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Yugua Days by Cruz Martel
A Puerto Rican boy living in New York makes his first trip to Puerto Rico where he learns about yagua days.
  • Activities include cross-curricular ideas. TeacherViews

 

Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers by Lensey Namioka
While her younger siblings have adopted many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plot to convert her to American culture.

 

Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family by Lensey Namioka
Third daughter Mary Yang makes an unexpected new friend while trying to hide a kitten from her family 

 

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensy Namioka
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.
  • Activities with booktalks and curricular ideas. Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association
  • Activity for completing a story pyramid. TeacherViews
  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. Stockton Unified School District
  • Discussion Questions with extension activities.
  • Lesson Plan includes book talks and cross curricular ideas. Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association)
  • Lesson Plan using the guided reading technique. Deb Smith
  • Lesson Plan includes a book summary, activities, and a bibliography. Maine Association of School Libraries

 

Yanked! by Nancy Kress
Jason and Sharon are "yanked" into the 26th century to battle the Panurish, a group of grotesque humanoids with third, sky-scanning eyes.

·         Lesson Plan include plot, characters, questions, and activities. Golden Duck Award

 

Yard Sale by James Stevenson
Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flats Yard Sale.

  • Lesson Plan focuses on the economic concept of economic wants. KidEconBooks

 

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
  • Activities include letter writing and comparing the past and the present. TeacherViews
  • Book Discussion Guide  includes summary and discussion questions. Multnomah County Public Library (Oregon)
  • Book Test MiKids

·         Book Test Arcadia Valley Elementary School, MO-Ruth Petsel

·         Booktalk Nancy Keane

·         Guide with a summary, discussion questions and activities. William Allen White Children's Book Award

  • Internet Connections  to accompany the book. Annette Lamb
  • Lesson Plan with enrichment activities and related Internet resources. TeacherVision
  • Lesson Plan includes information about the author, book, related titles, activities, puzzles and worksheets, and weblinks for further study. Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
  • Reading Group Guide from the publisher includes discussion and enrichment activities. Penguin Putnam
  • Teaching Plan includes activities for before, during, and after reading. Scholastic

 

The Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.
  • Activity includes questions to answer online and print out.
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane
  • Guide includes background information, characters, chapter summaries, and post-reading activities. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • Lesson Plan focuses on activities for summarizing the book. Teachers.net
  • Lesson Plan includes a book summary, activities, and a bibliography. Maine Association of School Libraries
  • Novel Guide includes background information, chapter summaries, and post-reading activities. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • Study Guide includes a summary, characters, key ideas, and questions for after reading. National Geographic Book Club

 

The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.
  • Activities include ideas for language arts, science, math, social studies, art, and music. Page 55. North Carolina Children's Book Awards
  • Activities include a summary, curriculum connections, and related titles. Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award

·         Booktalk Nancy Keane

  • Curriculum Guide includes synopsis, author information, discussion questions, and activities. William Allen White Children's Book Award
  • Discussion Guide includes a book talk, discussion questions and activities. Nutmeg Children's Book Award
  • Lesson Plan includes information about the author, book, related titles, activities, puzzles and worksheets, and weblinks for further study. Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
  • Lesson Plan includes information about the author, activities, related books and weblinks. Scroll down the page. Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • Lesson Plan includes an annotation, information about the author, realia, food, and curriculum connections. Scroll down to page 16. Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
  • Project includes cross-curricular activities. Golden Sower Award

 

The Year of No More Corn by Helen Ketteman
Beanie's grandfather tells him about the failure of the corn crop in 1928 and how he was able to make corn trees grow from whittled corn kernels.
  • Activities from the author for science, geography, technology, art, creative writing and language arts.

 

Year of No Rain by Alice Mead
In 1999, when rebel soldiers come to their village in southern Sudan, Stephen and his friends escape but hope to be able to return again.

 

The Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.

 

The Year of the Panda by Miriam Schlein
A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda and, in the process, learns why pandas are endangered and what the government is doing to save them.

 

A Year with Butch and Spike by Gail Gauthier 
Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

 

The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley
When Santa Claus decided to take a vacation, all the little children sent him Christmas presents for a holiday treat.

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The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The remaining members of the Chapman family try to cope with the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Michael.

