Read-Aloud Books
Too Good To Miss

2005-2006 Read-Aloud Books Too Good To Miss

Primary School (Grades K-3)

Auch, Mary Jane and Herm Auch. Souperchicken. Holiday House. 2003.

Crimi, Carolyn. Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies. Candlewick Press. 2005.

Greene, Rhonda Gowler. This is the Teacher. Dutton Children’s Books. 2004.

Hopkinson, Deborah and Nancy Carpenter. Applse to Oregon: Being the Slightly True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 2004.

Lester, Helen. Hurty Feelings. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2004.

McKissack, Patricia. Precious and the Boo Hag. Atheneum Books. 2004.

Newman, Lesleau. The Boy Who Cried Fabulous. Ten Speed Press. 2004.

Orloff, Karen Laufman. I Wanna Iguana. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 2004.

Palatini, Margie. The Three Silly Billies. Simon and Schuster. 2005.

Reynolds, Aaron. Chicks and Salsa. Bloomsbury Children’s Book. 2005.

Rosoff, Meg and Sophie Blackall. Meet Wild Boars. Henry Holt and Company. 2005.

Salley, Coleen. Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail. Harcourt, Inc. 2004.

Intermediate School (Grades 4-6)

Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. Scholastic. 2004.

Colfer, Eoin. Th eEoin Colfer’s Legend of Spud Murphy.. Hyperion Books for Children. 2004.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. A House of Tailors. Random House Children. 2005.

Hannigan, Katherine. Ida B. … and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World. HarperCollins Publishers. 2004.

Moss, Marissa. Mighty Jackie: The Strike Out Queen. Simon and Shuster. 2004.

Park, Linda Sue. Project Mulberry. Clarion Books. 2005.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Becoming Naomi Leon. Scholastic. 2004.

St. George, Judith. So You Want to Be an Inventor? Philomel Books. 2002.

Velde, Vivian Vande. Three Good Deeds. Harcourt. 2005.

Yoo, Paula. Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story. Lee and Low Books, Inc. 2005.

Young Adult

Auch, M.J. Wing Nut. Henry Holt and Company, 2005

Auster, Paul editor. I Thought My Father was God. 2001.

Barrett, Tracy. Cold in Summer. Henry Holt and Company, 2003.

Bodett, Tom. Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier: A Novel in Stories.. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004

Boyce, Frank Cottrell. Millions Macmillian. 2004.

Cooney, Caroline B. Code Orange. Delacorte Press, 2005.

Creech, Sharon. Heartbeat. Joanna Cotler Books, 2004.

Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Sharon M. Draper. We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Let to Success. Dutton, 2005.

Deuker, Carl. Runner. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light. Harcourt, Inc., 2003.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Escape from Memory. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.

Konigsburg, E.L. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. Atheneum, 2004.

Lubar, David. Sleeping Freshman Never Lie. Dutton, 2005.

Mosley, Walter. 47. Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn, 2004.

Paulsen, Gary. The Time Hackers. Wendy Lamb Books, 2005.

Peck, Richard. The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts. Dial Books, 2004.

Reese, Celia. Pirates! Bloomsbury, 2003.

Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief. Miramax, 2005.

Soto, Gary. Accidental Love. Harcourt, Inc., 2006.

Scieszka, Jon. Guys Write for Guys Read. Viking, 2005.

Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Scholastic, 2004.

Summer, Barbara. Open the Unusual Door: True Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans. Graphia, 2005.

Trueman, Terry. Inside Out. Harpertempest, 2003.

Wolf, Allan. New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery. Candlewick, 2004.

Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Ageless

Anderson, M.T. Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. Candlewick Press. 2005.

Goodall, Jane and Alexander Reichstein. The Eagle and the Wren. North-South Books. 2000.

Hest, Amy. Mr. George Baker. Candlewick. 2004.

Lewis, J. Patrick. Please Bury Me in the Library. Harcourt, Inc. 2005.

Markham, Beryl. The Good Lion. Adapted and illustrated by Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2005.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. When Marian Sang. Scholastic. 2002.

Scieszka, Jon. Science Verse. Penguin Putman. 2004.

Sierra, Judy. Wild About Books. Alfred A. Knopf. 2004.

Smith, David J. If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People. Kids Can Press. 2002.