How to Play
*Come by the Library to pick up your “Book a Trip Across America” travel booklet. Your goal is to read a book from each of the 50 US states, no particular order. Start reading books that take place in that state, is about that state, or is by an author from that state. Complete instructions are on the back of the booklet. Redeem prizes at the Children’s Desk. Remember, “The More you Read, the More you will Know. The More you Learn, the More Places you will Go!” ~Dr. Seuss
Children’s Reading Suggestions
In The Garden With Dr. Carver
Susan Grigsby
Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai
Alabama Moon
Watt Key
Seeds of Freedom: the peaceful integration of Huntsville, Alabama
Hester Bass
Hear the Wolves
Victoria Scott
Ice Dogs
Terry Lynn Johnson
Curse of the Arctic Star
Carolyn Keene
My Wilderness: An Alaskan Adventure
Claudia McGehee
Racing the Iditarod
Kristen Rajczak
G is for Grand Canyon: an Arizona Alphabet
Barbara Gowan
The Map to Everywhere
Carrie Ryan
Harvesting Hope: the story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull
Grand Canyon
Jason Chin
As the Crow Flies
Elizabeth Winthrop
Big Woods Bird: an Ivory-Bill Story
Terri Roberts Luneau
Lions of Little Rock
Kristin Levine
N is for Natural State: an Arkansas Alphabet
Michael Shoulders
With A Name Like Love
Tess Hilmo
Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
Shelley Tougas
Haunted! Alcatraz
Ryan Nagelhout
G is for Golden: a California Alphabet
David Domeniconi
Hotshots
Meish Goldish
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Lauren Tarshis
Dream Something Big: the Story of the Watts Tower
Dianna Hutts Aston
Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864
Laurie Lawlor
C is for Centennial: a Colorado Alphabet
Louise Doak Whitney
Hard Gold: the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, a Tale of the Old West
Avi
Katerina’s Wish
Jeannie Mobley
No Passengers Beyond this Point
Gennifer Choldenko
The Connecticut Colony
Kevin Cunningham
Strawberry Hill
Mary Ann Hoberman
Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face
Paul Acampora
Yankee Doodle Boy
Joseph Plumb Martin
Snowflakes Fall
Patricia MacLachlan
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware: A Pals in Peril Tale
M.T. Anderson
When Washington Crossed the Delaware: a Wintertime Story for Young Patriots
Lynne V. Cheney
President Taft is Stuck in the Bath
Mac Barnett
The Delaware Colony: a True Book
Kevin Cunningham
Hill Hawk Hattie
Clara Gillow Clark
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Malala Yousafzai : education activist
Rebecca Rowell
A Whole Lot of Lucky
Danette Haworth
S is for Sunshine: a Florida Alphabet
Carol Crane
The Postcard
Tony Abbot
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
Barbara O’Connor
Escape by Night: a Civil War Adventure
Laurie Myers
Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata
The Ethan I was Before
Ali Standish
P is for Peach: a Georgia Alphabet
Carol Crane
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
Rhoda Blumberg
The Last Princess : the Story of Princess Kaʻiulani of Hawaii
Fay Stanley
Bethany Hamilton: Shark Attack Survivor
Amy Van Zee
Pearl Harbor
Stephen Krensky
Lord of the Deep
Graham Salisbury
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus
Kristen Tracy
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
Jim Murphy
Prisoner 88
Leah Pileggi
The Children of the Lost
Franklin W. Dixon
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Saving Strawberry Farm
Deborah Hopkinson
About Average
Andrew Clements
L is for Lincoln: an Illinois Alphabet
Kathy-jo Wargin
Catching a Story Fish
Janice N. Harrington
The Great Fire
Jim Murphy
Best Family Ever
Karen Kingsbury
Rosetown
Cynthia Rylant
The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis
H is for Hoosier: an Indiana Alphabet
Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
Johnny Appleseed: An American Who Made a Difference
Alyse Sweeney
The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair
Amy Makechnie
Katie and the Mustang: Hoofbeats Book 1
Kathleen Duey
Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend
Robert D. San Souci
Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library
Vicki Myron
Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson
The Storm in the Barn
Matt Phelan
The Adventures of Beanboy
Lisa Harkrader
100 Cupboards
Nathan D. Wilson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Jennifer Lawrence: Star of the Hunger Games
Katherine E. Krohn
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: a Tall, Thin Tale
Deborah Hopkinson
The Coffin Quilt: the Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys
Ann Rinaldi
B is for Bluegrass: a Kentucky alphabet
Mary Ann McCabe Riehle
Colonel Harland Sanders: KFC Creator
Sheila Griffin Llanas
Jean Lafitte: the Pirate who Saved America
Susan Goldman Rubin
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation, 1853
Paul Erickson
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Robert Coles
Epossumondas
Coleen Salley
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Romeo Blue
Phoebe Stone
Time of Wonder
Robert McCloskey
Cheesie Mack is Cool in a Duel
Stephen L. Cotler
L is for Lobster: a Maine alphabet
Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
Hog Music
Mary-Claire Helldorfer
Red Kayak
Priscilla Cummings
No Slam Dunk
Mike Lupica
Flute’s Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush
Lynne Cherry
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln
Patricia Polacco
Three Young Pilgrims
Cheryl Harness
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
John Coy
What Came From The Stars
Gary D. Schmidt
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Would YOU Join the Madness?
