Bake Sale
Friendship
Dog in Charge E GOI
Cindy Moo E MOR
Baked Goods
Babymouse: Cupcake Tycoon 741.5 HOL
Series
Babymouse 741.5 HOL
Matt Christopher (sports fiction) FIC CHR
Balloons Over Broadway
Biographies about Creative People
The Day-Glo Brothers 535 BAR
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins 921 HAWKINS
The Boy on Fairfield Street 921 SEUSS
The Boy who Invented TV 921 FARNSWORTH
Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets 921 HENSON
Snowflake Bentley 921 BENTLEY
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor 921 KNIGHT
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman 741.5 NOB
Thanksgiving
How Many Days to America? E BUN
Molly’s Pilgrim E COH
Ox-Cart Man E HAL
Giving Thanks E LON
An Outlaw Thanksgiving E MCC
Barnum’s Bones
Fossils and Paleontology
Eyewitness Fossil (DK Eyewitness series) 560 TAY
Dinosaurs Before Dark FIC OSB
Pioneering Scientists and Inventors
Stone Girl, Bone Girl 921 ANNING
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane 920 FRE
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins 921 HAWKINS
Snowflake Bentley 921 BENTLEY
Starry Messenger 921 GALILEO
Coral Reefs
Same Author – Jason Chin
Island: The Story of the Galapagos 508.866 CHI
Starry Messenger 921 GALILEO
Coral Reef books
Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water 811 CYR
Informational Texts
My Brother Martin 921 KING
The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont 921 SANTOS-DUMONT
The Beetle Book 595.76 JEN
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea 591.77 JEN
Balloons Over Broadway Bluebonnet book
Fairest of All
Same Author – Sarah Mlynowski
If the Shoe Fits FIC MLY
Magical Fantasy
The Magician’s Boy FIC COO
Mummies in the Morning FIC OSB
Breadcrumbs FIC URS
Fairy Tales
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg FIC LEV
Flying the Dragon
Kite and Kite Flying
Windblowne FIC MES
The Kite Fighters FIC PAR
Immigrating to America
My Name is Maria Isabel FIC ADA
Home of the Brave FIC APP
America: My New Home 811 GUN
Inside Out and Back Again FIC LAI
Books with Grandparents
I Love Saturdays y Domingos E ADA SP
A Long Way from Chicago FIC PEC
The Bee Tree E POL
Stories told from Multiple Perspectives
Return to Sender FIC ALV
Extra Credit FIC CLE
The Homework Machine FIC GUT
The View from Saturday FIC KON
Wonder Bluebonnet book
Wonderstruck FIC SEL
The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 FIC YEP
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
Books about Families
Hate the Cat FIC CRE
Love the Dog FIC CRE
Replay FIC CRE
Walk Two Moons FIC CRE
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters FIC BLU
What Would Joey Do? FIC GAN
Two Under Par FIC HEN
Ghetto Cowboy
African-American Boys
The Big Bike Race FIC BLE
Fast-Paced story
The Jacket FIC CLE
Theme of Moving
Home of the Brave FIC APP
Bud, Not Buddy FIC CUR
Giants Beware
Graphic Novel
Rapunzel’s Revenge 741.5 HAL
Zita the Spacegirl 741.5 HAT
Glory Be
Civil Rights Movement
Through My Eyes 921 BRIDGES
A Dream of Freedom 323 MCW
Race Relations
The River Between Us FIC PEC
Feathers FIC WOO
Historical Fiction set in the 1960’s
Belle Teal FIC MAR
Okay for Now FIC SCH
The Wednesday Wars FIC SCH
Summertime Setting
Umbrella Summer FIC GRA
Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far) FIC MAR
One Crazy Summer FIC WIL
The Humming Room
Same Author – Ellen Potter
Olivia Kidney series FIC POT
Inspiration for The Humming Room
The Secret Garden FIC BUR
Realistic Fiction – character driven
Pictures of Hollis Woods FIC GIF
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story FIC HAH
A Corner of the Universe FIC MAR
Okay for Now FIC SCH
Realistic Fiction – plot driven
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place FIC KON
Secret in the Garden E MAY
Jangles
Story within a Story
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs E BAR
Fishing Story
McElligot’s Pool E SEU
Tall Tales
Swamp Angel E ISA
Mike Fink: A Tall Tale 398.22 KEL
Paul Bunyan: A Tall Tale 398.2 KEL SP
