New Books! Annual Order Edition

Hooray! Our annual order has come in! If you want to reserve one of these books, log in to Clever and choose "Destiny Discover" to access the catalog and place a hold.

Call Number	Title	Author
001.9 WEI	Weird but true! 4 : 350 outrageous facts.
001.9 WEI	Weird but true! 6 : 350 outrageous facts.
340 Heumann	Fighting for yes! : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann (2024 RICBA)	Cocca-Leffler, Maryann
363.72 BAR	I'm trying to love garbage	Barton, Bethany
551.48 HOD	When Cloud became a cloud	Hodgson, Rob
579.3 FIS	(2023 Mock Sibert)	Fishman, Seth
591.5 JEN	The animal toolkit : how animals use tools  (2023 Mock Sibert)	Jenkins, Steve
597.8 GRA	The toad	Gravel, Elise
617 Bath	The doctor with an eye for eyes : the story of Dr. Patricia Bath	Mosca, Julia Finley
624 RAJ	Amazing landmarks (2024 RICBA)	Rajan, Rekha S.
641.82 PIZ	(2023 Mock Sibert)	Pizzoli, Greg
796.357 FLY	Girls' softball	Flynn, Brendan
796.357 MAT	12 reasons to love softball	Mattern, Joanne
BD	Cranky Chicken.	Battersby, Katherine
BD 1	Fish and sun (2023 Geisel)	Ruzzier, Sergio
BD 1	Fish and worm	Ruzzier, Sergio
BD EP	It's a sign!	Pumphrey, Jarrett
BD ND	Hydrant-hydra	Cummings, Troy
BD OD		May, Kyla
BD OD	Pug's new puppy	May, Kyla
E C	Lou (2023 Mock Caldecott)	Carzoo, Breanna
E G	The book of rules	Gehrlein, Brian
E G	Ginny Goblin cannot have a monster for a pet	Goodner, David
FIC KEL	Maybe maybe Marisol Rainey	Kelly, Erin Entrada
FIC Scary		Arden, Katherine
FIC Scary	Empty smiles	Arden, Katherine
FIC Scary	Nightmares! The lost lullaby	Segel, Jason
FIC Scary	Nightmares! : the sleepwalker tonic	Segel, Jason
FIC VAN	Nothing is little (2024 RICBA)	Van Vleet, Carmella
FIC WAT	Stick Dog	Watson, Tom
S BSC		Farina, Katy
S BSC	Baby-sitters little sister. 2, Karen's roller skates	Farina, Katy
S GN	Best Friends	Hale, Shannon
S GN		Barnett, Mac
S GN	Another kind	Bream, Trevor
S GN	Freestyle	Galligan, Gale
S GN	Crafty Cat and the crafty camp crisis	Harper, Charise Mericle
S GN	Crafty Cat and the great butterfly battle	Harper, Charise Mericle
S GN	Growing pangs (2024 RICBA)	Ormsbee, Kathryn
S GN		Tatulli, Mark
S GN	Katie the catsitter. #3, Secrets and sidekicks	Venable, Colleen A. F.
S ML	My life as a coder	Tashjian, Janet
S ML	My life as a ninja	Tashjian, Janet
S SP		Laperla (Artist)
S SP	Super Potato. #10, Super Potato's Middle Ages adventure	Laperla (Artist)
S ZB	The last kids on Earth and the forbidden fortress	Brallier, Max
Who Was	Who is Jackie Chan?	Shaffer, Jody Jensen

      
 

Best Reads of August 2023

Here are my favorite books that I read during August. All images and summaries from Goodreads.

Picture Books

With an elegant and simple approach, this thought-provoking book shows young readers that even the most familiar things can be seen from infinite perspectives. ... The unusual approach to colors, shapes, and animals intelligently introduces young readers to patterns, classification, and problem solving. The imaginative language, rich with rhythmic phrasing and playfulness, begs to be read aloud.

Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead—to stories.
 

 

The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.

