Directions on Distributing Books: Please fill out the attached Inventory
Sheet to keep track of class reading sets of books. Please DO NOT WRITE
OR LET STUDENTS WRITE their name anywhere on the book. The books
are being used for multiple classes. Since they are class sets, you should
keep them stored in a safe place, LOCKED up in your class. Please return
them to Mrs. Caminita in the Library once you are finished with the sets. If
you feel more comfortable having students check out books, let me know.
”Hoot” by Carl Hiaasen (100+ copies)
Summary: Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another
boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
292 pages.
DVD Available
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott (18 copies)
Summary: Classic story by Louisa May Alcott about the March family of four
daughters, a strong mother and a father away during the Civil War.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain (36 copies)
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold
treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the
archetypical American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to
"sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the
Mississippi River.
VHS Available
“Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
(14 copies)
Summary: This book is about a very well mannered and wise ship surgeon named
Lemuel Gulliver, who gets washed ashore to wonderful and unbelievable lands. From 6
inch people to 100 foot people, this book will keep you entertained and excited about
Gulliver's next journey.
“Scorpions” by Walter Dean Myers
(49 copies)
Summary: Jamal, who is pressured to become leader of the Scorpions gang, worries
about school, family, and the rough kids on the street. When a fellow gang member
gives him a gun, Jamal suddenly gains a new level of respect from his enemies. A
realistic look at a boy who wants to do the right thing but gets caught up in the culture
of violence. A Newbery Honor selection.
Literature from Around the World (7 copies)
Books in the Selection: The Enchanted Garden, The Joy of Writing, From Night,
Eveline, The Swan, Tale of the Computer that fought a dragon, Weightless, Lot’s Wife,
The Guest, Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, A Gazelle: from out of Africa, The
Pearl, From Emperor to Citizen, In the Land of Small Dragon, The Nose, By any Other
Name, From Kaffir Boy, Marriage is a Private Affair, Telephone Conversation, A sunrise
on the veld, Seven laments for the war-dead, Half a day, Axolotl, Serene Words, Wind
and Water and Stone, The Garden of Forking Paths, Sunday Lemons, What I have been
doing lately.
Bearstone and Other Selected Works (8 copies)
Books in the Selection: Bearstone, From Beardance, In Pursuit of the Dog-Sized Trout,
From Far North, From Kopokelli’s Future
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
(6 copies)
Summary: A family accidentally stumbles upon a spring with water
endowing them with the gift of eternal life. Seventy years later, without
having grown a day older, a young girl discovers them and learns their secret.
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
(8 copies)
Summary: When her gambling, itinerant father is beaten up, Casey must stay
with her grandfather in San Francisco's Chinatown.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (15 Copies)
Summary: Contains the text of Steinbeck's novel depicting the struggles of
migrant workers.
VHS Available
April Morning by Howard Fast
(17 copies)
Summary: Adam Cooper, 15, observes the events in Lexington and Concord
on April 19, 1775.
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (7 copies)
Summary: While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a
thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and
is befriended by a wolf pack.
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett (19 copies)
Summary: A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the
Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a
locked garden.
Long Journey Home by Julius Lester (24 copies)
Summary: Six short stories drawn from history record the black man's struggle for
freedom during the days of slavery.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18 copies)
Summary: Warned that death awaits him if he claims his inheritance of a cursed ancestral
manor, Sir Henry Baskerville calls on Sherlock Holmes for assistance.
An Introduction to Shakespeare by Marchette Chute (43 copies)
Summary: Information about Shakespeare, his life and writings.
The Story of King Arthur by Tom Crawford (12 copies)
Summary: The thrilling story of how King Arthur became King after pulling a sword
from the stone.
Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida (33 copies)
Summary: After their release from an American concentration camp, a JapaneseAmerican girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese
feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon by Jack Bennett (14 copies)
Summary: A young Vietnamese boy recounts the perils and hardships endured by his
family as they journey to Indonesia, Singapore and finally to Australia seeking political
asylum.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (10 copies)
Summary: Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they
search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which
they find themselves "outsiders."
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce (34 copies)
Summary: Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw
of Shiloh.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katharine Paterson (20 copies)
Summary: Ten-year-old Jesse Aarons, who has lived all his life on a farm in Virginia,
becomes friends with Leslie Burke, a "city girl" who has moved into a farmhouse down
the road and opens doors to culture and imaginative play. But then tragedy strikes.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare (22 copies)
Summary: Strange events take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically
transform the romantic fate of two young couples.
Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather (31 copies)
Summary: A man with a terminal illness reflects back on his life.
The Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurtz (31 copies)
Summary: During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one
Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties,
including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of
Ethiopia.
The Bully by Paul Langan (50 copies)
Summary: A new life. A new school. A new bully. That's what Darrell
Mercer faces when he and his mother move from Philadelphia to
California. After spending months living in fear, Darrell is faced with a
big decision. He can either keep on running from this bully or find some
way to fight back.
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (9 copies)
Summary: In this book a number of people are offered the chance to move into an
exclusive condo building. Shortly thereafter they receive notice that they have been
listed in the will of the founder of Westing Paper Company. Only it is a bizarre will and
rather than being straightforward it requires the potential heirs to engage themselves
in a game to find out who murdered Mr. Westing. Thus the Westing Game begins.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens(13 copies)
Summary: Ebenzer Scrooge is a bitter old man who "Will keep Christmas in my own
way", which is not at all. People cringe when they see him coming. Dogs cower. But
that is all about to change. He is visited by the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob
Marley, dragging the chains he has forged for himself in life, and learns that it is not
too late for him. He can redeem himself!
**New** The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (21 copies)
Newbery Medal Winner, 1996
Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond
and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to
represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
**New** Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Newbery Medal Winner, 1971
Summary: When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his
mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from
the path of the farmer's plow.
Class Book Checkout Sheet
(please write down student name & barcode # on back of
book)
Student Name
Barcode #
Student Name
Barcode #