Sam's Winter Hat

Sam's Winter Hat
Author: Albert Lamb
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Bears
ISBN: 9780439793049

Sam is prone to losing things - like his new blue woolly hat from Grandma! But thanks to family and friends, Sam's possessions always find their way back to him. "McPhail's detailed illustrations create a warm and welcoming feeling." - School Library Journal

The Adventure of Sam Carter

The Adventure of Sam Carter
Author: Peter Murray
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475972644

In the year 2016, Sam James Carter's life is turned upside down. One day while walking home from school, a dangerous young girl named Sophie Brooks tells him of his sister's murder that occurred while she was working for a secret US government agency. Sam seeks vengeance for his sister's death, and vows to find the murderer. Sophie agrees to join him and they embark upon a head- spinning journey to obtain revenge for his sister. As events progresses nothing is what it seems: anything could happen. Will Sam and Sophie find and bring the killer down or will the assassin elude them forever?

Prankster

Prankster
Author: David Connor
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646569989

Poplar Plains Town Councilman Sam Smart isn’t focused on his secret Santa, but rather a secret prankster, as his constituents seek vengeance against a jokester pulling off pranks all over town. The prime suspect? Sam’s high school crush Kirby Dumas, who just returned to town. One nice, one naughty, Sam and Kirby were known as Smarty and Dumbass. When Kirby abruptly fled after confessing his love for Sam and also to a whopper of a prank pulled on a teacher, Sam is left to wonder what could have been. Why did Kirby leave? Was it the joke or something else? Why has he returned? To pick up where he left off with his pranks, or to pick up where he left off with Sam?

Hey Kids! Out the Door, Let's Explore!

Hey Kids! Out the Door, Let's Explore!
Author: Rhoda Redleaf
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1933653914

Influenced by the Reggio approach to expose children to their community through inexpensive walking trips.

Sharing the Journey

Sharing the Journey
Author: David Yellin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351812971

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years. Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 3583
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

The Light on the Tracks

The Light on the Tracks
Author: Greg S. Sykes
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2013-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468922971

In the days leading up to World War II, young Sam McCord searches for an escape from the world crumbling around him through the pursuit of a local legend, the Light on the Tracks. The Light appears every fall around Halloween and dances and shimmer on the railroad tracks south of town . . . beckoning, shifting, hinting. Some say it's a ghost; others say it's an angel. Some claim they have heard it whisper words to them as they rode past on the midnight train; others claim it has reached for them as if it had human hands. They felt its shimmering heat caress their skin, but was it a gesture of affection or hunger? The legend grows as the sightings continue,and Sam is enraptured by his pursuit of the legend. It's his escape from a life gone awry. His father was once the most respected, most influential man in town as he preached from the pulpit in the little, one-room church, but a deadly illness swept Sam's mother from this life and stole his father's sight, and the people of Black Mountain claim the blindness is God's judgment, the reckoning of the Almighty for some secret sin the McCord's were hiding. Of course, life didn't get any easier when his father adopted Sam's older brother Simon, named after the man that bore Jesus' cross to Golgotha. Simon has his own cross to bear -- he's the adopted son of the town's outcast -- but more importantly, he's black . . . in a city of white Southerners. The Ku Klux Klan has been active in the last few months, and Simon's name continually makes the circuits of the town rumor mill. The Klan is coming for him. The question isn't if . . . it's when.

Winter’s Journey

Winter’s Journey
Author: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Publisher: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1519542844

To keep the bank from repossessing her eighteen-wheeler and putting her and her daughter on the street, trucker Loretta Brennan takes a dangerous route to Wyoming with a winter storm approaching. She worries if she can make the deadline and navigate the icy roads since her driving partner husband died in an accident the year before. At a truck stop, Loretta meets handsome hitchhiker Sam Emerson, who helps her out of a bind. She feels compelled to return the favor and offers him a ride to Cheyenne. Blizzards, a series of trucker murders, and a sinister truck haunt them along their route. They grow close despite Loretta's fear that Sam may be aligned with the killer. Is Sam a good man down on his luck or is she falling in love with a murderer?