Wednesday, April 29, 2009

More Praisner Offerings (J Nonfiction and Biographies)

The Praisner library has the following copies to share. Please let us know before May 20th which titles you would like:

Vikings Raiders and Explorers by Weintraub
The Vikings by Schomp
Growing Up in Viking Times by Tweddle
The Viking World by Hatt
Let the Celebrations Begin! by Wild
A Friend Called Anne by Van Maarsen
The Ural Mountains by Maynard
Serbia - Enchantment of the World by Milivojevic
How to Be an Egyptian Princess by Morley
Thanks to My Mother by Rabinovici
Memories of Survival by Krinitz
D-Day by McGowen
Remember D-Day by Drez
The Good Fight by Ambrose
Children and Games in the Middle Ages by Elliott
Medieval Feasts and Banquets by Bhote
Medieval Medicine and the Plague by Elliott
The Renaissance by Matthews
Science and Technology in the Middle Ages by Findon
Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages by Groves
Knights in Armor by Clare
Knights and Armor by Firth
Stephen Biesty's Castles by Hooper
The Colony of Delaware by Whitehurst
Counties of Central Maryland by Bunting
Counties of Northern Maryland by Bunting
Counties of Southern Maryland by Bunting
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial by Phillips
Lost City: The Discover of Machu Picchu by Lewin
Inca Town by MacDonald
The Incas by Wood
Peru by Landau
A Week in the 1800s by Goodman
Charley Waters Goes to Gettysburg by Sinnott
Terror of the Spanish Main by Marrin
Miracle by Karwoski (2 copies)
So You Want to Be President by St. George
The New Big Book of America by Davis
Cuban Kids by Ancona
The Emancipation Proclamation by Armentrout
Vicksburg by Fraser
A Pioneer Sampler by Greenwood
The Louisian Purchase by Schlaepfer
Bushnell's Submarine by Lefkowitz
The Declariaton of Independence -illus. by Fink
Give Me Liberty by Freedman
Independence Now by Rosen
Frontier Living by Tunis
Leaving Vietnam by Kilborne
Iran by Greenblatt
Israel by Patterson
Kanem-Borno by Koslow
The Persian Gulf War by Price (2 copies)
War in the Persian Gulf by Bratman
Honduras by Shields
Tikal by Mann
Guatemala by Shields
Mexico City by Cory

All J Biographies:
Lou Gehrig by Adler
Bobbie Rosenfeld by Dublin
J.K. Rowling by Gaines
Sacagawea by Marcovitz
Sacagawea by St. George
Carl Sandburg by Niven
Albert Schweitzer by Bentley
Sequoyah by Rumford
Miles Standish by Witteman
The Ballot Box Battle by McCully (Stanton)
The Road to Seneca Falls by Swain (Stanton) (1 hb and 1 pb)
R. L. Stine by Wheeler
Katherine Stinson by Winegarten
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Fritz
Introducing Stravinsky by Vernon
J.R.R. Tokien by Coren
Introducing Verdi by Vernon
Booker T. Washington by Schroeder
More Than Anything Else by Bradby (Booker T. Washington)
Noah Webster by Melis
To the Point by Collins (E.B. White)
Only Opal by Cooney (Opal Whiteley)
Walt Whitman by Reef
Eli Whitney by Bagley
The Inventions of Granville Woods by Cefrey
Into the Air by Burleigh (Wright Brothers)
Taking flight by Krensky (Wright Brothers)
Chien Shiung Wu by Cooperman
Kristi Yamaguchi - Always Dream by Yamaguchi
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night by Zhang
A Strong Right Arm by Green (Mamie "Peanut" Johnson)
Anne Hutchinson by Mangal
Whitney Houston by Cox
Anfernee Hardaway by Townsend


Thanks!

Anne Gerlach
LIIJ
Praisner

Thursday, December 11, 2008

MJP's Latest J Fiction Offerings

In the spirit of giving, MJP has the following J Fiction titles to offer. Please respond to this blog or email Kathleen Reid before the end of the year if your branch would like any particular gifts from this list.

Happy Holidays!

