IB Learner Profile: Communicator (November) Suggested Books in the C.B. Greer Media Center
513.2 Cle Clement, Rod. Counting on Frank. Milwaukee : G. Stevens Children's Books, 1991. A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts. B Bra Adler, David A. A picture book of Louis Braille. New York : Holiday, 1997. Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind. B Kel Adler, David A. A picture book of Helen Keller. New York : Holiday, 1990. A brief biography of the woman who overcame the handicap of being both blind and deaf. BT Cro Cronin, Doreen. Diary of a worm. [New York] : HarperCollins, 2003. A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world. E ALI Aliki. Marianthe's story. : Marianthe's story. Two. Spoken memories. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1998. Two separate stories, the first telling of Mari's starting school in a new land, and the second describing village life in her country before she and her family left in search of a better life. E CHI Child, Lauren. I will never not ever eat a tomato. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000. A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter. E Cro Cronin, Doreen. Click, clack, moo : cows that type. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000. When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. E CRO Cronin, Doreen. Diary of a spider. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2005. A young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners.
E FRE French, Jackie. Diary of a wombat. New York : Clarion Books, 2003. In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors. E Har Harrison, Joanna. Dear bear. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, 1994. Katie is afraid of the bear that lives under the stairs in her house, until they exchange letters and she finally gets E Hob Hobbs, Will. Howling Hill. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1998. While separated from her family in the wilderness area along the Nahanni River, a wolf pup discovers that she can express her loneliness in a long, loud howl. E Hof Hoffman, Mary, 1945-. The color of home. New York : P. Fogelman Books, c2002. Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave. E Kli Klingel, Cynthia Fitterer. Josef's journal and the letter J. Chanhassen, MN : Child's World, c2004. A simple story about a boy named Josef and the journal he keeps introduces the letter "j". E LaR Teague, Mark. Detective LaRue : letters from the investigation. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2004. While on vacation,Mrs. LaRue receives letters from her dog Ike who has been falsely accused of harming the neighbor's cats and is trying to clear his name. E Les Lester, Helen. Hooway for Wodney Wat. New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1999. All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully. E Mos Most, Bernard. The cow that went oink. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1990. A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound. E Nye Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti's secrets. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997, c1994. A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinianvillage on the West Bank.
E Tea Teague, Mark. Dear Mrs. LaRue: letters from obedience school. New York : Scholastic Press, c2002. Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog, Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home. Fic Bon Bonners, Susan. Edwina victorious. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. Edwina follows in the footsteps of her namesake great-aunt when she begins to write letters to the mayor about community problems and poses as Edwina the elder. Fic De De Young, C. Coco. A letter to Mrs. Roosevelt. New York : Dell Yearling, [2000], c1999. Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression. Fic Sta Stanek, Muriel. I speak English for my mom. Niles, Ill. : A.Whitman, 1989. Lupe, a young Mexican American, must translate for her mother who speaks only Spanish until Mrs. Gomez decides to learn English in order to get a better job. JC Bya Byars, Betsy Cromer. My brother, Ant. New York : Puffin Books, 1998. In four separate stories, Ant's older brother getsrid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant write a letter to Santa. The brothers communicate in honest, direct terms, and the stories show the children reading to one another and writing a letter together. Librarian's Shelf E Dur Durant, Alan. Dear tooth fairy. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2004, c2003. When her tooth falls out, Holly is reluctant to put it under her pillow, but acorrespondence with the Tooth Fairy makes her change her mind.