Children & early adolescent literature database (1980-1990)

Overview

Database of books for eductors, librarians, media experts, and others who want to create their own database or seek books to recommend to readers, which will encourage reading and literacy for all, paricularly to encourage non readers to become readers. Books included in these lists are books which I have noted over many years that some readers, across a large range of varing interests, have read and commented on enjoying. While I would encourage those who have interests related to each book's topic to read them, I would not select many of them as required reading or for a read aloud to a whole class. Those I would select from my five star list.

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Books published 1980 to 1990
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
The Slug Who Thought He Was a Snail	Penny Pollock	1980	Sam, a slug, is convinced by a snail that he is a snail without a house, so they begin a search for Sam's lost shell.	picture book being yourself
Once I Was a Plum Tree	Johanna Hurwitz	1980	Gerry's (10) family name was Pflaumenbaum. Which means plum tree in German.Now, it's jusy plain Flam, which means nothing. Gerry is growing up in the Bronx after the Second World War. We are assimilated. Gerry's father tells her. But Gerry struggles to belong to a particular community and to the world.	historical fiction Jewish
A Dog Called Kitty	Bill Wallace	1980	Ricky (10) overcomes his fear of dogs and loss.	realistic fiction, fear of dogs, death of a pet
The masquerade	S. R . Shreve	1980		Responsibility
Home alone	Eleanor Schick	1980		Latchkey children
The hitchhikers	P. Thompson	1980		Unwed mother
One More Thing, Dad	Susan Thompson	1980	Introduces the numbers one through ten as Caleb collects various items to take on an outing.	picture book counting book sex roles
Only love	S. D. Sallis	1980		Death
Sleepwalker	E. T. Ellis	1980		Belonging
The New Boy is Blind	William E. Thomas	1980		nonfiction physically handicapped- blind
Goodnight, dear monster!	Terry Morris	1980		picture book wordless book
The turbulent term of Tyke Tiler	Gene Kemp	1980		realistic fiction physically handicapped speech impediment
Instant parent	Suzy Kalter	1980		stepfamilies
Shadows On The Wall	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	1980
Break in the Sun	Ashley, B.	1980		divorce
If You are A Hunter of Fossils	Byrd Baylor	1980		poetry verse fossils science Nebraska
Bird at the Window	Truss, J.	1980		abortion and pregnancy
Fables	Arnold Lobel	1980		fable
My friend Jacob	Lucille Clifton	1980		realistic fiction mentally handicapped
Jacob Have I Loved	Katherine Paterson	1980	Story about a girl that grows up on Rass Island in the Chesapeake Bay during the 1940 s. where families earn a living on the water is fading with each passing year. The story is told in the first person by Wheeze from the time she is 13. It is an incredibly powerful soul baring narrative of her feelings about herself, her sister, her mom, her dad, her grandmother, and several close inhabitants of the Island. As she grows up, ever the romantic, it seems she always wants what she can t have and the story captures her frustration and pain as she matures through adolescents and begins to realize she has more choices for what she chooses if she is willing to accept responsibility. An interesting story about human nature and a way of life that has faded away. Rass Island - I love the Island although for much my life I did not think I did. It is pure sorrow that once my mother leaves there will be no Bradshaw there. Bradshaws lived here for more than 200 years Wheeze - Caroline - twin sister told gifted, went to mainland for music lessons, write a book. Father wounded in war came back and her mother the school teacher fell in love. Younger fragile twin so mother spent time nursing her at hospital and neglected me... I was oldest by minutes and the only minutes that I was ever the center of attention. I had chicken pox and father referred to as old scar face and wondered why I burst into tears. Father needed a son and I prayed I would turn into one... Mother Susan Pearl Harbor summer 1941 McCall Purnell would board my skiff and go crabbing. I was 13 he was a year older. I had delusions of beauty and romance he was pudgy, spectacled and totally unsentimental. He didn t have any friends save me. Hiram Wallace - Captain left for college, came back sailed in storm cut mast - fear lightening- laughed at. left returned... SPY check visit talk jokes.... Cal ... Wheeze afraid if loose her only friend Cal to him. Wrote poem for contest Win contest send a check for $25 and leave the rest to us. . Tore up threw in water. ... 42... Hurricane Captain looses house.. stays with us.. Carline with me Moves into old ladies house while in hospital, out back, where stay? Get married for convenience. Wheeze could never adjust to the fact they were married went to visit with others then couldn t do that... AUnt..ie Braxton Stroke fall break hip... Died Grandma - nuts accused him of killing her with rat poison and Me of helping... Father sent us to our room. Ran out of $ for Caroline s lesson, I had $50 hid and said nothing. Cal dropped out of school and father took him on ... I was jealous of Cal as he was entering the world of men that I would never be able to Visit Captain sis and I wouldn t be proper for either to go alone, play poker and I was glad to beat her butt. Captain missed her singing and she missed her lessons. Trudy left $ I couldn t use it. Music school in Baltimore and enough for Caroline to go... Romans 9:13 Jacob I have loved, but Esau have I hated. --- Jacob asks for Esau s birth right and gets it. --- Mal. 1:3 Please don t mind too much Weeze it means so much to me.. She looks in Bible verse and shows me... God said.... OH so it isn t everyone else picking her over me, it is god. Mom came to talk sense to me about sending me to school in Critchfield.... I wouldn t use my seneses and argued that if she left - after I told her to- then she didn t care and God didn t either.... She left.. Took over fatehr s crabs. after Call left. Helped father crabbing and it was the happiest time of her life. Mom teach since frozen in and couldn t leave. Captain helped with math (didn t want him to) 44 D day Hitler suicide, Call - letter, graduated by passing exam and got highest grade ever. Caroline also - offer to Julliard not home for summer go to Peabody... Parents disappointed, but not me. Hiroshima Grandma change from mom being scarlet women to argamendom end of the world Cal come home.. The go see the captain together... I asked Caroline to marry me... Go to school... Grandma... tells her that she loved the captain he left she waited two years didn t come back and then she married her Grandpa. Could we invite him to christmas dinner? Talk about chopping down mast. OH it is so good to be old .. Youth is a mortal wound. the are happy. Captain tells Sara Louise you were never meant to be a women on this Island, A man perhaps. Never a woman. You can do anything you want... If you just know what it is.. I want to be a doctor. Mom and dad left and when came back they were happiest ever.. Grandma wouldn t quit.... Mother and daughter finally talk. Mom tells her she chose to be here.... Wheez - I willnever stay here and rot like grandma. University of Maryland. nurse... PRE MED too many returning vers... can t catch move pots... went to Kentucky nurse midwife. Ended up in Truitt... clinic in middle of no where... Man asked where you come from U of Kentucy... NO PLACE HOME WHY HERE? Went out house call to tend one of 3 kinds.... look on face when held kids....I knew I would marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz. Told her she was born and raised for Truitt. Has child when father dies.. Caroline goes she can t and mother goes to NY Need to go back and read chapter 1	historical fiction relationships Chesapeake Bay
In my sister's eyes	G. Posner	1980		realistic fiction abortion and pregnancy
The Gift-Giver	Joyce Hansen	1980
Where the elfking sings	J. Wolkoff	1980		alcoholism
Superfudge	Judy Blume	1980		realistic fiction
Term Paper	A. Rinaldi	1980		love
Far from home	O. Sebestyen	1980		identity
Mom's house, dad's house: making joint custody work	Isolina Ricci	1980		stepfamilies
A shadow like a leopard	M. Levoy	1980		delinquency
Through Grandpa's Eyes	Patricia MacLachlan	1980		realistic fiction physically handicapped, blind
The Night Swimmers	Betsy Byars	1980		realistic fiction single parent families
The Wuggie Norple Story	Daniel Manus Pinkwater	1980		concept book relative size bigger smaller same mathematics
Just between us	S. B. Pfeffer	1980		suicide
Gimme an H, Gimme an E, Gimme an L, Gimme a P	F. Bonham	1980		dating
Four days	G. Goldenreich	1980		abortion and pregnancy
Truck	Donald Crews	1980		picture book wordless book trucks vehicles
The gift of the sacred horse	Paul Goble	1980		Native Americans
Try your hand	Jane Thayer	1980		multiple meanings
Immigrant Kids	Russell Freedman	1980		nonfiction picture book immigration
Tunnel Vision	f. Arrick	1980		realistic fiction suicide
Arthur, For the Very First Time	Patricia MacLachlan	1980		relationships
Solitaire	Liu, A.	1980		anorexia Nervosa
The Sixteen Hand Horse	Fred Gwynne	1980		picture book concept book multiple meanings, words
Nick Joins in	Joe Lasker	1980		realistic fiction mainstreaming wheelchair
Sir Andrew	Paula Winter	1980		wordless book
The Knight and the Dragon	Tomie de Paola	1980		picture book conflict resolution friendship win win situations getting along problem solving
Button eye's orange	Jan Wahl	1980		realistic ficton physically handicapped
The Butterfly Girls	B. Elfman	1980		unwed mothers
Tough choices	S. R. Mendonca	1980		self
Early disorder	R. Joseph	1980		anorexia Nervosa
The Gray Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher	Molly Bang	1980		picture book wordless book
Bring to a boil and separate	H. Irwin	1980		family relationships
Pop's secret	M. Townsend	1980		death
It's Not My Fault	Franz Brandenburg	1980		realistic fiction sibling fighting, classroom management, relationships
