United States Regional Literature Titles A - M from Inquiry Unlimited practitioner formerly sited at Boston KidWeb at Joseph Lee School, Boston, MA

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USA Regional Literature (States A - M ) [ See: N - W * titles ]

Classroom application: Travel buddy project - "Where In the USA Is Looney Lobster Reading?" Regional literature: (1) is free of stereotyping, (2) focuses on individuals, showing them involved in universal conflicts or learning universal truths, (3) deals with the land as it connects with humans, (4) sensitizes our awareness of place. ALABAMA

Bang, Molly. Wiley and the Hairy Man. [Black America Southern states] [ALABAMA]
Celsi, Teresa. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1991. (28 ps.)
Deegan, Paul. Hank Aaron. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1974. (31 ps.)
Gentry, Tony. Jesse Owens. NY: Chelsea House, 1990. (111 ps.)
Ghigna, Charles. (Alabama Author) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs. NY: Hyperion Books for Children, 1992. (unpaged)
Greenfield, Eloise. Rosa Parks. NY: Crowell, 1973. (32 ps.)
Hamilton, Virginia. When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1995. [SOUTHERN STATES] (collection of stories featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, bats based on tales from an Alabam plantation)
Hunter, Nigel. Helen Keller. NY: Bookwright Press, 1985. (31 ps.)
Kelso, Richard. Walking for Freedom. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck_Vaughn, 1993. (52 ps.)
Nicholson, Lois. Booker T. Washington. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997.
Nicholson, Lois. George Washington Carver. NY: Chelsea House, 1994. (79 ps.)
Raber, Thomas. Bo Jackson. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1990. (64 ps.)
San Souci, Robert D. The Boy and the Ghost. NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1989. (33 ps.) [SOUTHERN STATES - Virginia/Alabama] (stay the night in a haunted house to win a fortune)
Sierra, Judy. Wiley and the Hairy Man. NY: Lodestar Books, 1996. [ALABAMA] (Wiley outwits the conjuring Hairy Man who lives in the nearby swamp with the help of his mother)
Windham, Kathryn Tucker. (Alabama Author) Jeffrey Introduces 13 Alabama Ghosts. Huntsville, Ala: Strode, 1971. (128 ps.)

ALASKA

Clinton, Susan. The Story of Seward's Folly. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1987. (30 ps.)
Cobb, Vicki. This Place is Cold. NY: Walker, 1989. (32 ps.)
Cohen, Daniel. The Alaska Purchase. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.
Cooper, Michael. Racing Sled Dogs. NY: Clarion Books, 1988. (73 ps.)
Crisman, Ruth. Racing the Iditarod. NY: Dillon Press, 1993.
Edwardson, Debby Dahl. Whale Snow. Watertown, MA: Tradewinds, 2003. (unp)
George, Jean Craighead. The Moon of the Gray Wolves. NY: HarperCollins, 1991. (48 ps.)
Harrison, Ted. A Northern Alphabet. Plattsburgh, NY: Tundra Books, 1982. (30 ps.)
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Balto and the Great Race. NY: Random House, 1999.
Levinson, Nancy. If You Lived in the Alaska Territory. NY: Scholastic, 1998. (79 ps.)
Martin, Rafe. The Eagle's Gift. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. (unp.) [ESKIMO - INUIT](origin of community celebration)
O'Dell, Scott. Black Star, Bright Dawn. NY: Fawcett Juniper, 1988. (103 ps.)
Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong. NY: Bradbury Press, 1990. (132 ps.)
Standiford, Natalie. The Bravest Dog Ever. NY: Random House, 1989. (47 ps.)

