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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. NEBRASKA
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Tulip Sees America. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1998. (unpaged)
  • Warren, Andrea. Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie. NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1998. (96 ps.)

NEVADA

NEW HAMPSHIRE
  • Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830 - 32: a novel. NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1979. (144 ps.)
  • Fradin, Dennis. The New Hampshire Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988. (144 ps.)
  • Stein, Conrad. New Hampshire. NY: Children's Press. (144 ps.)
NEW JERSEY
  • Fradin, Dennis. New Jersey Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1991. (158 ps.)
  • Knight, James. The Village: Life in Colonial Times. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Assoc., 1982.
  • Myers, Walter Dean. Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid. NY: Delacorte Press, 1988. (154 ps.)
  • Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. NY: Simon & Schuster Books, 2004. (unp)
  • Walker, Sally. The 18 Penny Goose. NY: HarperCollins Pub, 1998.
NEW MEXICO
  • Hayes, Joe. The Day It Snowed Tortillas.
  • Johnston *, Tony. Alice Nizzy Nazzy, the Witch of Santa Fe. NY: Putnam's, 1995. (unp)
  • Lowell, Susan. The Three Little Javelinas. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Pub., 1992. (unp) (trickster story)
    • fractured tale activity *
    • Stereotyping * and bias
    • Observing wolves as stereotypes *
  • McDermott, Gerald. Arrow To the Sun. NY: Puffin Books, 1977. (42 ps.)
  • Nez, Redwing T. Forbidden Talent. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Pub., 1995. (unp)
  • Rodanas, Kristina. Dragonfly's Tale. NY: Clarion Books, 1991. (29 ps.)
  • San Souci, Robert D. Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale. NY: HarperCollins, 2000. (32 ps.) [NEW MEXICO] (Cinderella variant)
  • Smith, MaryLou M. Grandmother's Adobe Dollhouse.
  • Soto *, Gary. Too Many Tamales. NY: PaperStar, 1996. (32 ps.) [Resources *]
NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA
  • Kurtz, Jane. River Friendly, River Wild. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
OHIO OKLAHOMA
  • Antle, Nancy. Beautiful Land: A Story of the Oklahoma Land Rush. NY: Viking, 1994. (54 ps.)
  • Antle, Nancy. Hard Times: A Story of the Great Depression. NY: Viking, 1993. (54 ps.)
  • Beard, Darleen Bailey. The Flimflam Man. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998. (85 ps.)
  • Cwiklik, Robert. Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1989. (129 ps.)
  • Glassman, Bruce. Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation. NY: Blackbirch Press, 1992. (64 ps.)
  • Myers, Anna. Red-dirt Jessie. NY: Walker, 1994. (107 ps.)
  • Raven, Margot Theis. Angels in the Dust. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1997. (unpaged)
  • Sanford, William. Quanah Parker: Comanche Warrior. Hillside, NJ: Enslow, 1994. (48 ps.)
  • Thomas, Joyce Carol. I Have Heard of A Land. NY: HarperCollins, 1998.
  • Turner, Ann. Dust for Dinner. NY: Harper Collins, 1995. (61 ps.)
OREGON
  • Boulton, Jane. Only Opal: The Diary of A Young Girl. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.
  • Fox, Mary Virginia. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians. Chicago: Children's Press, 1992. (111 ps.)
  • Kudlinski, Kathleen. Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail. NY: Viking, 1994. (58 ps.)
  • Lewis, Claudia. Long Ago in Oregon. NY: Harper & Row, 1987. (53 ps.)
  • Moss, Marissa. Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998. (unpaged)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Tulip Sees America. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1998. (unpaged)
  • Say, Allen. Music for Alice. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (32 ps.)
  • Stanley, Diane. Roughing It On the Oregon Trail. NY: Harper Collins, 2000.
  • Stein, R. Conrad. The Oregon Trail. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.
PENNSYLVANIA
  • Aylesworth *, Jim. The Folks in the Valley: A Pennsylvania Dutch ABC. NY: HarperCollins, 1992. (32 ps.)
  • Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Growing Up in Coal Country. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. (127 ps.)
