*NEW A Tugging String
by David T. Greenberg
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Narrator |
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*NEW Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
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Hyperbole |
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*NEW How Tia Lola Came to Stay
by Julia Alvarez
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Apostrophe |
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A Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli
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Biography |
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Archimedes and the Door of Science
by Jeanne Bendick
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Alphabets |
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Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
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Collage |
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Blood and Guts
by Linda Allison
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Titles |
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Onomatopoeia |
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By the Great Horn Spoon!
by Sid Fleischman
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Dialect |
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Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
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Conclusions |
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Call It Courage
by Armstrong Perry
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Imagery |
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
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Writer’s Voice |
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Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
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Rhyme |
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Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Descriptive Detail |
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Henry Huggins
by Beverly Cleary
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Names |
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Homer Price
by Robert McCloskey
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Wild Words |
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Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
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One Sentence |
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Ida B
by Katherine Hannigan
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Grammar Games |
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord
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Personification |
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
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Opening Hooks |
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Journey to Jo’burg
by Beverley Naidoo
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Cinquain |
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Little Britches
by Ralph Moody
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Figurative Language |
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Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Protagonist |
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Confusing Word Pairs |
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Mary Poppins
by P. L. Travers
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Rhyme |
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Moccasin Trail
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Alliteration |
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Mossflower
by Brian Jacques
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Onomatopoeia |
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Nim’s Island
by Wendy Orr
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Similes and Metaphors |
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Mood |
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Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
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Onomoatopoeia |
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Rascal
by Sterling North
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Consonance |
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Redwall
by Brian Jacques
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Onomatopoeia |
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
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Fictionalizing History |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia Maclachlan
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Confusing Word Pairs |
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Secret of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark
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Dialog |
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Soup
by Robert Newton Peck
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Metaphors |
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Star of Light
by Patricia St. John
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Metaphor |
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Stuart Little
by E. B. White
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Details |
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The Big Wave
by Pearl S. Buck
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Theme |
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The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
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Topics |
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The Cabin Faced West
by Jean Fritz
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Consonance |
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The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
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Personification |
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The Horse and His Boy
by C. S. Lewis
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Writing Projects |
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The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
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Synonyms |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
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Powerful Verbs |
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
by Beverly Cleary
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Viewpoint |
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Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
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Simile |
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Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
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Appeal to Known Experience |
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee
by Patricia Beatty
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Writing Letters |
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Wheel on the School
by Meinart DeJong
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Assonance |
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Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
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Imagery |
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