ARIZONA

Bash, Barbara. Desert Giant. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1989. (32 ps.)
Berquist, Paul. Saguaro Cactus. NY: Children's Press, 1997. (31 ps.)
Cobb, Vicki. This Place Is Dry. NY: Walker, 1989. (32 ps.)
George, Jean Craighead. One Day in the Desert. NY: Crowell, 1983. (48 ps.)
Guiberson, Brenda. Cactus Hotel. NY: Holt, 1991. (32 ps.)
Holmes, Anita. The 100-year-old Cactus. NY: Four Winds Press, 1983. (32 ps.)
Yolen, Jane. Welcome to the Sea of Sand. NY: Putnam's Sons. (unpaged)
ARKANSAS
Caudill *, Rebecca. (lived in Arkansas) (Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? (1966); A Pocketful of Cricket (1989); The Best-Loved Doll (1992)
Cwiklik, Robert and Charles. Bill Clinton: President of the 90s. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1997. (48 ps.)
Dragonwagon *, Crescent. (lived in Arkansas)
Greene *, Bette. (grew up in Arkansas)
Kelso, Richard and Willeges, Mel. Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story.
Lucas, Eileen and Anthony, Mar. Cracking the Wall: The Story of the Little Rock Nine. (48 ps.)
Ludwig, Warren. Good Morning, Granny Rose: An Arkansas Folktale. NY: Putnam's, 1990. (32 ps.) [ARKANSAS] (granny and dog share a cave with a sleepy bear during a blizzard)
Mercer *, Mayer. (born in Arkansas, lives in Connecticut)
Young, Richard and Judy Dockrey. Race with Buffalo and other Native American stories for young readers. Little Rock: August House, 1994.
CALIFORNIA

Setting: San Francisco - Bunting, Eve. A Day's Work. NY: Clarion, 1994. (32 ps.)
Setting: Los Angeles - Bunting, Eve. Smoky Night. 1994. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1994. (36 ps.)
Coats, Laura Jane. The Almond Orchard. NY: Macmillan, 1991. (unpaged)
Coerr, Eleanor. Chang's Paper Pony. NY: Harper & Row, 1988. (64 ps.)
Goldin, Barbara Diamond. Red Means Good Fortune. NY: Viking, 1994. (54 ps.)
Knapp, Toni. The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1989. (unpaged)
Kudlinski, Kathleen. Earthquake: A Story of Old San Francisco. NY: Viking, 1993. (56 ps.) [1906 earthquake]
Polacco, Patricia. Tikvah Means Hope. NY: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1994.
San Souci, Robert D. The Christmas Ark. NY: Doubleday, 1991. [CALIFORNIA] (family plans to reach San Francisco by Christmas aboard the Queen Calafia to join their father in the California gold fields)
San Souci, Robert D. Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California's Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, Calif.: Yosemite Associate, 1997. (unp.) [MIWOK - PENUTIAN] [SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA REGION](worm saves two bear cubs stranded on El Capitan)
Say, Allen. Music for Alice. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (32 ps.)
Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth. The California Gold Rush: West With the 49ers. NY: F. Watts, 1991. (64 ps.)
Vieira, Linda. The Ever-Living Tree: The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood. NY: Walker, 1994.
Zelver, Patricia. The Wonderful Towers of Watts. NY: Tambourine Books, 1994. [ site * ]
COLORADO

Blassingame, Wyatt. Bent's Fort: Crossroads to the Great West. Champaign, IL: Garrard, 1967. (96 ps.)
Bledsoe, Sara. Colorado. (Hello USA series) Minneapolis, MN: Lerner, 1993. ( 72 ps.)
Granfield, Linda. Cowboys, an Album. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1994. (96 ps.)
Lavender, David. The Santa Fe Trail. NY: Holiday House, 1995. (64 ps.)
CONNECTICUT

Amstel, Marsha. Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride. NY: Carolrhoda, 2000. (48 ps.)
DePaola, Tomie. Now One Foot, Now the Other. NY: Putnam, 1980. (32 ps.)
Dubanevich, Arlene. Pigs in Hiding. (32 ps.)
Duke, Kate. Roseberry's Great Escape. NY: Four Winds Press, 1990. (24 ps. )
Maestro, Betsy and Giulio. Ferryboat. 1986. (30 ps.)
Monjo, F.N. The Secret of Sachem's Tree. NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972. (60 ps.)
San Souci, Robert D. The Birds of Killingworth: Based on a Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002. (unp.) [CONNECTICUT] [COLONIAL KILLINGWORTH]
Shasha, Mark. Night of the Moonjellies. NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992. (unpaged)
Shasha, Mark. The Hall of Beasts. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994. (32 ps.)
DELAWARE

Fradin, Dennis. The Delaware Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1992.
Mitchell, Barbara. Cornstalks and Cannonballs. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1980. (46 ps.)
Mitchell, Barbara. Red Bird. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1996.
FLORIDA

