Library Week Read Alouds

Fiction/Picture books:

1. Young Cam Jansen and the library mystery (2001)
by Adler, David A.

2. Silver balloon, The (1997)
by Bonners, Susan

3. D.W.'s library card (2001)
by Brown, Marc, 1946-

4. Charlie and the chocolate factory (1964)
by Dahl, Roald

5. Library dragon, The (1994)
by Deedy, Carmen Agra

6. Thimble summer (1966)
by Enright, Elizabeth, 1909-1968 (the Chapter from Thimble Summer when Garnet gets locked in the library overnight)

7. Stella Louella's runaway book (1998)
by Ernst, Lisa Campbell

8. Rosa-too-little (1950)
by Felt, Sue

9. I.Q. goes to the library (2003)
by Fraser, Mary Ann

10. Pagemaster, The (1993)
by Kirschner, David

11. Meg Mackintosh and the mystery in the locked library (1993)
by Landon, Lucinda

12. Please bury me in the library (2005)
by Lewis, J. Patrick

13. Great piratical rumbustification and The librarian and the robbers, The (1978)
by Mahy, Margaret Short story #2: Librarian and the Robbers

14. Richard Wright and the library card (1997)
by Miller, William, 1959-

15. Tomas and the library lady (1997)
by Mora, Pat

16. Amelia Bedelia, bookworm (2003)
by Parish, Herman

17. I can do it all (2002)
by Pearson, Mary (Mary E.)

18. Aunt Chip and the great Triple Creek dam affair (1996)
by Polacco, Patricia

19. Read for me, mama (1997)
by Rahaman, Vashanti

20. Wild about books (2004)
by Sierra, Judy

21. Library card, The (1997) Note: Short story "Brenda"
by Spinelli, Jerry

22. Beverly Billingsly borrows a book (2002)
by Stadler, Alexander

23. Library, The (1995)
by Stewart, Sarah, 1939-

24. Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The (1997)
by Thaler, Mike, 1936-

25. Wretched stone, The (1991)
by Van Allsburg, Chris

26. Library Lil (1997)
by Williams, Suzanne, 1949-

27. Librarian of Basra, The: a true story from Iraq (2004)
by Winter, Jeanette

28. Can you guess where we're going? (1998)
by Woodruff, Elvira

29. Goin' someplace special / Patricia C. McKissack ; [illustrated
by] Jerry Pinkney.

NonFiction:

30. Gary Paulsen : author and wilderness adventurer / Edith Hope
Fine.

31. Check it out! : the book about libraries / by Gail Gibbons.

32. The inside-outside book of libraries / paintings by Roxie Munro ;
text by Julie Cummins.

33. Reading rooms / edited by Susan Allen Toth and John Coughlan ;
foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin.
Note: most appropriate for middle/high school students

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Compiled April 2006 by Jen Simoneau, Librarian, Fogarty Memorial Elementary School, Glocester Public Schools; Suggestions made by RIEMA members.