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett 398.2 KEL
John Henry 398.21 LES
Don Flora: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Big Heart E MOR
Laugh with the Moon
Father-Daughter Theme
Crow Call FIC LOW
Moon over Manifest FIC VAN
Grief/Loss Theme
Confetti Girl FIC LOP
Moving Theme
How Tia Lola Came to Stay FIC ALV
Because of Winn Dixie FIC DIC
Piper Reed, Navy Brat FIC HOL
Looking at Lincoln
More Books about Abraham Lincoln
Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary 920 FLE
Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln 921 LINCOLN
Abe Lincoln’s Dream E SMI
More Biographies
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass 921 DOUGLASS
Here Come the Girl Scouts 396.463 COR
Boy Called Dickens E HOP
Balloons over Broadway Bluebonnet book
Brothers at Bat 796.357 VER
Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps 921 GOODALL
Same Author – Maira Kalman
Next Stop Grand Central 385.3 KAL
Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break…
Same Author – John Grandits
Technically, It’s Not my Fault ebook
Other Funny Stories
More Parts E ARN
Twelve Terrible Things E KEL
How to Teach a Slug to Read E PEA
The One and Only Ivan
Same Author – Katherine Applegate
Home of the Brave FIC APP
Apes and People who Study Them
Me…Jane E MCD
Koko’s Kitten 599.884 PAT
Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps 921 GOODALL
Books about Animals Interacting with Humans
Because of Winn Dixie FIC DIC
Hoot FIC HIA
My Side of the Mountain FIC GEO
Tua and the Elephant Bluebonnet book
Other Books Told from the Animal’s Perspective
The Underneath FIC APP
The World According to Humphrey FIC BIR
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray FIC MAR
War Horse FIC MOR book and audiobook
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse ebook
Charlotte’s Web FIC WHI book and audiobook
Other Novels in Verse
Home of the Brave FIC APP
Love that Dog FIC CRE
Out of the Dust FIC HES
Other Emotionally Intense Books
Number the Stars FIC LOW book and audiobook
Bridge to Terabithia FIC PAT
Old Yeller FIC GIP
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane FIC DIC
Tua and the Elephant
More Stories about Elephants
The Magician’s Elephant FIC DIC book and audiobook
The White Elephant FIC FLE
Saving Lilly FIC KEH
More Stories about Animal Rescue or Animal Welfare
The Backyard Animal Show FIC DRA
Dingoes at Dinnertime FIC OSB
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express FIC MCD
Story set in Thailand
Silk Umbrellas FIC MAR
Adventure Stories
The Underneath FIC APP
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane FIC DIC
The Jungle Book FIC KIP
Waiting for the Magic
Same Author – Patricia MacLachlan
Caleb’s Story FIC MAC
Sarah, Plain and Tall FIC MAC SP
Skylark FIC MAR
Realistic Fiction – plot driven
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler FIC KON
The Hinky Pink FIC MCD
Becoming Naomi Leon FIC RYA
Coming Apart FIC MAR
How to Steal a Dog FIC OCO
Human-Animal Communication
The Mouse and the Motorcycle FIC CLE
Walls Within Walls
Mystery Stories about Solving Puzzles
Chasing Vermeer FIC BAL
Floors FIC CAR
The Gollywhopper Games FIC FEL
Fast-paced and Suspenseful
The Wright 3 FIC BAL
Mission Unstoppable FIC GUT
The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) FIC STE
Plot-driven Mystery
The Westing Game FIC RAS
Wonder
Realistic Fiction – Character with Disabilities
Firegirl FIC ABB
Out of My Mind FIC DRA book and audiobook
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key FIC GAN book and CD
Rules FIC LOR
Loser FIC SPI
Realistic Fiction
Confetti Girl FIC LOP
Realistic Fiction – Bullying Theme
Indigo’s Star FIC MCK
Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet FIC SAL
Crash FIC SPI
Wringer FIC SPI
Secret Identity FIC VAN
Friendship Story
The View From Saturday FIC KON
Realistic Fiction – Middle School setting
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda FIC ANG
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) FIC KIN
Big Nate (series) FIC PEI