Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!)
In this list, you’ll find fiction and nonfiction titles to engage readers of all ages—from preschool through high school. There are many classics and favorites, but also new and diverse reading choices. Take care to review titles thoroughly before recommending or sharing them with readers.
Alabama
Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina
Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim
March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis
Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt by Patricia McKissack
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport and Matt Tavares
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Rosa’s Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights by Jo S. Kittinger and illustrated by Steven Walker
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Singing Hands by Delia Ray
Bird by Angela Johnson
Alaska
How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena’ina Fable by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater
Williwaw by Tom Bodett
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
The Impossible Rescue by Martin W. Sandler
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion by Samantha Seiple
My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Togo by Robert Blake
Under Alaska’s Midnight Sun by Deb Vanass
A Bear Named Trouble by Marion Dane Bauer
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
My Wilderness: An Alaskan Adventure by Claudia McGehee
Whale Snow by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie S Miller
This Place Is Cold by Vicki Cobb
Arizona
Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z Guiberson
Big Moon Tortilla by Joy Cowley
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Saving Lucas Biggs by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George
Grand Canyon by Jason Chin
A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Ghost Fever = Mal de fantasma by Joe Hayes
Arkansas
The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague by Julia Finley Mosca
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristen Levine
Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood
With a Name Like Love by Tess Hilmo
The Red Scarf by Richard Mason
Fire from the Rock by Sharon M. Draper
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beal
California
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Stranger and the Red Rooster = El forastero y el gallo rojo by Victor Villaseñor
Squirrel and John Muir by Emily Arnold McCully
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conklin
Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island by Laurence Yep
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner
Into the Firestorm by Deborah Hopkinson
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Working Cotton by Sherley Williams
First Day in Grapes by L King Pérez
Colorado
High as a Hawk: A Brave Girl’s Historic Climb by T. A. Barron
The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
Katerina’s Wish by Jeannie Mobley
The Secret School by Avi
Secrets of Mesa Verde: Cliff Dwellings of the Pueblo by Gail Fay
Phantoms in the Snow by Kathleen Benner Duble
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, a Tale of the Old West by Avi
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
The Leanin’ Dog by K. A. Nuzum
Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
Connecticut
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
My Summer of Pink & Green by Lisa Greenwald
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
The Forbidden Schoolhouse of Prudence Crandall by Suzanne Jurmain
Centaur Rising by Jane Yolen
Strawberry Hill by Mary Ann Hoberman
Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson
Delaware
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse
Delaware: The First State by David C King
Water Rat by Marnie Laird
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
District of Columbia
The Wall by Eve Bunting
Brick by Brick by Charles R. Smith
Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano
The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry
When Audrey met Alice by Rebecca Behrens
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital by Tonya Bolden
You Can’t Take a Balloon into the National Gallery by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and illustrated by Robin Glasser
We March by Shane Evans
Nanny X Returns by Madelyn Rosenberg
Audacity Jones to the Rescue by Kirby Larson
Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing about Me by Katy Kelly
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-up by Melissa Thomson
Capital Mysteries series by Ron Roy
Framed! A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery by James Ponti
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out by National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
Wheels of Change by Darlene Beck Jacobson
Florida
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground by T. R. Simon
Junonia by Kevin Henkes
She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader by Jan Godown Annino
Everglades by Jean Craighead George
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
Boys of Blur by N. D. Wilson
Wake Up Missing by Kate Messner
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
The Last Wild Place by Rosa Jordan
90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
The Missing Manatee by Cynthia C DeFelice
Just a Drop of Water by Kerry O’Malley Cerra
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Georgia
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
The Cart that Carried Martin by Eve Bunting
Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Bigger Than a Breadbox by Laurel Snyder
Thirteen by Lauren Myracle
Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
The Ethan I Was Before by Ali Standish
Deep in the Swamp by Donna M Bateman
Hummingbird by Kimberly Greene Angle
47 by Walter Mosley
Full Steam Ahead by Faye Gibbons
Freedom Train by Evelyn Coleman
Hawaii
Ho`onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale
Punia and the King of Sharks: a Hawaiian folktale by Lee Wardlaw
Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
