Read+Across+USA+Book+List

This book list was created for a 4th grade project. //Note: It has not been updated since 2004.// Reading Across the U.S.A.

Call State Author Title Publisher Year RL

AZ Anderson Batboy, an Inside Look at Spring Training







IN Anderson Christmas on the Prairie







OK Antle Beautiful Land







OK Antle Hard Times







LA Appelt Where, Where Is Swamp Bear? HarperCollins 2002



MN Armstrong Lili the Brave







KY Arnow Louisville Slugger







NY Auch Journey to Nowhere Yearling 1983



NY Auch Journey to Nowhere







NJ Avi Captain Grey HarperCollins 1977



RI Avi Something Upstairs







OR Avi The Barn Avon 1994



CT Avi Windcatcher Avon Camelot 1991



AL Balke Togo Philomel 2002



CO Bauer Face to Face







IL Bauer On My Honor







MN Bauer Runt Clarion 2002



GA Beatty Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee Troll 1988



VA Beatty Charley Skedaddle Troll 1987



KS Beatty Jayhawker







MA Bedard Emily







OR Bledsoe Hoop Girlz Holiday 2002



NH Blos A Gathering of Days Aladdin 1979



MI Blos Brothers of the Heart







DC Blume Double Fudge Dutton 2002



AZ Boling New Year Be Coming! Whitman 2002



MS Borden Good-bye Charles Lindbergh







South Bradley Halfway to the Sky Delacorte 2002





AR Branscum To the Tune of a Hickory Stick







VA Brenaman Evvy’s Civil War Putnam 2002



WI Brink Caddie Woodlawn







ND Brooke Jake’s Orphan DK Ink 2000



NH Bruchac Heart of a Chief Dial 1998



NY Bruchac The Arrow Over the Door Dial 1998



ME Bryant Grandmother Bryant’s Pocket







NE Bunting Dandelions







GA Burch Ida Early Comes over the Mountains







NH Butterworth The Enormous Egg







ME Buzzeo The Sea Chest Dial 2002



WV Byars The Summer of the Swans







CO Bylinksy Before the Wildflowers







ND Calvert Betrayed! Atheneum 2002



ND Calvert The Snowbird







MA Carrick Elephant in the Dark







MN Casanova Moose Tracks Scholastic 1995



TX Cherry Armadillo from Amarillo







HI Cindrich In the Shadow of the Pali Putnam 2002



OR Cleary Ramona the Pest







MO Clemens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn







MS Clements A Chapel of Thieves Farrar 2002



NH Clements A Week In the Woods S&S 2002



IL Clements Things Not Seen Philomel 2002



GA Climo A Month of Seven Days







MT Cocoran Wolf at the Door Atheneum 1993



NJ Cohen Make a Wish, Molly







CA Cole The Canyon HarperCollins 2002



LA Coles The Story of Ruby Bridges







AL Collier Jericho Walls Holt 2002



SC Collier Jericho Walls Holt 2002



CT Collier War Comes to Willy Freeman







VT Conly The Rudest Alien on Earth Holt 2002



NE Conrad My Daniel







NE Conrad Prairie Songs HarperTrophy 1985



CA Cottonwood Adventures of Boone Barnaby







ID,KY,OH Creech Walk Two Moons HarperTrophy 1994



MI Crowe Mississippi Trial, 1955 Fogelman 2002



IN Cullen Nelly in the Wilderness HarperCollins 2002



MI Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham Yearling 1995



CA Cushman The Ballad of Lucy Wipple HarperCollins 1996



AZ Cuyler That’s Good! That’s Bad! In the Grand Canyon Holt 2002



NJ Danziger The United Tates of America Scholastic 2002



FL Darling Manatee







FL DeCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie Candlewick 2000



AK DeClements Bite of the Gold bug, Story of the Alaska Gold Rush







IA DeFelice The Real, True Dulcie Campbell Farrar 2002



MN Delton Backyard Angel







TX DePaola Legend of the Bluebonnet: An Old Tale of Texas







DC Donnelly A Wall of Names: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial







