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Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads

ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List

Unit 1 A Special Gift

Title — Author My Notes

Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art – Eric Carle

Art Dog – Thacher Hurd

Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail – Laurence Anholt

When Pigasso Met Mootisse – Nina Laden

Leonardo and the Flying Boy – Laurence Anholt

Scribble Art: Independent Creative Art Experiences for Children – MaryAnn F. Kohl

Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters – MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga

Great American Artists for Kids: Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters – MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga

Colored Pencil Step by Step – Pat Averill, Sylvester Hickmon, and Debra K. Yaun

The Kids ’N’ Clay Ceramics Book – Elaine Arima

Art – Patrick McDonnell

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

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

The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas – Fiona Watt



Unit 2 Earhart’s Plane Disappears!


A Day with an Airplane Pilot – Leonie Bennett

Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator – Beatrice Gormley

Young Amelia Earhart: A Dream to Fly – Sarah Alcott

Amelia Earhart: Female Pioneer in Flight – Lori Mortensen

I Want to be a Pilot – Dan Liebman

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart – David A. Adler

Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator – Shelley Tanaka

You Can’t Do That, Amelia! – Kimberly Wagoner Klier

How to Write an Interview – Cecilia Minden and Kate Roth

An Interview With Gillian Cross – Julia Eccleshare

Isabella and Ivan Build an Interview – Ann Ingalls

Fire Away: Asking Great Interview Questions – Ann Truesdell

I am Amelia Earhart – Brad Meltzer



Unit 3 The Twinkling Lights


Fireflies – Julie Brinckloe

The Very Lonely Firefly – Eric Carle

Ten Flashing Fireflies – Philemon Sturges

Fireflies – Sally M. Walker

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly – Bobbie Kalman

From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Deborah Heiligman

Insects – Clarence Cottam and Herbert S. Zim

Hissing Cockroaches: Cool Pets! – Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn

Keeping Creepy Crawlies: A Practical Guide to Caring for Unusual Pets – Dave Clarke

Insects: Biggest! Littlest! – Sandra Markle

Stick Insects & Mantids – June McNicholas

Extremely Weird Insects – Sarah Lovett

Stinkbugs, Stick Insects & Stag Beetles: And 18 More of the Strangest Insects on Earth – Sally Kneidel



Unit 4 Ocean Animals


Animals of the Ocean – Kathleen Pohl

Ocean: Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery – Samantha Gray

What Lives in the Ocean? – Oona Gaarder-Juntti

Animals of the Icy Seas – Michael Bright

Sea Lions – Colleen Sexton

Animal Habitats: Why and How Animals Live Where They Do – DK Publishing

Animal Habitats!: Learning about North American Animals and Plants thru Art, Science & Creative Play – Judy Press

The ABCs of Habitats – Bobbie Kalman

The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats – Pat Relf

I See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World – Steve Jenkins & Robin Page

Water Habitats – Molly Aloian and Bobbie Kalman

A Desert Habitat – Kelley MacAulay and Bobbie Kalman

Nat Geo Wild Animal Atlas: Earth’s Astonishing Animals and Where They Live – National Geographic

Draw-Write-Now, Book Six: Animals & Habitats – On Land-Ponds & Rivers-Oceans – Marie Hablitzel and Kim Stitzer