Buffet, Jimmy. Trouble Dolls. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
Cech, John. Django. NY: Four Winds Press, 1994. [FLORIDA] (boy uses a fiddle to save the animals from a hurricane-produced flood)
George, Jean Craighead. The Talking Earth. NY: Harper & Row, 1987. (151 ps.)
Hall, Nancy. Spike and Mike. Chicago: Children's Press, 1993. (38 ps.)
Kudlinski, Kathleen. Night Bird. NY: Viking, 1993. (54 ps.)
Medearis, Angela Shelf. Dancing With the Indians. NY: Holiday House, 1991. (unpaged)
Naylor, Phillis Reynolds. To Walk the Sky Path. NY: Dell, 1992. (144 ps.)
Wade, Linda. St. Augustine, America's Oldest City. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Enterprises, 1991. (48 ps.)
GEORGIA

Banks, Sara. Remember My Name. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1993. (120 ps.)
Bealer, Alex. Only the Names Remain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. (79 ps.)
Brill, Marlene Targ. The Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Journey From Home. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995.
Bruchac, Joseph. The Trail of Tears. NY: Random House, 1999.
Stein, Conrad. Trail of Tears. Chicago: Children's Press, 1993.
HAWAII

Ackerman, Diane. Where Shy Seals Play. NY: Crown Publishers, 1995.
Hoobler, Dorothy. Aloha Means Come Back: The Story of a World War II Girl. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1991. (55 ps.)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Pearl Harbor. NY: Dillon Press, 1991. (72 ps.)
Kudlinski, Kathleen. Pearl Harbor Is Burning! NY: Puffin, 1993. (54 ps.)
Martin, Rafe. The Shark God. NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001. (unp.) [HAWAII] (for freeing a shark caught in a net, the Shark God rescues a brother and sister from a cruel king's imprisonment)
Rattigan, Jama. Dumpling Soup. Boston: Little Brown, 1992. (32 ps.)
Rattigan, Jama Kim. The Woman in the Moon: A Story from Hawaii. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1996. (unp.) [HAWAII] (How Hina, the best tapa-maker, goes to live on the moon)
Stanley, Diane. The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii. NY: Four Winds Press, 1991. (40 ps.)
Wardlaw, Lee. Punia and the King of Sharks: A Hawaiian Folktale. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. (unp.) [HAWAII] (fisherman finds different ways to trick the King of Sharks)
Williams, Julie Stewart. And the Birds Appeared. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. (29 ps.) [HAWAII] (how Maui, a boy with magical powers, made the birds appear on Hawaii)
IDAHO

Duey, Kathleen. Celou Sudden Shout, Idaho. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998. (150 ps.)
Fradin, Dennis. Sacagawea: The Journey to the West. Parsippany, NJ: Silver Press, 1998.
Shaughnessy, Diane. Sacajawea, Shoshone Trailblazer. NY: PowerKids Press, 1997.
ILLINOIS
Local author: Aylesworth *, Jim. Country Crossing. NY: Atheneum, 1991. (32 ps.)
Brenner, Martha. Abe Lincoln's Hat. NY: Random House, 1994.
Crosby, Alexander. Go Find Hanka. San Carlos, CA: Golden Gate Junior Books, 1970. (44 ps.)
Local authors: Geisert, Arthur and Bonnie. Haystack. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. (32 ps.)
Harvey, Brett. Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860s. NY: Holiday House, 1988. (39 ps.)
McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
Polacco *, Patricia. Just Plain Fancy. NY: Bantam, 1990. (32 ps.)
Pryor, Bonnie. The House on Maple Street. NY: Morrow, 1987. (32 ps.)
Quackenbush, Robert. There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. (33 ps.)
Music connection: Chicago Fire Round * | The O'Leary Legend *

INDIANA

Henry, Joanne Landers. Log Cabin in the Woods: A True Story About A Pioneer Boy. NY: Four Winds Press, 1988. (60 ps.)

