“READ AROUND THE USA” READING LIST
Alabama
Graham
Hendersen
Myers
Sanders
Dr. George Washington Carver
Summer of the Bonepile Summer Monster
Journal of Biddy Owens
The Great Coaster Race
Alaska
Bauer
Dixon
George
George
George
Hill
Houston
Houston
Houston
London
London
Mikaelsen
Morey
Morey
Morey
A Bear Named Trouble
Mystery at Devil’s Paw
Julie
Julie of the Wolves
Julie’s Wolf Pack
The Year of Miss Agnes
Eagle Mask
Akavak
The White Archer
Call of the Wild
White Fang
Touching Spirit Bear
Gentle Ben
Gloomey Gus
Kavik the Wolf Dog
Arizona
Buff
Clark
Coren
Gutman
Henry
Miles
Warner
Dancing Cloud
Blue Canyon Horse
Buffalo Arthur
The Homework Machine
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Annie and the Old One
Mystery of the Lost Mine
Arkansas
Branscum
Greene
The Ugliest Boy
Summer of My German Soldier
1
California
Ames
Arden
Buff
Bulla
Bunting
Bunting
Bunting
Bunting
Carey
Cameron
Cameron
Choldenko
Cleary
Fleishman
Flory
George
Law
McDonald
Miles
O’Dell
Patron
Politi
Philo Potts
The Mystery of the Purple Pirate
Kemi, an Indian Boy
Ghost Town Treasure
The Haunting of Safekeep
Smoky Night
Song of the Swallows
Working Cotton ??
The Mystery of theCranky Collector
The Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs
The Mysterious Christmas Shell
A Spell is Cast
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Dear Mr. Henshaw
The Luckiest Girl
Strider
Mitch and Amy
Bandit’s Moon
The Golden Venture
Owl in the Shower
The Case of the Weird Street Firebug
Meet Julie
Julie Tells Her Story
The Pieces of Home
Black Pearl
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Higher Power of Lucky
Song of the Swallows
2
Snyder
Colorado
George
Greer
Miles
Steiner
Connecticut
Clements
Dalgiesh, A.
DePaola
Eager
Estes
And Condors Danced
Dipper of Copper Creek
Max and Me and the Wild West
Teacher’s Pet
Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause
Dolby and the Woof Off
Speare
Warner
The Report Card
Adam and the Golden Cock
On My Way
Magic or Not
Ginger Pye
The Moffats
The Middle Moffat
Rufus M.
Ghost of Gravestone Hearth
Dew Drop Dead
What Eric Knew
Herbie Jones series
Rabbit Hill
The Tough Winter
Dawn and the Big Sleepover
Claudia and the Lighthouse Mystery
(Babysitter’s Club and Babysitter’s Little Sister’s series)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Chocolate Sundae Mystery
Delaware
921 Jem
Fic Dea
Indian Captive
Elin’s Amerika
Haynes
Howe
Kline
Lawson
Lawson
Martin
3
Florida
Burgess
Brink
Brooks
Cleaver
DiCamillo
DiCamillo
Farley
Gephart
Hiassen
Konigsburg
Lenski
Mikaelsen
Rawlings
Warner
Georgia
Burch
Dixon
Kadohata
St. John
Great Plains
Lawlor
MacLaughlan
Paulsen
The Mystery of the Mound Key
The Pink Motel
Freddy Goes to Florida
The Queen of Hearts
Because of Winn Dixie
The Tiger Rising
Black Stallion’s Ghost
As if Being 12 ¾ isn’t Bad Enough..
Hoot
The View From Saturday
Strawberry Girl
Stranded
The Yearling
Old Motel Mystery
Queenie Peavey
Ida Early Comes Over
Hidden Harbor Mystery
Kira Kira
Christmas Tree Mystery
Mystery of the Gingerbread House
Addie’s Dakota Winter
Sarah Plain and Tall
Caleb’s Story
Mr. Tucket
4
Hawaii
Slepian
Warner
Idaho
Brink
McHugh
Murphy
Illinois
Anderson
Bauer
Clements
Clifford
Gilson
The Broccoli Tapes
The Black Pearl Mystery
Two Are Better Than One
All Over Town
Wiggie Wins the West
West to a Land of Plenty
Shura
Warner
Joshua’s Westward Journey
On My Honor
The Landry News
Help! I’m Prisoner in the Library
Double Dog Dare
Do Bananas Chew Gum?
