Read Aloud America Book List 2009
Lists compiled by:
Arlene Ching, Librarian, Aiea Public Library
Marion Coste , Children’s Book Author, Education Consultant
Sue Cowing, Children’s Book Author, Co-Regional Advisor, SCBWI
Angela Cruz, RAP Volunteer
Jed Gaines, Founder, Read Aloud America
Marybeth Hamilton, Teacher, University of Hawaii Laboratory School
Natalie Hayek, Program Director, Read Aloud America
Cathy Kawano-Ching Educator, Punahou School
Maralyn Kurshalls, Writer and Consultant
Heather Maughan, Educator
Nancy Mower, Children’s Book Author
Marci Prins, RAP Volunteer
Joan Tanji, Librarian and Educator
Read-Alouds for Infants and Toddlers
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| Quack and Count |
Baker, Keith |
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My Car |
Barton, Myron |
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I Love My Daddy |
Braun, Sebastien |
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Dear Zoo: A Left The Flap Book |
Campbell, Rod |
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From Head to Toe |
Carle, Eric |
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Freight Train |
Crews, Donald |
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Ollie |
Dunrea, Olivier |
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Hattie and the Fox |
Fox, Mem and Patricia Mullens |
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A Fairy Went-A Marketing |
Fyleman, Rose |
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Ruby Bakes a Cake |
Hill, Susan and Margie Moore |
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Rosie's Walk |
Hutchins, Pat |
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Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes... |
Kubler, Annie |
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Grow Up! |
Laden, Nina |
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Cow Moo Me |
Losordo, Stephen and Jane Conteh-Morgan |
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? |
Martin Jr., Bill and Eric Carle |
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Caterpillar's Wish |
Murphy, Mary |
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All Fall Down |
Oxenbury, Helen |
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Clap Hands |
Oxenbury, Helen |
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Yummy Yucky |
Patricelli, Leslie |
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Animal Kisses |
Saltzberg, Barney |
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First Book of Sushi |
Sanger, Amy Wilson |
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Sheep in a Jeep |
Shaw, Nancy E. |
| Baby Born |
Suen, Anastasia |
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Cookie's Week |
Ward, Cindy |
Read-Alouds for Preschoolers |
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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz |
Barton, Byron |
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Jin Woo |
Bunting, Eve |
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The Grouchy Ladybug |
Carle, Eric |
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The Three Little Kittens |
Cauley, Lorinda Bryan |
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Eddy B, Pigboy |
Dunrea, Olivier |
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In the Tall, Tall Grass |
Fleming, Denise |
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A Rainbow of my Own |
Freeman, Don |
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A Rhinoceros Wakes Me Up in the Morning |
Goodspeed, Peter |
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When I'm Sleepy |
Howard, Jane R. |
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Dogger |
Hughes, Shirley |
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My Lucky Day |
Kasza, Keiko |
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Little Miss Spider |
Kirk, David |
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What's that Noise? |
Lemieux, Michele |
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The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken |
Lester, Helen |
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The Big Bug Ball |
Lillegard, Dee |
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It's Mine! |
Lionni, Leo |
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There's an Alligator Under My Bed |
Mayer, Mercer |
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Make Way for Ducklings |
McCloskey, Robert |
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The Funny Little Woman |
Mosel, Arlene |
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Beatrice Doesn't Want To |
Numeroff, Laura |
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Curious George |
Rey, H.A. |
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Food for Thought |
Saxton, Freymann and Joost Elffers |
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The House that Jack Built: A Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme |
Stevens, Janet |
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! |
Willems, Mo |
Read-Alouds for Grades K –1 |
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My Dog and the Birthday Mystery |
Adler, David |
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The Princess and the Pea |
Anderson, Hans Christian |
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Benjamin's Portrait |
Baker, Alan |
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Move Over Rover! |
Beaumont, Karen |
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Joe on Sunday |
Blundell, Tony |
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Arthur's Baby |
Brown, Marc |
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Little Malia's Big Poi Idea |
Calma, Jocelyn and Don Robinson |
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Starring First Grade |
Cohen, Miriam |
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Pua's Paniolo Parade |
Cotton, Jolie Jean and Christine Joy Pratt |
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Charlie Needs a Cloak |
de Paola, Tomie |
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! |
Emberley, Edward R. |
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Koala Lou |
Fox, Mem |
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Alice and the Birthday Giant |
Green, Joh F. |
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Sheila Rae, the Brave |
Henkes, Kevin |
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One Fine Day |
Hogrogian, Nonny |
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My Best Friend |
Hutchins, pat |
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Edwina the Emu |
Knowles, Sheena and Rod Clement |
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Leo the Late Bloomer |
Kraus, Robert |
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Akimbo and the Snakes |
McCall Smith, Alexander |
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Rosie's Birthday Present |
Moskin, Marietta |
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You Can't Catch Me! |
Oppenheim, Joanne |
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Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons |
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse |
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Lucy and the Gift-Wrapped Guests |
Stadler, John |
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Our Tree Named Steve |
Zweibel, Alan |
Read-Alouds for Grades 2-3 |
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Miss Nelson Has a Field Day |
Allard, Harry |
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The Uglyl Duckling |
Anderson, Hans Christian |
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Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing |
