Reading Choice List
Avi. (2003) Don't you know there's a war on? New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Benjamin, A. (2015). The thing about jellyfish. New York, NY: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. [Get this from MeLCat]
Burkinshaw, K. (2016) The last cherry blossom. New York, NY: Sky Pony Press. [Get this from MeLCat]
Coles, R. (1995). The story of Ruby Bridges. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Coville, B. (1997). The skull of truth. New York, NY: Harcourt Books.
Creech, S. (1994). Walk two moons. New York, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers.
Creech, S. (2001). Love that dog. New York, NY: Joanna Cotler Books.
Curtis, C. P. (1995). The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963. New York, NY: Yearling.
Curtis, C. P. (1999). Bud, not Buddy. New York, NY: Random House.
Curtis, C. P. (2007). Elijah of Buxton. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Curtis, C. P. (2012). The mighty Miss Malone. New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books.
DiCamillo, K. (2000). Because of Winn Dixie. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Gantos, J. (1998). Joey Pigza swallowed the key. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Haddix, M. P. (1995). Running out of time. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books.
Hesse, K. (1997). Out of the dust. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Hickox, R. (1999). The golden sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella story. New York, NY: Holiday House.
Holm, J.L. (2010). Turtle in paradise. New York, NY: Random House.
Hutchins, H. (2007). A second is a hiccup. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books.
Kadohata, C. (2006). Weedflower. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Lavine, K. (2007). Hana’s suitcase. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.
Law, I. (2011). Scumble. New York, NY: Puffin Books.
Lord, C. (2010). Touch blue. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Louie, A. (1982). Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella story from China. (Illus. by Ed Young). New York, NY: Putnam & Grosset.
Lowry, L. (1989). Number the stars. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
Lupica, M. (2010) The Batboy. New York, NY: Puffin Books. [Get this on MeLCat]
Matas, C. (1993). Daniel’s story. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Matas, C. (1999). Greater than angels. New York, NY: Simon Pulse.
McKissack, P. C. (1997). A picture of freedom: The diary of Clotee, a slave girl. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Morrison, T. (2004). Remember: The journey to school integration. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Perrault, C. (1954). Cinderella. (Trans. & Illus. by Marcia Brown). New York, NY: Scribner.
Palacio, R.J. (2012). Wonder. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. [Get this on MeLCat]
Polacco, P. (1994). Pink and Say. New York, NY: Philomel Books.
Ryan, P. M. (2002). When Marian sang: The true recital of Marian Anderson. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Salisbury, G. (2005). Under the blood-red sun. New York, NY: Random House Children's Books.
Spinelli , J. (1990). Maniac Magee. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company.
Spinelli, J. (2005). Milkweed. New York, NY: Random House.
Swinburne, S. R. (2006). Wings of light: The migration of the yellow butterfly. New York, NY: Boyds Mills Press
Tan, S. (2006). The arrival. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books.
Taylor, M. D. (1976). Roll of thunder, hear my cry. New York, NY: Puffin.
Taylor, S. (2006). Hugging the rock. Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press.
Varon, S. (2007). Robot dreams. New York, NY: First Second.
Woodson, J. (2001). The other side. (Illus. by E. B. Lewis). New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Yolen, J. (1990). Devil’s arithmetic. New York, NY: Penguin Group, Inc.