People	Peter Spier	1980	Spier begins with an explanation of the vast number of people on the Earth, that they come in all sizes and shapes, in many colors, even the different parts: ears, noses, lips, hair, and that they all began life as very small. He goes on to illustrate different clothes, customs of play, tastes, varieties of homes, pets, things people like doing, ways of communicating, celebrating, their foods, work, being rich, poor, powerful, weak, different social organizations, and that we all must die. The book has a reference book appearance that is well illustrated and colorful as well as a story running through it with a powerful theme of difference and diversity makes the world an exciting place that is consistently change which we are all a part of for a limited time. Illustrations of people around the world. Celebrates diversity.	nonfiction multicultural people culture differences multicultural
Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People	Judi Barret	1980		picture book animals
Window Wishing	Jeannette Caines	1980	A sister and brother spend a vacation with their fun and unconventional grandmother.	picture book lack experience

Books published in 1981
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Darlene	Greenfield, Eloise	1981		realistic fiction handicapping conditions
Johnny's in the Basement	Louis Sachar	1981		realistic fiction
Handmade ABC: a Manual Alphabet	Linda Bourke	1981		nonfiction physically handicapped finger spelling
Tiger Eyes	J. S. Blume	1981		realistic fiction death
Lucretia the unbearable	Marjorie W. Sharmat	1981		picture book hypochondria
Second star to the right	D. Hautzig	1981		realistic fiction anorexia nervosa
Let's remember Corky	P. D. Fine	1981		death
The Writing on the Walls	Lynne Reid Banks	1981		family relationships
Three Days On A River In A Red Canoe	Vera B. Williams	1981	A first person documentary with the author (who isn t identified), mom, aunt Rosie, and cousin Sam who buy a red canoe from a yard sale along with two paddles and life jackets. They buy provisions and head to the river. The book is illustrated with colored pencil sketches as if done by the author as a diary or travelogue or documentary of the trip. It is accompanied by a narrative of the trip. Illustrations include the scenery, drawings of the four characters during different times of the trip, illustration of their portage, how to tie a two half hitch, recipe for making stew and dumplings, how to pitch a tent, travel through different kinds of weather, illustration of 8 different kinds of fish, moose, ducks, geese, swans, their canoeing under bridges and into a lake, fishing, and of course back home to end their trip. An interesting book with great illustrations and information for young children the have been camping or are eager to go.	picture book trips river canoe
Tales the Elders Told - Ojibway legends	Basil H. Johnston	1981		Native Americans
Down By the River	C. S. Adler	1981		child abuse
Herbie's troubles	Carol Chapman	1981		realistic fiction bullies
Thump and Plunk	Janice Udry	1981	Two sibling ducks, Thump and Plunk, can't resist thumping and plunking each other in this frolicking, tongue-twister story.	picture pbook fighting
My Mom Travels A Lot	Caroline F. Bauer	1981	Mother always comes home.	picture book sex roles
Let the Circle Be Unbroken	Mildred Taylor	1981	Second novel in a series about the Logan family. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry T.J. goes on trial for murder with an all-white jury. Cassie realizes what it means to grow up black and powerless, but her family stand together, with courage, love and understanding against prejudices. The Road to Memphis	historical fiction Mississippi southern America
The Voyage Begun	N. B. Bond	1981		realistic fiction aging
The Silly Riddle Book	Western Publishing Company	1981		riddles
Martin is our friend	Eveline Hasler	1981		mentally handicapped
Secret lies	S. Sargent	1981		abandonment
Jim meets the thing	Miriam Cohen	1981		realistic fiction fear
Hello ... wrong number	M. Sachs	1981		self
Traffic, a Book of Opposites	Maestro, Betsy and Guilio	1981		concept book opposites
The outsider	C. L. Reece	1981		belonging
The Balancing Girl	Berniece Rabe	1981		realistic fiction handicapping mainstreaming wheelchair
How I Put My Mother through College	C. Gerson	1981		divorce
The Stupids Die	Harry Allard	1981		realistic fiction being stupid
The Night after Christmas	James Stevenson	1981	A teddy bear and a doll are tossed in the garbage after being replaced by new Christmas toys who are befriended by a stray dog.	picture book rejection
A handful of stars	Girion, Barbara	1981		dating
Chernowitz	F. Arrick	1981		prejudice
Lou in the Limelight	K. E. Hunter	1981		sex
Take Another Look	Tana Hoban	1981		wordless book
Jump, Frog, Jump!	Robert Kalan	1981		picture book frogs food chain humans and nature trapping
Now One Foot, Now the other	Tomie de Paola	1981		realistic fiction elderly, family, relationships
Sleeping Ugly	Jane Yolen	1981		Pretty is as pretty does
More than One	Tana Hoban	1981		mathematics
Fellowship of the Seven Stars	N. Veglahn	1981		rebellion
Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	1981		picture book modern fantasy ggames
I'm Still Me	Lifton, B.J.	1981		family relationships
Your First Garden Book	Marc Brown	1981		nonfiction science gardening life science
This Child is Mine	C. Strong	1981		unwed mother
Your family, my family	Drescher	1981		search for identity
Friends Till the End	T. Strasser	1981		dating
Sunshine	Jan Ormerod	1981		realistic fiction sex roles
Please Don't Kiss Me Now	M. J. Gerber	1981		sex
I HaveTtwo Families	Doris Wild Helmering	1981	Patty describes her feelings about her parents' divorce and the new living arrangements .	realistic fiction divorce
Jenny and the Tennis Nut	Janet Schulman	1981	A little girl, not ready for tennis, is good at gymnastics.	realistic fiction being what you want to be
Angie and Me	Rebecca Castaldi Jones	1981	Jenna (12) is treated for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and comes to terms with her illness.	orthopedic impairments health problems
Jump Ship to Freedom	James and Christopher Collier	1981	Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought with the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom. But Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel steals the notes back, Captain Ivers forces him aboard a ship bound for the West Indies. Can he jump ship in New York, and travel the long and dangerous road to freedom?	historical fiction
Nobody's Fault?	Patricia Hermes	1981	Emily likes to play baseball and tease her brother, but her happy life is interrupted when her brother has a fatal accident.	Death of a brother
The Secret Everyone Knows	Cathleen Brooks	1981		alcoholism
Daddy and Ben together	Miriam Stecher and Alice Kandell	1981	Ben and Daddy fend for themselves while Mommy is on a business trip.	picture book sex roles
The Summer Cat	Howard Knotts	1981	A small boy realizes he can't keep a cat he loves, when it belongs to someone else.	picture book giving up something you love

Books published in 1982
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Bernard	Bernard Waber	1982	Rather than take sides when his owners break up, a dog strikes out on his own to find a new home.	picture book divorce
Where Do I Belong?: A Kid's Guide to Stepfamilies	Buff Bradley	1982		stepfamilies
Child of the morning	Corcoran, Barbara	1982		realistic fiction physically handicapped, Epilepsy
You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye	Patricia Hermes	1982	Sarah (13) fears something is wrong before her mother is diagnosed with incurable cancer. Story of family coping with loss.	death of a family member father realistic fiction
Footfalls	E. Harlan	1982		sex
Miss Nelson is Back	Harry Allard	1982		picture book school classroom management
Who Sank the Boat?	Pamela Allen	1982		picture book science sink and float density
Sonya's Mommy Works	Arlene Alda	1982	While Sonya's mother is working, she has to adjust to many situations.	fiction sex roles
So what?	Miriam Cohen	1982		realistic fiction disappointments
The Animal, Vegetable, and John D. Jones	Betsy Byars	1982	Clara and Deanie are thrilled about spending summer time with their father after their parents divorce. However, when they arrive he is living with a girl friend and her son. When tragedy happens they all get it together as a family. Typical Betsy Byars easy to read, interesting page turner.	remarriage stepfamilies
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar	Mitsumasa Anno	1982	Explores multiplication and factorials	factorials math mathematics
Won't know till I get there	W. W. Myers	1982		aging
The Rabbi's Girls	Johanna Hurwitz	1982	Moving to a new town, the birth of a sister, and the death of her rabbi father make 1923 a bittersweet year for Carrie Levin (11).	historical fiction Jewish
The Happy Funeral	Eve Bunting	1982	A Chinese-American girl pays tribute to her grandfather as she helps with the preparations for his funeral.	Chinese-American
The king of the seventh grade	Barbara Cohen	1982	Thirteen-year-old Vic hates Hebrew school and is not excited about his upcoming bar mitzvah, until he is told he can not be in either.	Jewish
Animals Born Alive and Well	Ruth Heller	1982		Animals, science
Friends	Helme Heine	1982		realistic fiction friendship, relationships
Mama One, Mama Two	Patricia MacLachlan	1982	A young child lives with a foster family until her own mother is well enough to care for her.	children book foster children
Tough love	Phyllis & David York	1982		substance abuse treatment
The pig-out blues	J. Greenberg	1982		self
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!	Manes, Stephen	1982	Milo Crinkley wanted to be perfect. A book in the library fell on his head. It was titled Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish. First lesson, things are not always what they seem. Day one broccoli ... nothing more to fear the rest of your life, no fear of embarrassment Second don t eat ... proves you can do something if you want to. Will power. Third do nothing... perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring.	realistic fiction being perfect, fiting in, making mistakes, fear, embarrassment, self-help classroom management confidence
