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Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 1 A Special Gift
Title — Author My Notes
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art – Eric Carle
Art Dog – Thacher Hurd
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail – Laurence Anholt
When Pigasso Met Mootisse – Nina Laden
Leonardo and the Flying Boy – Laurence Anholt
Scribble Art: Independent Creative Art Experiences for Children – MaryAnn F. Kohl
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters – MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga
Great American Artists for Kids: Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters – MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga
Colored Pencil Step by Step – Pat Averill, Sylvester Hickmon, and Debra K. Yaun
The Kids ’N’ Clay Ceramics Book – Elaine Arima
Art – Patrick McDonnell
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages – Susan Schwake
Making Amazing Art: 40 Activities Using the 7 Elements of Art Design – Sandi Henry
The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas – Fiona Watt
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 2 Earhart’s Plane Disappears!
Title — Author My Notes
A Day with an Airplane Pilot – Leonie Bennett
Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator – Beatrice Gormley
Young Amelia Earhart: A Dream to Fly – Sarah Alcott
Amelia Earhart: Female Pioneer in Flight – Lori Mortensen
I Want to be a Pilot – Dan Liebman
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart – David A. Adler
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator – Shelley Tanaka
You Can’t Do That, Amelia! – Kimberly Wagoner Klier
How to Write an Interview – Cecilia Minden and Kate Roth
An Interview With Gillian Cross – Julia Eccleshare
Isabella and Ivan Build an Interview – Ann Ingalls
Fire Away: Asking Great Interview Questions – Ann Truesdell
I am Amelia Earhart – Brad Meltzer
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 3 The Twinkling Lights
Title — Author My Notes
Fireflies – Julie Brinckloe
The Very Lonely Firefly – Eric Carle
Ten Flashing Fireflies – Philemon Sturges
Fireflies – Sally M. Walker
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly – Bobbie Kalman
From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Deborah Heiligman
Insects – Clarence Cottam and Herbert S. Zim
Hissing Cockroaches: Cool Pets! – Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn
Keeping Creepy Crawlies: A Practical Guide to Caring for Unusual Pets – Dave Clarke
Insects: Biggest! Littlest! – Sandra Markle
Stick Insects & Mantids – June McNicholas
Extremely Weird Insects – Sarah Lovett
Stinkbugs, Stick Insects & Stag Beetles: And 18 More of the Strangest Insects on Earth – Sally Kneidel
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 4 Ocean Animals
Title — Author My Notes
Animals of the Ocean – Kathleen Pohl
Ocean: Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery – Samantha Gray
What Lives in the Ocean? – Oona Gaarder-Juntti
Animals of the Icy Seas – Michael Bright
Sea Lions – Colleen Sexton
Animal Habitats: Why and How Animals Live Where They Do – DK Publishing
Animal Habitats!: Learning about North American Animals and Plants thru Art, Science & Creative Play – Judy Press
The ABCs of Habitats – Bobbie Kalman
The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats – Pat Relf
I See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World – Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Water Habitats – Molly Aloian and Bobbie Kalman
A Desert Habitat – Kelley MacAulay and Bobbie Kalman
Nat Geo Wild Animal Atlas: Earth’s Astonishing Animals and Where They Live – National Geographic
Draw-Write-Now, Book Six: Animals & Habitats – On Land-Ponds & Rivers-Oceans – Marie Hablitzel and Kim Stitzer
Cave Animals – Francine Galko
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 5 Soccer Champions
Title — Author My Notes
My Soccer Book – Gail Gibbons
Froggy Plays Soccer – Jonathan London
Soccer Sam – Jean Marzollo
Louise, Soccer Star? – Stephen Krensky
BMX Design and Equipment – Brian D. Fiske
Pick-Up Games: The Rules, The Players, The Equipment – D. W. Crisfield
Softball: Field & Equipment – Barbara Bonney
Gymnastics Essentials: Safety and Equipment – Jen Jones
Skateboards: Designs and Equipment – B. A. Hoena
Kids’ Book Of Hockey – John Sias
Basketball: Court & Equipment – Bryant Lloyd
Baseball: Field & Equipment – Bryant Lloyd
Football Equipment – Bryant Lloyd
Hockey: The Rink and Equipment – David Armentrout
The Everything Kids’ Soccer Book! – Deborah W. Crisfi eld
The History of Baseball – Diana Star Helmer and Thomas S. Owens
Soccer: A History of the World’s Most Popular Game – Mark Stewart
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 6 A Rainbow in a Bowl
Title — Author My Notes
