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Book Title Suggestions by Months of the School Year
Key: PS and a year number means there is a Peggy Sharp strategy page for the year indicated.
| Month | Title |
|---|---|
| Sep | Think Big by Nancy Carlson |
| Sep | "L" is for Library E TERry great for library orientation |
| Sep | Your Pal Mo Willems presents Leonardo the terrible monster E WILlems |
| Sep | Miss Smith"s Incredible Storybook E GARland |
| Sep | Miss Smith Reads Again! E GARland |
| Sep | Mim, Gym, and June by Denis Roche E ROC |
| Sep | Always in Trouble by Corinne Demas |
| Sep | The Bee Tree by E POLacco |
| Sep | Once upon a time by E DALy |
| Sep | Once upon an ordinary school day E MCNaughton text to self connection with music and the type that moves you |
| Sep | Hey, Moma Goose E ZALben / P.S. Aug. 2005 |
| Sep | The Great Fuzz Frenzy E STEvens/ P.S. Aug. 2005 |
| Sep | Reading makes you feel good E PARr / P.S. Aug. 2005 |
| Sep | Big Friends E CUYler |
| Sep | Dear Little Fish E DAHan |
| Sep | Best Friends for Frances E HOBan |
| Sep | Mary Louise Loses Her Manners E CUNeo |
| Sep | T is for Teachers 371 LAY/ PS |
| Sep | The Great Math Tattle Battle E BOWen |
| Sep | The Lost and Found Tooth by E BORden; a second grade girl hasn"t lost a tooth; graphing; journaling |
| Sep | There Is a Bird on Your head! by Mo Willems |
| Oct | Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick by Jennifer Jacobson |
| Oct | Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble E SCHachner |
| Oct | Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure! E ANDreae Connects with Skippyjon with make believe |
| Oct | Arthur series FIC KREnsky and E BROwn |
| Oct | Riddledy Piggledy 828 MIT |
| Oct | Dr. White E GOOdall |
| Oct | Albert"s Alphabet |
| Oct | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig |
| Oct | In a dark, dark room and other scary stories by Schwartz E 398.2 SCH |
| Oct | Whistle for Willie by E Keats |
| Oct | Giff books: In the Dinosaur"s Paw |
| Oct | Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin |
| Oct | Ant and Honey Bee What a Pair! E MCDonald P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Oct | Weird Friends 577.8 ARUego/ P.S. strategy page |
| Oct | I see a kookaburra!-habitats t-t connection with Weird Friends |
| Oct | The Magician and McTree E COOmbs |
| Oct | The Teeny Tiny Teacher: a teeny tiny ghost story by Stephanie Calmenson |
| Oct | The Teeny Tiny Woman 398.2 GALdone |
| Oct | Arthur"s Halloween E BROwn |
| Oct | Terrific E AGEe/PS |
| Oct | Too Many Frogs! E ASHer/ PS |
| Oct | M & M and the Haunted House Game E ROSs |
| Nov | This the the Turkey E Levine |
| Nov | Leaf Man E EHLert/ P.S. Aug. 2005 |
| Nov | Cam Jansen books |
| Nov | Don"t let the pigeon drive the bus E Willems: Use to teach peer pressure substituting the bus for drugs or alcohol or tabacco |
| Nov | The Pigeon finds a hot dog by Mo Willems |
| Nov | Don"t let the pigeon stay up late! by Mo Willems |
| Nov | The Story of Jumping Mouse: a Native American Legend by John Steptoe |
| Nov | Stone Soup |
| Nov | Boy Soup E LESynski |
| Nov | Tumbleweed Stew by Susan Stevens Crummel |
| Nov | Frog and Toad series E LOBel |
| Nov | If you give a mouse a cookie E NUMeroff |
| Nov | Henry and Mudge series E RYLant |
| Nov | Honey...Honey Lion! A story from Africa E BREtt/ PS |
| Nov | Scritch Scratch E MOSs |
| Nov | Science Fair Day E PLOurde |
| Nov | Gus, the Pilgrim Turkey E BATeman; seasons, Thanksgiving, Pilgrims |
| Nov | Skunkdog E JENkins; dog has no sense of smell: senses |
| Dec | Dear Santa Claus by E Durant |
| Dec | The Night Before Christmas |
| Dec | Merry Christmas, Strega Nona by E DEPaola |
| Dec | Sugar Snow E WIL |
| Dec | Lily"s purple plastic purse E HENkes |
| Dec | Our Tree Named Steve E ZWEibel/ PS 2006* |
| Dec | Stinky Sterns Forever FIC EDWards-discuss connections & big idea |
| Dec | Once upon a time, the End (asleep in 60 seconds) E KLOske/ PS |
| Dec | Pajama Day E PLOurde/ PS |
| Dec | La Nochebuena South of the border SP 811 RICe bilingual |
| Dec | Jingle Bells, Homework smells E DEGroat |
| Dec | The Tamale Quilt E TENorio |
| Dec | Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days E RYLant |
| Dec | The Fright Before Christmas E HOWe |
| Dec | Merry Christmas, Curious George E REY(Cathy Hapka) |
| Dec | Reindeer Christmas E MOUlton rhyming story, Donner gets lost, mentions Christ"s birthday |
| Dec | Arithmetickle 813 LEWis: math topic |
| Dec | On the Scale, a Weighty Tale 530.8 CLEary rhyming story about weighing: math topic |
| Dec | Fly, Monarch! Fly! E WALlace |
| Jan | Snow is my favorite and my best E CHIld |
| Jan | Let's Go Rock Collecting E GANs |
| Jan | Who's Afraid of the big bad book? E CHIld |
| Jan | Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie De Paola and Red Berry Wool by Robyn Harbert Eversole |
