LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES NEWSLETTER February 21, 2012

Schools

Recognized BY

ISMF

KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY

DUNDEE RIDGE MIDDLE

Rev Up and Read Race Car

564 books were distributed to 290 needy students in grades K-12

through the guidance counselors. Books were donated by the

Polk County Reading Council, the Polk Educational Media

Association, Teacher Created Materials, Delta Epsilon Chapter of

Florida Delta Kappa Sorority, and Spessard Holland Elementary

School students, faculty and staff. The books were donated in

continuation for Celebrate Literacy Week and the Florida DOE

“Rev up and Read” race car visit to two schools. Floral Avenue

Elementary and Westwood Middle School were visited on

February 21 to encourage students to take the lead and read.

CELEBRATE LITERACY WEEK A SUCCESS

WEBINAR FOR EBOOKS NEW eBooks

We have recently acquired five eBooks from Britannica

for your preview. Tell me what you think of these

eBooks . Do you think that the link appearing in the

MARC records makes it user friendly? Do you think

students will access these books using Destiny? Please

give feedback once you have evaluated them. A

webinar below: (Click on the date to register)

E–Books Webinars (1:30 – 2 p.m. Central Time)

Thursday, February 16

Tuesday, March 13

Thursday, April 19

Tuesday, May 15

The International Student Media Festival was held in

Jacksonville, Florida November 10-12. The festival

consisted of a number of different learning

opportunities for educators, parents, and students.

Events included educational field trips, Student

Producer Showcase, networking opportunities, Awards

Ceremony, and numerous other celebrations for media

producers. Three of our schools earned plagues:

Southwest Middle School, Lawton Chiles Middle School

and Griffin Elementary School.

SSYRA

Thanks for all who have signed up for the

SSYRA Book Festival.

All entries should be turned in by May 4th at

4:00 p.m. to Library Media Services.

The rubrics will be in public folders if you

would like to look at them.

The festival will be held May 22nd and 23rd at

the Jim Miles PD Center. Please plan to

attend.

State

PSA Contest

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Congratulations ITV students!

Elementary School Level

1st Place Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary, Palm

Beach County, "Little Reader Who Became a Leader"

2nd Place Timber Trace Elementary, Palm Beach County,

"Florida Readers… Start Your Engines!"

3rd Place Spessard Holland Elementary, Polk County,

"Readers are Leaders"

Middle School Level

1st Place Lake Gibson Middle School, Polk County, "Fall

in Love with Reading"

2nd Place Explorer K-8, Hernando County, "When

Reading Comes to Life"

3rd Place Stambaugh Middle School, Polk County,

"Readin' and Leadin'"

High School Level

1st Place Clearwater High School, Pinellas County, "Be a

Reader Leader"

2nd Place Cypress Lake High School, Lee County,

"Silhouettes"

3rd Place Florida Virtual School - High School,

"Need to Escape? Just Pick up a Book"

You can view the videos on the DOE website.

Reading Comes Alive

A Success In December we had the largest crowd ever. The following schools attended: Bethune, Carlton Palmore, Cleveland Court, Combee, Crystal Lake, Davenport SOA, Dundee, Gibbons, Griffin, Highland City, Highlands Grove, Kathleen, Lake Alfred, Lena Vista, Lewis Anna Woodbury, Oscar Pope, Padgett, Philip O’Brien, Purcell, R. Bruce Wagner, Rochelle, and Sleep Hill. The books performed by the Harrison students under the tutelage of Mrs. Ilene Finns were Stop that Pickle, Christian the Huggable Lion, One, Ugly Pie and What’s in the Egg: Little Pip. A special Thank You goes to the Greater Foundation of Lakeland for helping with buses in the Lakeland area.

Library Media Center Named

The library media center was named in honor of Cathy Worthen at Winston Elementary School on Sunday, February 19, 2012. The superintendent and the mayor of Lakeland were among those who attended. This continues the legacy of schools naming library media centers after their library media specialists. Some centers that have named for former library media specialists can be found at Southwest Elementary, Winter Haven HS and Boone MS. There may be more. Cathy Worthen worked at four schools during her employment for Polk County Schools. She served as a teacher at Dixieland and Crystal Lake. She served as a library media specialist at Padgett and Winston until her death. A special thank you goes to Winston Elementary, Mrs. Strong and the SAC committee for recognizing Cathy and the contributions that this library media specialist made in the lives of Winston’s students.

