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Excellent New K-5 Titles
Summer Reading Institute
July 15th, 2008
Kristen Majkut, Librarian
Schenectady CSD
These titles target
specific K-5 ELA skills:
Making Connections:
 Text to Text
 Text to World
 Text to Self
Inferring: Background Knowledge
+ Text clues = Inferencing!
Comprehension Strategies
used during Read-Alouds in Library
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Activate background knowledge – brainstorm with students
a bulleted list of book’s topic prior to reading aloud the text
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Asking Questions: before, during and after.
Chart all student-generated questions and responses
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Visualizing: Close your eyes & visualize!
Ask readers to create mental images from words in the text
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3 Column Chart: Fact/Question/Inference
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Model thinking aloud for students: “I’m wondering…”
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Compare and Contrast T-chart or Venn diagram chart
Henry’s Freedom Box
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Caldecott Honor, 2008
Picture Book, © 2007
Author, Ellen Levine
Illustrator, Kadir Nelson
Summary:
A fictionalized account of
how in 1849 a Virginia
slave, Henry "Box" Brown,
escapes to freedom by
shipping himself in a
wooden crate from
Richmond to Philadelphia.
Four Feet, Two Sandals
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Author, Karen Lynn Williams
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
Two young Afghani girls
living in a refugee camp in
Pakistan share a precious
pair of sandals brought by
relief workers.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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Author/Illustrator, Brian Selznick
Caldecott Winner, 2008
This 533 page book has 300
illustrations
The book depends equally on the
illustrations as it does the writing
Inferencing!
Summary:
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an
orphan living and repairing clocks
within the walls of a Paris train
station in 1931, meets a mysterious
toyseller and his goddaughter, his
undercover life and his biggest
secret are jeopardized.
A Taste of Colored Water
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Author: Matt Faulkner
 Picture Book, © 2008
Summary:
Young cousins Lulu and
Jelly, inspired by stories told
by a classmate, hitch a ride
into the city hoping to take a
gulp of what they imagine
must be some pretty special
water that comes from the
"colored" drinking fountain.
Sky Boys:
How They Built the Empire State Building
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Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: James Ransome
Picture Book, © 2006
Summary:
In 1931, a boy and his father
watch as the world's tallest
building, the Empire State
Building, is constructed,
step-by-step, near their
Manhattan home.
One Green Apple
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Author: Eve Bunting
 Illustrator: Ted Lewin
 Picture Book, © 2006
Summary:
While on a school field
trip to an orchard to make
cider, a young Muslim
immigrant named Farah
gains self-confidence
when the green apple she
picks perfectly
complements the other
students' red apples.
Molly Bannaky
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Author: Alice McGill
 Illustrator: Chris K. Soenpiet
 Picture Book, © 1999
Summary:
Relates how Benjamin
Banneker's grandmother
journeyed from England to
Maryland in the late
seventeenth century, worked
as an indentured servant,
began a farm of her own, and
married a freed slave.
The Great Math Tattle Battle
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Author: Anne Bowen
Illustrator: A. Whitman
Picture Book, © 2006
Summary:
Harley Harrison, the
biggest tattle-tale and best
math student in second
grade, meets his match in
both areas when Emma
Jean Smith joins him Mr.
Hall's class.
Library Lion
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Author: Michelle Knudsen
Illustrator, Kevin Hawkes
Picture Book, © 2006
Summary:
A lion starts visiting the
local library but runs into
trouble as he tries to both
obey the rules and help his
librarian friend.
Farfallina & Marcel
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Author: Holly Keller
Picture Book, © 2002
Summary:
A caterpillar and a young
goose become great
friends, but as they grow
up they undergo changes
which separate them for
awhile.
Velma Gratch &
the Way Cool Butterfly
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Author: Alan Madison
Illustrator: Kevin Hawkes
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
First grade does not go
very well for Velma, whose
older sisters were
practically perfect
students, until her class
takes a trip to a butterfly
conservatory and a
monarch butterfly
demands to be her friend.
Freedom Summer
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Author: Deborah Wiles
Illustrator, Jerome Lagarrigue
Picture Book, © 2001
Summary:
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a
new law will allow his best
friend John Henry, who is
African-American, to share
the town pool and other
public places with him, but he
is dismayed to find that
prejudice still exists.