| Jan | Henry and Mudge Sparkle Days E Rylant |
| Jan | A Story for bear by E HASeley- text to text |
| Jan | Which would you rather be E STEig/ P.S. strategy page |
| Jan | Snow Bear by E George point of view |
| Jan | Boy who cried fabulous by E NEWman |
| Jan | Momma's magical purse by E BOGan |
| Jan | A Day in the life of Murphy by E PROvensen |
| Jan | Harry I need you E CHWast |
| Jan | Don't You feel well,Sam? E HESt |
| Jan | The Red Blankey E THOmas a story of adoption from China |
| Jan | A Penguin"s world 598.47 ARNold |
| Jan | Read All About it! E BUSh discovering char. at library |
| Jan | The Doghouse by Jan Thomas |
| Jan | A Birthday for Cow! E THOmas |
| Jan | If a Chicken Stayed for Supper by Carrie Weston |
| Jan | Planet Hunter The story behind what happened to Pluto B BROWN |
| Jan | Manners in the Library by Carrie Finn and Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk |
| Jan | Library Mouse E KIRk students as authors writing their own stories |
| Jan | I"m Bad! E MCMullan; connects with The Doghouse by Thomas; phrase, Having someone for dinner, dinosaurs |
| Feb | Don't Be My Valentine A Classroom Mystery by Joan M. Lexau |
| Feb | This is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore & Jessica Alexander |
| Feb | Halibut Jackson by David Lucas |
| Feb | Young Cam Jansen and the 100th Day of School Mystery by David A. Adler E ADL |
| Feb | Snowflake Bentley B BENTLEY |
| Feb | Cinderella books from around the world for comparison Korean Cinderella, Egyptian Cinderella, Vietnamese, The Golden Slipper, Little Gold Star SP 398.2 HAY, Persian Cinderella 398.2 CLIne |
| Feb | Polacco books |
| Feb | Stuart Murphy Math Start books |
| Feb | My Buddy by E OSOfsky |
| Feb | The Empty Pot by Demi 398.2 DEM |
| Feb | Meet the Wild Boars E ROSoff/PS-rudeness |
| Feb | Tortuga in Trouble by Ann Whitford Paul |
| Feb | The Three Silly Billies E PALatini-rudeness |
| Feb | D.W."s Guide to Perfect Manners E BROwn |
| Feb | Sophie's trophy E ELYa spanish words |
| Feb | Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia McKissack |
| Feb | Waking Beauty E WILcox fractured fairy tale in rhyme |
| Feb | Groundhog Day! 394.26 GIBbons |
| Feb | The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy |
| Feb | Ping Pong Pig by Caroline Church |
| Mar | Aunt Chip and the Triple Dam Disaster E POLacco |
| Mar | Just Teenie by Susan Meddaugh |
| Mar | The Quangle Wangle's hat E LEA / P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Mar | I Face the wind E 551.51 COB |
| Mar | Bessie's Bed E HARshman |
| Mar | This is the house that Jill built E ROOt/PS pop-up |
| Mar | Never Cry Wolf E WATtenberg/ PS |
| Mar | Flip, Float, Fly Seeds on the Move 581.4 MACken |
| Mar | Teacher"s Pets E DODds |
| Mar | Epossumondas by Coleen Salley |
| Mar | Epossumondas Saves the Day by Coleen Salley |
| Mar | The Wildest Brother E FUNke |
| Mar | Where the wild things are E SENdak |
| Mar | The Three Pigs/ E WIEsner |
| Mar | Bebe Goes Shopping E ELYa; bilingual, rhyming, foods |
| Mar | What Do Teachers Do (after you leave school) E BOWen: rhyming texts |
| Apr | Not Norman: a goldfish story E BENnett / P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Apr | To the beach E ASHman/ P.S. Apr. 2005 describe how your home is different from a beach environment |
| Apr | Hotel Deep light verse from dark water 811 CYRus / P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Apr | Owen Foote FIC GREene |
| Apr | Jenny Archer FIC PALmisciano |
| Apr | Hedgie Blasts Off! E BREtt |
| Apr | If you Decide to go to the Moon 629.45 MCNulty |
| Apr | Texas Zeke and the Longhorn 398.2 DAVis |
| Apr | A Pig is Moving In E FRIes |
| Apr | The Moon was at a Fiesta E GOLlub |
| Apr | Americana Adventure E GARland monuments, presidents |
| Apr | Last One in Is a Rotten Egg! E DEGroat |
| Apr | The Adventures of Polo E FALler: wordless picture book |
| Apr | Polo The Runaway Book E FALler: wordless picture book |
| May | Big Al E CLEments |
| May | When the Tide is Low E COLe |
| May | My Life with the wave E COWan |
| May | Dooby Dooby Moo E CROnin |
| May | Amazing Grace E HOFfman |
| May | Boundless Grace E HOFfman |
| May | Something for nothing 398.2 STAmpler |
| May | Skippyjon Jones CD"s and reader"s theater |
| May | My Great Aunt Arizona B HUGHES |
| May | Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs E ANDreae, connects with Skippyjon playing make believe in the closet |
| Book Talk | Willy the Scrub FIC MCEwan |
| Book Talk | Whitewater Scrubs FIC MCEwan |
| Book Talk | Boo"s Dinosaur E BYArs |
| Book Talk | Mercy Watson to the Rescue FIC DICammilo/ PS |
| Book Talk | Candy Corn Contest FIC GIFf |
| Book Talk | Suzy Kline books Song Lee in room 2B by FIC KLI |
| Book Talk | Cam Jansen books FIC ADLer |
| Book Talk | The Lightning Bugs: an Ike and mem Story FIC JENnings |
| Book Talk | The Tornado Watches: an Ike and Mem story FIC JENnings |