Anne Gerlach
LIIJ
MJP

Alexander The Book of Three
Alexander The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
Alexander The Gawgon and the Boy
Alexander The Rope Trick
Alexander Taran Wanderer
Almond Skellig
Amato Drooling and Dangerous
Anaya The Santero’s Miracle: A Bilingual Story
Andersen The Little Mermaid
Andersen Little Mermaids & Ugly Ducklings…
Anderson Whales on Stilts
Ardagh Heir of Mystery
Ardagh A House Called Awful End
Ardagh Terrible Times
Arnold Golden & Grey (an Unremarkable Boy…)
Arnold Golden & Grey: The Nightmares…
Asch Mr. Maxwell’s Mouse
Auch Frozen Summer
Avi Abigail Takes the Wheel
Avi The Man Who Was Poe
Avi Midnight Magic
Avi Perloo the Bold
Avi Romeo & Juliet Together and Alive at Last
Bader Golden Quest
Bagnold National Velvet
Bailey Miss Hickory
Balliett The Wright 3
Barasch Radio Rescue
Bauer Sticks
Baylor Hawk, I’m Your Brother (2 copies)
Beatty Charley Skedaddle
Bee Comeback Cagers
Bellairs The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
Billingsley Well Wished
Birney Friendship According to Humphrey
Bishop Twenty and Ten
Bond Paddington Abroad
Bond Paddington Helps Out
Bond Paddington Takes the Test
Borden Across the Blue Pacific
Borden Goodbye, Charles Lindbergh
Borden Sleds on Boston Common
Brittain Who Knew There’d Be Ghosts?
Brooks Freddy and the Dragon
Brooks Freddy and the Ignormus
Brooks Freddy the Detective
Brooks Freddy the Politician (2 copies)
Bryant The Trial (2 copies)
Bulla The Cardboard Crown
Bunting Nasty, Stinky Sneakers (2 copies)
Bunting One Green Apple
Bunting Sharing Susan
Butler Trading Places with Tank Talbott
Butterworth A Visit to the Big House
Cameron Colibri
Cameron More Stories Huey Tells(2 copies)
Carbone Sarah and the Naked Truth
Carbone Storm Warriors
Carey The Big Bazoohley
Carlson The Family Under the Bridge (2 copies)
Carrick The Accident
Carrick The Elephant in the Dark
Carrick The Foundling
Carris Stolen Bones
Castaneda Abuela’s Weave
Chrisman Shen of the Sea
Coatsworth The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Cole Larky Mavis
Cole Rockin’ Reptiles
Coleman Weirdo’s War
Collier The Empty Mirror
Conly While No One Was Watching
Conrad My Daniel
Cooper The Boggart and the Monster
Cooper The Dark is Rising
Cooper King of Shadows
Corder Lion Boy
Corder Lion Boy: The Chase
Cosby The Best Way to Play
Cosby Shipwreck Saturday
Coville Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Creech Heartbeat
Creech Replay: A New Book
Creech Walk Two Moons
Crew The Watertower
Cummings Toulouse: the Story of a Canada Goose (2 copies)
Curry The Big Smith Snatch
Cushman The Midwife’s Apprentice
Dalgliesh The Courage of Sarah Noble
D’Amico Ella Sets the Stage
DeAngeli The Door in the Wall
DeFelice Cold Feet
Degross Donovan’s Word Jar
DeJong Wheel on the School
Delton Angel Bites the Bullet
Denslow Georgie Lee
DePaola The Legend of the Bluebonnet
Dewey Pecos Bill
DiTerlizzi The Ironwood Tree
Etchemendy The Power of Un
Duane Wizard’s Holiday
Duane Wizard’s Dilemma
Godden Four Dolls
Godden Premlata & the Festival of Lights
Golden Magician’s Visit
Gormley Wanted: UFO
Greenfield Sister Yessa’s Story
Griffin The Other Shepards
Grimm Dear Mili
Hall The Whispered Horse
Hamilton M.C. Higgins the Great
Hamilton Time Pieces
Hathaway Missy Violet & Me
Haywood Happy Birthday From Carolyn Haywood
Heide The Shrinking of Treehorn
Heide Treehorn’s Wish
Henkes Sun & Spoon
Hermann Seeing Lessons
Hesse Aleutian Sparrow
Hesse Just Juice
Hest Gabby Growing Up
Hest Love You, Soldier
Hill Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway
Holm North to Freedom
Hooks The Ballade of Belle Dorcas
Howe/Irving Rip Van Winkle
Ives Monsieur Eek
Jansson Moominpappa at Sea
Jansson Moominsummer Madness
Johnston The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe
Jones Tambourine Moon
Joseph The Color of My Words
Kendall The Gammage Cup
Kennedy Amy’s Eyes
Kesey Little Trickster the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear
Killilea Newf
Kimmel Asher & the Capmakers
Kindl Goose Chase
Kingsbury Hannah’s Hope
King-Smith Clever Lollipop
King-Smith The Golden Goose
King-Smith Harriet’s Hare
King-Smith Mr. Ape
King-Smith Mr. Potter’s Pet
King-Smith Paddy’s Pot of Gold
King-Smith The Toby Man
King-Smith The Water Horse
Kipling Just So Stories
Kipling Kim
Kipling Rikki Tikki Tavi
Kipling The Second Jungle Book
Kjelgaard Irish Red
Klass Little Women Next Door
Klise Regarding the Trees
