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Mrs. Hendrix's Book Picks
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Picture Books

A Chair For My Mother by Vera Williams
A Drop of Water:  A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
Cactus Poems by Frank Asch
Frida by Jonah Winter
Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Matthew and Tilly by Rebecca C. Jones
Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard
My Map Book by Sara Fanelli
Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Sheila Rae the Brave by Kevin Henkes
Sophie Skates by Rachel Isadora
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka
The True Story of Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher
Water Dance by Thomas Locker
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Wilgrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox



Chapter Books
A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith
All the Encyclopedia Brown Mystery books
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff
Mississippi Bridge by Mildred Taylor
The Cam Jansen series by David Adler
The Friendship by Mildred Taylor
The Magic Treehouse series  
The Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat



Fiction
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
All the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park
Number the Stars by Lowis Lowry
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred Tayor
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Shelf Life:  Stories by the Book edited by Gary Paulsen
Sounder by William Armstrong
The Chronicles of Narnia Series
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Hank the Cowdog series by John Erickson
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park 
The Kid Who Ran for President by Dan Gutman
The Secret Soldier:  The Story of Deborah Sampson
The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis 
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (personal favorite)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls



Non-Fiction
Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul by Canfield, Hansen, Hansen
It Came From Ohio!: My Life as a Writer by R.L. Stine
Knots in my Yo-Yo String:  The Autobiography of a Kid by Jerry Spinelli
Lincoln:  A Photobiography by Russell Freedman