 

A Year Without Rain by D. Anne Love
Her mother's death and a year-long drought has made life difficult for twelve-year-old Rachel and her family on their farm in the Dakotas, but when she learns that her father plans to get married again, it is almost more than Rachel can bear.
  • Activities for cross-curricular teaching. D. Anne Love

 

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
  • Activity includes questions to answer online and print out.
  • Online Trivia Quiz  Fun Trivia
  • Study Guide includes pre- and post-reading questions and activities, graphic organizers, assessment instruments, related media links and readings, and reproducible worksheets. Glencoe Literature Library

 

Yeh-Shen by Ed Young
A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince.
  • Lesson Ideas include comparisons to other versions of the story. University of Richmond

 

The Yellow Boat by Margaret Hillert
A yellow boat sails in a little pond.
  • Activities include learning the animals in a pond. TeacherViews

 

The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They untangle the mystery of the two houses.
  • Activities include comprehension questions.  TeacherViews
  • Study Guide for a theatrical production with activities for use with the book. Stages Theatre Company 

 

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X by Carmen Agra Deedy
Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.
  • Lesson Plan includes information about the author, activities, related books and weblinks. Scroll down the page. Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • Lesson Plan includes activities for before, during and after reading and  cross-curriculum ideas. Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
  • Teacher's Guide includes a book introduction, information for before, during, and after reading, and cross-curricular activities. Peachtree Publishers

 

Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag.
  • Activities with questions for during reading. Scroll down website. Hubbard's Cupboard

·         Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Yes, Virginia, There Really Is a Santa Claus by Francis Church 
Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon writes a letter to a newspaper reporter wondering if there really is a Santa Claus, and the answer touches the hearts of many.
  • Questions to ask before and after reading. Family TLC

 

YIKES! Your Body Up Close by Mike Janulewicz
Focuses on various areas of the body -- both external (hair, skin, or the tongue) and internal (blood, bones, and the stomach).
  • Lesson Plan focuses on data analysis and probability. Kansas State University

 

Yo! Yes! by Chris Raschka
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
  • Lesson Plan with comprehension activities. Lessonplanspage.com
  • Lesson Plan using picture clues as a valid and effective strategy in reading comprehension. AskERIC
  • Lesson Plan connecting visual clues with reading comprehension.
  • Study Guide includes pre-reading, during reading, and post reading activities. Weston Woods

 

Yoko's Paper Cranes by Rosemary Wells
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.

 

Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.

·         Booktalk Nancy Keane

 

Yonder by Tony Johnston
As the plum tree changes in the passing seasons so do the lives of a three-generation farm family.

  • Lesson Plan for learning about the past includes a story map.

 

Yoss by Odo Hirsch
Eager to see the world beyond the boundaries of his remote mountain village, fourteen-year-old Yoss sets out on his travels and, with few exceptions, finds corruption at every turn.

 

You and Me, Little Bear by Martin Waddell
Little Bear helps Big Bear gather wood, fetch water, and tidy the cave so that they can play together.

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You Are My I Love You by Maryann K. Cusimano
Illustrations and rhyming text describe how a parent and child complement one another.

  • Activity Card for parent and child. Microsoft Word document. Texas 2X2 Reading List

 

You Can Make a Collage by Eric Carle
Writer and illustrator Eric Carle explains how to make a collage.

 

You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.

 

You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole
Tells about all five senses.

 

You Cheat! by Jamie Gilson
Nathan bribes his older brother to go fishing, and then wishes he hadn't.

 

You Don't Know Me by David Klass
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, related books, curriculum connections, related websites, and a booktalk. South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards

 

You Hear Me: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys by Betsy Franco
An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them.

 

You Look Ridiculous, Said the Rhinoceros to the Hippopotamus by Bernard Waber
A hippopotamus dreams of having an appearance combining the polite suggestions of her friends.

 

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You by Mary Ann Hoberman
Each short, rhymed story in this collection is like a little play for two voices.

 

You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titch by Pat Hutchins
The tables turn at last for Titch, who has been inheriting his older siblings' outgrown clothes.

 

You're A Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman by Claudia Mills
Twelve-year-old Julius has his hands full over the summer when his mother attempts to improve his grades and teach him responsibility by signing him up for a French class and getting him a job babysitting.
  • Activities include specific curriculum connections. South Carolina Association of School Librarians

·         Booktalk Nancy Keane

  • Lesson Plan  includes information about the author, book, related titles, activities, puzzles and worksheets, and weblinks for further study. Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
  • Quiz Quia

 

Young Abe Lincoln by Cheryl Harness
Briefly presents the life of this famous president from his birth until the age of twenty-eight.