Knight Lassie Come Home (2 copies)
Kompanyets The Squishiness of things
Krensky Louise Goes Wild
Kroeger Paperboy
Kroll Dear Mr. President
Kropp Snow Ghost
Krumgold And Now Miguel (2 copies)
Kuklin The Harlem Nutcracker
Langton The Mysterious Circus
Lasky Marven of the Great North Woods
Lawrence The Fugitive from Corinth
Lawrence The Pirates of Pompeii
Lawrence The Secrets of Vesuvius
Lawson Mr. Revere and I (3 copies)
Lawson They Were Strong and Good (2 copies)
Leaf Eyes of the Dragon (3 copies)
Leaf Wee Gillis
Lears Ben Has Something to Say
Lears Megan’s Birthday Tree
Lee Nim and the War Effort
LeGuin The Farthest Shore (2 copies)
LeGuin Jane On Her Own
LeGuin A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back (2 copies)
LeGuin A Wizard of Earthsea
L’Engle The Arm of the Starfish
L’Engle Many Waters
L’Engle Meet the Austins
L’Engle The Moon By Night
Lester Are We There Yet?
Lester Black Cowboy Wild Horses (2 copies)
Lester This Strange New Feeling
Lester Why Heaven is Far Away
Levin Fire in the Wind
Levine All the Lights in the Night (2 copies)
Levine Detective Stars and the Case of the Super Soccer Team
Levine The Fairy’s Mistake (2 copies)
Levy Something Queer in Outer Space (2 copies)
Levy Something Queer in the Wild West (2 copies)
Lewin Red Legs: A Drummer Boy of the Civil War
Lindbergh Bailey’s Window
Lindbergh Travel Far, Pay No Fare
Lisle The Lampfish of Twill
Locker Family Farm (2 copies)
Look Ruby Lu, Brave and True (2 copies)
Love The Puppeteer’s Apprentice
Lovelace Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Lovelace Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Lovelace Betsy Was a Junior
Lovelace Betsy’s Wedding
Lowry All About Sam
Lowry Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst
Lowry Anastasia At Your Service
Lowry Anastasia Krupnik (2 copies)
Lowry Rabble Starkey
Lowry Switcharound
Lowry Zooman Sam
Lunn The Root Cellar
Lupica Heat (4 copies)
Lyon One Lucky Girl (2 copies)
Lyons Dear Ellen Bee (2 copies)
Macaulay Angelo
Macaulay Black and White
MacBride Little Farm in the Ozarks (2 copies)
MacDonald Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
MacLachlan Grandfather’s Dance
MacLachlan More Perfect Than the Moon (2 copies)
MacLachlan Sarah Plain and Tall(4 copies)
MacLachlan Three Names
Magorian Good Night Mr. Tom (2 copies)
Mah Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society (2 copies)
Mahy The Five Sisters
Mahy A Fortune Branches Out
Mahy The Haunting
Mahy Nonstop Nonsense
Mahy The Other Side of Silence
Manushkin Latkes & Applesauce(2 copies)
Marcantonio Red Ridin’ in the Hood & Other Cuentos
Marcellino I, Crocodile
Marino Eighty-Eight Steps to September
Marsden Silk Umbrellas
Marshall Rats on the Range and Other Stories (2 copies)
Marshall Swine Lake(2 copies)
Martin Belle Teal (2 copies)
Martin Here Today (2 copies)
Martin Jr. Knots on a Counting Rope(2 copies)
Matas Daniel’s Story
Matthews A Dog for Life (2 copies)
Mathis The Hundred Penny Box (3 copies)
Mayer Beauty and the Beast
Mayne Hob and the Goblins
Mazer The Wild Kid
McCall Smith Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
McCall Smith Akimbo and the Lions (2 copies)
McCaughrean Casting the Gods Adrift
McCully Beautiful Warrior
McCully Hurry!
McCully The Orphan Singer
McDonough The Doll with the Yellow Star (2 copies)
McGill Miles’ Song
McGill Molly Bannaky (3 copies)
McGraw The Moorchild (2 copies)
McGraw The Striped Ships
McKay Indigo’s Star (3 copies)
McKean The Secret of the Seven Willows
McKillip The Changeling Sea(2 copies)
McKinley The Hero and the Crown
McKinley The Outlaws of Sherwood
McKissack Abby Takes a Stand
McKissack Eenie, Meanie, Murphy, NO!
McKissack Flossie & the Fox
McKissack Miami Gets It Straight
McKissack Miami Sees It Through
McKissack Porch Lies(2 copies)
McKissack Precious and the Boo Hag
McMahon Just Add One Chinese Sister
McNamee Sparks
Mead Junebug & the Reverend(2 copies)
Mead Junebug in Trouble
Mead Soldier Mom
Meddaugh Lulu’s Hat(2 copies)
Medearis The Adventures of Sugar & Junior(2 copies)
Medearis The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam (2 copies)
Medearis Seven Spools of Thread
Mendez the Black Snowman(3 copies)
Meigs Invincible Louisa
Merrill The Toothpaste Millionaire(2 copies)
Michaelson Too Young for Yiddish
Miles Annie and the Old One
Miller Night Golf
Mills Alex Ryan, Stop That!(2 copies)
Mills Lizzie at Last
Mills Losers, Inc.
Mills Makeovers by Marcia