  • Bial, Raymond. Amish Home. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1993. (40 ps.)
  • Costabel, Eva. The Pennsylvania Dutch: Craftsmen and Farmers. NY: Atheneum, 1986. (48 ps.)
  • Fradin, Dennis. Pennsylvania: Sea to Shining Sea. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.
  • Glass, Andrew. Bewildered For Three Days: As to Why Daniel Boone Never Wore His Coonskin Cap. [PENNSYLVANIA] (tall tale)
  • Good, Merle. Nicole Visits An Amish Farm. NY: Walker, 1982. (47 ps.)
  • Greene, Carol. Rachel Carson, Friend of Nature. (Rookie Biography) Chicago: Children's Press, 1992. (47 ps.)
  • Gutelle, Andrew. Baseball's Best. (Story 4 - Roberto Clemente) NY: Random House, 1990. (48 ps.)
  • Hendershot, Judith. In Coal Country. NY: Knopf, 1987. (40 ps.)
  • Kellogg, Steven. Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale. NY: Morrow, 1988. (42 ps.)
  • Knight, James. Seventh and Walnut: Life in Colonial Philadelphia. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1982. (32 ps.)
  • McDonald, Megan. The Great Pumpkin Switch. NY: Orchard Books, 1992. (setting: Pittsburgh)
  • McDonald, Megan. The Potato Man. NY: Orchard Books, 1991. (setting: Pittsburgh)
  • Mitchell, Barbara. The Old Fasnacht. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1984. (64 ps.)
  • Mitchell, Barbara. Tomahawks and Trombones. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1982. (55 ps.)
  • Monjo, F.N. The Drinking Gourd. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. (62 ps.)
  • Polacco, Patricia. Just Plain Fancy. NY: Bantam Books, 1990. (32 ps.)
  • Rappaport, Doreen. Trouble at the Mines. NY: Crowell, 1987. ( 85 ps.)
  • Ringgold, Faith. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. NY: Crown, 1992. (unpaged)
  • Simon, Charnan. Andrew Carnegie, Builder of Libraries. (Community Builders) NY: Children's Press, 1997. (46 ps.)
  • Sinnott, Susan. Charley Waters Goes to Gettysburg. Millbrook, 2000. (48 ps.)
  • Smucker, Anna Egan. No Star Nights. NY: Knopf, 1988. (40 ps.)
  • Stein, R. Conrad. The Story of the Johnstown Flood. Chicago: Children's Press, 1984. (31 ps.)
  • Turner, Ann. When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. (unp)
  • Voelzke, Daryl E. Pierre Penguin Finds a New Home. (setting: Pittsburgh)
  • Walker, Paul R. Head for the Hills, the Amazing True Story of the Johnstown Flood.
RHODE ISLAND
  • Avi. Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams. NY: Harper Trophy, 1997. (46 ps.)
  • Fisher, Leonard Everett. To Bigotry, No Sanction: The Story of the Oldest Synagogue in America. NY: Holiday House, 1998.
  • Fradin, Dennis. The Rhode Island Colony. Chicago: Children's Press, 1989.
  • Manes, Stephen. Some of the Adventures of Rhode Island Red. NY: Lippincott, 1990. (117 ps.)
  • Simonds, Christopher. Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990. (64 ps.)
SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA
  • Harvey, Brett. My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted. NY: Holiday House, 1986. (40 ps.)
  • Armstrong, Jennifer. Black-eyed Susan. NY: Crown Publishers, 1995. (120 ps.)
  • Karr, Kathleen. The Cave. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
  • Turner, Ann. Dakota Dugout. NY: Macmillan, 1985. (32 ps.)
  • Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer. NY: Macmillan, 1989. (166 ps.)
TENNESSEE
  • Local author: Allen, Thomas Burt. On Grandaddy's Farm. NY: Knopf, 1989. ( 40 ps.)
  • Cohen, Caron Lee. (illus Ariane Dewey) Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1985. (40 ps.)
  • Duncan, Alice Faye. Willie Jerome. NY: Macmillan, 1995.