Promises Are for Keeping	A. Rinaldi	1982		abortion and pregnancy
Harry is a Scaredy-Cat	Byron Barton	1982		nonfictioni fear
Teaching with Eggs	Alfred Devito	1982		nonfiction science eggs activities
Moonlight	Jan Ormerod	1982		realistic fiction sex roles
Snow	Isao Sasaki	1982		picture book wordless book concept book
Mud Puddle	Robert Munsch	1982		picture book rumor keeping clean mud dirty clothes
Arabella and Mr. Crack	Dick Gackenback	1982		realistic fiction frustration
First the egg	L. Moeri	1982		responsibility, sex
The creepy thing	Fernando Krahn	1982		picture book wordless
Just Us Women	Jeannette Caines	1982		realistic fiction African American Black experience multicultural
Skinny-Bones	Barbara Park	1982		realistic fiction
Dicey's Song	Cynthia Voigt	1982	third person Dicey Mother abandoned her because she is mentally ill, hospitalized, dies. Change for adjusting to new life, grief, friendships	realistic fiction elderly emotional mental illness Newbery award
Fox and his friends	Edward Marshall	1982		realistic fiction little sisters/responsibility
Eight ate	Marvin Terban	1982		concept book skills homophone pairs
Signs of a Friend	Linda Bourke	1982		realistic fiction physically handicapped deaf
Captain Hook, that's me	Ada B. Litchfield	1982		realistic fiction physically handicapped
The good giants and the bad Pukwudgies	Jean Fritz	1982		Native Americans
The BFG	Dahl, Roald	1982		modern fantasy giants
She's my sister: Having a retarded sister	Jane Claypool Miner	1982		realistic fiction mental retardation
Happily ever after... almost	J. Wolkoff	1982		divorce
The Indian in the Cupboard	Lynne Reid Banks	1982		modern fantasy getting along prejudice violence Native Americans
A Chair For My Mother	Vera B. Williams	1982		realistic fiction saving for something
Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune	Robin Brancato	1982		realistic fiction elderly
Peter Spier's Rain	Peter Spier	1982		wordless book
Have you seen this girl?	S. Dodson	1982		child abuse
What's next	Robert Wood	1982		patterned language predictions
Miss Rumphius	Barbara Cooney	1982	When Alice was a little girl she helped her grandfather paint the skies in his paintings, listened to his stories, and wanted to travel to faraway places. When she told her grandfather this he would say that is very well, but you must also make the world more beautiful. When she grew people called her Miss Rumphius and she did travel the world. The story is about her travels and how she did achieve her grandfather s goal of making the world more beautiful and then the they called her the Lupine Lady.	realistic fiction environment self growth seeds planting lupins beauty
Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver	Jean Van Leeuwen	1982	Series with three levels. This book has four progeressive stories.	being little series
Anno's Britain	Mitsumasa Anno	1982		picture book wordless book
Mitzi and the Terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex	Barbara Williams	1982	Mitzi isn't sure she wants her mother to marry Walter whose younger son (3) thinks he is a dinosaur.	realistic fiction remarriage stepfamilies sequel
Clementina's Cactus	Ezra Jack Keats	1982	Ezra's only wordless picture book. Clementina and her father go for a walk in the desert where Clementina finds a lone cactus, all shriveled and prickly. She will discover something beautiful hiding inside that thick skin.	picture book sex roles
The Divorce Express	Paula Danziger	1982	No one wants to ride The Divorce Express. Especially, Phoebe. It means she will leave her New York City apartment, and her boyfriend, every Sunday night to spend the week in the country with her dad. It means she has to start a new school, make new friends and watch her father go on dates. And neither place will feel like home. Then her mother has an announcement.	realistic fiction divorce
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf	Leo Buscaglia	1982	Freddie, a leaf, grows and matures surrounded by his fellow leaves. He experiences Spring, Summer and Fall, with all of their beauty and majesty. When Winter comes, it is time for him to fall, to die. Eventually he is the last leaf on the tree, stubbornly clinging to life. But eventually he falls and sees the splendor of his tree home for the first time, and although he does not know continue in the circle of life.	picture book death

Books published in 1983
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Round Trip	Ann Jonas	1983		picture book concept book read it forward and backward art visual black and white pattern
The Happy Dog	Hideyuki Tanaka	1983		wordless book
Raising a Mother Isn't Easy	Elisabeth McHugh	1983	A Korean orphan (11) is adopted by a single woman. Then she decides her new mother needs a husband.	Single parent families sequel
Harry's Visit	Barbara Ann Parte	1983	Harry doesn't like visiting his Aunt Betty and Uncle Charlie. Strange food and play with their daughter Judy. However, things change when their older son Jonathan invites him to play with him and his friends.	picture book new situations
Dear Mr. Henshaw	Cleary, Beverly	1983		realistic fiction divorce
Sunday's Child	Mebs Gurdrun	1983	Ten-year-old Jenny's new foster mother dosen't live up to her expectations until Jenny discovers	foster children
Thirteen Days of Halloween	Carol Greene	1983		mathematics
The Best Bad Thing	Yoshiko Uchida	1983	Rinko is asked to spend a month helping Mrs. Hata, during her summer vacation. One disaster after another during until Rinko discovers things are not always as bad as they seem.	historical fiction Japanese-American
Marianna May and Nursery	Tomie de Paola	1983	Young girl is told to keep her white dress clean. How can she be a kid? Ah! solution...	realistic fiction sex roles
My friend Leslie	Maxine Rosenberg	1983		nonfiction physically handicapped multiple handicapped
What's Left?	Judi Barrett	1983		patterned language predictions science concept book left right position
The Celery Stalks at Midnight	James Howe	1983		modern fantasy
The Secret Annie Oakley	M. Heidish	1983		realistic fiction child abuse
Above and Below Stairs	John Goodall	1983		picture book wordless book concept book above below
Naya Nuki: Girl Who Ran	Kenneth Thomasma	1983		Native American adventure freedom slavery
Mysteries & Marvels of the Animal World	Karen Goaman & Heather Amery	1983		nonfiction science animals
Mighty Mizzling Mouse	Friso Henstra	1983		Wordless book
One Day in the Desert	Jean Craighead George	1983		picture book nonfiction science desert environment
Anna's Mysterious Multiplying Jar	Anno & Anno	1983		picture book concept book mathematics multiplication
Katharine's Doll	Elizabeth Winthrop	1983	Molly and Katharine are best friends, until the doll, Charlotte arrives. Oh! the ups and downs of friendships.	picture book friendship fighting
Just Go to Bed	Mercer Mayer	1983		realistic fiction picture book
In The Woods	Ermanno and Puricelli, Luigi Cristini	1983		picture book science woods environments
The Story of a Little Mouse Trapped in a Box	Monique Felix	1983		picture book wordless book
It won't happen to me	McGuire, P.	1983		Abortion and pregnancy
The One Hundred Thing about Caroline	Lois Lowry	1983		realistic fiction single parent families
Hiawatha	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	1983		Native Americans
Children of the Wild West	Russell Freedman	1983		nonfiction frontier picture book
The Sign of the Beaver	Elizabeth George Speare	1983	Outstanding historical fiction about a Matt (13) who travels with his father into the frontier to clear land, build a cabin, and begin to set up their family homestead. When the father determines that he can not wait any longer to fetch his wife and younger children he leaves Matt to await his return. While he is away his return will be delayed till the coming spring. Matt unaware of what lies ahead has a mishap with bees and is saved by Attean and his grandfather (Native Americans). Matt wants to give the boy his book Swiss Fmaily Robinson , but the grandfather has a better idea. He wants Matt to teach Attean to read. Neither of the boys are thrilled with the arrangement, but over the subsequent days that exend into the winter and spring the boys build a strong relationship where Attean teaches Matt Native American ways that become critical for his survival and Attean learns English and how to read. An accurate slice of history and a tribute to humanness that when individuals are involved in shared experiences they can overcome prejudices.	historical fiction Native Americans prejudice multicultural
Mill	David Macaulay	1983	Story and sketches that accurately and with detail describe the construction of historical artifacts.	nonfiction Europe building architecture structures
A Place To Come Back To	N. Bond	1983		realistic fiction responsibility
T.H.U.M.B.B.	T. Ernesto Bethancourt	1983	Story of how two friends arranged for The Hippest Underground Marching Band in Brooklyn to march in New York's Saint Patrick's Day parade.	Spanish American
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	Bill Martin Jr.	1983	Classic pattern book and many children s first book. I see a ... looking at me. See everyone knows this book.	concept book language patterns colors animals
Jamberry	Bruce Degen	1983		picture book poetry song rhyme
Up a Tree	Ed Young	1983		picture book wordless book
The Bigger Book of Lydia	M. Willey	1983		anorexia nervosa
The Game of Silence	Louise Erdrich	April 2005	Continuing story of Omakays, Little Frog, an Ojibwa from the first book in the series: The Birch Bark House (1999). The series follows an Ojibwa family on an island in Lake Superior beginning in the summer of 1847. First book Grandmother s Pigeon, takes you through a year with all the seasons. Omakays is 8 winters old. Very good cultural and historical view.	Native American
Burning City	Ariel Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman	May 2005	Simmering summer of 2001 in New York City. Heller is the youngest employee of a messenger delivery service that delivers bad news orally. He is the best deliverer of bad news and is allowed to deliver by bike instead of roller blades. He is drawn into a wildly diverse cast of characters and learns to relate to people in a whole new way.