The Attack on Pearl Harbor by Jane Sutcliffe
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i by Fay Stanley
Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky
Froggy Goes to Hawaii by Jonathan London
Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii by Graham Salisbury
I Survived: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis
Good Job, Kanani by Lisa Yee
Grandma Calls Me Beautiful by Barbara M Joosse
Dear Katie, the Volcano Is a Girl by Jean Craighead George
Hula Lullaby by Erin Eitter Kono
Summer of Sloane by Erin L Schneider
The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan
The Shark King by R. Kikuo Johnson
Mauna Loa by Christine Webster
The Raft by S. A. Bodeen
Idaho
Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus by Kristen Tracy
Fire Storm by Jean Craighead George
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
The King of Slippery Falls by Sid Hite
The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
Fire in the Hole! by Mary Cronk Farrell
Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai
The Marble Queen by Stephanie Blake
Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron
The Skydiving Beavers of Idaho: A True Tale by Susan Wood
King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-advised Autobiography by Chris Crutcher
Illinois
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Stella Díaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
Saving Strawberry Farm by Deborah Hopkinson
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Willie and the All-Stars by Floyd Cooper
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
I Survived: The Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Davis
Oh, Brother! by Ken Stark
Bushman Lives! by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Rosa, Sola by Carmela Martino
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North by Pat McKissack
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
The House that Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams by Tanya Lee Stone
Metal Man by Aaron Reynolds
The Paper Cowboy by Kristin Levine
Indiana
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Rosetown by Cynthia Rylant
The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
Ruthie’s Gift by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
A Place Called Freedom by Scott Russell Sanders
Honey by Sarah Weeks
Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The School at Crooked Creek by Laurie Lawlor
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Beef Princess of Practical County by Michelle Houts
My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln’s Story by Harry Mazer
Iowa
McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleischmann
Tomás and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill
Cora Frear: A True Story by Susan E. Goodman
Two Scarlet Songbirds: A Story of Anton Dvorak by Carole Lexa Schaefer
Bird by Crystal Chan
Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth
Squashed by Joan Bauer
Stealing Air by Trent Reedy
Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman
The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup
The Luck of the Buttons by Anne Ylvisaker
Here Lies Linc by Delia Ray
Kansas
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden
Aunt Minnie and the Twister by Mary Skillings Prigger
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future by Allan Drummond
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by Marissa Moss
Prairie Skies series by Deborah Hopkinson
We Could Be Brothers by Derrick D Barnes
Grasslands by Debra Seely
Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Adventures of Beanboy by Lisa Harkrader
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Kentucky
Counting on the Woods: A Poem by George Ella Lyon
That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
River Runs Deep by Jennifer Bradbury
Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song by George Ella Lyon
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky by John Paul Zronik
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson
Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars
Schoolhouse in the Woods by Rebecca Caudill
To Come and Go Like Magic by Katie Pickard Fawcett
Trouble the Water by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Tadpole by Ruth White
Saving Wonder by Mary Knight
Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs
Louisiana
The 5 O’Clock Band by Troy Andrews
Mr. Williams by Karen Barbour
Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace
The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
Mama Don’t Allow by Thatcher Hurd
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina by Rodman Philbrick
A Storm Called Katrina by Myron Uhlberg
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown
Dear Hank Williams by Kimberly Willis Holt
My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Buster and the Great Swamp by Marc Brown
A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole
Little Pierre: A Cajun Story from Louisiana by Robert D. San Souci
The Year of the Sawdust Man by A. LaFaye
Maine
One Morning in Maine by Robert McClosky
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McClosky
The Stranded Whale by Jane Yolen
Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen
Birdie’s Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson
Moo by Sharon Creech
A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord
The Canning Season by Polly Horvath
Twelve Kinds of Ice by Ellen Bryan Obed
Listening for Lucca by Suzanne LaFleur
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
A Path of Stars by Anne Sibley O’Brien
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D Schmidt
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D Schmidt
The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone
Kiki and Jacques by Susan L Ross
Maryland
Dozer’s Run: A True Story of a Dog and His Race by Debbie Levy
Love Twelve Miles Long by Glenda Armand
By the Dawn’s Early Light by Steven Kroll
Super Slugger by Cal Ripken, Jr. with Kevin Cowherd
Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Blindsided by Priscilla Cummings
Cricket Man by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area by Gabrielle Tayac
