Melonhead
In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
Lucy Rose
Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
Lucy Rose
Fourth grader Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother is beginning to date.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: eavesdropping, divorce, family life, diaries, schools, washington (d.c.) [X], school stories
Lucy Rose, Here's The Thing About Me
Eight-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her first year in Washington, D.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1190
Dancing In The Wings
Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
Lucy Rose
In her diary fourth grader Lucy Rose, lover of palindromes and big words, records her adventures with friends Jonique and Melonhead, including their unorthodox ways of raising money for the McBees to remodel their bakery.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
Pets At The White House
Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to some of the pets that have lived in the White House.
975.3
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: 975.3
lexile: 470
subjects: presidents, pets, washington (d.c.) [X], white house (washington, d.c.), presidents' pets $z united states, presidents' pets, animals
The Ghost Who Haunted The Capitol
Edward "Egg" Garrison goes with his sixth grade class to visit the sites of Washington, D.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
subjects: field trips, ghost stories, mystery fiction, washington (d.c.) [X], school field trips, electronic books, ghosts, mystery and detective stories, ghost stories, mystery fiction, electronic books
Capture The Flag
When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, Jos?, 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.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 104
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: airports, thieves, flags, secret societies, washington (d. c.), smithsonian institution, adventure and adventurers, washington (d.c.) [X], adventure fiction, mystery fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, robbers and outlaws
Shrapnel In The Heart
Reprints a collection of letters left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.
959.7
year: 1988
copies: 10
call number/section: 959.7
lexile:
subjects: vietnam veterans memorial (washington, d.c.), american letters, vietnam war, 1961-1975, washington (d.c.) [X], vietnam veterans memorial (wash., d.c.)
Fight On!
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.
920
year: 2003
copies: 20
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1030
subjects: terrell, mary church, african american women civil rights workers, civil rights workers, african americans, washington (d.c.) [X], readers rule
A Memorial For Mr. Lincoln
Briefly discusses Lincoln's role in American history and describes the planning and building of the monument dedicated to his memory in 1922.
973.7
year: 1992
copies: 10
call number/section: 973.7
lexile:
The White House
Discusses some of the changes and the events occurring over two centuries in the building that represents the power and majesty of the presidency.
975.3
year: 1990
copies: 6
call number/section: 975.3
lexile:
Washington City Is Burning
In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690