IOWA

Porter, Wesley. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express: American Folk Legend. NY: F. Watts, 1979. (32 ps.) [IOWA - 1881] (railroad mishap averted)
Robinson, Nancy. Buffalo Bill. NY: F. Watts, 1991.
San Souci, Robert D. Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1994. [IOWA] (1881 train disaster averted)
Wetterer, Margaret K. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express. Minneapolis, Carolrhoda Books, 1990. (48 ps.) [IOWA] (1881 railroad disaster averted)

KANSAS

Bannatyne-Cugnet, Jo. (illus Moore, Yvette). A Prairie Year. Montreal: Tundra Books, 1994. (32 ps.)
Beatty, Patricia. The Jayhawker. NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1991. (214 ps.)
Bouchard, David. If You're Not From the Prairie. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998. (28 ps.)
Bunting, Eve. Dandelions. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995. (40 ps.)
Carlson, Nolan. Summer and Shiner; Shiner's Return.
George, Jean Craighead. The Moon of the Moles. NY: HarperCollins, 1992. (48 ps.)
Guiberson, Brenda. Winter Wheat. NY: Holt, 1995. (32 ps.)
Harsch, Marc. The Storm.
Harvey, Brett. My Prairie Christmas. NY: Holiday House, 1986. (32 ps.)
Harvey, Brett. My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted.
Ketteman, Helen. Heat Wave! (tall tale)[KANSAS]
MacLachlan, Pat. What You Know First. NY: HarperCollins, 1995.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. In the Face of Danger. NY: Bantam, 1988. (151 ps.)
Northcutt, Marjorie. Matilda's Bloomers: Prairie School Stories.
Ruby, Lois. Steal Away Home. NY: Macmillan, 1994.
Rylant, Cynthia. The Van Gogh Cafe. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995. (53 ps.)
Shannon, George. Climbing Kansas Mountains. NY: Bradbury Press, 1993. (30 ps.)
Siebert, Diane. Heartland.
Stutson, Caroline. Prairie Primer A to Z. NY: Dutton Children's Books, 1996. (unpaged)
KENTUCKY

Greene, Carol. Daniel Boone: Man of the Forests. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1990. (47 ps.)
McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
LOUISIANA

Amoss, Berthe. Cajun Gingerbread Boy. NY: Hyperion, 1994. (19 ps.)
Collins, Sheila Hebert. Cendrillon: A Cajun Cinderella. Gretna: Pelican Pub., 1998. (unp.) [CAJUN - NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA] (Cinderella variant with French phrases)
Collins, Sheila Hebert. Petite Rouge: A Cajun Twist To An Old Tale. Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press, 1994. (unpaged)
Couvillon, Alice. Mimi's First Mardi Gras. Gretna: Pelican Pub., 1992. (unpaged)
Duff, Maggie. Dancing Turtle. NY: Macmillan, 1981. (32 ps.) [LOUISIANA] (captured turtle outwits captives)
Folse, Pamela. A Sweet Surprise. Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press, 1995. (31 ps.)
Fontenot, Mary Alice. Clovis Crawfish and Bertile's Bon Voyage. Gretna: Pelican, Pub., 1991.
Fontenot, Mary Alice. Mardi Gras in the Country.
McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
McKissack, Pat. A Million Fish - More or Less. NY: Knopf, 1992. [SOUTHERN STATES - BAYOU CLAPATEAUX]
Medearis, Angela Shelf. Rum-A-Tum-Tum. NY: Holiday House, 1997.
Moore, Elizabeth. Mimi and Jean-Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras.
Reneaux, J. J. Cajun Folktales. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub., 1992.
Reneaux, J. J. Why Alligator Hates Dog. Little Rock: August House Little Folk, 1995.
Rice, James. Gaston Goes to the Mardi Gras. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub, 1977. (34 ps.)
Rice, James. Gaston the Green Nosed Alligator.
San Souci *, Robert D. Talking Eggs. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989. (32 ps.)
Schroeder, Alan. Satchmo's Blues. NY: Doubleday Book for Young Readers, 1996. (28 ps.)
Thomassie, Tynia. Feliciana Feydra LeRoux, a Cajun Tall Tale. Boston: Little Brown, 1995. ( 30 ps.)
Trosclair and Rice, James. Cajun Night Before Christmas. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
MAINE

