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Teachers as Readers         Viewing March 6, 2010                 September 25, 2009 

NYSRA members attending the March Assembly of Delegates Meeting brought along 84 titles and ideas of good books that coordinated with our Conference Theme: On Track to Literacy.  At the Assembly of Delegates meeting in September 2010, our theme will be books where children solve school related problems.  At the 2011 Conference, the theme will be puzzling mysteries. Send us your ideas.

             Iditarod
TAR

  

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Bright Star, Black Dog

Scott O’Dell

Houghton Mifflin

2008

9-12

Dog Tracks

Ruby Slipperjack

Fifth House Books

2009

YA

Winterdance

Gary Paulsen

Harcourt

1994

12 +

DogTeam

Gary Paulsen

Dragonfly books

1995

4-8

Dogsong

Gary Paulsen

Simon & Shuster

1985

10+

Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers; Reflections on being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs

Gary Paulsen

Bt Bound

2007

YA

Woodsong

Gary Paulsen

Puffin

1990

10+

Backstage Iditarod

June Price

Sunhusky Productions

2007

YA

Call of the Wild

Jack Londen

Wildside Press

2007

12 +

Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod

Libby Riddles and Tim Jones

Stackpole Books

1988

YA

The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail

Debbie Miller and Jon Van Zyle (illus.)

Walker & Company

2006

9 - 12


Togo

Robert J. Blake

Philomel

2002

Early Elem

Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod

Robert J. Blake

Puffin

2004

Early
Elem

Balto, the Untold Story of Alaska’s Famous Iditarod Sled Dog

Pat Chargot

Publication Consultants

2006

9-12

Iditarod Dreams: A Year in the Life of Alaskan Sled Dog Racer DeeDee Jonrowe

Lew Freedman
And DeeDee Janrowe

Epicenter Press

2005

YA

Kiana’s Iditarod

Shelley Gill

Sasquatch Books

1984

Early Elem.

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Jeff King

Husky Homestead Press

2008

YA

Stone Fox

John Reynolds
Gardiner

Houghton Mifflin School

1997

9-12

Storm Run: Story of the First Woman to win the Iditarod

Libby Riddles

Sasquatch Books

2001

9-12

 

     Animal Tracks
                                                                                    

 

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Big Tracks, Little Tracks

Millicent E. Selsam and Marlene Hill Donnelly

Harper Collins

1995

4-8

Tracks, Scats and Signs

Leslie A. Dendy

Gareth Stevens Publishing

1996

9-12

Tracks in the Wild

Betsy Bowen

Little Brown and Co.

1993

 

Animal Tracks and Signs: Track Over 400 Animals From Big Cats to Backyard Birds

Jinny Johnson and John A. Burton

National Geographic Children's Books

2008

9-12

Wild Tracks!: A guide to Nature’s Footprints

Jim Arnosky

Sterling

2008

8-12

Who’s Been Here? A Tale in Tracks

Fran Hodgkins

Down East Books

2008

4-8

Dinosaur Tracks

Susan Heinrichs Gray

Children's Press(CT)

2008

4-8

Who Pooped in the Park? (Series about tracks in various National Parks)

Gary Robson and others

Farcountry Press

2004 - 2009

4-8

Off the Track

Betsy S. Lee

Infinity Publishing

2008

9-12

Animal Tracks

Arthur Dorrow

Scholastic

1991

Early
Elem

Crinkleroot’s Guide to Animal Tracking
(Series)

Jim Arnosky

Simon & Schuster

1989

8 – 10

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter

Sally M.Walker

Carolrhoda

2001

4-8

Making Tracks

Stephen Savage

Lodestar Books

1992

4-8

 

          Runners

  

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Track Events in Action

John Crossingham, Bobbie Kalman and Bonna Rouse

Crabtree Publishing Company

2004

9-12

Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Track Star

Engfer, Lee

Capstone Press

2006

9-12

Relay

Edward R. Koch

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

2009

9-12

Sprints, Hurdles and Other Track Events

Jason Page

Crabtree Publishing Company

2008

9-12

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Little Brown

1999

9-12

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

David Adler

Holiday House

1993

4-8

 