Does your library have these books in your collection? The following lists are examples for you to check your collections in preparation for our shift to support Common Core. You probably have many or similar titles already in your collections. The three Common Core ELA & Literacy evidence-based pedagogical shifts are: Shift 1: Balance informational and literary reading in

all grades by emphasizing informational texts and the

Common Core Appendix B Text Exemplars.

Shift 2: Emphasize reading in many K–12 disciplines;

including history, social studies, and science, with

thoughtfully selected supplemental booklists.

Shift 3: Require knowledge and direct

consideration of the text to support students'

evidentiary argument skills at all grade levels.

The list below is only a sample list. Different

companies are preparing documents to help with

this topic. If you check Teaching Books.Net and

Renaissance BookFind, you will find additional titles

and information.

Please tentatively mark your calendars for March

21st

for a meeting with Just Read Florida. The

location has not yet been determined.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

SSYRA BOOK FESTIVAL PROJECTS DUE – MAY 4 TEXTBOOK INVENTORY DUE – JUNE 20 SSYRA BOOK FESTIVAL – MAY 22/23 INVENTORY DUE – LAST TEACHERS’ WORKDAY APRIL is School Library Month April 8-14 is National Library Week Initialize(Start) the library Inventory Mark your calendars tentative for March 21 March – National Reading Month to honor Dr. Seuss

Common Core

Grade K - Exemplar Collection

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne

Days with Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel

Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia, Carmen Lomas Garza

Father Bear Comes Home, Else Holmelund Minarik

Fire! Fire!, Gail Gibbons

Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean, Arthur Dorros

Frog and Toad Together, Arnold Lobel

Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold

Little Bear's Friend, Else Holmelund Minarik

Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China, Ed Young

Mr. Popper's Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater

My Five Senses, Aliki

My Many Colored Days, Dr. Suess

Pancakes for Breakfast, Tomie dePaola

The Paper Crane, Molly Bang

Reason For Seasons, Gibbons, Gail

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, Gail Gibbons

A Story, A Story, retold by Gail E. Haley

Ten Apples On Top, Seuss, Dr.

Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews

Ten, Nine, Eight, Molly Bang

When We Were Very Young: Halfway Down Poem, A. A. Milne

Grade K - Expanded Collection

Fiction

Anno's Counting Book, Mitsumasa Anno

Apple Pie Fourth of July, Janet Wong

Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale, Gerald McDermott

Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin Jr.

The Carrot Seed, Ruth Krauss

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault

Clifford Goes to Washington, Norman Bridwell

Curious George, H.A. Rey

Fireflies, Julie Brinckloe

The Grouchy Ladybug, Eric Carle

Koala Lou, Mem Fox

Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey

Mary Wore Her Red Dress, and Henry WoreHis Green Sneakers,

Merle Peek

Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney

Officer Buckle and Gloria, Peggy Rathmann

Owl Moon, Jane Yolen

The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats

The Story of Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe

This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie

The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold by Paul Galdone

The Three Little Pigs, James Marshall

A Tree Is Nice, Janice M. Udry

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

The Very Lovely Firefly, CARLE, E.

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Informational

As The Crow Flies, Hartman, G.

Check It Out! The Book About Libraries, Gail Gibbons

Count Your Way Thru China, Jim Haskins

Fire! Fire!, Gail Gibbons

The Four Seasons

From Caterpillar to Butterfly, Deborah Heiligman

From Tadpole to Frog, Wendy Pfeffer

How Many Do You See?

How a Seed Grows, Helene J. Jordan

I Pledge Allegiance, Bill Martin Jr.

