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Page 1: PICTURE BOOKS THAT ENRICH A CHILD’S SPIRIT · PICTURE BOOKS THAT ENRICH A CHILD’S SPIRIT Preschool ... Dinosaurs to the Rescue: ... Home – Jeannie Baker - X Honey Paw and Lightfoot

PICTURE BOOKS THAT ENRICH A CHILD’S SPIRIT

Preschool – 5th

Grade

Books are listed by Accelerated Reading (AR) Level and point reward. AR Level is

NOT based on content but vocabulary and length of book. Parents and teachers may

need to guide students to content appropriate to their maturity level.

The AR program differentiates content by:

LG (Lower Grade) - PreK-3rd

MG (Middle Grade) - 4th

-8th

MG+ (Middle Grade Plus) – 6th

and up

UG (Upper Grade) – 9th

– 12th

Anxiety

Bullying

Changes

Christmas

Creation

Conflict

Courage (Animal Stories)

Courage (People – Fiction and Non-Fiction)

Creativity

Easter

Exploration

Family

Feelings

Friendship

Generosity

God

Grief

Humility

Illness

Imperfection

Kindness

Manners

Pity

Perspective

Pets

Poetry

Prayers

Quests

Racism

Responsibility

Self-Esteem

Selfishness

Truth-Telling

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Anxiety Franklin and the Thunderstorm – Bourgeois – 2.5/.5

Henny Penny – Galdone – 3.9/.5

Scaredy Squirrel- Watt - 3.6/.5

Wemberly Worried – Henkes – 2.7/.5

What Was I Scared Of? – Dr. Seuss – 2.9/.5

Bullying

Better Than You – Ludwig – 3.3/.5

Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain – Romain - X

Chrysanthemum – Henkes – 3.9/.5

Confessions of a Former Bully – Ludwig – 4.4/.5

Don’t Call Me Special – Thomas – X

Don’t Laugh at Me – Seskin and Shamblin-1.6/.5

Enemy Pie-3.2/.5

Franklin’s Secret Club – Bourgeois – 3.2/.5

Just Kidding – Ludwig – 3.2/.5

King of the Playground-2.6/.5

The Meanest Thing to Say – Cosby-2.2/.5

My Secret Bully – Ludwig – 3.4/.5

Sorry! – Ludwig – 3.2/.5

The Recess Queen – O’Neill - 3/3.5

The Report Card – Clements – 4.9/5

Too Perfect – Ludwig – 3.2/.5

Trouble Talk – Ludwig – 4.1/.5

Changes Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families – Brown – 4.4/.5

The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House - X

Christmas

A Gift from Saint Francis – Cole – X

A Small Miracle (Christmas) – Collington - X

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Christmas) - X

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey – Wojciechowski – 4.5/.5

The Fourth Wise Man – Van Dyke/Summers – 5.2/.5

Great Joy – DiCamillo- 3.5/.5

The Legend of the Christmas Tree – Osbourne - X

One Wintry Night – X

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Haidle – X

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Christmas) - X

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Creation

The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle – Inches – 4.2/.5

All Things Bright and Beautiful – Alexander – 2.2/.5

Chameleons Are Cool – Jenkins – 4.3/.5

Dinosaurs to the Rescue: A Guide to Protecting Our Planet – Brown - X

Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth – Wood – 4.1/.5

Home – Jeannie Baker - X

Honey Paw and Lightfoot – London – 3.7/.5

How to Heal a Broken Wing – Graham - X

Letting Swift River Go – Yolen – 4.4/.5

Little Cloud – Carle – 1.9/.5

The Little House – Burton – 2.8/.5

The Little Island – Brown – 3.6/.5

Little Pinto of Mustang Canyon – London – 3.9/.5

The Lorax – Dr. Seuss – 3.1/.5

The Mountain – Parnall - X

Miss Rumphius – Cooney-3.8/.5

My Pony – Jeffers – 2.5/.5

Out of the Ocean – Frasier – 3.2/.5

Over in the Meadow – Keats – 2.6/.5

Owl Moon – Yolen – 2.9/.5

Planting a Rainbow – Ehlert – 2.6/.5

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? – Carle – 2.1/.5

The Seal and the Slick – Freeman - X

Sunflower House – Bunting – 2.4/.5

Thank You, World – McGinty – 2.4/.5

Tree of Birds – Meddaugh - X

Turtle Summer – Monroe – 4.5/.5

Where Have the Unicorns Gone? – Yolen – 4.3/.5

Wings Along the Waterway – Brown – 7/1

Zinnia’s Flower Garden – Wellington – 2.7/.5

Conflict The Butter Battle Book – Dr. Seuss – 3.9/.5

Courage (Animals)

Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse – Lionni-3/.5

The Bravest Dog Ever: The Story of Balto – Standiford – 2.0/.5

Clifford and the Big Storm – Bridwell – 2.1/.5

The Crippled Lamb-Lucado-3.2/.5

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes – Heyward – 4.5/.5

Dr. White – Goodall – 3.5/.5

The Eagle and the Wren – Reichstein-X

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Ibis – Himmelman – 3.4/.5

Kiya the Gull – Lasell - X

The Little Engine That Could – Piper2.9/.5

Little Toot – Gramatzky – 4.7/.5

The Rossman – Guerry - X

Stellaluna – Cannon – 3.5/.5

Stickeen – Muir – 4.4/.5

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig – 4.0/.5

Tiger Can’t Sleep – Fore – 1.8/.5

Winter’s Tail – Hatkoff – 7.0/1

Verdi – Cannon – 3.4/.5

The Very Clumsy Click-Beetle – Carle - 2.8/.5

Widget – McFarland – 1.5/.5

Winter’s Tail – Hatkoff – 7/1

Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss – 3.3/.5

Courage (People)

The Butterfly – Polacco – 3.8/.5

The Carrot Seed – Krauss-1.9/.5

Coat of Many Colors – Parton - X

Columbus – S’Aulaire - X

Courage – Waber – 3.3/.5

Dear Benjamin Banneker – Pinkney – 6.4/.5

Eleanor – Cooney – 4.7/.5

Everybody Says – Dobkin – 1.2/.5

Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler – 3.6/.5

Freedom Summer – Wiles – 3.2/.5

The Gardener – Stewart – 3.9/.5

Heather Whitestone – 4.2/.5

If I Only Had a Green Nose – Lucado – 3.1/.5

In the Time of the Drums – Siegelson – 4.6/.5

Little Black Sambo – Bannerman – 3.9/.5

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers – Gerstein – 3.7/.5

Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! – LeSeig - X

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel – 3.6/.5

Mirette on the High Wire – McCully – 3.6/.5

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom – Weatherford- 4/.5

My Brother Martin – Farris – 5.0/.5

Nothing Is Impossible Said Nellie Bly – Carlson – 3.1/.5

The Oak Inside the Acorn – Lucado – 3.3/.5

Oh The Thinks You Can Think – Dr. Seuss – 1.8/.5

Oh The Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss – 3.3/.5

Oregon’s Journey – Rascal - X

The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin – Harness – 6.5/1

Saint Valentine – Sabuda – 5.4/.5

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Sam the Minuteman – Benchley – 2.9/.5

Sheila Rae the Brave – Henkes – 2.5/.5

Show Way – Woodson – 3.8/.5

Something from Nothing – Gilman – 3.3/.5

Sparrow Girl – Pennybacker – 3.7/.5

Squanto’s Journey – Bruchac – 4.2/5

Starry Messenger – Sis – 4.8/.5

Stephanie’s Ponytail – 3/.5

Swimmy – Lionni – 2.9/.5

The Tale of Three Trees – Hunt – 4/.5

Thank You, Sarah (Thanksgiving) – Anderson – 3.7/.5

Tillie and the Wall – Lionni – 3.4/.5

The Very Clumsy Click Beetle – Carle – 2.8/.5

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian of Denmark – 3.7/.5

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning – 5.1/.5

Winter’s Tail – Hatkoff – 7/1

You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? – Fritz – 6.4/3

Creativity

Ballet for Martha – Greenberg – 5.2/.5

Frederick – Lionni – 3.1/.5

Harold and the Purple Crayon – 3.0/.5

I Am An Artist – Collins - X

Roxaboxen – Cooney – 4/.5

Weslandia – Fleischman – 4.8/.5

When the TV Broke – Ziefert – 1.3/.5

Easter Benjamin’s Box – Carlson – X

Love One Another: The Last Days of Jesus – X

Elders

Annie and the Old One – 4.4/.5

Now One Foot, Now the Other – DePaola – 2.9/.5

Old Pig – Wild – 3.5/.5

The Old Woman Who Named Things – Rylant – 3.4/.5

Remember Grandma? – Langston – 2.6/.5

The Two of Them – Aliki – 3.8/.5

What’s Happening to Grandpa – Shriver – 4.7/.5

You’re Only Old Once! – Dr. Seuss – 5.2/.5

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Exploration Doctor DeSoto Goes to Africa – Steig – 4.1/.5

