All these books were
published in 1996.
Picture
Books (12)
Brown, Marc. Arthur
Writes a Story. (Little)
Clements, Andres. Temple Cat.. Illustrated by Kate
Kiesler. (Clarion)
Dionetti, Michelle. Painting the Wind. Illustrated
by Kevin Hawkes. (Little)
Henkes, Kevin. Lillys Purple Plastic Purse.
(Greenwillow)
Hubbard, Patricia. My Crayons Talk. Illustrated by
G. Brian Karas. (Holt)
Johnston, Tony. The Wagon. (Tambourine)
Meddaugh, Susan. Martha Blah Blah. (Houghton)
Pilkey, Dav. The Paperboy. (Orchard)
Schroeder, Alan. Minty. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
(Dial)
Silverman, Erica. Gittels Hands. Illustrated
by Deborah Nourse Lattimore. (BridgeWater)
Sisulu, Elinor. The Day Gogo Went to Vote. Illustrated
by Sharon Wilson. (Little)
Stevenson, James. Yard Sale. (Greenwillow)
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Large-Print,
Early Reader Books (1)
(Fiction books with
large print and limited vocabulary, hence useful for the early reader)
Howard Arthur. When
I Was Five. (Harcourt)
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Emergent-Reader
Transitional Books (1)
(Fiction books with
numerous pictures in which the text conveys meaning independent
of the illustrations; useful for the newly-fluent reader as a transition
to longer books)
Kindley, Jeffrey.
Choco-Louie. Illustrated
by Ellen Joe Sasaki. (Bantam)
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Fiction
(12)
(Books of prose that
may have some basis in fact but which are primarily a product of
the authors imagination)
DeFelice, Cynthia. The
Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. (Farrar)
Gilbert, Barbara. Stone Water. (Front Street)
Klass, David. Danger Zone. (Scholastic/Hardcover)
Knight, Eric. Lassie Come-Home. Illustrated by Jeffer.
(Scholastic)
Konigsburg, E. L. The View from Saturday. (Atheneum)
Levy, Marilyn. Run for Your Life. (Houghton)
Lowry, Lois. See You Around, Sam! (Houghton)
McKelvey, Douglas. The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog.
(Philomel)
Myers, Walter. Slam! (Scholastic)
Schroeder, Alan. Satchmos Blues. Illustrated
by Floyd Cooper. (Doubleday)
Southgate, Martha. Another Way to Dance. (Delacorte)
Temple, Frances. The Bedouins Gazelle. (Orchard)
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Story
Collection (1)
(A collection of
fictional short stories by one or more authors)
Asher, Sandy. But Thats Another Story.
(Walker)
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000
- General Works / Computers
(1)
Multimedia, the Complete Guide.
(Dorling Kindersley)
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100
- Philosophy and Psychology
(1)
Sherrow, Victoria. Bioethics
and High-Tech Medicine. (21st Century Books)
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200
- Religions (1)
Maestro, Betsy. The Story of Religion. Illustrated
by Giulio Maestro. (Clarion)
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300
- Social Sciences (9)
Atkin, S. Voices from the Streets.
(Little)
Blumberg, Rhoda. Full Steam Ahead. (National Geographic
Society)
Cha, Dia. Dias Story Cloth. (Lee & Low)
Chocolate, Deborah M. Kente Colors. Illustrated by
John Ward. (Walker)
Cole, Carolyn. Shades of L.A. (New Press)
Jukes, Mavis. Its a Girl Thing. Illustrated
by Debbie Tilley. (Knopf)
Kroll, Steven. Pony Express! Illustrated by Dan Andreasen.
(Scholastic/Hardcover)
Myers, Walter. One More River to Cross. (Harcourt)
Pascoe, Elaine. Mexico and the United States. (21st
Century Books)
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398.2
- Folklore (7)
Climo, Shirley. A Treasury of Princesses.
(HarperCollins)
Delacre, Lulu. Golden Tales. Illustrated by author.
(Scholastic)
Greene, Ellin. Ling-Li and the Phoenix Fairy. Illustrated
by Zong-Zhou Wang. (Clarion)
Hamilton, Virginia. When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could
Sing. Illustrated by Barry Moser. (Scholastic/Blue Sky)
Martin, Rafe. Mysterious Tales of Japan. Illustrated
by Tatsuro Kiuchi. (Putnam)
Pollock, Penny. The Turkey Girl. Illustrated by Ed
Young. (Little)
Wisniewski, David. Golem. Illustrated by author. (Clarion)
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400
- Languages (1)
Shannon, George. Tomorrows Alphabet. Illustrated
by Donald Crews. (Greenwillow)
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500
- Pure Sciences (10)
Daling, Tara. How to Babysit an Orangutan
(Walker)
Guiberson, Brenda. Into the Sea. Illustrated by Alix
Berenzy. (Holt)
Jarrow, Gail. The Naked Mole-Rat Mystery. (Lerner)
Jenkins, Steve. Big and Little. Illustrated by author.