Independence Day, Mir Tamim Ansary

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mir Tamim Ansary

Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney

Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, Muriel Feelings

My Five Senses /Mis Cinco Sentidos, Aliki

National Geographic Our World: A Child's First Picture Atlas,

National Geographic Society Staff

Nature's Colors

One Plant, Many Parts

One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet, April Pulley

Sayre

The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves, Gail Gibbons

RedEyed Tree Frog, Joy Cowley

Shapes in Nature

The Tiny Seed, Eric Carle

Water

Weather Changes

Grade 1 - Exemplar Collection

Are You My Mother?, P.D. Eastman

Doctor Seuss's ABCC, Seuss, Dr.

Exactly the Opposite, Tana Hoban

Fables, Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad All Year, Arnold Lobel

Green Eggs and Ham Cover Craft, Seuss, Dr.

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!C Seuss, Dr.

A Kiss for Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik

Little Bear's Visit, Else Holmelund Minarik

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein

Marimba: Animales from A to Z, MORA, P.

School Bus, Donald Crews

Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young

Starfish, Edith Thacher Hurd

Ten Apples On Top, Seuss, Dr.

Twisters and Other Terrible StormsMagic Tree House Research

Guide, Will Osborne & Mary Pope Osborne

A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, Aliki

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins & Robin

Page

When Sophie Gets AngryReally, Really Angry, Molly Bang

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, BAUM, F.

YehShen: A Cinderella Story from China, retold by AiLing Louie

Grade 1 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

A. Lincoln and Me, Louise Borden

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale, Hopkinson,

Deboray

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,

Judith Viorst

The Bat Boy and His Violin, Gavin Curtis

Changes, Changes, Pat Hutchins

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault

Eating the Alphabet, Lois Ehlert

The Egyptian Cinderella, Shirley Climo

Goin' Someplace Special, Patricia C. McKissack

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff

Inch by Inch, Leo Lionni

James Marshall's Cinderella, Barbara Karlin

The Lion & the Mouse, Pinkney, Jerry

The Little Red Hen, Paul Galdone

Morris Goes to School, Bernard Wiseman

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe

My Name Is Yoon, Helen Recorvits

Owl at Home, Arnold Lobel

Prince Cinders, Babette Cole

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack

Prelutsky

Swimmy, Leo Lionni

Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, Sharon

Robinson

The Ugly Duckling, adapted by Jerry Pinkney

Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein

The Wind Blew, Pat Hutchins

Informational

Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints, Millicent E.

Selsam

Dave the Potter: Artist, Potter, Slave, Laban Carrick Hill

George Washington and the General's Dog, Frank Murphy

George Washington, Wil Mara

The Graphic Alphabet, David Pelletier

The Hidden Alphabet, Laura Vaccaro Seeger

How Animals Work, DK Publishing

How People Learned to Fly, Fran Hodgkins

I Read Signs, Tana Hoban

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein

North America, Madeline Donaldson

Paul Revere(Rookie Biographies), Wil Mara

Twenty Six Letters and 99 Cents, Tana Hoban

A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, Aliki

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins & Robin

Page

What Lives in a Shell?, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

What's It Like to Be a Fish?, Wendy Pfeffer

Where Do Chicks Come From?, Amy E. Sklansky

Grade 2 - Exemplar Collection

Buffalo Before Breakfast, Mary Pope Osborne

Charlotte's Web, E.B. White

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, Maurice Sendak

Christina Rossetti Selected Poems, Christina Rossetti

Cowboys and Cowgirls: YippeeYay!, Gail Gibbons

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa, Erica Silverman

The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes

The Fire Cat, Esther Holden Averill

Ghost Town at Sundown, Mary Pope Osborne

Guts: Our Digestive, Simon, Seymour

Henry and Mudge and the Snowman Plan, Cynthia Rylant

Henry and Mudge: The First Book, Cynthia Rylant

How I Learned Geography, Uri Shulevitz

In the Night Kitchen, SENDAK, M.