Epossumondas Plays Possum – Salley – 3/.5

Grandfather’s Journey – Say – 3.6/.5

Harry the Dirty Dog – Zion – 1.8/.5

Kitten’s First Full Moon – Henkes – 2.3/.5

Oh the Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss – 3.3/.5

The Josephina Story Quilt – Degen – 2.7/.5

The Mitten – Brett – 3.0/.5

The Night at the Museum – Trenc - X

The Raft – LaMarche – 4.1/.5

The Snowy Day – Keats – 2.5/.5

Starry Messenger – Sis – 4.8/.5

Under the Ground – Milbourne – 3.7/.5

Family

All Those Mothers at the Manger – Farber - X

Animal Dads – Collard – 3.9/.5

Babar and His Children – Brunhoff – 4.0/.5

Before You Were Mine – Boelts – 3.9/.5

Come On, Rain! – 3.6/.5

The Cow That Laid an Egg – Cutbill 2.0/.5

Guess How Much I Love You – McBratney- 2.5/.5

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? – Yolen – 1.6/.5

How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You – Yolen – 2.3/.5

Hush, Little Baby – Frazee – 2.4/.5

I Love My Mommy Because – Porter-Gaylord – 1.1/.5

The Keeping Quilt – Polacco – 4.4/.5

Llama Llama Mad at Mama – 1.9/.5

Llama Llama Red Pajama – Dewdney – 2.0/.5

Little Raccoon’s Big Question – Schlein – 1.9/.5

Many Moons – Thurber – 3.9/.5

Mister Seahorse – Carle – 2.5/.5

Mothers Are Like That – 1.4/.5

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me –Carle – 2.2/.5

The Quarreling Book – Zolotow - 4/.5

The Runaway Bunny – Brown – 2.7/.5

Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest – Viorst – 3.9/.5

You and Me, Little Bear – Waddell – 2/.5

Feelings

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Viorst – 3.5/.5

Angry Dragon – Robberecht – 2.2/.5

The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Be Sad – Goldblatt - X

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Elbert’s Bad Word – Wood – 3.6/.5

Leonardo the Terrible Monster–Willems-2.3/.5

Sometimes I’m Bombaloo – Vail - 2.8/.5

Up – LaMarche – 3/.5

The Way I Feel – Cain - X

Yesterday I Had the Blues – Frame - 2.4/.5

Friendship A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever – Frazee – 3.4/.5

A Pocket for Corduroy – Freeman – 3.3/.5

Best Friends for Frances – Hoban – 2.9/.5

Charlotte’s Web – White – 4.4/.5

Corduroy – Freeman – 3.2/.5

Extra Credit – Clements – 5.3/5

Lissy’s Friends – Lin – 2.5/.5

Love, Splat – Scotton – 3.1/.5

One Green Apple – Bunting – 2.6/.5

The Very Lonely Firefly – Carle – 2.4/.5

The Very Quiet Cricket – Carle – 3/.5

Generosity

Boxes for Katje – Fleming – 3.5/.5

Chicken Sunday – Polacco – 3.7/.5

The Gift of Nothing – McDonnell – 1.9/.5

The Giving Tree – Silverstein – 2.6/.5

The Happy Prince – Wilde/Grodin - X

Jacob’s Gift – Lucado – 3.1/5

Lucia and Razzly Dazzly Wemberry Pies - X– Lucado

Mama Panya’s Pancakes – 3.8/.5

Many Moons – Thurber – 4.5/.5

Miss Twiggly’s Tree – Fox-X

Old Turtle – Wood – 3.8/.5

The Rainbow Fish – Pfister – 3.3/.5

The Small One (Christmas) - X

Stone Soup – Muth – 3.6/.5

Wangari’s Trees of Peace – Winter – 3.7/.5

Zen Ties – Muth – 2.7/.5

Zen Shorts – Muth – 2.9/.5

God

A Quiet Place – Andreasen - 4.1/.5

Because Nothing Looks Like God – Kushner – X

City Angel – Spinelli – 2.3/.5

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The Flyaway Kite – Bjorkman - X