ME Dorris Guests Hyperion 1994



LA Doucet Lapin PlaysPossum Farrar 2002



WY Downing Kid Curry’s Last Ride







CA Duey Anisett Lundberg







MN Ellsworth The Shrouding Woman Holt 2002



MI Erdrich The Birchbark House Hyperion 1999



KY Farley Black Stallion’s Filly







ME Fendler Lost on a Mountain in Maine







MI-IL Fenner Yolanda’s Genius Aladdin 1995



ME Field Calico Bush Aladdin 1966



UT Fitsgerald The Great Brain Yearling 1967



MO Fleischman Humbug Mountain







OH Fleischman The Borning Room HarperTrophy 1991



TX Flourney Tanya’s Reunion







CO Fraser In Search of the Grand Canyon







IL Freedman Lincoln, a Photobiopgrahy







PA Fritz Cabin Faced West Puffin 1991



VA Fritz Double Life of Pocahontas







TX Fritz Make Way for Sam Houston







SC Fuqua Darby Candlewick Press 2002



ME Garden Meeting Melanie Farrar 2002



PA Gauch This Time, Tempe Wick?







SD Geisert Prairie Summer Houghton 2002



WI Geisert The Giant Ball of String Houghton 2002



CO George Dipper of Copper Creek







GA George Full Steam Ahead Boyds Mills 2002



AK George Julie of the Wolves HarperTrohpy 1972



NY George My Side of the Mountain Puffin 1988



AZ George One Day in the Desert







FL George Talking Earth







FL George The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Ecological Mystery HarperTrophy 1992



FL George Tree Castle Island HarperCollins 2002



GA George Tree Castle Island HarperCollins 2002



AL Gibbons King Shoes and Clown Pockets







TX Gipson Old Yeller HarperTrophy 1956



TX Gipson Old Yeller







CA Goldner Humphrey, the Wrong Way Whale







NY Goodwind Central Park Serenade Collins 2002



NY Gray Falcon’s Egg Yearling 1995



AR Greene Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon







WY Gregory Jenny of the Tetons Harcourt 1989



CA Gregory Stowaway, a Tale of California Pirates







AK Griese At the Mouth of the Luckiest River







TX Griffin The Music Thief Holt 2002



GA Griffith Georgie Music Greenwillow





PA Gross The Day It Rained Forever Puffin 1991



HI Guback Luka’s Quilt







WA Guiberson Turtle People Atheneum 1990



VT Haas Shaper Greenwillow 2002



IN Haddix Running Out of Time Aladdin 1995



MD Hahn Anna all Year Round Clarion 1999



MD Hahn Jellyfish Season







DE Hall Canalboat to Freedom







NH Hall Old Home Day







VA Harrah My Brother, My Enemy Simon & Schuster 1997



SD Harvey My Prairie Year, Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted







OH Hendershot In Coal Country







NV Henry Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West







OK Hesse Out of the Dust Scholastic 1998



OH Hickman Susannah Greenwillow 1998



AK Hill Toughboy and Sister Puffin 1990



AK Hill Toughboy and Sister







CO Hobbs Bearstone Avon 1989



WA Hobbs Ghost Canoe Morrow 1997



NM Hobbs Kokopelli’s Flute Camelot 1995



AL Hobbs Wild Man Island HarperCollins 2002



NY Hollings Paddle to the Sea







WA Holm Boston Jane: Wilderness Days HarperCollins 2002



WA Holm Our Only May Amelia







LA Holt My Louisiana Sky Yearling 1998



OK Hoobler On the Trail on Which They Wept







ME Hopkinson Birdie’s Light House







MD Howard Aunt Flossie’s Hats







TX Huling Puss in Cowboy Boots S&S 2002



IL Hunt Across Five Aprils







MA Hurst In Plain Sight Houghton 2002



VT Hurwitz Faraway Summer Avon 1998



VT Hurwitz Llama in the Family







MA Hyppolite Seth and Samona Yearling 1995



ID Ingold Big Burn Harcourt 2002



NY Jakobsen My New York







MT James Smokey the Cow Horse







MA Johnston The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe







MO Karr Great Turkey Walk







PA Keehn Anna Sunday Philomel 2002



WA Kehret The Stranger Next Door Dutton 2002



KA Kimmel One Sky Above Us HarperCollins 2002



KA Kimmel To the Frontier HarperCollins 2002



VT Kinsey-Warnock A Doctor Like Papa HarperCollins 2002



NH Kinsey-Warnock Bear that Heard the Crying







VT Kinsey-Warnock Canada Geese Quilt







VT Kinsey-Warnock From Dawn to Dusk Houghton 2002



MA Koller Someday Scholastic 2002



NY Konigsburg From The Mixed-Up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Yearling 1967



LA Kovacs Brewster’s Courage







DC Krementz A Visit to Washington, D.C.







