Mary Lee Buckner's Library
Kirkwood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780590442121 | "Wanted Dead or Alive" | Ann McGovern | A biography of the courageous slave from Maryland who escaped to the freedom of the north, and then returned, time and again, to lead others to freedom. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9781426310492 | 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) (National Geographic Kids) | National Geographic Kids | "Filled with photographs, this beautifully designed book is organized into two-page spreads that each focus on a different topic, making it easy and fun to read." —Redding.com Presenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True, 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts. Lively and information-packed, this book is literally busting its covers with fascinating, fun-tastic facts on super, sensational topics that kids love. Who knew that there were so many sweet things to learn about chocolate or that a dozen delicious details about peanut butter would show up on a page with a few splotches of jelly to whet our appetites? Keep turning and a terrifyingly toothy shark tells you all about himself, while other spreads lay out tons of tips on toys and games, mysteries of history, robots and reptiles, sports and spies, wacky words, and so much more! A visual feast of colorful photographs surrounded by swirling, tipping, expanding, and climbing bits of information in a high-energy design, this book will satisfy both the casual browser and the truly fact obsessed. | National Geographic Kids |
| 5000 Awesome Facts About Everything | ||||
| 9780545236034 | A Crazy Day at the Critter Café | Barbara Odanaka | A quiet morning in a roadside café turns to chaos when a bus breaks down and a menagerie of noisy, rude animals enters, demanding to be fed. | |
| 9781601150042 | Animals Under Our Feet | Sindy McKay | Learn about animals that live underground much of the time. | Treasure Bay, Inc. |
| Aunt Nancy And The Bothersome Visitors | ||||
| 9780763630744 | Aunt Nancy And The Bothersome Visitors | Phyllis Root | Come on in and stay a spell! Aunt Nancy outwits four unwelcome guests in these trickster tales from a masterful storyteller.It would take a real pesky visitor to make himself unwelcome to Aunt Nancy. But just her luck — not one but FOUR bothersome folks come knocking at her door! From Cousin Lazybones to Old Man Trouble, from doleful Old Woeful to sly, slick Mister Death, Aunt Nancy’s visitors nearly try her patience. But Aunt Nancy’s head isn’t there just to keep her ears from fighting, and see if she doesn’t get the best of all her guests! Here in one volume are Phyllis Root’s irresistible trickster tales, illustrated with David Parkins’s droll silhouettes and full-color paintings. | Candlewick |
| 9780822599753 | Benno And The Night Of Broken Glass | Meg Wiviott | Benno was the neighborhood's favorite cat.During the week, he napped in a sunny corner of Mitzi Stein's dress shop and begged scrapped from Moshe the butcher. But one night in Berlin, the Nazis changed everything. Life would never be the same.This cat's-eye view introduces the Holocaust to children in a gentle way that can open discussion of this period. | Kar-Ben Publishing ® |
| 9780545066570 | Big Chickens | Leslie Helakoski | While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid. | |
| 9780545235976 | Big Chickens Fly the Coop | Leslie Helakoski | The four big chickens who were afraid of everything in their wellreceived debut, Big Chickens , are now feeling all cooped up, so they set off to find the farmhouse. But where, the hapless hens wonder, is it? First they find a doghouse (loud barking!); then they run into a tractor ( ewww , dirty!); and then they stomp into the barn (wild horses!). Who knew the farmhouse was right under their beaks the whole time? Sidesplitting silliness abounds in this second riotously funny read-aloud by Leslie Helakoski, once again illustrated with Henry Cole’s boisterous art. | Scholastic Inc |
| 9780142410790 | Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain | A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. | ||
| 9781338148343 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Scholastic | |
| 9780439803151 | By My Brother's Side | Tiki Barber | Introduces twin brothers, NFL superstars, Tiki and Ronde Barber, who worked hard to overcome obstacles and became National Football League stars, one as runningback for the New York Giants, the other as cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | |
| 9780439023498 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781782091844 | Children's Encyclopedia History | Belinda Gallagher | CHILDREN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA HISTORY is overflowing with 500 incredible facts about ancient history for children aged 7+. Key topics presented in short, numbered facts. Packed with fantastic photos and artwork. Special panels throughout for incredible facts, quizzes and projects. With fascinating information and detailed illustrations covering ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this history encyclopedia for kids aged 7+ will amaze and astound! In Children's Encyclopedia History, young learners will discover why the river Nile was so important, what life was like in the hub of the great Roman Empire and what makes a excellent gladiator through five main topics: Ancient Egypt, Mummies, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Gladiators. Written and checked by experts, this brilliant book features fun panels containing activities, hilarious cartoons and quizzes to encourage interactive learning. Essential topics covered in Children's Encyclopedia History: Ancient Egypt: Powerful pharaohs, The farmer's year, and Clever Egyptians Mummies: The first mummies, Tombs and tomb robbers, and Worldwide mummies Ancient Greece: Kings and warriors, Gods and Goddess, and Olympic Games Ancient Rome: Roman Style, In the army, and Roman know-how Gladiators: Spartacus, Amazing arenas, and Armor, shields and helmets Examples of 'I don't believe it' fascinating facts: Temple visitors had to shave off their hair and eyebrows before they were allowed to enter the Egyptian sacred buildings. Roman engineers designed lavatories. They were convenient, but not at all private users had to sit on rows of seats side by side! Some gladiators became so popular that people used to write graffiti about them on the walls of buildings around Rome. Activities to make learning fun include: Use ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to spell out your name and other words. Create your very own Greek chiton using cloth, safety pins and a belt. Make yourself a brightly colored gladiator shield ready for battle make sure you don't forget the handles! | Miles Kelly |
| 9780439137621 | Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House #21) | Mary Pope Osborne | Jack And Annie Are Whisked To Assist Clara Barton During The Civil War. | Scholastic |
| 9781250043238 | Crenshaw | Katherine Applegate | "A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"-- | Macmillan |
| 9781580896481 | Currents | Jane Smolik | This middle-grade historical novel follows three young girls living very different lives who are connected by one bottle that makes two journeys across the ocean.It's 1854 and eleven-year-old Bones is a slave on a Virginia plantation. When she finds her name in the slave-record book, she rips it out, rolls it up, and sets it free, corked inside a bottle alongside the carved peach pit heart her long-lost father made for her. Across the Atlantic on the Isle of Wight, motherless Lady Bess Kent and her sister discover Bones's bottle half-buried on the beach. Leaving Bones's name where it began and keeping the peach pit heart for herself, Bess hides her mother's pearl-encrusted cross necklace in the bottles so her scheming stepmother, Elsie, can't sell it off like she's done with other family heirlooms. When Harry, a local stonemason's son, takes the fall for Elsie's thefts, Bess works with her seafaring friend, Chap, to help him escape. She gives the bottle to Harry and tells him to sell the cross. Back across the Atlantic in Boston, Mary Margaret Casey and her father are at the docks when Mary Margaret spies something shiny. Her father fishes it out of the water, and they use the cross to pay for a much needed doctor's visit for Mary Margaret's ailing sister. As Bess did, Mary Margaret leaves Bones's name where it belongs. An epilogue returns briefly to each girl, completing the circle of the three unexpectedly interconnected lives. | Charlesbridge |
| 9780590465885 | Daniel's Story | Carol Matas | Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. No longer able to practice their religion, vote, own property, or even work, Daniel's family is forced from their home in Frankfurt and sent on a long and dangerous journey, first to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to Auschwitz -, the Nazi death camp. Though many around him lose hope in the face of such terror, Daniel, supported by his courageous family, struggles for survival. He finds hope, life and even love in the midst of despair. | Ingram |
| 9780689863776 | Duck for President | Doreen Cronin | When Duck gets tired of working for Farmer Brown, his political ambition eventually leads to his being elected President. | Click Clack Book |