·         Literature Circle Lesson Appalachian State University

 

Young Abraham Lincoln: Log Cabin President by Andrew Woods
A simple biography of the man who was president of the United States during the Civil War.
  • Activities include sentence strips. TeacherViews

 

Young Americans - Colonial Williamsburg series by Joan Lowery Nixon
The real Ann McKenzie, who was born in Williamsburg in 1739, wanted to be a doctor in a time when that was unheard of. Caesar was a  slave who once lived and worked at Carter's Grove Plantation. 

 

Young Arthur by Robert D. San Souci
Recounts the story of King Arthur's boyhood, the sword in the stone, his first victorious battle, and his unification of a new kingdom.

·         Activities include creating a family tree and retelling the story. TeacherViews

 

Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery by David A. Adler
When a baseball game is stopped because of a lost ball, Cam uses her photographic memory to find the ball.
  • Activities include a game and solving a mystery. Trumpet

 

Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game by David A. Adler
When eight-year-old sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve the puzzle of the dinosaur count.

 

Young Cam Jansen and the Loose Tooth by David A. Adler
Cam uses her photographic memory to help a classmate find the tooth she lost at school.

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Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie by David A. Adler
Eight-year-old sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to discover what happened to a classmate's missing cookie.
  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, activities for home and classroom, and a booklist. Scroll down to page 22. Vocabulary list on page 25. Memphis, TN, Public Schools

 

Young Frederick Douglass: Fight for Freedom by Laurence Santrey
Presents the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.

 

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
  • Activities include vocabulary and comprehension questions. Story House

 

The Young Gymnast: A Young Enthusiast's Guide to Gymnastics by Joan Jackman
Explores every aspect of gymnastics including clothing, warming up, apparatuses, balances, rolls and rolling, headstands and handstands, tumbling, and vaulting.

 

Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter  by Anne Benjamin
A simple biography of the black woman who helped over 300 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and was never caught herself.
  • Lesson Plan for studying slavery and Harriet Tubman. 

 

A Young Patriot by Jim Murphy
Presents the memoirs of Joseph Plumb Martin, a fifteen-year-old boy who enlisted in the revolutionary army in 1776, fighting under Washington, wintering at Valley Forge, and staying in the fight until the end of the war in 1783.

 

Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder
After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.
  • Teacher's Guide includes a synopsis, websites and enrichment, vocabulary development, comprehension, timeline activity, map activity, understanding two points of view, and linking the novel to current events. Omaha Public Schools

 

Young Squanto: The First Thanksgiving by Andrew Woods 
A simple biography of the Wampanoag Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive in their early days in the Plymouth colony.
  • WebQuest using several children's books about Thanksgiving. University of Virginia Curry School of Education

 

Young Wolf and Spirit Horse by Janice Shefelman
Young Wolf goes in search of his horse Red Wind, which has been spirited away by a legendary wild stallion.

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Your Best Friend, Kate by Pat Brisson
Kate's letters to her best friend back home chart her family's trip through the South and back up through Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and reveal her true affection for the brother with whom she is always fighting.

 

Your Dad Was Just Like You by Dolores Johnson
While visiting his grandfather, Peter hears a story about his father's boyhood that helps him understand his father.

 

Your Mother Was a Neanderthal by Jon Scieszka
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.

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Yours Truly, Goldilocks by Alma Flor Ada
Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
  • Teaching Guide includes discussion topics, activities, and research ideas. Included in the Dear Peter Rabbit guide. Simon & Schuster

 

:You've Got Dragons by Kathryn Cave
A young boy discovers that he has worries and fears that appear to him as dragons and shares what he learns about living with them.

 

The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
Introduces the letters of the alphabet by introducing a reptile for each letter.

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Yudonsi by Robert Blake
Yusi wants people to notice that he is different, so he puts his "tag" on desks, walls, and even trees, alienating everyone in his village.
  • Activity about the environment. Nancy Polette

 

Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip by Sook Nyul Choi
When she goes to Korea with her grandmother, Yunmi looks forward to visiting relatives she has never seen, but she also worries about whether Halmoni will want to return to New York.