NM Krumgold And Now Miguel HarperTrophy 1953



CA Kvasnosky One Lucky Summer Dutton 2002



MN Laskey Marven of the Great North Woods







IA Lawlor Addie’s Forever Friend Albert Whitman 1997



ND Lenski Prairie School







MA Lent Molasses Flood







ME Levin Fire in the Wind Beech Tree 1997



NY Lewin Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out Collins 2002



RI Lisle The Art of Keeping Cool Atheneum 2000



UT Litchman All Is Well Yearling 1998



AK London Call of the Wild







MN Lovelace Betsy-Tracy







CA Lowell I am Lavina Cumming Milkweed 1993



OH Lyon Gina Jamie Father Bear Atheneum 2002



RI Macaulay The Mill







NY Maestro Story of the Statue of Liberty







VT Maguire Seven Spiders Spinning







MA McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings







ME McCloskey One Morning in Maine







MD McCully The Battle for St. Michaels HarperCollins 2002



NC McGill Here We go Round Houghton 2002



AZ McHargue Turquoise Toad Mystery







TN McKissack Color Me Dark, the Diary of Nellie Lee Love







AL McKissack Run Away Home Scholastic 1997



TN McKissack The Great Migration North







CT Mead Junebug Farrarr, Straus & Giroux 1998



TX Meyer White Lilacs Harcourt 1993



MT Mikaelsen Rescue Josh McGuire Hyperion 1991



CO Mills 7X9=Trouble! Farrar 2002



CA Moeri Downwind Dell 1984



TX Moore Matchit Delacorte 2002



PA Moore The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek Moore 1990



NV Mooser Hitchhiking Vampire







OK Moranville Over the River Holt 2002



IL Moranville Over the River Holt 2002



AK Morey Gentle Ben







IL Murphy The Great Fire







ID Murphy West to a Land of Plenty, Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi







TN Myers Graveyard Girl







OK Myers Red-Dirt Jessie Walker 1994



NY Myers Scorpions HarperTrophy 1988



SC Myers The Keeping Room Puffin 1997



OK Myers Tulsa Burning Walker 2002



WA Namioka Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear Yearling 1994



MS Naylor Night Cry







WV Naylor Shiloh Yearling 1991



WV Naylor Shiloh Season







MD Naylor Starting with Alice Atheneum 2002



MD Naylor The Girls Take Over Delacorte 2002



TX Nikola-Lisa Summer Sun Risin’ Lee & Low 2002



MO Nixon A Family Apart







TX Nixon Search for the Shadowman Yearling 1996



TX Nixon The Trap Delacorte 2002



WI North Little Rascal







AZ-NM O’Dell Sing Down the Moon Yearling 1996



WY O’Hara My Friend Flicka







CT Palmer The Red Petticoat







TN Partridge Clara and the Hoodoo Man Dutton 1996



MT Patent Where the Bald Eagles Gather







VT Paterson Jip, His Story







VT-MA Paterson Lyddie Puffin 1991



VA Paterson Park’s Quest







TX Paulsen Canyons Laurel Leaf 1990



MN Paulsen Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers







WY Paulsen The Haymeadow







MN Paulsen The Winter Room Yearling 1989



KY Pearsall Trouble Don’t Last Knopf 2002



OH Pearsall Trouble Don’t Last Knopf 2002



VT Peck A Day No Pigs Would Die Random House 1972



IL Peck A Year Down Yonder







FL Peck Horse Thief HarperCollins 2002



ME Peck Seal Child







VT Peck Soup







MT Peterson Amazing Grazing Boyds Mills 2002



WI Pfitsch Keeper of the Light Simon & Schuster 1997



NC Pinkney Back Home







NJ Pinkwater Hoboken Chicken Emergency







MT Place Copper Kings of Montana







SC Poe The Gold Bug







PA Pollacco Just Plain Fancy







AZ Pratt-Serafini Saguaro Moon: A Desert Journal Dawn 2002



LA Price The Bourbon Street Musicians Clarion 2002



KA Prigger Aunt Minnie and the Twister Clarion 2002



NY Ringold Cassie’s Word Quilt Knopf 2002



Yellowstone Roberts The Absolutely True Story of How I Visited Yellowstone With the Terrible Rupes Atheneum 1994