Beneduce, Ann. A Weekend with Winslow Homer. NY: Rizzoli, 1993. (64 ps.)
Cerullo, Mary. Lobsters: Gangster of the Sea. NY: Cobblehill Books, 1994. (56 ps.)
Chetkowski, Emily. Mabel Takes the Ferry.
Coatsworth, Elizabeth.
Cooney, Barbara, Miss Rumphius. NY: Viking Press, 1982. (32 ps.)
Deans, Sis Boulas. Chick-A-Dee-Dee-Dee: A Very Special Bird.
Deans, Sis Boulas. The Legend of Blazing Bear.
Fox, Paula. Western Wind. NY: Orchard Books, 1993. (201 ps.)
Gibbons, Gail. Beacons of Light: Lighthouses. NY: Morrow Junior Books. 1990. (32 ps.)
Gibbons, Gail. Christmas on an Island. NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1994.
Gibbons, Gail. Puffins are Back! NY: Harper Collins, 1991. (32 ps.)
Hatcher, Maynard. The Liberty Pole. Mt. Desert, ME: Windswept House, 1987. (200 ps.)
Hollenbeck, Kathleen. Lobster's Secret. Norwalk, CT: Soundprints, 1996. (31 ps.)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Birdie's Lighthouse. NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997.
Ipcar, Dahlov. Lobsterman. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1962.
Lasky, Kathryn. Fourth of July Bear. NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1991. (unpaged)
Lasky, Kathryn, My Island Grandma. NY: F. Warne, 1979. (32 ps.)
Levin Betty. The Banished. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1999.
Levin, Betty. A Binding Spell. NY: F. Dutton, 1984. (179 ps.)
Levin, Betty. Fire in the Wind. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1995. (137 ps.)
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Bizzy Bones and Uncle Ezra. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1984. (32 ps.)
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. The Finest Horse in Town. NY: Harper Collins, 1992. (32 ps.)
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Grandmother Bryant's Pocket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. (48 ps.)
McCloskey, Robert. Blueberries for Sal. NY: Viking Press, 1948. (54 ps.)
McCloskey, Robert. Burt Dow: Deep Water Man. NY: Viking Press, 1963. (61 ps.)
McCloskey, Robert. One Morning in Maine. NY: Viking Press, 1952. (64 ps. )
McCloskey, Robert. Time of Wonder. NY: Viking Press, 1957. (63 ps.)
McMillan, Bruce. Finest Kind O'Day: Lobstering in Maine. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1977. (48 ps. )
McMillan, Bruce. Puffins Climb, Puffins Rhyme. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Olson, Arielle North. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. (32 ps.)
Sargent, Ruth. Abbie Burgess: Lighthouse Heroine. NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. (190 ps.)
White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. NY: Harper & Row, 1952. (184 ps.)
White, E. B. Stuart Little. NY: Harper, 1945. (131 ps.)
White. E. B. Trumpet of the Swan. NY: Harper Collins, 1970. (210 ps.)
MARYLAND

Gillerlain, Gayle. Reverend Thomas's False Teeth. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1995.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Anna All Year Round. NY: Clarion Books, 1999. (unpaged)
Hollenbeck, Kathleen. Dancing on the Sand: The Story of An Atlantic Blue Crab. Norwalk, CT: Soundprints, 1999. (unpaged)
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Aunt Flossie's Hats (And Crab Cakes Later. NY: Clarion Books, 1991. (unpaged)
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Chita's Christmas Tree. NY: Bradbury Press, 1989. (32 ps.)
Kent, Deborah. The Star-Spangled Banner. Chicago: Children's Press, 1995. (30 ps.)
Kroll, Steven. By the Dawn's Early Light: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner. NY: Scholastic, 1994. (40 ps.)
Lehne, Judith Logan. When the Ragman Sings. NY: HarperCollins, 1993. (116 ps.)
Mitchell, Barbara. Waterman's Child. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1997. (unpaged)
Wahl, Jan. The Singing Geese. NY: Lodestar Books, 1998. (unp.)
MASSACHUSETTS [films * Massachusetts settings]

