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Possible Regional Literature Titles (States A - M)

Where In the USA
Is Looney Lobster Reading? (Looney99)

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.

State names A-M represented in our looney99 project: (State names N-Z)
ALABAMA
Ghigna, Charles (Alabama Author), "Good Dogs, Bad Dogs" (description)
Windham, Kathryn Tucker (Alabama Author), "Jeffrey Introduces13 Alabama Ghosts" (description)
Gentry, Tony, "Jesse Owens" (description)
Deegan, Paul, "Hank Aaron" (31 ps) (description)
Nicholson, Lois, "George Washington Carver" (description)
Nicholson, Lois, "Booker T. Washington" (description)
Hunter, Nigel, "Helen Keller" (31 ps.)(description)
Raber, Thomas, "Bo Jackson" (64 ps.) (description)
Kelso, Richard, "Walking for Freedom" (description) (52 ps)
Celsi, Teresa, "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott" (28 ps) (description)
Greenfield, Eloise, "Rosa Parks" (description)
ARKANSAS
Young, Richard and Judy Dockrey, "Race with Buffalo and other Native American stories for young readers" (description)
Ludwig, Warren, "Good Morning Charley Rose: An Arkansas folktale" (description)
Caudill, Rebecca (lived in Arkansas) (Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? (1966); A Pocketful of Cricket (1989); The Best-Loved Doll (1992)
Dragonwagon, Crescent (lived in Arkansas)
Greene, Bette (grew up in Arkansas)
Lucas, Eileen and Anthony, Mark, "Cracking the Wall: The Story of the Little Rock Nine" (description) (48 ps)
Mercer, Mayer (born in Arkansas, lives in Connecticut)
Kelso, Richard and Willeges, Mel, "Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story"
Cwiklik, Robert and Charles, "Bill Clinton: President of the 90s" (description)(48 ps)
CALIFORNIA
Coats, Laura Jane, "The Almond Orchard" (description)
Setting: San Francisco - "A Day's Work" by Eve Bunting (1994)(32 ps)(description)
Setting: Los Angeles - "Smoky Night" by Eve Bunting (1994)(36 ps)(description)
"Tikvah Means Hope" by Patricia Polacco (1994)(description)
"Earthquake: A Story of Old San Francisco" by Kathleen Kudlinski (1993)(56 ps)(desc) [1906 earthquake]
"Red Means Good Fortune" by Barbara Diamond Goldin (1994) (54 ps)(description)

"Chang's Paper Pony" by Eleanor Coerr (1988) (64 ps)(description)
"The California Gold Rush: West With the 49ers" by Eliz. Van Steenwyk (1991)(64 ps)(desc)
"The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale" by Toni Knapp (1989)
"The Ever-Living Tree: The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood" by Linda Vieira (1994) (description)
"The Wonderful Towers of Watts" by Patricia Zelver (1994)(description)[site]
COLORADO
Blassingame, Wyatt, "Bent's Fort: Crossroads to the Great West" (description) (96 ps)
Bledsoe, Sara, "Colorado" (Hello USA series) (description) (72 ps)
Granfield, Linda, "Cowboys, an Album" (description)(96 ps)
Lavender, David, "The Santa Fe Trail" (description)(64 ps)
CONNECTICUT
Shasha, Mark, "Night of the Moonjellies" (description)
Shasha, Mark, "The Hall of Beasts" (32 ps)(description)
Dubanevich, Arlene, "Pigs in Hiding" (32 ps)(description)
"Ferryboat" by Betsy and Giulio Maestro (1986)(30 ps)(description)
"Roseberry's Great Escape" by Kate Duke (1990)(24 ps)(description)
"The Secret of Sachem's Tree" by F. N. Monjo (1972) (60 ps) (description)
"Now One Foot, Now the Other" by Tomie DaPaola (1980)(32 ps)(description)
ILLINOIS
Local author: "Country Crossing" by Jim Aylesworth (1991)(32 ps) (description)

Local authors: Arthur and Bonnie Geisert - "Haystack" (1995)(32 ps)(description)
Robert Quackenbush - "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1974)(33 ps)(description)
Music connection: Chicago Fire Round | The O'Leary Legend

Martha Brenner - "Abe Lincoln's Hat" (1994)(description)
Bonnie Pryor - "The House on Maple Street" (1987)(32 ps)(description)
Brett Harvey - "Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860s" (1988)(39 ps)(description)
Alexander Crosby - "Go Find Hanka" (1970)(44 ps)(description)
Patricia Polacco - "Just Plain Fancy" (1990)(32 ps)(description)

KANSAS
Shannon, George, "Climbing Kansas Mountains" (description)(30 ps)
Siebert, Diane, "Heartland"
Bouchard, David, "If You're Not From the Prairie" (description)(28 ps)
MacLachlan, Pat, "What You Know First" (description)
Bunting, Eve," Dandelions" (description)(40 ps)
Guiberson, Brenda, "Winter Wheat" (description)(32 ps)
Bannatyne-Cugnet, Jo. (illus Moore, Yvette), "A Prairie Year" (description)
Northcutt, Marjorie, "Matilda's Bloomers: Prairie School Stories"
Harvey, Brett, "My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted" (description)
Harvey, Brett, "My Prairie Christmas" (description) (32 ps)
Harsch, Marc, "The Storm"
Stutson, Caroline, "Prairie Primer A to Z" (description)
Beatty, Patricia, "The Jayhawker" (description)(214 ps)
Carlson, Nolan, "Summer and Shiner; Shiner's Return"
Rylant, Cynthia, "The Van Gogh Cafe" (description) (53 ps)
Ruby, Lois, "Steal Away Home" (description)
Nixon, Joan Lowery, "In the Face of Danger" (description) (151 ps)
LOUISIANA

