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MATH

Counting - Simple:

Bed Hogs – DiPucchio

Click, Clack, Splish Splash: A Counting Adventure – Cronin

A Dozen Dogs: A Read-and-Count Story – Ziefert

The First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story – Melmed – 811.5

Grapes of Math – Tang (math riddles, higher level counting) 793.7

Leaping Lizards – Murphy – VIDEO

M&M’s Counting Book – McGrath

Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea – Lesser 513.2

Ten, Nine, Eight – Bang

Warthogs in the Kitchen – Edwards

When Sheep Cannot Sleep: The Counting Book – Kitamura

Add/Subtract:

Addition Annie – Gisler

The Action of Subtraction – Cleary (513)

Animals on Board – Murphy, Stuart J. (PreK-2)

Domino Addition - Long, Lynette (K-3)

Each Orange Had 8 Slices – Giganti, Paul (PreK-3)

Elevator Magic – Murphy (K-3)

Fair Bear Share – Murphy (K-3) (addition, regrouping)

The Hershey’s Kisses Addition Book – Pallotta – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

The Hershey’s Kisses Subtraction Book – Pallotta– Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

The Mission of Addition – Cleary (513)

Monster Musical Chairs – Murphy (PreK-2)

More M&Ms Chocolate Candies Math – McGrath

One Guinea Pig is Not Enough – Duke, kae (PreK-2)

Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

Shark Swimathon – Murphy (2-4) (subtracting 2-digit)

Twenty is Too Many – Duke, Kate (K-3)

Multiplication/Division

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story – Neuschwander & Burns (2-4)

Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513

Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Anno 512

Arctic Fives Arrive – Pinczes

Bats on Parade - Appelt

Best of Times – Tang, Greg (2-5)

Divide and Ride - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

Double the Ducks – Murphy (K-3)

Great Divide – Dodds

King’s Commissioners – Friedman

One Grain of Rice – Demi 398.2

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes

Remainder of One - Pinczes

Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do – Murphy (2-4) (addition, multiplication)

Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2

Fractions:

Apple Fractions – Pallotta, Jerry (2-4)

Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

Fraction Fun – Adler 513.2

Give Me Half! - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2

The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fraction Book – Pallotta– Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump – Murphy (2-4)

Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents –Gifford 513.2

Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions from Klondike and Snow – Nagda, Ann (3-5)

Measurement:

Bigger, Better, Best – Murphy (2-4) (area)

Counting on Frank - Clement

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway – Adler 530.8

Inch by Inch – Lionni, Leo (PreK-2)

Inchworm and a Half – Pinczes, Elinor (PreK-2)

Mighty Maddie – Murphy (PreK-1) (weights)

Millions to Measure – Schwartz, David (1-4)

Racing Around – Murphy (1-4) (perimeter)

Room for Ripley – Murphy 530.8

Twelve Snails to One Lizard – Hightower

Circumference:

Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi - Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter - Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone – Neuschwander

Area & Perimeter:

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! – Burns

Large Numbers:

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? – Wells

Million Fish…More or Less - McKissack

On Beyond a Million –Schwartz 513.5

Estimation:

Betcha! – Murphy 519.5

Geometry:

Elephants on Board – MacDonald

Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tangrams) - Tompett

Greedy Triangle – Burns

Hamster Champs – Murphy (Angles) 516

Let’s Fly a Kite – Murphy (1-3) (symmetry)

My Full Moon is Square – Pinczes, Elinor (K-3)

Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons – Adler, David (K-3)

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table – Neuschwander 516

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516

Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes – Emberley, Ed (K-3)

When a Line Bends…a Shape Begins – Greene, Rhonda (K-3)

What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Ellis, Julie (3-6)

Time:

Bunny Day: Telling Time from Breakfast to Bedtime – Walton, Rick (Prek-K)

Cluck O’Clock – Gray, Kes (PreK-2)

Game Time – Murphy (1-4)

How Long? – Dale, Elizabeth (PreK-K)

It’s about Time! – Murphy (K-3)

It’s about Time, Max! – Richards, Kitty (1-3)

Little Rabbits’ First Time Book – Baker, Alan (PreK-K)

Me Counting Time from Seconds to Centuries – Sweeney, Joan (K-2)

Mouse Tells the Time – Moon (PreK-1)

Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book)

Telling Time – Older, Jules (2-5)

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat – Harper, Dan (K-3)

What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? – Sierra, Judy (PreK-2)

Critical Thinking:

Anno’s Hat Tricks - Anno

Problem Solving:

Arithme-Tickle – 513 Lew

Grapes of Math – Tang 793.7

Math Curse – Scieszka

Math Fables – Tang – 513.2

Math for all SeasonsL Mind-Stretching Math Riddles – Tang – 513

Safari Park – Murphy (finding the missing element) 512.9

Money; Economics:

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money – Berenstain

The Big Buck Adventure – Gill – 513

Bunny Money – Wells

A Chair for My Mother – Williams

Coin Counting Book – Williams

Common Cents – Bailey – 332.024

A Dollar for a Penny – Glass

If You Made a Million – Schwartz 332.042

Jelly Beans for Sale – McMillan 332.4

Market Days – Jaffrey 381

Markets – Bendick 380.1

The Pickle Patch Bathtub – Kennedy

Pigs go to Market: Fun with Math and Shopping – Axelrod

Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod

Three Silly Billies – Stevens

Ratio and/or Proportion:

G is for Googol – Schwartz 510

If Dogs Were Dinosaurs – Schwartz 513.2 Only One – Harshman 513.2

If You Hopped Like a Frog – Schwartz 513.2

Graphs:

Great Graph Contest - Leedy

Number Concepts:

100 Days of Cool – Murphy (1-3)

Button Box – Reid, Margarette (PreK-1) (patterning )

Counting Crocodiles – Sierra – 398.2

Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy (2-4) (place value)

Every Buddy Counts – Murphy (K-1) (counting)

How Much is a Million – Schwartz

Just Enough Carrots – Murphy (K-2) (counting)

Little Numbers and Pictures That Show Just How Little They Are – Packard, Edward

(2-6)

Missing Mittens – Murphy (K-2) (odd and even numbers)

Numbers – Parker – 510

Pair of Socks – Murphy (K-2) (patterns)

Place for Zero – Murphy (K-3)

Right in Your own Back Yard: Nature Math – 510 RIG

Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Wormell, Christopher (1-4)

General Math:

Bears odd, Bears Even – Ziefert – 513

Even Steven and Odd Todd – Cristaldi

M&Ms Color Pattern Book – McGrath

Marvelous Math: a Book of Poems – Hopkins 811

No Fair! - Holtzman (teaching ideas in back of book)

Spaghetti and Meatballs for all!: A Mathematical Story – Burns

Using Math in the ER – Koll – 510.76

Using Math on a Space Mission– Koll – 510.76

Using Math to Build a Skyscraper– Koll – 510.76

Using Math to Climb Mount Everest– Koll – 510.76

Using Math to Design a Roller Coaster– Koll – 510.76

Using Math to Survive in the Wild– Koll – 510.76

You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-Solving Fun – Adler – 511.3

SCIENCE

General:

Science Verse – Scieszka & Smith

Weather:

Clifford and the Big Storm – Bridwell

Cloud Dance - Locker

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett

Feel the Wind – Dorros 551.5 DOR

Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak (Groundhog Day)

It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford (Groundhog Day)

River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (poems, flood in SD)

Snowflake Bentley - Martin

The Storm – Harshman

The Storm Book – Zolotow

The Storm in the Night – Stolz

Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons – Bruchac

Thunder Cake – Polacco

The Umbrella – Brett

Plants:

Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems – George

Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson

Reason for a Flower - Heller (in Big Book form also)

Sky Tree – Locker

A Tree is Growing – Dorros

Trees: The First Forest – Giles

Animals:

Aarowhawk –Schaefer

Bed Hogs – DiPucchio

Click-Clack Moo- Cronin

Crickwing – Cannon

The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash – Noble

Dazzle the Dinosaur – Pfister

Diary of a Spider - Cronin

Diary of a Worm- Cronin

Dooby Dooby Moo- Cronin

Duck for President- Cronin

Feathers for Lunch – Ehlert

The Hat – Brett

Honey—Honey—Lion: A Story from Africa – Brett

Like Jake and Me - Jukes

Mercy Watson Books – DiCamillo

Penguin Pete – Pfister

Pigeon Books - Willems

Pigs -Gibbons

Pinduli – Cannon

The Raft – LaMarche

Rainbow Fish – Pfister

Small Green Snake – Gray

Stellaluna - Cannon

Verdi -Cannon

Food Chains/Food Webs:

Sierra - Siebert

Space:

Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite)

Dust:

Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust – Sayre

Ecology:

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

Great Trash Bash - Leedy

Heron Street - Turner

Just a Dream - Van Allsburg

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – DePaola

Letting Swift River Go - Yolen

Miss Rumphius – Cooney

Owl Moon – Yolen

River Ran Wild - Cherry

Sierra - Siebert (effects of removal of a link in the food chain/web)

