Kara Eastman's Library
Oakland Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 078073003501 | ||||
| 07807300275 | ||||
| 9780380727698 | ||||
| 9780385374149 | Caroline Starr Rose | "If May is a brave, stubborn fighter, the short, free-verse lines are one-two punches in this Laura Ingalls Wilder-inspired ode to the human spirit." — Kirkus Reviews, Starred I've known it since last night: It's been too long to expect them to return. Something's happened. May is helping out on a neighbor's Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it's hard to be separated from her family by 15 long, unfamiliar miles. Then the unthinkable happens: May is abandoned. Trapped in a tiny snow-covered sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the oncoming winter. While fighting to survive, May's memories of her struggles with reading at school come back to haunt her. But she's determined to find her way home again. Caroline Starr Rose's fast-paced novel, written in beautiful and riveting verse, gives readers a strong new heroine to love. | Yearling | |
| 9781453089132 | "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Junior Classics for Young Readers | Ashland, OH, Bendon, 2015 | ||
| 9781453089057 | "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens - Junior Classics for Young Readers | Charles Dickens | ||
| 9781403795069 | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. | Creative Edge |
| 9780064407694 | A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: the Miserable Mill | Lemony Snicket | Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill. "Wicked good fun."--"Kirkus Reviews." | A Unfortunate Events |
| 9780064407687 | A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Wide Window Movie Tie-in Edition | Lemony Snicket | Tie–in books for the feel–bad movie of the year! | HarperCollins |
| 9780545467223 | Aesop's Fables | Ann McGovern, Ricardo Tercio | A retelling of over 50 classic Aesop fables, including The fox and the grapes and The donkey in the lion's skin. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545035477 | Animal Poems | John Hollander | Offers thirty-two poems about animals by various poets, including Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, and Vicki Hearne. The writers include Blake, Dickinson, Tennyson, Yeats, Wordsworth, and Keats. The captivating paintings by Simona Mulazanni make every page a delight. And the subject, animals, big and small, wild and tame has an irresistible appeal to children. William Blake's The Tyger burns bright in the lush image that accompanies the verse. Hillaire Belloc pays tribute to an elephant in a short, witty stanza accompanied by an adorable picture of the creature sitting on a small wood stool. Among the other poems are Marianne Moore's A Jellyfish and Edward Lear's charming, songlike The Owl and the Pussycat. A Selection of Scholastic Book Clubs, John Hollander has written A Crackling of Thorns (chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets), as well as literary criticism and children's books. He has served as editor for many poetry collections, among them An Anthology of Poems for Young People (with Harold Bloom). He is currently the Sterling Professor of English at Yale. Simona Mulazanni is a successful and much loved children?s book artist in Italy. | |
| 9780440413790 | 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. | Laurel Leaf |
| 9780140368598 | Chevrolet Saturdays | Candy Dawson Boyd | Last year, Joey was the best science student in Miss Alder's fourth-grade class. But last year, he didn't have to deal with a teacher who didn't like him, a class bully, or a new stepfather. Mr. johnson seems to be a good man, and Joey's mother loves him, but Joey just wants his real family back. Then Mr. Johnson brings home the pickup truck he hopes will launch his contracting business. He wants Joey to help, but Joey isn't sure he's ready to take the chance. "While celebrating ths importance of honesty, integrity, and supportive damily relationships, Boyd also tries to reise consciousness on family issues."--Kirkus Reviews | National Geographic Books |
| 9780786838837 | Clementine | Sara Pennypacker | Armed with attitude, individuality, and a penchant for disaster, Clementine, a wonderfully wacky girl who is the inventor of the world's first pair of bologna glasses, makes her first appearance in this hilarious chapter book. Reprint. | Hyperion |
| 9781338776065 | Controlled Burn | Erin Soderberg Downing | From acclaimed middle-grade and chapter-book author, Erin Soderberg Downing, Controlled Burn is a story that blends family, friendship, fire, and the rocky path toward healing our deepest fears. Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Amelia's stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place? When she's sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in Northern Minnesota while her sister heals, Maia discovers that her anxieties and demons are intent on following her wherever she goes...unless she can figure out how to overcome them. But what if she can't? Maia barely knows her grandparents, she desperately misses her sister and home, and she's not thrilled to be spending the summer with Grandpa Howard on his daily motorcycle rides out to the middle of the woods, where he spends all day keeping watch for forest fires. There are no kids her age in Gram and Pop's small town at "the end of the road"--just the chatty nine-year-old neighbor who is intent on getting his Bear Scout badge at all costs, and a friendly, stray dog who's been lurking around. But Maia will soon learn that nature is a powerful teacher, and sometimes our greatest strengths show themselves when we have to be there for someone else. As she begins to figure out how to face her guilt and paralyzing fears, she'll discover there's a fine line between fear and adventure. And when danger strikes again, Maia must summon all her bravery and overcome her self-doubt if she wants to save those she loves most. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780545835428 | Dash | Kirby Larson | When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash. | |
| 9780807516652 | Doing Time Online | Jan Siebold | After he is involved in a prank that led to an elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home resident. | Albert Whitman and Company |
| 9780439881760 | Each Little Bird that Sings | Deborah Wiles | Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger knows a thing or two about death. Her family owns the funeral home and she has attended 247 funerals. | |
| 9780439120425 | Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780394821443 | For Laughing Out Loud | A collection of humorous poems by writers including Ellen Raskin, Karla Kuskin, Ogden Nash, and Arnold Lobel. | Knopf Books for Young Readers |