  • Farmer, Nancy. Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb. NY: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1998. (unp.) [UNITED STATES - TENNESSEE] (though sensing danger, the railroad fireman follows his engineer's command to increase the train's power and to ring the whistle)
  • Flowers, A. R. Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band. Mahwah, NJ: BridgeWater Books, 1996. (32 ps.)
  • Fradin, Dennis B. Tennessee in Words and Pictures. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1980. (48 ps.)
  • Giovanni, Nikki. Knoxville, Tennessee. NY: Scholastic, 1994. (30 ps.)
  • Goguen, Robert. The Almost True Story of Scrawny Chicken.
  • Harvill, Kitty, (illus) [Donald Davis, author] Jack and the Animals. Little Rock: August House LittleFolk, 1995. (28 ps.)
  • Hendershot, Judith. In Coal Country. NY: Knopf, 1987. (40 ps.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
  • Houston, Gloria. The Year of the Perfect Christman Tree. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1988. (32 ps.)
  • Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel. NY: Dutton Children's Books, 1994. (unpaged)
  • Martin, Jean Ciramonte. Nashville, A Picture Book to Remember Her By.
  • Martin, Jean Chiramonte. Tennessee and the Great Smokies. Crescent Books.
  • McCurdy, Charles. The Train They Call thr City of New Orleans. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (unp) [ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA]
  • Parton, Dolly. Coat of Many Colors. NY: HarperCollins, 1994. (unp.)
  • Schroeder, Alan. Smoky Mountain Rose. (32 ps.) NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. (32 ps.)
  • Schroeder, Alan. The Tale of Willie Monroe. NY: Clarion Books, 1999. [TENNESSEE] (Adaptation of Japanese folktale in which a powerful wrestler hoping to win the Emperor's Wrestling Match, meets three exceptionally strong women who train him for success)
  • Van Leeuwen, Jean. Across the Wide Dark Sea. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995. ( unp.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
  • Van Leeuwen, Jean. Going West. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992. (unp.) [illus Thomas Burt Allen]
  • Van Shelton, Ricky, illustrator, Shan Williams. Quacker the Duck Series.
TEXAS
  • Cherry , Lynne. The Armadillo from Amarillo. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1994. (34 ps.)
  • Garland, Sherry. Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence. NY: Scholastic, 1998. (201 ps.)
  • Garland, Sherry. Voices of the Alamo. NY: Scholastic, 1999. (48 ps.)
  • Huling, Jan. Puss in Cowboy Boots. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. (unp.) [TEXAS] (A clever cat in Texas wins a fortune and a wealthy bride for his master) (Puss in Boots variant - France)
  • Jakes, John. Susanna of the Alamo. San Diego: Gulliver Books, 1986. (28 ps.)
  • Johnston, Tony. The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea. NY: Putnam's, 1992. (unpaged)
  • Matthews, Cahndice. Gregorio Esparza : Alamo hero. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1996. (68 ps.)
  • Medearis, Angela Shelf. Tailypo: A Newfangled Tall Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1996. (unp.) [TEXAS - SOUTHERN STATES] (a strange critter tries to steal the last meal of a young farmer boy's family in the Texas Hill country.)
  • Rice, James. Texas Alphabet.
  • Rice, James. Texas Jack at the Alamo. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub., 1989. (32 ps.)
  • Rice, James. Texas Night Before Christmas.
UTAH
  • Root, Phyllis. Coyote and the Magic Words. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993. (29 ps.)
  • Stevens, Janet. Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1993. (30 ps.)
  • Welsch, Roger. Uncle Smoke Stories: Nehawka Tales of Coyote the Trickster. NY: Knopf, 1994. (91 ps.)
VERMONT
  • Medearis, Michael and Angela Shelf Medearis. Daisy and the Doll. Middlebury, VT: Vermont Folklife Center, 2000.
VIRGINIA
  • Behrens, June and Brower, Pauline. Colonial Farm. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1976. (32 ps.)