Remember:
The Journey to School Integration
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Author: Toni Morrison
 Non-fiction book, © 2004
Summary:
Presents a selection of archival
photographs that document
events surrounding the
integration of U.S. schools
following the 1954 Supreme
Court decision in Brown v.
Board of Education, and
includes captions in which Toni
Morrison imagines what the
people in the pictures must
have been thinking and feeling.
Freedom on the Menu:
The Greensboro Sit-ins
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Author: Carole Weatherford
Illustrator: Jerome
Lagarrigue
Picture Book, © 2005
Summary:
The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at
the Woolworth's lunch
counter in Greensboro, North
Carolina, are seen through
the eyes of a young Southern
black girl.
Miss Malarkey
Leaves No Reader Behind
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Author: Judy Finchler
Illustrator: Kevin O’Malley
Picture Book, © 2006
Summary:
Miss Malarkey vows to find
each of her students a book
to love by the end of the
school year, but one videogame loving boy proves to be
a challenge.
School Lunch
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Author: True Kelley
Picture Book, © 2005
Summary:
When Harriet, the cook
at Lincoln School, goes
on a much-needed
vacation, the staff and
students send her
letters complaining
about her replacements
and trying to persuade
her to return.
Twister!
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Author:
Darlene Bailey Beard
 Illustrator:
Nancy Carpenter
 Picture Book, © 1999
Summary:
Two children experience
a tornado.
The Polar Bears Are Hungry
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Author: Carol Carric
 Illustrator: Paul Carrick
 Picture Book, © 2002
Summary:
A mother polar bear takes care
of her new cubs, but as
temperatures rise, she finds
it increasingly difficult to
get enough to eat.
Wind Flyers
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Author: Angela Johnson
Illustrator: Loren Long
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
Presents a brief story of
the Tuskegee Airmen of
World War II through the
eyes of a young boy
whose dreams to fly like
the wind came true when
he became part of 332nd
Fighter Group in 1942.
I Miss You Everyday
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Author: Simms Taback
 Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
Includes envelope and
card on title page. A little
girl misses someone so
much that she wraps
herself up like a package
and sends herself through
the mail.
Kid Tea
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Author: Elizabeth Ficocelli
Illustrator: Clin Dibley
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
On every night of the week,
a new color of "kid tea" is
created in the bath,
depending on the activities
of that day.
Santa’s Eleven Months Off:
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Author: Mike Reiss
 Illustrator:
Michael Montgomery
 Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
Rhyming text reveals how
Santa Claus spends his
time off every year, such as
trying his hand at sumo
wrestling and taking a class
called "Elf Esteem."
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians
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Author: Carla Morris
Illustrator: Brad Sneed
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
Melvin discovers that the
public library is the place
where he can find just
about anything--including
three librarians who help in
his quest for knowledge.
The Wicked Big Toddlah
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Author: Kevin Hawkes
Picture Book, © 2007
Summary:
The first year of giant
baby Toddie's life is full
of amusing situations as
his caregivers figure out
how to bath, feed, and
change him.
Owly series
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Author: Andy Runton
Beginner Graphic Novels
© 2005-2008
4 titles in the series
Summary:
A kind, lonely little owl
tries to earn an
earthworm's trust and
struggles with the
knowledge that his new
friends, a group of
hummingbirds, must
depart for the winter.
Amelia Rules series
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Author: Jimmy Gownley
Graphic Novels, © 2006-2008
4 titles in the series
Summary:
Collects the adventures of
Amelia Louise McBride, a
nine-year-old who recently
moved from New York to a
small town after her parents
were divorced and relies on
her friends and family to deal
with everyday situations.
Baby Mouse series
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Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Graphic Novels
© 2005-2008
8 titles in the series
Summary:
An imaginative mouse
dreams of being queen of
the world, but will settle
for an invitation to the
most popular girl's
slumber party.
The Sisters Grimm Series
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Author: Michael Buckley
Chapter Books © 2005-2008
8 titles in the series
Summary:
Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and
Daphne Grimm are sent to live
with an eccentric grandmother
that they have always believed to
be dead. They live in the town of
Ferryport Landing, a community
of fairy-tale characters called
Ever-Afters.
Rainstorm
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Author: Barbara
Lehman
 Picture Book © 2007
Summary:
In this wordless
picture book, a boy
finds a mysterious
key which leads him
on an adventure one
rainy day.
