by Peter H. Reynolds
(Grades 1-3)
Jerome is a collector. While others collect stamps or trading cards, he collects words that he hears, sees, or reads-words that catch his fancy “multisyllable words that sounded like little songs” or “words he did not know the meaning of at first, but . were marvelous to say..”
by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
(Grades 2-4)
This compelling picture book is based on the historic sit-in 50 years ago by four college students who tried to integrate a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Food-related wordplay adds layers to the free verse, as in the lines about the protesters’ recipe for integration: “Combine black with white / to make sweet justice.”
by Nikki Shannon Smith
(Grades 2-4)
Azaleah thoroughly enjoys her class’s visit to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. And she’s even more thrilled when she gets a chance to create a diorama of one of the animal habitats she saw while there for extra credit. But things don’t go according to plan when her younger sister’s stuffed frog goes missing, and she has to spend much of the weekend helping to search for it. Can she solve the mystery of the missing frog and finish her diorama, or is she setting herself up for disappointment?
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