Planting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert
The Legend of Rainbow Bridge – William N. Britton
A Rainbow of Friends – P.K. Hallinan
All the Colors of the Rainbow – Allan Fowler
What Makes a Rainbow? – Betty Ann Schwartz
Can It Really Rain Frogs?: The World’s Strangest Weather Events – Spencer Christian and Antonia Felix
A Kid’s Fall EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season – Toni Albert
Why Does It Rain? – Judith Jango-Cohen
Experiments with Sound: Explaining Sound – Chris Oxlade
What Makes Day and Night – Franklyn M. Branley
The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs – Patricia Lauber
How a Seed Grows – Helene J. Jordan
Why Does the Moon Change Shape? – Isaac Asimov
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 7 The Fishing Trip
Title — Author My Notes
Gone Fishing – Earlene Long
Wishing I Was Fishing – Eva Wells
The Little Fish That Got Away – Bernadine Cook
Granddad’s Fishing Buddy – Mary Quigley
Piggy and Dad Go Fishing – David Martin
Quincy, the Hobby Photographer: The Complete Guide to Do-It-Yourself Dog Photography – J.otto Seibold
Teach Yourself Origami – John Montroll
Hobby Fun Book: For Grade School Boys & Girls – Margaret O. Hyde & Frances W. Keene
Hundreds of Things a Boy Can Make – Adam Bartlett
Fun With Nature Hobbies – William H. Hillcourt
Ceramics for Kids: Creative Clay Projects to Pinch, Roll, Coil, Slam & Twist – Mary Ellis
Kites – David Pelham
Flying Toys: How to Make & Fly Your Own UFOs – Kenneth Sams
Hobbies for Girls – Audrey White
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 8 Water, Water Everywhere and Drip, Drip, Drip
Title — Author My Notes
When the Rivers Go Home – Ted Lewin
World Water Watch – Michelle Koch
A Drop Around the World – Barbara Shaw McKinney
Water Dance – Thomas Locker
Water: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Alexandra Fix
Saving Water – Charlotte Guillain
The Secret of Water – Masaru Emoto
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth – Rochelle Strauss
Earth’s Resources – Sue Barraclough
Natural Resources – Louise Spilsbury
Natural and Human-Made – Carol K. Lindeen
What is Scarcity of Resources? – Jessica Cohn
Fighting for the Forest – Gloria Rand
Why Should I Save Water? – Jen Green
Conservation – Christine Petersen
Why Should I Save Energy? – Jen Green
Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share – Molly Bang
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 9 Russell and His Fire-Bellied Toad
Title — Author My Notes
Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin
From Tadpole to Frog – Wendy Pfeffer
Down by the Cool of the Pool – Tony Mitton
The Jolly Postman: or Other People’s Letters – Janet & Allan Ahlberg
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher – Beatrix Potter
Pets – Gabby Goldsack and Paula Borton
Pets – Clair Watts
Should We Have Pets?: A Persuasive Text – Sylvia Lollis
Scholastic True or False: Pets – Melvin and Gilda Berger
Pet Frog – Robin Nelson
Big Dogs – Joyce Hart
Parakeets – JoAnn Early Macken
Goldfish – Anita Ganeri
Oh, the Pets You Can Get!: All About Our Animal Friends – Tish Rabe
Pet Bugs: A Kid’s Guide to Catching and Keeping Touchable Insects – Sally Kneidel
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 10 We Need Plants and Planting a Shirt
Title — Author My Notes
The Biography of Cotton – Carrie Gleason
Plants We Eat – Jennifer Colby
How We Use Plants for Making Everyday Things – Sally Morgan
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest – Lynne Cherry
From Seed to Plant – Gail Gibbons
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow – Patricia Relf
How a Seed Grows – Helene J. Jordan
How We Use Plants for Medicine and Health – Sally Morgan
How We Use Plants for Food – Sally Morgan
Experiments with Plants – Salvatore Tocci
Experiments with Plants (A True Book) – Christine Taylor-Butler
Science with Plants – Mike Unwin
Junior Scientists: Experiment with Plants – Susan H. Gray
Experiments with Plants (My Science Investigations) – Christine Taylor-Butler
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 11 A Great Idea
Title — Author My Notes
Snack Food – Sharon Dalgleish
Healthy Eating – Cath Senker
Exercise & Play – Cath Senker
The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials – Stan & Jan Berenstain with Mike Berenstain
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly – Gail Carson Levine
The Best Story – Eileen Spinelli
Show Me a Story: Writing Your Own Picture Book – Nancy Loewen
How to Write a Story: Grades 1–3 – Evan Moor Educational Publishers
Rocket Writes a Story – Tad Hills
Make Me Giggle: Writing Your Own Silly Story – Nancy Loewen
You Can Write A Story!: A Story-Writing Recipe For Kids – Lisa Bullard
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 12 What is a Sponge?