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe – Williams

Habitats:

The Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

Pinduli – Cannon

The Three Little Javelinas – Lowell

SOCIAL STUDIES

Early Exploration:

The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro

Encounter - Yolen

Native Americans:

Annie and the Old One – Miles

Beyond the Ridge – Goble

Gift of the Sacred Dog – Goble

Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble

Her Seven Brothers – Goble 398.2

Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – De Paola 398.2

Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native America – Bruchac

Mystic Horse- Goble 398.2

Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2

Thunder on the Plains – Robbins 599.64

Pilgrims:

Courage of Sarah Noble (1707)- Dalgliesh (short chapter book, 58pages)

Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill

On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl - Waters

Pilgrims of Plymouth - Sewall

Stranded at Plymouth Plantation - Bowen

Three Young Pilgrims – Harness

Colonial:

A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler

Baker’s Dozen, A Colonial American Tale – Forest

Our Colonial Year – Harness 973.2

Revolutionary War:

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? - Fritz

Dangerous Crossing – Krensky

George Did It – Jurmain 921

George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen by Both Sides – Schanzer

George Washington’s Teeth – Chandra

Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the Liberty Bell Was Saved - Slate

Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry – Hopkins

John, Paul, George & Ben – Smith

Katie’s Trunk – Turner

Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord – Fradin 973.3

Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow

Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick

Samuel’s Choice – Berleth

This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch

Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps – Barner

1793/1913:

A Penny in the Road – Precek

Lewis and Clark Expedition:

I Am Sacajawea, I Am York – Murphy 920

Lewis and Clark and Me; A Dog’s Tale - Myers (short fiction read-aloud, 63 pages)

Gold Rush:

Gold Fever - Kay

Railroad Race (1863-1869):

Iron Horses - Kay

Civil War:

A. Lincoln and Me – Borden

Blue and the Gray - Bunting

Cecil’s Story - Lyon

Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness

Pink and Say - Polacco

Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Fleming

Slavery:

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters – McKissack

Henry’s Freedom Box - Levine

Nettie’s Trip South – Turner

Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson

Westward Movement:

Cassie’s Journey, Going West in the 1860’s - Harvey

Dandelions - Bunting

Grandmother Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (Missouri)

Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Prairie Alphabet – Moore (modern times)

Red Flower Goes West – Turner

Season’s Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul

Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker

Wagons West- Gerrard

Orphan Trains (1850’s-1920)

Train to Somewhere - Bunting

Dust Bowl/Depression:

Dust Bowl - Booth

Dust for Dinner - Turner

Leah’s Pony - Friedrich

The Babe & I – Adler

Complete History of One Location:

Barn - Atwell

Heron Street - Turner

House on Maple Street - Pryor

River Ran Wild - Cherry

Tree in the Trail - Holling

Effects of “Progress”:

Heron Street - Turner

Letting Swift River Go - Yolen

Map Skills / Geography:

Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry

Around the World, Who’s Been Here? - George

Bunnies on the go: Getting from Place to Place – Walton

Geography From A to Z – Knowlton

The Librarian who Measured the Earth – Lasky

Mapping Penny’s World – Leedy Fic Lee

Picture Book of the U.S.A. – Goodman

Scrambled States of America – Keller

The Train of States - Sis

Economics:

Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513

Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand – Loewen 338.5

Ox-Cart Man – Hall

Government:

D is for Democracy: A Citizen’s Alphabet – Grodin

Duck for President – Cronin

Ghosts of the White House - Harness

House Mouse, Senate Mouse – Barnes

Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse - Barnes

So You Want to Be President – St. George

We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States – Catrow

Woodrow For President – Barnes

Woodrow, the White House Mouse – Barnes

WWII:

Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki

Boxes for Katje - Fleming

The Bracelet - Uchida

The Butterfly – Polacco

Cello of Mr. O – Cutler

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War - Tsuchiya

In My Pocket – Sim

Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers)

Yellow Star, The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark – Deedy

Watch the Stars Come Out - Levinson

Missouri:

Heartland – Siebert How to Draw Missouri’s Sights and Symbols - Kuedee

The Great Shaking – Carson

The Pickle Patch Bathtub – Kennedy

S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet – Young

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams

Famous Quotes:

Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh

Newspaper Headlines:

Dateline: Troy – Fleischman

Symbols of America:

The Great Cake Bake – Ketteman

Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America – West

LANGUAGE ARTS

Figurative Language

Similes/Metaphors:

Brave as a Mountain Lion - Scott

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Goble

Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon - Williams

Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin

Like Jake and Me - Jukes

Old Jake’s Skirts - Slonim

Owl Moon – Yolen

Quick as a Cricket - Wood

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Swamp Angel – Isaacs

A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets – Fletcher

Personification:

Call Me Ahnightio- Conrad

Giving Tree – Silverstein

If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

Miss Spider’s Tea Party – Kirk

Miss Spider’s Wedding - Kirk

Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig

Velveteen Rabbit – Williams

Onomatopoeia:

Heron Street – Turner

Olivia Forms a Band – Falconer

Some Smug Slug – Edwards

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin - Ernst

ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator 398.24

Symbolism:

Fly Away Home – Bunting

Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Flashback:

Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

Miss Rumphius - Cooney

Alliteration:

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein

Animalia - Base

Dinorella - Edwards

Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado

Four Famished Foxes - Edwards

Some Smug Slug - Edwards

Wacky Wedding - Edwards

What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman

Worrywarts - Edwards

Idioms:

Amelia Bedelia - Parish

Dog Breath - Pilkey

In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1

My Momma Likes to Say – 398.9 Bre

Homonyms:

Eight Ate, A feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban 818

Why the Banana Split - Walton

Oxymoron:

Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee 818

Palindromes:

Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee 793.73

Too Hot to Hoot – Terban 818

Homophones:

A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne 428.1

Anagrams:

Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee 793.734

READING SKILLS

Strong Characters:

Olivia Forms a Band – Falconer

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid – McDonald (Chapter book)

Because of Winn Dixie – DiCamillo (Chapter book)

Surviving the Applewhites – Tolan (Chapter Book)

The Tale of Desperaux: Being the story of . . . of Thread – DiCamillo (Chapter Book)

Main Idea:

Chair for my Mother - Williams

Fables - Lobel

Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

The Important Book - Brown

Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Vocabulary:

Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Plot:

Daisy Comes Home - Brett

Mercy Watson Fights Crime – DiCamillo (short chapter book)

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel

Three Little Javelinas - Lowell

Three Little Pigs

Other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version

Cause & Effect:

Across the Stream - Ginsburg

Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett

Encounter – Yolen

If Up Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff

If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff

If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

Napping House – Wood

River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz

Sierra – Siebert

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - Macaulay

Point of View:

Barn – Atwell

Black and White - Macaulay

Call Me Ahnightio – Conrad

Diary of a Spider – Cronin

Diary of a Worm – Cronin

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay up Late – Willems

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War - Tsuchiya

Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

Great Shaking –Carson

Pain and the Great One – Blume

Something to Tell the Grandcows - Spinelli

Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan

Tight Times – Hazen

True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith

Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg

Voices in the Park - Browne

When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant

Story Sequence:

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Aardema

Jumanji - Van Allsburg

King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood

The Mitten – Brett 398.2

Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak

Drawing conclusions/ Inferences:

Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg

Fact/Fiction:

Like Jake and me – Jukes

Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland

Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6

Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies – Dewey 597.96

Stellaluna – Cannon

Verdi – Cannon

GENRES

Autobiography:

Don’t You Know there’s a War On? – Stevenson, James

Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

Biography:

Wilma Unlimited – Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud

American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain – Brown 921 Twa

Fantasy:

Rootabaga Stories – Sandburg 808.8

Historical fiction:

Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War)

Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train)

(See Social Studies section for more.)

Mystery:

Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Realistic fiction:

Lady in the Box - McGovern

Your Move – Bunting

Science fiction:

Mission Ziffoid – Rosen

Nova’s Ark – Kirk

Fairy Tales/Fables: (mostly 398.2)

Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story – De Paola

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave – Mayer

Briar Rose – Yolen

Bubba, the Cowboy Prince – Ketteman

Chickerella - Auch

Cinderella – Lewis

Cinderella Bigfoot – Thaler

Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper – Perrault

Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell

Cinder-Elly – Minters

Dinorella – Edwards

Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition – Coburn

The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale – Yep

Dusty Locks and the Three Bears – Lowell

Egyptian Cinderella – Climo

The Emperor and the Kite – Yolen

Fanny’s Dream – Buehner

The Frog Prince, Continued – Scieszka

Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story – Sierra

The Girl who Loved Wild Horses – Goble

The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story – Hickox

Jack and the Giant: A Story Full of Beans – Harris

Jo Cinders – Mitchell

The Little Match Girl – Pinkney

Little Red Cowboy Hat – Lowell

The Loathsome Dragon – Wiesner

Look out Jack! The Giant is Back! – Birdseye

Moss Gown - Hooks

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe

Not one Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls – Yolen

The Persian Cinderella – Climo

The Princess and the Pea – Andersen

The Princess and the Pea – Stevens

The Princess and the Pizza – Auch

Princess Furball – Huck

Rapunzel – Zelinsky

Rough-face Girl – Martin – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Rumplestiltskin – Zelinsky

