Scholastic Inc
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Series
I survived volume 1
Language
English
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Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
3) War horse
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English
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"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
5) All aboard!
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A crane, a fork lift, and other vehicles and machines load cars onto the train in preparation for a trip to Lego City.
6) Fever Crumb
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Series
Language
English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought. At age fourteen, she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
7) Chrissa
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Chrissa starts fourth grade at a new school, some of the girls in her class play mean tricks on her, but when their teasing of another girl, Gwen, goes too far, Chrissa knows that she has to do something about it.
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Series
Floors volume 3
Language
English
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Leo and Remi have gotten used to the strangeness of the Whippet Hotel, but when the entire top floor is hoisted into the sky and transported to the field of wacky inventions, they find that they must compete against a number of foes to solve a puzzle or lose their beloved hotel forever.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about flight, energy, space rocks, warm/cold-blooded animals, floating and sinking, honeybees, and heat.
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English
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about air pressure, wetlands, cells, stars, gravity, smell, and electricity.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about photosynthesis, rain forest ecology, water erosion, recycling, molecules, eggs, and tidal zones.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about spiders, structures, light, archaeology, color, migration, and circulation.