Barrett, Judi |
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Sitting Ducks |
Bedard, Michael |
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Cheyenne Again |
Bunting, Eve |
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Liang and the Magic Paintbrush |
Demi |
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The Hundred Dresses |
Estes, Eleanor |
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Wolves in the Walls |
Gaiman, Neil |
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The Wounded Wolf |
George, Jean Craighead |
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Wordsworth the Poet |
Kakugawa, Frances |
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Martin Bridge in High Gear |
Kerrin, Jessica Scott |
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Horrible Harry's Secret |
Kline, Suzy |
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Grandpa's Magic Banyan Tree |
Langcaon, Jeff |
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The Snake that Went to School |
Moore, Lilian |
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One Beastly Beast |
Nix, Garth |
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Curse of the Ruins (World of Adventure Series) |
Paulsen, Gary |
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The Remarkable Ramsey |
Rinkoff, Barbara |
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Silent Music |
RUmford, James |
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When I Was Young in the Mountains |
Rylant, Cynthia |
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck |
Seuss, Dr. |
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The Amazing Bone |
Steig, William |
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Maui and the Secret of Fire |
Tune, Suelyn Ching |
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Jumanji |
Van Allsburg, Chris |
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The Emperor and the Kite |
Yolen, Jane |
Read-Alouds for Grades 4-5 |
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The Seer of Shadows |
Avi |
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The Indian in the Cupboard |
Banks, Lynne Reid |
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Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas |
Chen, Pauline |
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Racso and the Rats |
Conly, Jane leslie |
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My Teacher Is an Alien |
Coville, Bruce |
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The Witches |
Dahl, Roald |
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City of Ember |
DuPrau, Jeanne |
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My Side of the Mountain |
Geroge, Jean Craighead |
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Kira Kira |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
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Swindle |
Korman, Gordon |
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The Magician's Nephew |
Lewis, C.S. |
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Pippi Longstocking |
Lindgren, Astrid |
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The Artsy Smartsy Club |
Pinkwater, Daniel |
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The Maze of Bones |
Riordan, Rick |
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Night of the Twisters |
Ruckman, Ivy |
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Beowolf, A Hero's Tale Retold |
Rumford, James |
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Magyk |
Sage, Angie |
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The Cricket in TImes Square |
Selden, George |
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Call it Courage |
Sperry, Armstrong |
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Eggs |
Spinelli, Jerry |
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Milkweed |
Spinelli, Jerry |
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Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest |
Springer, Nancy |
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Stuart Little |
White, E.B. |
Read-Alouds for Grades 6-8 |
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Into the Dark |
Abrahams, Peter |
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The Calder Game |
Balliett, Blue |
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Sweetgrass Basket |
Carvell, Marlene |
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Al Capone Does My Shirs |
Choldenko, Gennifer |
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Half-Moon Investigations |
Colfer, Eoin |
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Elijah of Buxton |
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
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The Land of the Silver Apples |
Farmer, Nancy |
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Humbug Mountain |
Fleischman, Sid |
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Flying Solo |
Fletcher, Ralph |
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The Graveyard Book |
Gaiman, Neil |
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Olive's Ocean |
Henkes, Kevin |
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The Outsiders |
Hinton, S.E. |
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Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
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Weedflower |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
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The Akhenaten Adventure |
Kerr, P.B. |
| The Green Glass Sea |
Klages, Ellen |
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A Corner of the Universe |
Martin, Ann M. |
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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment |
Patterson, James |
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What the Moon Saw |
Resua, Laura |
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Yellow Star |
Roy, Jennifer |
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The Night of the Howling Dogs |
Salisbury, Graham |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Selznick, Brian |
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Tanglewreck |
Winterson, Jeanette |
| The Pea Soup Poisonings |
Wright, Nancy Means |
Read-Alouds for Grades 9-12 |
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Kingdom of the Golden Dragon |
Allende, Isabel |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
Alvarez, Julia |
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The Second Summer of the Sisterohod |
Brashares, Ann |
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Warrior Girl, a Novel of Joan of Arc |
Chandler, Pauline |
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The Chocolate War |
Cormier, Robert |
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The Land of Silver Apples |
Farmer, Nancy |
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Sunshine Rider: The 1st Vegetarian Western |
Hardman, Ric Lynden |
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The Legend of Fire Horse Woman |
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki |
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Farewell to Manzanar |
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki & Houston, James D. |
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The Whale Rider |
Ihimaera, Witi |
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Flowers for Algernon |
Keyes, Daniel |
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The Secret Life of Bees |
Kidd, Sue Monk |
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Shoeless Joe |