Cave Animals – Francine Galko



Unit 5 Soccer Champions


My Soccer Book – Gail Gibbons

Froggy Plays Soccer – Jonathan London

Soccer Sam – Jean Marzollo

Louise, Soccer Star? – Stephen Krensky

BMX Design and Equipment – Brian D. Fiske

Pick-Up Games: The Rules, The Players, The Equipment – D. W. Crisfield

Softball: Field & Equipment – Barbara Bonney

Gymnastics Essentials: Safety and Equipment – Jen Jones

Skateboards: Designs and Equipment – B. A. Hoena

Kids’ Book Of Hockey – John Sias

Basketball: Court & Equipment – Bryant Lloyd

Baseball: Field & Equipment – Bryant Lloyd

Football Equipment – Bryant Lloyd

Hockey: The Rink and Equipment – David Armentrout

The Everything Kids’ Soccer Book! – Deborah W. Crisfi eld

The History of Baseball – Diana Star Helmer and Thomas S. Owens

Soccer: A History of the World’s Most Popular Game – Mark Stewart



Unit 6 A Rainbow in a Bowl


Planting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert

The Legend of Rainbow Bridge – William N. Britton

A Rainbow of Friends – P.K. Hallinan

All the Colors of the Rainbow – Allan Fowler

What Makes a Rainbow? – Betty Ann Schwartz

Can It Really Rain Frogs?: The World’s Strangest Weather Events – Spencer Christian and Antonia Felix

A Kid’s Fall EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season – Toni Albert

Why Does It Rain? – Judith Jango-Cohen

Experiments with Sound: Explaining Sound – Chris Oxlade

What Makes Day and Night – Franklyn M. Branley

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons

Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs – Patricia Lauber

How a Seed Grows – Helene J. Jordan

Why Does the Moon Change Shape? – Isaac Asimov



Unit 7 The Fishing Trip


Gone Fishing – Earlene Long

Wishing I Was Fishing – Eva Wells

The Little Fish That Got Away – Bernadine Cook

Granddad’s Fishing Buddy – Mary Quigley

Piggy and Dad Go Fishing – David Martin

Quincy, the Hobby Photographer: The Complete Guide to Do-It-Yourself Dog Photography – J.otto Seibold

Teach Yourself Origami – John Montroll

Hobby Fun Book: For Grade School Boys & Girls – Margaret O. Hyde & Frances W. Keene

Hundreds of Things a Boy Can Make – Adam Bartlett

Fun With Nature Hobbies – William H. Hillcourt

Ceramics for Kids: Creative Clay Projects to Pinch, Roll, Coil, Slam & Twist – Mary Ellis

Kites – David Pelham

Flying Toys: How to Make & Fly Your Own UFOs – Kenneth Sams

Hobbies for Girls – Audrey White



Unit 8 Water, Water Everywhere and Drip, Drip, Drip


When the Rivers Go Home – Ted Lewin

World Water Watch – Michelle Koch

A Drop Around the World – Barbara Shaw McKinney

Water Dance – Thomas Locker

Water: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Alexandra Fix

Saving Water – Charlotte Guillain

The Secret of Water – Masaru Emoto

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

Earth’s Resources – Sue Barraclough

Natural Resources – Louise Spilsbury

Natural and Human-Made – Carol K. Lindeen

What is Scarcity of Resources? – Jessica Cohn

Fighting for the Forest – Gloria Rand

Why Should I Save Water? – Jen Green

Conservation – Christine Petersen

Why Should I Save Energy? – Jen Green

Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share – Molly Bang



Unit 9 Russell and His Fire-Bellied Toad


Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin

From Tadpole to Frog – Wendy Pfeffer

Down by the Cool of the Pool – Tony Mitton

The Jolly Postman: or Other People’s Letters – Janet & Allan Ahlberg

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher – Beatrix Potter

Pets – Gabby Goldsack and Paula Borton

Pets – Clair Watts

Should We Have Pets?: A Persuasive Text – Sylvia Lollis

Scholastic True or False: Pets – Melvin and Gilda Berger

Pet Frog – Robin Nelson

Big Dogs – Joyce Hart

Parakeets – JoAnn Early Macken

Goldfish – Anita Ganeri

Oh, the Pets You Can Get!: All About Our Animal Friends – Tish Rabe

Pet Bugs: A Kid’s Guide to Catching and Keeping Touchable Insects – Sally Kneidel