Schome White and the Seven Dorfs – Thaler

Seven Chinese Brothers – Mahy

Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella – Schroeder

Sleeping Ugly – Yolen

Snow White – Grimm

Squids will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables – Scieszka

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Scieszka

The Three Armadillies Tuff – Hopkins

Three Billy Goats Gruff – Stevens

The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story – Pollock

The Ugly Duckling – Pinkney

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short . . . – Hoberman 428.6

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China - Louie

Read Aloud Chapter Book

Gail Carson Levine books – Ella Enchanted, Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, etc.

PARTS OF SPEECH

Nouns:

A Cache of Jewels – Heller 428.1

A Mink, a Fink, a Skating rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day - Pulver

Pronouns:

I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary, Brian 428.2

Mine, All Mine – Heller 428.2s

Verbs:

Kites Sail High – Heller 428.2

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day - Pulver

Old Black Fly - Aylesworth

Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello – Singer 591.59

Pumpkin Soup – Cooper

To Root, to toot, to Parachute; What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator 398.24

Adjectives:

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary; What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian 428.2

Old Black fly – Aylesworth

Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller 428.2

That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

Things that are Most in the World – Barrett

Adverbs:

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely What is an Adverb? –Cleary, Brian 428.2

Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado

Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg 411

Prepositions:

Behind the Mask – Heller 428.2

Under, Over, by the Clover; What is a Preposition? – Cleary, Brian 428.2

Superlatives:

Things that are Most In the World –Barrett

Interjections and Conjunctions:

Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller 425

Grammar:

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen

Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim

Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives:

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1

Compound Words:

Once there was a Bull… (frog) – Walton

WRITING SKILLS

Letter Writing:

Armadillo from Amarillo – Cherry

Around the World, Who’s been Here? – George

Boxes for Katje – Fleming

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School – Teague

Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation - Teague

Message in the Mailbox – Leedy 395

Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea – Williams

Acrostic Poems:

Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur 793.73

Punctuation:

Punctuation takes a Vacation - Pulver

Vocabulary:

Donavan’s Word Jar – DeGross – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Jokes & Riddles:

Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay – Terban 808

ABC Books:

A is for Salad – Lester

Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1

Alphabet City - Johnson

Alphabet Under Construction – Fleming

America: A Patriotic Primer - Cheney - 973

Animalia – Base

Antics – Hepworth 421

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions – Musgrove - 960

B is for Bookworm: A Library Alphabet – Praetor

Capital!: Washington D.C. fro A to Z – Melmed – 975.3

Colonial Times from A to Z – Kalman – 973.2

D is for Democracy: A Citizen’s Alphabet – Groin – 320.973

G is for Goat - Polacco

Into the A, B, Sea: An Ocean Alphabet – Rose – 591.77

Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac 970

Miss Spider’s ABC - Kirk

My Little House ABC - Wilder

N is for Natural State – An Arkansas Alphabet – Shoulders – 976.7

Old Black Fly – Aylesworth

Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet 421

Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson

R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet – Young - 811

S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet – Young – 977.8

T is for Teachers: A School Alphabet – Layne - 371

Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon 411

Wacky Wedding – Edwards

What Pete Ate A-Z – Kalman

The Z was Zapped – Van Allsburg

Memorable Language:

Fireflies! – Brinckloe

Home Place – Dragonwagon

Jumanji – Van Allsburg

Letting Swift River Go – Yolen

Memory Box – Shanley

Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart –Gray

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – Schotter

Owl Moon – Yolen

The Relatives Came – Rylant

Word Choice:

Amos & Boris – Steig

Chris Van Allsburg’s books

Home Place – Dragonwagon

Patricia Polacco’s books

Character Traits:

Amazing Grace – Hoffman

Amos & Boris – Steig

Chrysanthemum – Henkes

Crow Boy – Yashima

Miss Rumphius – Cooney

My Great Aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Literacy:

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair - Polacco

Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco

Fairy Tales: (Also List of Fairy Tales under Language Arts)