Just In Case You Ever Wonder – 3.1/.5

Places of Power – DeMunn – 4.1/.5

Something Beautiful - Wyeth - 2.5/.5

A Children’s Treasury – Lucado - X

All You Ever Need – Lucado - X

Arch Books – 100+ Titles – 2-4/.5

Because I Love You – Lucado – 3.4/.5

Best of All – Lucado – 3.8/.5

Does God Have a Big Toe? – Gellman – X

God’s Dream – Tutu – X

God’s Paintbrush - Sasso - X

In God’s Name – Sasso – X

Just the Way You Are – Lucado – X

The Next Place – Hanson – 3.9/.5

Punchinello and the Most Marvelous Gift – Lucado – 3.8/.5

You Are Special – Lucado – 3/.5

What Is God? – Boritzer – 5/.5

With You All the Way – Lucado - X

You Are Mine – Lucado – X

The Little Soul and the Sun – Walsch- X

Grief

Gentle Willow – Mills – 3.6/.5

Saying Goodbye to Lulu (pet) – Demas – 3.1/.5

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney – 2.8/.5

Humility

Millions of Cats – Ga’g – 3.1/.5

The Royal Raven – Wilhelm – 3.1/.5

Illness

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? – Yolen – 1.7/.5

Imperfection

Epossumondas – Salley – 3.9/.5

Epossumondas Plays Possum – Salley – 3.0/.5

Epossumondas Saves the Day – Salley – 3.3/.5

A Fine, Fine School – Creech – 3.3/.5

Pete the Cat – Dean - X

The Sultan’s Perfect Tree – Yolen - X

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Kindness

A Baby Sister for Frances – Hoban – 2.4/.5

A Small Miracle (Christmas) – Collinton - X

An Angel for Solomon Singer – Rylant – 4.7/.5

The Brand New Kid – Couric – 3.8/.5

Fluffy and Baron – Rankin – 2.7/.5

Good Night, Good Knight - - Moore – 2.1/.5

Grumpy Cat – Teckentrup – 2.3/.5

Horton Hears a Who – Dr. Seuss – 3.3/.5

Ian’s Walk (autism) – Lears – 3/.5

If Jesus Came to My House – Thomas – 3.8/.5

Leo the Late Bloomer – Leraus – 1.2/.5

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm – Katz – 3.3/.5

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe – 4.3/.5

Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathman – 3.4/.5

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch – Spinelli – 3.9/.5

Suki and the Invisible Peacock – Blackburn - X

Suki and the Old Umbrella – Blackburn - X

Suki and the Sand Dollar – Blackburn - X

Suki and the Wonder Star – Blackburn - X

Take Care, Good Knight – Thomas – 3.0/.5

Manners

Clifford’s Manners – 1.9/.5

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons – Rosenthal – 3.1/.5

Dinner with Olivia – Sollinger – 3.2/.5

Do Unto Otters – Keller - X

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies? – 2.4/.5

It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel – Buehner - X

Madeline Says Merci – Marciano – 2.8/.5

Miss Nelson Is Back – Marshall – 2.6/.5

Miss Nelson Is Missing! – Marshall – 2.6/.5

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale – 2.2/.5

Please Say Please – Cuyler – 2.2/.5

The Quarreling Book – Zolotow - 4/.5

What If Everybody Did That? – Javernick-2.5/.5

Peace

The Cello of Mr. O – Cutter-3.8/.5

Rose Blanche – Innocenti – 3.2/.5

Sadako – Coerr-3.8/.5

The Story of Ferdinand – Lawson – 3.7/.5

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Perspective The Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein – 2.6/.5

Pets

Dogku – Clements – 1.1/.5

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm – Katz – 3.3/.5

My Buddy – Osofsky – 3/.5

The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy – 2.1/.5

The Stray Dog – Simont – 1.7/.5

Pity

The Little Match Girl – Pinkney – 4.7/.5

Poetry

A Light in the Attic – Silverstein – 2.5/.5

Runny Babbit – 4.2/.5

Where the Sidewalk Ends – Silverstein – X

Prayers A Child’s Book of Prayers- Trist – X

A Child’s Book of Celtic Prayers – Denham

A Child’s Book of Prayer in Art – Beckett (Prayer)

