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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