The Town that Fooled the British: A War of 1812 Story by Lisa Papp
Jake by Audrey Couloumbis
Cheating for the Chicken Man by Priscilla Cummings
A Tiny Piece of Sky by Shawn K Stout
Hero-type by Barry Lyga
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Looking for Me by Betsy R. Rosenthal
Alicia Afterimage by Lulu Delacre
Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Countdown: 1962, Book One of the Sixties Trilogy by Deborah Wiles
Massachusetts
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M.T. Anderson
Boston Tea Party by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky
Comet’s Nine Lives by Jan Brett
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park by Steve Kluger
Chasing the Nightbird by Krista Russell
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 by Deborah Kops
Nest by Esther Ehrlich
Alvin Ho series by Lenore Look
Busing Brewster by Richard Michelson
1621: A new look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neill Grace with Margaret M Bruchac
Michigan
January’s Sparrow by Patricia Polacco
Mrs. Mack by Patricia Polacco
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula Conte by Margaret Willey
Mackinac Bridge: The Five Mile Poem by Gloria Whela
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art by J.H.Shapiro
The Danger Box by Blue Balliett
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
Caged Warrior by Alan Sitomer
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster by Matt Phelan
The Batboy by Mike Lupica
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
Minnesota
Bowwow Powwow / Bagosenjige-niimi’idim by Brenda J. Child
Mudball by Matt Tavares
Paul Bunyan’s Sweetheart by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
Turn Left at the Cow by Lisa Bullard
City Chickens by Christine Heppermann
Plant a Pocket of Prairie by Phyllis Root
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative by Ignatia Broker
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta
At Home in a New Land by Joan Sandin
Summer of the Wolves by Polly Carlson-Voiles
Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
North Woods Girl by Aimée M Bissonette
Slap-shot Slump by Jake Maddox
Full Service by Will Weaver
Mississippi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Midnight without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler
Night Cry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom by Tim Tingle
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton
Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught
Wingwalker by Rosemary Wells
Freedom School, Yes! by Amy Littlesugar
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
Hideout by Watt Key
Missouri
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Grounded by Kate Klise
Steamboat School: Inspired by a True Story, St. Louis, Missouri: 1847 by Deborah Hopkinson
I Survived: The Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis
The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher by Jessica Lawson
The Year We Sailed the Sun by Theresa Nelson
A Place to Belong by Joan Lowery Nixon
Grounded by Kate Klise
A Friendship for Today by Pat McKissack
Whistle in the Dark by Susan Hill Long
Montana
Buffalo Song by Joseph Bruchac
Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Max, the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Shep: Our Most Loyal Dog by Sneed B. Collard III
Dust Devil by Anne Isaacs
The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
Out in Left Field by Don Lemna
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond by Joseph Medicine Crow, with Herman Viola
Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests by Sneed B. Collard III
Wolves, Boys, & Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler
The Ninth Nugget by Ron Roy
Nebraska
Elsie’s Bird by Jane Yolen
Dandelions by Eve Bunting
Native American Doctor by Jeri Ferris
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
My Daniel by Pam Conrad
Worth by A. LaFaye
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back by Carl Sandburg; David Small
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard by Marty Rhodes Figley
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher by Jim Murphy
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Nevada
Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca by Deborah Kogan Ray
Weird Stories from the Lonesome Café by Judy Cox
Rhyolite: The True Story of a Ghost Town by Diane Siebert
Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Moon Shadow by Chris Platt
The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt
P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man by Caroline Lawrence
Ivy Takes Care by Rosemary Wells
New Hampshire
Granite Baby by Lynne Bertrand
Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost by Natalie S Bober
The Bear that Heard Crying by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock and Helen Kinsey
Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord
The Big Dark by Rodman Philbrick
The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Whippoorwill by Joseph Monninger
First Boy by Gary D Schmidt
New Jersey
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater
Captain Grey by Avi
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm
Flotsam’ by David Wiesner
I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916 by Lauren Tarshis
The 18 Penny Goose by Sally M Walker
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers
Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman
The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes Noble
Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace by Nan Marino
Takedown by Rich Wallace
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick
New Mexico
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story by Joseph Bruchac
Spoon for Every Bite = Una cuchara para cada bocado by Joe Hayes
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
Cowboys by Joan Anderson
And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Meet Josefina by Valerie Tripp
Buster Climbs the Walls by Marc Brown
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Masterminds by Gordon Korman
Elan, Son of Two Peoples by Heidi Smith Hyde,
