“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 20 21