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: Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: The definitive picture book biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most crucial figures in the COVID-19 pandemic. 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG 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: "Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Messner, Kate
Summary: Where are today's future scientists? As this book shows, they could be practically anyone doing anything, including the kids reading this book.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 509.2 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Over the canyon, the sun scalds the air, and bakes the desert mud to stone. But under the shade of the canyon hides another world, where bighorn sheep bound from rock to rock on the hillside, roadrunners make their nests in sturdy cacti, and banded geckos tuck themselves into the shelter of the sand. This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals atruth about her family that Ava would rather not know.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC 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 and Zeke, the pet mice in Miss Maxwell's classroom, learn that Lucy wants to teach them how to run through a maze for the science fair, but they come up with their own idea for training Lucy to cheer them for their performance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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: "Under the canopy of the rainforest, hundreds of animals make their homes--from the slender parrot snake to the colorful poison dart frog. But up in the trees hides a whole other world, where toucans and pale-billed woodpeckers chatter and call, capuchin monkeys swing from the vines, and sleek-furred jaguars rule the night. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.734 MESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.734 MESSMessner, Kate
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Messner, Kate
Summary: "Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing ... in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Nature MessnerMessner, Kate
Summary: Looks at the life of the coral restoration pioneer Ken Nedimyer, from his early fascination with the ocean to his ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.95 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: Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's room, and they do everything the students do. So when Miss Maxwell informs the class that Presidents' Day is approaching and they'll all be creating projects about the presidents, Fergus and Zeke get to work, too. Zeke tramsforms into George Mousington and nominates himself president of their cage. But when Zeke seems more interested...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE 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: Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC 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: "Bust some of history's biggest myths and learn the truth about the Salem witch trials"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Messner, Kate.
Summary: When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, José, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport during a snowstorm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate.
Summary: For five hundred years the Jaguar Cup, sacred to the Silver Jaguar Society, was hidden in a cave on the coast of Costa Rica-- so when a fake copy shows up on display in America, it is up to Jos©♭, Anna, and Henry, junior members of the society, to travel to Costa Rica and rescue the real cup from thieves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013