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-so-glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl by Carolyn Meyer
Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters
Kepler’s Dream by Juliet Bell
Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes
The Year Money Grew on Trees by Aaron R Hawkins
The Good Rainbow Road = Rawa ‘kashtyaa’tsi hiyaani : a Native American tale in Keres and English followed by a translation into Spanish by Simon J Ortiz
Kiki’s Journey by Kristy Orona-Ramirez
New York
Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh
In New York by Marc Brown
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser
How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Khalsa
Tar Beach by Faith Ringold
Balloons over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Harlem by Walter Dean Myers
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Marke
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile by Bernard Waber
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
Abuela by Arthur Dorros
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchac
Jazz Day by Roxane Orgill
North Carolina
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver
Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers by George Shea
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Kitty Griffin
Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
As Fast as Words Could Fly by Pamela M. Tuck
The Baptism by Shelia P Moses
Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O’Connor
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S Tolan
Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell
North Dakota
Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner
The Range Eternal by Louise Erdrich
Dinomummy: The Life, Death, and Discovery of Dakota, a Dinosaur from Hell Creek by Phillip Lars Manning
Blizzard’s Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
My Mother’s Apron by Edward F Kelle
Wild Life by Cynthia C DeFelice
Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan
King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige by Wes Tooke
Charlie’s Raven by Jean Craighead George
Ohio
The Boy Who Saved Cleveland by James Cross Giblin
Double Dutch by Sharon M Draper
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Lentil by Robert McClosky
Ohio Thunder by Denise Dowling Mortensen
Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad by Marlene Targ Brill
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin
The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold
Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
Soar by Joan Bauer
Book That Proves Time Travel Happens by Henry Clark
Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Heaven by Angela Johnson
What Happened on Fox Street by Tricia Springstubb
Jack & Louisa: Act 1 by Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead
Fat Angie by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo
Oklahoma
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Smith
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Searching for Sarah Rector by Tonya Bolden
They Came from the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved from Extinction by Neil Waldman
I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas
Marked by Fire by Joyce Carol Thomas
Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Flimflam Man by Darleen Bailey Beard
Possum Summer by Jen K Blom
Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief and Rosemary Wells
Tex by S. E. Hinton
Tulsa Burning by Anna Myers
Oregon
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Thirty Minutes over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story by Marc Tyler Nobleman
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Something to Hold by Katherine L Schlick Noe
Long Ago in Oregon by Claudia Lewis
The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting
Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Secret Chicken Society by Judy Cox
The Double Life of Zoe Flynn by Janet Lee Carey
Children of the River by Linda Crew
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Turn of the Tide by Rosanne Parry
This Side of Home by Renée Watson
Winger by Andrew Smith
Pennsylvania
Crow Call by Lois Lowry
Saving the Liberty Bell by Megan McDonald;
Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
The Winter of Red Snow by Christina Gregory
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine C. Logan by Mary Pope Osborne
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Homespun Sarah by Verla Kay
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door by Karen Finneyfrock
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by James Richards
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier by Teri Kanefield
The Underdogs by Mike Lupica
Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman
The World from Up Here by Cecilia Galante
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
Rhode Island
Something Upstairs by Avi
The Scrimshaw Ring by William Jaspersohn
Nickommoh! by Jackie French Koller
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
Mill by David Macaulay
Christmas Tree Farm by Sandra Jordan
Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams by Avi
Whisper in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl’s Story by Pegi Deitz Shea
Devilish by Maureen Johnson
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr., aka Houdini by Peter Johnson
South Carolina
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Hey, Charleston! The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne F Rockwell
I Thought My Soul Would Rise Up and Fly: The Diary of Patsy by Joyce Hansen
The Girl Who Ate Chicken Feet by Sandy Richardson
Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People by Margot Theis Raven
The Girl from Felony Bay by J.E. Thompson
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue
Spelldown: The Big-time Dreams of a Small-town Word Whiz by Karon Luddy
The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O’Connor
Persuasion: Heirs of Watson Island by Martina Boone
He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
On the Road to Mr. Mineo’s by Barbara O’Connor
The Coastwatcher by Elise Weston