Chickerella - Auch

Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell 398.2

Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston

Egyptian Cinderella – Climo 398.2

Fanny’s Dream - Buehner

Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

Gift of the Crocodile, A Cinderella Story - Sierra 398.2

Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs 398.2

Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2

Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell 398.2

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters -Steptoe

Paper Bag Princess - Munsch

Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood – Artell 398.2

Princess Furball - Huck

Squids Will Be Squids – Scieszka

Stinky Cheese Man – Scieszka

Three Cool Kids Emberley – 398.2

True Story of the Three Little Pigs –Scieszka

Yours Truly, Goldilocks - Ada

Fables:

Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein 398.21

Fables – Lobel, Arnold

Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable – Stevens 398.2

Nursery Rhymes:

And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens

Here Comes Mother Goose – Opie 398.8

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Trapani

Cumulative Tales:

Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka

Napping House - Wood (also in Big Book form)

No More Jumping on the Bed - Arnoco

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Taback

Old Woman and Her Pig - Kimmel

Shoes From Grandpa - Fox

Modern Tales:

Gruffalo – Donaldson

My Sister’s Rusty Bike – Aylesworth (tall tale)

Wordless books:

Flotsam - Wiesner

Free Fall - Wiesner

Sector 7 – Wiesner

Quotations:

Quotations for Kids – Senn 082

A World of Words, An ABC of Quotations – Tobias & Malone 811

Poetry:

Under Construction

MULTICULTURAL

Egypt:

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret - Heide

Appalachia:

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds - Rylant

My Great-Aunt Arizona - Houston

Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston

Black History:

A Band of Angels - Hopkinson

Duke Ellington - Pinkney

Fishing Day – Pinkney

Freedom Summer – Wiles

Goin’ Someplace Special – McKissack

The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles

The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller

Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker - Lasky

Amish:

An Amish Christmas - Ammon

Just Plain Fancy - Polacco

Raising Yoder’s Barn - Yolen

Russian:

The Keeping Quilt - Polacco

Japanese:

Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki

The Bracelet – Uchida

The Emperor and the Kite – Yolen

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War – Tsuchiya

Grandfather’s Journey – Say

Henry and the Kite Dragon – Hall

Irish:

O’Sullivan Stew – Talbott

Arab:

The Storytellers – Lewin

Mexican:

Uncle Rain Cloud – Johnston

African:

Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi

Chinese:

Coolies – Yin

Argentina:

Gauchada – Lamm

PREJUDICE / TOLERANCE

General

Blind Men and the Elephant - Backstein

Friday Night at Hodges’ Café - Eagam

Henry and the Kite Dragon – Hall

Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg

Black:

Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers – Hopkinson

Other Side - Woodson

Teammates – Barber

Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

Vision of Beauty: the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Hannaway

Jewish:

Golem – Wiesnewski

Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen

Physically Handicapped:

The Storm - Harshman (wheelchair)

Mentally Handicapped:

Be Good to Eddie Lee - Fleming (Down’s Syndrome)

Japanese:

The Bracelet – Uchida (WWII) internment camp)

Henry and the Kite Dragon – Hall

So Far from the Sea - Bunting (WWII internment camp)

Homeless:

Fly Away Home - Bunting

Lady in the Box – McGovern

Uncle Willy’s Soup Kitchen – DiSalvo-Ryan

GETTING ALONG

Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon (being yourself)

Chrysanthemum - Henkes

Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year – Kimmel

Hey Little Ant – Hoose (respect; not looking down on others)

Hooway for Wodney Wat – Lester (acceptance)

Lizzie’s Invitation – Keller (being left out)

Stephanie’s Pony Tail - Munsch

Summer Wheels - Bunting

When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang (controlling anger)

Wings - Myers (being yourself, acceptance of others)

GRANDPARENTS / ELDERLY

An Angel for Olomon Singer - Rylant

Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard

Emma - Kesselman

Grandfather’s Journey -Say

Grandpa’s Face –Cooper

Grandpa’s Soup - Kadano

Homeplace – Shelby

Hundred Penny Box - Mathis

I Go With My Family To Grandma’s - Levinson

Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin

Miss Rumphius- Cooney

Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! - Levine

Old Henry - Blos

Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim

Old Woman Who Named Things - Rylant

Papa Lucky’s Shadow - Daly

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Sunday Outing - Pinkney

Thunder Cake – Polacco

Two of Them - Aliki

Tom - de Paola

Wednesday Surprise – Bunting

When I Was Young in the Mountains - Rylant

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partiridge – Fox

DEATH

Everett Anderson’s Goodbye – Clifton

Missing May - Rylant

Two of Them, The - Aliki

MUSIC

Blues of Flats Brown – Myers

The Case of the Fiddle-Playing Fox - Erickson

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and his Orchestra – Pinkney

Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler

Froggy Plays with the Band – London

Flute Player: an Apache Folktale - Lacapa

M is for Melody: a Music Alphabet – Wargin

Remarkable Farkle McBride – Lithgow – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Wood-hoopoe Willie – Kroll