Title — Author My Notes
Sponges Are Skeletons – Barbara Juster Esbensen
Sponges – Jody Sullivan Rake
Squishy Sponges – Natalie Lunis
Sea Anemones – Jody Sullivan
Sea Anemones – Martha E.H. Rustad
What is a Plant? – Bobbie Kalman
Trees to Paper – Inez Snyder
From Maple Trees to Maple Syrup – Kristin Thoennes Keller
From Flower to Honey – Robin Nelson
From Spider Webs to Man-Made Silk – Toney Allman
The Biography of Cotton – Carrie Gleason
From Plant to Blue Jeans – Arthur John L’Hommedieu
From Lizard Saliva to Diabetes Drugs – Toney Allman
The Search for Cures from the Rain Forest – Carol Ballard
How We Use Plants for Medicine and Health – Sally Morgan
How Monkeys Make Chocolate: Foods and Medicines from the Rainforests – Adrian Forsyth
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 13 Dakota’s Wish
Title — Author My Notes
Tenzin’s Deer – Barbara Soros
Shadow the Deer – Theresa Radcliffe
The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter – Elisa Kleven
The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains – Patricia Relf
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs – Patricia Lauber
1000 Years of Famous People – Clive Gifford
Dare to Dream!: 25 Extraordinary Lives – Sandra McLeod Humphrey
50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet – Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe
Famous People in History: Volume 1 – Nicolas Soames
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet – Harriet Rohmer
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) – Kathleen Krull
The World’s Greatest Football Players – Matt Doeden
Camp Gold: Running Stars – Christine Ohuruogu
100 Athletes Who Shaped Sports History – Timothy Jacobs and Russel Roberts
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 14 From Tree to Table
Title — Author My Notes
The Apple Pie Tree – Zoe Hall
How Do Apples Grow? – Betsy Maestro
The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons
Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh
Johnny Appleseed – Retold by Carol Ottolenghi
Dare To Dream!: 25 Extraordinary Lives – Sandra McLeod Humphrey
The Story of Walt Disney: Maker of Magical Worlds – Bernice Selden
50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet – Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe
The Story Of George Washington Carver – Eva Moore
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Amy Pastan
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World – Editors of TIME For Kids
Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage – Editors of TIME For Kids
Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind – Margaret Davidson
Mother Teresa – Maya Gold
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA | Level 2CCSS Literature List
Unit 15 No More Shopping, Please!
Title — Author My Notes
Shoe Bop! – Marilyn Singer
Caillou: New Shoes – Marion Johnson
New Shoes – Jeanne Willis
One Hundred Shoes – Charles Ghigna
The ABC’s of Horseshoes – Penny Steinke
Smart About the Presidents – Written and illustrated by Jon Buller, Susan Schade, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Dana Regan, and Jill Weber
The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents: Fascinating Facts about Each and Every President, Including an American History Timeline – Todd Davis and Marc Frey
Smart About the First Ladies – Written and illustrated by Jon Buller, Susan Schade, Dana Regan, Sally Warner, and Jill Weber
A First Book of Fairy Tales – Stories retold by Mary Hoffman
Fairy Tales – E. E. Cummings
Can You Guess My Name?: Traditional Tales Around the World – Selected and retold by Judy Sierra
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 16 Fit as a Fiddle
Title — Author My Notes
Good Enough to Eat: A Kid’s Guide to Food and Nutrition – Lizzy Rockwell
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food – Stan & Jan Berenstain
Eat Healthy, Feel Great – William Sears, M.D., Martha Sears, R.N., and Christie Watts Kelly
Gregory, the Terrible Eater – Mitchell Sharmat
The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness – Lizzy Rockwell
The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for Monsters & Kids! – Edward Miller
Staying Healthy: Eating Right – Alice B. McGinty
Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits: Activities for Children 5 to 8 – Michelle O’Brien-Palmer
The Healthy Body Cookbook: Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids – Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich
Staying Healthy: Let’s Exercise – Alice B. McGinty
Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: The Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids: No Calorie Counting, No Dieting, No Off-Limits Foods! – Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.