MS Robinet Mississippi Chariot







ME Roop Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie







OH Rosen Chaser: A Novel in E-Mails Candlewick 2002



NE Ruckman Night of the Twisters HarperTrophy 1984



NE Ruckman Night of the Twisters







ID Rumsey Lion on the Run







NY Russo House of Sports Greenwillow 2002



CA Ryan Riding Freedom Scholastic 1998



WV Rylant Missing May Yearling 1992



KS Rylant The Van Gogh Café Apple 1995



KS Rylant Van Gogh Café







TX Sachar Holes Yearling 1998



HI Salisbury Jungle Dogs Bantam 1998



HI Salisbury Under the Blood-Red Sun Yearling 1994



IA San Souci Kate Shelley, Bound for Legend







S.W. Sebestyen Words by Heart Yearling 1979



NY Selden The Cricket in Times Square Yearling 1960



CT Selden Tucker’s Countryside







LA Shaik Melitte Puffin 1997



NJ Sheldon My Perfect Life Candlewick 2002



NJ Shreve Trout and Me Knopf 2002



AL Siegal The Year They Walked-Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott







AL Sierra Wiley and the Hairy Man







WY Skurzynski Dangerous Ground Bradbury 1989



PA Skurzynski Good-bye, Billy Radish







HI Slepain Broccoli Tapes







OK Smith Indian Shoes HarperCollins 2002



IL Smith Indian Shoes HarperCollins 2002





CA Snyder Cat Running Dell 1994



CA Soto Baseball in April and Other Stories Harcourt 1990



S.W. Soto Canto Familiar Harcourt 1995



CT Souci The Birds of Killingworth Dial 2002



NH Speare Calico Captive







ME Speare Sign of the Beaver Yearling 1983



MA Speare Witch of Blackbird Pond Yearling 1958



PA Spinelli Maniac Magee







PA Spinelli Wringer HarperTropy 1997



CA Spurr Surfer Dog Dutton 2002



HI Stanley The Last Princess, the Story of Pincess Kalaulani of Hawaii







AZ-CA Stewart If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast! Holiday House 1999



TN Swain Civil Rights Pioneer, a Story about Mary Church Terrell







NM Talbert A Sunburned Prayer Aladdin 1995



MO Tate Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School Yearling 1992



MI Taulbert Little Cliff and the Cold Place Dial 2002



CA Taylor Maldonado Miracle







MS Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Puffin 1976



MS Taylor The Friendship







WA Thesman Between Viking 2002



NC Tolan Surviving the Applewhites HarperCollins 2002



MT Torres Crossing Montana Holiday 2002



VA Tripp Felicity Learns a Lesson







OR Van Leeuwen Bound for Glory







MD Viorst Homecoming







RI-MD Voight Homecoming Ballantine 1996



WY Wallace Red Dog Pocket 1987



MO-TX-TN Walter Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Knopf 1986



LA Walter Ray and the Best Family Reunion Ever HarperCollins 2002



VT Warnock Lumber Camp Library Collins 2002



NJ Weisner June 29, 1999







MA Weitzman You Can’t Take a Balloon Into the Museum of Fine Arts Dial 2002



KY Wells Mary on Horseback: Three Mountian Stories Viking 1998



KY Wells The House in the Mail Viking 2002



MI Whelen Shadow of the Wolf







MI Whelen The Wanigan Knopf 2002



VA White Belle Prater’s Boy







MT Wier The Loner Apple 1964



ND Wilder By the Short of Silver Lake







WI Wilder Little House in the Big Woods







SD Wilder Little Town on the Prairie







SD Wilder The Long Winter







UT Williams A Mother to Embarrass Me Delacourte 2002



OK Williams Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon







OR Williams The Ghost Stallion Holt 1999



MA Wilson Becoming Felix Avon Camelot 1996



AL Windham Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts







TN Wister Thunder on the Tennessee







CA Wood Daughter of the Madrugada Dealcorte 2002



PA Woodruff Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad Random House 1998



CA Woods The Red Rose Box Putnam 2002



AZ Wright A Hundred Days from Home Holt 2002



UT Wunderli The Blue Between the Clouds Holt 1996



ID Wyss Ten Miles from Winnemucca HarperCollins 2002



NV Yep Dragon’s Gate HarperTrophy 1993



WV Yep The Star Fisher







GA Young Moving Mama to Town Yearling 1997



CT Young Outside In Greenwillow 2002