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List Updated Thursday Feb. 23.

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE SUITABLE FOR STUDENTS IN PRE-K - 3

 

Boston Celtics by Frisch

K-3 Non-Fiction  $19.00

A basic introduction to the Boston Celtics professional basketball team, including its formation in 1946, great players such as Bill Russell, championships, and stars of today.

 

The bravest woman in America by Moss

K-3  Non-Fiction  $17.00

Tells the true story of Ida Lewis, explaining how she learned to tend a lighthouse from her father, discussing her responsibilities as the lighthouse keeper, and describing her heroic rescues.

 

Chicago Bulls by Frisch

K-3  Non-Fiction  $19.00

A basic introduction to the Chicago Bulls professional basketball team, including its formation in 1966, great players such as Michael Jordan, championships, and stars of today.

 

Dot by Intriago

K-3  Easy Fiction  $15.00

Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.

 

Energy island : how one community harnessed the wind and changed their world by Drummond

K-3  Non-Fiction  $17.00

Shares the true story of how the people on the Danish island of Samso reduced their carbon emissions by 140 percent over the course of ten years by harnessing wind power.

 

First day of school by Rockwell

K-3  Easy Fiction  $17.00

Sam and his friend Sarah recall what their first day of school was like in Mrs. Madoff's class.

 

Going home : the mystery of animal migration by Berkes

K-3  Non-Fiction  $17.00

A rhyming exploration of migration, looking at various animals who are led by instinct to migrate every year by land, sea, and air.

 

Los Angeles Lakers by Firsch

K-3  Non-Fiction  $19.00

A basic introduction to the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team, including its formation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1947, greatest players, championships, and stars of today.

 

The man who walked between the towers by Gerstein

K-3  non-Fiction  $18.00

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

 

Miami Heat by Firsch

K-3  Non-Fiction  $19.00

A basic introduction to the Miami Heat professional basketball team, including its formation in 1988, great players such as Alonzo Mourning, championship, and stars of today.

 

One foot two feet : an exceptional counting book by Maloney

K-3  Non-Fiction  $15.00

A counting book in which die-cut windows frame a single familiar object, and more objects are revealed as pages are turned.

 

Ready for Reading by Owen

K-3 Non-Fiction $19.00

Get ready for reading by telling the story of Peek-a-boo's day.

 

Sounds and Letters by Owen

K-3 Non-Fiction $19.00

Learns sounds and letters at Peek-a-boo's nursery school.

 

Waiting for the Biblioburro by Brown

K-3  Easy Fiction  $24.00

When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.

 

  THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE SUITABLE  FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-6.

 

Flat broke : the theory, practice and destructive properties of greed by Paulsen

3-6  Fiction  $20.00

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.

 

Lucky cap by Jennings

3-6  Fiction  $16.00

Enzo spends an exciting summer touring with his father and his new boss, and at the start of the school year, when the girls start paying more attention to him and he suddenly has more friends than before, Enzo thinks it is all happening because of his lucky baseball cap.

 

Rugby by Purslow

3-6  Non-Fiction  $20.00     

Describes the history and basics of the sport of Rugby, including the type of equipment used, championships, and major superstars of the sport.

 

The trouble with chickens by Cronin

3-6  Fiction  $18.00

A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

 

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE SUITABLE FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES  5-8.

 

Mike Piazza by Friedman

5-8  Non-Fiction  $38.00

Examines the life of Mike Piazza, one of history's most celebrated baseball players, providing information on his childhood and family, introduction to the game, playing career, and outside interests, and including photographs, statistics, and a time line.

 


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