Fontenot, Mary Alice, "Mardi Gras in the Country"
Rice, James, "Gaston Goes to the Mardi Gras" (description)(34 ps)
Couvillon, Alice, "Mimi's First Mardi Gras" (description)
Moore, Elizabeth, "Mimi and Jean-Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras"
"Gaston the Green Nosed Alligator" by James Rice (description)
"Gaston Goes to Mardi Gras" by James Rice (40 ps)(1977)(description)
"Clovis Crawfish and Bertile's Bon Voyage" by Mary Alice Fontenot (1991)(description)
"Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci (1989)(32 ps)(description)
"Cajun Folktales" by J. J. Reneaux (1992) (description)
"Petite Rouge : A Cajun Twist To An Old Tale" by Sheila Hebert Collins (description)
"Rum-A-Tum-Tum" by Angela Shelf Medearis (1997)(description)
"Cajun Gingerbread Boy" by Berthe Amoss (1994)(19 ps)(description)
"A Sweet Surprise" by Pamela Folse (1995)(31 ps)(description)
"Feliciana Feydra LeRoux, a Cajun Tall Tale" by Tynia Thomassie (1995)(description)
"Cajun Night Before Christmas" by Trosclair and Rice (description)
"Mami and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras" by Elizabeth Moore (description)
"Why Alligator Hates Dog" by J. J. Reneaux (1995)(description)
"Satchmo's Blues" by Alan Schroeder (1996)(28 ps)(description)
MASSACHUSETTS
"Curious George" by H. A. Rey (1941)(description)
"Arthur's Eyes" by Marc Brown
"Letting Swift River Go" by Jane Yolen (1992)(Quabbin Reservoir) (description)
"A River Ran Wild" by Lynne Cherry (1992)(Nashua River)(description)
"Giants in the Land" by Diana Applebaum (1993)(1700s logging) (description)
"Walden" by Steve Lowe (1990) [The life of Thoreau at Walden Pond, Concord -
"Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village" by Stephen Krensky (1989)(Salem)(description)
"The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe" by Tony Johnston (1997) (New England tale)
"And Then What Happened, Paul Revere" by Jean Fritz (1973)(Boston)(description)
"The Boston Coffee Party" by Doreen Rappaport (1988)(description)
"The Bobbin Girl" by Emily Arnold McCully (1996)(Lowell mills)(description)
"Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey (1941)(Boston Public Gardens)(description)
"Crook Jaw" by Caron Cohen (1997) (description)
"The Story of Cape Cod" by Kevin Shortsleeve (1993)(63 ps) (description)
"Riptide" by Frances Ward Weller, Robert J. Blake (Illus)(1990)(32 ps)(description)
"The Story of the Little Black Dog" by J. B. Spooner, Terre Lamb Seeley (Illus)(1994)(description)
"Madaket Millie" by Frances Ward Weller, Marcia Sewall(1997)(32 ps)(description) (Illus)
"Comet's Nine Lives" by Jan Brett (1996)(description)
"The Adventures of Obadiah" by Brinton Turkle (1974)(39 ps)(Quakers) (description)
"The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar" by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Ted Rand (Illus)(1990)(32 ps)(Nantucket area)(description)
"Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition" by Russell M. Peters (1992)(description)
"The Children of the Morning Light" by Manitongquat (1994)(72 ps) (description)
"Cranberries" by William Jaspersohn (1991)(32 ps)(description)
"Three Young Pilgrims" by Cheryl Harness (1994)(unp)(description)
"Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times" by Kate Waters (1996)(description)
"Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl" by Kate Waters (1989)(32 ps)(description)
"Samuel Eatons' Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy" by Kate Waters (1993)(description)
"The First Thanksgiving" by Jean Craighead George (1993)(description)
"The Pilgrims of Plimoth" by Marcia Sewall (1986)(48 ps)(description)
"People of the Breaking Day" by Marcia Sewall (1990)(48 ps)(description)

MINNESOTA
Woods, Douglas, "Northwoods Cradle Song" (description)
Carlson, Nancy, "I Like Me" (description)
Frasier, Debra, "On the Day You Were Born" (description)
Chall, Marsha, "Up North at the Cabin" (description)
McLerran, Alice, "Roxaboxen" (description)
MISSOURI

Clues from Ironton, MO
St. Louis author - Patricia McKissack - "A Million Fish...More or Less" (1992) (description)
"Pioneer Girl" by William Anderson (a story about Laura Ingalls Wilder whose home was in Mansfield, Missouri) (description)
"Ragtime Tumpie" by Alan Schroeder (the story of Josephine Baker who was from St. Louis) (1989)(32 ps)(description)
"The Thong Tree" by Richard Haynes (a story of the Native American custom of bending trees to mark water or shelter for others)

William Reynolds Sanford - "Belle Starr" (1992)(48 ps)(description)
Local author: Carl Green - "Butch Cassidy" (1995)(48 ps)(description)
June Edwards - "Huckleberry Finn" (1980)(48 ps)(description)
Eleanora Tate - "Front Porch Stories at the One Room School" (1992)(98 ps)(description)
St. Louis author - Patricia McKissack - Flossie and the Fox (1986)(32 ps) (description)
George Suggs, Jr. - Water Mills of Missouri Ozarks (1990)
Ann Rogers - Lewis and Clark in Missouri (1993)
Roger MacBride - In the Land of the Big Red Apple (description)

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