Unit 10 We Need Plants and Planting a Shirt


The Biography of Cotton – Carrie Gleason

Plants We Eat – Jennifer Colby

How We Use Plants for Making Everyday Things – Sally Morgan

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

From Seed to Plant – Gail Gibbons

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow – Patricia Relf

How a Seed Grows – Helene J. Jordan

How We Use Plants for Medicine and Health – Sally Morgan

How We Use Plants for Food – Sally Morgan

Experiments with Plants – Salvatore Tocci

Experiments with Plants (A True Book) – Christine Taylor-Butler

Science with Plants – Mike Unwin

Junior Scientists: Experiment with Plants – Susan H. Gray

Experiments with Plants (My Science Investigations) – Christine Taylor-Butler



Unit 11 A Great Idea


Snack Food – Sharon Dalgleish

Healthy Eating – Cath Senker

Exercise & Play – Cath Senker

The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials – Stan & Jan Berenstain with Mike Berenstain

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly – Gail Carson Levine

The Best Story – Eileen Spinelli

Show Me a Story: Writing Your Own Picture Book – Nancy Loewen

How to Write a Story: Grades 1–3 – Evan Moor Educational Publishers

Rocket Writes a Story – Tad Hills

Make Me Giggle: Writing Your Own Silly Story – Nancy Loewen

You Can Write A Story!: A Story-Writing Recipe For Kids – Lisa Bullard



Unit 12 What is a Sponge?


Sponges Are Skeletons – Barbara Juster Esbensen

Sponges – Jody Sullivan Rake

Squishy Sponges – Natalie Lunis

Sea Anemones – Jody Sullivan

Sea Anemones – Martha E.H. Rustad

What is a Plant? – Bobbie Kalman

Trees to Paper – Inez Snyder

From Maple Trees to Maple Syrup – Kristin Thoennes Keller

From Flower to Honey – Robin Nelson

From Spider Webs to Man-Made Silk – Toney Allman

The Biography of Cotton – Carrie Gleason

From Plant to Blue Jeans – Arthur John L’Hommedieu

From Lizard Saliva to Diabetes Drugs – Toney Allman

The Search for Cures from the Rain Forest – Carol Ballard

How We Use Plants for Medicine and Health – Sally Morgan

How Monkeys Make Chocolate: Foods and Medicines from the Rainforests – Adrian Forsyth



Unit 13 Dakota’s Wish


Tenzin’s Deer – Barbara Soros

Shadow the Deer – Theresa Radcliffe

The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter – Elisa Kleven

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains – Patricia Relf

Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs – Patricia Lauber

1000 Years of Famous People – Clive Gifford

Dare to Dream!: 25 Extraordinary Lives – Sandra McLeod Humphrey

50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet – Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe

Famous People in History: Volume 1 – Nicolas Soames

Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet – Harriet Rohmer

Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) – Kathleen Krull

The World’s Greatest Football Players – Matt Doeden

Camp Gold: Running Stars – Christine Ohuruogu

100 Athletes Who Shaped Sports History – Timothy Jacobs and Russel Roberts



Unit 14 From Tree to Table


The Apple Pie Tree – Zoe Hall

How Do Apples Grow? – Betsy Maestro

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons

Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh

Johnny Appleseed – Retold by Carol Ottolenghi

Dare To Dream!: 25 Extraordinary Lives – Sandra McLeod Humphrey

The Story of Walt Disney: Maker of Magical Worlds – Bernice Selden

50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet – Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe

The Story Of George Washington Carver – Eva Moore

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Amy Pastan

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World – Editors of TIME For Kids

Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage – Editors of TIME For Kids

Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind – Margaret Davidson

Mother Teresa – Maya Gold



Unit 15 No More Shopping, Please!