Massachusetts children's authors: Jane Yolen (A Letter From Phoenix Farm), Marcia Sewall, Marc Brown, Dr. Seuss, Jan Brett
Applebaum, Diana. Giants in the Land. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.(1700s logging)
Brett, Jan. Comet's Nine Lives. NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1996. (unpaged)
Brown, Marc. Arthur's Eyes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild. 1992. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. (Nashua River)
Cohen, Caron. Crook Jaw. 1997. NY: Holt, 1997.
Fritz, Jean. And Then What Happened, Paul Revere. NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973. (Boston)
George, Jean Craighead. The First Thanksgiving. NY: Philomel Books, 1993.
Harness, Cheryl. Three Young Pilgrims. NY: Bradbury Press, 1992. (unpaged)
Jaspersohn, William. Cranberries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. (32 ps.)
Johnson, Donald B. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. (32 ps.)
Johnston, Tony. The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe. (1997) (New England tale)
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar. NY: Cobblehill Books, 1990. (32 ps.) (Nantucket area)
Krensky, Stephen. Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village. NY: Random House, 1989. (48 ps.)
Lowe, Steve. Walden. 1990. NY: Philomel Books, 1990. (unpaged) [ The life of Thoreau at Walden Pond, Concord]
Manitonquat. The Children of the Morning Light. NY: Macmillan, 1994. (72 ps.)
McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings. NY: Viking Press, 1941. (67 ps.) (Boston Public Gardens)
McCully, Emily Arnold. The Bobbin Girl. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996. (Lowell mills)
Peters, Russell M. Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Rappaport, Doreen. The Boston Coffee Party. NY: Harper & Row, 1988.
Rey, H. A. Curious George. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. (55 ps.) [MASSACHUSETTS AUTHOR]
San Souci, Robert D. Feathertop: Based on the Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne. NY: Doubleday, 1992. [colonial New England] (witch and scarecrow)
San Souci, Robert D. The Red Heels. NY: Dial Books, 1995. (unp.) [colonial New England](witch)
Sewall, Marcia. People of the Breaking Day. NY: Atheneum, 1990. (48 ps.)
Sewall, Marcia. The Pilgrims of Plimoth. NY: Atheneum, 1986. (48 ps.)
Shortsleeve, Kevin. The Story of Cape Cod. Cataumet, MA: Cape Cod Life, 1993. (63 ps.)
Spooner, J. B. (Terre Lamb Seeley, illus.) The Story of the Little Black Dog. NY: Arcade Pub., 1994. (unpaged)
Turkle, Brinton. The Adventures of Obadiah. NY: Viking Press, 1974. (39 ps.) (Quakers)
Waters, Kate. Samuel Eatons' Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy. NY: Scholastic, 1993. (40 ps.)
Waters, Kate. Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl. 1989. (32 ps.)
Waters, Kate. Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times. NY: Scholastic, 1996. (39 ps.)
Weller, Frances Ward. (Marcia Sewall, illus.) Madaket Millie. NY: Philomel Books, 1996. (32 ps.)
Weller, Frances Ward. (Robert J. Blake, illus.) Riptide. NY: Philomel Books, 1990. (32 ps.)
Yolen, Jane. Letting Swift River Go. (Quabbin Reservoir) Boston: Little, Brown, 1992. (unpaged)(Quabbin Reservoir)
Yolen, Jane. Tea with an Old Dragon: A Story of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith College. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1998. (unpaged)

Skehan, James W. Roadside Geology of Massachusetts. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2001. (geology of eastern, central, and the Berkshires)

MICHIGAN

de Angeli, Marguerite. Copper-Toed Boots. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1938. (94 ps.)
Deur, Lynne. Nishnawbe: A Story of Indians in Michigan. Spring Lake, Mich.: River Bend Pub, 1981.
Holling, Clancy. Paddle To The Sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. (64 ps.)
Hyde, Dayton O. The Bells of Lake Superior. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1995. (95 ps.)
Mitchell, Barbara. We'll Race You, Henry. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1986. (56 ps.)
North, Sterling. Young Thomas Edison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. (Edison lived in Michigan from ages 6-17)
Polacco, Patricia. Meteor! NY: The Putnam & Grosset Group, 1987. (28 ps.)
Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Mack. NY: The Putnam & Grosset Group, 1998. (38 ps.)
Polacco, Patricia. Some Birthday! NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Tuitel, Johnnie and Sharon E. Lamson. The Barn at Gun Lake. Muskegon, Mich.: Cedar Tree Publishing, 1998.
Wargin, Kathy-jo. The Legend of Sleeping Bear. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1998. (46 ps.)
Wargin, Kathy-Jo. The Legend of Mackinac Island. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1999. (46 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. Hannah. NY: Knopf, 1991. (63 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. Next Spring an Oriole. NY: Random House, 1987. (60 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. That Wild Berries Should Grow: The Story of a Summer. Grand Rapids: William Eerdmans Pub, 1994. (125 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. The Indian School. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. (89 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998. (111 ps.)
Whelan, Gloria. Night of the Full Moon. NY: Knopf, 1993. (63 ps.)
Winter, Jeanette. The Christmas Tree Ship. NY: Putnam Grosset, 1994. (29 ps.)
MINNESOTA

