Suggested Titles for Use with High School Students

Suggested Titles for Use with High School Students SUBJECT AREA TITLE AUTHOR (unit of study or concept) Any Subject Area Biographies of famous Jean Fritz, Russell figures related to that Freedman, Milton discipline Meltzer, Diane Stanley, Kathleen Krull, and many more Art Frida Kahlo Margaret Frith Art Visiting the Art Museum L.K. Brown and M.Brown Art Linea in Monet’s Garden Christina Bjork Art Smokey Night Eve Bunting Art Uncle Andy’s James Warhol Music The Sound that Jazz C. Weatherford Makes Music Duke Ellington Andrea Davis Pinkney Music Meet the Orchestra A. Hayes*** Music Bantam of the Opera M.J. Auch Music Ah, Music Aliki Health Occupations The Sunset of Miss Olivia **** (Alzheimer’s) Wiggins Science Magic School Bus books Joanna Cole (multiple titles and topics in the series) Math Math Curse Jon Scieszka Math The Librarian Who Kathryn Lasky Measured the Earth Math The Dot and the Line: A Norton Juster (Geometry) Romance in Lower Case Mathematics Math Sir Cumference and the Cindy Neuschwander (Geometry) First Round Table Math Socrates and the Three Tuyosi Mori (probability, Little Pigs permutations) Math G is for Googol: A Math David M. Schwartz Alphabet Book Math How Much is a Million? David M. Scwartz Math Is the Blue Whale the Robert E. Wells (scientific notation) Biggest Thing there is? English A Brilliant Streak: The Kathryn Lasky (American Literature) Making of Mark Twain English Moss Gown William Hooks (King Lear)

English In the Swim Douglas Florian *** (poetry) English The Necklace Guy de Maupassant (irony) English The Encounter Jane Yolen (point of view) English A Visit to William Blake’s Nancy Willard (tone/poetry) Inn English When I was Young in the Cynthia Rylant (setting) Mountains English Animalia ****** (alliterations/fragments) English Piggy Pie Margie Palatini (parody) English Voices in the Park Anthony Browne (foreshadowing) English and/or Pink and Say Patricia Polacco Social Studies-(Civil War) English and/or A Medieval Feast Aliki Social Studies Social Studies When Amy Came Across Amy Hest (early immigration to US) the Sea Social Studies The Circuit ****** (migrant workers in the 1940’s) Social Studies In Defense of Liberty Russell Freedman (James Madison & the Bill of Rights) Social Studies Baseball Saved Us Ken Mochizuki (Japanese internment camps) Social Studies So Far From the Sea Eve Bunting (Japanese internment camps) Social Studies Don’t Miss the Butter Dr. Suess (The Cold War) Battle Book Social Studies Hiroshima No Pika Maruki (bombing of Hiroshima) Social Studies Don’t You Know There’s James Stevenson (World War II) A War On Holocaust The Lily Cupboard: A Shulamith Levy Story of the Holocaust Oppenheim Holocaust Luba, The Angel of Michelle R. McMann Bergen Belsen Holocaust A Picture Book of Anne David Adler Frank Holocaust Best Friends Elisabeth Reuter Holocaust Flowers on the Wall Miriam Nerlove Holocaust I Have Lived a Thousand Livia Bitton-Jackson Years; Growing Up in the Holocaust Holocaust Let the Celebrations Margaret Wild and Julie Begin Vivas Holocaust Miracle in the Grass Ruthann Crosby Holocaust The Butterfly Patricia Polacco Holocaust The Lily Cupboard; A Shulamith Levey Story of the Holocaust Oppenheim Holocaust The Yellow Star; The Carmen Agra Deedy Legend of King Christian X of Denmark