Shoe Bop! – Marilyn Singer

Caillou: New Shoes – Marion Johnson

New Shoes – Jeanne Willis

One Hundred Shoes – Charles Ghigna

The ABC’s of Horseshoes – Penny Steinke

Smart About the Presidents – Written and illustrated by Jon Buller, Susan Schade, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Dana Regan, and Jill Weber

The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents: Fascinating Facts about Each and Every President, Including an American History Timeline – Todd Davis and Marc Frey

Smart About the First Ladies – Written and illustrated by Jon Buller, Susan Schade, Dana Regan, Sally Warner, and Jill Weber

A First Book of Fairy Tales – Stories retold by Mary Hoffman

Fairy Tales – E. E. Cummings

Can You Guess My Name?: Traditional Tales Around the World – Selected and retold by Judy Sierra



Unit 16 Fit as a Fiddle


Good Enough to Eat: A Kid’s Guide to Food and Nutrition – Lizzy Rockwell

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food – Stan & Jan Berenstain

Eat Healthy, Feel Great – William Sears, M.D., Martha Sears, R.N., and Christie Watts Kelly

Gregory, the Terrible Eater – Mitchell Sharmat

The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness – Lizzy Rockwell

The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for Monsters & Kids! – Edward Miller

Staying Healthy: Eating Right – Alice B. McGinty

Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits: Activities for Children 5 to 8 – Michelle O’Brien-Palmer

The Healthy Body Cookbook: Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids – Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich

Staying Healthy: Let’s Exercise – Alice B. McGinty

Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: The Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids: No Calorie Counting, No Dieting, No Off-Limits Foods! – Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day – Loreen Leedy



Unit 17 A Special Friend


Dog Poems – Dave Crawley

Give A Dog A Bone: Stories, Poems, Jokes, and Riddles About Dogs – Compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson

Little Dog Poems – Kristine O’Connell George

A Dazzling Display of Dogs – Betsy Franco

My Dog May Be a Genius – Jack Prelutsky

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children: A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child – Selected by Jack Prelutsky

If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School – Kalli Dakos

Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem – Jack Prelutsky

Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost – Edited by Gary D. Schmidt

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings – Shel Silverstein

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out – Ralph Fletcher

It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles – Jack Prelutsky

Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young – Selected by Jack Prelutsky

Once, I Laughed My Socks Off: Poems for Kids (And Those Adults That Still Behave Like Kids) – Steve Attewell

A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson



Unit 18 Survivor – Animal Style


How do Animals Adapt? – Bobbie Kalman

Polar Animal Adaptations – Lisa J. Amstutz

Rain Forest Animal Adaptations – Lisa J. Amstutz

Ocean Animal Adaptations – Julie Murphy

Would You Survive? – John Townsend

Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth – Nicola Davies

BMX Design and Equipment – Brian D. Fiske

Pick-Up Games: The Rules, The Players, The Equipment – D. W. Crisfield

Softball: Field & Equipment – Barbara Bonney

Gymnastics Essentials: Safety and Equipment – Jen Jones

Skateboards: Designs and Equipment – B. A. Hoena

Football: Equipment – Bryant Lloyd

Police Officers – Shannon Knudsen

I Want To Be A Firefighter – Dan Liebman

A Day in the Life of a Firefighter – Linda Hayward

A Day in the Life of a Construction Worker – Heather Adamson

Jobs People Do – Christopher Maynard



Unit 19 Elizabeth and the Pea and The True Farm Girl Test


The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables – Aesop

The McElderry Book of Aesop’s Fables – Michael Morpurgo

Tell Me A Story: Timeless Folktales from Around the World – Amy Friedman

Best-Loved Folktales of the World – Selected by Joanna Cole

How Tiger Got His Stripes: A Folktale from Vietnam – Retold by Rob Cleveland

The Drum: A Folktale from India – Retold by Rob Cleveland

The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale – Retold by Yumi Heo

The Golden Book of Fairy Tales – Translated by Marie Ponsot

A First Book of Fairy Tales – Retold by Mary Hoffman

Fairy Tales – E. E. Cummings

The Random House Book of Fairy Tales – Adapted by Amy Ehrlich

A Treasury of Children’s Literature – Edited by Armand Eisen

Classic Fairy Tales – Illustrated by Scott Gustafson

Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen



Unit 20 What’s Gnu at the Zoo?