Kinsella, W.P. |
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Into the Wild |
Krakauer, Jon |
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie |
Lubar, David |
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The White Darkness |
McCaughrean, Geraldine |
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The Bluest Eye |
Morrison, Toni |
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My Name is Asher Lev |
Potok, Chaim |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger, J.D. |
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Unwind |
Shusterman, Neal |
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Of Mice and Men |
Steinbeck, John |
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The New Policeman |
Thompson, Kate |
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Witch Dreams |
Vande Velde, Vivian |
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Lottery |
Wood, Patricia |
Adults
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For One More Day |
Albom, Mitch |
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Music for Chameleons |
Capote, Truman |
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Postcards from No Man's Land |
Chambers, Aidan |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Chevalier, Tracey |
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The Witch of Portobello |
Coelho, Paulo |
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The Black Ice |
Connelly, Michael |
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Peace Like a River |
Enger, Leif |
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Tales from Q School, Inside Golf's Fifth Major |
Feinstein, John |
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One Thousand White Women |
Fergus, Jim |
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The Man Who Walked Through Time |
Fletch, Colin |
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Man's Search for Meaning |
Frankl, Viktor |
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The Express |
Gallagher, Robert C. |
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Marley & Me |
Grogan, John |
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Into Thin Air |
Krakauer, Jon |
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Gift from the Sea |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
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Angela's Ashes |
McCourt, Frank |
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Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
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Three Cups of Tea |
ortenson, Greg and David Oliver Relin |
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The Things They Carried |
O'Brien, Tim |
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The Last Lecture |
Pausch, Randy |
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Grass Dancer |
Power, Susan |
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Big Russ & Me |
Russert, Tim |
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Dear John |
Sparks, Nicholas |
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A New Earth |
Tolle, Eckhart |
Family Favorites:
Ageless Read-Alouds |
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Little Women |
Alcott, |
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The Secret Garden |
Burnett, Frances |
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The Incredible Journey |
Burnford, Sheila |
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Pinocchio |
Coolodi, Carlo |
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Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
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Diary of a Young Girl |
Frank, Anne |
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Cheaper by the Dozen |
Galbraith, Frank |
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Across Five Aprils |
Hunt, Irene |
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Rip Van Wrinkle |
Irving, Washington |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
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The Read Balloon |
Lamorisse, Albert |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
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The Borrowers |
Norton, Mary |
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Jacob Have I Loved |
Paterson, Katherine |
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
Potter, Beatrix |
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The Yearling |
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan |
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Black Beauty |
Sewell, Anna |
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Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective |
Sobol, Donald J. |
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The Time Machine |
Wells, H.G. |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilde, Dorian |
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Little House on the Praire |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
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The Velveteen Rabbit |
Williams, Margery |
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The Swiss Family Robinson |
Wyss, J.R. |
Resources for Parents and Teachers |
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Internet Protect your Kids |
Arterburn, Stephen and Roger Marsh |
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America's Smallest School: The Family |
Barton, P.E. |
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Confident Parenting |
Burns, Jim |
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Babies Need Books |
Butler, Dorothy |
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Reading Magic |
Fox, Mem |
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The Roller Coaster Years |
Giannetti, Charlene |
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The RIF Guide to Encouraging Young Readers |
Graves, Ruth |
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Read It Aloud! A Parent's Guide to Sharing Books with Young Children |
Haas, Monty and Laurie Joy Haas |
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Reading Rules! Motivating Teens to Read |
Knowles, Elizabeth and Martha Smith |
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Raising a Reader: Make Your Child a Reader for Life |
Kropp, Paul |
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How to Behave and Why |
Leaf, Munro |
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Have a New Kid by Friday |
Leman, Kevin |
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Keeping Kids Reading: How to Raise Avid Readers in the Video Age |
Leonhardt, Mary |
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New York Times Parent's Guide to Best Books for Children |
Lipson, Eden Ross |
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How to Hook Your Kids on Books |
O'Connor, Karen |
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Great Books for Babies and Toddlers |
Odean, Kathleen |
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The Road Less Traveled |
Peck, M. Scott |
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children |
Russell, William F. |
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Family Storybook Reading |
Strickland, Dorothy S. and Denny Taylor |
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The Read Aloud Handbook |
Trelease, Jim |
| A Garth Williams Treasury of Best-Loved Golden Books |
Williams, Garth |
| GoodReads Web Site |
www.goodreads.com |
| Hawaii State Library Web Site |
www.librarieshawaii.org |
| Read Aloud America Web Site |
www.readaloudamerica.org |
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