Mills 7 x 9 = Trouble!
Milne House at Pooh Corner
Mitchell Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Mobin-Uddin My Name is Bilal(2 copies)
Mochizuki Heroes
Mollel The Orphan Boy
Molnar-Fenton An Mei’s Strange & Wonderful Journey(2 copies)
Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Moore Freedom Songs
Moore The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mora Dona Flor(2 copies)
Morgenstern A Book of Coupons
Morgenstern Princesses are People Too (2 copies)
Morgenstern Secret Letters from 0-10
Morgenstern Sixth Grade (2 copies)
Morris Nightwalkers
Moss Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome
Mourlevat The Pull of the Ocean
Mowat Owls in the Family
Murphy The Call of the Wolves
Murphy Dinosaur for a Day(2 copies)
Myers Climb or Die
Myers Lewis & Clark & Me
Myers Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid
Myers The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Namioka Yand the Second & Her Secret Admirers(2 copies)
Naylor Anyone Can Eat Squid!
Naylor Bernie Magruder & the Haunted Hotel
Naylor Bernie Magruder & the Parachute Peril
Naylor The Fear Place(3 copies)
Naylor Roxie & the Hooligans(2 copies)
Nelson Almost to Freedom
Nelson Ruby Electric(2 copies)
Nerlove Flowers on the Wall
Nesbit Five Children & It
Ness Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Newman The Case of the Etruscan Treasure
Newman The Case of the Threatened King
Nivola Elisabeth
Nix Grim Tuesday
Nixon Aggie’s Home (2 copies)
Nixon Ann’s Story
Nixon Caesar’s Story
Nixon David’s Search (2 copies)
Nixon Gus & Gertie & the Lucky Charms(2 copies)
Nixon Gus & Gertie & the Missing Pearl (2 copies)
Nixon If You Were a Writer
Nixon John’s Story
Nixon Laugh Till You Cry
Nixon Lucy’s Wish(3 copies)
Nixon Maria’s Story(2 copies)
Nixon Nancy’s Story
Nixon That’s the Spirit, Claude
Nixon Will’s Choice (3 copies)
Nixon Will’s Story
Nolen Big Jabe(2 copies)
Nolen Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm(2 copies)
Nolen Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life(2 copies)
Nolen Raising Dragons
Nolen Thunder Rose
Norton Bed-Knob & Broomstick
Norton The Borrowers Afloat(2 copies)
Norton The Borrowers Aloft(3copies)
Norton The Borrowers Avenged
Nunes The Last Dragon
Oakley The Foxbury Force
O’Connor Fame & Glory in Freedom, Georgia
O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins(2 copies)
O’Dell Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
O’Malley Velcome
Orgel The Devil in Vienna
Orr Nim’s Island (3 copies)
Osborne New York’s Bravest
Park Mick Harte Was Here
Park Skinnybones
Park Almost Starring Skinnybones
Park Maxie, Rosie, & Earl -- Partners in Grime
Park A Single Shard(3 copies)
Park When My Name Was Keoko(2 copies)
Paterson The Same Stuff as Stars
Paterson The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Paterson The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Patneude Thin Wood Walls
Patron The Higher Power of Lucky(6 copies)
Patterson The Christmas Cup
Pattison The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
Pattison Searching for Oliver K. Woodman
Paulsen Call Me Francis Tucket
Paulsen The Crossing
Paulsen Mr. Tucket
Paulsen Tracker
Paulsen Tucket’s Gold
Paulsen Tucket’s Ride
Pearson Porkchop’s Halloween
Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden(2 copies)
Peck Fair Weather
Peck Ghosts I Have Been
Peck Little Soup’s Birthday
Peck A Long Way From Chicago
Pelton When Dad’s at Sea
Pennington Charley Feather
Perkins All Alone in the Universe(2 copies)
Petersen White Water
Peterson The Littles & the Trash Tinies(2 copies)
Peyton Poor Badger
Pfeffer Turning Thirteen
Philbrick Max the Mighty
Philbrick The Young Man & the Sea(4 copies)
Pierce Alanna: the First Adventure (2 copies)
Pierce Cold Fire
Pierce Shatterglass
Pierce Tris’s Book
Pierce Where the Wild Geese Go
Pilkey God Bless the Gargoyles
Pinkney Hold Fast to Dreams
Pinkney Peggony-Po(2 copies)
Pinkwater At the Hotel Larry
Pinkwater Author’s Day
Pinkwater Doodle Flute
Pinkwater The Frankenbagel Monster
Pinkwater Guys from Space
Pinkwater The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Pinkwater Ned Feldman, Space Pirate
Pinkwater The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon
Pinkwater Spaceburger
Pinkwater Wempires
Pinkwater Young Larry
Pochocki The Mushroom Man
Poe Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allen Poe
Pratchett Johnny & the Dead
Pratchett Wings