Elaine Landau
Mary and Her Little Lamb: the True Story of the Famous Nursery Rhyme
Will Moses
Bucking the Sarge
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Danger Box
Blue Balliett
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mrs. Mack
Patricia Polacco
M is for Mitten: a Michigan Alphabet
Annie Appleford
Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick
Barn Boot Blues
Catherine Friend
Mudville
Kurtis Scaletta
North Woods Girl
Aimée M. Bissonette
Woodsong
Gary Paulsen
Family Huddle
Archie Manning
Glory Be
Augusta Scattergood
Minn of the Mississippi
Holling Clancy Holling
Hideout
Watt Key
Good-bye, Charles Lindbergh: Based on a True Story
Louise Borden
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Gateway Arch
Kaitlyn Duling
Sooner
Patricia Calvert
S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet
Judy Young
I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011
Lauren Tarshis
Squirm
Carl Hiaasen
Dust Devil
Anne Isaacs
Fearless Mary: The Adventures of Mary Fields, Stagecoach Driver
Tami Charles
Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones
Christopher Krovatin
Dino-Mike and the T. Rex Attack
Franco Aureliani
Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman
Elsie’s Bird
Jane Yolen
Room One: a Mystery or Two
Andrew Clements
Dandelions
Eve Bunting
In the New World: A Family in Two Centuries
Gerda Raidt
Ivy Takes Care
Rosemary Wells
Area 51
Nadia Higgins
The Inn Between
Marina Cohen
Untamed
Terri Farley
Hawk Highway in the Sky: Watching Raptor Migration
Caroline Arnold
The Bear That Heard Crying
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord
Robert Frost: The Life of America’s Poet
Sara McIntosh Wooten
Mystery of the Island Fires
Elaine Macmann Willoughby
A Gathering of Days: a New England Girl’s Journal 1830-32
Joan Blos
I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Lauren Tarshis
Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life is a Joke
James Patterson
Brothers at Bat: the True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Audrey Vernick
Frankie Liked to Sing
John Seven
Heroes of the Surf
Elise Carbone
See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Survivor Diaries: Dust Storm!
Terry Lynn Johnson
Kiki’s Journey
Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Taos Pueblo: Painted Stories
Jonathan Warm Day
Visit the Statue of Liberty
Siobhan Moriarty
The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story
Adele Griffin
The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
Robert M. Edsel
Tigers & Tea with Toppy
Barbara Kerley
Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch
Mona Kerby
Miss Dorothy’s Bookmobile
Gloria Houston
Where the Watermelons Grow
Cindy Baldwin
Surviving the Applewhites
Stephanie S. Tolan
Ruby Lee & Me
Shannon Hitchcock
The North Carolina Colony
Kevin Cunningham
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fly Away
Patricia MacLachlan
The Homestead
Linda Byler
Adopted by the Eagles: A Plains Indian Story of Friendship and Treachery
Paul Goble
Just As Good: How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game
Chris Crowe
Grandma Gatewood: Hikes the Appalachian Trail
Jennifer Thermes
Soar
Joan Bauer
Cabin on Trouble Creek
Jean Van Leeuwen
B is for Buckeye: an Ohio Alphabet
Marcia Schonberg
How I Became a Ghost: a Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
Tim Tingle
Call me Oklahoma!
Miriam Glassman
Bad News for Outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Franny Parker
Hannah Roberts McKinnon
I Have Heard of a Land
Joyce Carol Thomas
Mousenet
Prudence Breitrose
Life as a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
Jeri Freedman
The Buffalo Storm
Katherine Applegate
Papa and the Pioneer Quilt
Jean Van Leeuwen
B is for Beaver: an Oregon Alphabet
Marie Smith
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos
Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question
Martha Freeman
Fallingwater
Marc Harshman
Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk
Alice from Dallas
Marilyn Sadler
The Art of Keeping Cool
Janet Taylor Lisle
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr., aka Houdini
Peter Johnson
Beastly Verse
Joohee Yoon
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
Tonya Bolden
Rhode Island
Sarah Tieck
Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox of the American Revolution
Louis P. Towles
P is for Palmetto: a South Carolina Alphabet
Carol Crane
A Blind Guide to Stinkville
Beth Vrabel
The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson
The Attack on Fort Sumter
Charlie Samuels
Run for the Hills, Geronimo!
Geronimo Stilton
Mount Rushmore
Kaite Goldsworthy
The Christmas Coat: Memories of my Sioux Childhood
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Prairie School
Lois Lenski
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Paperboy
Vince Vawter
Penny Dreadful
Laurel Snyder
A Snicker of Magic
Natalie Lloyd
Swamp Angel
Anne Isaacs
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
Pat Zietlow Miller
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
Kimberly Willis Holt
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1835
Sherry Garland
Librarian on the Roof: a True Story
M.G. King
Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs
Buffalo Music
Tracey Fern
Desolation Canyon
Jonathan London
Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation
Yoshiko Uchida
Zion National Park
John Hamilton
More Adventures of the Great Brain
John Dennis Fitzgerald
M is for Maple Syrup: a Vermont Alphabet
Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
When Life Gives You O.J.
Erica S. Perl
Ruby in the Sky
Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo
Golden Girl
Marianne Mancusi
The Suburb Beyond the Stars
M.T. Anderson
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Judy Moody Saves the World
Megan McDonald
A Rambler Steals Home
Carter Higgins
A Piece of Home
Jeri Hanel Watts
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Boxcar Children: The Seattle Puzzle
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Survivor’s Diary: Overboard
Terry Lynn Johnson
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart
Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm
Totem Pole
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Close to Famous
Joan Bauer
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Child of the Mountains
Marilyn Sue Shank
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
The Canary in the Coal Mine
Madelyn Rosenberg
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright
Finders Keepers
Shelley Tougas
On Top of Concord Hill
Maria D. Wilkes
Red Dog
Bill Wallace
Skies Like These
Tess Hilmo
Scumble
Ingrid Law
Flicka: A Friend for Katy
Jennifer Frantz
Wish You Were Eyre
Heather Vogel Frederick