Books to Read Together (Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, 2014)

Title Author Book Type Level Dark, The Robert Munsch Picture Book I Henny Penny Paul Galdone Picture Book I How I Spent My Summer VacationMark Teague Picture Book I How to Lose All Your Friends Nancy Carlson Picture Book I Knuffle Bunny Mo Willems Picture Book I Leo The Late Bloomer Robert Kraus Picture Book I Little Engine That Could, The Watty Piper Picture Book I Trouble in the Barkers’ Class Tomie dePaola Picture Book I Bippity Bop Barbershop Natasha Anastasia Tarpley Picture Book J Circus Family Dog Andrew Clements Picture Book J Coyote: A Trickster Tale from theGerald American McDermott Southwest J I Have A Sister My Sister Is DeafJeanne Whitehouse Peterson Picture Book J Ish Peter Reynolds Picture Book J Day’s Work, A Eve Bunting Picture Book K Fireflies Julie Brinkloe Picture Book K Jamaica’s Find Jaunita Havill Picture Book K Letter to Amy, A Ezra Jack Keats Picture Book K Wednesday Surprise, The Eve Bunting Picture Book K Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes Picture Book L Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky:Georgia Animal Heard Poems L Dancing in the Wings Debbie Allen Picture Book L Hurricane! Jonathan London Picture Book L Making the World Douglas Wood Picture Book L Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Picture Book M freedom summer Deborah Wiles Picture Book M Hip Cat Jonathan London Picture Book M Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin Picture Book M Old Woman Who Named Things,Cynthia The Rylant Picture Book M One in the Middle is the GreenJudy Kangaroo, Blume The M Patrol: An American Soldier in VietnamWalter Dean Myers M Rats on the Roof and Other StoriesJames Marshall Short Stories M Saturdays and Teacakes Lester Laminack Picture Book M Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Paula Danziger Chapter Book N Chalk Box Kid, The Clyde Robert Bulla Chapter Book N Donovan’s Word Jar Monalisa Degross Chapter Book N Flight Robert Burleigh NF Picture Book N My Name is Maria Isabel Alma Flor Ada Chapter Book N Sidewalk Story Sharon Bell Mathias Chapter Book N Stories Julian Tells, The Ann Cameron Chapter Book N Almost Starring Skinny Bones Barbara Parks Chapter Book O Amber Brown Goes Fourth Paula Danziger Chapter Book O Appalachia: The Voices of SleepingCynthia Birds Rylant O Lavender Karen Hesse Chapter Book O Most Beautiful Place in the World,Ann TheCameron O Rats! Paul Zindel Chapter Book O Seven Kisses in a Row Patricia MacLachlan Chapter Book O Skinnybones Leo Lionni and Barbara Park Chapter Book O Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Picture Book O Under the Sunday Tree Eloise Greenfield Anthology of PoemsO Wings Christopher Meyers Chapter Book O Brown Angles: An Album of PicturesWalter and Dean Verse Myers P Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl Chapter Book P Hundred Dresses, The Eleanor Estes Chapter Book P Hundred Penny Box, The Sharon Mathis Picture Book P Smoky Night Eve Bunting Picture Book P Songs of Myself: An Anthology Georgiaof Poems Heard and Art P Who Stole The Wizard of Oz? Avi Chapter Book P Wilma Unlimited Kathleen Krull NF Picture Book P Fourth Grade Rats Jerry Spinelli Chapter Book Q Fudge-a-Mania Judy Blume Chapter Book Q Just Juice Karen Hesse Chapter Book Q Mr. Popper’s Penguins Richard Atwater and Florence AtwaterChapter Book Q Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, LesterThe Laminack Picture Book Q America Street: A MulticulturalAnne Anthology Mazer of Stories R Bat Boy and His Violin Gavin Curtis Historical Fiction PictureR Book Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo Chapter Book R Charlotte’s Web E.B. White Chapter Book R Fig Pudding Ralph Fletcher Chapter Book R Frindle Andrew Clements Chapter Book R Hatchet Gary Paulsen Chapter Book R Landry News, The Andrew Clements Chapter Book R Rules Cynthia Lord R Sadako and the Thousand PaperEleanor Cranes Coerr R Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan Chapter Book R Secret Soldier, The Ann McGovern Chapter Book R Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Chapter Book R Sun and Spoon Kevin Henkes Chapter Book R Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six WomenJacqueline Who ChangedWoodson the World S Gift Giver, The Joyce Hansen Chapter Book S Great Gilly Hopkins, The Katherine Paterson Chapter Book S Journey Patricia MacLachlan Picture Book S Mick Harte was Here Barbara Park Chapter Book S Pink and Say Patricia Polacco Picture Book S Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchanan Smith Chapter Book S Yellow Bird and Me Joyce Hansen Chapter Book S Baby Patricia MacLachlan Chapter Book T Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Chapter Book T Cassie Binegar Patricia MacLachlan Chapter Book T Danny, The Champion of the WorldRoald Dahl Chapter Book T I’ve Seen the Promise Land Walter Dean Myers Picture Book T Islander, The Cynthia Rylant Chapter Book T Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,TheC.S. Lewis T Sammy Keyes and the Hotel ThiefWendelin Van Draanen Chapter Book T Sing Down the Moon Scott O’Dell Chapter Book T Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Chapter Book T Boy Who Owned the School, TheGary Paulsen Chapter Book U Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Curtis Chapter Book U Miraculous Journey of Edward KateTulane, DiCamillo The U View From Saturday, The E.L. Konigsburg Chapter Book U Wringer Jerry Spinelli Chapter Book U Birthday Room, The Kevin Henkes Chapter Book V Crash Jerry Spinelli Chapter Book V Holes Lois Sachar Chapter Book V Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson Novel in Verse V Long Way From Chicago, A Richard Peck A Novel in Stories V Music of Dolphins, The Karen Hesse Chapter Book V Stargirl Jerry Spinelli Chapter Book V Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt Chapter Book V Year Down Yonder, A Richard Peck Chapter Book V Yolanda’s Genius Carol Fenner Chapter Book V Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick Chapter Book W Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate Novel in Verse W Hoot Carl Hiaasen Chapter Book W Missing May Cynthia Rylant Chapter Book W Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges Picture Book W Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Chapter Book W 13 : Thirteen Stories That CaptureJames the Howe Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen X Devil’s Arithmetic, The Jane Yolen Chapter Book X Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Novel in Verse X Where The Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Chapter Book X Becoming Naomi Leon Pam M. Ryan Chapter Book Y Burning Up Caroline Cooney Chapter Book Y Giver, The Lois Lowry Chapter Book Y Monument, The Gary Paulsen Chapter Book Y Slake's Limbo Felice Holman Chapter Book Y