High on a mountain live 100 mighty dragons all named Broccoli. When a tremendous wind blows half the dragons away, ten others sail off to become professional surfers in Hawaii. The oldest and youngest dragons take a train to New York City to start their own heavy metal band. And a mysterious wizard turns four more into a unicorn, a werewolf, a zombie, and a tiny pink poodle. Now how many dragons are left? Young readers will delight in following each and every dragon as they leave their home for marvelous adventures.

How far can you go? How much do you know? How kind are you? How much do I love you? These are the impossible questions every child has asked, and every parent has struggled to answer. This is a wonderfully affirmative and aspirational book of possibilities and exploration, a fantastic linguistic calibration/celebration of bravery, kindness, love, and so much more. 

Middle Grade Novels

Herc Beal knows who he's named after—a mythical hero—but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod—and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc figures out how to take his first steps along the road that the great Hercules himself once walked. Soon, new friends, human and animal, are helping him. And though his mythical role model performed his twelve labors by himself, Herc begins to see that he may not have to go it alone.

Nonfiction

What if you were small as a bean, / Could walk on the walls and ceiling, / Sense vibrations through your elbows, / And jump five times your body length? / That is Jumper's world.

Open this book to discover the hidden life of a backyard jumping spider.

As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide — The Negro Motorist Green-Book —compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that Black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small, over the years it became an expansive, invaluable resource for Black people throughout the country—all in the hopes that one day such a guide would no longer be needed.

We Are Ready for Checkout!

 Here is a sneak peek of the shelves waiting for the students ... 

E is for everyone! Picture books

Blue Dots are early readers

Series is the most popular section

It includes the graphic novels!

FICtional chapter books

First half of the nonfiction ... facts!

The holds shelf

Telling Fibs in Room 205

Fibonacci, a mathematician who lived during the 1200s, developed a number sequence named after him. Each number is added to the previous number to get the next number: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 and so on. 

Author Greg Pincus invented the “Fib” form of poetry, in which each consecutive line has the same number of syllables that appear in the Fibonacci sequence. We wrote some together to practice. For example: 

Forest Walk

Trees,

snails,

tree stump,

ant, anthill,

bugs, apple trees, squir-

rels, mushrooms, bees, hornets, snakes,

beehive. We are at a forest right now. Plants, leaves, flies.

Then the students wrote their own. Here are some of their creations:

Vroom!

Vroom!

Race cats!

That's the sound!

Let's go race the cars!

Start your engines ... 1 2 3 GO!

- A.M.

The

bird

is on

a big hat

on a man's bald head

in the sunny sun on the bench.

- F.P.

I

hate 

mushrooms

so darn much!

Do you hate them too?

Because they just taste so darn bad.

- A.A.

I

love

reading

at night to

my sister. She loves

me reading to her. Does yours too?

- L.S.

I 

love

summer

because it's

sun and relaxing.

You can go to vacation, yay!

- A.I.

School

is

out now

scream and shout!

Because it's summer!

Time to go to the beach and splash.

- A.M.

Do

you

like to

play board games?

Do you like chicken?

Do you like to play chicken wheel?

- A.J.

books

books

reading

time homework

math time kind of fun ...

Yay! It's television time.

- K.L.

Ball

is 

awesome

because I

am so good at it,

and is so cool because of stats.

- R.C.

my

cat 

is black

and vicious

but I love him and

he is so cute but he annoys

- L.A.

I 

love

to read

so much. Do 

you? I love reading

graphic novels and it's fun, right?

- A.A. 

work

hard

to reach

your final

score on your math grades

so you can find out what you got

- F.P.

tick

tick

tock croc

run away!

right away or else

you will get eaten right now.

- C.M.

Help!

Help! 

Monster!

Under bed!

Get rid of it now!

Monster in the closet too now!

- A.M.

What Ms. Moore Got at the Library This Summer

Here are the books I checked out at the public library this summer .... I'm still working on some of the chapter books! What are you reading? Any of the same books?