Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1991-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590419277
Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program.
Author : Laura Shovan
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553521403
An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli. Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade class has plans for you. They’re going to speak up and work together to save their school. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it. Honors and Praise: Winner of a Cybils Award in Poetry Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year An ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List “This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —School Library Journal “Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp
Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307519392
DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper—it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would rather be hanging out with his sister and his friends. But soon he gets interested in the Oakdale Gazette. Much to his surprise, Darnell discovers that people pay attention to the words he writes. Before he knows it, Darnell changes from a kid who can’t do anything right to a person who can make a difference.
Author : Mel Gilden
Publisher : Ibooks for Young Readers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2020-12-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781596877856
YUCKERS! WHAT SMELLS LIKE COTTON CANDY AND GOES THUMP, THUMP, THUMP? Stevie Brickwald is so gross. He even eats Yuckers! cereal, and everyone knows it's full of weird chemicals. Then Stevie mixes Yuckers! with a secret ingredient, and very strange things start happening at school. All the lunch milk disappears. A small pink dog is seen diving into the drinking fountain. A mysterious thumping interrupts Ms. Cosgrove's math class. Could there really be another monster loose at P.S. 13? Danny Keegan knows that all monsters aren't bad. After all, some of his best friends are monsters. WELCOME TO P.S. 13 and the Crazy classroom of THE FIFTH GRADE MONSTERS!
Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822589095
From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent hours exploring meadows and woods, dreaming of seeing the ocean. As Rachel grew older, she combined her gift for writing with her love of nature, producing award-winning books about the sea. But her best-known achievement was the publication of Silent Spring, an account of the dangerous effects of pesticides on plants and animals. With Silent Spring, Rachel helped create a movement to ban these harmful chemicals. Her findings helped to assure that future generations would be able to dream about the ocean and listen to crickets.
Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338200178
Gordon Korman's next stand-alone novel, a fun, funny ghost story about a nobody kid who becomes a somebody while helping a ghost right a wrong from the past. Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford - where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just . . . whatshisface.Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then that glare starts to take on the form of . . . a person?It's not just any person trapped inside Cooper's phone. It's a boy named Roderick, who says he lived in the time of William Shakespeare - and had a very tangled history with the famous playwright. Cooper thinks his phone has gone haywire, but there's nothing he can do to get rid of Roderick. Then, even stranger, Roderick starts helping him. Even though his seventeenth-century advice isn't always the best for a twenty-first century middle school.
Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category : Baseball stories
ISBN : 9780785772248
When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.
Author : Barthe DeClements
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101077662
A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.
Author : Tim O'Shei
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598450767
Introduces readers to the inventors of wireless communication equipment and the Tesla coil used in today's radios and television sets through an examination of their childhood years, education, inspirations, and groundbreaking discoveries.
Author : Susan Muaddi Darraj
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496584295
Fifth-grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are hoping to go to the Magnet Academy for their middle school years, instead of Harbortown Elementary/Middle School; but when a new girl Dana Denver starts tormenting Farah and her younger brother, Samir, she decides she can not leave Samir to face the bully alone, especially since the adults and even Allie do not seem to be taking the matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which involves lying to those closest to her.