Quests A House for Hermit Crab – Carle-3.7/.5

The Biggest House in the World–Lionni– 4/.5

The Fourth Wise Man – Van Dyke/Summers – 5.2/.5

The King Who Was Too Busy – Fern-X

Hope for the Flowers – Paulus-X

Kamal’s Quest – Profilet-X

The Missing Piece – Silverstein-3.2/.5

The Quiltmaker’s Gift – Brumbau – 4.6/.5

The Quiltmaker’s Journey – Brumbeau – 4.7/.5

The Simple Prince – Yolen - X

The Three Questions – Muth-3.4/.5

The Tower – Evans-3.4/.5

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Racism

The Butterfly – Polacco – 3.8/.5

Dear Benjamin Banneker – Pinkney – 6.4/.5

Freedom Summer – Wiles – 3.2/.5

I Have a Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – 7.2/.5

In the Time of the Drums – Siegelson – 4.6/.5

My Brother Martin – Farris – 5/5

Richard Wright and the Library Card – Miller – 4/5

Ruth and the Green Book – Ramsey – 4.6/.5

Show Way – Woodson – 3.8/.5

The Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles – 4.4/.5

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom – Weatherford- 4/.5

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian of Denmark – 3.7/.5

Responsibility If You Take a Mouse to School – Numeroff – 2.4/.5

Katy and the Big Snow – Burton – 2.9/.5

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Burton – 2.8/.5

My Rows and Piles of Coins – Mollel – 3.8/.5

The Very Busy Spider – Carle – 1.3/.5

Self-Esteem

A Bad Case of Stripes – Shannon - X

A Color of His Own- Lionni – 2.3/.5

A Hat for Ivan – Lucado – 3.1/.5

As Good As Anybody – 4.1/.5

God Believes in You – Bea - X

God’s World Makes Me Feel So Little – Caswell - X

I Like Myself – Beaumont - X

The Little Soul and the Sun – Walsch – 4.5/.5

My Princess Boy - _____ - X

My Very Own Book About Me - X

Shades of Black – Pinkney – 2.2/.5

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon – Lovell – 3.5/.5

We Are All Alike, We Are All Different - X

Selfishness Beatrice Doesn’t Want To – Numeroff – 2.2/.5

The Gingerbread Man – Rose – 1.4/.5

Goldilocks and the Three Bears – various authors - AR

The Little Red Hen – Pinkney – 3.1/.5

The Mine-O-Saur – Bardhan-Quallen – 2.0/.5

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The Wolf’s Chicken Stew – Kasza – 2.7/.5

Truth Telling

A Day’s Work – Bunting – 2.7/.5

The Boy Who Cried Wolf – many authors - AR

The Empty Pot – Demi – 3.8/.5

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth – McKissack – 3.8/.5

Mr. Peabody’s Apples – Madonna – 3.8/.5

Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Lie – Rankin – 2.5/.5

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine – Ness – 3.6/.5

The Summer My Father Was Ten – 4.2/.5

“LOWER GRADE” (LG)

CHAPTER BOOKS THAT ENRICH THE SPIRIT

(PreK – 3rd)

Books are listed by Accelerated Reader (AR) Level and point reward. AR Level is NOT

based on content but vocabulary and length of book. Parents and teachers may need to

guide students to content appropriate to their maturity level.

The AR program differentiates content by:

LG (Lower Grade) - PreK-3rd

MG (Middle Grade) - 4th

-8th

MG+ (Middle Grade Plus) – 6th

and up

UG (Upper Grade) – 9th

– 12th

AR LEVEL 2

Arthur PBS Series – Brown – 2/.5

The Magic Tree House – Osborne –2-3/1

AR LEVEL 3

Fudge Series – Blume – AR 3+/5+

Word After Word – McLachlan – 3.2/1

AR LEVEL 4

A Picture Book of … - 4.1+/ .5

Eleanor Roosevelt, george Washington, Abraham Lincoln, MLK, Thomas

Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, Christopher Columbus…

The Velveteen Rabbit – Bianco – 4.7/.5 or Williams - 4.9/1

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