Fifty States - Fifty Books
See the USA without leaving home!
~Books for young readers ~
Fifty
States - Fifty Books
See the USA without leaving home!
~Books for young readers ~
Suggestions from the Children's Library, Mt. Lebanon Public
Library
Pittsburgh, PA 15228 www. mtlebanonlibrary.org
| Alabama | Tambourine
moon by Joy Jones
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| Alaska | King Island
Christmas by Jean Rogers
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| Arizona | Big moon
tortilla by Joy Cowley
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| Arkansas | Good morning,
Granny Rose : an Arkansas folktale retold and illustrated by Warren Ludwig
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| California | Yoko's paper
cranes by Rosemary Wells
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| Colorado | All aboard! :
a true train story words and photographs by Susan Kuklin
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| Connecticut | Warm as wool by Scott Russell Sanders
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| Delaware | Pea Patch
Island by Polly Curren
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| Florida | A manatee
morning by Jim Arnosky
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| Georgia | Mama and me
and the Model T by Faye Gibbons
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| Hawaii | The
Island-below-the-star written and illustrated by James Rumford
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| Idaho | Potato : a
tale from the Great Depression written by Kate Lied
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| Illinois | Hog music by M.C. Helldorfer
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| Indiana | The floating
house by Scott Russell Sanders
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| Iowa | Hurry! illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully, adapted from Farewell to the Farivox by Harry Hartwick
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| Kansas | Aunt Minnie
and the twister by Mary Skillings Prigger
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| Kentucky | Weaving the
rainbow by George Ella Lyon
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| Louisiana | Little Pierre
: a Cajun story from Louisiana by Robert D. San Souci
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| Maine | One morning in
Maine by Robert McCloskey
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| Maryland | The battle for
St. Michaels by Emily Arnold McCully
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| Massachusetts | Obadiah the
Bold story and pictures by Brinton Turkle
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| Michigan | The trees of
the dancing goats by Patricia Polacco
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| Minnesota | Gathering
: a northwoods counting book by Betsy Bowen
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| Mississippi | Jean Laffite
and the big ol' whale by Frank G. Fox
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| Missouri | Grandma
Essie's covered wagon by David Williams
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| Montana | Brave Wolf and
the Thunderbird by Joe Medicine Crow
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| Nebraska | Dandelions by Eve Bunting
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| Nevada | Snowshoe
Thompson by Nancy Smiler Levinson
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| New Hampshire | Old Home Day by Donald Hall
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| New Jersey | The 18 penny
goose by Sally M. Walker
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| New Mexico | The farolitos
of Christmas by Rudolfo Anaya
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| New York | Henry and the
kite dragon by Bruce Edward Hall
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| North Carolina | Back home by Gloria Jean Pinkney
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| North Dakota | The
range eternal by Louise Erdrich
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| Ohio | Lentil by Robert McCloskey
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| Oklahoma | I
have heard of a land by Joyce Carol Thomas
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| Oregon | Tulip sees
America by Cynthia Rylant
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| Pennsylvania | Sparrow
Jack by Mordicai Gerstein
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| Rhode Island | The
scrimshaw ring by William Jaspersohn
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| South Carolina | Carolina
shout! by Alan Schroeder
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| South Dakota | Little
Yellow Fur by Wilma Pitchford Hays
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| Tennessee | On
Granddaddy's farm by Thomas B. Allen
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| Texas | Armadillo
rodeo written and illustrated by Jan Brett
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| Utah | White
water by Jonathan and Aaron London
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| Vermont | From
dawn till dusk by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
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| Virginia | Liberty
Street by Candice Ransom
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| Washington | Kate
on the coast by Pat Brisson
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| West Virginia | When
I was young in the mountains by Cynthia Rylant
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| Wisconsin | Right
here on this spot by Sharon Hart Addy
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Wyoming |
Snowed
in by Barbara M. Lucas
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