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Winter Books

Author Title Location

Non-Fiction

Rosen, M. Winter Festivals J 394.2 R
Fowler, A. How Do You Know it's Winter? J 508 F
Saunders-Smith, G. Winter J 508.2 S
Schweninger, A. Wintertime J 525.5 S
Branley, F. M. Snow is Falling J 551.5 B
Cosgrove, M. It's Snowing! J 551.57 C
Powell, J. Snow and Us J 551.578 P
Hirschi, R. Winter J 574.543 H
Cosgrove, M. Wintertime for Animals J 591.5 C
Ahlstrom, M. E. The Snow Goose J 598.41 A

Tall Tales

Location Author Title
J 001.94 C Cohen, Daniel Monsters, Giants and Little Men From Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americas
J 398.2 G FAIRYTL Glass, Andrew Bewildered For Three Days: as to Why Daniel Boone Never Wore His Coonskin Cap
J 398.2 G FAIRYTL Glass, Andrew Folks Call Me Appleseed John
J 398.2 G FAIRYTL Goble, Paul Iktomi and the Buffalo Skull: A Plains Indian Story
J 398.2 K FAIRYTL Kellogg, Steven Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett: A Tall Tale
J 398.2 M FAIRYTL Metaxas, Eric Stormalong
J 398.2 O FAIRYTL Osborne, Mary P. American Tall Tales
J 398.2 S FAIRYTL San Souci, Robert D Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale

Survival Stories

AUTHOR TITLE

For 2nd-4th grade girls

All books are shelved in J Easy Fiction or J Paperback

Fleischman, Paul Lost!: A Story in String
Osborne, Mary Pope Tonight on the Titanic
Shaw, Janet Beeler Kaya's Escape

For 4th-6th grade girls

All books are shelved in J Fiction or J Paperback

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane Tracks in the Snow
Brandis, Marianne The Tinderbox
Casanova, Mary When Eagles Fall
Cushman, Karen Rodzina
Duey, Kathleen Survival!
Fama, Elizabeth Overboard
Fields, Terri

Superhero Books

Grounded by written by Sholly Fisch ; illustrated by John Delaney, Dave Cooper, and David Tanguay ; Batman created by Bob Kane

No place like home by written by Sholly Fisch ; based on the comic-book story by Hillary J. Bader ; illustrated by John Delaney and Dave Cooper

The one-man justice league by writer, Brian Augustyn ; illustrator, Craig Rousseau ; colorist, Andy Mangrum

Friends til the end! by adapted by Steve Murphy based on the original teleplay "Fallen Angel" by Marty Isenberg ; illustrated by Bob Ostrom

Short Stories

Location Author Title

For Younger Readers:

J Picture Book BAB   Baby Bear's Treasury: 25 Stories for the Very, Very Young
J Picture Book DUB Dobrin, A. Love Your Neighbor: Stories of Values and Virtues
J Picture Book MAH Mahy, M. Tick Tock Tales: Stories to Read around the Clock
J Picture Book POT Potter, Beatrix A Treasury of Mouse Stories
J Picture Book ROC Rockwell, Anne Long Ago Yesterday
J Picture Book SCA Scarry, Richard Richard Scarry's Favorite Story book Ever
J Reader A   Adventure Stories that will Thrill You
J Reader P Parish, Peggy The Amelia Bedelia Treasury: Three Books
J Reader S

Poetry Books

The frogs wore red suspenders by rhymes by Jack Prelutsky ; pictures by Petra Mathers

A world of wonders : geographic travels in verse and rhyme by J. Patrick Lewis ; pictures by Alison Jay

Hoofbeats, claws, and rippled fins : creature poems by edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; art by Stephen Alcorn

If I were in charge, the rules would be different by James Proimos

Hiawatha and Megissogwon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; illustrated by Jeffrey Thompson ; afterword by Joseph Bruchac

Lemony Snicket Readalikes

The wolves of Willoughby Chase. Illustrated by Pat Marriott by Aiken, Joan, 1924-2004

The fall of Fergal, or, Not so dingly in the Dell by Philip Ardagh ; with illustrations by David Roberts

A house called Awful End by Philip Ardagh ; illustrated by David Roberts

Molly Moon's incredible book of hypnotism by Georgia Byng

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

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