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Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 1 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 1 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads

ELA | Level 1CCSS Literature List

Unit 1 Daisy’s Scouts

Title — Author My Notes

Here Come the Girl Scouts! – Shana Corey

TRY-ITS – For Brownie Girl Scouts – Girl Scouts of the USA

Daisy and the Girl Scouts: The Story of Juliette Gordon Low – Fern G. Brown

Juliette Low: Girl Scout Founder – Helen Boyd Higgins

First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low – Ginger Wadsworth

The Girls’ Guide to Campfire Activities – Elizabeth Encarnacion

The Cupcake Club: Peace, Love, and Cupcakes – Sheryl Berk and Carrie Berk

Girls Club Kit: Start a Club and Find Friends, Fortune & Fun! – Brooks Whitney

Soccer Day – Alyson Heller

Time for T-ball – Alyson Heller

Liz Learns a Lesson – Callie Barkley

The Lemonade Club – Patricia Polacco

The Bully Blockers Club – Teresa Bateman



Unit 2 AJ Cook’s Wiggly Tooth


Brush Your Teeth Please – Leslie McGuire

Cassandra Gets Her Smile Back: Teaching Children to Care for Their Teeth – Sherri Alpert, D.D.S.

The Tooth Book: A Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums – Edward Miller

Brush, Brush, Brush! – Alicia Padron (Illustrator)

Open Wide – Laurie Keller

Taking Care of My Teeth – Terri DeGezelle

My Tooth Is Loose, Dr. Moose! – Teresa Johnston

A Tooth Story – Margaret McNamara

Teeth – Liz Gogerly

Clarabella’s Teeth – An Vrombaut

Brush, Floss, and Rinse: Caring for Your Teeth and Gums – Amanda Doering Tourville



Unit 3 What Makes the Rain?


Rain! – Linda Ashman

Let It Rain – Maryann Cocca-Leffler

Rain, Rain, Go Away! – Caroline Jayne Church

Come On, Rain! – Karen Hesse

Splish! Splash!: A Book About Rain – Josepha Sherman

What Makes It Rain? – Susan Mayes

How to Make Bubbles – Erika L. Shores

How to Make a Liquid Rainbow – Lori Shores

The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss

It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles – Jack Prelutsky

Raining Cats and Dogs – Jane Yolen



Unit 4 The Cow


Know Your Cows – Jack Byard

Kiss the Cow! – Phyllis Root

Cows! – Becky Wolff

Milk: From Cow to Carton – Aliki

The Cow Loves Cookies – Karma Wilson

Animals on the Farm – Christopher Hernandez

Little Blue Truck – Alice Schertle

Farm Animals – Wade Cooper

Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm – Joy Cowley

Animal Poems – Valerie Worth

Around the World on Eighty Legs – Amy Gibson



Unit 5 Have You Seen a Hermit Crab?


