Messner, Kate
Summary: Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer in this fun follow-up to How to Read a Story, guiding young storytellers through the joys and challenges of the writing process. From choosing an idea, to creating a problem for their character to resolve, to coming to The End, this empowering picture book breaks down the writing process...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 808.3 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Messner 2017Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: In their fourth adventure, classroom mice Fergus and Zeke--after a few false starts--jump into a creative project to help the kids mark the one hundredth day of school. Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom, and they do everything the students do. But when the kids start collecting items and doing gym challenges and making projects to celebrate the one hundredth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Celebrates the forms of life that live above and under a pond, including turtles, red-winged blackbirds, blue herons, minnows, frogs, and catfish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 577.6 MES1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.6 MES
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.6 MES1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MES
Messner, Kate
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Describes the process of tracking Burmese pythons, an invasive species to the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.96 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves ... and down in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 635 MesCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "A picture book celebration of the act of exploring--and sharing--a book"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Discover the magical depths of the kelp forest, and all the fascinating creatures living just a paddle's length away-both over and under the waves"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESMessner, Kate.
Summary: After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose a plot that endangers them all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MESLin, Grace
Summary: "Alice can go anywhere in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure. But at the end of her imaginative journey, she yearns for the place she loves best of all."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023