Beach Bag Books
Chaconas, Dori. Cork & Fuzz: The Swimming Lesson. Viking, 2011. Cork the muskrat wants his best friend Fuzz, a possum, to visit his home, but first he must teach Fuzz to swim and not be afraid of the water. Series Ernst, Lisa Campbell. The Gingerbread Girl. Dutton, 2006. After their first gingerbread disaster, the lonely old couple decides to bake again and create a gingerbread girl who proves herself to be one smart cookie. Florian, Douglas. Shiver Me Timbers! Pirate Poems & Paintings. Beach Lane Books, 2012. Pirate fans will enjoy this humorous collection of poems about the adventures of some very colorful “scalawags and scoundrels!” Kaplan, Michael. Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake. Dial Books, 2011. From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day; and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste. Lies, Brian. Bats at the Ballgame. Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Two teams of bats enjoy a nighttime game of baseball. Cheering the home team are the bat fans enjoying the snacks of “mothdogs” and the like. McDonald, Megan. Daisy Jane, Best-Ever Flower-Girl! Random House, 2007. Daisy Jane, who is thrilled to be the flower girl at her babysitter’s wedding, helps save the day when a storm threatens the festivities.
AGES 7-10 Aldrin, Buzz. Look to the Stars. Putnam’s, 2009. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin traces the history of air and space exploration from Isaac Newton to the International Space Station and Mars using personal insights and conversational text. Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle. HarperCollins, 1965. A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. Gutman, Dan. Mission Unstoppable. Harper, 2011. On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files. Series Taylor, Sarah Stewart. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean. Disney-Hyperion, 2010. In graphic novel format, Amelia Earhart’s life is described with a focus on the successful Atlantic crossing in 1928. continued next page
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