Here are some titles I included in this year's K-10 recommended reading list.
Preschool
Marzollo,
Jean. I Am an Apple and others in series.
McMillan,
Bruce. Eating Fractions.
Grade 1
French,
Jackie. Diary of a Wombat.
Hamilton,
Kersten. This Is the Ocean.
Harrison,
David. Caves: Mysteries Beneath Our Feet.
Grade 2
Bang,
Molly. My Light.
Bang, Molly and Penny Chisholm.
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life.
Deedy, Carmen Agra. 14
cows for America.
Fritz,
Jean. George Washington's Mother.
Gravett,
Emily. Meerkat Mail.
Hanna,
Jack. Jungle Jack Hanna's What
Zookeepers Do.
Hatkoff,
Juliana, et.al. Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again.
Jenkins,
Martin. The Emperor's Egg.
McCully,
Emily Arnold. Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor.
Mortenson,
Greg.
Listen to the Wind: the Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea.
Pfeffer, Wendy. Dolphin
Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws.
Simon, Seymour. Super Storms.
Grade 3
Goodall,
Jane. With Love.
Gutelle,
Andrew. Nature's Fury: the Power of Weather.
Hodge. Bears
and other Kids Can Press Wildlife
Series titles.
Keller,
Laurie. The Scrambled States of America and The Scrambled States of America Talent
Show.
Minor,
Wendell. Yankee Doodle America: the spirit of 1776 from A to Z.
Talbott, Hudson. The United Tweets of America.
Grade 4
Cerullo, Mary M. and Bill Curtsinger. Life Under Ice.
French, Jackie. How to
Scratch a Wombat.
Fritz, Jean. Where Do
You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus?
Prelutsky, Jack. My Dog
May Be a Genius and other poetry titles.
Grade 5
Berry, James. Around the
World in Eighty Poems.
Corwin, Jeff. A Wild
Life: the Authorized Biography.
Seuling, Barbara. Cows
Sweat Through Their Noses.
Shields, Carol Diggory. American History, Fresh Squeezed! and
other Brainjuice titles.
Simon, Seymour. Big
Cats.
" " Tornadoes.
Sis, Peter. The Wall:
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
Sullivan, George. Helen
Keller: Her Life in Pictures.
Grade 6
Freedman, Russell. Children
of the Wild West.
Fritz, Jean. The Double
Life of Pocahontas.
Giblin, James Cross. The
Many Rides of Paul Revere.
O’Meara, Donna. Into the
Volcano.
Trueit, Trudi Strain. Earthquakes.
"Books
have three of the deadliest foes
on this Earth:
fire, water, and ignorant men...
...books are the finest treasures of all.
You need only feast once with your eyes
and your heart.
And you'll be full with their wisdom
forever." (Melanie Little, The Apprentice's Masterpiece)
"Librarians...have been my lifelong friends, guides and
heroes." Joseph Bruchac
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
Brooklyn, New York
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:37:13 +0100
> From: carolinac@AISABUJA.COM
> Subject: TAR: recommended non-fiction for ES
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> Hello to all!
>
> I want to weed my ES non-fiction collection from all the junk it has
> gathered through the years, but with our limited number of items, I need to
> buy first, weed later.
>
> What specific NF collection/series or even particular books do you
> recommend?
>
> I promise to post a HIT =)
>
> Have a great day!
>
> --
> Carolina Cuello
> Head Librarian
> American International School of Abuja
> Abuja, Nigeria
> carolinac@aisabuja.com
>
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