Pullman Count Karlstein
Quattlebaum Jackson Jones & Mission Greentop(2 copies)
Quattlebaum Jazz, Pizzazz and the Silver Threads(2 copies)
Random The Random House Book of Ghost Stories
Ransome Peter Duck
Ransome Swallowdale
Rappaport The Secret Seder
Raven Circle Unbroken
Rawlings The Yearling(2 copies)
Ray Basket Moon
Reeder Across the Lines
Rees Grandy Thaxter’s Helper
Reeve Larklight
Reiche Ghost Ship
Reiss The Journey Back(3 copies)
Reiss Time Windows (2 copies)
Reit Guns for General Washington (2 copies)
Rice The Year the Wolves Came
Richter Friedrich (2 copies)
Riggio Secret Signs(2 copies)
Ringgold Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky(2 copies)
Ringgold Bonjour, Lonnie
Ringgold Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House
Roberts Jazzy Miz Mozetta
Roberts The Thumb in the Box
Robertson Henry Reed, Inc. (2 copies)Robinet Captain KateRobinet Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (2 copies)
Robinet Missing From Market Square
Robinet Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues (2 copies)
Robinet The Twins, the Pirates and the Battle of New Orleans
Robinet Washington City is Burning (2 copies)
Robinson Angela, Private Citizen
Robinson The (Worst) Best Halloween Ever (2 copies)
Rockwell Befana
Rodda Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal
Rodda Rowan and the Travelers
Rodda Rowan and the Zebak
Rodowsky Not My Dog
Rogers The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard
Rogers Goodbye, My Island
Rogers Raymond’s Best Summer
Rogers The Secret Moose
Romansky Invincible
Roop Buttons for General Washington (3 copies)
Root Lucia and the Light
Root Moon Tiger
Root Soup for Supper
Rosales Minnie Saves the Day (2 copies)
Rosen Speed of Light
Roth Patchwork Tales
Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(4 copies)
Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (3 copies)
Rumford Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves
Russell Maggie’s Amerikay
Ryan Amelia & Eleanor Go for a Ride
Rylant Missing May
Rylant Old Town in the Green Groves
Sachs Lost in America
Salten Bambi
San Souci The Boy and the Ghost
San Souci A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery
Sanvoisin The Ink Drinker
Sanvoisin The City of Ink Drinkers
Sanvoisin Little Red Ink Drinker
Sanvoisin A Straw for Two
Sawyer Freedom Calls
Say Tea With Milk
Schanzer Davy Crockett Saves the World
Schmidt Mara’s Stories
Schnur The Koufax Dilemma
Schotter Efan the Great
Schotter Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street(2 copies)
Schroeder Minty
Schroeder Ragtime Tumpie
Schur The Peddler’s Gift(2 copies)
Schwartz Mrs. Moskowitz & the Sabbath Candlesticks
Seidler Brainboy & the Deathmaster(2 copies)
Selden Tucker’s Countryside
Sepulveda Seagull and the Cat (2 copies)
Sewell Black Beauty
Shahan Frozen Stiff(2 copies)
Shange Ellington Was Not a Street
Sharp The Rescuers
Shea The Carpet Boy’s Gift
Shelley Frankenstein
Sherman Changeling
Sherman Vassilisa the Wise
Sheth Blue Jasmine
Shreve The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn’t Hear
Shreve Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge
Shreve Trout & Me (2 copies)
Shriver What’s Happening to Grandpa?
Shriver What’s Heaven?
Shriver What’s Wrong with Timmy? (2 copies)
Silverman When the Chickens Went on Strike(2 copies)
Silverstein The Missing Piece
Singer A Tale of Three Wishes
Skarmeta The Composition
Skolsky Hannah & the Whistling Teakettle(2 copies)
Skurzynski Virtual War(2 copies)
Slate The Great Big Wagon That Rang(2 copies)
Sleator Interstellar Pig
Sleator The Night the Heads Came(2 copies)
Sleator Rewind
Slepian The Broccoli Tapes
Slote My Robot Buddy (4 copies)
Small Baba Yaga
Smalls-Hector Irene & the Big, Fine Nickel
Smith Jingle Dancer
Smith John, Paul, George & Ben (2 copies)
Smith The 101 Dalmations
Smith Pinocchio the Boy
Smith A Taste of Blackberries
Smith Wren’s Quest
Smith Wren to the Rescue
Smucker No Star Nights
Snicket The Slippery Slope(5 copies)
Snyder The Egypt Game(2 copies)
Snyder The Magic Nation Thing(2 copies)
Snyder The Witches of Worm
Soto Off and Running(2 copies)
Spinner Be First in the Universe
(Star Wars) Watch Out, Jar Jar!
Stauffacher Harry Sue
Stevens Trouble for Lucy
Stevenson Heat Wave at Mud Flat
Stevenson Christmas at Mud Flat
Stevenson O’Diddy
Stevenson Yard Sale
Stillerman Nine Spoons
Stock Emma’s Dragon Hunt(2 copies)
Stock Sampson the Christmas Cat
