Six Trait Writing Booklist
Titles available at the Kinry Road Library
ORGANIZATION
398.2 BRE
Brett, Jan. The Mitten: a Ukrainian folktale.
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
808.06 CHR
Christelow, Eileen. What Do Authors Do?
A fresh and funny look at how books are made.
921 ELLINGTON
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Duke Ellington: the piano prince and his orchestra.
A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer, who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
921 GALILEO
Sis, Peter. Starry Messenger: a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei.
Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
921 PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. My Life in Dog Years.
The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
929.9 RYA
Ryan, Pam Munoz. The Flag We Love.
Presents a lyrical journey through the history of America's national flag.
FIC BAN
Bang, Molly. When Sophie Gets Angry--: really, really angry—
When Sophie gets angry, she goes outside and runs, cries, climbs her favorite tree--and then, calmed by the breeze, she is soon ready to go back home.
FIC CHE
Cherry, Lynne. The Great Kapok Tree: a tale of the Amazon rain forest.
The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
FIC CRO
Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: cows that type.
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
FIC GRO
Grossman, Bill. My Little Sister Ate One Hare.
Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.
FIC LOV
Lovell, Patty. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon.
Even when the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her and she feels good about herself.
FIC MAC
Macaulay, David. Black and White.
Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.
FIC NUM
Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
FIC PEC
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from Chicago: a novel in stories.
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
FIC POL
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say.
Chronicles the friendship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
FIC SAC
Sachar, Louis. Holes.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
FIC SHU
Shulevitz, Uri. Snow.
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
FIC VAN
Van Allsburg, Chris. Two Bad Ants.
When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.
FIC WIE
Wiesner, David. June 29, 1999.
While her third-grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Becky has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.
FIC WIE
Wiesner, David. Tuesday.
Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.
ORGANIZATION – updated 11/19/2008