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Book Title Suggestions by Months of the School Year
| Month | Title |
|---|---|
| Sep | Have I Got a Book for You! by Melanie Watt |
| Sep | Jackalope E STEvens |
| Sep | Once upon a cool motorcycle dude E OMAlley |
| Sep | One Green Apple E BUNting |
| Sep | Mary Had a Little Lamp E LEChner |
| Sep | The Three Cabritos 398.2 KIMmel Mexican version of 3 Billy Goats Gruff |
| Sep | Jack the Tripper E BARretta: lying |
| Sep | Help! A Story of Friendship E KELler; deals with gossip |
| Sep | Twenty-Odd Ducks Why, Every punctuation mark counts! 428.2 TRUss |
| Sep | Dimity Dumpty the story of Humpty"s Little Sister E GRAham, fractured nursery rhyme, ask students to write an original story based on a Mother Goose rhyme |
| Sep | The Best Nest E MUEller; listening and following directions; work sheet pages at end of book |
| Sep | Edwardo The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World E BURningham expectations become reality |
| Sep | Annie's Plan E KRAus: organization and A. D. D. |
| Sep | It's Not Fair! E ROSenthal: behavior |
| Oct | Letters in the library E FARmer |
| Oct | The Red Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer |
| Oct | Carmine: a little more red by Melissa Sweet |
| Oct | The Red book E LEHman POV |
| Oct | Patches Lost and Found by Steven Kroll |
| Oct | Show; Don't tell! Secrets of writing 808 NOBisso |
| Oct | Do Not Open This Book! E MUNtean; writing |
| Oct | Cow E DOYle - great illustrations - use to teach idea in writing / P.S. strategy page |
| Oct | When the pigs took over E DORros |
| Oct | Diary of a Spider E CROnin |
| Oct | Houdini The Amazing Caterpillar E PEDersen Monarchs emerge from the chrysalis stage in late fall and travel from California to Mexico over a five month period each year. By the second week of November they are gone from Texas. |
| Oct | Mummy Math An Adventure in Geometry by Cindy Nueschwander |
| Oct | Monarch and milkweed 595.78 FROst |
| Oct | Frankie Stein by Lola M. Schaefer |
| Oct | Working with Fractions 513.26 ADLer |
| Oct | The Forever Dog E COChran stages of grief: death |
| Oct | Batty about Texas by J. Jaye Smith |
| Oct | Big Plans E SHEa: behavior |
| Nov | Yum! mmmm! que rico! : Americas' sproutings by Pat Mora 811.54 MOR |
| Nov | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett |
| Nov | The Goose That Almost Got Cooked by Marc Simont following directions |
| Nov | Two Bad Pilgrims by Kathryn Lasky E LAS |
| Nov | Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot 973 RAVen Veteran"s Day |
| Nov | Thanks and giving all year long 394.2 THA |
| Nov | Begin at the beginning a; little artist learns about life E SCHwartz |
| Nov | New York is English, Chattanooga is Creek E RASchka |
| Nov | The Secret of saying thanks E WOOd |
| Nov | Math Potatoes 793.74 TANg math puzzles/ patterns |
| Nov | Zachary Zormer Shape Transformer A Math Adventure E REIsberg |
| Nov | Thea's Tree E JACkson science fair and letters |
| Nov | Corn 633.1 GIBbons Thanksgiving |
| Nov | I Know an Old Teacher E BOWen very funny and connects with eating holidays |
| Nov | The Wolves Are Back 599.77 GEO |
| Nov | Beauty and the Beaks A Turkey"s Cautionary Tale E AUCh; play on words;Thanksgiving |
| Nov | Turkey Bowl E BILdner; football, snow |
| Dec | Apple Tree Christmas by Trinka Hakes Noble |
| Dec | Hannah"s Bookmobile Chirstmas E DERby |
| Dec | Munsch books |
| Dec | Pierre a cautionary tale E SENdak |
| Dec | Betsy Who Cried Wolf E LEVine |
| Dec | Santa Calls E JOYce |
| Jan | A Far-Fetched Story Text to self-decorate a paper quilt square |
| Jan | My brother Martin: a sister remembers by Farris B KING |
| Jan | Look at my book by 808 LEEdy |
| Jan | Snow Amazing Cool Facts and Warm tales 551.57 DRA-has facts and folk tales about snow |
| Jan | The Stars Will Still Shine by Cynthia Rylant |
| Jan | Here Comes Darrell by Leda Schubert |
| Jan | Dora"s Book E EDWards |
| Jan | Sky Tree E 582.16 LOC (descriptive and thinking skills) series: seeing science trhough art |
| Jan | Leah's Pony E FRIedich |
| Jan | This is the Van that Dad Cleaned E ERNst |
| Jan | Double Trouble in Walla Walla E CLEments |
| Jan | A Pair of Polar Bears Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo 599.786 RYDer |
| Jan | Life on the Ice 910.91 GOO |
| Jan | Did Fleming Rescue Churchill? a Research Puzzle FIC GIBlin realistic fiction about how to research a topic; show the online databases |
| Jan | One Incredible Dog! Kizzy E WILliams; therapy dog |
| Jan | Eats, Shoots & Leaves Why, Commas really do make a difference!428.2 TRUss: punctuation, commas |
| Jan | A Lime, a mime, a pool of slime more about nouns 428.1 CLEary |
| Jan | Alfie the Apostrophe 428.2 DONohue |
| Jan | Around the House the Fox Chased the Mouse a prepositional tale E WALton: prepostions |
| Jan | Suddenly Alligator An Adverbial Tale 428.1 WALton: adverbs |
| Jan | Make Me Giggle Writing Your Own Silly Story by Nancy Loewen |
