Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Sideways Stories from Wayside School passengers and crew, rich and poor alike, fought to Louis Sachar survive.

Humorous episodes take place in the classroom on the Passage to Freedom: The Sughihara Story thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was Ken Mochizuki accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. The story of one man's courage and the respect between Readers Choice father and son who shared the weight of an amazing act Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories of humanity during World War II. Award Sandra Markle 2012 Nominees This book consists of real-life stories about animal Grades 3-5 heroes. It also discusses how people have learned to work with animals in ways that make the most of each animal's special abilities to help humans. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal Adventures in Cartooning Vaunda Micheaux Nelson James Sturm

This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former This book uses a story about a magical elf who helps a slave who was recruited as a deputy United States princess learn how to draw a comic to present Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma. techniques for and advice about drawing comics.

14 Cows for America Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Carmen Deedy Stories About Growing Up Scieszka

Jon Scieszka This book presents an illustrated tale of a gift of fourteen

cows given by the Maasai people of Kenya to the U.S. Part memoir, part scrapbook, this trip down memory as a gesture of comfort and friendship in the wake of the lane provides a unique glimpse into the formation of a attacks of September 11, 2001. The coauthor is Wilson creative mind and a free spirit. Kimeli Naiyomah.

World According to Humphrey Your School or Public Betty Birney

All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns Titanic Sank Don Brown Library Name Here that he has an important role to play in helping the

teacher and his classmates. This book presents an account of the deadly voyage of the "Titanic" in April 1912, when about 2,200 Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives Michael Buckley Chester, the Monroe family's cat, resorts to hilarious Phyllis Naylor antics to alert his owners and Harold, their dog, that the Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are newly adopted bunny may actually be a vegetable During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy sent to live with an eccentric grandmother who they vampire. The coauthor is James Howe. June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and have always believed to be dead. communities and find that although their lifestyles are Dying to Meet You total opposites, they have a lot in common. Kate Klise Extra Credit Riding Freedom Andrew Clements In this story told mostly through letters, children's book Pam Munoz Ryan author I.B. Grumply gets more than he bargained for As letters flow back and forth, between the prairies of when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer. Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and cultural and religious divides, sixth-grader Abby, ten- Swindle fools everyone by her appearance. year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to Gordon Korman speak and listen to each other. After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino cons sixth-grader Griffin Bing out of a valuable baseball card, Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook Griffin puts together a band of misfits to break into Eleanor Davis Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back. Eleven-year-old Julian thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben Flight of the Phoenix and works to prevent an adult from using one of their R. L. LaFevers gadgets for nefarious purposes. With his parents lost at sea, Nate lands on the doorstep Just Grace of a distant cousin, the world's last remaining Charise Harper beastologist. Soon he is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the world's only phoenix Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old prepares to lay its new egg. Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel Rules better, her good intentions backfire. Cynthia Lord

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year- Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery old Catherine longs for a normal existence, but her Deborah and James Howe world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

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