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| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Picture Book Units | ||
| Adventurous Kids: | ||
| Floating Home | Getz, David | 10 |
| Going for Oysters | Adams, Jeanie | 10 |
| Marven of the Great North Woods | Lasky, Katherine | 10 |
| Mailing May | Tunnell, Michael O. | 10 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Cinderella: | ||
| The Egyptian Cinderella | Climo, Shirley | 10 |
| The Golden Sandal | Hicox, Rebecca | 10 |
| Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella story from China | Louie, Ai-Ling | 10 |
| Cinderella | Perrault, Charles | 10 |
| Cendrillon | SanSouci, Robert D. | 10 |
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| Disabilities: | ||
| Be Good to Eddie Lee | Fleming, Virginia M. | 10 |
| Dad and Me in the Morning | Lakin, Patricia | 10 |
| Knots on a Counting Rope | Martin, Bill | 10 |
| A Beautiful Pearl | Whitelaw, Nancy | 10 |
| Thank You, Mr. Falker | Polacco, Patricia | 10 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Environment: | ||
| Dawn | Shulevitz, Uri | 10 |
| She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head | Lasky, Kathryn | 10 |
| Letting Swift River Go | Yolen, Jane | 10 |
| And Still the Turtle Watched | MacGill-Callahan, Sheila | 10 |
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| Immigration: | ||
| Peppe the Lamplighter | Bartone, Elisa | 10 |
| The Feather-Bed Journey | Feder, Paula | 10 |
| A Very Important Day | Herold, Maggie R. | 10 |
| I Was Dreaming to Come to America | 10 | |
| The Long Way to a New Land | Sandin, Joan | 10 |
| The Long Way Westward | Sandin, Joan | 10 |
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| Multi-cultural: | ||
| Morning on the Lake | Waboose, Jan Bourdeau | 10 |
| The Day of Ahmed’s Secret | Heide, Florence Parry | 10 |
| Manuela’s Gift | Estes, Kristyn Rehling | 10 |
| Mei-Mei Loves the Morning | Tsubakiyama, Margaret Holloway | 10 |
| Raising Yoder’s Barn | Yolen, Jane | 10 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Pioneer: | ||
| The New Land | Reynolds, Marilynn | 10 |
| Warm as Wool | Sanders, Scott | 10 |
| Buffalo Thunder | Wittmann, Patricia | 10 |
| The Floating House | Sanders, Scott | 10 |
| Nothing Here But Trees | VanLeeuwen, Jean | 10 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Segregation History: | ||
| Freedom Summer | Wiles, Deborah | 10 |
| Richard Wright and the Library Card | Miller, William | 10 |
| Through My Eyes | Bridges, Ruby | 10 |
| The Other Side | Woodson, Jacqueline | 10 |
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| WW II: | ||
| Just Like New | Manson, Ainslie | 10 |
| Nim and the War Effort | Lee, Milly | 10 |
| Don’t You Know There’s a War On? | Stevenson, James | 10 |
| Baseball Saved Us | Mochizuki, Ken | 10 |
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| TITLE | AUTHOR | # OF COPIES |
| Chapter Books: | ||
| Amber Brown is Not a Crayon | Danziger, Paula | 10 |
| Arthur Writes a Story (E Pap) | Brown, Marc | 10 |
| Babe & Me | Gutman, Dan | 9 |
| Betsy-Tacy and Tib | Lovelace, Maud Hart | 10 |
| Betsy-Tacy | Lovelace, Maud Hart | 10 |
| Chocolate Fever | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 8 |
| Echohawk | Durrant, Lynda | 10 |
| Frindle | Clements, Andrew | 11 |
| Grover G. Graham and Me | Quattlebaum, Mary | 10 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling | 6 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 9 | |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 10 | |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 10 | |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 9 | |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 8 | |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | 7 | |
| Holes | Sachar, Louis | 10 |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Lord, Bette Bao | 10 |
| Jackie & Me | Gutman, Dan | 7 |
| Juan Bobo: four folktales from Puerto Rico | Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. | 9 |
| Keeper of the Night | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 5 |
| Knights of the Kitchen Table | Scieszka, Jon | 10 |
| Letters from Camp | Klise, Kate | 9 |
| Libby Bloom | Masters, Susan Rowan | 10 |
| Mean Margaret | Seidler, Tor | 10 |
| My Life in Dog Years | Paulsen, Gary | 10 |
| My Louisiana Sky | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 5 |
| Nothing But the Truth | Avi | 10 |
| On Being Sarah | Helfman, Elizabeth | 10 |
| Ordinary Magic | Bosse, Malcolm | 9 |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 10 |
| Ramona’s World | Cleary, Beverly | 4 |
| Regarding the Fountain | Klise, Kate | 10 |
| The Battle for the Castle | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 10 |
| The Beaded Moccasins | Durrant, Lynda | 9 |
| The Castle in the Attic | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 9 |
| The Good, the Bad and the Goofy | Scieszka, Jon | 10 |
| The Great Brain | Fitzgerald, John D. | 10 |
| The Killer Angels | Shaara, Michael | 10 |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Cleary, Beverly | 10 |
| The Not-S0-Jolly Roger | Scieszka, Jon | 10 |
| The Sea Chest | Buzzeo, Toni | 10 |
| The Sign of the Beaver | Speare, Elizabeth George | 9 |
| The Skin I’m In | Flake, Sharon | 10 |
| The View from Saturday | Konigsburg, E.L. | 10 |
| The War With Grandpa | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 10 |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 10 |
| Virtually Perfect | Gutman, Dan | 18 |
| Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon | 10 |
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 10 |
| Wrestling Sturbridge | Wallace, Rich | 9 |