Junior Grades Recommended Reading

Green your classroom reading time with these recommended eco-friendly titles.

Anna's Athabaskan Summer
Arnold Griese, 1995, ISBN 1-56397-850-1

Sea Otter Inlet
Celia Godkin, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997, ISBN 1-55041-080-6

Ladybug Garden
Celia Godkin, 1997, ISBN 1-55041-092-X

Welcome to the Ice House
Jane Yolen, 1998, ISBN 0-399-23011-4

Welcome to the Green House
Jane Yolen, 1993, ISBN 0-399-22335-5

The Iguana Brothers
Tony Johnston, 1995, ISBN 0-590-47468-5

Some Smug Slug
Pamela Duncan Edwards, 1996, ISBN 0-06-024789-4

In the Small Small Pond
Denise Fleming, 1993, ISBN 0-8050-2264-3

Where Once There Was a Wood
Denise Fleming, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-3761-6

The Great Kapok Tree
Lynne Cherry, 1990, ISBN 0-15-200520-X

The Shaman's Apprentice
Lynne Cherry, 1998, ISBN 0-15-201281-8

Beaver Pond, Moose Pond
Jim Amosky, 2000, ISBN 0-7922-7692-2

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein, 1964, ISBN 0-06-025665-6

The World that Jack Built
Ruth Bro-WTI, 1990, ISBN 0-7737-2390-0

Window
Jeannie Baker, 1991, ISBN 0-688-08917-8

The Hidden Forest
Jeannie Baker, 2000, ISBN-0-688-15760-2

Verdi
Janell Cannon, 1997, ISBN 0-15-201028-9

Crickwin
Janel Cannon, 2000, ISBN 0-15-201790-9

Secret Place
Eve Bunting, 1996, ISBN 0-395-64367-8

Bugs for Lunch
Margery Facklam, 1999, ISBN 0-88106-271-5

Jubela
Christine Kessler, 2001, ISBN 0-689-81895-5

City Green
Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan, 1994, ISBN 0-688-12786-X

Growing Good
Bernard Ashley and Anne Wilson, 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4149-3

Shadows and Reflections
Tana Hoban, 1990, ISBN 0-688-07089-2

Rain Talk
Mary Serfozo, 1990, ISBN 0-689-71699-0

City Sounds
Rebecca Emberley, 1989, ISBN 0-316-23635-7

The Big Rock
Bruce Hiscock, 1988, ISBN 0-689-31402-7

Everybody Needs a Rock
Byrd Baylor, 1985, ISBN 0-689-71051-8

The Rock
Peter Pamall, 1991, ISBN 0-02-770181-6

The Sun the Wind and the Rain
Lisa Westberg Peters, 1988, ISBN 0-8050-1481-0

Boy of the Deeps
Ian Wallace, 1999, ISBN 0-88899-356-0

Thirteen Moons On Turtle's Back. A Native American Year of Moons
J. Bruchac, 1997, ISBN 0-69811584-8

Moonstick - The Seasons of the Sioux
Eve Bunting, 1997, ISBN 0-06-024804-1

Water Dance
Thomas Locker, 1997, ISBN 0-15-201284-2

Cloud Dance
Thomas Locker, 2000, ISBN 0-15-202231-7

Waters
Edith Newlin Chase and Ron Broda, 1993, ISBN 0-590-74202-7

Goodbye Geese
Nancy White Carlstrom, 1991, ISBN 0-399-21832-7

Flood
Mary Calhoun, 1997, ISBN 0-688-13919-1

What Does the Rain Play?
Nancy White Carlstrom, 1993, ISBN 0-02-717273-2

Weather Report
Poems selected by Jane Yolen, 1995, ISBN 1-56397-101-1

When the Rain Stops
Sheila Cole, 1991, ISBN 0-688-07654-8

How Cold Was It?
Jane Barclay, 1999, ISBN 1-894222-19-9

Mouse & Mole and the All-Weather Train Ride
Doug Cushman, 1995, ISBN 0-7167-6600-0

Wolf Island
Celia Godkin, 2006, ISBN 10-1554-5500-84

The Salamander Room
Anne Mazer, 1991, ISBN 0-679-86187-4

The Missing Sun
Peter Eyvindson, 1993, ISBN 0-921827-29-6

Maria's Comet
Deborah Hopkinson and Deborah Lanino, 1999, ISBN 0-689-81501-8

On the Day You Were Born
Debra Frasier, 1991, ISBN 0-15-257995-8