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Michigan Fiction & Authors - Suggestions by Grade

Kindergarten

It's summer, dear Dragon by Margaret Hillert ; illustrated by David Schimmell

Memoirs of a hamster by Devin Scillian and illustrated by Tim Bowers

The Michigan counting book by Kathy-jo Wargin ; illustrator, Michael Glenn Monroe

Stranger in the woods by Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stoick

Mr. Wayne's masterpiece by Patricia Polacco

1st Grade

Monkey monster truck by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman ; illustrations Lys Blakeslee

Tadpole trouble by Johnathan Rand

Kelly of Hazel Ridge by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen ; Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen

The day the Great Lakes drained away by written and illustrated by Charles Ferguson Barker

Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett and Alex ; pictures by Matthew Myers but mostly Alex

2nd Grade

Never swipe a bully's bear by Katherine Applegate ; illustrated by Brian Biggs

Jam & jelly by Holly & Nellie by written by Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen

Picture day perfection by written by Deborah Diesen ; pictures by Dan Santat

3rd Grade

The Ellie McDoodle diaries: Ellie for president by written and illustrated by Ruth McNally Barshaw

Akiko in the Sprubly Islands by written and illustrated by Mark Crilley

Mitt & Minn at the Wisconsin Cheese Jamboree by Kathy- jo Wargin ; illustrated by Karen Busch Holman

Mr. Chickee's messy mission by Christopher Paul Curtis

Are there bears in Starvation Lake? by Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by Lynne Cravath

4th Grade

A faraway home: an orphan train story by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos ; illustrated by Carolyn R. Stich

Queen of the Falls by written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg

Just in time, Abraham Lincoln by Patricia Polacco

Gator on the loose! by Sue Stauffacher ; illustrated by Priscilla Lamont

Cupcake cousins by Kate Hannigan ; illustrated by Brooke Boynton Hughes

 

5th Grade

My near-death adventures (99% true!) by Alison DeCamp

The kidnappers by Willo Davis Roberts

The house with a clock in its walls by John Bellairs ; pictures by Edward Gorey

Farewell to the Island by Gloria Whelan

The batboy by Mike Lupica

6th Grade 

Spitting image by Shutta Crum

Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator: the bones of the holy by Jennifer Allison

Donutheart by Sue Stauffacher

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963: a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis

Still need more suggestions? Check out these additional lists of Michigan Fiction & Authors by Grade.

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Sixth Grade