Hermit Crabs – Tristan Boyer Binns

A House for Hermit Crab – Eric Carle

Happy Hermit Crab: A Tale of Shell Seekers – Suzanne Tate

Is This a House for Hermit Crab? – Megan McDonald

Does Anyone Know Where a Hermit Crab Goes? – Michael Glaser

The Field Guide to Ocean Animals: Explore the Great Barrier Reef – Phyllis Perry

Ocean Friends – Jodie Shepherd

First Big Book of the Ocean – Catherine D. Hughes

Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef – Marianne Berkes

Ocean Animals!: An Interactive Fun Fact Picture Book! – Mary Ann Rogers



Unit 6 Rainy Day Slime


Rain! – Linda Ashman

Let It Rain – Maryann Cocca-Leffler

The Rain Came Down – David Shannon

52 ® Rainy Day Activities – Lynn Gordon

Rainy Day Activities – Jean Feldman

50 Rainy Day Activities – Fiona Watt, Rebecca Gilpin, Leonie Pratt, Anna Milbourne, Ruth Brocklehurst, and Ben Denne

How to Make Slime – Lori Shores

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime – Suzy Kline

The Slime Wars – Debbie Dadey with her son, Nathan

Kids Inventing!: A Handbook for Young Inventors – Susan Casey

Get Inventing! – Mary Colson



Unit 7 Signs of Alligators


Crocodiles & Alligators – Seymour Simon

There’s an Alligator Under My Bed – Mercer Mayer

Snap!: A Book About Alligators and Crocodiles – Melvin & Gilda Berger

Alligators! – Becky Wolff

Alligators and Crocodiles – Gail Gibbons

Zack’s Alligator – Shirley Mozelle

Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! – Mo Willems

Alligators All Around: An Alphabet – Maurice Sendak

Fun Facts About Alligators! – Carmen Bredeson

The Book Book – Sophie Benini Pietromarchi

Easy Bookmaking: Thematic Pop-ups, Cards, & Shape Books – Natalie Walsh

Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist & Turn – Gwen Diehn



Unit 8 Kate Bates


The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions – Dr. Lynda Madison

The Way I Feel – Janan Cain

When I Feel Angry – Cornelia Maude Spelman

Feelings – Aliki

Feelings – Kristen Balouch

Feelings to Share from A to Z – Todd & Peggy Snow

Hurty Feelings – Helen Lester

Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever – Judith Viorst

When I Feel Sad – Cornelia Maude Spelman

Hug Machine – Scott Campbell

The Pout-Pout Fish – Deborah Diesen

I Hate Everything! – Sue Graves



Unit 9 Ben Franklin


Who Was Walt Disney? – Whitney Stewart

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography – William Anderson

Milton Hershey: Young Chocolatier – M.M. Eboch

Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents – Editors of TIME For Kids with Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield

Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels – Editors of TIME For Kids with Dina El Nabli

Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone – Editors of TIME For Kids with John Micklos, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Marion Dane Bauer

Betsy Ross: The Story of Our Flag – Pamela Chanko

The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper – Loreen Leedy

Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Newspapers – Linda Granfield



Unit 10 The Four Friends and the Apple Tree and The Little Red Hen and Friends


Friends – Helme Heine

Friends – Eric Carle

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them – Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

My New Friend Is So Fun! – Mo Willems

Making Friends Is an Art! – Julia Cook

Bear’s New Friend: A Book about Friendship – Karma Wilson

My Friend Is Sad – Mo Willems

How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? – Jane Yolen

A Splendid Friend, Indeed – Suzanne Bloom

Making Friends – Fred Rogers



Unit 11 Pop History


Popcorn! – Elaine Landau

The Popcorn Book – Tomie dePaola

Popcorn: No One Makes a Mess Like a Hungry Child – Monique Bucheger

Popcorn – Rowena

What Makes Popcorn Pop?: And Other Questions About the World Around Us – Jack Myers

Why Does Popcorn Pop?: And Other Kitchen Questions – Catherine Ripley

The Popcorn Story – Bon Fuller

Celebrations – Myra Cohn Livingston, Poet

Celebrations – William K. Durr

Show and Tell – Robert Munsch

Too Shy for Show-and-Tell – Beth Bracken



Unit 12 Seahorses, Of Course!


Seahorses – Jennifer Keats Curtis

Seahorses – Nicole Corse

Animal Characteristics – Sue Barraclough

Cows Sweat Through Their Noses: and Other Freaky Facts About Animal Habits, Characteristics, and Homes – Barbara Seuling

Wild Discoveries: Wacky New Animals – Heather L. Montgomery

Who’s Hiding? – Susan Canizares and Pamela Chanko

Who’s Hiding Here? – Yoshi

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly – Luis Sepulveda

The Zuzu Who’s Afraid to Fly – Jay Pillard

The Rabbit Who Wished He Could Fly – Erik Ammon

Animals That Live in Water – Renne

I Wish I Could Fly – Ron Maris

The Upside-Down Sloth – Fay Robinson



Unit 13 The American Flag and A Soldier and a Song


O, Say Can You See? America’s Symbols, Landmarks, and Inspiring Words – Sheila Keenan

The American Flag – Lloyd G. Douglas

The Bald Eagle – Norman Pearl

Celebrate America: A Guide to America’s Greatest Symbols – Mary Firestone, Norman Pearl, Anastasia Suen, and Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Our American Flag – Mary Firestone

L Is for Liberty – Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Why Are There Stripes on the American Flag? – Martha E. H. Rustad