Hello My Name is Scrambled Eggs
Babe and Me
Shoeless Joe and Me
Across Five Aprils
A Long Way From Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
Mystery at Wolf River
The Windy City Mystery
Indiana
Bradley
Cox
Christopher
Peck
Ruthie’s Gift
Andy and Willie
The Hockey Machine
Here Lies the Librarian
Gutman
Hunt
Peck
Iowa
Fleishman
McBroom Tells the Truth
McBroom Lends an Ear
McBroom and the Big Wind
5
Warner
The Clue in the Corn Maze
Kansas
Chandler
Coatworth
Farley
Keith
Melton
Osborne
Reiss
Wilder
The Popcorn Patch
The Sod House
The Mystery of the Melted Diamonds
Rifles for Watie
Autobiography of Ralph Miller
Twister on Tuesday
Riddle of the Prairie Bride
Little House on the Prairie
6
Kentucky
Averill
Caud
Myers
Stephens
Daniel Boone
Did You Carry the Flag Today Charley?
Schoolhouse in the Woods
Tree of Freedom
Black Stallion’s Filly
Abe Lincoln
Album of Horses
Born to Trot
Lewis Clark and Me
Witch of the Cumberlands
Louisiana
Doucet
Holt
E Kroll
Bio
Wallace
Fiddle Fever
My Louisiana Sky
Sweet Magnolia
Andrew Jackson
Blackwater Swamp
Farley
Foster
Henry
Maine
Blume
Broach
Jewett
Ladd
Lattimore
Lindbergh
Lord
MacLaughlan
McCloskey
Paterson
Speare
Wiggin
Fudge-a-Mania
Shakespeare’s Secret
A White Heron
Meg and Melissa
The Two Helens
The Worry Week
Rules
Sarah Plain and Tall
Blueberries for Sal
Time of Wonder
One Morning in Maine
Jacob Have I loved
Sign of the Beaver
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Maryland
Anderson
George
High Courage
Vision, the Mink
7
Greenfield
Hahn
Hope
Naylor
Naylor
Naylor
Vulpes. The Red Fox
Kaya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues
The Doll in the Garden
The Jellyfish Season
Wait til Helen Comes
The Bobbsey Twins Adventure in Washington
The Agony of Alice
Alice in Blunderland
Starting With Alice
8
Massachusetts
Alcott
Little Women
Avi
Blue Heron
Bellairs
The Chessmen of Doom
The Curse of the Blue Figurine
Birdsall
The Penderwicks
Bulla
The Ghost of Windy Hill
Bulla
John Billington, Friend of Squanto
Clapp
Jane-Emily
Denenberg Journal William Thomas Emerson
So Far From Home
Forbes
Johnny Tremain
Gardner
Prisoner of Vampires
Gormley
Mail-Order Wings
Hill
Shipwreck Season
Hyppolite
Seth & Samona
Keene
The Secret of the Wooden Lady
Krensky
The Witching Hour
Latham
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Lawson
Mr. Revere and I
Lowry
Anastasia Krupnik (and series)
Martin
Needle and Thread
Welcome to Camden Falls
Moss
Emma’s Journal
Pennypacker Clementine
Shreve
Wait For Me
Spires
The Mouse of Amhearst
Spykman
Terrible Horrible Edie
Michigan
Bannon
Bellairs
Curtis
DeAngeli
Who Walks the Attic?
The Doom of the Haunted Opera
The Figure in the Shadows
The House with a Clock in it’s Walls
The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull
The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder
Bud, Not Buddy
Copper Toed Boots
9
Fenner
Wright
811 CHA
811 LON
Minnesota
Bellairs
Snowed in With Grandmother Silk
Ghosts Beneath our Feet
Hiawatha
Hiawatha
Fenner
Frazier
Holling
Lovelace
Paulsen
Warner
Whitney
Wilder
The Dark Secret of Weatherend
The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
Revenge of the Shadow King
The Janitor’s Boy
Kitty in the Summer
Kitty From the Start
Yolanda’s Genius
Little Rhody
Paddle to the Sea
Betsy-Tacy (and series)
The Winter Room
Mystery in the Old Attic
Mystery of the Gulls
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Mississippi
Miles
Taylor
Warner
Wiles
Mississippi Possum
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Haunted Cabin Mystery
Each Little Bird That Sings
Benz
Clements
Delton
Missouri
Bulla
Hammer
Harness
MacBride
McMullan
Nixon
Riding Pony Express
Wrong Way Ragsdale
Mark Twain and Queens of Mississippi
Little Farm in the Ozarks
Little House on Rocky Ridge
The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick
The Great Advice of Lila Fenwick
Keeping Secrets (Orphan Train Children)
10
Tate
Twain
Warner
Montana
Collard
Larson
Mikaelsen
Minstrel’s Melody
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Fin
The Haunted Cabin Mystery
921 JOS
Dog Sense
Hattie Big Sky
Petey
Rescue Josh McGuire
Chief Joseph
Nebraska
Bothwell
Clements
Coville
Henry
Hays
Ruckman
The Mystery Box
Room One
The Monsters of Morley Manor
San Domingo (Wyoming + Nebraska)
The Apricot Tree
Night of the Twisters
Nevada
Harness
Henry
Keith
Snyder
Pony Express
Mustang
Chico and Dan
Runaways
New England
Wiggins
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
New Hampshire
Alcott
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
11
Bailey
Miss Hickory
Blos
A Gathering of Days, a N.E. Girl’s Journal
Butterworth The Enormous Egg
Clements
Frindle
Whitney
Secret of Goblin Glen
921 YAT
Amos Fortune Free Man
Yep
Dragon’s Gate
New Jersey
Avi
The Fighting Ground
Blume
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret?