The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day – Loreen Leedy
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 17 A Special Friend
Title — Author My Notes
Dog Poems – Dave Crawley
Give A Dog A Bone: Stories, Poems, Jokes, and Riddles About Dogs – Compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson
Little Dog Poems – Kristine O’Connell George
A Dazzling Display of Dogs – Betsy Franco
My Dog May Be a Genius – Jack Prelutsky
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children: A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child – Selected by Jack Prelutsky
If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School – Kalli Dakos
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem – Jack Prelutsky
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost – Edited by Gary D. Schmidt
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings – Shel Silverstein
Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out – Ralph Fletcher
It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles – Jack Prelutsky
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young – Selected by Jack Prelutsky
Once, I Laughed My Socks Off: Poems for Kids (And Those Adults That Still Behave Like Kids) – Steve Attewell
A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 18 Survivor – Animal Style
Title — Author My Notes
How do Animals Adapt? – Bobbie Kalman
Polar Animal Adaptations – Lisa J. Amstutz
Rain Forest Animal Adaptations – Lisa J. Amstutz
Ocean Animal Adaptations – Julie Murphy
Would You Survive? – John Townsend
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth – Nicola Davies
BMX Design and Equipment – Brian D. Fiske
Pick-Up Games: The Rules, The Players, The Equipment – D. W. Crisfield
Softball: Field & Equipment – Barbara Bonney
Gymnastics Essentials: Safety and Equipment – Jen Jones
Skateboards: Designs and Equipment – B. A. Hoena
Football: Equipment – Bryant Lloyd
Police Officers – Shannon Knudsen
I Want To Be A Firefighter – Dan Liebman
A Day in the Life of a Firefighter – Linda Hayward
A Day in the Life of a Construction Worker – Heather Adamson
Jobs People Do – Christopher Maynard
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 19 Elizabeth and the Pea and The True Farm Girl Test
Title — Author My Notes
The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
The McElderry Book of Aesop’s Fables – Michael Morpurgo
Tell Me A Story: Timeless Folktales from Around the World – Amy Friedman
Best-Loved Folktales of the World – Selected by Joanna Cole
How Tiger Got His Stripes: A Folktale from Vietnam – Retold by Rob Cleveland
The Drum: A Folktale from India – Retold by Rob Cleveland
The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale – Retold by Yumi Heo
The Golden Book of Fairy Tales – Translated by Marie Ponsot
A First Book of Fairy Tales – Retold by Mary Hoffman
Fairy Tales – E. E. Cummings
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales – Adapted by Amy Ehrlich
A Treasury of Children’s Literature – Edited by Armand Eisen
Classic Fairy Tales – Illustrated by Scott Gustafson
Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
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Unit 20 What’s Gnu at the Zoo?
Title — Author My Notes
I Knew a Gnu! – Jim Sachs
“What’s New?” Asked the Gnu: A Pop-Up Book of Rhyming Wordplay – Arnold Shapiro
What’s Gnu?: Riddles from the Zoo – Thomas Mase
Wildebeests – Katherine Walden
Migrating With the Wildebeest – Thessaly Catt
It’s a Baby Wildebeest! – Kelly Doudna
Zoo Animals – Brian Wildsmith
The Zoo Book – Jan Pfl oog
The View at the Zoo – Kathleen Long Bostrom
ZooBorns!: Zoo Babies from Around the World – Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland
I Want To Be A Zookeeper – Dan Liebman
Life-Size Zoo – Toyofumi Fukuda
Baby Animals At the Zoo – Editors of Kingfi sher
The Wackiest Wildest Weirdest Animals in the World – Jack Hanna
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Unit 21 The Wink, Blink, and Glow Project
Title — Author My Notes
Owls – Gail Gibbons
The Book of North American Owls – Helen Roney Sattler
Owls – Sandra Markle
Little Owl’s Night – Divya Srinivasan
The Littlest Owl – Caroline Pitcher
Barn Owl – Sally Tagholm
In My Tree – Sara Gillingham
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children: A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child – Selected by Jack Prelutsky
If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School – Kalli Dakos
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem – Jack Prelutsky
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost – Edited by Gary D. Schmidt
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings – Shel Silverstein
Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out – Ralph Fletcher
It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles – Jack Prelutsky
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young – Selected by Jack Prelutsky
Once, I Laughed My Socks Off: Poems for Kids (And Those Adults That Still Behave Like Kids) – Steve Attewell
A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature List to support ELA CCSS, Level 2 | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher Edition, Level 2 Find more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
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Unit 22 Making Work Easier
Title — Author My Notes
Simple Machines – Allan Fowler
Simple Machines – Deborah Hodge
Castle Under Siege! – Andrew Solway
Machines We Use – Sally Hewitt
Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities – Janis Herbert
Dune Buggies – E. S. Budd
Snowmobiles – E. S. Budd
How Machines Work: The Interactive Guide to Simple Machines and Mechanisms: Build Your Own Working Models! – Nick Arnold
Machines Go To Work – William Low
Getting Ready for a Career in Professional Sports – Jeff Savage
Cool Careers for Girls in Sports – Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg
Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Sports – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen
Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen
Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Animals and Nature – Diane Lindsey Reeves with Lindsey Clasen
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Unit 23 The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Girl Who Cried Help
Title — Author My Notes
What The Fox Learnt: Four Fables from Aesop – Aesop
The Very Best of Aesop’s Fables – Margaret Clark
Fairy Tales and Fables – Gyo Fujikawa
Math Fables: Lessons That Count – Greg Tang
Aesop’s Fables – Book 1: 80 Short Stories for Children – Aesop
The Classic Fairy Tales – Edited by Maria Tatar
The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
Classic Fairy Tales – Illustrated by Scott Gustafson
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales – Adapted by Amy Ehrlich
Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Fables – Arnold Lobel
The McElderry Book of Aesop’s Fables – Michael Morpurgo
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Unit 24 An American Symbol
Title — Author My Notes
The Bald Eagle – Patricia Ryon Quiri
The Liberty Bell – Mary Firestone
Bald Eagle: The Story of Our National Bird – Hal Marcovitz
Birds Use Their Beaks – Elaine Pascoe
Unbeatable Beaks – Stephen R. Swinburne
U.S. Symbols – Ann-Marie Kishel
O, Say Can You See?: America’s Symbols, Landmarks, and Inspiring Words – Sheila Keenan
Celebrate America: A Guide to America’s Greatest Symbols – Mary Firestone, Norman Pearl, Anastasia Suen, and Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Our American Flag – Mary Firestone
The American Flag – Lloyd G. Douglas
Our National Anthem – Norman Pearl
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Unit 25 Show-and-Tell Teddy
Title — Author My Notes
Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President – Editors of TIME For Kids
Theodore Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities – Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt – Don Brown
Being Teddy Roosevelt: A Boy, a President, and a Plan – Claudia Mills
Young Teddy Roosevelt – Cheryl Harness
How To Write Poetry – Paul B. Janeczko
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem – Jack Prelutsky
How to Write a Poem – Cecilia Minden and Kate Roth
How to Read and Write Poems – Margaret Ryan
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Other Resources I’ve Found
Skill-Based Literature List to support ELA CCSS | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher EditionFind more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA CCSS Skill-Based Literature List
Context Clues
Popcorn – Poems by James Stevenson
Zoomrimes: Poems About Things That Go – Sylvia Cassidy
Good Rhymes, Good Times – Original Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Sky is Always in The Sky – Karla Kuskin
Alpha Beta Chowder – Jeanne Steig
Supporting Details
What’s It Like To Be A Fish? – Wendy Pfeffer
Sponges Are Skeletons – Barbara Juster Esbensen
A Safe Home for Manatees – Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Theme/Message
The Important Book – Margaret Wise Brown
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of The Amazon Rain Forest – Lynne Cherry
The Keeping Quilt – Patricia Polacco
Miss Rumphius – Barbara Cooney
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale – John Steptoe
The Reason for A Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen and Seeds – Ruth Heller
Stellaluna – Janell Cannon
Heart to Heart – George Shannon
How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet: Native American Animal Origin Stories – Collected and retold by Gerald Hausman
Retelling A Story
Fireflies! – Julie Brinckloe
The Hickory Chair – Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
The Sick Day – Patricia Maclachlan
When Jessie Came Across The Sea – Amy Hest
Skill-Based Literature List to support ELA CCSS | Updated 9/9/2019Excerpted from ThinkUp! ELA Teacher EditionFind more resources at mentoringminds.com/support/downloads
ELA CCSS Skill-Based Literature List
Chronology
Night City – Monica Wellington
The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle
Night at The Fair – Donald Crews
The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head – Daniel and David Karnish
Zoom – Istvan Banyai
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie – Laura Numeroff
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell! – Lucille Colandro
This Is The House That Jack Built – Simms Taback
Hot-Air Henry – Mary Calhoun
The Mitten Jan Brett
The Hat – Jan Brett
Ox- Cart Man – Donald Hall
A Teeny Tiny Baby – Amy Schwartz
Jake Baked the Cake – B.G. Hennessy
Milk: From Cow to Carton – Aliki
The Cake That Mack Ate – Rose Robar
Lights! Camera! Action!: How A Movie Is Made – Gail Gibbons
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – James Cross Giblin
Sugaring Time – Kathryn Lasky
The Buck Stops Here – Alice Provensen
How We Crossed the West: The adventures Of Lewis and Clark – Rosalyn Schanzer
