meaning of friendship and loyalty.
F Bla
Blackwood, Gary L. Shakespeare's spy. New York : Puffin Books,
2005, c2003. The winter of 1602 brings many changes for
Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he
becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith,
attempts to write a play, learns more about his past,
endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity,
and finds a new purpose in life.
921 Ale
Hoffman, Mary Ann, 1947-. Shaun Alexander : football star. New
York : PowerKids Press, c2007. Brief biography of the
football running back, Shaun Alexander.
E Les
Lester, Helen. The sheep in wolf's clothing. Boston, Mass. :
Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Clothing is important to Ewetopia,
but her carefully-chosen wolf outfit fails to impress the
other sheep at the Woolyones' costume ball until a real wolf
appears dressed as a sheep, mistakes her for his mother, and
throws a tantrum when she outsmarts him.
641.512 Shr
Shrek cookbook. New York : DK Publishing, 2007.
E Sch
Schachner, Judith Byron. Skippyjon Jones and the big bones. 1st
ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007. Skippyjon
Jones, the Siamese cat that wants to be a Chihuahua dog,
goes hunting for dinosaurs.
F Sac
Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Small steps. New York : Delacorte Press,
2006. Three years after being released from Camp Green
Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but
when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make
some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly
goes along.
E Lam
Laminack, Lester L., 1956-. Snow day! 1st ed. Atlanta, Ga. :
Peachtree, c2007. Someone is very, very excited about the
possibility of missing school due to snow, and plans a whole
day of sledding, building forts, reading, and sipping hot
chocolate rather than going to school for that test on
chapter ten.
F Yee
Yee, Lisa. So totally Emily Ebers. 1st ed. New York : Arthur
A. Levine Books, 2007. In a series of letters to her absent
father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving
cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and
her first serious crush.
E Hap
Hapka, Catherine. South pole or bust (an egg). 1st ed. New
York : HarperCollins, 2007. Joe, Fred, and Sam travel back
in time to join Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica and
help him find the eggs of an emperor penguin.
741.5 DeF
DeFalco, Tom. Spider-man : the ultimate guide. 1st American ed.
New York : DK Pub., 2001.
595.4 Bis
Bishop, Nic, 1955-. Spiders. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction,
2007. Text and photographs introduce readers to different
types of spiders and their behavior.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Stage fright on a summer night. New York :
Random House, 2002. Jack and Annie travel in their magic
tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors
in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to
rescue a tame bear.
791.43 Rey
Reynolds, David West. Star Wars, attack of the clones : the
visual dictionary. 1st American ed. New York : DK Pub.,
c2002.
791.43 Luc
Luceno, James, 1947-. Star Wars : revenge of the Sith : the
visual dictionary. 1st American ed. New York : DK, c2005.
Text and illustrations present characters from Star Wars,
episode III, revenge of the Sith and the technology they
use.
791.437 Rey
Reynolds, David West. Star Wars : the complete visual
dictionary. 1st American ed. New York : Lucas Books,
c2006.
F Ste
Stewart, Paul, 1955-. Stormchaser. 1st American ed. Oxford ;
New York : David Fickling Books, 2004, c1999. In his
continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins
the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a
dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a
substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of
Sanctaphrax from floating away.
921 Atl
McCarthy, Meghan. Strong man : the story of Charles Atlas. 1st
ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, c2007. Picture book biography
of Charles Atlas who developed a fitness routine that spread
throughout the world and made him "The world's most
perfectly developed man.".
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Summer of the sea serpent. 1st ed. New
York : Random House, c2004. Jack and Annie travel in their
magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek
a magical sword for Merlin.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Sunset of the sabertooth. New York : Random
House, c1996. The magic tree house transports Jack and
Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter
Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly
mammoths.
E Duk
Duke, Kate. The tale of Pip & Squeak. 1st ed. New York :
Dutton Children's Books, c2007. Two mouse brothers, Pip and
Squeak, usually try to compete with each other, but their
relationship finally changes when they prepare for their annual party.
