The Jazz Fly : Starring the Jazz Bugs
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Linda Kraft. School Library Journal Review: PreS-Gr 1-When a drummer fly gets lost on his way to a gig, he tries to get directions from a frog, a pig, a donkey, and a dog, but none of them speaks his language. He finally finds his way to the […]
Ten-Minute Comedy Plays For Kids 7-10
12 plays, 24 scenes, 48 monologues
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
Children's Literature – Valerie O. Patterson: Set between August 1949 and June 1950, Karen Cushman's latest historical novel depicts post-World War II California as the US confronts the Communist scare. Francine Green and her friend Sophie Bowman dream of movie star Montgomery Clift and attend eighth grade at All Saints School. New to Catholic school, […]
The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition
FROM THE PUBLISHER: What do Galileo, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and Albert Einstein have in common? They've all ridden on the Magic School Bus, of course! Ms. Frizzle is back in action and she has a mission: her students need science fair projects – and fast. What better way to get ideas than to learn […]
Up Before Daybreak : Cotton and People In America
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 4-8?Making excellent use of primary sources (even noting when these sources may be less than accurate) and extended with black-and-white photos and period reproductions, this excellent work gives a detailed picture of the effect of cotton production on the social structure of the United States. From 1607, when […]
Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On the Moon
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5 Up?In infectiously hyperbolic prose that's liberally interspersed with quotes and accompanied by sheaves of period photos, Thimmesh retraces the course of the space mission that landed an actual man, on the actual Moon. It's an oft-told tale, but the author tells it from the point of view not of […]
Clay
Printz Award-winner Almond presents a remarkable novel about creation. One day, as Davie looks on, Stephen brings a tiny clay figure to life. What has Davie helped unleash on the world?
The Legend of Bass Reeves : Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal In the West
School Library Journal Review: Gr 6 Up?Drawing on newspaper accounts and his own fertile imagination, Paulsen tells Reeves???s story. Brief sections give the known facts of this hero???s life, set in historical context, and longer, narrative sections (the longest being about his boyhood) fill out the details. The result is a compelling tale of the […]
Lilly's Big Day
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. When her teacher, Mr. Slinger, announces he's going to marry the school nurse, Lilly?naturally?assumes she will be the flower girl. Henkes's (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse) black pen-and-watercolor illustrations, done in confectionary colors, show the mouse star in all her self-absorbed glory, parading across a spread, rehearsing the majestic way in […]