Can You Sing “The Star-Spangled Banner”? – Martha E. H. Rustad

Paper Crafts for the 4th of July – Randel McGee

Independence Day Crafts – Mary Berendes

Patriotic Projects: Activities, Crafts, Experiments, and More! – Carole Marsh

Star-Spangled Crafts – Kathy Ross



Unit 14 Amazing Mice and The City Mouse and the Country Mouse


A First Book of Fairy Tales – Retold by Mary Hoffman

365 Fairy Tales, Rhymes, and Other Stories – Parragon Books

Fairy Tales – E. E. Cummings

Town Mouse, Country Mouse – Jan Brett

The Three Pigs – David Wiesner

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! – Jon Scieszka

Cinderella – Translated and Illustrated by Marcia Brown

The Three Bears – Illustrated by F. Rojankovsky

Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Retold by Candice Ransom

Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten!: The Story of Little Red Riding Hood as told by The Wolf – Trisha Speed Shaskan

Hand Puppets: How to Make and Use Them – Laura Ross

Marvelous Mice – Rose Carraway

In Mouse’s Backyard – James Nardi

Top 10 Small Mammals for Kids – Ann Graham Gaines



Unit 15 Off to a Farmers Market


Farmers’ Market Day – Shanda Trent

We’re Going to the Farmers’ Market – Stefan Page

Tractor Mac Farmer’s Market: Plow to Plate Special Edition – Billy Steers

To Market, To Market – Nikki McClure

Apple Farmer Annie – Monica Wellington

Farmers’ Market: Fun Things to Make and Do – Roger Priddy

Goods or Services? – Ellen K. Mitten

The Great Dog Wash – Shellie Braeuner

365 Things to Make and Do – Fiona Watt

OLIVIA Opens a Lemonade Stand – Kama Einhorn



Other Resources I’ve Found

Skill-Based Literature List to support ELA CCSS | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher EditionFind more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads

ELA CCSS Skill-Based Literature List

Context Clues

Popcorn – Poems by James Stevenson

Zoomrimes: Poems About Things That Go – Sylvia Cassidy

Good Rhymes, Good Times – Original Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins

The Sky is Always in The Sky – Karla Kuskin

Alpha Beta Chowder – Jeanne Steig

Supporting Details

What’s It Like To Be A Fish? – Wendy Pfeffer

Sponges Are Skeletons – Barbara Juster Esbensen

A Safe Home for Manatees – Priscilla Belz Jenkins

Theme/Message

The Important Book – Margaret Wise Brown

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of The Amazon Rain Forest – Lynne Cherry

The Keeping Quilt – Patricia Polacco

Miss Rumphius – Barbara Cooney

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale – John Steptoe

The Reason for A Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen and Seeds – Ruth Heller

Stellaluna – Janell Cannon

Heart to Heart – George Shannon

How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet: Native American Animal Origin Stories – Collected and retold by Gerald Hausman

Retelling A Story

Fireflies! – Julie Brinckloe

The Hickory Chair – Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber

Owl Babies – Martin Waddell

The Sick Day – Patricia Maclachlan

When Jessie Came Across The Sea – Amy Hest



Chronology

Night City – Monica Wellington

The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle

Night at The Fair – Donald Crews

The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head – Daniel and David Karnish

Zoom – Istvan Banyai

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie – Laura Numeroff

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell! – Lucille Colandro

This Is The House That Jack Built – Simms Taback

Hot-Air Henry – Mary Calhoun

The Mitten Jan Brett

The Hat – Jan Brett

Ox- Cart Man – Donald Hall

A Teeny Tiny Baby – Amy Schwartz

Jake Baked the Cake – B.G. Hennessy

Milk: From Cow to Carton – Aliki

The Cake That Mack Ate – Rose Robar

Lights! Camera! Action!: How A Movie Is Made – Gail Gibbons

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – James Cross Giblin

Sugaring Time – Kathryn Lasky

The Buck Stops Here – Alice Provensen

How We Crossed the West: The adventures Of Lewis and Clark – Rosalyn Schanzer

Castle – David Macaulay



Summary

The Golly Sisters Ride Again – Betsy Byars

The Seven Treasure Hunts – Betsy Byars

The Animal Rescue Club – John Himmelman

Staying Nine – Pam Conrad

Best Enemies Forever – Kathleen Leverich

Beauty and The Beast – Jan Brett

The Blues of Flats Brown – Walter Dean Myers

Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday – Judith Viorst

Big Al – Andrew Clements

The Cowboy and The Black Eyed Pea – Tony Johnston

The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story – Rebecca Hickox

Raising Dragons – Jerdine Nolen

Stellaluna – Janell Cannon

Animals Nobody Loves – Seymour Simon

The Life Cycle of a Tree – Bobbie Kalman

Beaks! – Sneed B. Collard III

Endangered Elephants – Bobbie Kalman

Hello, Fish!: Visiting The Coral Reef – Sylvia A. Earle

Great Black Heroes: Five Notable Inventors – Wade Hudson

Big Cats – Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

The Village That Vanished – Ann Grifalconi

Weather: All About the Atmosphere, Clouds, Earth’s Rotation, And More! – Seymour Simon