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington(1963), Frances

E. Ruffin

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Carmen Agra

Deedy

Poppleton In Winter, Cynthia Rylant

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack

Prelutsky

The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles

The Twentieth Century Children's PoetryTreasury, Jack Prelutsky

Grade 2 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

Boy Called Slow, Joseph Bruchac

Bread, Bread, Bread, Ann Morris

Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina

Chato's Kitchen, Gary Soto

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Partners, Erica Silverman

Crazy Horse's Vision, Joseph Bruchac

The Day of Ahmed's Secret, Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide

Gilliland

Dim Sum for Everyone!, Grace Lin

Freedom Summer, Deborah Wiles

Freedom on the Menu, Carole Boston Weatherford

George and Martha, James Marshall

Gregory the Terrible Eater, Mitchell Sharmat

Henry's Freedom Box, Ellen Levine & Kadir Nelson

How My Parents Learned to Eat, Ina R. Friedman

Little Red Riding Hood, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

The Mitten (Brett), Jan Brett

The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson

Paul Bunyan, Steven Kellogg

Pecos Bill, Steven Kellogg

Stone Soup, Marcia Brown

Stone Soup, Ann McGovern

Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola

Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold

Thunder Cake, Patricia Polacco

Too Many Tamales, Gary Soto

The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West Was Tamed, John

Frank

Informational

Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney

Cactus Hotel, Brenda Z. Guiberson

Houses and Homes, Ann Morris

How I Learned Geography, Uri Shulevitz

John Henry, Julius Lester

Johnny Appleseed, Steven Kellogg

Kit Carson: A Life of Adventure CovertoCover Chapter Book

Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Doreen

Rappaport

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom,

Carole Boston Weatherford

Muscles, Seymour Simon

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship,

Isabella & Craig Hatkoff & Dr. Paula Kahumbu

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Jen

Bryant

Rosa Parks, Wil Mara

Ruby Bridges Goes to School, Ruby Bridges

Snowflake Bentley, Jacqueline Briggs Martin

The Very First Americans, Cara Ashrose

The Village of Round and Square Houses, Ann Grifalconi

What Do Authors Do, Christelow, E.

Zen Shorts, Jon J. Muth

Grade 3 - Exemplar Collection

14 Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy

Ah, Music!, Aliki

Amos and Boris, William Steig

Ancient Greece and the OlympicsMagic Tree House Research Guide,

Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, Kathleen V. Kudlinski

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, Walter Wick

Hour of the Olympics, Mary Pope Osborne

The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses, Edward Lear

A Medieval Feast, Aliki

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Floca, Brian

The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections, Jan

Mark

Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt

The Sign Painter, Allen Say

The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron

The Storm, Cynthia Rylant

Through Grandpa's Eyes, Patricia MacLachlan

Tops and Bottoms, Janet Stevens

The Twentieth Century Children's PoetryTreasury, Jack Prelutsky

Vacation Under the Volcano, Mary Pope Osborne

What the World Eats

You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers, Robert Frost

Grade 3 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?, Herman Parish

Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish

Annie and the Old One, Miska Miles

Arthur Meets the President, Marc Brown

Canoe Days, Gary Paulsen

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Even More Parts: Idioms from Head to Toe, Tedd Arnold

Frindle, Andrew Clements

The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, Aliki

Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl, Marissa Moss

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord

Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault

Molly's Pilgrim, Barbara Cohen

Next Stop Neptune: Experiencing the Solar System, Alvin Jenkins

PaddletotheSea, Holling C. Holling

The Pot that Juan Built, ANDREWSGOEBEL, N.

Shark Attack!, Cathy East Dubowski

The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare

Snowed in with Grandmother Silk, Carol Fenner

Song and Dance Man, Karen Ackerman

Thank You, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish

There's a Frog in My Throat! 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me,

Loreen Leedy & Pat Street

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe, Vera B. Williams

Vote!, Eileen Christelow

The Whale, Cynthia Rylant

Why the Banana Split: Adventures in Idioms, Rick Walton

Informational

Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone, Editors of

Time for Kids with John Micklos, Jr.

Ancient Greece, Anne Pearson

Ancient Rome, Simon James

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, Kathleen V. Kudlinski

The Cod's Tale, Mark Kurlansky

A Drop Around the World, McKinney, Barbara Shaw

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution,

Elizabeth Levy

Inside Ancient Rome CovertoCover Chapter Book

Journey of the Humpback Whale, Caryn Jenner

Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs, Ruth Heller

MerryGoRound: A Book About Nouns, Ruth Heller

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Floca, Brian

Paul Gauguin, Venezia, M.