Clements
No Talking
The School Story
Cohen
Make a Wish, Molly
Holm
Penny From Heaven
Hurwitz
Cold and Hot Winter
Hurricane Elaine
DeDe Takes Charge
Aldo Applesauce & Aldo Ice Cream
Levine
The Wish
McDonald Mail Order King
Robertson Henry Reed’s Babysitting Service
Henry Reed’s Big Show
Wooley
Cathy Uncover’s a Secret
Zawadsky The Mystery of the Old Musket
12
New Mexico
Clark
Blue Canyon Horse
Little Navajo Bluebird
Summer is for Growing
Krumgold
.And Now Miguel
Newberry Frosty
O’Dell
Sing Down the Moon
Paulsen
Tucket’s Ride
Curse of the Ruins
Legend of the Red Horse Cavern
Tripp
Josephina books – American Girl
Turner
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow (Dear America)
Warner
Mystery of the Lost Village
New York
Auch
Blume
Blume L.
Brooks
Bruchac
Buckley
Cohen
Collier
Enright
Fitzhugh
Fox
George
Getz
Giff
Greene
Greenwald
Gutman
Guzman
Hope
Hutchins
Hurwitz
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Double Fudge
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapes of Somerset Sisters
Freddy Plays Football
Skeleton Man
Sisters Grimm
The Carp in the Bathtub
The Teddy Bear Habit
The Saturdays
Harriet the Spy
Monkey Island
My Side of the Mountain
Almost Famous
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Just Plain Al
My Fabulous New Life
Rosy’s Romance
Jackie and Me
Beekman’s Big Deal
The Blue Poodle Mystery
Search in the Great City
The Three and Many Wishes of Jason Reid
Ali Baba Berenstain, Lost and Found
13
Elisa Michaels Bigger and Better
Irving
The Headless Horseman
Rip Van Winkle
Konigsburg The Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth & Me Elizabeth
The View From Saturday
Lasky
Dreams in the Golden Country (Dear America)
Lawson
Captain Kidd’s Cat
Lewis
Keisha Discovers Harlem
921 LEN
Indian Captive
Leroy
Taxi Cat and Huey
Lourie
The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd
Levine
The Great Burgerland Disaster
Levoy
The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen
14
Lord
Muise
Neville
Peck
Potter
Rodgers
Sachs
Selden
Stolz
Taylor
Van Lee
Wilder
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Old Bob’s Gift
It’s Like This Cat
Lost in Cyberspace
Olivia Kidney
Freaky Friday
Amy and Laura
The Truth about Mary Rose
The Cricket in Times Square
Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy
Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse
Ivy Larkin
All of a Kind Family (and series)
Dear Mom, You’re Ruining My Life
Farmer Boy
North Carolina
921 BOO
Daniel Boone
Carroll
Digby the Only Dog
Caudill
Tree of Freedom
Cleaver
Where the Lilies Bloom
Credle
Down, Down the Mountain
Duprau
The Prophet of Yonwood
Gray
Jane Hope
Meggy Macintosh
Houston
Mountain Valor
Porter
Addy Learns a Lesson
Warner
Mystery of the Wild Ponies
North Dakota
Lawlor
Addie’s Dakota Winter
Sneve
High Elk’s Treasure
Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake
15
Ohio
Aliki
Avi
Carris
Creech
DeFelice
Denslow
Giff
Hamilton
Hopper
McCloskey
Reiss
Tripp
Oklahoma
Constant
Henry
Hesse
Rawls
Wallace
Oregon
Birdseye
Brown
Cleary
The Story of Johnny Appleseed
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?