America Votes: How Our President Is Elected – Linda Granfield

Broken Bones – Dr. Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn

Brothers in Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan – Mary Williams



Figurative Language The King Who Rained – Fred Gwynne

A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Fred Gwynne

Staying Nine – Pam Conrad

Fig Pudding – Ralph Fletcher

My Life As A Fifth Grade Comedian – Elizabeth Levy

The Very Busy Spider – Eric Carle

The Z Was Zapped – Chris Van Allsburg

The Five Sisters – Margaret Mahy

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards

Some Smug Slug – Pamela Duncan Edwards

A, My Name is Alice – Jane Bayer

Alpha Beta Chowder – Jeanne Steig

The Squiggle – Carole Lexa Schaefer

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Went Bumblebee – Colin West

Mad as a Wet Hen! And Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban

Put Your Foot in Your Mouth and Other Silly Sayings – James A. Cox

As Silly as Knees, As Busy as Bees: An Astounding Assortment of Similes – Norton Juster

Falser Than a Weeping Crocodile and Other Similes – Elyse Sommer and Mike Sommer

Story Plot/Conflict/Problem/Solution (Literature) Fudge – Charlotte Towner Graeber

The Trouble with Tuck – Theodore Taylor

Keeping Barney – Jessica Haas

The Snoops – Miriam Moss

The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins

A Dozen Dogs: A Read-And-Count Story – Harriet Ziefert

A Case for Jenny Archer – Ellen Conford

The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum – Deborah Blumenthal

James in the House of Aunt Prudence – Timothy Bush

The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head – Daniel and David Kamish

Private I. Guana: The Case Of The Missing Chameleon – Nina Laden

A Fair Bear Share: Regrouping – Stuart J. Murphy



Problem/Solution (Informational)

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon – Paul Erickson

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad – Ellen Levine

The Dinosaur is the Biggest Animal That Ever Lived And Other Wrong Ideas You Thought Were True – Seymour Simon

How We Learned The Earth Is Round – Patricia Lauber

Cars and How They Go – Joanna Cole

Inference

How Many Days To America?: A Thanksgiving Story – Eve Bunting

See the Ocean – Estelle Condra

Honest Abe – Edith Kunhardt

Why Do Leaves Change Color? – Betsy Maestro

Beekeepers – Linda Oatman High

The Memory Coat – Elvirah Woodruff

Suddenly! – Colin McNaughton

The Five Chinese Brothers – Claire Huchet Bishop

The Gardener – Sarah Stewart

Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, In Letters, Of Liars and Leaks – Kate Klise

Zoom – Istvan Banyai

Teammates – Peter Golenbock

More Than Anything Else – Marie Bradby

Old Bag of Bones: A Coyote Tale – Retold by Janet Stevens

Scaredy Squirrel – Melanie Watt

Tuesday – David Wiesner

The Leaving Morning – Angela Johnson

Mail Harry to the Moon! – Robie H. Harris



Point of View


The Three Little Pigs – Retold by Steven Kellogg

The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig – Eugene Trivizas

The Pain and The Great One – Judy Blume

Little Louie The Baby Bloomer – Robert Kraus

What’s So Terrible About Swallowing An Apple Seed? – Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor

A Teeny Tiny Baby – Amy Schwartz

Fortunately – Remy Charlip

It Looked Like Spilt Milk – Charles G. Shaw

Seven Blind Mice – Ed Young

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit – Paula Danziger

Prediction

The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins

Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking – Amy Axelrod

Don’t Wake Up Mama! – Eileen Christelow

Frank and Ernest – Alexandra Day

One Hundred Hungry Ants – Elinor J. Pinczes

Pickin’ Peas – Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald

Mouse & Mole and the Year-Round Garden – Doug Cushman

My Backyard Garden – Carol Lerner

One Watermelon Seed – Celia Barker Lottridge

Tops & Bottoms – Adapted by Janet Stevens

Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber

Farmer Duck – Martin Wadde

A Remainder of One – Elinor J. Pinczes

Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman

Earthquack! – Margie Palatini



Prediction cont.

