Author's+Message,+Theme


 * **Title** || **Author** || **Notes** || **Grades** ||
 * Lost and Found || Jim LaMarche || 3 inter-related stories around finding what is lost || 3-5 ||
 * The Leaving Morning || Angela Johnson || Moving, packing up, leaving morning. Perfect for a unit on symbolism, "We left lips". Inferring, Connections. ||  ||
 * A Color of his Own || Leo Lionni ||  || primary ||
 * A Day's Work || Eve Bunting ||  ||   ||
 * All I See || Cynthia Rylant ||  ||   ||
 * Angels in the Dust || Margot Theis Raven || Dust Bowl || Intermediate ||
 * Arrival || Shaun Tan || Emmigration Wordless || Intermediate ||
 * Beatrice's Goat || Page McBrier ||  ||   ||
 * Big Red Lollipop || Kahn/Blackall ||  || primary ||
 * Billy Twitter's Blue Whale || Marc Barnett ||  || primary ||
 * Cajun through and Through || Tynia Thomassie || tolerance || intermediate ||
 * Christmas in the Country || Cynthia Rylant || family, tradition, memories ||  ||
 * Do Not Open || Brinton Turkle ||  ||   ||
 * Duck || Randy Cecil ||  || Primary ||
 * Elizabeth || Claire Nivola || Intolerance Holocaust || Intermediate ||
 * Enemy Pie || Derek Munson || friendship || Primary ||
 * Fly Away Home || Eve Bunting || homelessness || Intermediate ||
 * George's Garden || Gerda Marie Scheidl ||  ||   ||
 * Hey, Al || Arthur Yorinks ||  ||   ||
 * Mr. Belinskys Bagel || Ellen Schwartz ||  ||   ||
 * Osbert || Elizabeth Kimmel ||  || Primary ||
 * Pezzettino || Leo Lionni ||  || Primary ||
 * Recess Queen || Alexis O'Neli || bully || Primary ||
 * Ruthie...Not so Teeny Lie || Rankin ||  ||   ||
 * Secret Place || Rand ||  || primary ||
 * Shaker Lane || Alice Provence ||  ||   ||
 * She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head || Kathryn Lasky || Women's Rights Animal Protection || Intermediate ||
 * Spork || Maclear/Arsenault ||  ||   ||
 * Swimmy || Leo Lionni ||  ||   ||
 * The Dot || Peter Reynolds ||  ||   ||
 * The Wall || Eve Bunting || Viet Nam ||  ||
 * Wolf || Becky Bloom || Reading, perseverance ||  ||
 * A Sick Day for Amos McGee || Philip and Erin Stead || Friendship, routines. Inferring, Connections, Character || K, 1, 2 ||
 * My Brother Charlie || Holly Robinson Peete & Ryan Elizabeth Peete || How we are all the same and different, autism || K, 1, 2 ||
 * Oink? || Margie Palatini || Judging others, things aren't always what they seem, did the pigs really plan the whole thing or did it just work out in their favor? ||  ||
 * Oink? || Margie Palatini || Judging others, things aren't always what they seem, did the pigs really plan the whole thing or did it just work out in their favor? ||  ||