2007-08 Picture Book List
About Arachnids: A Guide for Children - Cathryn P. Sill
Actual Size - Steve Jenkins
Apples to Oregon - Deborah Hopkinson
Bad Kitty - Nick Bruel
The Bumblebee Queen - April Pulley Sayre
Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too! - Donna Rathmell
Coming on Home Soon - Jacqueline Woodson
The Dog Who Dried Wolf - Katya Arnold
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog - Pamela S. Turner
If You Decide to Go to the Moon - Faith McNulty
Leaf Man - Lois Ehlert
Leonardo the Terrible Monster - Mo Willems
Llama Llama Red Pajama - Anna Dewdney
My Big Brother - Miriam Cohen
My Teacher for President - Kay Winters
Not Norman: A Goldfish Story - Kelly Bennett
Papa, Do You Love Me? - Barbara Joosse
Precious and the Boo Hag - Pat McKissack
Reaching for the Moon - Buzz Aldrin
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing - James Rumford
Sweet Tooth - Margie Palatini
Too Many Frogs! - Sandy Asher
Turtle Tide: The Way of Sea Turtles = Stephen Swinburne
When Charlie McButton Lost Power - Suzanne Collins
The Firekeeper's Son - Linda Sue Park
2007-08 Children's Book List
Abby Takes a Stand - Pat McKissack
Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields - Lynn Curlee
Brothers In Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan - Mary Williams
Defiance - Valerie Hobbs
Each Little Bird That Sings - Deborah Wiles
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy - Andrea Warren
Escape to West Berlin - Maurine Dahlberg
The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands - Louise Borden
Hidden Child - Issac Millman
A House of Tailors - Patricia Reilly Giff
Lowji Discovers AMerica - Candace Fleming
The Missing Manatee - Cynthia C. DeFelice
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story - Mary Downing Hahn
Only Emma - Sally Warner
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy - Jeanne Birdsall
Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
Show Way - Jacqueline Woodson
Stumptown Kid - Carol Gorman
Tackling Dad - Elizabeth Levy
When Ratboy Lived Next Door - Chris Woodworth
Friends on Freedom River - Gloria Whelan
Program Information
This program will start when school starts up in the fall and will run until mid-February. The requirements are to read three of the books on the appropriate list and pass a Scholastic Reading Counts Test.
The Picture Book list is for grades 1-2 and the children's book list is for grades 3-6. For grades 5 and 6, the reading teacher has additional requirements.