Title

Author

All Over but the Shoutin’

Rick Bragg

Baseball in April

Gary Soto

BIGMAMMA’s

Donald Crews

Chicken Sunday

Patricia Polacco

Circus Girl

Jack Sendak

Come a Tide

George Ella Lyon

Dragon Wings

Laurence Yep

Escaping the Giant Wave

Peg Kehret

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fly Away Home

Eve Bunting

Grandpa’s Corner Store

Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

I Love My Hair!

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Katherine Hannigan

If Roast Beef Could Fly

Jay Leno

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

Alice Walker

Jeremiah’s Song

Walter Dean Myers

My Brother Martin

Christine King Farris

My Furthest-Back Person

Alex Haley

My Life in Dog Years

Gary Paulsen

My Shadow (poem)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Norty Ryan’s Song

Patricia Reilly Giff

October Sky

Homer Hickam

Out of the Dust

Karen Hess

Pendragon Series

D.J. MacHale

Pictures of Hollis Wood

Patricia Reilly Giff

Quick as a Cricket

Audrey Wood

Saturdays and Teacakes

Lester Laminack

Some Birthday!

Patricia Polacco

Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf

Star of Fear; Star of Hope

Jo Hoestlandt

Summer of the Monkeys

Wilson Rawls

Thank You, Mr. Falker

Patricia Polacco

The Blue Spruce

Mario Cuomo

The Circuit

Francisco Jimenez

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The Freedom Writers Diary

Erin Gruwell

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster & Chris Raschka

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Kon-Tiki

Thor Heyerdahl

The Princess Academy

Shannon Hale

The Rag Coat

Lauren Mills

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

The Wall

Eve Bunting

The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen

Thundercake

Patricia Polacco

Two Kinds

Amy Tan

Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?

Bill Cosby

West With the Night

Beryl Markham

When I Go Camping with Grandma

Marion Dane Bauer

When I was Young in the Mountains

Cynthia Rylant