Planets!Time for Kids: Science Scoops, Editors of Time for Kids

with Lisa Jo Rudy

Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, Jean Fritz

Smart About the Presidents, Jon Buller & Susan Schade

The Solar System, Gregory Vogt

Thomas Edison: A Brilliant Inventor, Editors of Time for Kids

with Lisa deMauro

Uranus, Elaine Landau

Van Gogh, Venezia, M.

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson,

Pam Munoz Ryan

Grade 4 - Exemplar Collection

The Black Stallion, Walter Farley

Can It Rain Cats and Dogs?: Questions and Answers About

Weather, Melvin & Gilda Berger

Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers About

Space Exploration, Melvin & Gilda Berger

Carl Sandburg: Poetry for Young People: Grade 4, Carl Sandburg

The Cloud Book: Words and Pictures: Grade 4, Tomie DePaola

Do Stars Have Points?: Questions and Answers About Stars and

Planets, Melvin & Gilda Berger

Dogs (Smithsonian): Grade 4, Seymour Simon

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes

A Emily Dickerson: Poetry for Young People: Grade 4, Emily

Dickinson

The Grey King(The Dark is Rising Sequence) (advanced): Grade 4,

Susan Cooper

Hurricanes: Grade 4, Seymour Simon

The Long Winter, WILDER, L.

Love That Dog, Sharon Creech

Robert Frost's Poems, Robert Frost

Storms, Seymour Simon

Grade 4 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

And Still the Turtle Watched, Sheila MacGillCallahan

Because of WinnDixie, Kate DiCamillo

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Every Living Thing, Cynthia Rylant

Fourth Grade Rats, Jerry Spinelli

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble

Just Juice, Karen Hesse

Knights of the Kitchen Table, Jon Scieszka

The Library Card, Jerry Spinelli

Marley: A Dog Like No Other, John Grogan

Merlin and the Dragons, Jane Yolen

Midnight on the Moon, Mary Pope Osborne

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien

Paint the Wind, Pam Munoz Ryan

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Poppy, Avi

Race Across America, Geronimo Stilton

Ragweed, Avi

Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges

Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure,

Cindy Neuschwander

Space Explorers, Eva Moore

Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Storyof a Mouse, a Princess,

Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, Kate DiCamillo

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume

The Woman Who Outshone the Sun/La MujerQue Brillaba Aun

Mas Que El Sol, Rosalma Zubizarreta, H. Rohmer & D. Schecter

Informational

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Jean Fritz

Can It Rain Cats and Dogs?: Questions and Answers About

Weather, Melvin & Gilda Berger

Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers About

Space Exploration, Melvin & Gilda Berger

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

Bang

Coyote Places the Stars, TAYLOR, H.

Do Stars Have Points?: Questions and Answers About Stars and

Planets, Melvin & Gilda Berger

The Heart: Our Circulatory System, Seymour Simon

I Want to Be a Veterinarian, Stephanie Maze

If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution, Kay Moore

In Their Own Words: Paul Revere, George Sullivan

Molly Pitcher: Young American Patriot Graphic Novels, Jason

Glaser

Mounds of earth and shell : Native sites : the Southeast

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene

Barretta

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship,

Isabella & Craig Hatkoff & Dr. Paula Kahumbu

The Respiratory System

Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson, Ann McGovern

Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays, Peg Kehret

Space Magic Tree House Research Guide, Will Osborne & Mary

Pope Osborne

Storms, Seymour Simon

The Sun, Seymour Simon

The Trail of Tears, Joseph Bruchac

William Shakespeare and the Globe, Aliki

Grade 5 - Exemplar Collection

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classic), Lewis Carroll

The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich

Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

Casey At The Bat, Thayer, E.