ART

Art Lesson – De Paola

Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself - Frith

Katie Meets the Impressionists – Mayhew

Linnea in Monet’s Garden – Bjork

Mary Cassatt: Family Pictures – O’Connor

No Good in Art – Cohen

Seen Art? - Scieszka

CHARACTER EDUCATION

BULLYING

Picture Books:

Bully Trouble - Cole

Just One Flick of a Finger - Lorbiecki (serious book about guns)

Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully – Carlson

Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story About Bullying - McCain

Recess Queen – O’Neill

Say Something - Moss

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

18th Emergency - Byars

Bad Girls - Wilson

Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Berenstain

Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain- Romain 302.3

Bully of Barkham Street- Stolz

How to Be Cool in the Third Grade – Duffey

Holes – Sachar

Jake Drake, Bully Buster- Clements

Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge -Shreve

Shredderman Series - Van Drannen

Surviving Brick Johnson - Myers

Veronica Ganz - Sachs

SELF-WORTH

Picture Books:

Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon

Children’s Book of Virtues –Bennett 808.8 Chi

Chrysanthemum - Henkes

Gumbo goes Downtown - Talley

I’m Gonna Like Me- Curtis

Just Like Mike - Herman

Odd Velvet- Whitcomb

Otis – Bynum

Ruby the Copycat – Rathmann – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco

Your Move - Bunting (pressure to be in a gang)

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Bad Girls - Wilson

Freckle Juice - Blume

Girl With 500 Middle Names - Haddix

The Girls - Koss

Lizzie at Last - Mills

Star Girl - Spinelli

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar

Winners Take All - Bowen

Zach’s Lie – Smith

RESPONSIBILITY

Picture Books:

Amos and Boris - Steig

Apple Picking Time - Slawson

Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game - Berenstain

Brave Irene - Steig

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Farmer Duck - Waddell

Full Belly Bowl - Aylesworth

Hana’s Year - Talley

I Did It, I’m Sorry - Buehner

It’s Up to You Griffin - Pickford

Sachiki Means Happiness - Sakal

Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Swimmy - Lionni

Tops and Bottoms - Stevens

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Fox

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Dog on Barkham Street - Stolz

Family Under the Bridge - Carlson

Light at Tern Rock - Sauer

Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teacher’s House - Sachar

Night Swimmers - Byars

On My Honor - Bauer

One-Eyed Cat - Fox

Sign of the Beaver -Speare

Stone Fox - Gardiner

Summer Wheels - Bunting

RESPECT

Picture Books:

Amos & Boris - Steig

Arthur’s Eyes - Brown

Arthur’s Nose - Brown

Chicken Sunday - Polacco

Crow Boy - Yashima

Frog and Toad Together - Lobel

Great Kapok Tree - Cherry

Hey Little Ant - Hoose

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Henkes

No Good in Art - Cohen

Quarreling Book - Zolotow

Richard Wright and the Library Card - Miller

Ruby the Copycat – Rathmann – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai

Smoky Night - Bunting

Stellaluna - Cannon

Strega Nona - De Paola

Two of Them - Aliki

Ugly Duckling - Pinkney

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Bully of Barkham Street - Stolz

Hundred Penny Box - Mathis

Mania Magee – Spinelli

Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade - DeClements

Zucchini - Dana

COURAGE

Picture Books:

Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart - Williams

Brand New Kid - Couric (courage to accept someone different)

Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott

Brave Irene - Steig

Cello of Mr. O - Cutler

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Courage - Waber

Cowardly Clyde – Peet

Molly the Brave and Me – O’Connor

My Brother Martin: A Sister Rembers Growing Up with . . .MLKJ – Farris

Rosa - Giovanni

Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare - DeBeer

Sheila Rae, the Brave - Henkes

Thunder Cake - Polacco

Tiger is a Scaredy Cat – Phillips

The Value of Courage: Story of Jackie Robinson – 92 JOH

Very First Last Time - Andrews

Courage Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Call It Courage - Sperry

