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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Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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Darlene | Greenfield, Eloise | 1981 | realistic fiction handicapping conditions | |
Johnny's in the Basement | Louis Sachar | 1981 | realistic fiction |
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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. Cassie realizes what it means to grow up black and powerless, but her family stand together, with courage, love and understanding against prejudices. |
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 |
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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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Just Us Women | Jeannette Caines | 1982 | realistic fiction African American Black experience multicultural | |
Skinny-Bones | Barbara Park | 1982 | realistic fiction |
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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 | ![]() |
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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 |
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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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
To solve the problem the narrator tells the little mouse to cut it in two and share it. |
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 |
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Moo, Baa, La La La | Sandra Boynton | 1984 | ![]() |
picture book board book animals animal sounds |
A to Z | Sandra Boynton | 1984 | ![]() |
picture book board book animals alphabet book |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() |
cranes modern fiction fantasy |
Anna Banana and Me | Lenore Blegvad | 1985 | ![]() |
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
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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 |
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Father Gander Nursery Rhymes | Father Gander | 1985 | ![]() |
poetry equity gender roles sexual stereotypes, nursery Rhymes |
Invention Book | Steven Caney's | 1985 | nonfiction |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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First snow | Emily Arnold McCully | 1985 | picture book wordless book |
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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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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 |
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Pecos Bill | Steven Kellogg | 1986 | picture book legend tall tale |
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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 | ![]() |
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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() 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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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Duck Tales The Secret City Under the Sea | Paul Newman | 1988 | realistic fiction |
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Matilda | Roald Dahl | 1988 | realistic fiction |
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How Is A Crayon Made? | Oz Charles | 1988 | nonfiction how to manufacturing crayons | |
Keepers of the Earth | Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac | 1988 |
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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
Title | Author | Publication date | Summaries & Notes | Genre & themes |
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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 |
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Pass the Quill, I'll Write a Draft A Story of Thomas Jefferson | Robert Quackenbush | 1989 | ![]() |
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 |
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Pigs | Robert Munsch | 1989 | ![]() |
picture book animal fantasy humor school pigs |
The Butterfly Jar | Jeff Moss | 1989 | poetry |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
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 |
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The Creepy, Crawly Book with Reusable Stickers | Bobbi Katz | 1989 | nonfiction science insects animals | |
Mouse Paint | Ellen Stoll Walsh | 1989 | ![]() |
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 |