Castle – David Macaulay
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Summary
The Golly Sisters Ride Again – Betsy Byars
The Seven Treasure Hunts – Betsy Byars
The Animal Rescue Club – John Himmelman
Staying Nine – Pam Conrad
Best Enemies Forever – Kathleen Leverich
Beauty and The Beast – Jan Brett
The Blues of Flats Brown – Walter Dean Myers
Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday – Judith Viorst
Big Al – Andrew Clements
The Cowboy and The Black Eyed Pea – Tony Johnston
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story – Rebecca Hickox
Raising Dragons – Jerdine Nolen
Stellaluna – Janell Cannon
Animals Nobody Loves – Seymour Simon
The Life Cycle of a Tree – Bobbie Kalman
Beaks! – Sneed B. Collard III
Endangered Elephants – Bobbie Kalman
Hello, Fish!: Visiting The Coral Reef – Sylvia A. Earle
Great Black Heroes: Five Notable Inventors – Wade Hudson
Big Cats – Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
The Village That Vanished – Ann Grifalconi
Weather: All About the Atmosphere, Clouds, Earth’s Rotation, And More! – Seymour Simon
America Votes: How Our President Is Elected – Linda Granfield
Broken Bones – Dr. Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn
Brothers in Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan – Mary Williams
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Figurative Language The King Who Rained – Fred Gwynne
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Fred Gwynne
Staying Nine – Pam Conrad
Fig Pudding – Ralph Fletcher
My Life As A Fifth Grade Comedian – Elizabeth Levy
The Very Busy Spider – Eric Carle
The Z Was Zapped – Chris Van Allsburg
The Five Sisters – Margaret Mahy
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke – Pamela Duncan Edwards
Some Smug Slug – Pamela Duncan Edwards
A, My Name is Alice – Jane Bayer
Alpha Beta Chowder – Jeanne Steig
The Squiggle – Carole Lexa Schaefer
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Went Bumblebee – Colin West
Mad as a Wet Hen! And Other Funny Idioms – Marvin Terban
Put Your Foot in Your Mouth and Other Silly Sayings – James A. Cox
As Silly as Knees, As Busy as Bees: An Astounding Assortment of Similes – Norton Juster
Falser Than a Weeping Crocodile and Other Similes – Elyse Sommer and Mike Sommer
Story Plot/Conflict/Problem/Solution (Literature) Fudge – Charlotte Towner Graeber
The Trouble with Tuck – Theodore Taylor
Keeping Barney – Jessica Haas
The Snoops – Miriam Moss
The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins
A Dozen Dogs: A Read-And-Count Story – Harriet Ziefert
A Case for Jenny Archer – Ellen Conford
The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum – Deborah Blumenthal
James in the House of Aunt Prudence – Timothy Bush
The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head – Daniel and David Kamish
Private I. Guana: The Case Of The Missing Chameleon – Nina Laden
A Fair Bear Share: Regrouping – Stuart J. Murphy
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Problem/Solution (Informational)
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon – Paul Erickson
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad – Ellen Levine
The Dinosaur is the Biggest Animal That Ever Lived And Other Wrong Ideas You Thought Were True – Seymour Simon
How We Learned The Earth Is Round – Patricia Lauber
Cars and How They Go – Joanna Cole
Inference
How Many Days To America?: A Thanksgiving Story – Eve Bunting
See the Ocean – Estelle Condra
Honest Abe – Edith Kunhardt
Why Do Leaves Change Color? – Betsy Maestro
Beekeepers – Linda Oatman High
The Memory Coat – Elvirah Woodruff
Suddenly! – Colin McNaughton
The Five Chinese Brothers – Claire Huchet Bishop
The Gardener – Sarah Stewart
Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, In Letters, Of Liars and Leaks – Kate Klise
Zoom – Istvan Banyai
Teammates – Peter Golenbock
More Than Anything Else – Marie Bradby
Old Bag of Bones: A Coyote Tale – Retold by Janet Stevens
Scaredy Squirrel – Melanie Watt
Tuesday – David Wiesner
The Leaving Morning – Angela Johnson
Mail Harry to the Moon! – Robie H. Harris
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Point of View
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! – Jon Scieszka
The Three Little Pigs – Retold by Steven Kellogg
The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig – Eugene Trivizas
The Pain and The Great One – Judy Blume
Little Louie The Baby Bloomer – Robert Kraus
What’s So Terrible About Swallowing An Apple Seed? – Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor
A Teeny Tiny Baby – Amy Schwartz
Fortunately – Remy Charlip
It Looked Like Spilt Milk – Charles G. Shaw
Seven Blind Mice – Ed Young
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit – Paula Danziger
Prediction
The Doorbell Rang – Pat Hutchins
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking – Amy Axelrod
Don’t Wake Up Mama! – Eileen Christelow
Frank and Ernest – Alexandra Day
One Hundred Hungry Ants – Elinor J. Pinczes
Pickin’ Peas – Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald
Mouse & Mole and the Year-Round Garden – Doug Cushman
My Backyard Garden – Carol Lerner
One Watermelon Seed – Celia Barker Lottridge
Tops & Bottoms – Adapted by Janet Stevens
Ira Sleeps Over – Bernard Waber
Farmer Duck – Martin Wadde
A Remainder of One – Elinor J. Pinczes
Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman
Earthquack! – Margie Palatini
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Prediction cont.