Children of the Great Depression, Russell Freedman

A History of US: First Americans, Prehistory1600 (Book 1): Grade

5, Joy Hakim

A History of US: The New Nation, 17891859 (Book 4): Grade 5,

Joy Hakim

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Richard

Howard

My Librarian is a Camel: How Books are Brought to Children

Around the World: Grade 5, Margriet Ruurs

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest

of New Guinea, Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop

The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett

Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions: Grade 5,

Don L. Wulffson and Laurie Keller

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

The William Blake: Poetry for Young People: Grade 5, William

Blake

Grade 5 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt

Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki

Blue Willow, Doris Gates

Boy Called Slow, Joseph Bruchac

Bull Run, Paul Fleischman

Carver: a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson

Disappearing Alphabet, Richard Wilbur

Do You Have a Hat?, Eileen Spinelli

Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery, Peter Abrahams

Fine print : a story about Johann Gutenberg, Burch, J.

Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jeanette Winter

Homer Price, Robert McCloskey

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman

Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George

Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault

Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer, Robert Byrd

A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck

Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl, Tonya Bolden

Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, Gerald

McDermott

The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Deborah Hopkinson

Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

What Are You Figuring Now, Ferris, J.

A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck

Informational

Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West, Lillian Schlissel

Children of the Dust Bowl, Jerry Stanley

The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings Tale Blazers

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, TURNER, P.

If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America, Anne Kamma

If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War, Kay Moore

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad, Ellen Levine

Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln All Aboard Reading, Jean Fritz

Leonardo da Vinci, Diane Stanley

Michelangelo, Venezia, M.

Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology, Kathleen V. Kudlinski

Thomas Edison/Own Words, Sullivan, G.

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sis

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, Jean Fritz

Who Was Albert Einstein?, Jess M. Brallier

Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?, Sydelle Kramer

Who Was Marco Polo?, Joan Holub

Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Margaret Frith

Grade 6 - Exemplar Collection

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, SUTCLIFF, R.

Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl

Dragonwings, Laurence Yep

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann

Petry

Just So Stories, Mem Fox

Lyddie, Katherine Paterson

The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan

The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, Virginia Hamilton

SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting

The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, Katherine Paterson

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Katherine Paterson

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros

Grade 6 - Expanded Collection

Fiction

Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett

Circuit, JIMENEZ, F.

Counting on Grace, Elizabeth Winthrop

Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales: Grade 6, Arthur

Ransome

Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths, Bernard Evslin

Iqbal, Francesco D'Adamo

James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

Journey of the Sparrows, Fran Leaper Buss with Daisy Cubias

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata

The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan

The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan

Doyle

The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch

Peter Pan, James M. Barrie

Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting

Something About America, Maria Testa

Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury

War Comes to Willy Freeman, James Lincoln Collier & Christopher

Collier

Weedflower, KADOHATA, C.

The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

Informational

Amelia Earhart (DK Biography): Grade 6, Tanya Stone

Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation, James Haskins

Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl

Building an Igloo, Steltzer, Ulli

Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero: Grade 6, James Giblin

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an

American Boy, Andrea Warren

First Americans: Story of Where They Came From and Who They

Became: Grade 6, Anthony F. Aveni and S.D. Nelson

First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, GALLO, D.

G Is For Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, Schwartz, David M.

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann

Petry

If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, Ellen Levine

Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman

Kids On Strike, Bartoletti, Susan Campbel

Kids with Courage, Barbara A. Lewis

Leon's Story, Leon Tillage

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to

Freedom, Hamilton, Virginia

Math Curse, Scieszka, Jon

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,

Frederick Douglass

Night to Remember, Walter Lord

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li Jiang

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr

The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets: Grade

6, Henk Tennekes

Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the

Cultural Revolution, Moying Li

Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America, Deborah

Hopkinson

Wilbur & Orville Wright: Taking Flight:Grade 6, Stephanie

Sammartino McPherson

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Soldier!: Barbarians You’d

Rather Not Meet (YouWouldn’t Want To meet, David Stewart

and David Antram

Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki

Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation, James Haskins

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Circuit, JIMENEZ, F.

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, Andrea Warren

Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales: Grade 6, Arthur Ransome

First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, GALLO, D.

G Is For Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, Schwartz, David M.

If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, Ellen Levine

Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman

Iqbal, Francesco D'Adamo

James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

Kids with Courage, Barbara A. Lewis

Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata

Leon's Story, Leon Tillage

The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Night to Remember, Walter Lord

Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting

The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets: Grade 6, Henk Tennekes

Something About America, Maria Testa

Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury

Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America, Deborah Hopkinson

The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

When I Was Your Age, EHRLICH, A.

