INFO: Reynolds Gardiner, John. Stone Fox. P. 1980.
DESC.: To give his grandfather the will to live and save their farm, 10-year-old Little Willy and his dog Searchlight try running the farm, but to make enough money they have to enter a dogsled race against the famous racer Stone Fox. Chapters are 6-8 pages long.
TAGS: dogs, farming, race, grandfather, illness, chapter, p, dogsled, fiction
INFO: Anderson, Joan. Sally Spylaw and the Flower Shop Mystery. P. 2004
DESC: Sally and her friend Tom like to spend their weekends being detectives. One Saturday they notice some strange things happening outside of a flower shop. They investigate the mystery.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, Mystery, Fame, Detectives, detective story, level p, highland park-p, papa
INFO: Parsons, John. Jaguar Attack. P. 2000.
DESC: This tells the story of a team of scientists traveling down a river in South America. Although a jaguar attack is part of the story, the book mainly deals with the devastation of natural areas.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, Global Warming, Expeditions, South America, Scientists, Animals.
INFO: McGuffee. Chasing Tornadoes. P. 2000
DESC: In this book, you’ll find out about scientists who chase tornadoes and study them up close.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, Tornadoes, Storms, Scientists, highland park-p, level p, papa, non-fiction, weather, cool jobs!
INFO: Adler, David. Heroes of the Revolution. P. 2006
DESC: From spying on the British to rescuing fallen soldiers on the battlefield, these twelve men and women stand as unforgettable heroes of Revolutionary War. David A. Adler’s lively anecdotes and Don Smith’s bold paintings present a dozen figures whose courage and determination to seek freedom were indomitable in their own time, and remain a shining example in our own.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, History, Heroes, America, level p, highland park-p, papa
INFO: Pigdon, Keith and Woolley, Marilyn. The Arctic Food Web. P. 2000
DESC: Have you ever wondered what kinds of plants and animals live in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean? This book tells you about some of these living things and how they are connected to one another and to you.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, Animals, Nature, Food, papa
INFO: Makishi, Stanford. The Bison Are Back! P. 2004
DESC: This book provides facts about the endangered bison of Oklahoma. This uplifting book details how the bison have been brought back from near extinction.
TAGS: Highland Park, P, Animals, Nature, Endangered Species, Bison, papa
INFO: Scieszka, Jon. The Time Warp Trio: 2095! P. 1995.
DESC: For all of its Stinky Cheese Man-era illustration, the Time Warp Trio series seems to have held up well. In this edition, our heroes find themselves transported from their class trip to New York’s Museum of Natural History to … the exact same place, 100 years in the future! Except that travelling into the future isn’t as easy as travelling into the past – after all, deadly Time Police robots get on your trail! In this funny adventure with a good touch of “detective” work and mystery, our heroes manage to find their way “back from the future” … with a little help from some unexpected kin. Noteworthy – and especially interesting to our readers – is Scieszka’s offbeat, and fairly convincing, rendering of the technologies (read: giant 3-D advertisements for toilet-paper, shaped like a talking roll of gargantuan toilet-paper, floating in mid-air) and fashions of the future!
TAGS: fantasy, science fiction, sf, future, the future, time travel, adventure, suspense, mystery, museums, TIME POLICE ROBOTS, humor, chapter, fiction, P
INFO: Avi. Who Stole The Wizard of Oz? P. 1981.
DESC: Avi’s Who Stole The Wizard of Oz is a genuine mystery – and a literary mystery, at that. When Becky is framed by the usually-quite-nice local librarian in the thief of some very rare original-copy children’s books, she and her brother Toby decide to clear their names by taking investigation into their own hands. Avi’s book “keeps secrets” from its readers, and binds us strongly to the perspectives of Becky and Toby (our narrator), which makes for fascinating, well-paced and un-put-down-able reading as the action develops! Kids ask about this one in the halls.
TAGS: libraries, librarians, suspense, detective story, mystery, literature mystery, kids, books, kids who like books, reading, reading mysteries, detective stories about reading!, crime story, cliffhanger, fiction, chapter
INFO: Small, Mary. A Pony Named Shawney. P. 1997.
DESC: A boy in a wheelchair befriends a horse and learns to ride with the help of his neighbors.
TAGS: East Franklin, P, friendship, sharing, horses, handicap, dreams, fiction, Level P, Papa
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