Kate Messner
1) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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E. B. White Award–winning author: “Ample aquatic puns and boisterous, mixed-media artwork . . . A splashy story about fitting in.” —Publishers Weekly
Sea monster Ernest is starting his first day of school. But starting school is a big job! Fitting in when you’re a sea monster is tough enough, and there’s so much to learn and do—reading, singing, playing...
Sea monster Ernest is starting his first day of school. But starting school is a big job! Fitting in when you’re a sea monster is tough enough, and there’s so much to learn and do—reading, singing, playing...
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fergus, the pet mouse in Miss Maxwell's classroom, stows away in a backpack on a field trip to the museum. He makes a new friend, Zeke, another mouse, who shows Fergus many interesting exhibits, but now he wonders how to get back to school.
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Series
Ranger in Time volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
20200721
Language
English
Description
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
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Series
Ranger in Time volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
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Series
Ranger in Time volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
20200204
Language
English
Description
Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha's...
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Series
Ranger in Time volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and knows nothing of the fate that awaits Patrick, and all...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
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Series
Ranger in Time volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
20180626
Language
English
Description
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, sets out to help a girl find her family in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
20210629
Language
English
Description
"Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci was a curious boy in Brooklyn, delivering prescriptions from his father's pharmacy on his blue Schwinn bicycle. His father and immigrant grandfather taught Anthony to ask questions, consider all the data, and never give up-and Anthony's ability to stay curious and to communicate with people would serve him his entire life. This engaging narrative,...
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Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
20170627
Language
English
Description
It's 1906, and Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, is in San Francisco and meets Lily Chen, sent by her family from China to work as a servant. When the Great Earthquake hits, Ranger helps Lily flee the collapsing mission house she lives in. Can they escape crumbling buildings and raging fires, all while facing anti-Chinese discrimination?
Author
Series
Ranger in Time volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.