| Jan | Just the Facts Writing Your Own Research Report by Nancy Loewen |
| Jan | Share a Scare Writing Your Own Scary Story by Nancy Loewen |
| Jan | Rainstorm by Barbara Lehman |
| Feb | Magical Hands by Marjorie Barker |
| Feb | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters an African Tale by John Steptoe |
| Feb | Snow by Cynthia Rylant |
| Feb | Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell |
| Feb | Creativity by John Steptoe |
| Feb | Big Orange Splot by E PINkwater illustrates Voice |
| Feb | What a day it was at school 811 PRElutsky |
| Feb | There's a frog in my throat by 428.1 LEEdy: word choice |
| Feb | The Patchwork Path A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud |
| Feb | Rosa B PARKS by Giovanni |
| Feb | Potch & Polly by William Steig |
| Feb | Cow E DOYle-six traits idea |
| Feb | Mr. Williams E BARbour |
| Feb | The Night I followed the Dog FIC LADen |
| Feb | Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola |
| Feb | Wangari's trees of peace a true story from Africa B Maathai conservation: author is white |
| Feb | Abe's Honest Words B LINCOLN |
| Feb | The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper |
| Mar | Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully |
| Mar | Comes a Wind by E WHIte |
| Mar | Biographies Stone Girl, Bone Girl the story of Mary Anning B ANNING |
| Mar | The Relatives Came E RYLant |
| Mar | Danitra Brown Class Clown E GRImes |
| Mar | A Woman for president B WOODHULL Discuss how life has and has not changed for women including such things as voting rights, elected offices, role in society, etc. |
| Mar | Author day for room 3T E PUL |
| Mar | Watch out for clever women SP 398.2 HAYs |
| Mar | Searching for Oliver K. Woodman E PATtison |
| Mar | Nacho and Lolita E RYAn |
| Mar | The talking eggs by 398.2 SAN Souci |
| Mar | The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen |
| Mar | Texas Rangers Legendary Lawmen 976.4 SPRadlin |
| Mar | Buffalo Music by Tracey E. Fern |
| Apr | Submitting student poetry to be published in a book |
| Apr | Biographies about women |
| Apr | A Prog Frince a mixed up tale by E LAMm |
| Apr | Laugh-eteria by 811 FLOrian |
| Apr | Butterflies in the Garden 595.78 LER |
| Apr | The Trouble with Normal E HARper |
| Apr | Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid E MCDonald |
| Apr | Dawn E BANg |
| Apr | Miss Rumphius E COOney |
| Apr | Read a Rhyme, write a rhyme 811 REA |
| Apr | Fold Me a Poem 811 GEOrge |
| Apr | Mrs. McBloom, Clean up your classroom!/ E DIPucchio |
| Apr | Out of the Egg by Tina Matthews |
| May | A Fine, fine school E CREech |
| May | Miss Lady Bird's wildflowers: how a first lady changed America B Johnson P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| May | Danitra Brown Leaves Town by Nikki Grimes |
| May | Louise, the adventures of a chicken E DICamillo |
| May | Sisters & brothers 591.56 JENkins |
| May | The Dog who loved the moon E GARcia uses Spanish words; seasons |
| May | This is Your Life Cycle 595.7 MILler written in a way that would be easy to make into a reader"s theater; dragonfly |
| May | A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever E FRAzee, friendship, penguins |
| Book Talk | Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus by Kristen Tracy |
| Book Talks | Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Book Talks | A Room with a zoo FIC FEIffer |
| Book Talks | Archer's Quest FIC PARk |
| Book Talks | Travels with my Family FIC GAY |
| Book Talks | Shredderman series FIC VAN Draanen |
| Book Talks | Whisper in the Dark FIC BRUchac skeleton man story |
| Book Talks | The Return of Skeleton Man FIC BRUchac |
| Book Talks | Hazel Green series FIC HIRsch |
| Book Talks | Case Closed and Complex Cases FIC OBRist short mysteries |
| Book Talks | Golden & Grey The Nightmares That Ghosts Have FIC ARNold |
| Book Talks | Journey to the Blue Moon In Which Time is Lost and then Found Again FIC RUPp |
| Book Talks | Larger-than-life Lara FIC MACkall |
| Book Talks | Haunted Waters FIC OSBorne |
| Book Talks | Fairest FIC LEVine |
| Book Talks | Talk Dead Guys Talk a Wild Willie Mystery FIC JOOse |
| Book Talks | Secret of the Three Treasures FIC SIMner |
| Book Talks | Wings FIC LOIzeaux |
| Book Talks | Bill Wallace books |
| Book Talks | Henry Winkler books |
| Book Talks | Gail Levine books: Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg FIC LEV |
| Book Talks | The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs FIC BIRney |
| Book Talks | Whisper in the Dark FIC BRUchac |
| Book Talks | Indigo's star FIC MCKay |
| Book Talks | Ghost's Grave FIC KEH |
| Book Talks | Beverly Cleary books |
| Book Talks | Fairy Realm:The star Cloak FIC RODda |
| Book Talks | The Twitts by FIC DAHl --voice |
| Book Talks | The hardy boys #2 Identity theft 741.5 LOB--graphic novel |
| Book Talks | Whales on Stilts FIC ANDerson |
| Book Talks | The Dark Hills divide FIC CARman |
| Book Talks | Introduce Diary of a Fairy Godmother FIC COD |

