | W. Bruce Cameron | When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple--that sometimes bad things happen--and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves. | |
| 9781338178609 | Bailey's Story: A Dog's Purpose Novel | Cameron, W. Bruce | Scholastic | |
| 9781338759105 | Because Of Winn-dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Making New Friends In A New Town Is Never Easy, But When Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni Adopts A Stray Dog She Names After The Grocery Store Where She Found Him, She Learns Friendship - And Forgiveness - Can Sneak Up On You Like A Sudden Storm. | |
| 9781442495012 | Blended | Sharon M. Draper | Eleven-year-old Isabella’s blended family is more divided than ever in this “timely but genuine” (Publishers Weekly) story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she’s Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. The next week she’s Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves.Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they’re always about HER. Isabella feels completely stuck in the middle, split and divided between them more than ever. And she is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad involves more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it’s also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white, and strangers are always commenting: “You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?” She knows what they’re really saying: “You don’t look like your parents.” “You’re different.” “What race are you really?” And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn’t just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you’re only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?It seems like nothing can bring Isabella’s family together again—until the worst thing happens. Isabella and Darren are stopped by the police. A cell phone is mistaken for a gun. And shots are fired. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9781338712865 | Blended | Sharon Mills Draper | Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about her. And she is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad involves more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white. And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn't just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you're only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police. | |
| 9780439793902 | Boo...and I mean it! (Junie B Jones) | Barbara Park | ||
| 9780545448154 | Brian's Return | Gary Paulsen | After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs. | |
| 9780439402002 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | Scholastic |
| 9781338224139 | Buffalo Before Breakfast | Mary Pope Osborne | The Magic Tree House Whisks Jack And Annie Back Almost 200 Years To The Great Plains. There They Meet A Lakota Boy Who Shows Them His Home And How To Hunt Buffalo. But Something Goes Wrong! Now They Need To Stop A Thousand Buffalo From Stampeding Before Someone Gets Hurt. | |
| California Gold Rush Cooking | ||||
| 9780545385671 | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets | The Second Epic Novel | Scholastic Inc. | |
| 9780545385756 | Captain Underpants And The Big, Bad Battle Of The Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1 | scholastic | ||
| 9780545385763 | Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2 | Dav Pilkey | Just when they thought they were out, it pulls them back in! Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into the deepest regions of outer space and back through time to the mysterious and uncharted world of the day before yesterday! It's a monster-mashin', robo-wranglin', time-travelin', brain-switchin', nose-pickin' good time! |