Middle-Grade Fiction by State The fourth grade has a recurring assignment to read a fiction book that takes place in one (and only one) specific US state. Here are some books we have by state.

ALABAMA Curtis, Christopher Paul - The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 English, Karen - Francie

ALASKA George, Jean Craighead – Julie of the Wolves Hill, Kirkpatrick – The Year of Miss Agnes Hobbs, Will – Wild Man Island Keene, Carolyn – Strangers on a Train (Nancy Drew Diaries) Morey, Walt – Gentle Ben

ARIZONA Broach, Elise – Missing on Superstition Mountain Keene, Caroline – The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew)

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA Buzbee, Lewis – Steinbeck’s Ghost Cushman, Karen – The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Cushman, Karen – The Loud Silence of Francine Green George, Jean Craighead – There’s an Owl in the Shower Ketchum, Liza - Newsgirl Osborne, Mary Pope – Earthquake in the Early Morning (Magic Treehouse) Williams-Garcia, Rita – One Crazy Summer

COLORADO Avi – The Secret School

CONNECTICUT Dalgliesh, Alice – The Courage of Sarah Noble DeFelice, Cynthia – The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker Speare, Elizabeth George – The Witch of Blackbird Pond Van Leeuwen, Jean – Hannah’s Helping Hands

DELAWARE Anderson, M. T. – Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware (Pals in Peril)

FLORIDA DiCamillo, Kate – Because of Winn-Dixie DiCamillo, Kate – The Tiger Rising Haworth, Danette – Violet Raines Almost got Struck by Lightning Hiaasen, Carl - Chomp Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot Lenski, Lois – Strawberry Girl Roy, Ron – The Goose’s Gold (A to Z Mysteries)

GEORGIA O’Connor, Barbara – The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

HAWAII Osborne, Mary Pope – High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Treehouse) Salisbury, Graham – Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet Salisbury, Graham – Calvin Coconut: the Zippy Fix Salisbury, Graham – Lord of the Deep Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson – Rage of Fire White, Ellen Emerson – Kaiulani: the People’s Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Royal Diaries)

IDAHO Blake, Stephanie J. – The Marble Queen Creech, Sharon – Walk Two Moons

ILLINOIS Peck, Richard – A Long Way from Chicago Peck, Richard – The River Between Us Peck, Richard – A Season of Gifts

INDIANA Lasky, Kathryn – Chasing Orion Peck, Richard – Here Lies the Librarian

IOWA

KANSAS Jennings, Richard W. – The Great Whale of Kansas McMullan, Kate – A Fine Start: Meg’s Prairie Diary (My America) McMullan, Kate – The End of the Earth: Meg’s Prairie Diary (My America) Osborne, Mary Pope – Twister on Tuesday (Magic Treehouse) Phelan, Matt – The Storm in the Barn Vanderpool, Claire – Moon Over Manifest

KENTUCKY Byars, Betsy – Keeper of the Doves

LOUISIANA Holt, Kimberly Willis – My Louisiana Sky Roy, Ron – The Zombie Zone (A to Z Mysteries)

MAINE Lord, Cynthia – Touch Blue Roy, Ron – The White Wolf (A to Z Mysteries) Speare, Elizabeth George – The Sign of the Beaver Stone, Phoebe – The Romeo and Juliet Code Voigt, Cynthia – Angus and Sadie Wait, Lea – Stopping to Home

MARYLAND Hahn, Mary Downing – Anna All Year Round Paterson, Katherine – Jacob Have I Loved Stout, Shawn K. – Fiona Finkelstein: Big-Time Ballerina!! Voigt, Cynthia – Dicey’s Song

MASSACHUSETTS Arenstam, Peter – Nicholas: a Massachusetts Tale Barker, M. P. – A Difficult Boy Czech, Jan M. – Grace Happens Denenberg, Barry – Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall (Dear America) Fritz, Jean – Early Thunder Harlow, Joan Hiatt – Midnight Rider Pennypacker, Sara – Gypsy Moth Summer Rinaldi, Ann – A Break with Charity: a Story about the Salem Witch Trials Rinaldi, Ann – The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a pilgrim boy, Plimouth Plantation, 1620 (My Name is America)

MICHIGAN Giff, Patricia Reilly – Willow Run

MINNESOTA Erdrich, Louise – The Porcupine Year Lovelace, Maud Hart – Betsy-Tacy McGhee, Alison – Julie Gillian and the Art of Knowing Paulsen, Gary – Woodsong (we have it in nonfiction) Shaw, Janet Beeler – Kirsten Saves the Day (American Girls)

MISSISSIPPI Matas, Carol – The War Within Spears, Lynne – A Mother’s Gift Taylor, Mildred – The Friendship Taylor, Mildred – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred – Song of the Trees Taylor, Mildred – The Well

