Open Court

Grade 5

Coooperation and Competition

363.3 Lau

Lauber, Patricia. Flood : wrestling with the Mississippi.

Washington, D.C. : Emeryville, Calif. : National Geographic

Society ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1996.

Describes the history of flooding of the Mississippi River,

focusing on the 1927 and 1993 floods, the effects on people

near the river, and efforts to avoid flooding.

394.2 Wat

Waters, Kate. Giving thanks : the 1621 harvest feast. New York

: Scholastic Press, c2001. Imagines the perspectives of a

fourteen-year-old Wampanoag boy and a six-year-old English

boy on the day of the 1621 harvest feast that came to be

known as Thanksgiving.

398.2 Bou

Bouchard, Dave. The Great Race. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook

Press, 1997. To help her arrange her paper cut-outs of the

animals in the Chinese zodiac in the proper order, a young

girl's grandmother tells her the story of the race in which

each animal secured its place.

636.7 Kim

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Balto and the great race. New York :

Random House, c1999. Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved

Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by

delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.

796.44 Jac

Jackman, Joan. The young gymnast. 1st American ed. London ;

New York : Dorling Kindersley, 1995. Explains the different

aspects of gymnastics including why warm ups are needed,

what basic skills are needed, and what judges look for in

competition.

970.02 Mae

Maestro, Betsy. The new Americans : Colonial times, 1620-1689.

New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1996. Traces the

competition among the American Indians, French, English,

Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other

resources of North America.

B Rob

Golenbock, Peter, 1946-. Teammates. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,

c1990. Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie

Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the

first African-American player in Major League baseball and

depicts the acceptance and support he received from his

white teammate Pee Wee Reese.

B Rob

Adler, David A. A picture book of Jackie Robinson. 1st ed. New

York : Holiday House, c1994.

B Rob

O'Connor, Jim. Jackie Robinson and the story of all-Black

baseball. New York : Random House, c1989. Presents a

biography of the first black baseball player to play in the

major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.

B Rob

Raatma, Lucia. Jackie Robinson. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass

Point Books, c2001. An introduction to the personal life

and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie

Robinson.

B Rob

Davidson, Margaret, 1936-. The story of Jackie Robinson, bravest

man in baseball. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for

Young Readers, c1988. Examines the life of the talented

black athlete who broke the color barrier in major league

baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

B Rob

De Marco, Tony. Jackie Robinson. Chanhassen, MN : Child's

World, c2002. A biography of Jackie Robinson, the first

African-American to play baseball in the major leagues,

discussing his childhood and family, his athletic success in

college, the racism he encountered in the Army, and his

baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

B Rob

Denenberg, Barry. Stealing home : the story of Jackie Robinson.

New York : Scholastic, c1990. A biography of Jackie

Robinson, the first African-American man to play in the

white major leagues, who was determined to fight for his

rights and the rights of all African-American people on and

off the baseball diamond.

E Sil

Silverman, Erica. Big pumpkin. 1st ed. New York : Macmillan.

A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers

the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of

monsters.

E Sil

Silverman, Erica. Don't fidget a feather! 1st ed. New York :

Toronto : New York : Macmillan ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ;

Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994. Their contest to

decide who is the champion of champions almost has

disastrous consequences for Gander and Duck.

F Avi

Avi, 1937-. S.O.R. losers. New York : Avon, [1986], c1984.

Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer

team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer

field.

F Chr

Christopher, Matt. Dirt bike racer. Boston : Little, Brown,

c1979. Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while

scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider

and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.

F DeJ

De Jong, Meindert, 1910-. The wheel on the school. New York, NY

: HarperCollins, c1954. The residents of a small town in

Holland try to bring storks to nest in their village.

F Dou

Douglass, Barbara, 1930-. Skateboard scramble. 1st ed.

Philadelphia : Westminster Press, c1979. Although she loves

skateboarding, Jody is uneasy when her father insists that

she participate in a skateboard competition, expecially as

she would be competing against her best friend.

F Gre

Greene, Bette. Phillip Hall likes me. I reckon maybe.

F Gre

Greenwald, Sheila. The Mariah Delany Lending Library disaster.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977. An eleven-year-old girl

sets up her own lending library in competition with the New

York Public Library and finds herself involved in more than

she bargained for.

F Gut

Gutman, Dan. The kid who ran for President. New York :

Scholastic, c1996. With his friend as campaign manager and

his former babysitter as running mate, twelve-year-old

Judson Moon sets out to become President of the United

States.

F Hou

Houston, James A., 1921-. The falcon bow : an Arctic legend.

New York : M.K. McElderry Books, c1986. Kungo, a young

Inuit, seeks to prevent a bloody feud when his people and a

rival Indian tribe find themselves in competition for

dwindling food supplies.

F Hur

Hurwitz, Johanna. Class president. New York : Scholastic, 1991,

c1990. Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help

another candidate win the nomination for class president.

F Lee

Lee, Milly. Nim and the war effort. 1st ed. New York : Frances

Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. In her

determination to prove that a Chinese American can win the

contest for the war effort, Nim does something which leaves

her Chinese grandfather both bewildered and proud.

F Par

Park, Linda Sue. The kite fighters. New York : Clarion Books,

c2000. In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup

overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as

the first-born son receives special treatment from their

father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's

kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year

kite-fighting competition.

F Sto

Stolz, Mary, 1920-. Stealing home. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :

HarperCollins, c1992. Though they still listen to baseball

and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in

their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy

comes to stay.

F Wu

Wu, Priscilla. The abacus contest : stories from Taiwan and

China. Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c1996. In a small

city in southern Taiwan, six children with a traditional

background experience different changes in their outlook.

PB f

Lowell, Melissa. Center ice. New York : Skylark, 1995. When a

big competition is coming up, and Tori's mother can't make

it, she has a plan that will change everything.

PB f

Lowell, Melissa. Ice magic. New York : Skylark, c1996. Silver

Blades team member Martina Nemo is excited when she lands a

skating role in a television movie, but someone is not happy

about Martina's good fortune, and sets a plot in motion

designed to get her fired.

PB f

Konigsburg, E. L. The view from Saturday. 1st ed. New York,

N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1996. Four

students, with their own individual stories, develop a

special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a

paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade

class in the Academic Bowl competition.

PB f

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. The big bike race. 1st ed. New York :

Holiday House, c1995. Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning

the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are

shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky,

yellow bike for his tenth birthday.

PB f

Stine, R. L. How I learned to fly /Goosebumps. New York :

Scholastic, c1997. Jack Johnson finds a book that tells how

humans can learn to fly and hopes to use his knowledge to

show-up his classmate Wilson Schlame, but when the news gets

out that Jack can fly, things start to get out of hand and

he questions whether flying is really the way to go.

PB f

West, Tracey, 1965-. Charizard, go! New York : Scholastic,

c2000. Ash is not certain that Charizard will help him in a

great Pokémon competition.

PB fs

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905. Hans Brinker : or, The silver

skates. Complete and unabridged. Cleveland : Collins +

World, [1975]. A Dutch boy and girl work toward two

goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's

memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

PB fs

Lovitt, Chip. Skating for the gold : Michelle Kwan & Tara

Lipinski. New York : Pocket Books, c1997. Reviews the 1997

World Championship women's figure skating competition in

which U.S. skater Tara Lipinski claimed first place and

Michelle Kwan won second, provides brief biographical

information about the two young women, and discusses their

push toward the goal of the 1998 Olympics.