   Trains

  

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Rudy Rides the Rails

D.D. Mackall

Sleeping Bear Press

2007

12 +

Train to Somewhere

Eve Bunting

Clarion Books

2000

9-12

Bud Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Laurel Leaf

2004

9-12

Hitch

Jeanette Ingold

Harcourt

2006

YA

Steam Smoke and Steel; Back in Time with Trains

Patrick O’Brien

Charlesbridge Publishing

2000

4-8

Little Engine that Could

Watty Piper

Grosset & Dunlap

2008

4-8

Freight Train

Donald Crews

Scholastic

1989

4-8

Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg

Houghton Mifflin

1985

7-10

John Henry

Ezra Jack Keats

Dragonfly Books

1987

4-8

Freight Train Trip

Suzanna Leonard Hill

Little Simon

2009

4-8

Boxcar Children (Series)

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman and Company

1991

9-12

The Orphan Train

Aurand Harris

Anchorage Press

1998

9-12

The Transcontinental Railroad: Tracks Across America

JilFine

Scholastic Library

2005

9 -12


Underground Railroad
         

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

         
         

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her people to Freedom

Carol Boston Nelson

Jump at the Sun

2006

4-8

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Deborah Hopkinson

Random House Children’s Books

1995

4-8

Show Way

Jacqueline Woodson

Putnam Juvenile

2005

K-5

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

Scholastic

2009

9-12

Henry’s Freedom Box

Ellen LeVine

Scholastic

2007

4 - 8

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Jeanette Winter

Dragonfly Books

1992

4-8

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

Faith Ringgold

Dragonfly Books

1995

4-8

Elm Creek Quilts Series (Sugar Camp Quilt; The Lost Quilter)

Jennifer Chaiverini

Simon and Schuster

2006
2009

YA and Adult

I thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: the Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl (Dear America Series)

Joyce Hansen

Scholastic

1997

8-12

Minty: A Story of a Young Harriet Tubman

Alan Schroeder

Puffin

2000

4-8

Race Cars and Motorcycles


Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Jeff Gordon

Matt Doeden

Capstone Press

2009

9-12

Fast Families: Racing Together Through Life

Ted Brock

Tradition Publishing

2003

9-12

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Matt Doeden

Capstone Press

2009

9-12

St. Dale

Sharyn McCrumb

Kensington
Press

2006

YA and Adult

On the Track with Jeff Gordon

Matt Christopher

Little Brown

2001

9-12

Famous NASCAR Tracks

Jim Gigliotti

Crabtree Publishing

2008

9-12

NASCAR Safety on the Track

Mark Stewart and Mike Kennedy

Learner Classroom

2007

9 -12
& up

Indy 500: The Inside Track

Nancy Roe Pimm

Darby Creek Publishing

2004

9-12

Flat Track

Jim Mezzanotte

Gareth Stevens Publishing

2005

9-12

Dirt Track Racing

Ed Youngblood

Capstone Press

2000

9 - 12

Grand National

Joe Scalzo

Motorbooks

2004

YA

 

Snow Tracks

 

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Tracks in the Snow

Wong Herbert Yee

Square Fish

2007

4-8

First Tracks

Johnny Boyd

PTO Press

2008

4-8

Moose Tracks

Karma Wilson

Margaret K. McElderry

2006

4-8

Curious George in the Snow

Margaret Rey

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

1998

4-8

       Humorous Books


  

Title

Author

Publisher

Copyright

Age

Tracks

David Galef &
Tedd Arnold

Harper Collins

1996

4-8

I saw an Ant on the Railroad Tracks

Joshua Prince

Sterling

2006

4-8

Go Track A Yak

Tony Johnston

Simon & Schuster

2003

4-8

Zak’s Tracks

Juliana Morgan

Lulu.com

2007

9-12

Mogwogs on the March

Olivier Dunrea

Holiday House

1985

Early Elem

Finklehopper Frog

Irene Livingston

Tricycle Press

2003

Early
Elem