Aunt Morbelia and the Screaming Scull
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Weasel
Georgie Lee
Matthew Jackson Meets the Wall
The Bells of Christmas
McHiggins the Great
Willie Bea and the Time Martians Landed
I Was a Fifth Grade Zebra
Lentil
Homer Price
Centerburg Tales
The Ghost in the Dollhouse
Changes for Kit
Miss Charity Comes to Stay
Black Gold
Out of the Dust
Where the Red fern Grows
A Dog Called Kitty
The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa
Pick of the Litter
Trapped in Death Cave
I’m Going to be Famous
Loved You, Logan McGee!
Emily’s Runaway Imagination
Ellen Tebbitts
Ramona series
16
Houston
Morey
VanLeeuen
Eagle Mask
Gloomey Gus
Bound for Oregon
Oregon Trail
Paulsen
Tucket series
Pennsylvania
Alexander The Philadelphia Adventure
Avi
Encounter at Easton
Brick
On the Old Frontier
Carvell
Sweetgrass Basket
Colver
Bread and Butter Indian
DeAngeli
Bright April
Fritz
The Cabin Faced West
George
Meph, the Pet Skunk
Gregory
Winter of Red Snow (Dear America)
My Brother’s Keeper (Dear America)
Lawson
Ben and Me
Leroe
The Peanut Butter Poltergeist
Manes
The Great Gerbil Roundup
Milhous
The Egg Tree
Osborne
Standing in the Light (Dear America)
Porter
Addy American Girl books
Radin
Tac’s Turn
Sorensen
Miracle’s on Maple Hill
Spinelli
Maniac Magee
Warner
Leftover Lily
921 FRA
Benjamin Franklin
921 ROS
Betsy Ross
Rhode Island
Avi
Something Upstairs
Bruchac
Whisper in the Dark
Manes
Rhode Island Red
17
South Carolina
Allen
Johnny Reb
Brown
Swamp Fox
Charles
Martha Helps the Rebel
Hansen
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly (Dear America)
Lattimore Diana in the China Shop
Warner
The Hurricane Mystery
South Dakota
Rounds
Stolen Pony
Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie
The Long Winter
Wilder
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years
Tennessee
Gage
Isaac
E Mck
The Ghost of Five Owl Farm
Swamp Angel
Goin Someplace Special
Texas
Erickson
Gipson
Kerby
Nixon
Sachar
Moonshiner’s Gold
Old Yeller
38 Weeks Til Summer Vacation
Mystery Box
Holes
Utah
Clark
Fitzgerald
Blue Canyon Horse
The Great Brain
The Great Brain is Back
Gregory
The Great Railroad Race
Skurzynski Ghost Horses
Vermont
Bruchac
The Winter People
18
Fisher
Henry
Hurwitz
Porter
Speare
Virginia
Beatty
Denenberg
Fleishman
Henry
Keene
McKissak
Murphy
Nixon
Paterson
Understood Betsy
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Yellow Blue Jay
Pollyana
Calico Captive
Charley Skedaddle
When Will This Cruel War Be Over (Dear America)
Bull Run
Misty of Chincoteague
Sea Star
Stormy
The Hidden Window Mystery
Picture of Freedom (Dear America)
Journal of James Edmond Peace (Dear America)
John’s Story 1775
Maria’s Story 1773
Will’s Story 1771
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Bridge to Terabithia
Washington
Beatty
On the Red Rose Tree
Hobbs
Ghost Canoe
Holm
Our Only May Amelia
Boston Jane an Adventure
Houston
Eagle Mask
Hughes
Family Pose
Look
Ruby Lou the Brave and True
West Virginia
Creech
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Hahn
The Time of the Witch
Naylor
Shiloh
19
Saving Shiloh
Shiloh Season
Rylant
Blue Eyed Daisy
Missing May
Woodruff Ghosts Don’t Get Goosebumps
Yep
The Star Fisher
Wisconsin
Brink
Enright
Hannigan
Henkes
North
Raskin
Wilder
Caddie Woodlawn
Magical Melons
Thimble Summer
Ida B
Olive’s Ocean
Rascal
The Westing Game
Little House in the Big Woods
Wyoming
Coren
Gardiner
Henry
O’Hara
Wallace
Arthur the Kid
Stone Fox
San Domingo
My Friend Flicka
Red Dog
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