Coming to Know Emily Dickinson through Prose and Poetry: K-8 Children's Books

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Elementary School: K-4

1. Bedard, Michael. (2002). Emily.  Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. New York: Dragonfly Books. (Picture book biography)
2. Figley, Marty Rhodes. (2012). Emily and Carlo. Illustrated by Catherine Stock. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. (Picture book biography)
3. Mutén, Burleigh. (2014). Miss Emily. Illustrated by Matt Phelan. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. (Novel in verse)
4. Spinelli, Eileen. (2014). Another Day as Emily. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. (Novel in verse)
5. Spires, Elizabeth. (1999). The Mouse of Amherst. Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Picture book biography)
6. Winter, Jeanette. (2002). Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  (Picture book biography)
7. Yolen, Jane. (2009). My Uncle Emily. Illustrated by Nancy Sippel Carpenter. New York: Philomel. (Picture book biography)

Middle School: 5-8

1. Burak, Kathryn. (2012). Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things. New York: Roaring Brook Press (Fiction)
2. Dana, Barbara. (2009). A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson. New York: HarperTeen. (Fiction)
3. Dickinson, Emily. (2008). My Letter to the World and Other Poems. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Kids Can Press. 
4. Lewis, J. Patrick. (2003). The Last Resort. Illustrated by Robert Innocenti. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions. (Includes ED in illustration and credits her as muse)
5. MacColl, Michaela. (2014). Nobody's Secret. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. (Fiction)
6. Meltzer, Milton. (2005). Emily Dickinson: A Biography.  Lerner Pub Group. 
7. Yolen, Jane. (2012). The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson.  Illustrated by Gary Kelley. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions. 

25 Soon-To-Be Published K-8 Science Books

Grades K-4

Bang, Molly & Penny Chisolm. (2014). Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth. New York: Scholastic.

Burleigh, Robert. (2015). Trapped! A Whale's Rescue. Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Watertown MA: Charlesbridge.

Davis, Kathryn Gibbs. (2014). Mr. Ferris and His Wheel. Illustrated by Gilbert Ford. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Duke, Kate. (2014). It’s The Rainforest. New York: HarperCollins.

Elliot, David. (2014). On the Wing. Illustrated by Becca Stadtlander. Somerville, MA Candlewick Press.

Jenkins, Steve & Robin Page. (2014). Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Johnson Tony. (2014). Sequoia. Illustrated by Wendell Minor. New York: Roaring Brook Press.

Latham, Irene. (2014). Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole. Illustrated by Anna Wadham. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Picture Books.

Little, Linda. (2015). Work and More Work. Illustrated by Óscar T. Pérez.  Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books.

McCarthy, Megan. (2015). Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs. New York: Paula Wiseman Books.

Page, Robin and Steve Jenkins (2015). Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package.  New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Pfeffer, Wendy.  (2014). We Gather Together: Celebrating the Harvest Season. Illustrated Linda Bleck. New York: Puffin Reprint.

Posada, Mia. (2014). Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Picture Books.

Prévot, Frank. (2015). Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted a Million Trees. Illustrated by Aurélia Fronty. Watertown MA: Charlesbridge.

Rockliff, Mara. (2015). Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France. Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno. Somerville, MA Candlewick Press.

Rosenstock, Barn. (2014).  Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention.  Illustrated by S.D. Schindler. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek.

Sayre, April Pulley. (2015).  Raindrops Roll.  New York:  Beach Lane Books.

Sidman, Joyce. (2014).  Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold. Illustrated by Rick Allen. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Singer, Marilyn. (2015). A Strange Place to Call Home: The World's Most Dangerous Habitats & the Animals That Call Them Home.   Illustrated by Ed Young. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. (Note this is the release of the paperback version. The hardcover is available now.  The collage work is especially amazing, alongside Singer’s poems.)

Sisson, Stephanie Roth. (2014). Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos. New York: Roaring Brook Press.

Grades 4-8

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Burns, Loree Griffin. (2014). Beetle Busters (Scientists in the Field Series). Illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Kurlansky, Mark. (2014).  Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers.

Marrin, Albert. (2014). Oh Rats!: The Story of Rats and People. Illustrated by C.B Mordan. New York: Puffin.

Mercer, Bobby. (2014). The Robot Book: Build & Control 20 Electric Gizmos, Moving Machines, and Hacked Toys (Science in Motion). Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press. 

Rusch, Elizabeth. (2014). The Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans (Scientists in the Field Series). New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Books about Labor and Unions for 4th -12th Graders

Glass, Linzi. (2006). The Year the Gypsies Came. NewYork:  Henry Holt. (South Africa during the 1960s).

