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A guide for locating grade-appropriate children's literature for use in the classroom.
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War Poetry
EDCI 591 – Research in Children’s Literature
Featured verse novels
Bird
by
Zetta Elliott; Shadra Strickland
ISBN: 9781600602412
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Grades 1-5
Love That Dog
by
Sharon Creech
ISBN: 9780060292898
Publication Date: 2001-07-24
Grades 4-8 (SLJ)
Inside Out and Back Again
by
Thanhha Lai
ISBN: 9780061962783
Publication Date: 2011-02-22
Grades 4-6 (SLJ)
Spinning Through the Universe
by
Helen Frost
ISBN: 9780374371593
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Grades 4-8 (SLJ)
Home of the Brave
by
Katherine Applegate
ISBN: 0312367651
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
Grades 5-7 (SLJ)
The Crazy Man
by
Pamela Porter
ISBN: 9780888996947
Publication Date: 2005-08-09
Grade 5 and up (SLJ)
Eva of the Farm
by
Dia Calhoun; Kate Slater (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1442417005
Publication Date: 2012-07-10
Grades 5-7 (SLJ)
Keesha's House
by
Helen Frost
ISBN: 0374340641
Publication Date: 2003-04-02
Grades 6-10 (SLJ)
Out of the Dust
by
Karen Hesse
ISBN: 0590360809
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Grades 6 and up (SLJ)
Aleutian Sparrow
by
Karen Hesse; Evon Zerbetz (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689861893
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Grades 7-12 (Booklinks)
Ann and Seamus
by
Kevin Major; David Blackwood (Illustrator)
ISBN: 088899561X
Publication Date: 2004-02-13
Grades 7 and up (SLJ)
The Brimstone Journals
by
Ronald Koertge
ISBN: 9780763617424
Publication Date: 2004-01-05
Grades 9 and up (SLJ)
I'll Be Watching
by
Pamela Porter
ISBN: 155498095X
Publication Date: 2011-08-30
Grades 9 and up
The Braid
by
Helen Frost
ISBN: 0374309620
Publication Date: 2006-10-03
Grades 8 and up (SLJ)
Fishtailing
by
Wendy Phillips
ISBN: 1550504118
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
ERAC recommended Grades 9 - 10
Audacious
by
Gabrielle Prendergast
ISBN: 9781459805309
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Grades 10 and up (SLJ)
Capricious
by
Gabrielle Prendergast
ISBN: 1459802675
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
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