Stoeke Waiting for May
Stolz The Noonday Friends(2 copies)
Strickland The Wrath of the Ginning Ghost
Stuve-Bodeen Babu’s Song
Swift Gulliver’s Travels
Swope The Araboolies of Liberty Street(2 copies)
Tan The Arrival(5 copies)
Tarpley Destiny’s Gift
Tate The Secret of Gumbo Grove(2 copies)
Taulbert Little Cliff & the Cold Place
Taulbert Little Cliff & the First Day of School
Taulbert Little Cliff & the Porch People(2 copies)
Taylor All-of-a-Kind Family
Taylor Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family
Taylor The Friendship
Taylor The Gold Cadillac
Taylor Ice Drift(2 copies)
Taylor The Land
Taylor Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Taylor Mississippi Bridge
Taylor More All-of-a-Kind Family
Taylor The Well
Teague Moog-Moog, Space Barber
Teague Pigsty
Testa Becoming Joe Dimaggio
Thomas The Comeback Dog
Thompson The King Has Horse’s Ears
Thurber The Great Quillow
Thurber Many Moons
Tildes The Garden Wall
Tolan Sophie and the Sidewalk Man
Tolan Surviving the Applewhites
Tolan Who’s There?
Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
Tompert The Silver Whistle
Torrey Voyage of Plunder(2 copies)
Tran Tet: The New Year
Trevino I, Juan de Pareja
Turner Katie’s Trunk
Turner Nettie’s Trip South
Uchida The Best Bad Thing(2 copies)
Van Leeuwen Hannah of Fairfield(2 copies)
Van Leeuwen Hannah’s Helping Hands
Van Leeuwen Hannah’s Winter of Hope
Varley Badger’s Parting Gifts(2 copies)
Vaughan Up the Learning Tree
Vidal Federico & the Magi’s Gift
Viorst Earrings! (2 copies)
Visions Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters
Vivelo Chills in the Night
Vivelo Chills Run Down My Spine
Voigt Jackaroo
Voigt the Vandemark Mummy
Wagner J.T.
Waldman The Never-Ending Greenness
Wallace The Barrel in the Basement
Wallace Cousins in the Castle (2 copies)
Wallace Ghosts in the Gallery(3 copies)
Wallace The Perils of the Peppermints(4 copies)
Wallace Secret in St. Something
Wallace Sparrows in the Scullery(4 copies)
Wallace Trapped in Death Cave
Wallace The Twin in the Tavern
Walter Ray & the Best Family Reunion Ever
Walter Suitcase(3 copies)
Walter Two and Too Much(2 copies)
Ward The Rooster and the Fox(2 copies)
Ward The Silver Pony
Wardlaw 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
Warhola Uncle Andy’s
Weatherford Freedom on the Menu
Weir Panther Dream
Wells The Language of Doves
Wells Timothy’s Tales from Hilltop School
Wells Wingwalker(2 copies)
Werewolves Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories
Westall Spinetinglers: Ghoulish Ghost Stories
Whelan Angel on the Square
Whelan Hannah
Whelan Next Spring an Oriole
White Belle Prater’s Boy(2 copies)
White Buttermilk Hill
White The Search for Belle Prater
White Tadpole (3 copies)
Whitehouse The Strictest School in the World(2 copies)
Whitelaw A Beautiful Pearl
Whybrow Little Wolf, Forest Detective
Whybrow Little Wolf, Pack Leader
Whybrow Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
Wild Toby
Wiles Each Little Bird That Sings
Wilhelm The Revealers(2 copies)
Wilkins Little City by the Lake
Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Williams Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart(2 copies)
Williams Kalabashee & His Sisters
Williams Scooter
Williams Unexpected: 11 Mysterious Stories
Winthrop Counting on Grace
Winthrop Katharine’s Doll
Wong Minn & Jake
Woodruff the Christmas Doll(2 copies)
Woodruff Ghosts Don’t Get Goosebumps
Woodruff The Ravenmaster’s Secret
Woodson Coming On Home Soon
Woodson Show Way
Wright A Ghost in the House
Wright The Ghost Witch
Wright Haunted Summer
Wright Jumping the Broom
Wright The Old Woman & the Willy Nilly Man(2 copies)
Wright The Wish Master
Wrightson Night Outside
Yamate Ashok By Any Other Name(2 copies)
Yee Millicent Min
Yee Tales From Gold Mountain
Yep Cockroach Cooties(2 copies)
Yep Dream Soul
Yep Hiroshima
Yep The Magic Paintbrush(2 copies)
Yep Spring Pearl, The Last Flower
Yep When the Circus Came to Town(3 copies)
Yolen Atalanta & the Arcadian Beast
Yolen The Bagpiper’s Ghost(2 copies)
Yolen Child of the Owl
Yolen Dragon’s Blood
Yolen The Haunted House
Yolen Hippolyta & the Curse of the Amazons
Yolen Hobby(Young Merlin Trilogy, Book 2)
Yolen King Long Shanks
Yolen Wizard’s Hall
Young I, Doko(2 copies)
Zemach Duffy & the Devil
Zemser Beyond the Mango Tree(2 copies)
Zimelman How the 2nd Grade Got $8,205.50 …
Zimmett Eddie Enough!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

4 picture books to give away

We can share
  • Lasky Pond Year (lovely nature story you can read at any point in the year; just start the book at the month we are in)
  • Lester Sam and the tigers (a "standard" and fun too!)
  • Levine Pearl Moscowitz's last stand (a good picture book for when you are asked for a picture book for older children)
  • Lewin Big Jimmy's kumkau Chinese take out (wonderful pictures of people at work in a restaurant---this book shows lots of fathers and uncles and their co-workers)

We are working on our picture book collection. If you have any particular need for a title in the range Ha - Q (authors) let us know. We may have a copy to spare. Please let Linda Swanson know of your interest by email.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

More MJP J Nonfiction Giveaways

Hi Everybody!

In addition to the last list of J nonfiction Titles, the Marilyn J. Praisner Branch Library has the following to offer:

J821 MCN Making Friends with Frankenstein
J821 MIL Now We Are Six
J821.008 GOL The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry
J821.008 LOT Lot’s of Limericks (2 copies)
J821.008 POE Poems for the Very Young
J821.008 REA Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
J822.33 CHR Shakespeare (Eyewitness) (2 copies)
J822.33 COV William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
J822.33 COV Twelfth Night
J822.33 GAR Shakespeare Stories
J822.33 GAR Shakespeare Stories II
J822.33 ROS Shakespeare: His Work & His World
J822.33 STA Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare
J883 HOM The Adventures of Odysseus
J883 HOM The Voyage of Odysseus
J904 BLA Unsolved History: Enigmatic Events
J910.45 ADK What if You Met a Pirate?
J910.45 LIC Everything I Know About Pirates
J910.45 PLA Shipwreck (Eyewitness)
J910.45 TAN On Board the Titanic
J910.9 MAT Explorer (Eyewitness)
J910.92 JON Westward Ho!
J910.92 RUM Traveling Man
J910.92 WOO The Children’s Atlas of People & Places
J912 NAT National Geographic Beginner’s World Atlas
J914.436 STE Paris
J917.303 TUN Colonial Living (2 copies)
J917.303 TUN The Young United States
J917.5941 GIB Sunken Treasure
J917.8 MAY The Rocky Mountains
J917.8 QUI The Lewis and Clark Expedition
J917.8 WAD Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
J920.073 KUN Great Negros Past & Present
J920.72 LEO Outrageous Women of the Renaissance
J922.22 BUN Lives of the Saints You Should Know Vol. 2
J922.22 BUN Lives of the Saints You Should Know
J923.173 FAB Great Lives: American Government
J923.173 SMI The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies
J923.173 SUL Mr. President: A Book of U.S. Presidents
J925 STJ African-American Scientists
J926 VAR Women Inventors & Their Discoveries
J927.2 GLE America’s Favorite Architects
J927.96 SUL Great Lives: Sports (2 copies)
J930 BRO Ancient Egyptians & Their Neighbors
J930 MAG Art & Civilization Prehistory
J932 ALI Mummies Made in Egypt
J932 BAL Clothes & Crafts in Ancient Egypt
J932 BEN Egyptian Tombs (2 copies)
J932 BIE Egypt in Spectacular Cross-Section
J932 COL Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient Egypt
J932 DON Tut’s Mummy Lost & Found
J932 GIB Secrets of the Sphinx
J932 TAY Mummy: The Inside Story
J934 ARO The Indus Valley
J937 CHI Living in Roman Times
J937 HAR Ancient Rome!
J937 STE Roman Times
J937.7 GOO Pompeii: Exploring a Roman Ghost Town (2 copies)
J938 J52G Greek and Roman Life
J938 MAR Greek Temples
J938 ROS Ancient Greece: Daily Life
J938 RUT See Inside and Ancient Greek Town
J938 STE Clothes & Crafts in Ancient Greece (3 copies)
J939 SON The Ancient Kushites
J940.1 ALI A Medieval Feast
J940.1 CAS The Middle Ages (2 copies)
J940.1 COL Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Medieval Castle
J940.1 DAW Clothes & Crafts in the Middle Ages (2 copies)
J940.1 EAS Life in a Castle
J940.1 GRA The Knight’s Handbook
J940.1 GRE Daily Life: A Medieval Castle
J940.1 HAR Knights & Castles
J940.1 HIN The Time Traveller Book of Knights & Castles
J940.1 HOO Stephen Biesty’s Castles
J940.1 LAS A Tournament of Knights
J940.1 MAC How to Be a Medieval Knight
J940.1 MCG If You Lived in the Days of the Knights
J940.1 NIC Medieval Knights
J940.1 PLA Castle Diary
J940.1 SCO Medieval Clothing & Costumes
J940.1 TAN In the Time of the Knights
J940.1 UNS See Inside a Castle
J940.1 WOO Read About Castles
J940.21 NET Life During the Renaissance
J940.3 DOL America in World War I
J940.4 TAY Key Battles of World War I
J940.53 GOU Welcome to Molly’s World
J940.53 KIN World War II Days
J940.5317 TUN The Children of Topaz
J940.54 DRE Remember D-Day
J940.54 KRE Pearl Harbor (Ready-to-Read) (2 copies)
J941 CAM United Kingdom in Pictures
J941 YOU The Oxford History of Britain & Ireland
J941.081 STE Clothes & Crafts in Victorian Times
J941.081 WIL Daily Life in a Victorian House
J941.5 IRE Ireland in Pictures
J943 SMI The Fall of the Berlin Wall
J943.8 ZUE Poland in Pictures
J943.9 STA Hungary (Enchantment of the World)
J945 BAR Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome
J946 TAU Spain in Pictures
J948 MAR The Vikings (History as Evidence)
J948 PEA The Vikings (See Through History)
J948 SIM Leif Eriksson & the Vikings
J948 WEI Vikings: Raiders & Explorers
J948.022 HAT The Viking World
J949.4 MAR The Alps
J949.4 SWI Switzerland in Pictures
J949.5 KOT Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Times Athens
J949.5 LAN Great Cities of the World: Athens
J949.742 ENG Bosnia-Herzegovina in Pictures
J952 BOR Country Insights: Japan
J952 DEA Samurai: Warlords of Japan
J952 MAT Ninjas: Masters of Stealth and Secrecy
J952.135 TAK I Live in Tokyo
J953.8 BRO Saudi Arabia in Pictures
J954.9 TAU Pakistan in Pictures
J955 GRE Iran (Enchantment of the World)
J959.7 KIL Leaving Vietnam: The True Story of Tuan Ngo
J960 HAN African Princess
J960 KOS Ancient Ghana
J960 KOS Asante
J960 KOS Benin
J960 KOS Dahomey
J960 KOS Mali
J960 KOS Senegambia
J960 KOS Yorubaland
J960 MAN Ghana, Mali, Songhay (African Kingdoms of the Past)
J960 MAN Kongo, Ndongo (African Kingdoms of the Past)
J960 MAN Monomotapa Zulu Basuto (African Kingdoms of the Past)
J966.7 BLA Ghana (Enchantment of the World)
J968 HEI South Africa (a True Book) (2 copies)
J970 NAG North America (Continents of the World)
J970.01 ROS Cultures Collide: Native Americas and Europeans
J970.01 STE The Conquistadores
J970.015 MAR In 1492 (2 copies)
J970.1 ADA Tipi
J970.1 BER Longhouse
J970.1 SHE Houses of Bark
J970.1 SHE Houses of Hide and Earth
J970.1 SHE Houses of Wood
J970.1 TER Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village
J970.1 TUN Indians
J970.3 BIA The Comanche
J970.3 BIA The Pueblo
J970.3 FRE Buffalo Hunt (2 copies)
J970.3 MOO The Commanche Indians
J970.3 ROS The Wampanoag
J970.5 SEA Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
J972 HOW Mexico
J972 TUR Mexico & Central America
J972.01 CHR The Aztecs
J972.01 DAW Food & Feasts with the Aztecs
J972.01 FIS Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon (2 copies)
J972.01 SHE The Aztec Indians (2 copies)
J972.01 SHE The Maya Indians
J972.81 SHI Guatemala
J972.87 PAN Panama in Pictures
J972.87 PAR Locks, Crocs & Skeeters
J972.9 KAR Miracle (2 copies)
J972.91 STA Children of Cuba
J972.91 WOL Cuba: After the Revolution
J972.95 PUE Puerto Rico In Pictures
J973 CHE America: A Patriotic Primer
J973 ENG Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War
J973 KAT The History of Multicultural America
J973 SIS The Train of States
J973 TUN Frontier Living
J973.082 LES To Be a Slave
J973.2 BAR Growing Up in Colonial America
J973.2 DEA Life in the American Colonies
J973.2 GOU Welcome to Felicity’s World 1774
J973.2 KAL Colonial Life
J973.2 MAE The New Americans
J973.3 DAL The 4th of July Story
J973.3 JOH The Battle of Lexington & Concord
J973.3 MIL Growing Up in the Revolution & the New Nation
J973.3 REV The Revolutionary War
J973.3 SCH George vs. George
J973.3 STE The Revolutionary War
J973.303 EIS Women in Colonial & Revolutionary America
J973.46 SCH The Louisiana Purchase
J973.5 GOO Ultimate Field Trip 4: A Week in the 1800s
J973.52 KRO By the Dawn’s Early Light
J973.62 JAC War With Mexico
J973.7 FRI The Silent Witness
J973.7 MCP Fields of Fury
J973.7 SIN Welcome to Addy’s World
J973.711 RAY A Nation Torn
J973.7115 HAN Freedom Roads
J973.7115 PRI I Came as a Stranger
J973.734 FRI Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln
J973.734 LIN The Gettysburg Address
J973.75 BLA Blockade Runners & Ironclads
J973.75 SUL The Civil War at Sea
J974 RYL Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
J974.1 GIB Surrounded By Sea
J974.1 KEN Maine (America the Beautiful)
J974.4 SEW Thunder from the Clear Sky
J974.71 BIA Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side
J974.71 GOO On This Spot
J974.81 MIL The Story of the Liberty Bell
J975 KAL Life on a Plantation
J975 MCK Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
J975.00496 BIA The Strength of These Arms
J975.2 BUN Counties of Central Maryland
J975.2 BUR Maryland (America the Beautiful)
J975.2 COL The Colony of Maryland
J975.2 GOL M is for Maryland
J975.2 MAR Maryland: The Seventh State a History
J975.2 MEN B is for Blue Crab: A Maryland Alphabet
J975.3 BRI Building the Capital City
J975.3 KEN The Lincoln Memorial
J975.3 MUN The Inside-Outside Book of Washington D.C.
J975.3 STE Washington D.C.
J975.3 SAN The Capitol
J975.5 GOO Williamsburg: Cradle of the Revolution
J976.4 SAN The Battle of the Alamo
J977.6 FRA Minnesota (Sea to Shining Sea) (2 copies)
J977.8 FRA Missouri (Sea to Shining Sea)
J978 AND Cowboys: Roundup on an American Ranch
J978 FIS The Oregon Trail
J978 LAV Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party
J978 SCH How We Crossed the West
J978.00496 PEL Black Heroes of the Wild West
J978.2 MCN Nebraska (America the Beautiful)
J978.3 FRA South Dakota (Sea to Shining Sea)
J978.3 HAR My Prairie Year
J979.4 BLU The Great American Gold Rush
J979.8 BRO Children of the Midnight Sun
J982 PET Argentina: A Wild West Heritage
J984 HER The Children of Bolivia
J985 CHR The Incas
J985 GET Frozen Girl
J985 KEN The Incas
J985 NEW The Incas (2 copies)
J985 PAR Peru (2 copies)
J985 PIT The Grandchildren of the Incas
J985 WOO The Incas
J998 SHE Houses of Snow, Skin & Bones


Please respond to this post or to my email at autumnsky68@gmail.com before January 1st if you would like any of the above copies.

Thanks!

Anne Gerlach
LIIJ
MJP

Monday, November 17, 2008

KP needs a paperback copy of The Grand Escape +

Do you have one your branch could spare? Could you please send it to us.
We have many j music cds. If you need a particular performer, please let us know. We would like to send cds to you.
Linda and Nancy

Monday, November 10, 2008

Offer: The Hot Zone

Damascus has six Reading List copies of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. First come, first served. If you would like any please let me know at:
christine.lundy@montgomerycountymd.gov

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Children's Books to share from Kensington Park

Please let us know if you need any of these titles:
The Changing Chesapeake
An Usborne Introduction [to] Biology
A Random House Tell Me About Book Rainforest Animals
EXPLORING CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS - Heiserman
The story of gold - Hellman
True Book The Pacific Ocean
Awesome Chesapeake
True Book Grasslands
True Book Deserts
True Book Experiments with Plants
Degas and the Dance
The Making of America - Johnston