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet by Andrea Cheng
Darby by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie’s Coin by Fran Hawk
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Philippe Cousteau with Deborah Hopkinson
South Dakota
Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
Buffalo Bird Girl by S. D. Nelson
Prairie Whispers by Frances Arrington
A Dinosaur Named Sue: the Story of the Colossal Fossil by Patricia Relf
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose: Growing Up on Mount Rushmore by Tina Nichols Coury
Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
The Jumping-off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
Prairie Winter by Bonnie Geisert
Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky: Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School by Timothy P McLaughlin
Buster Hits the Trail by Marc Brown
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Mount Rushmore Calamity by Sara Pennypacker
Tennessee
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan
The Perilous Road by William O Steele
Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs
John Philip Duck by Patricia Polacco
Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers by Deborah Hopkinson
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
The Home-Run King by Patricia C. McKissack
Last in a Long Line of Rebels by Lisa Lewis Tyre
Circle of Fire by Evelyn Coleman
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jennifer Bryant
Texas
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles
Holes by Louis Sachar
Family Pictures: Paintings and Stories/Cuadros de familia: cuadros y relatos by Carmen Lomas Garza
Dinosaur Hunt: Texas, 115 Million Years Ago by Karen Carr
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson
Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett
Buffalo Music by Tracey E Fern
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Alamo All-stars by Nathan Hale
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
Courage for Beginners by Karen Harrington
Hurry and the Monarch by Antoine Ó Flatharta
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
This is Texas by M. Sasek
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light by Time Tingle
Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale by Helen Ketteman
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller by Xavier Garza
Utah
Dinosaur Mountain: Digging Into the Jurassic Age by Deborah Kogan Ray
Trapped in a Canyon! Aron Ralston’s Story of Survival by Matt Doeden
Missing in Action by Dean Hughes
Palace Beautiful by Sarah DeFord Williams
Charlotte’s Rose by A. E. Cannon
Ghost Horses: A Mystery in Zion National Park by Gloria Skurzynsk
Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation by Yoshiko Uchida
Vermont
Nora’s Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
When Life Gives You O.J. by Erica S Perl
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. by Kate Messner
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin
Snow Comes to the Farm by Nathaniel Tripp
Buster’s Sugartime by Marc Brown
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Canada Geese Quilt by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
How Tía Lola Came to Visit Stay by Julia Alvarez
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Tricking the Tallyman by Jacqueline Davies
Kitty and Mr. Kipling: Neighbors in Vermont by Lenore Blegvad
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne M LaFleur
The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Virginia
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
This Is Just a Test by Madelyn Rosenberg & Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Journal of James Edward Pease by Jim Murphy
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Give Me Liberty by L.M. Elliott
Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Across a War-tossed Sea by L.M. Elliott
Mockingbird: Mok’ing-bûrd by Kathryn Erskine
1607: A New Look at Jamestown by Karen E. Lange
Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White
Under the Freedom Tree by Susan Vanhecke
Flying the Dragon by Natalie Dias Lorenzi
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko
Washington
For the Love of Autumn by Patricia Polacco
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Jumped in by Patrick Flores-Scott
Seaglass Summer by Anjali Banerjee
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
I am Princess X by Cherie Priest
The Ghost’s Grave by Peg Kehret
Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life by Molly Cone
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
The Improbable Theory of Ana & Zak by Brian Katcher
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It by Sundee Tucker Frazier
West Virginia
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
A Piece of Home by Jeri Hanel Watts
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads by Christopher Canyon
Child of the Mountains by Marilyn Sue Shank
When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
The Miner’s Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas
The Night I Freed John Brown by John Michael Cummings
Finding Family by Tonya Bolden
Canary in a Coal Mine by Madelyn Rosenberg
Up Molasses Mountain by Julie Baker
Girls Rule! by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wisconsin
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Rascal by Sterling North
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship by Doreen Rappaport
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Lizzie by Mary Eccles
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
Time for Cranberries by Lisl H. Detlefsen
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren
The Storm Makers by Jennifer E. Smith
Ida B. by Katherine Hannigan
The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods by Ann Cameron
Finders Keepers by Shelley Tougas
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Wyoming
I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda White
Devils Tower by R. P. Harasymiw
Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell
Dinosaur Hunter by Elaine Marie Alphin
Path of the Pronghorn by Cat Urbigkit
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