I Knew a Gnu! – Jim Sachs

“What’s New?” Asked the Gnu: A Pop-Up Book of Rhyming Wordplay – Arnold Shapiro

What’s Gnu?: Riddles from the Zoo – Thomas Mase

Wildebeests – Katherine Walden

Migrating With the Wildebeest – Thessaly Catt

It’s a Baby Wildebeest! – Kelly Doudna

Zoo Animals – Brian Wildsmith

The Zoo Book – Jan Pfl oog

The View at the Zoo – Kathleen Long Bostrom

ZooBorns!: Zoo Babies from Around the World – Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland

I Want To Be A Zookeeper – Dan Liebman

Life-Size Zoo – Toyofumi Fukuda

Baby Animals At the Zoo – Editors of Kingfi sher

The Wackiest Wildest Weirdest Animals in the World – Jack Hanna



Unit 21 The Wink, Blink, and Glow Project


Owls – Gail Gibbons

The Book of North American Owls – Helen Roney Sattler

Owls – Sandra Markle

Little Owl’s Night – Divya Srinivasan

The Littlest Owl – Caroline Pitcher

Barn Owl – Sally Tagholm

In My Tree – Sara Gillingham

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children: A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child – Selected by Jack Prelutsky

If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School – Kalli Dakos


Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost – Edited by Gary D. Schmidt

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings – Shel Silverstein

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out – Ralph Fletcher

It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles – Jack Prelutsky

Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young – Selected by Jack Prelutsky

Once, I Laughed My Socks Off: Poems for Kids (And Those Adults That Still Behave Like Kids) – Steve Attewell

A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson



Unit 22 Making Work Easier


Simple Machines – Allan Fowler

Simple Machines – Deborah Hodge

Castle Under Siege! – Andrew Solway

Machines We Use – Sally Hewitt

Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities – Janis Herbert

Dune Buggies – E. S. Budd

Snowmobiles – E. S. Budd

How Machines Work: The Interactive Guide to Simple Machines and Mechanisms: Build Your Own Working Models! – Nick Arnold

Machines Go To Work – William Low

Getting Ready for a Career in Professional Sports – Jeff Savage

Cool Careers for Girls in Sports – Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Sports – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Animals and Nature – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen



Unit 23 The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Girl Who Cried Help


What The Fox Learnt: Four Fables from Aesop – Aesop

The Very Best of Aesop’s Fables – Margaret Clark

Fairy Tales and Fables – Gyo Fujikawa

Math Fables: Lessons That Count – Greg Tang

Aesop’s Fables – Book 1: 80 Short Stories for Children – Aesop

The Classic Fairy Tales – Edited by Maria Tatar

The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables – Aesop

Classic Fairy Tales – Illustrated by Scott Gustafson

The Random House Book of Fairy Tales – Adapted by Amy Ehrlich

Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Fables – Arnold Lobel

The McElderry Book of Aesop’s Fables – Michael Morpurgo



Unit 24 An American Symbol


The Bald Eagle – Patricia Ryon Quiri

The Liberty Bell – Mary Firestone

Bald Eagle: The Story of Our National Bird – Hal Marcovitz

Birds Use Their Beaks – Elaine Pascoe

Unbeatable Beaks – Stephen R. Swinburne

U.S. Symbols – Ann-Marie Kishel

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

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

Our American Flag – Mary Firestone

The American Flag – Lloyd G. Douglas

Our National Anthem – Norman Pearl



Unit 25 Show-and-Tell Teddy


Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President – Editors of TIME For Kids

Theodore Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities – Kerrie Logan Hollihan

Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt – Don Brown

Being Teddy Roosevelt: A Boy, a President, and a Plan – Claudia Mills

Young Teddy Roosevelt – Cheryl Harness

How To Write Poetry – Paul B. Janeczko


How to Write a Poem – Cecilia Minden and Kate Roth

How to Read and Write Poems – Margaret Ryan



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 True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! – Jon Scieszka

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 True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! – Jon Scieszka

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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