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All The Way to Havana A contemporary Cuban boy and his family drive to Havana to visit a newborn cousin for "his zero-year birthday". Before they can set off, however, the boy must help repair the family's 1954 Chevy (one of the many pre-Revolution cars that are by necessity still widely used in Cuba), using "wire, tape, and mixed-up scraps of dented metal." Mixed-media illustrations capture the brilliant colors and scenic beauty of the island. - Horn Book Guide (Spring 2018) | Stella Diaz Never Gives Up Stella visits her family's home country of Mexico and sees the ocean for the first time. Then, she attends a camp at the Shedd Aquarium, where she learns that the ocean is in big trouble, and it's up to all of us to do our part to protect it and all its creatures. The challenge of saving the oceans is just the push Stella needs, not just to make new friends, but to organize them to make a difference. - Booklist, March 2020 | Across the Bay Carlitos lives with his mother and his abuela in Cataño, Puerto Rico. Though he’s happy in his cozy house, his family is different because his father is gone, living somewhere across the bay in San Juan. An idea forms: he’ll bring a photo of his father and take the ferry to the capital. He shows the picture to strangers, and some offer suggestions. He wanders until the only place left to look is the El Morro castle. But there’s no Papi, and his photo is lost. - Booklist, August 2019 |
All The Way to Havana
A contemporary Cuban boy and his family drive to Havana to visit a newborn cousin for "his zero-year birthday". Before they can set off, however, the boy must help repair the family's 1954 Chevy (one of the many pre-Revolution cars that are by necessity still widely used in Cuba), using "wire, tape, and mixed-up scraps of dented metal." Mixed-media illustrations capture the brilliant colors and scenic beauty of the island. - Horn Book Guide (Spring 2018)
Stella Diaz Never Gives Up
Stella visits her family's home country of Mexico and sees the ocean for the first time. Then, she attends a camp at the Shedd Aquarium, where she learns that the ocean is in big trouble, and it's up to all of us to do our part to protect it and all its creatures. The challenge of saving the oceans is just the push Stella needs, not just to make new friends, but to organize them to make a difference. - Booklist, March 2020
Across the Bay
Carlitos lives with his mother and his abuela in Cataño, Puerto Rico. Though he’s happy in his cozy house, his family is different because his father is gone, living somewhere across the bay in San Juan. An idea forms: he’ll bring a photo of his father and take the ferry to the capital. He shows the picture to strangers, and some offer suggestions. He wanders until the only place left to look is the El Morro castle. But there’s no Papi, and his photo is lost. - Booklist, August 2019
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Mooncakes In a cozy family story rooted in tradition, a little girl stays up late with her parents, Mama and Baba, to celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival. After lighting paper lanterns and hanging them from a tree, they sit outdoors together, eating mooncakes and drinking tea. Best of all, Mama and Baba share three Chinese folktales related to the moon. - Booklist | Korean Celebrations: Festivals, Holidays, and Traditions This book allows children to experience Korean culture firsthand by involving them in games, crafts, stories, foods and other activities like the following: Preparing and enjoying delicious Songpyeon--sweet dumplings that everyone loves to eat on Chuseok (Korea's version of Thanksgiving) and many others! | A Big Mooncake for Little Star Mama and Little Star bake a giant mooncake, but as she puts the cake out to cool, Mama admonishes her daughter not to touch it. And she doesn’t—until she wakes up in the night. Then, it’s “pat, pat, pat” over to the mooncake, where she nibbles just a bit. Each night, there’s more nibbling, causing the mooncake to change shape, until it’s just a crescent. That’s when Mama sees what’s happened, but she isn’t mad. It’s just time to make another mooncake. |
Mooncakes
In a cozy family story rooted in tradition, a little girl stays up late with her parents, Mama and Baba, to celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival. After lighting paper lanterns and hanging them from a tree, they sit outdoors together, eating mooncakes and drinking tea. Best of all, Mama and Baba share three Chinese folktales related to the moon. - Booklist
Korean Celebrations: Festivals, Holidays, and Traditions
This book allows children to experience Korean culture firsthand by involving them in games, crafts, stories, foods and other activities like the following: Preparing and enjoying delicious Songpyeon--sweet dumplings that everyone loves to eat on Chuseok (Korea's version of Thanksgiving) and many others!
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
Mama and Little Star bake a giant mooncake, but as she puts the cake out to cool, Mama admonishes her daughter not to touch it. And she doesn’t—until she wakes up in the night. Then, it’s “pat, pat, pat” over to the mooncake, where she nibbles just a bit. Each night, there’s more nibbling, causing the mooncake to change shape, until it’s just a crescent. That’s when Mama sees what’s happened, but she isn’t mad. It’s just time to make another mooncake.