Henny Penny Retold	Jane Wattenberg	2000	Retell with very descriptive figurative language	picture book concept book The Sky is Falling rhyming alliteration figurative language
Plant Life	Barbara Cork	1983		nonfiction science plants
The Witches	Roald Dahl	1983		modern fantasy
A solitary blue	Cynthia Voigt	1983		divorce
The Double Life of Pocahontas	Jean Fritz	1983		historical fiction Native American Pocahontas
The Legend of the Bluebonnet	Tomie De Paola	1983		legend fiction folk tale Native Americans legend, folk tale
A Snake is Totally Tail	Judi Barrett	1983		picture book concept bookrepetition of sounds
Anno's U. S. A.	Mitsumasa Anno	1983		picture book wordless book
Peter Spier's Christmas	Peter Spier	1983		picture book wordless book
Mysteries & Marvels of Plant Life	Barbara Cork	1983		nonfiction science plants
Ten, Nine, Eight	Molly Bang	1983		realistic fiction fathers daughters
The Story of Wounded Knee	Conrad Stein	1983		historical fiction Native American multicultural prejudice
Stepdog	Marlene Fanta Shyer	1983	When Terry's dad marries Marilyn, Marilyn's dog suffers from jealousy.	picture book remarriage stepfamilies
Posy	Charlotte Pomerantz	1983	Posy and her father reminisce about what she did as a little girl.	picture book sex roles
Angel Child, Dragon Child	Michele Surat	1983	Ut from Vietnam is kind and sensitive as her classmates discover.	picture book Vietnamese American
Molly's Pilgrim	Barbara Cohen	1983	Molly is a recent immigrant struggeling with her new life. As her first Thanksgiving approaches she helps her third-grade class discover that it takes all kinds of pilgrims to make a Thanksgiving. Vide tape available	realistic fiction Jewish

Books published in 1984
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Risking Love	Doris Orgel	1984	Dinah Moskowitz (18) uses therapy to confront her past relationships, especially those with her divorced parents and her boyfriend, to move on.	realistic fiction relationships divorce
Grace	Liesel Moak Skorpen	1984	A cruel practical joke leads Sara, a lonely sixth grader, into a secret, sometimes difficult, but rewarding freindship with Grace, a proud old woman who is afraid her daughter will put her into a nursing home.	realistic fiction elderly
Going Home	Nicholasa Mohr	1984	Sequel to Felita Felita's going to Puerto Rico. Excited about the trip she finds it isn't at all what she expects. Her uncle's small village is boring, and none of the girls want to be friends with an outsider. By summer's end she has new friends and better understanding of her homeland.	realistic fiction Hispanic American
Anno's Flea Market	Mitsumasa Anno	1984		picture book wordless book
In the year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	Bette Lord	1984		realistic fiction Chinese-American multicultural
Here come the Purim players	Barbara Cohen	1984	The joyful tale of Purim beautifully illustrated. Purim, (Hebrew: “Lots”) English Feast of Lots, is a joyous Jewish festival commemorating the survival of the Jews who, in the 5th century bce, were marked for death by their Persian rulers. The story comes from the biblical Book of Esther.	picture book Jewish
Ramona Forever	Beverly Cleary	1984		realistic fiction latchkey children
Jim's dog Muffin	Miriam Cohen	1984		realistic fiction death dog
Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird	Jean Little	1984	Young Jeremy and Sarah learn to cope with their grief and drastically changed lifestyle during their father's battle with cancer, which forces their mother to sell their house and return to school full time.	realistic fiction death of a family member - father
Everett Anderson's Goodbye	Lucille Clifton	1984	Story of a little boy who goes through the stages of grief after his father's death.	realistic fiction death of family member - father
A little love	Virginia Hamilton	1984		inferiority
Uphill All the Way	L.. Hall	1984		delinquency
Chicken and Egg	Back, Christine & Olesen, Jens	1984
A better safe than sorry book	Gorden, Sol & Judith	1984		Sexual assault prevention
Buffalo Woman	Paul Goble	1984		Native Americans legend
One Day in the Alpine Tundra	Jean Craighead George	1984		nonfiction science tundra environment
Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs	Bernard Most	1984
Legend Days	Jamake Highwater	1984		Native Americans
In One Day	Parker	1984		mathematics
101 Bug Jokes	Eisenberg, Lisa & Hall, Katy	1984		jokes science
Soun Tetoken: Nez Perce Boy	Kenneth Thomasma	1984		Native American Nez Perce
Geraldine's Blanket	Holly Keller	1984	Getting smaller, whole to part	picture book concept book mathematics
Insect Life	Dr. Jennifer Owen	1984		nonfiction insects science
The Moves Make the Man	Bruce Brooks	1984		African American black experience multicultural
The Mixed-Up Chameleon	Eric Carle	1984		spicture book science animals growing-up accepting yourself self-acceptance
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear	Don and Audrey Wood	1984	Mouse is told that a big hungry bear will come and eat the big red strawberry. Who is telling the story? The mouse? The author? Where is the Bear? Who is talking? And why? See Lesson plan To solve the problem the narrator tells the little mouse to cut it in two and share it. Problem solved.	picture book mouse bear sharing literary trick first third person narrator problem solving
The Free You Starts Here	J. Waine	1984		alcoholism
In a Pickle	Marvin Terban	1984		skills Idioms
I Think I Thought	Marvin Terban	1984		skills Verbs
Centerline	J. Sweene	1984		alcoholism
Hi, daddy, here I am	Grete J. Hertz	1984		realistic fiction family rituals, relationships
On a Pale Horse	Anthony P	1984		suicide
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick	Chris Van Allsburg	1984	Illustrator left one picture from fourteen books with the title and the first sentence or caption. Great illustrations and story starters. A fictional editor's note tells of an encounter with an author and illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, each from a different picture book he had written. He left with a promise to deliver the complete manuscripts if the editor chose to buy the books. Burdick was never seen again, and the samples are all that remain of his supposed books. Readers are challenged to imagine their own stories based on the images in the book.	story starters fantasy fiction picture book
Anastasia Krupnik	Lois Lowry	1984	Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding her mother is pregnant.	realistic fiction sex roles
I Love Hanukkah	Marilyn Hirsh	1984	A young boy describes his family's celebration of Hanukkah and what he likes about the holiday.	picture book Jewish
My mommy makes money	Joyce Mitchell	1984		picture books sex roles
Moo, Baa, La La La	Sandra Boynton	1984	Picture book plays with sounds animals make and don't make. Animals include: cow, sheep, pigs,rhinoceroses, dogs, duck, horse	picture book board book animals animal sounds
A to Z	Sandra Boynton	1984	Alphabet book with animals and different actions.	picture book board book animals alphabet book

Books published in 1985
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Hey Kid! Does She Love Me?	H. Mazer	1985		unwed mother
Maggie Too	Joan Lowry Nixon	1985	A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is sent to her gradmothers in Houston for the summer .	realistic fiction remarriage stepfamilies
Women Who Love too Much	R. Norwood	1985		nonfiction effects of abuse on the family
How I Saved the World on Purpose	Susan Shreve	1985		latchkey children realistic fiction
Solomon The Rusty Nail	William Steig	1985	Solomon was an ordinary rabbit except he could turn into a rusty nail when he scratched his nose and wiggled his toes. Then when he though I am a rabbit he would turn back. He kept it a secret and startled his family and friends. One day he was hunting butterflies for his colection when a cat captured him. He turned into a nail... the cat found out his secret... cage... pounded in house, ... fire... home happy... told ... promised never to turn into a nail again, unless...	picture book wishes
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Laura Joffe Numeroff	1985		picture book concept bookpattern book cycles pattern humor
Thomas' Snowsuit	Robert Munsch	1985		picture book realistic fiction winter snow snowsuit humor
Wheels for Walking	Sandra Richmond	1985		nonfiction physically handicapped
The People Could Fly	Virginia Hamiliton	1985		legend African American Black experience multicultural
Stories to Solve	George Shannon	1985		fiction folk tale riddle book riddles problems
Dogsong	Gary Paulsen	1985		realistic fiction
Mustard	Charlotte Graebner	1985		death of a pet
Dead Birds Singing	Talbert, Marc	1985	Penetrating, agonizing novel about one boy's encounter with personal tragic car accident and how, ultimately, he learns to forgive.	death of a family member mother & sister
Hello, my name is scrambled eggs	Jamie Gilson	1985	Harvey tries to help twelve-year-old Tuan who is new in his town.	Vietnamese American
An apartment's no place for a kid	Elain Knox-Wagne	1985		latchkey children
Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	1985		realistic fiction frontier farming family marriage prairie
Eat Your Peas Louise	Peggy Snow	1985
A very touchy subject	T. Strasser	1985		sex
Science & Nature Trivia	Kathie B. Smith	1985