Trainstop
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Author: Barbara Lehman
Picture Book © 2008
Summary:
A wordless picture book in
which a young girl takes a
train and makes a stop at a
most unusual place where
she has an important task
to perform.
Treasure
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Author: Suzanne Bloom
 Picture Book © 2007
Summary:
Bear follows Goose on
what he thinks is a
treasure hunt, and they
soon make a wonderful
discovery of a different
kind.
The Sandman
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Author: Ralph Fletcher
Picture Book © 2008
Summary:
A tiny little man
discovers that sand
made from a dragon's
scale will send him to
dreamland, and begins
carrying this magical
sand to children each
night to give them the gift
of sleep.
Silent Music
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Author: James Rumford
Picture Book © 2008
Summary:
As bombs and missiles
fall on Baghdad in 2003,
a young boy uses the art
of calligraphy to
distance himself from
the horror of war.
The Lemonade Club
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Author: Patricia Polacco
Picture Book © 2007
Summary:
When Marilyn and her
teacher, Miss Wichelman,
both get cancer, they
encourage each other and,
aided by medical treatments
and support from friends,
they get better. Based on a
true story.
Llama Llama, Mad at Mama
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Author:
Anna Dewdney
Picture Book © 2007
Summary:
A young llama wants
to play but must go
shopping with his
mother instead, and so
he gets angry and
makes a mess at the
store.
My Travelin’ Eye
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Author:
Jenny-Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Picture Book © 2008
Summary:
Jenny Sue loves that her
"travelin' eye" lets her see the
world in a special way, and so
she is not happy when her
teacher suggests that her
parents take her to an
ophthalmologist to correct
her lazy eye.
Catching the Sun
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Local Author: Colleen Paratore
Picture Book © 2008
Summary:
As Dylan and his mother enjoy
being together at the beach
early on his fifth birthday, he
cannot help but think about the
baby his mother will soon
have, who will join them in this
special time next summer.
Sometimes I’m Bombaloo
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Author: Rachel Vail
 Picture Book, © 2001
Summary:
When Katie feels angry
and out of control, her
mother helps her to be
herself again.
The next 10 titles are some of
my favorites that have older
copyright dates.
You may know them already!
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
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Author, Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator, James Ransome
Picture Book, © 1995
Summary:
A young slave stitches a
quilt with a map pattern
which guides her to
freedom in the North.
The Summer My Father Was Ten
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Author: Pat Brisson
Illustrator: Andrea Shine
Picture Book, © 1998
Summary:
A father tells his son the
story of how he damaged a
neighbor's tomato garden
when he was a boy and what
he did to make amends.
The Pain and the Great One
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Author, Judy Blume
Illustrator, Irene Trivas
Picture Book, © 1974
Summary:
A six-year-old (The Pain)
and his eight-year-old
sister (The Great One) see
each other as
troublemakers and the
best-loved in the family.
The Wall
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Author, Eve Bunting
 Illustrator, Ronald Himler
 Picture Book, © 1990
Summary:
A boy and his father
come from far away to
visit the Vietnam War
Memorial in Washington
and find the name of the
boy's grandfather, who
was killed in the conflict.
Baseball Saved Us
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Author, Ken Mochizuki
Picture Book, © 1993
Summary:
A Japanese American
boy learns to play
baseball when he and his
family are forced to live
in an internment camp
during World War II, and
his ability to play helps
him after the war is over.
A Chair for My Mother
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Author, Vera Williams
Picture Book, © 1982
Caldecott Honor
Summary:
A child, her waitress
mother, and her
grandmother save dimes
to buy a comfortable
armchair after all their
furniture is lost in a fire.
Tea with Milk
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Author, Allen Say
Picture Book, © 1999
Summary:
After growing up near
San Francisco, a young
Japanese woman returns
with her parents to their
native Japan, but she
feels foreign and out of
place.
Goin’ Someplace Special
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Author, Patricia McKissack
 Illustrator, Jerry Pinkney
 Picture Book, © 2000
Summary:
In segregated 1950s
Nashville, a young African
American girl braves a series
of indignities and obstacles
to get to one of the few
integrated places in town:
the public library.
Fever, 1793
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Author:
Laurie Halse Anderson
Chapter Book, © 2000
Summary:
In 1793 Philadelphia,
sixteen-year-old Matilda
Cook, separated from her
sick mother, learns about
perseverance and selfreliance when she is forced
to cope with the horrors of
a yellow fever epidemic.