Reading Lists

Picture Books | Juvenile Fiction | Juvenile Non-Fiction

Picture Books & Easy Readers

Clifton, Lucille                       
Everett Anderson's Friend (JE CLI)
Having eagerly anticipated the new neighbors, a boy is disappointed to get a whole family of girls.

Dakos, Kelli                          
Follow the Leader  (JE DAK)
While playing follow-the-leader with Clifford and T-Bone, Cleo learns that playing fair is the best way to play!

Forest, Heather                     
Stone Soup (JE FOR)
Two hungry travelers use a stone as a soup starter and demonstrate the benefits of sharing. Includes a recipe for soup.

Friedman, Ina R                    
How My Parents Learned to Eat (JE FRI)
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

Hoban, Lillian            
Arthur's Pen Pal (JE READ HOBAN)
Arthur views his little sister in a different light after receiving a revealing letter from his pen pal.

Juvenile Fiction

Carrick, Carol                       
Stay Away from Simon! (JUV FIC CAR)
Lucy and her younger brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they both fear when he follows them home one snowy day. 

Cohen, Barbara                     
Thank you, Jackie Robinson (JUV FIC COH)
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman, Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.              

Denenberg, Barry     
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake  Internment Camp (JUV FIC DEAR)                      
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in an internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.

Taylor, Mildred D.                
The Well : David's Story (JUV FIC TAY)
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares the well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

Juvenile Non-Fiction

Johnson, Ann Donegan                                                                                 
The Value of Fairness: the Story of Nellie Bly (JUV 921 BLY)
Demonstrates the value of fairness in the life of the turn-of-the century journalists whose pen name was Nellie Bly.

Kyle, Kathryn                                   
Fairness (JUV 179 KYLE)
Easy-to-read scenarios, such as sharing a cookie with your brother or playing by the rules, provide lessons in fairness.

SanSouci, Robert D.                                                                                        
The House in the Sky: a Bahamian Folktale (JUV 398.21 SAN)
A lazy, greedy brother gets his comeuppance when he tries to take more than his fair share from a house full of spirits.