How Much is a Million	David M. Schwartz	1985	Number value, money, 1,000,000	number value, money, 1,000,000, mathematics, million,
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll	Franklyn M. Branley	1985
Move Over, Wheelchairs Coming Through!	Ron Roy	1985		nonfiction physically handicapped
The Remembering Box	Eth Clifford	1985		realistic ficiton Jewish
It's an Aardvark- Eat- Turtle World	P. Danziger	1985		Divorce
The Paper Crane	Molly Bang	1985	A man owns a restaurant on a busy road and makes a good living until a new road is built that diverts the traffic and nobody comes. One day a mysterious man arrivs and says he doesn't have any money, but the owner makes a meal for him and he pays for his dinner by making a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances! After he leaves word of the dancing crane spreads and people come to see it and have a meal. The resaurant does well. One day the man returnds, plays his flute and flies away on the crane.	cranes modern fiction fantasy
Anna Banana and Me	Lenore Blegvad	1985	Story of a how young girl teaches a boy how to dream and live above your fears. A friend once told me this was a Bridge to Terabithia for young readers.	realistic fiction curiosity self esteem classroom management dream ability
Remembering the Good Times	Richard Peck	1985		suicide death of a friend
Old Indian Legends	Zitkala-Sa	1985	8 books by Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) Online ebooks at this URL Impressions of an Indian Childhood 1900 An Indian Teacher Among Indians 1900 The School Days of an Indian Girl 1900 Old Indian Legends 1901 - Online 14 legends The Soft-Hearted Sioux 1901 The Trial Path October 1901 A Warrior's Daughter 1902 Why I Am a Pagan 1902	Native Americans
Ceremony of innocence	Highwater, Jamake	1985		Native Americans
Ask me if I care	Gilmour, R.	1985		Drug abuse
The Milk Makers	Gail Gibbons	1985		nonfiction milk dairy
Walter	D. Cook	1985		sex
Rajesh	Kaufman, Curt	1985		nonfiction physically handicapped
The Dark Side of the Tunnel	Naylor, P. R.	1985		responsibility
Abby, My Love	H. Irwin	1985		realistic fiction child abuse
The Quilt Story	Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola	1985		picture book realistic fiction
Father Gander Nursery Rhymes	Father Gander	1985		poetry equity gender roles sexual stereotypes, nursery Rhymes
Invention Book	Steven Caney's	1985		nonfiction
Chicken Little	Steven Kellogg	1985		picture book fairy tale relationships, telling the truth England
The Castle In The Attic	Elizabeth Winthrop	1985	William (10) has grown up with Mrs. Phillips who has been more than just a housekeeper. However, she decides he is old enough to take care of himself and is returning to England. Before she goes she gives him a present of a castle that he soon learns is magical. An interesting combination of reality and fantasy that includes magic, wizardry, knights, castles, dragons and time travel in a great adventure story. William discovers the importance to plan, make decisions based on compassion (gentle heart or ethical reasoning) and the importance of focusing ones talents to solve problems.	modern fantasy adventure gymnastics castle ethical reasoning growing up adventure
Easy as Pie; a Guessing Game of Sayings	Marcia & Michael Folsom	1985		skills
The Kids Book About Death and Dying		1985		death
Cracker Jackson	Betsy Byars	1985		realistic fiction
The stepfamily: living, loving, & learning	Elizabeth Einstein	1985		stepfamilies
Bright Shadow	Avi Wortis	1985	Morwenna (12), an assistant to the King s chambermaid, has become the most powerful wizard in the kingdom with five wishes and three stipulations: that she can t wish for more wishes, can t use on herself, and can t tell anyone she has them. An interesting thought provoking story between complicated and simple and selfishness and giving and balance yet compact.	modern fantasy fairy tale responsibility burden
And don't bring Jeremy	Marilyn Levinson	1985		realistic fiction mentally handicapped
The Patchwork Quilt	Valerie Flournoy	1985	Tanya getting over a cold wants to go outdoors. Mom sends her to see what grandma is doing. Making a patchwork quilt. Tanya learns what is special about grandma's masterpiece. Time passes as Grandma keeps collecting scraps and stories and making the quilt. Family life and Tanya. When Grandma becomes ill Tanya, with Mom's help, finish the quilt. Grandma gets better in time to help with the finishing touches. History of families, Black experience	picture book realistic fiction history of families African American black experience multicultural relationships mathematics patterns
The Cow Who Fell in the Canal	Phyllis Krasilovsky	1985		picture book realistic fiction humorous
Too hot to hoot	Marvin Terban	1985		skills
Amy, the Story of a Deaf Child	Lou Ann Walker	1985		physically handicapped
Struggle for Intimacy	J. Woititz	1985		effects of substance abuse on the family
The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito	Sheila Garrigue	1985	The fate of a 200-year-old bonsai tree is decided by a young girl and an old Japanese Canadian gardener who resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Sequel to All the Children Were Sent Away	historical fiction Japanese-American
Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	1985	The tale of believing told with stunning realistic illustrations that only Chris Van Allsburg brings to picture books. Movie backgrround Art - story mood and tone mysterious eerie word choice Theme - Believing in Christmas movie Newsweek 10-25-2004 Tom Hanks - plays 5 roles: young boy, conductor, Santa, Van Allsburg was opposed to standard animation... Zemeckis created moving paintings Created scene of train arrival outside boys house to test if it would work Every second of the movie was filmed on a 10 foot square sound stage at Sony Studios with the 72 Vicon motion-analysis cameras each with infrared light shooting out to reflect from a jewel on the actor for the computer to record its position. The shutter speed was 120 time per second with 194 jewels on each actor, 152 on the face. Computers connected the dots and then the animation took over. The ten foot space was literally all the computer could process at a time. So the picture was made literally q10 feet at a time. By capturing the the performances in 3D Zemeckis could place a virtual camera whereever he desired. They were first used in the Matrix, but only for the action sequences. In P E they were used for the entire film. So that he could get the exact performance he wanted from the actor and then later decide how he wanted to shoot it. **** Zemeckis created performance capture (194 jewels which guided 72 cameras. With one jewel on each finger they came out fat Lord of the Rings Gollum was created with an early version of performance capture. But this was first entirely film based entirely on the acting of an entirely human cast. [was some in Matrix] Digital Domain is the effects shop that is building a digital actor. Techie movies Star Wars Terminator 2 Jurassic Park Forrest Gump Who Framed Roger Rabbit Lemony Snicket The Lord of the Rings King Kong Spideramn 2 Big Fish THe Ploar Express Monster House Titan The Day After Tomorrow I Robot Aeon Flux Stealth Babe Chronicles of Riddick The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe The Day After Tomorrow The Incredibles opened five days before The Polar Express 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Zemeckis blended hand drawn animatinwith live actors. 1992 Death Becomes Her beginning bits of CG Insert Hanks into archival TV footage in Forrest Gump won directing Oscar	picture book modern fantasy Christmas Zemeckis Tom Hanks movie
Switcharound	Lois Lowry	1985	Forced to spend a summer with their father and his new family, Caroline (11) and J.P. (13) get upset and act out when they are given responsibilities.	remarriage stepfamilies
I Am Phoenix	Paul Fleischman	1985		poetry
First snow	Emily Arnold McCully	1985		picture book wordless book
I'll Always Love You	Hans Wilhelm	1985	Elfie, a dachshund, and a boy are happy together until one morning Elfie does not wake up.	picture book death of a pet

Books published in 1986
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	1986		picture book realistic fiction humor love family relationship
The Love Letters of J. Timothy Owen	T. Greene	1986		realistic fiction love
Time Enough for Drums	A. Rinaldi	1986		maturation
How Do Ants Know When You're Having a Picnic?	Joanne Settel and Nancy Baggett	1986		nonfiction science questions
Pickles Have Pimples	Judi Barrett	1986	Creative descriptions of different objects.	repetition of sounds concept book picture book
On My Honor	Marion Dane Bauer	1986	Joel's best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt.	realistic fiction death of a friend Newbery Honor
When Mom and Dad Divorce	Steven Nickman	1986		Divorce
Abiyoyo	Pete Segger	1986		poetry
Second Brother	D. Guy	1986		Inferiority
Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me	Donna Guthrie	1986		nonfiction elderly
Very Last First Time	Jan Andrews	1986		Inuit Native American Eskimo
Bobby Rex's greatest hit	M. Gringher	1986		dating
Hush Up!	Jim Aylesworth	1986		realistic fiction troublemakers classroom management
The Patch Boys	J. Panni	1986		responsibility