(Houghton)
Lauber, Patricia. Hurricanes. (Scholastic)
McMillan, Bruce. Jelly Beans for Sale. Photographed
by author. (Scholastic)
Ring, Elizabeth. What Rot! (Millbrook Press)
Sandved, Kjell. The Butterfly Alphabet. Photographs
by author. (Scholastic/Hardcover)
Schlein, Miriam. The Puzzle of the Dinosaur-Bird.
(Dial)
Wick, Walter. A Drop of Water. (Scholastic)
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600
- Applied Science and Technology
(8)
Bartoletti, Susan. Growing Up in Coal Country.
(Houghton)
Ganeri, Anita. Inside the Body. (Dorling Kindersley)
Hall, Zoe. The Apple Pie Tree. Illustrated by Shari
Halpern. (Scholastic/Blue Sky)
Kehret, Peg. Small Steps. (Whitman)
Krensky, Stephen. Breaking into Print. (Little)
Miles, John. The Ultimate Book of Cross-Sections.
(Dorling Kindersley)
Simon, Seymour. The Heart, Our Circulatory System.
(Morrow)
Snedden, Robert. Yuck! A Big Book of Little Horrors.
(Simon)
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700
- Arts (9)
Arnold, Caroline. Stories in Stone.
Photographs by Richard Hewett. (Clarion)
Czech, Ken. Snapshot. (Lerner)
Dahl, Lucy. James and the Giant Peach. (Disney Press)
Goldstein, Ernest. The Journey of Diego Rivera. (Lerner)
Hahn, Don. Disneys Animation Magic. (Disney
Press)
Igus, Toyomi. Going Back Home. Illustrated by Michelle
Wood. (Childrens Book Press)
Macy, Sue. Winning Ways. (Holt)
McGill, Ormond. Chalk Talks. Illustrated by Anne Green.
(Millbrook Press)
Micklethwait, Lucy. A Childs Book of Play in Art: Great
Pictures, Great Fun. (Dorling Kindersley)
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800
- Literature (8)
Dickinson, Emily. Poems for Youth.
Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. (Little)
Dyer, Jane. Animal Crackers. (Little)
Haskins, James. The Harlem Renaissance. (Millbrook
Press)
Ho, Minfong. Hush! Illustrated by Holly Meade. (Orchard)
Merriam, Eve. The Inner City Mother Goose. Illustrated
by David Diaz. (Simon)
Nye, Naomi. I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You. (Simon)
Prelutsky, Jack. A Pizza the Size of the Sun. Illustrated
by James Stevenson. (Greenwillow)
Schertle, Alice. Keepers. Illustrated by Ted Rand.
(Lothrop)
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900
- Geography and History
(10)
Jaffe, Steven. Who Were the Founding Fathers?
(Holt)
Krupp, Robin. Lets Go Traveling in Mexico. (Morrow)
Leiner, Katherine. First Children. (Tambourine)
MacMillan, Dianne. Missions of the Los Angeles Area
(Lerner)
Onyefulu, Ifeoma. Ogbo. (Harcourt/Gulliver)
Presilla, Maricel. Mola. (Holt)
Ross, Jim. Dear Oklahoma City. (Walker)
Tunnell, Michael. The Children of Topaz. (Holiday
House)
Waters, Kate. Tapenums Day. (Scholastic/Hardcover)
Yamane, Linda. Weaving a California Tradition. (Lerner)
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920 - Biography -
Autobiography (8)
Brewster, Hugh. Anastasias Album.
(Hyperion/Madison Press)
Cooney, Barbara. Eleanor. (Viking)
Fleischman, Sid. The Abracadabra Kid. (Greenwillow)
Freedman, Russell. The Life and Death of Crazy Horse.
Illustrated by Amos Bad Heart Bull. (Holiday House)
Reef, Catherine. John Steinbeck. (Clarion)
Sis, Peter. Starry Messenger. (Farrar)
Standley, Diane. Leonardo Da Vinci. (Morrow)
Winnick, Karen. Mr. Lincolns Whiskers. (Boyds
Mills Press)
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reading and interest levels, and curriculum connections for each
title) is available in The Dragon Lode, 16/2, Spring
1998, pp. 30-41. For your convenience,
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