THE BOOK COLLECTION Volume 3, Nov./Dec., 2005 This newsletter is about books at Ensworth: books in the classrooms and books in the library. Read students’ recommendations and see what teachers are presenting to their classes. We invite your contributions to share with teachers, students and parents. CONTENTS FAVORITE BOOKS th th th WE ARE READING Page 1 5 , 7 , and 8 Graders’ Book Recommendations Sara Brown (7th grade) recommends Library News Carl Hiaasen’s Flush, which follows Page 2 Books We Have Read in the Hiaasen’s successful book Hoot. Lower Library Page 3 Pre-1st, 1st and 2nd Grades’ Carter Beach (8th grade) recommends Feature Author of the The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and Month: Jane Yolen Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz. Lower School Library Books by Jane Yolen: Andrew Bowers, Justice Swett and Page 4 Middle School Library Books William Higgins (5th grade) are reading by Jane Yolen Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini. New Books in the Middle th School Library - not just Tucker Deaton (5 grade) recommends for English classes! Jack Adrift by Jack Gantos Announcing “Student Picks” 6th Graders’ Book Choices Mark Lowe (5th grade) recommends Sea Pages 5 – 7 Class-y Book News of Trolls by Nancy Farmer. Page 8 New Lower Library Books . Pages 9 – 11 “Student Picks” LOWER LIBRARY NEWS MIDDLE LIBRARY NEWS Eighth grade English classes are beginning to .In addition to the many books we’ve read work on their research papers. From a in the lower Library (see page 2) and the selection that Mrs. Pickel shares with them, units on Jane Yolen, first, second and each eighth grader chooses a work of art that third graders have been interested in appeals to him or her. The student then Chris Van Allsberg’s books. They researches the artist and the work of art. The especially love to discover clues that are final product is a paper that they finish in February. The paper consists of a biography of hidden in The Garden of Abdul Gasazi the artist and a critique of the painting. The and The Stranger. students are then able to look for the painting ♥ Mrs. Sinks that they have studied when they visit the National Gallery on their trip to Washington. ♥Mrs. Sandwith BOOKS WE HAVE READ IN SECOND THE LOWER LIBRARY Ghost’s Hour, Spook’s Hour by Eve Bunting The Soup Bone by Tony Johnston The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt PRE-FIRST Picnic at Mudsock Meadow by Patricia Polacco Very Scary by Tony Johnston Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen The Halloween House Piggins by Jane Yolen by Erica Silverman The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming by Chris Van Allsburg Patty’s Pumpkin Patch by Teri Sloat It’s Fall by Linda Glaser THIRD An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball by Jane Yolen Tomas and the Library Lady Elfabet by Jane Yolen by Pat Mora One Little, Two Little, Three Little Picnic at Mudsock Meadow Pilgrims by B.G. Hennessy by Patricia Polacco Benjamin’s Barn The Spyglass by Reeve Lindbergh by Richard Paul Evans A Plump and Perky Turkey FIRST by Theresa Bateman The Emperor and the Kite Hoodwinked by Arthur Howard by Jane Yolen The Soup Bone by Tony Johnston The Stranger It’s Fall by Linda Glaser by Chris Van Allsburg The Little Squeegy Bug by Bill Martin ♥Mrs. Sinks Child of Faerie by Jane Yolen Owl Moon by Jane Yolen Sometimes it’s Turkey, Sometimes it’s Feathers by Lorna Balian The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg Pre-1st, 1st and 2nd Grades’ Lower School Library Feature Author Books by Jane Yolen of the Month: The Emperor and the Kite Jane Yolen Wings Merlin’s Books Jane Yolen is a professional storyteller. Tam Lin: An Old Ballad Since she sold her first book, on her twenty- Hark! A Christmas Sampler second birthday, she has written over 250 Best Witches: Poems for Halloween books. She also composes songs, writes Ring of Earth: A Child’s book of Seasons poetry, teaches writing and reviews Pirates in Petticoats children’s literature. She gets her ideas from The Acorn Quest life and credits her father and husband with All those Secrets of the World ideas for at least two of her books. Owl The Girl Who Loved the Wind Moon, motivated by her husband’s interest Greyling: A Picture Story from the in birds, won the 1988 Caldecott Medal. The Islands… Emperor and the Kite, a Caldecott Honor The Mystery at McCracken’s Place Book in 1983, was inspired by her father The Seventh Mandarin who was a former international kite-flying Uncle Lemon’s Spring champion. Ms. Nolen, a mother and King Long Shanks grandmother, has won numerous other Commander Toad and the big Black Hole awards and her books and stories have been Commander Toad in Space translated into 12 additional languages. She Elfabet: An ABC of Elves spends her time between St. Andrews, Picnic with Piggins Scotland and Hatfield, Massachusetts. Piggins (x2) Piggins and the Royal Wedding The Seeing Stick Sleeping Ugly Children of the Wolf The Devil’s Arithmetic The Dragon’s Boy The Faery Flag: Stories and Poems of Fantasy Welcome to the Green House Milk and Honey: A Day of Jewish Holidays Where Have the Unicorns Gone? Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Wizard’s Hall http://www.janeyolen.com/janebio.html Off We Go http://www.janeyolen.com/index.html Grandad Bill’s Song Ideas for teachers using Jane Yolen books Beneath the Ghost Moon in the classroom: Owl Moon http://www.janeyolen.com/usebooks.html An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball Letting Swift River Go All in the Woodland Early: An ABC Book MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY NEW BOOKS IN THE MIDDLE BOOKS BY JANE YOLEN SCHOOL LIBRARY Dream Weaver Series of Unfortunate Events #12 – The Hundredth Dove Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket The Girl Who Cried Flowers Pocahontas , Lisa Sita Here There Be Witches Stonewall Jackson , Tracy J. Power Here There Be Unicorns W.E.B. DuBois, Ryan P. Randolph California Gold Rush (multiplying and Here There Be Dragons dividing), Kerri O’Donnell Dove Isabeau Famous Bridges of World (measuring), The Wild Hunt Yolanda Maxwell The Gift of Sarah Baker Map Math (latitude & longitude), Children of the Wolf Orli Zuravicky Armageddon Math in Our Solar System (problem Twelve Impossible Things solving), Barbara M. Linde Dragon’s Blood Natural Wonders of the World (converting Vampires distance), Kerri O’Donnell Heart’s Blood (New Redwall Book) High Rhulain, A Sending of Dragons Brian Jacques Inkspell, Cornelia Caroline Funke White Jenna So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, The Devil’s Arithmetic Douglas Adams Things That Go Bump in the Night Molly Moore’s Hypnotic Time Travel The Mermaid’s Three Wisdoms Adventure, Georgia Byng Sword of the Rightful King Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel, A Sending of Dragons Meg Cabot ATTENTION MATH TEACHERS: Look at the math books! First, Second and 6th Graders Like Third Grade These Books Student Picks Palmer Campbell – Homer Price First through third graders by Robert McCloskey have been writing and telling Andrew Campbell – Artemis Fowl (series) about their favorite books. These by Eoin Colfer “Student Picks” Claire Johnson – Becoming Naomi Leon are featured in the display case in by Pam Muñoz Ryan Mary Elizabeth Colton – the hallway outside of the Lower The Two Princesses of Bamarre Library. Look at the last three by Gail Carson Levine pages of this newsletter to see Callie Estes – A Corner of the Universe what some of our younger children like by Ann M. Martin about their lower library books. Rett Hooper – No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman CLASS-Y BOOK NEWS Pre-1st Hempel will soon begin to hear The Courage of Sarah Noble. They enjoyed lots of books about Thanksgiving, Indians, Pilgrims, things to be thankful for and, as always, lots and lots of animal books to try to satisfy the thirst for animal information that constantly comes from this particular group of pre-first graders. st Pre-1 Hileman continues to read about Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and her magic cures for children’s bad habits. Their current book is Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’s Farm. The students are making another class book for their classroom library. The title of the book is Yummy Soup. It is a story innovation from Joy Cowley’s Yuck Soup book. Pre-1st Hill’s class just completed Charlotte's Web, and they are looking forward to starting a new chapter book after the Thanksgiving holidays (to be determined). The children have enjoyed learning about the first Thanksgiving through many non-fiction books. Pre-1st Schuld has enjoyed the books Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald, The Very first Thanksgiving by Rhonda Gowler Greene, Squanto and the First Thanksgiving by Joyce K. Kessel, and My First Thanksgiving by Tomie de Paola. 1 Jackoboice’s author of the month for November is Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. They are also reading “beginning” chapter books as a class from series like Frog and Toad (by Arnold Lobel) and Little Bear (by Else Holmelund Minarik). st 1 grade Johnson is listening to All About Sam by Lois Lowry. 1st grade Peck – is intrigued with Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke that Mrs. Peck is reading to them. 1st grade Sanchez’s class is listening to Mrs. Sanchez read Funny Frank by Dick King-Smith to her class. nd 2 Florentine’s current chapter book read-aloud is The Trouble With Tuck by Theodore Taylor.