Weaver, Kathmandu, Nepal from Stolen Dreams

Books for Intermediate Grade Students in Grades 4-6: Literature

1. Auch, Mary Jane. (2004). Ashes of Roses. New York: Laurel Leaf.
2. Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. (2011). Cesar: Si se pude! Yes We Can. Illustrated by David Diaz. New York: Two Lions.
3. Baker, Julie. 2002. Up Molasses Mountain. New York: Wendy Lamb Book.
4. Boling, Katharine. (2006). January 1905. New York: HMH Books. 
5. Casanova, Mary. (2014). Riot.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
6. Hill, Kirpatrick. (2010). Dancing at Odinochka.  New York: Margaret K. McElderry.
7. Matas, Carol. (2003). Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! New York: Aladdin.
8. Paterson, Katherine. (2008). Bread and Roses, Too. New York: HNH Books.
9. Paterson, Katherine. (2004). Lyddie. New York: Paterson.
10. Potter Tracey. (2008). Billy Creekmore: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins.
11. Robinet, Harriette Gillem. (2003). Missing from Haymarket Square. New York: Aladdin.
12. Wintrophs, Elizabeth. (2006). Counting on Grace. New York: Yearling.

Books for Older Students - Grades 7 - 12 Literature

1. Anaya, Rudolfo. 2000. Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
2. Davies, Jacqueline. (2014). Lost.  New York: Two Lions.
3. D'Adamo, Francesco. (2005). Iqbal. New York: Aladdin.
4. Frontiera, Deborah K. (2009/2013). Living on Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy. Houston, TX: ABCs Press.
5. Grindley, Sally. (2005). Spilled Water. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
6. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. (2011). Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster.
7. Hill, Kirpatrick. (2010). Dancing at Odinochka.  New York: Margaret K. McElderry.
8. Hughes, Pat. (2014). The Breaker Boys. Backshore Books.
9. Mason, David. (2010). Ludlow. Red Hen Press. (High School/Adult)
10. Parker, M.P. (2008). A Difficult Boy. New York: Holiday House.
11. Paterson, Katherine. (2008). Bread and Roses, Too. New York: HNH Books.
12. Paterson, Katherine. (2004). Lyddie. New York: Paterson.
13. Pinsky, Robert. "Shirt".

14. Resau, Laura & Maria Virginia Farinango. (2011). Queen of Water. New York: Random Hose.
15. Skurzynksi, Gloria. (2001). Rockbuster. New York: Atheneum.
16. Sheth, Kashmira. (2010). Boys without Names. New York: Balzer + Bray.

Nonfiction Books for Middle and High School Students

1. Andrews, Thomas G. (2010). Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Aronson, Marc. (2011).Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert. New York: Atheneum Books.
3. Atkin, Beth S. (2000). Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell their Stories. New York: Little, Brown.
4. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (2003). Kids on Strike! New York: HNH Books.
5. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (1996). Growing Up in Coal County. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
6. Bausum, Ann & Jim Lawson. (2012). Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty Labor Fights and Civil rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Children's Books.
7. Burgan, Michael. (2011). Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor. CPB.
8. Coleman, Penny. (1995). Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II. New York: Crown Books.
9. Freedman, Russell. (1998). Kids at Work: Lewis Hines and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York: HNH Books.
10. Green, James. (2007). Death in Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Anchor. (High School/Adult)
11. Greenwood, Barbara.(2007).  Factory Girl. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press.
12. Hopkinson, Deborah. (2006). Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America. New York: Scholastic.
13. Jiménez, Francisco. (2002) Breaking Through. New York: HMH Books.
14. Jiménez, Francisco. (1997). The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Albuquerque, NM: University of Mexico Press.
15. Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. (1996). Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publication.
16. Kielburger, Craig & Kevin Major. (1999). Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World. New York: Harper Perennial.
17. Kraft, Betsy Harvey. (1995). Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor. New York: Clarion Books.
18. Kuklin, Susan. (1998). Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
19. Landeau, Elaine (2009). Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. New York: Children's Press.
20. Marrin, Albert. (2011). Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy.New York: Knopf.
21. Martelle, Scott. (2008). Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre ad Class War in the American West. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (High School/Adult)
22. Miller, Calvin Craig. (2005). A. Philip Randolph: And the African-American Labor Movement. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Publishers.
23. Miller, Connie Colwell. (2006). Mother Jones: Labor Leader. Illustrated by Steve Erwin and Charles Barnett. New York: Graphic Library.
24. Murolo, Priscilla & A.B. Chitty. (2001). From the Folks that Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States.  Illustrations by Joe Sacco. New York: The New Press. (High School/Adult)
25. Nelson, Bruce. (2002). Divided We Stand: American Workers and he Struggle for Black Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (High School/Adult)
26. Parker, David L. (1997). Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company.
27. Roberts-Davis, Tanya. (2003). We Need to Go To Schools: Voices of the Rugmark Children. Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books.
28. Robinson, J. Dennis. (2010). Striking Back: The Fight to End Child Labor Exploitations. CPB.
29. Ruby, Lois. (2012).  Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press, LLC.
30. Springer, Jane. 1997. Listen to Us: The World's Working Children.  Toronto, ON: Groundwood Press.
31. Stanley, Jerry. (1996). Big Annie of Calmuet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers,
32. Stavans, Ilan. (2010). Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
33. Stein Leon. (2010). The Triangle Fire. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. (High School/Adult)
34. US Commission on Industrial Relations. (2010). The Ludlow Massacre: The Official US Government Report on the Colorado Miner's Strike of 1913-1914. St. Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Publishers.
35. Watson, Bruce. (2006). Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books. (High School/Adult)