Read Alouds Focusing on Change for Intermediate Grades

Recommended read aloud books focusing on change.

• Chin, Jason. (2012). Island: A Story of the Galápagos. New York: Roaring Brook Press. 
• Fox, Karen C. 2011. Older Than the Stars. Illustrated by Nancy Davis. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing.
• Gibbons, Alan. (2008). Lifeline: Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Leo Brown. New York: Henry Holt. Hoberman, Mary Ann & Linda Winston. (2009). The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination. Illustrated by Barbara Fortin. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky.
• Kelsey, Elin. (2012). You Are Stardust. Illustrated by Soyeon Kim.  Toronto, ON: Owl Kids Books.
• Lasky, Kathryn. (2009). One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin. Illustrated by Matthew Trueman. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.  
• Loxton, Daniel. (2010). Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press. 
• Lourie, Peter. 2009. Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
• McGinty, Alice B. (2009). Darwin: With Glimpses into His Private Journal & Letters. Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.  
• Nivola, Claire A. (2008). Planting the Trees of Kenya. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
• Pinkney, Andrea. (2012).  Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney.  New York: Hyperion.
• Pringle, Lawrence. (2011). Billions of Years Ago Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press. 
• Rubino, Michael. (2011). Bang! How We Came to Be. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
• Sidman, Joyce. (2010). Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors. Illustrated by  Becky Prange. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
• Sis, Peter. (2003). The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin. New York: Farrar, Straus & Griroux.
• Weaver, Anne H. (2007). The Voyage of the Beetle. Illustrated by George Lawrence. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
• Wood, A.J. and Clint Twist. (2009). Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure. Templar.

Myth

• Clayton, Sally Pomme. (2009). Persephone. Illustrated by Virginia Lee. Grand Rapids, MI: Eederman’s Books. 
• Geringer, Laura. (1995). The Pomegranate Seeds. Illustrated by Leonid Gore. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
• Lumbard, Alexis York. (2012). The Conference of the Birds. Illustrated by Demi. Bloomington, IN: Wisdom Tales.
• Sis, Peter. (2011).  The Conference of the Birds. New York: Farrar, Straus & Griroux.