Books to Read Together
(Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, 2014)
Title
Author
Dark, The
Robert Munsch
Henny Penny
Paul Galdone
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Mark Teague
How to Lose All Your Friends Nancy Carlson
Knuffle Bunny
Mo Willems
Leo The Late Bloomer
Robert Kraus
Little Engine That Could, The Watty Piper
Trouble in the Barkers’ Class Tomie dePaola
Bippity Bop Barbershop
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Circus Family Dog
Andrew Clements
Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the
Gerald
American
McDermott
Southwest
I Have A Sister My Sister Is DeafJeanne Whitehouse Peterson
Ish
Peter Reynolds
Day’s Work, A
Eve Bunting
Fireflies
Julie Brinkloe
Jamaica’s Find
Jaunita Havill
Letter to Amy, A
Ezra Jack Keats
Wednesday Surprise, The
Eve Bunting
Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes
Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky:
Georgia
AnimalHeard
Poems
Dancing in the Wings
Debbie Allen
Hurricane!
Jonathan London
Making the World
Douglas Wood
Fly Away Home
Eve Bunting
freedom summer
Deborah Wiles
Hip Cat
Jonathan London
Knots on a Counting Rope
Bill Martin
Old Woman Who Named Things,
Cynthia
The Rylant
One in the Middle is the GreenJudy
Kangaroo,
BlumeThe
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
Walter Dean Myers
Rats on the Roof and Other Stories
James Marshall
Saturdays and Teacakes
Lester Laminack
Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Paula Danziger
Chalk Box Kid, The
Clyde Robert Bulla
Donovan’s Word Jar
Monalisa Degross
Flight
Robert Burleigh
My Name is Maria Isabel
Alma Flor Ada
Sidewalk Story
Sharon Bell Mathias
Stories Julian Tells, The
Ann Cameron
Almost Starring Skinny Bones Barbara Parks
Amber Brown Goes Fourth
Paula Danziger
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping
Cynthia
Birds
Rylant
Lavender
Karen Hesse
Most Beautiful Place in the World,
Ann The
Cameron
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Rats!
Paul Zindel
Chapter Book
O
Seven Kisses in a Row
Patricia MacLachlan
Chapter Book
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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
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Brown Angles: An Album of Pictures
Walterand
Dean
Verse
Myers
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Chapter Book
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Hundred Dresses, The
Eleanor Estes
Chapter Book
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Hundred Penny Box, The
Sharon Mathis
Picture Book
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Smoky Night
Eve Bunting
Picture Book
P
Songs of Myself: An Anthology Georgia
of Poems
Heard
and Art
P
Who Stole The Wizard of Oz? Avi
Chapter Book
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Wilma Unlimited
Kathleen Krull
NF Picture Book P
Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli
Chapter Book
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Fudge-a-Mania
Judy Blume
Chapter Book
Q
Just Juice
Karen Hesse
Chapter Book
Q
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater
Chapter Book
Q
Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins,Lester
The Laminack
Picture Book
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America Street: A MulticulturalAnne
Anthology
Mazerof Stories
R
Bat Boy and His Violin
Gavin Curtis
Historical Fiction Picture
R
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Because of Winn Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Chapter Book
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Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Chapter Book
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Fig Pudding
Ralph Fletcher
Chapter Book
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Frindle
Andrew Clements
Chapter Book
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Chapter Book
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Landry News, The
Andrew Clements
Chapter Book
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Rules
Cynthia Lord
R
Sadako and the Thousand Paper
Eleanor
CranesCoerr
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
Chapter Book
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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 Women
Jacqueline
Who Changed
Woodsonthe World
S
Gift Giver, The
Joyce Hansen
Chapter Book
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Great Gilly Hopkins, The
Katherine Paterson
Chapter Book
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Journey
Patricia MacLachlan
Picture Book
S
Mick Harte was Here
Barbara Park
Chapter Book
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Pink and Say
Patricia Polacco
Picture Book
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Taste of Blackberries
Doris Buchanan Smith
Chapter Book
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Yellow Bird and Me
Joyce Hansen
Chapter Book
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Baby
Patricia MacLachlan
Chapter Book
T
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Chapter Book
T
Cassie Binegar
Patricia MacLachlan
Chapter Book
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Danny, The Champion of the World
Roald 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,The
C.S. Lewis
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen
Chapter Book
Sing Down the Moon
Scott O’Dell
Chapter Book
Tiger Rising
Kate DiCamillo
Chapter Book
Boy Who Owned the School, The
Gary Paulsen
Chapter Book
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Curtis
Chapter Book
Miraculous Journey of Edward Kate
Tulane,
DiCamillo
The
View From Saturday, The
E.L. Konigsburg
Chapter Book
Wringer
Jerry Spinelli
Chapter Book
Birthday Room, The
Kevin Henkes
Chapter Book
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Chapter Book
Holes
Lois Sachar
Chapter Book
Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
Novel in Verse
Long Way From Chicago, A
Richard Peck
A Novel in Stories
Music of Dolphins, The
Karen Hesse
Chapter Book
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Chapter Book
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Chapter Book
Year Down Yonder, A
Richard Peck
Chapter Book
Yolanda’s Genius
Carol Fenner
Chapter Book
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
Chapter Book
Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate
Novel in Verse
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Chapter Book
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
Chapter Book
Through My Eyes
Ruby Bridges
Picture Book
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Chapter Book
13 : Thirteen Stories That Capture
James
theHowe
Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
Devil’s Arithmetic, The
Jane Yolen
Chapter Book
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Novel in Verse
Where The Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
Chapter Book
Becoming Naomi Leon
Pam M. Ryan
Chapter Book
Burning Up
Caroline Cooney
Chapter Book
Giver, The
Lois Lowry
Chapter Book
Monument, The
Gary Paulsen
Chapter Book
Slake's Limbo
Felice Holman
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