Grade 9

101 Great American Poems, American Poetry & Literac

The Aeneid, Virgil

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich M. Remarque

Antigone, Sophocles

Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf

Black Boy, Richard Wright

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer

Everyday Use - Tale Blazers, Walker, Alice

The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings - Tale Blazers

Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester

Hakiu, Andrew Vachss

The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell

How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, Robert Alexander

Lyrical Ballads 1798, William Wadsworth

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

The Most Dangerous Game - Tale Blazers

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, Johnathan Shay

The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus, Homer

Oedipus the King - Tale Blazers

Oedipus the King, Sophocles

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

One Writer's Beginning, WELTY, E.

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-twenties, Allen, Frederick Lewis

Operation Homecoming: Iran, Afghanistanand the Home Front, in the Words of US Troops and their Fami, Andrew Carroll

Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, James Moffett & Kenneth R. McElheny, eds.

Ramayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki

Robert Frost's Poems, Robert Frost

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje

Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, Elizabeth D Samet

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, Edgar Allan Poe

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Twenty-One Great Stories, Abraham Lass & Norma Tasman, eds.

Within Reach: My Everest Story, Mark Pfetzer, written by Jack Galvin

The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers, Robert Frost

Grade 10

Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Complete Short Novels, Anton Chekhov

Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy

Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka

Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories, Nikolay Gogol

The Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian andSumerian, Andrew George

A Gabriela Mistral Reader, Gabriela Mistral, Maria Giachetti, trans., Marjorie Agosin, ed.

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

The I Ching for a New Age: The Book of Answers for Changing Times, transmitted by Fei Zhi

Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

Long Walk To Freedom

Martha Quest, Doris Lessing

Master Harold and the Boys, Athol Fugard

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe

My Name is Red, Orham Pamuk

Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

Notes From Underground

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass, Isak Dinesen

Ramayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki

The Scandal of Empire: India and the creation of Imperial Britain, Nicholas B. Dirks

Six Records of a Floating Life, Shen Fu

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling, ed

The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet (selections), Benjamin Hoff

The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (selections), Pablo Neruda and W.S. Merwin, trans.

Under The Red Flag (selections), Ha Jin

The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Mariano Azuela

Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee

Grade 11

101 Great American Poems, American Poetry & Literac

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X with Alex Haley

The Awakening, Kate Chopin

Billy Budd, Herman Melville

Black Boy, Richard Wright

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Collected Essays, Baldwin, James/ Morrison,

Common Sense and The Crisis - Tale Blazers, Paine, Thomas

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Edgar Allan Poe

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay

The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Into the Wild (Krakauer), Jon Krakauer

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Tale Blazers, Irving, Washington

Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems, James Weldon Johnson

My Antonia, Willa Cather

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass

Native Son, Richard Wright

Piano Lesson, Wilson, August

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Rip Van Winkle - Tale Blazers, Irving, Washington

Roman Fever and Other Stories, Edith Wharton

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Seize the Day, Bellow, Saul

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God And Other Puritan Sermons, Jonathon Edwards

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

Speaking My Mind: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Ronald Reagan

A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Voices of a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Walden and Other Writings, Henry David Thoreau

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

The Yellow Wallpaper, GILMAN, C.

Grade 12

984, George Orwell

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classic), Lewis Carroll

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich M. Remarque

Antigone, Sophocles

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by R.M. Lumiansky

The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, Geoffrey Chaucer

Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems, Christina Rossetti

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories, Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno, Alighieri, Dante

A Doll's House (Four Major Plays, Vol. I), Henrik Ibsen

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Emma, Jane Austen

Faust, GOETHE, J.

Fifty Years of American Poetry; Over 200 Important Works by America's Modern Masters, Academy of American Poets

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

Hamlet - Parallel Text, William Shakespeare

Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad

The History of the Medieval World, S. Wise Bauer

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

The Importance of Being Earnest (8 Great Comedies), Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront

King Lear - Parallel Text, William Shakespeare

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, Hamsun, Knut

Passage to India, E.M. Forster

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous

Three Musketeers, Dumas, A.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte