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Reading Power Booklist (spring 2010)

CONNECT
Primary / Happy Belly, Happy Smile – Rachel Isadora (Chinese market, meals)
What Should I Make? – Nandini Nayar (making chapattis with mum)
Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don’t) – Barbara Bottner
The Feelings Book – Todd Parr
I Don’t Want to Go to School – Stephanie Blake (“no way!”)
You’re Mean, Lily Jean – Frieda Wishinsky
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears – Emily Gravett
Good Night Vancouver – David Adams
Start Saving Henry – Nancy Carlson (saving allowance)
All Kinds of Families – Mary Ann Hoberman
Bullies Never Win – Margery Cuyler
Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth – Sarah Weeks
Today was a Terrible Day – Patricia Reilly Giff
Yes Day! – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Wonder Book – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
CONNECTIntermediate
Gr. 4-7 / I Know Here – Laurel Croza
Would I Trade My Parents? – Laura Numeroff
Looking Like Me – Walter Dean Myers (great rap rhythm)
One of Those Days – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Kids and Their Quirks: Poems we can all relate too – Ricky Del Rosario
QUESTION
Primary / Why? – Richard Torrey
The Great Paper Caper – Oliver Jeffers
Bad Boys – Margie Paletini
Archie and the Pirates – Marc Rosenthal
George, the Dragon and the Princess - Christopher Wormell
The Wild Girl – Christopher Wormell
Beware of the Frog – William Be
QUESTION Intermediate / Voyage to the Pharos – Sarah Gauch (Greek history, Alexandria)
Goal! – Mina Javaherbin
Smoky Night – Eve Bunting (riots)
Muktar and the Camels – Janet Graber (Somalia, Kenya, injured camel)
The Red Sash – Jean E. Pendziwol (historical Canada 1800’s fur trading)
Waiting for the Owl’s Call – Gloria Whelan (young girl Afghanastan)
The Princess Blanket – Carol Ann Duffy
Erika’s Story – Ruth Vander Zee (also infer) (Holocaust survival story)
A Roomful of Questions – Tracy Gallup
VISUALIZE
Primary / On My Walk – Kari-Lynn Winters
The Listening Walk – Paul Showers
A Sea Wishing Day – Robert Heidbreder
Alego – Ningeokuluk Teevee (Inuit child and grandmother beach combing) connect
Just a Walk – Jordan Wheeler (first nations, walk through the woods)
Tell me a Dragon – Jackie Morris
It’s Snowing – Olivier Dunrea
I Love Bugs – Emma Dodd
Big Chickens Go To Town – Leslie Helakoski
The Green Line – Polly Farquharson (walk through the park)
My Garden – Kevin Henkes
VISUALIZE
Intermediate / The Longest Night – Marion Dane Bauer
Things That Are Most in the World – Judi Barrett
Twilight Comes Twice – Ralph Fletcher
Fireflies – Julie Brinckloe
Come On Rain! – Karen Hesse
Every Second Something Happens – poems for the mind and the senses – Christin San Jose
INFER
Primary / Jeremy Draws a Monster – Peter McCarty
Henry In Love – Peter McCartny
Ferocious Wild Beasts – Chris Wormell
Spot the Plot – Jay Patrick Lewis
What About Bear? – Suzanne Bloom
Shark Vs. Train – Chris Barton
INFER
Intermediate / Dear Vampa – Ross Collins
Home – Jeannie Baker (also Window)
The Lion and the Mouse – Jerry Pinkney(Caldacott winner)
If Sarah Will Take Me – David Bouchard
Zen Ghosts – Jon Muth (also Zen Ties)
Wolf Wanted – Laurent Cardon (letter writing)
TRANSFORM
Primary / Princess Arabella’s Birthday – Mylo Freeman (buy an elephant for spoiled child)
The Little Hummingbird – Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Jack the Bear – Christina Leist
Willow’s Whispers – Lana Button
Sugar Cookies – Sweet little lessons on love – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace – James Proimos
A Very Big Bunny – Marisabina Russo (exclusion)
TRANSFORM
Intermediate / Mama Miti – Donna Jo Napoli (change country tree by tree)
Say Something – Peggy Moss (bullying - role of bystander)
Ella’s Umbrella’s – Jennifer Llyod
E is for Ethics – How To Talk To Kids About Morals, Values and What Matters Most (26 read-aloud stories) – Ian James Corlett

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