Seven Minutes in Heaven	J. Bernstein	1986		sex
Whiskers Once and Always	Doris Orgel	1986		realistic fiction death of a pet
The Keeper	P. R. Naylor	1986		realistic fiction maturation
Opposites	Rosalinda Kightley	1986		picture book concept book opposites mathematics
More tales from the igloo	Agnes Nanogak	1986		Native Americans
Journey to Jo'burg	Beverly Naidoo	1986		realistic fiction
Looking good	R. Krummel	1986		anorexia nervosa
50 Below Zero	Robert Munsch	1986		picture book realistic fiction winter snow snowsuit humor temperature below zero negative integers
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon	Ellen Levine	1986		nonfiction frontier wagon plains pioneer
Deer at the Brook	Jim Arnosky	1986		nonfiction animals science
The Doorbell Rang	Pat Hutchins	1986	Sharing 12 cookies	picture book realistic fiction mathematics
Old Enough	Peter Eyvindson	1986		Native Americans
The Catalogue of the Universe	M. Mahy	1986		friendship
It s Mine!	Leo Lionni	1986
Visiting Miss Pierce	P. Derby	1986		aging
Many Waters	Madeleine L'Engle	1986	Denny and Sandy in time warp	science fiction
Dinosaurs Divorce	Laurene Drasny Brown	1986		divorce
Midnight Hours Encores	H. Brooks	1986		realistic fiction abandonment
Up from Jericho Tel	E. L. Konigsburg	1986		realistic fiction latchkey children
Give and Take	N. Klein	1986		unwed mothers
The Velveteen Rabbit	Margery Williams	1986		animal fantasy
Pecos Bill	Steven Kellogg	1986		picture book legend tall tale
The Return of the Indian	Lynne Reid Banks	1986		fiction Native Americans getting along prejudice violence
Ten Black Dots	Donald Crews	1986	Number value to 10 1-1 correspondence, symbols	picture book concept book umber value to 10 1-1 correspondence, symbols mathematics
The Girl	R. Branscum	1986		family relationships
The Adrian Mole diaries	S. Townsend	1986		identity
The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters	Janet & Allan Ahlberg	1986	This creative picture book included enclosed envelopes with letters inside them addressed to fairy tale characters that were supposedly along the postman s route. Children enjoyed opening the envelops and reading the letters, which were fairly humorous. A ground breaking piece of literature.	fairy tale letters
North American Indians - myths and legends	Lewis Spence	1986		Native Americans
My First Book of Sign	Pamela J. Baker	1986		nonfiction physically handicapped hearing impaired
Kevin Corbett Eats Flies	Patricia Hermes	1986	Kevin and his friend Bailey conspire to prevent Kevin's father from moving with Kevin.	realistic fiction single parent families
Aviva's Piano	Miriam Chaikin	1986	Aviva's piano is too large to fit through the door of her home on the kibbutz, until a terrorist's bomb provides an unexpected solution.	picture book Jewish
Sheep in a Jeep	Nancy Shaw	1986	Story about sheep and a jeep. Who would have thought that a story could be made with with one syllable words that rhyme with sheep and jeep. Really there are only three words in the book with more than one syllable and they each have two. I wonder. How many one syllable words that rhyme with sheep and jeep were used?	picture book animal fantasy repetition of sounds animals sheep jeep
The Moonlight Man	Paula Fox	1986		realistic fiction divorce
Good Intentions	J. Adams	1986		delinquency
The Latchkey Kids	Susan Terris	1986	Callie (11) tries to cope with her new responsibilities when the family moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood and she becomes in charge of her younger brother.	realistic fiction latchkey children
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks	Joanna Cole	1986		nonfiction fantasy science water utilities
Yellow Bird and Me	Joyce Hansen	1986	Sequel to The Gift Giver, Doris reluctantly helps Yellow Bird, the class clown, with his reading problem and discovers a a new friend.	realistic fiction African American Black experience multicultural

Books published in 1987
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Happy Birthday, Grampie	Susan Pearson	1987	A story about a granddaughter's love for her grandfather.	picture book elderly
Short & Shivery	Robert D. San Souci	1987		fiction scary
The Friendship	Mildred Taylor	1987	Cassie Logan's and her brother's experiences in a small town in 1933, Mississippi.	historical fiction
A guide dog goes to school	Elizabeth S. Smith	1987		nonfiction physically handicapped- blind
Icebergs and Glaciers	Seymour Simon	1987		nonfiction
Sister of the Quints	Stella Pevsner	1987	Natalie (13) undergoes chaotic changes when her stepmother has quintuplets and their roomy Chicago home becomes a huge nursery.	realistic fiction remarriage stepmother
She's Not My Real Mother	Judith Vigna	1987	Miles rethinks his opinion of his stepmother when she comes to his rescue.	realistic fiction remarriage stepfamilies
No Place for Me	Barthe DeClements	1987	Copper Jones passed between her relatives while her mother is in rehab. When she lands with Aunt Maggie, a witch, she learns seventh graders can have power.	realistic fiction foster children
Rosalie	Joan Hewett	1987	Rosalie is a 16-year-old dog who is deaf, and doesn't move fast anymore. Cindy knows Rosalie is close to 100 in human years, so she is careful to meet her needs.	picture book realistic fiction dog elderly
Where the Buffaloes Begin	Olaf Baker	1987		Native Americans multicultural
A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns	Ruth Heller	1987		picture book concept book skills nouns , pattern
Rabble Starkey	Lois Lowry	1987		realistic fiction single parent families
Where's Waldo	Martin Handford	1987		riddle book puzzle search find
Where's My Monkey	Dieter Schubert	1987		picture book wordless book
Thirty Chilling Tales Short & Shivery	Robert D. San Souci	1987		collection of short stories modern fantasy scary
Jimmy D., Sidewinder and Me	O. R. Salassi	1987		realistic fiction delinquency
How to Fight a Girl	Thomas Rockwell	1987		realistic fiction
Granddaddy's Place	Helen Griffith	1987		realistic fiction elderly Companion to Georgia Music
Wheel on The Bus	Raffi	1987		poetry book song book songs to read
Mad as a wet hen	Marvin Terban	1987		skill book idioms
Shake My Sillies Out	Raffi	1987		poetry book song book song classroom management silly relaxing
Margaret's Moves	Berniece Rabe	1987		realistic fiction physically handicapped
Lizzie's Invitation	Holly Keller	1987
The Crossing	D. Paulsen	1987		realistic fiction belonging
Hand Talk Birthday	Remy Charlip and Mary Beth Miller	1987		realistic fiction physically handicapped
The Unbelievable Bubble Book	John Cassidy	1987		nonfiction how to science bubbles activities
How to Draw Animals	Anita Ganeri and Judy Tatchell	1987		nonfiction how to book drawing
Lincoln A Photo Biography	Russell Freedman	1987	This is by far the best and most accurate story about Lincoln, that doesn't go above 160 pages, and includes actual photographs and drawings. 1846 - first Lincoln Photo Assassinated on the evening of April 14, 1865	nonfiction Lincoln
Raccoons and Ripe Corn	Jim Arnosky	1987		picture book corn animals science
School	Emily Arnold McCully	1987		picture book wordless book
After the Rain	N. F. Mazer	1987		aging
Knots on a Counting Rope	Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault	1987		realistic fiction physically handicapped- blind
Mac	J. Maclean	1987		child abuse
Hattie and the Fox	Mem Fox	1987	Australian author born Melbourne Web site reads her books and advocates read aloud every day She is a politician in So. Australia Also Possum Magic (1983) Harriet You ll Drive Me Wild Koala Lou (1988) - popular in U.S. Hattie and the Fox Time for Bed (1993) - most popular in U.S. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (1984) - popular in U.S. The Goblin and the Empty Chair (2009) Also Harriet You ll Drive Me Wild Koala Lou Hattie and the Fox Time for Bed	picture book patterned language global Australia
Eggs on Your Nose	Ann McGovern	1987		concept book patterns language
Joey and the Girls	J. D. Lands	1987		love
Owl Moon	Jane Yolen	1987		picture book imagery
Page Four	S. S. Klass	1987		Abandonment
Peanut Butter and Jelly	Nadine Bernard Westcott	1987		picture book concept book play rhyme pattern book
Hotel Boy	Curt and Gita Kaufman	1987	ages 4-8 From School Library Journal Grade 1-3 Henri lives with his mother and his brother in one room in a hotel in New York City's Upper West Side. Their Brooklyn apartment has been destroyed by fire and they are waiting for new housing. Henri tells about his life, concentrating on those aspects of his life which he has in common with other children his age. He goes to the zoo; he celebrates a sixth birthday; he suffers shyness when meeting new classmates; he attends a good-bye party for a friend. He describes his life as a hotel child in terms that would make it concrete for a child his age: he talks about his boredom in the confines of the room; the loss of his toys in the fire; not being allowed to breakdance in the hotel lobby; his worry about his mother's sadness. At the conclusion of the book, an apartment has been found for his family. Henri's voice is that of any five-year-old: exuberant and matter-of-fact. The photographs give a natural and believable picture of the family and their surroundings without seeming posed or overdramatic. They are clearly reproduced and carefully positioned to reflect both the factual and emotional content of the text. Henri's way of life is portrayed honestly while allowing Henri to emerge as a person, rather than as a Hundredth Neediest Case.Christine Behrmann, New York Public Library	realistic fiction African American Black experience multicultural