Mosquito – Jill Bailey

Once Upon A Time – Niki Daly

Rain Forests – Joy Palmer

When Bluebell Sang – Lisa Campbell Ernst

The Carousel – Liz Rosenberg

Granite Baby – Lynne Bertrand

Mirandy And Brother Wind – Patricia C. McKissack

Sacagawea – Stacy DeKeyser

Saving Sweetness – Diane Stanley

Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Mailing May – Michael 0. Tunnell

Peach & Blue – Sarah S. Kilborne

Pulleys and Gears – David Glover

Across the Solar System – Rod Theodorou

The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story – Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Cause/Effect (Literature)

The Gingerbread Boy – Paul Galdone

The Mitten – Jan Brett

Pig and Crow – Kay Chorao

Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst

Chicken Little – Retold by Steven Kellogg

The Runaway Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown

The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle

Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins

Big Bad Bruce – Bill Peet

Muggie Maggie – Beverly Cleary

Chocolate Fever – Robert Kimmel Smith



Cause/Effect (Literature) cont.

The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats – Carol Greene

If You Give A Moose A Muffin – Laura Joffe Numeroff

The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash – Trinka Hakes Noble

The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle

The Napping House – Audrey Wood

Ollie Forgot – Tedd Arnold

Old Henry – Joan W. Blos

Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice – John W. Ivimey

Fortunately – Remy Charlip

Benny Bakes A Cake – Eve Rice

What’s So Great About Cindy Snappleby? – Barbara Samuels

Cause/Effect (Informational)

What’s So Terrible About Swallowing An Apple Seed? – Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor

The Apple Pie Tree – Zoe Hall

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World – Marjorie Priceman

Carlos and the Squash Plant – Jan Romero Stevens

Danger! Volcanoes – Seymour Simon

Volcanoes – Franklyn M. Branley

Flash, Crash, Rumble, And Roll – Franklyn M. Branley

What Makes Day and Night – Franklyn M. Branley

The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet – Meredith Hooper

Fire in the Forest: A Cycle of Growth And Renewal – Laurence Pringle

Where Do They Go? Insects in Winter – Millicent E. Selsam

What Happens to a Hamburger? – Paul Showers



Compare/Contrast (Literature) Burnt Toast on Davenport Street – Tim Egan

Meanwhile... – Jules Feiffer

Ugh – Arthur Yorinks

Sweet, Sweet Fig Banana – Phillis Gershator

The Three Little Pigs – Paul Galdone

The Three Little Javelinas – Susan Lowell

My Lucky Day – Keiko Kasza


The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig – Eugene Trivizas

The Rough Face Girl – Rafe Martin

Cinderella – Charles Perrault

Compare/Contrast (Informational) Fire! Fire! – Gail Gibbons

Outside and Inside Trees – Sandra Markle

The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. – Roxie Munro

The Great Fire – Jim Murphy

Horns, Antlers, Fangs, And Tusks – Mark J. Rauzon

Butterflies and Moths – James P. Rowan

We The People: The Constitution Of The United States – Peter Spier

Biographies/Autobiographies Take The Lead, George Washington – Judith St. George

Rosa Parks – Cynthia Amoroso

Neil Armstrong – Dana Meachen Rau

Benjamin Franklin – Stephen Krensky

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon – Jacqueline Davies

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez – Kathleen Krull

Thomas Edison – Susan Kesselring

William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania – Ryan Jacobson



Traditional Literature

The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse – Christopher E. Long

Aesop, Just in Rhyme: A New, Humorous Version of The Great Fables for Readers of All Ages – John W. Murphy

The Ant and The Grasshopper – Graham Percy

Aesop’s Fables – Retold by John Cech

The Lion & The Mouse – Jerry Pinkney

The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Mary Berendes

A Sip of Aesop – Jane Yolen

Yo, Aesop!: Get A Load Of These Fables – Paul Rosenthal

Eric Carie’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm – Retold by Eric Carle

Sleeping Ugly – Jane Yolen

How Coyote Stole the Summer: A Native American Folktale – Adapted by Stephen Krensky