Courage of Sarah Noble – Dalgliesh

Drinking Gourd - Monjo

Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage - Houston

Hatchet - Paulsen

Helen Keller - Keller 921 Kel

Red Badge of Courage - Crane

Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan

Sign of the Beaver - Speare

Snow Treasure - McSwigan

Whipping Boy - Fleischman

CARING/COMPASSION

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst

Big Al - Clements

Chair for My Mother - Williams

Children’s Book of Virtues – Bennett 808.8 Chi

Crow Boy - Yashima

How Many Days to America?- Bunting

Mean Soup - Everitt

Owl Moon - Yolen

Rainbow Fish - Pfister

Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai

Smoky Night - Bunting

Three Questions - Muth

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen - DiSalvo-Ryan

Under the Lemon Moon - Fine

Wednesday Surprise - Bunting

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson

Hundred Dresses - Estes

Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen

Pinballs - Byars (Lit Set)

Randall’s Wall - Fenner

Secret Life of the Underwear Champ - Miles

HONESTY

Picture Books:

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Day’s Work - Bunting

Empty Pot - Demi 398.2

Gold Coin - Ada

Honest to Goodness Truth - McKissack

I Did It, I Am Sorry - Buehner

Plato’s Journey - Talley

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine - Ness

Smoky Night - Bunting

The Summer My Father Was Ten - Brisson

Too Many Tamales - Soto

Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

The Cheat - Koss

Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice

Nothing But the Truth - Avi

On My Honor - Bauer

COOPERATION

Picture Books:

Berlioz the Bear- Brett

Farmer Duck - Waddell

Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2

Swimmy – Lionni

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell

Wild Christmas Reindeer - Brett

PERSEVERANCE

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst

Amazing Grace - Hoffman

Apple Picking Time - Slawson

Brave Irene - Steig

Chair for My Mother - Williams

Empty Pot - Demi 398.2

Galimoto - Williams

How Many Days to America - Bunting

Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (Perseverance)

Ox-Cart Man - Hall

Perseverance!: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison - Murray

Pumpkin Runner – Arnold

Rocks in His Head - Hurst

Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2

Swimmy - Lionni

Tortoise and the Hare - Stevens

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell

Wagon Wheels - Brenner

Wednesday Surprise - Bunting

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the World’s Fastest Woman – Krull 921

Perseverance Read-aloud Chapter Books:

Jason’s Gold - Hobbs

Helen Keller – Keller 921

Hatchet - Paulsen

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar

INTEGRITY

Picture Books:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible…- Viorst

Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi

Ruby the Copycat – Rathmann – Mrs. Clawson’s Personal Collection

Read-aloud Chapter Books:

Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice

ANGER

Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move - Viorst

Amazing Millika - Parkison

Andrew’s Angry Words – Lachner

Enemy Pie - Munson

I’m Furious - Crary

Quarreling Book - Zolotow

Smoky Night - Bunting

Uncle Rain Cloud - Johnston

When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang

BIOGRAPHIES

Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – Giblin

America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle - Adler

Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy – Pinkney

Blackbeard, the Pirate King: Several Yarns . . . Most Notorious Seaman - Lewis

Compassion: The Story of Clara Barton - Woodworth

Daring Nellie Bly, America’s Star Reporter – Christensen

Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins – Kerley

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and his Orchestra – Pinkney

Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse - Shura

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 35, 1909 - Provensen

Hero and the Holocaust, the story of Janusz Korczak and His Children – Adler

If I Only Had a Horn: A Young Louis Armstrong - Orgill

Leonardo Da Vinci – Stanley

Librarian who Measured the Earth – Hawkes

Lindbergh – Demarest

Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man – Adler

Mary Cassatt: Family Pictures – O’Connor

Michelangelo – Stanley

My Brother Martin: A Sister Rembers Growing Up with . . .MLKJ – Farris Norman Rockwell, Storyteller with a Brush – Gherman

Perseverance!: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison - Murray

Promises to Keep, How Jackie Robinson Changed America – Robinson, Sharon

Revolutionary John Adams – Harness

Rosa - Giovanni

Ruth Law Thrills a Nation – Brown

Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Rumford

Shooting for the Moon, the Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley – Krensky

Snowflake Bentley – Martin

Starry Messenger: A Book Depicting the life of . . . Galileo – Sis

Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles

Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller They Called Her Molly Pitcher – Rockwell

Ty Cobb: Bad Boy of Baseball - Kramer

Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa – Brown

Vision of Beauty, the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Lasky

Voice from the Wilderness, Story of Anna Howard Shaw – Brown

What a Year - DePaola

When Esther Morris Headed West – Wooldridge

Where do you Think You’re Going Christopher - Fritz

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman - Krull

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo – Filipovic