  • Medearis, Angela Shelf. The Freedom Riddle. NY: Dutton, 1995. (unp.) [SOUTHERN STATES - VIRGINIA] (freedom for correct response to a riddle)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. The Blue Hill Meadows. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1997. (43 ps.)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. The Relatives Came. NY: Bradbury Press, 1985. (32 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)
  • San Souci, Robert D. The Hired Hand. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. [VIRGINIA] [AFRICAN AMERICAN] (hired man teaches Old Sam's lazy son a lesson about how to treat people)
  • Turner, Ann. Nettie's Trip South. NY: Macmillan, 1987. (30 ps.)
  • Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm. Wicked Jack. NY: Holiday House, 1995. [SOUTHERN STATES - GREAT DISMAL SWAMP of Virginia and North Carolina] (The actions of a mean old blacksmith leave him unwelcomed by Saint Peter and the Devil when he dies) (Jack tale adaptation)
WASHINGTON
  • Cohlene, Terri. Clamshell Boy: A Makah Legend. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Corp, 1990.
  • Cone, Molly. Come Back Salmon. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books for Children, 1992. (48 ps.)
  • George, Jean Craighead. Moon of the Mountain Lions. NY: HarperCollins, 1991. (48 ps.)
  • Guiberson, Brenda Z. (Washington author), Spotted Owl: Bird of the Ancient Forest.
  • Hirschi, Ron (Washington author), Fall.
  • Hirschi, Ron. People of Salmon and Cedar. NY: Cobblehill Books, 1996. (42 ps.)
    • Fishing - Sockeye Salmon * | Fishing rights controversy *
    • salmon links * | salmon facts *
    • Note: Our third graders experience working at a satellite hatchery at Sweetwater Creek
  • Jeffers, Susan. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky. NY: Dial Books, 1991. (unpaged)
    • Description of Chief Seattle * from an 1887 journal | Chief Seattle * | Chief Seattle Speech *
  • Lauber, Patricia. Volcano: the Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens. NY: Aladdin Books, 1986. (60 ps.)
  • Lewis, Paul Owen (Washington author), Storm Boy.
  • Luenn, Nancy. A Horse's Tale: 10 Adventures in One Hundred Years.
  • Luenn, Nancy (Washington author), Song for the Ancient Forest.
  • McDermott, Gerald. Raven. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. (32 ps.)
    • Tricksters in folklore
  • Okimoto, Jean Davies. No Dear, Not Here. (marbled murrelets)
    • marbled murrelets * | murrelets * described | marbled murrelets * - a migratory bird in peril
    • endangered species * in Washington | research in Washington * | animals * of washington
  • Say, Allen. Music for Alice. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (32 ps.)
  • Slawson, Michele Benoit. Apple Picking Time. NY: Crown, 1994.
    • Apple varieties * | Washington * varieties | Core facts * from Washington
WEST VIRGINIA
  • Anderson, Joan. Pioneer Children of Appalachia. NY: Clarion Books, 1986. (48 ps.)
  • Belton, Sandra. McKendree. NY: Greenwillow, 2000. (256 ps.)
  • Naylor, Phillis Reynolds. Shiloh.
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. ( 21 ps.)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. But I'll Be Back Again. NY: Orchard Books, 1989. (54 ps.)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May. NY: Dell Publishing, 1992. (89 ps.)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Silver Packages. NY: Orchard Books, 1997. (unpaged)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Waiting to Waltz, A Childhood: Poems. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1984. (45 ps.)
  • Rylant, Cynthia. When I Was Young in the Mountains. NY: Dutton, 1982. (32 ps.)
WISCONSIN WYOMING
  • Freedman, Russell. The Life and Death of Crazy Horse. NY: Holiday House, 1996. (166 ps.)
  • Goble, Paul. Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight, 21 December 1866. NY: Pantheon Books, 1972.
  • Greene, Carol. Black Elk: A Man With a Vision. Chicago: Children's Press, 1990. (45 ps.)
  • Johnson, Neil. Jack Creek Cowboy. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.
  • Rylant, Cynthia. Tulip Sees America. NY: Blue Sky Press, 1998. (unpaged)
  • Sanford, William. Red Cloud: Sioux Warrior. Hillside, NJ: Enslow, 1994. (48 ps.)

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