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Survivor Tree This nonfiction picture book follows a Callery pear tree, growing "at the foot of the towers" for almost 30 years, that was rescued from the rubble following the attacks. The author traces its journey before its uprooting, its decade of recovery in the Bronx’s Arthur Ross Nursery, and its replanting at the 9/11 Memorial. - Publishers Weekly | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team A Newberry honor book, this chronological narrative is as thrilling as any fiction. It recounts the 18-day saga, from the team’s carefree excursion to their harrowing captivity and miraculous rescue, which involved an international coalition of thousands, led by Thai civilians, soldiers, and engineers. - Booklist | Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier Narrated in large part by Mary Cleave, who was among the second group of women admitted to NASA’s astronaut training program, this in-depth and enlightening comic digs into not only the history of women in space but the rigors of the training process in general. - Booklist |
Survivor Tree
This nonfiction picture book follows a Callery pear tree, growing "at the foot of the towers" for almost 30 years, that was rescued from the rubble following the attacks. The author traces its journey before its uprooting, its decade of recovery in the Bronx’s Arthur Ross Nursery, and its replanting at the 9/11 Memorial. - Publishers Weekly
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
A Newberry honor book, this chronological narrative is as thrilling as any fiction. It recounts the 18-day saga, from the team’s carefree excursion to their harrowing captivity and miraculous rescue, which involved an international coalition of thousands, led by Thai civilians, soldiers, and engineers. - Booklist
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
Narrated in large part by Mary Cleave, who was among the second group of women admitted to NASA’s astronaut training program, this in-depth and enlightening comic digs into not only the history of women in space but the rigors of the training process in general. - Booklist
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Polly Diamond and the Magic Book Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited--but Polly soon realizes that she has to be very careful what she writes because that kind of power can be dangerous. - Follett | Can Bears Ski? Little Bear feels the world around him, but something is missing. All around him he hears the familiar refrain: 'Can bears ski?' Then Dad Bear takes him to see an audiologist and they learn that Little Bear has been experiencing deafness. With new hearing aids, he discovers that 'Can bears ski?' is actually 'Can you hear me?' His new world is loud and will take some getting used to, but with the love and support of Dad Bear, Little Bear will find his way. - Follett | Things Seen from Above April, beginning sixth grade and dealing with her own friendship issues, volunteers to staff the school's Buddy Bench at recess. Fourth grader Joey Byrd spends recess lying on the ground with his eyes shut or walking in circles around the playground. A new student from India, Veena, is April's fellow Buddy Bench volunteer. They slowly form a connection with Joey and come to realize that Joey's walks actually create large-scale drawings in the playground's dirt. An uplifting story of friendship, kindness, and new ways of seeing.- Horn Book Magazine |
Polly Diamond and the Magic Book
Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited--but Polly soon realizes that she has to be very careful what she writes because that kind of power can be dangerous. - Follett
Can Bears Ski?
Little Bear feels the world around him, but something is missing. All around him he hears the familiar refrain: 'Can bears ski?' Then Dad Bear takes him to see an audiologist and they learn that Little Bear has been experiencing deafness. With new hearing aids, he discovers that 'Can bears ski?' is actually 'Can you hear me?' His new world is loud and will take some getting used to, but with the love and support of Dad Bear, Little Bear will find his way. - Follett
Things Seen from Above
April, beginning sixth grade and dealing with her own friendship issues, volunteers to staff the school's Buddy Bench at recess. Fourth grader Joey Byrd spends recess lying on the ground with his eyes shut or walking in circles around the playground. A new student from India, Veena, is April's fellow Buddy Bench volunteer. They slowly form a connection with Joey and come to realize that Joey's walks actually create large-scale drawings in the playground's dirt. An uplifting story of friendship, kindness, and new ways of seeing.- Horn Book Magazine
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Read a Book Day On September 6th, grab a book and read with your children! Reading improves memory and concentration and can also reduce stress. | International Dot Day Students are celebrating Dot Day at school and in the library, around September 15th, but click here for more ideas for how to celebrate at home. | Read an eBook Day Click HERE to learn about and participate in Read an E-Book Day on September 18th. Our Sharon Library also has eBooks students can read online. #ebooklove |
Read a Book Day
On September 6th, grab a book and read with your children! Reading improves memory and concentration and can also reduce stress.
International Dot Day
Students are celebrating Dot Day at school and in the library, around September 15th, but click here for more ideas for how to celebrate at home.
Read an eBook Day
Click HERE to learn about and participate in Read an E-Book Day on September 18th. Our Sharon Library also has eBooks students can read online. #ebooklove
How-to View Your Library Book Checkouts
Did you know that any library patron (students, teachers, staff) can view what they have checked out from our school library? Watch this short video on How-to-View Your Library Book Checkouts to learn an easy way to verify whether your books are soon-to-be due or overdue. All 1st - 5th grade students are shown this feature at the beginning of the school year, but some forget that this feature is available to them through ClassLink.
Ginny Daniels, Media Specialist
I'm the certified, Media Specialist at Sharon Elementary School. This is my 9th year in the library and my 21st year as an elementary educator.