741.5 Ros
Ross, Stewart. The terror trail. 1st American ed. New York :
DK Pub., 2007. The story of two Mauritanian children whose
father's service to Rome had earned him citizenship, but
were sold into slavery anyway.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Thanksgiving on Thursday. 1st ed. New York
: Random House, c2002. Jack and Annie travel in their magic
treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first
Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the
New Plymouth Colony.
E Cow
Cowell, Cressida. That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown. 1st U.S.
ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2007, c2006.
Emily defends her stuffed rabbit from the naughty queen who
is determined to acquire it any way she can.
F Gan
Gannett, Ruth Stiles. Three tales of my father's dragon. New
York : Random House, c1998. My father's dragon -- Elmer and
the dragon -- The dragons of Blueland. A compilation of
three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer
Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.
E Zol
Zolotow, Charlotte, 1915-. A tiger called Thomas. New York :
Hyperion Books For Children, 2003, c1963. Thomas realizes
being the new kid on the block isn't too lonely after a
special night of trick-or-treating.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Tigers at twilight. New York : Random
House, c1999. Having used their magic tree house to travel
to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog
Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving
a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
F Mit
Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-. The tinderbox. 1st ed. Cambridge,
Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. With the help of a magic
tinderbox, a soldier finds a fortune and pursues a princess
imprisoned in a castle.
E Wil
Willems, Mo. Today I will fly! 1st ed. New York : Hyperion
Books for Children, c2007. While Piggie is determined to
fly, Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little
help from others, amazing things happen.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Tonight on the Titanic. New York : Random
House, c1999. The magic tree house transports Jack and
Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift
that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
973 Bru
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. The Trail of Tears. New York : Random
House, c1999. Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to
keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to
leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma,
a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
F Avi
Avi, 1937-. The Traitors' Gate. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum
Books for Young Readers, c2007. When his father is arrested
as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman
must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a
distant relative for help to determining why people are
spying on him and his family.
F Don
Donkin, Andrew. Transformers Armada : the Unicron battles. 1st
American ed. New York : DK Pub., c2004. While the
Transformers battle Unicron together, Megatron still longs
to defeat Optimus Prime.
F Gre
Greenburg, Dan. Treachery and betrayal at Jolly Days. 1st ed.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006. The ten-year-old
Shluffmuffins twins, still evading the evil, giant ants that
tried to adopt them, discover the culinary delights of
swamps and encounter a zombie who bears a strange
resemblance to their deceased father.
E DeG
De Groat, Diane. Trick or treat, smell my feet. New York :
Morrow Junior Books, 1999, c1998. Gilbert is excited about
the costume he is planning to wear in the Halloween parade
at school, until he discovers that lots of others have the same costume.
E Arn
Arnold, Tedd. The twin princes. New York : Dial Books for Young
Readers, c2007. Two chicken princes who are twins take part
in a contest to determine which one will inherit the throne.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Twister on Tuesday. New York : Random
House, c2001. When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas
prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an
understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they
experience the terror of a tornado.
E Van
Van Allsburg, Chris. Two bad ants. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
c1988. When two bad ants desert from their colony, they
experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to
return to their former safety.
F Lup
Lupica, Mike. Two-minute drill. New York : Philomel Books,
2007. Brainy Scott, a great kicker who otherwise struggles
with football, and star quarterback Chris, who has dyslexia,
team up to help each other succeed in both football and
school.
E Hor
Horowitz, Dave, 1970-. The ugly pumpkin. New York : G.P.
Putnam's Sons, c2005. A lonely, oddly-shaped pumpkin is sad
that no one chose him for Halloween, but by Thanksgiving he
has discovered where he belongs.
641.5 DAm
D'Amico, Joan, 1957-. The United States cookbook : fabulous
foods and fascinating facts from all 50 states. New York :
John Wiley, c2000. Provides information about the fifty
states along with a recipe native to each of them, such as
Boston baked beans from Massachusetts, crab cakes from
Maryland, Key lime pie from Florida, corn dogs from Iowa,
and taco soup from New Mexico.