Mosquito – Jill Bailey
Once Upon A Time – Niki Daly
Rain Forests – Joy Palmer
When Bluebell Sang – Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Carousel – Liz Rosenberg
Granite Baby – Lynne Bertrand
Mirandy And Brother Wind – Patricia C. McKissack
Sacagawea – Stacy DeKeyser
Saving Sweetness – Diane Stanley
Knots on a Counting Rope – Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Mailing May – Michael 0. Tunnell
Peach & Blue – Sarah S. Kilborne
Pulleys and Gears – David Glover
Across the Solar System – Rod Theodorou
The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story – Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Cause/Effect (Literature)
The Gingerbread Boy – Paul Galdone
The Mitten – Jan Brett
Pig and Crow – Kay Chorao
Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Chicken Little – Retold by Steven Kellogg
The Runaway Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins
Big Bad Bruce – Bill Peet
Muggie Maggie – Beverly Cleary
Chocolate Fever – Robert Kimmel Smith
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Cause/Effect (Literature) cont.
The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats – Carol Greene
If You Give A Moose A Muffin – Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash – Trinka Hakes Noble
The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle
The Napping House – Audrey Wood
Ollie Forgot – Tedd Arnold
Old Henry – Joan W. Blos
Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice – John W. Ivimey
Fortunately – Remy Charlip
Benny Bakes A Cake – Eve Rice
What’s So Great About Cindy Snappleby? – Barbara Samuels
Cause/Effect (Informational)
What’s So Terrible About Swallowing An Apple Seed? – Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor
The Apple Pie Tree – Zoe Hall
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World – Marjorie Priceman
Carlos and the Squash Plant – Jan Romero Stevens
Danger! Volcanoes – Seymour Simon
Volcanoes – Franklyn M. Branley
Flash, Crash, Rumble, And Roll – Franklyn M. Branley
What Makes Day and Night – Franklyn M. Branley
The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet – Meredith Hooper
Fire in the Forest: A Cycle of Growth And Renewal – Laurence Pringle
Where Do They Go? Insects in Winter – Millicent E. Selsam
What Happens to a Hamburger? – Paul Showers
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Compare/Contrast (Literature) Burnt Toast on Davenport Street – Tim Egan
Meanwhile... – Jules Feiffer
Ugh – Arthur Yorinks
Sweet, Sweet Fig Banana – Phillis Gershator
The Three Little Pigs – Paul Galdone
The Three Little Javelinas – Susan Lowell
My Lucky Day – Keiko Kasza
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! – Jon Scieszka
The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig – Eugene Trivizas
The Rough Face Girl – Rafe Martin
Cinderella – Charles Perrault
Compare/Contrast (Informational) Fire! Fire! – Gail Gibbons
Outside and Inside Trees – Sandra Markle
The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. – Roxie Munro
The Great Fire – Jim Murphy
Horns, Antlers, Fangs, And Tusks – Mark J. Rauzon
Butterflies and Moths – James P. Rowan
We The People: The Constitution Of The United States – Peter Spier
Biographies/Autobiographies Take The Lead, George Washington – Judith St. George
Rosa Parks – Cynthia Amoroso
Neil Armstrong – Dana Meachen Rau
Benjamin Franklin – Stephen Krensky
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon – Jacqueline Davies
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez – Kathleen Krull
Thomas Edison – Susan Kesselring
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania – Ryan Jacobson
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Traditional Literature
The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse – Christopher E. Long
Aesop, Just in Rhyme: A New, Humorous Version of The Great Fables for Readers of All Ages – John W. Murphy
The Ant and The Grasshopper – Graham Percy
Aesop’s Fables – Retold by John Cech
The Lion & The Mouse – Jerry Pinkney
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Mary Berendes
A Sip of Aesop – Jane Yolen
Yo, Aesop!: Get A Load Of These Fables – Paul Rosenthal
Eric Carie’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm – Retold by Eric Carle
Sleeping Ugly – Jane Yolen
How Coyote Stole the Summer: A Native American Folktale – Adapted by Stephen Krensky
The Frog Prince – Eric Blair
Bokuden and the Bully: A Japanese Folktale – Adapted by Stephen Krensky
Diamonds and Toads: A Classic Fairy Tale – Retold by Ellen Schecter
Mary Engelbreit’s Fairy Tales: Twelve Timeless Treasures – Mary Engelbreit
Moon Cakes to Maize: Delicious World Folktales – Edited and retold by Norma J. Livo