Kim/Kimi	H. Irwin	1987		identity
The Elizabeth Stories	I. Huggan	1987		inferiority
Gold Cadillac	Mildred Taylor	1987		historical fiction African American Black experience multicultural Cadillac family social
The Tiny Seed	Eric Carle	1987	See an activity for The Tiny Seed	picture book concept book science plants seed
Dots, Spots, Speckles, and Stripes	Tana Hoban	1987		picture book concept book properties classification
26 Letters and 99 Cents	Tana Hoban	1987	Combinations of coins to .99	picture book concept book mathematics money, combinations of coins to .99
War Comes to Willy Freeman	James and Christopher Collier	1987	Father dies in Revolutionary war Willy searches for her mother Disguises herself as a boy Discovered and treated as a slave Rated poorly at Amazon 2.?	historical fiction multicultural
Moira's Birthday	Robert Munsch	1987	Great picture book and unusual story of a rocking good birthday party.	picture book realistic fiction mathematics problem solving addition multiplication humor
A Family Like Yours: Breaking the Patterns of Drug Abuse	Sorensen & Bernal Guillermo	1987		substance abuse treatment
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth	Joanna Cole	1987		nonfiction fantasy earth science geology
A New Mother for Martha	Phyllis Green	1987	Martha, first grader, struggles with her father's second marriage and stubbornly insists her dead mother will soon return.	picture book stepmothers
Old Henry	Joan Blos	1987		realistic fiction elderly
Fitchett's Folly	Colby Rodowsky	1987	Sarey, resents Faith, a new family member, blaming her for her father's death. Which occurred when he saved Faith from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast.	death of a father realistic fiction
Mothers Can Do Anything	Joe Lasker	1987	Explores occupations of mothers: plumber, dentist, subway conductor, and others.	sex roles picture book
Two Under Par	Kevin Henkes	1987	Wedge (10) isn't havppy he has a new stepfamily and new house far away from his friends. His bedroom window overlooks a seven-foot castle on the eighteenth hole of his stepfather's miniature golf course.	realistic fiction remarriage stepfamilies
Goodbye, Max	Holly Keller	1987	Ben blames his parents for the death of his dog, Max. And doesn't want a new puppy.	picture book death of a pet

Books published in 1988
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
Airmail to the Moon	Tom Birdseye	1988		picture book realistic fiction families lost
Why Doesn't the Earth Fall Up?	Vicki Cobb	1988		nonfiction science earth gravity forces
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush	Tomie de Paola	1988		legend Native American
Kites Sail High A Book About Verbs	Ruth Heller	1988		concept book skill book language verbs
The Glow in the Dark Night Sky Book	Clint Hatchett	1988		nonfiction constellations , earth science astronomy reference book
Find Waldo Now	Martin Handford	1988		riddle book puzzle search find
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	1988	Brian Robeson (13) is flying to visit his father for the first time since his parents divorce. The single-engine plane crashes, kills the pilot, and Brian survives. Alone in the Canadian wilderness with only his clothes and the hatchet his mother gave him Consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns to make a shelter, hunt, fish, forage for food, and make a fire. He is finally rescued after fifty-four days he is more patience and maturity with a greater understanding of himself and his parents.	realistic fiction survival divorce adventure mystery
Digging to China	Rawlins, Donna	1988	Young girl digs to China	realistic fiction young girl digs to China map relative position Earth center mathematics
The Keeping Quilt	Patricia Polacco	1988	The Butterfly ( Junkyard Wonders Chicken Sunday Mrs. Katz and Tush (1992) The Keeping Quilt (1988) Picnic At Mudsock Meadow (1992) Thunder Cake (1990) Pink and Say (1994) Thank you, Mr. Falker (1998)	picture book Russian family
When The Tripods Came	John Christopher	1988		science fiction science future machines survival
Iktomi and the Boulder	Paul Goble	1988		picture book fable legend Native American
How Many Snails? A Counting Book	Paul Giganti Jr.	1988		picture book concept book mathematics numbers counting concept book
Black Star, Bright Dawn	Scott O' Dell	1988		realistic fiction
Duck Tales The Secret City Under the Sea	Paul Newman	1988		realistic fiction
Matilda	Roald Dahl	1988		realistic fiction
How Is A Crayon Made?	Oz Charles	1988		nonfiction how to manufacturing crayons
Keepers of the Earth	Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac	1988	A collection of 21 Native American stories and many related activities about living, learning, and caring. It is an interdisciplinary program of study about Earth and Native American cultures and their ties to the Earth. The activities help explore the environment and engage each person's emotions, senses, thoughts, and actions to explore and expand their ideas of themself and their relationship to Earth and sustainability. Activities include art, theater, reading, writing, science, social studies, math, and sensory awareness.	Native American wildlife Earth activities ecology environmental issues sustainability culture
One Day in the Woods	Jean Craighead George	1988		picture book nonfiction science woods environment
What It Feels Like to be a Building	Forrest Wilson	1988		picture book concept book nonfiction
A Promise is a Promise	Robert Munsch	1988		picture book realistic fiction humor promises family relationship truth
I Like Me!	Nancy Carlson	1988
Say goodnight, Gracie	J. R. Deaver	1988		love
Pattern	Pluckrose	1988		mathematics
The King's Chessboard	David Birch	1988	Proud King gift of rice double every day for each square on checker board	picture book legend mathematics double pattern
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices	Paul Fleischman	1988	Great to introduce poetry ... and get a class or group involved!	poetry coral poetry
What Are You Figuring Now?	Jeri Ferris	1988
Dragon Sword and Wind Child	Noriko Ogiwara	1988	First American edition 1993 Japaneese author Saya is chosen by Prince Tsukishiro, son of the God of Light to be his bride. The people of Darkness claim that she is the reincarnation of their princess, the Water Maiden. She accepts the Prince s proposal and begins to question if the conflict between light and dark is as simple as good vs. evil.	mythology legend ancient Japan dragon sword princess global
Goldilocks and the Three Bears	James Marshall	1988		picture book fairy tale
Science Puzzles	Jim and Jean Anton	1988		puzzle book science
Memory	M. Mahy	1988		identity
The Way Things Work	David Macaulay	1988		nonfiction refrence building science
A Sudden Silence	Eve Bunting	1988		death
Science for the Fun of It	National Science Teachers Association	1988		nonfiction science activities
Catwings	Ursula K. Le Guin	1988	Very creative. Mrs. Jane Tabby's four kittens are born with wings. They can fly from the dangerous city to the country, but life there has its problems.	modern fantasy
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery	Graeme Base	1988	Delicately beautifully illustrated story of Horace the Elephant's eleventh birthday party. While the main mystery is who stole the birthday cake? There are puzzles on every page and throughout the story. There is a sealed solution section at the back, but knowing that once opened the fun and curiosity ends, who would want to break the seal?	picture book animal fantasy mystery puzzles problem solving
The Devil's Arithmetic	Jane Yolen	1988		Jewish
The Chanukkah Guest	Eric A. Kimmel	1988		picture book animal fantasy Jewish Chanukkah
Following the Yellow Brick Road	Joy Miller and Marianne Ripper	1988	Analogies from the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz are used to assist older children of alcoholics who are seeking personal recovery. The information is also helpful for anybody who were raised in family turmoil.	self help effects of substance abuse on the family
Follow The Drinking Gourd	Jeanette Winter	1988		picture book historical fiction Black history American history
Free Fall	David Wiesner	1988		picture book modern fantasy
Tacky the Penguin	Helen Lester	1988	Classic children s picture book of Tacky the penguin that is different than all the other penguins. Who just can t tolerate his differences. Until one day a series of events unfold that could be the end of their existence. However, Tacky s bizare behjaviors saves the day.	picture book animal fantasy classroom management being different relationships
Just My Friend and Me	Mercer Mayer	1988
My name is nobody	M. C. Wartski	1988		suicide