F Buc
Buckley, Michael. The unusual suspects. New York : Amulet
Books, 2005. Although filled with anger over her parents'
disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her
grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale
characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Vacation under the volcano. New York :
Random House, c1998. Their magic tree house takes Annie and
Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they
must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with
burning ash.
F Gre
Greenburg, Dan. The vampire's curse. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. :
Harcourt, c2006. Having been reunited with their zombie
father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking
an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old
Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants
who want to enslave all humans.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Viking ships at sunrise. New York : Random
House, c1998. Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie
back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to
retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
551.21 Fra
Fradin, Judith Bloom. Volcanoes. Washington, DC : National
Geographic, c2007. Learn of eyewitness accounts of
landscapes suddenly alive with sulfuric gases, ashes spread
across vast areas, and boiling hot lava consuming everything
in its path.
F Ste
Stewart, Paul, 1955-. Vox. 1st American ed. Oxford ; New York
: David Fickling Books, 2005, c2003. Rook Barkwater, the
young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the
Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once
again.
398.2 Ket
Ketteman, Helen. Waynetta and the cornstalk : a Texas fairy
tale. Morton Grove, IL : Albert Whitman, 2007. A retelling
of "Jack and the Beanstalk" which features a Texas cowgirl,
a magic cornstalk, and a giant cowboy in the clouds.
791.43 Bul
Buller, Laura. What is a Wookiee? 1st American ed. New York :
DK Pub., c2005. Introduces the Wookies and other aliens
that populate George Lucas' Star Wars films.
E Fox
Fox, Mem, 1946-. Where the giant sleeps. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla.
: Harcourt, c2007. Illustrations and rhyming text portray
the different residents of fairyland and where each one goes
to sleep.
F Ste
Stewart, Paul, 1955-. The Winter Knights. 1st American ed.
Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2007, c2005.
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy,
Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers
in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a
different kind brews between sky-scholars and
earth-scholars.
F Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. Winter of the ice wizard. 1st ed. New York
: Random House, c2004. Jack and Annie are joined by Teddy
and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy
Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the
Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.
621.319 Sue
Suen, Anastasia. Wired. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2007.
Describes how electricity is conducted and follows its route
from a power plant to the home.
E Men
Meng, Cece. The wonderful thing about hiccups. New York :
Clarion Books, c2007. A bad case of hiccups in the library
leads to a series of outlandish experiences and a set of rules related to library books, hippopotamuses, and little
sisters.
F McM
McMullan, Kate. World's oldest living dragon. New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, c2006. Wiglaf and his classmates come to
appreciate their elders when they learn that only a group of
retired knights can save their school from the world's
oldest living dragon, Grizzlegore--if they can get back in
shape in time.
F Lin
Lin, Grace. The year of the dog : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown, 2006. Frustrated at her seeming lack of
talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets
out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog,
those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own
life.
743 Bur
Burton, Bonnie. You can draw Star Wars. New York : DK
Publishing, 2007. Directions on drawing characters,
starships, and weapons of the Star Wars films.
811 Hob
Hoberman, Mary Ann. You read to me, I'll read to you : very
short Mother Goose tales to read together. 1st ed. New
York : Little, Brown, c2005. Seventeen familiar nursery
rhymes are presented in script format for two voices to read
separately or together.
641.594 Gio
Gioffre, Rosalba. The Young Chef's French cookbook. New York :
Crabtree Pub., c2001. Contains dozen of recipes with
step-by-step instructions, and a special section containing
costumes, food, and fun of the Festival of Kings.
641.594 Gio
Gioffre, Rosalba. The Young Chef's Italian cookbook. New York :
Crabtree Pub., c2001. Contains dozen of recipes with
step-by-step instructions, and a special section containing
costumes, food, and fun of the Festival of Carnevale.
641.587 War
Ward, Karen, 1968-. The young chef's Mexican cookbook. New York
: Crabtree Pub. Co., c2001. Contains dozens of recipes with
step-by-step instructions, and a special section containing
costumes, food, and fun of the festival of Day of the Dead.
921 Pel
Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Young Pele : soccer's first star. 1st ed.
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2007. Presents the life
and accomplishments of Pelé, the Brazillian who has been
called the king of soccer.
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