The Usborne Book Of Fairy Tales – Retold by Heather Amery
The McElderry Book Of Grimms’ Fairy Tales – Saviour Pirotta
One Eye! Two Eyes! Three Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale – Aaron Shepard
The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan
Don’t Know Much About World Myths – Kenneth C. Davis
Greek Myths – Olivia Coolidge
Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast – Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
American Tall Tales – Mary Pope Osborne
Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale – Robert D. San Souci
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan – Retold by Martin Powell
Pecos Bill – Retold by Steven Kellogg
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Classical Literature
The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf
The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes
The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Chapter Books
How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
All-Of-A-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor
Love, Ruby Lavendar – Deborah Wiles
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
A Long Way from Chicago – Richard Peck
The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs – Betty G. Birney
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin
Because Of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
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Poetry
Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems – Kali Dakos
Once Inside the Library – Barbara A. Huff
The Free and The Brave: A Collection of Poems About the United States – Compiled and annotated by Patricia M. Stockland
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings – Douglas Florian
Someone Used My Toothbrush and Other Bathroom Poems – Carol Diggory Shields
It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing!: Winter Poems – Jack Prelutsky
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) – Linda Sue Park
Drama
Readers Theater: Tall Tales – Retold by Maureen Gerard, Ph.D.
12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays – Justin McCory Martin
Much Ado About Nothing for Kids – Lois Burdett
Arthur’s Thanksgiving – Marc Brown
25 Just Right Plays for Emergent Readers – Carol Pugliano-Martin
12 Fabulously Funny Folktale Plays – Justin McCory Martin
20 Great Plays for Children – Edited by Coleman A. Jennings
Historical Events
Welcome to Addy’s World, 1864: Growing Up During America’s Civil War – Susan Sinnott
Child of The Civil Rights Movement – Paula Young Shelton
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War – James M. McPherson
Potato: A Tale from The Great Depression – Kate Lied
Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in The Great Depression – Marissa Moss
Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself: Build Planes, Signal Lights, Victory Gardens, And More – Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Kids During the Industrial Revolution – Lisa A. Wroble
Revolutionary War on Wednesday – Mary Pope Osborne
The Boston Tea Party: Angry Colonists Dump British Tea – Allison Stark Draper
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution – Elizabeth Levy
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Scientific Texts
The Everything Kids’ Easy Science Experiments Book: Explore the World of Science Through Quick and Fun Experiments! – J. Elizabeth Mills
The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About the Water Cycle – Pat Relf
Matter: Its Properties & Its Changes – Tom DeRosa and Carolyn Reeves
Solids – Jim Mezzanotte
Solids, Liquids, and Gases – Ginger Garrett
Planets!: Discover Our Solar System! – Lisa Jo Rudy
How Do Animals Adapt? – Bobbie Kalman
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth – Rochelle Strauss
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder – Walter Wick
The Life Cycle of a Frog – Bobbie Kalman
Awesome Experiments in Force & Motion – Michael A. DiSpezio
Technical Texts
Making Amazing Art: 40 Activities Using The 7 Elements of Art Design – Sandi Henry
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media for Budding Artists of All Ages – Susan Schwake
How to Draw 101 Animals: Easy Step by Step Drawing – Dan Green
Create Your Own Pop Up Books – Faber-Castell
Kidnet: The Kid’s Guide to Surfing Through Cyberspace – Debra and Brad Schepp
Betty Crocker’s Kids Cook! – Betty Crocker
The Everything Cooking for Kids Cookbook: 300 Delicious, Nutritious Recipes for Even the Pickiest Eaters! – Ronni Litz Julien, MS, RD/LDN
Mousetracks: A Kid’s Computer Idea Book – Peggy L. Steinhauser
Photography Guide for Kids – Neil Johnson
Picture This: Fun Photography and Crafts – Debra Friedman