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World	Mildred Pitts Walter	1988	Justin struggles with his role as a male in a family dominated by females. While he arrives at grandfather's ranch he expects to ride horses and heard cattle, but soon discovers there are chores that need to be done, that there is no such thing as women s work, and biscuits to be baked. Not just biscuits, but the best biscuits in the world. A Coretta Scott King Award winner with references to black cowboys, night riders, and the role they had in the west and the creation of rodeos. Plot is slow, a black homesteader s hand is cut off, and the use of n*****. \| Evelyn Haydia Mother Grandpa	realistic fiction African American Black experience multicultural family growing up sisters single parent
Yonder	Tony Johnston	1988		verse fiction
Scorpions	Walter Dean Myers	1988	A story about a poor family who can just barely eke it out on the edge. Jamal (12) is from Harlem. When his brother Randy goes to jail, Jamal is asked to take his brother s place as the leader of the gang Scorpions. Not a good idea. However, Mack puts pressure on Tito to do so and provides him with a gun to seal the deal. Jamal and Tito can t see any other way to get the money needed to appeal Randy s 10-15 year conviction with the earliest possibility of parole - seven years. Character development is well written and the conflict between characters and their decisions is credible and realistic for too many unfortunate young boys.	realistic fiction
Look! Look! Look!	Tana Hoban	1988
Spectacles	Ellen Raskin	1988	Iris Fogel says that she sees a fire-breathing dragon and a giant pygmy nuthatch. Her readers will see, by flipping the pages, that it's just Great-aunt Fanny and her friend Chester. Iris finally gets glasses and sees things in a different--and clearer--way!	picture book nearsighted wearing glasses

Books published in 1989
Title	Author	Publication date	Summaries & Notes	Genre & themes
More to Life Than Mr. Right	Rosemary Stones (compiler)	1989	Collection of short stories to empower the adolescent female reader. Fantastic stories that every adolescent girl should read. Powerful.	anthology realistic fiction female relationships adolescent coming of age growing up
Dear Mom You're Ruining My Life	Van Leeuwen, Jean	1989		realistic fiction parenting family interactions classroom management
Many Luscious Lollipops A Book About Adjectives	Ruth Heller	1989		picture book skilll book concept book djectives, pattern book
The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs	Jon Scieszka	1989	The delightful picture story that started an avalanche of retellings of fairy tales. Just think of those pigs lying there as a juicy hamburger, what would you do?	picture book folk tale retelling wolf three little pigs started retellings
The Great Waldo Search	Martin Handford	1989		riddle book puzzle search find
If You Made a Million	Schwartz, David M.	1989	Number value, money, 1,000,000	picture book concept book umber value, money 1,000,000 mathematics million
Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School	Sachar, Louis	1989	Puzzles and quizzes	puzzle book riddle book mathematics
We Remember The Holocaust	David A. Adler	1989	First person stories from survivors that describe Jewish life in Europe before the 1930's and Hitler's violent rise to power. Humiliations of Nazi rule, the struggle of families, the fight for survival in the ghettos, and the horror of the concentration camps. The stories along with illustrations of original photographs make this a powerful contribution to a history that must never be forgotten.	historical fiction war holocaust Jewish multicultural
The Boy Who Lost His Face	Louis Sachar	1989	David s best friend Scott rejects him to join in the popular group. What s worse he joins in the harassment of Mrs. Bayfield. He feels he she has cursed him and bad things begin to happen as he also begins insulting everyone. He hits bottom when Tori, a girl he likes sees his pants fall down. Some new friends help him to eventually stand up to Scott. Ample name calling, street language, and some obscenities. The story is also weakened by a final chapter set a hundred fifty years in the future where students are still picking on each other and one student wishes he were more like David Ballinger who is memorialized with a plaque and by making his birthday a school holiday.
Ancient Egypt	Elain Raphael, and Don Bolognese	1989		nonfiction Egypt
Just A Nap	Mercer Mayer	1989		picture book
Pass the Quill, I'll Write a Draft A Story of Thomas Jefferson	Robert Quackenbush	1989	A picture book with the story of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the men that wrote it.	nonfiction Jefferson writing declaration of independence writing revolution United States history
Is There Life On Other Planets?	Isaac Asimov	1989		nonfiction astronomy life science aliens
The Principal's New Clothes	Stephanie Calmenson	1989	Measurements	picture book mathematics measurement
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed	Eileen Christelow	1989		poetry verse pattern counting mathematics number value
The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book	Jerry Pallotta	1989		picture book concept book alphabet book reptiles
Box Turtle at Long Pond	William T. George	1989		nonfiction science pond environment
The Call of the Wolves	Jim Murphy	1989		realistic fiction
Pigs	Robert Munsch	1989		picture book animal fantasy humor school pigs
The Butterfly Jar	Jeff Moss	1989		poetry
Mysteries & Marvels of Ocean Life	Rick Morris	1989		nonfiction science ocean environment
My Five Senses	Aliki	1989		science, senses, properties, observation
The Black Snowman	Phil Mendez	1989	Jacob and his brother make a snowman, find a Kente cloth, put it on, and the magic begins. First book Phil wrote I have a reader s theater	picture book realistic fiction Kente African American Black experience multicultural
Which Witch is Which?	Pat Hutchins	1989	Can you tell which twin is which?	modern fantasy mathematics patterns twin
Koala Lou	Mem Fox	1989		picture book koala bear global Australia
My Name Is Not Angelica	Scott O' Dell	1989		realistic fiction
Anno's Math Games II	Mitsumasa Anno	1989	Function, measurement, patterns	picture book mathematics
I Am Phoenix Poems for Two Voices	Paul Fleischman	1989		coral poetry birds
Cock Doodle Dudly	Bill Peet	1989	Gunther, a jealous and bad-tempered goose, sets out to prove that popular rooster Dudley is a phony in claiming that he causes the sun to rise every morning.	picture book
Spring is Here	Taro Gomi	1989
Eating the Alphabet	Lois Ehlert	1989		picture book concept book alphabet book
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault	1989	Alphabet book in rhyme and rhythm that children enjoy over and over again.	concept book alphabet book picture book
The Braggin' Dragon	Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault	1989
Rescue of the Stranded Whales	Kenneth Mallory	1989		nonfiction environmental whales stranded ocean
Ten For Dinner	Jo Ellen Bogart	1989		mathematics
Number The Stars	Lois Lowry	1989	Story of how Annemarie Johannese (10) and her family harbors her best friend Ellen Rosen in Denmark as the Danish resistance and population smuggle Jews from Nazi occupation to Sweden. Action packed adventure that captures the intensity and seriousness of what the characters were attempting and the Danes actions during World War II.	historical fiction World War II Jewish holocaust problem solving multicultural
Animal Rights	David L. Bender & Bruno Leone	1989		nonfiction science animal rights, opposing views
Wayside School s Falling Down	Louis Sachar	1989
Chemistry for Every Kid	Janice VanCleave	1989		nonfiction science, chemistry activities
The Art Lesson	Tomie de Paola	1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China	Ed Young	1989	A delightful water color picture book that depicts and tells the story of a big bad wolf disguised as the three sisters grandmother. A three panel Chinese layout along with light and dark colors is used to depict realistic and imaginary frames of this fairy tale displayed across a two page layout. The fate of this wolf is sealed when the three girls coax him into a basket to raise him into the tree in which they are hiding with the promise of ginkgo nuts to eat. Not likely as the sisters let the poor wolf in grandma clothing fall to her death.	picture book fairy tale responsibility fear wolf art
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body	Joanna Cole	1989		nonfiction science anatomy
Carl Goes Shopping	Alexandra Day	1989		picture book mostly wordless boook
The Creepy, Crawly Book with Reusable Stickers	Bobbi Katz	1989		nonfiction science insects animals
Mouse Paint	Ellen Stoll Walsh	1989	A whimsical picture book of three creative mice that get into three open containers of paint and pitter-patter through the story. Created as a paper collage and red, blue, and yellow that is supposedly made from the mice s haphazard and creative interactions with the paint. A delightful story with interesting results that children can explore on their own if the are fortunate enough to have an adult provide them with their own personal paint mixing experiences.	picture book modern fantasy colors mouse creativity
Search for Sam and 100's of other things	Anthony Tallarico	1989		Riddle
Hurray for Ali Baba Bernstein	Johanna Hurwitz	1989
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon	Mike Thaler	1989
Desert Giant	Barbara Bash	1989		picture book nonfiction science nature desert

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