Longwood Public Library
800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953
Magic School Bus
Bloom, George. The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A
Book About Color
Ms. Frizzle takes her class inside a pinball machine that is
played with light pulses instead of steel balls, to learn the
secrets of color and light. (Grades K-3) J551.567 MAG
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus at the Water Works
When Ms. Frizzle, the strangest teacher in school, takes her
class on a field trip to the waterworks, everyone ends up
experiencing the water purification system from the inside.
(K-3) J553.7 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Blows Its’ Top: A Book
About Volcanoes
A jigsaw puzzle of the world, lacking a single piece, prompts
another informative trip aboard the Magic School Bus, which
brings Ms. Frizzle’s class to the site of an underwater
volcano that eventually creates an island. (Grades K-3)
J551.21 MAG
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog
Beast: A Book About Butterfly Camouflage
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on another wild Magic School
Bus ride to convince her students that butterflies are far
more exciting than most of them believe. (Grades K-3)
J595.789 KRU
Longwood Public Library
800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
Ms. Frizzle and her class explore the senses by traveling on
the Magic School Bus in and out of an eye, ear, mouth,
nose, and other parts of both human and animal bodies.
(Grades K-3) J612.8 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet: A Book
About Warm and Cold Blooded Animals
When Liz the Lizzard disappears from Ms. Frizzle’s
classroom, her students take a trip to Herp Haven to try to
find her, and discover what it is like to live like a coldblooded animal. (Grades K-3) J591 MAG
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream: A Book
About Salmon Migration
Fishing for food to share at the annual fish fry picnic, Ms.
Frizzle’s class is astonished when the Magic School Bus
turns into a giant salmon and takes them all on an incredible
journey upstream. (Grades K-3) J597.56 MAG
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus in a Pickle: a Book About
Microbes
Keesha and her classmates return from vacation to find that
her prizewinning cucumber has been replaced with a pickle,
and they attempt to find out what happened. (Grades K-3)
J616.014 MAG
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to a beehive in a
Magic School Bus. (Grades K-3) J595.799 COL
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800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
The Magic School Bus takes a close look at the inside of a
hurricane. (Grades K-3) J551.552 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
On a special field trip in the Magic School Bus, Ms. Frizzle’s
class learns firsthand about different kinds of rocks and the
formation of the earth. (Grades K-3) J551 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
A special field trip on the Magic School Bus allows Ms.
Frizzle’s class to get a firsthand look at major parts of the
body and how they work. (Grades K-3) J612 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle’s
class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the
solar system. (Grades K-3) J523.2 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor
On another special field trip on the magic school bus, Ms.
Frizzle’s class learns about the ocean and the different
creatures that live there. (Grades K-3) J591.77 COL
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: a Book
About Archaeology
During a Show-and-Tell Contest, Arnold brings in a strange
old object that nobody can identify but about which everyone
makes wild guesses and a trip on the Magic School Bus
takes them on an archaeological dig. (Grades K-3)
J930.1 MAG
Longwood Public Library
800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Spins a Web: A Book
About Spiders
Ms. Frizzle takes her class to a drive-in movie about a
praying mantis. She drives her magic school bus right into
the movie to show her class how spiders trap their prey.
(Grades K-3) J595.4 MAG
Herman, Gail. The Magic School Bus Takes Flight: A Book
About Flight
In order to discover how things fly, Ms. Frizzle and her class
are shrunk inside Wanda and Tim’s model airplane and learn
about how wings and moving air affect flight in a series of
high adventures. (Grades K-3) J629.1 MAG
Krulik, Nancy. The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About
Bats
Driven batty by their lessons on nocturnal animals, the
students in Ms. Frizzle’s class participate in a nighttime
adventure that features the bus’ new wings. (Grades K-3)
J599.4 MAG
May, John. The Magic School Bus Plays Ball: A Book About
Forces
Dorothy Ann loves her physics book; Ralphie loves baseball.
Ms. Frizzle ingeniously combines the two in a page-hopping
adventure through Dorothy Ann’s book to a “Frictionless
baseball game.” The whole class learns about pushes and
pulls in a remarkable day at a thoroughly unique ball game.
(Grades K-3) J531 MAG
Longwood Public Library
800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953
Relf, Patricia. The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book
About How Living Things Grow
The class decides to plant a garden and Miss Frizzle takes
them on a zany field trip back to Phoebe’s old school, where
they learn about the cycle of plant life and how living things
grow. (Grades K-3) J582 MAG
Weyn, Suzanne. The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up: A
Book About Deserts
When Phoebe wonders how desert animals survive
apparently without food or water, Ms. Frizzle and the Magic
School Bus take the entire class on a very hot, but very
informative, field trip. (Grades K-3) J551.415 MAG
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