MISSOURI MacBride, Roger Lea – In the Land of the Big Red Apple MacBride, Roger Lea – Little Farm in the Ozarks MacBride, Roger Lea – Little Town in the Ozarks MacBride, Roger Lea – On the Other Side of the Hill McKissack, Patricia C. – A Friendship for Today Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

MONTANA Roy, Ron – The Ninth Nugget (A to Z Mysteries)

NEBRASKA

NEVADA

NEW HAMPSHIRE Curtis, Alice Turner – A Little Maid of New Hampshire

NEW JERSEY Cohen, Barbara – Thank You, Jackie Robinson

NEW MEXICO Klages, Ellen – The Green Glass Sea Klages, Ellen – White Sands, Red Menace Skuzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson – Running Scared: a Mystery in Carlsbad Caverns National Park Tripp, Valerie – Happy Birthday, Josephina! A Springtime Story (American Girls) Tripp, Valerie – Josephina Learns a Lesson: a School Story (American Girls) Tripp, Valerie – Josephina’s Surprise: a Christmas Story (American Girls) Tripp, Valerie – Josephina Saves the Day (American Girls) Tripp, Valerie – Meet Josephina, an American Girl (American Girls)

NEW YORK Estes, Eleanor – The Alley Fitzhugh, Louise – Harriet the Spy Konigsburg, E.L. – From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Levine, Gail Carson – Dave at Night Lupica, Mike - Heat Myers, Walter Dean - Scorpions Selden, George – The Cricket in Times Square Taylor, Sydney – All-of-a-Kind Family

NORTH CAROLINA Carbone, Elisa Lynn – Storm Warriors Dowell, Frances O’Roark – Dovey Coe McDowell, Marilyn Taylor – Carolina Harmony Moses, Shelia P. – The Legend of Buddy Bush Warner, Gertrude Chandler – The Mystery of the Wild Ponies (Boxcar Children)

NORTH DAKOTA Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Blizzard’s Wake

OHIO Hamilton, Virginia – The House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia – M. C. Higgins, the Great Pearsall, Shelley – Crooked River

OKLAHOMA Hesse, Karen – Out of the Dust

OREGON Avi – The Barn Hermes, Patricia – A Perfect Place: Joshua’s Oregon Trail Diary (My America) Meloy, Colin – Wildwood Schroeder, Lisa – It’s Raining Cupcakes Wolff, Virginia Euwer – Bat 6

PENNSYLVANIA Anderson, Laurie Halse – Fever 1793 Clifford, Eth – The Man Who Sang in the Dark Corbett, Sue – The Last Newspaper Boy in America De Young, C. Coco - A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt Gantos, Jack – Dead End in Norvelt Osborne, Mary Pope – My Brother’s Keeper: Virginia’s Civil War Diary (My America) Osborne, Mary Pope – Standing in the Light (Dear America) Rinaldi, Ann – My Heart is On the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (Dear America)

RHODE ISLAND Lisle, Janet Taylor – The Art of Keeping Cool

SOUTH CAROLINA Myracle, Lauren – Thirteen Plus One O’Connor, Barbara – The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis

SOUTH DAKOTA Pennypacker, Sara – The Mount Rushmore Calamity (Flat Stanley) Ransom, Candice F. – Message in the Mountain: a Tale of Mount Rushmore (Time Spies)

TENNESSEE

TEXAS Erickson, John R. – Hank the Cowdog: the Case of the Raging Rottweiler Garland, Sherry – A Line in the Sand (Dear America) Kelly, Jacqueline – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Sachar, Louis - Holes

UTAH Fitzgerald, John Dennis – The Great Brain

VERMONT Alvarez, Julia – Return to Sender Hesse, Karen - Witness Kelley, Jane A. – Nature Girl Maguire, Gregory – Seven Spiders Spinning Paterson, Katherine – Jip: His Story Paterson, Katherine – Preacher’s Boy Peck, Robert Newton - Soup Winthrop, Elizabeth – Counting on Grace

VIRGINIA Carbone, Elisa Lynn – Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 Denenberg, Barry – When Will This Cruel War be Over? (Dar America) Elliott, L. M. – Give Me Liberty Ray, Delia – Ghost Girl Patterson, Nancy Ruth – Ellie Ever White, Ruth – Belle Prater’s Boy

WASHINGTON Holm, Jennifer L. – Our Only May Amelia

WEST VIRGINIA Hahn, Mary Downing – Witch Catcher Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Shiloh Rylant, Cynthia – A Blue-Eyed Daisy White, Ruth – Way Down Deep

WISCONSIN Enright, Elizabeth – Thimble Summer Hannigan, Katherine – Ida B. Henkes, Kevin – Protecting Marie Paulsen, Gary – The Island Wilkes, Maria D. – Brookfield Days (Caroline #1) Wilkes, Maria D. – Little House in Brookfield Wilkes, Maria D. – Little Town at the Crossroads

WYOMING Gardiner, John Reynolds – Stone Fox O’Hara, Mary – My Friend Flicka