Carlson, Nancy. I Like Me. NY: Viking Kestrel, 1988. (32 ps.)
Chall, Marsha. Up North at the Cabin. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1992. (unpaged)
Frasier, Debra. On the Day You Were Born. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. (unpaged)
Gardiner, John. Stone Fox. NY: Harper Collins, 1980. (85 ps.)
Kurtz, Jane. Jakarta Missing. NY: Greenwillow, 2001. (unpaged)
Kurtz, Jane. River Friendly, River Wild. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2000. (40 ps.)
McLerran, Alice. Roxaboxen. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1991. (unpaged)
Nobisso, Josephine. John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. (32 ps.)
Paulsen, Gary. Guts: The True Stories Behind "Hatchet" and the Brian Books. New York: Random House for Children, 2001. (148 ps.)
Regguinti, Gordon. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992. (unpaged)
Wittstock, Laura Waterman. Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1993. (unpaged)
Woods, Douglas. Northwoods Cradle Song. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. (unpaged)
MISSISSIPPI

Coleman, Evelyn. White Socks Only. Morton Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1996. (32 ps.)
Colman, Penny. Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight For the Vote. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1993. (unpaged)
Elish, Dan. James Meredith and School Desegregation. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994. (32 ps.)
Holling, Clancy. Minn of the Mississippi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. (85 ps.)
McCall, Edith. Biography of a River: The Living Mississippi. NY: Walker, 1990. (162 ps.)
McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
Mitchell, Margaree King. Grandaddy's Gift. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1997. (32 ps.)
Robinet, Harriette Gillem. Mississippi Chariot. NY: Atheneum, 1994. (unpaged)
Taylor, Mildred. Mississippi Bridge. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1990. (62 ps.)
MISSOURI

Anderson, William. Pioneer Girl. NY: HarperCollins, 1998. (unpaged) (a story about Laura Ingalls Wilder whose home was in Mansfield, Missouri)
Edwards, June. Huckleberry Finn. Milwaukee: Raintree Publishers, 1980. (48 ps.)
Green, Carl. Butch Cassidy. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995. (48 ps.) [Local author]
Haynes, Richard. The Thong Tree. (a story of the Native American custom of bending trees to mark water or shelter for others)
Kurtz, Jane. I'm Sorry, Almira Ann. NY: Holt, 1999. (unpaged)
MacBride, Roger. In the Land of the Big Red Apple. NY: Harper Collins, 1995. (unpaged)
McKissack, Patricia. A Million Fish...More or Less. NY: Knopf, 1992. (unpaged) [St. Louis author]
McKissack, Patricia. Flossie and the Fox. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1986. (32 ps.) [St. Louis author]
Rodgers, Ann. Lewis and Clark in Missouri. (1993)
Sanford, William Reynolds. Belle Starr. Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1992. (48 ps.)
Schroeder, Alan. Ragtime Tumpie. Boston: Joy Street Books, 1989. (32 ps.) (the story of Josephine Baker who was from St. Louis)
Suggs, George Jr. Water Mills of Missouri Ozarks. (1990)
Tate, Eleanora. Front Porch Stories at the One Room School. NY: Bantam, 1992. (98 ps.)
MONTANA

Benson, Marjorie. Yellowstone. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck Vaughn, 1995. (unpaged)
Ferrell, Nancy. The Battle of the Little Bighorn in American History. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. (128 ps.)
Goble, Paul. Red Hawk's Account of Custer's Last Battle. NY: Pantheon Books, 1969. (59 ps.)
Icenoggle, Jodi. 'Til The Cows Come Home. Pennsylvania: Boyds Mills Press, 2004. (unp) [local author]
Stein, Conrad. The Battle of the Little Bighorn. NY: Children's Press, 1997.

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