The Frog Prince – Eric Blair

Bokuden and the Bully: A Japanese Folktale – Adapted by Stephen Krensky

Diamonds and Toads: A Classic Fairy Tale – Retold by Ellen Schecter

Mary Engelbreit’s Fairy Tales: Twelve Timeless Treasures – Mary Engelbreit

Moon Cakes to Maize: Delicious World Folktales – Edited and retold by Norma J. Livo

The Usborne Book Of Fairy Tales – Retold by Heather Amery

The McElderry Book Of Grimms’ Fairy Tales – Saviour Pirotta

One Eye! Two Eyes! Three Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale – Aaron Shepard

The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan

The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan

Don’t Know Much About World Myths – Kenneth C. Davis

Greek Myths – Olivia Coolidge

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast – Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris

American Tall Tales – Mary Pope Osborne

Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale – Robert D. San Souci

The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan – Retold by Martin Powell

Pecos Bill – Retold by Steven Kellogg



Classical Literature

The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf

The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes

The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers

The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

Heidi – Johanna Spyri

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Chapter Books

How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell

All-Of-A-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor

Love, Ruby Lavendar – Deborah Wiles

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall

A Long Way from Chicago – Richard Peck

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs – Betty G. Birney

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin

Because Of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo

Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick



Poetry

Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems – Kali Dakos

Once Inside the Library – Barbara A. Huff

The Free and The Brave: A Collection of Poems About the United States – Compiled and annotated by Patricia M. Stockland

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings – Douglas Florian

Someone Used My Toothbrush and Other Bathroom Poems – Carol Diggory Shields

It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing!: Winter Poems – Jack Prelutsky

Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) – Linda Sue Park

Drama

Readers Theater: Tall Tales – Retold by Maureen Gerard, Ph.D.

12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays – Justin McCory Martin

Much Ado About Nothing for Kids – Lois Burdett

Arthur’s Thanksgiving – Marc Brown

25 Just Right Plays for Emergent Readers – Carol Pugliano-Martin

12 Fabulously Funny Folktale Plays – Justin McCory Martin

20 Great Plays for Children – Edited by Coleman A. Jennings

Historical Events

Welcome to Addy’s World, 1864: Growing Up During America’s Civil War – Susan Sinnott

Child of The Civil Rights Movement – Paula Young Shelton

Fields of Fury: The American Civil War – James M. McPherson

Potato: A Tale from The Great Depression – Kate Lied

Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in The Great Depression – Marissa Moss

Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself: Build Planes, Signal Lights, Victory Gardens, And More – Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

Kids During the Industrial Revolution – Lisa A. Wroble

Revolutionary War on Wednesday – Mary Pope Osborne

The Boston Tea Party: Angry Colonists Dump British Tea – Allison Stark Draper

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution – Elizabeth Levy



Scientific Texts

The Everything Kids’ Easy Science Experiments Book: Explore the World of Science Through Quick and Fun Experiments! – J. Elizabeth Mills

The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About the Water Cycle – Pat Relf

Matter: Its Properties & Its Changes – Tom DeRosa and Carolyn Reeves

Solids – Jim Mezzanotte

Solids, Liquids, and Gases – Ginger Garrett

Planets!: Discover Our Solar System! – Lisa Jo Rudy

How Do Animals Adapt? – Bobbie Kalman

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth – Rochelle Strauss

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder – Walter Wick

The Life Cycle of a Frog – Bobbie Kalman

Awesome Experiments in Force & Motion – Michael A. DiSpezio

Technical Texts

Making Amazing Art: 40 Activities Using The 7 Elements of Art Design – Sandi Henry

Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media for Budding Artists of All Ages – Susan Schwake

How to Draw 101 Animals: Easy Step by Step Drawing – Dan Green

Create Your Own Pop Up Books – Faber-Castell

Kidnet: The Kid’s Guide to Surfing Through Cyberspace – Debra and Brad Schepp

Betty Crocker’s Kids Cook! – Betty Crocker

The Everything Cooking for Kids Cookbook: 300 Delicious, Nutritious Recipes for Even the Pickiest Eaters! – Ronni Litz Julien, MS, RD/LDN

Mousetracks: A Kid’s Computer Idea Book – Peggy L. Steinhauser

Photography Guide for Kids – Neil Johnson

Picture This: Fun Photography and Crafts – Debra Friedman

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