Genre and Themes

Explore topics by genre and themes. These topics are design for inqiury projects, thematic teaching, literature circles, and group discussion activities.

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African-American

• Harlem
• Henry's Freedom Box
• Smoky Night

Alphabet Books

• Alphabet City
• Gone Wild
• The Graphic Alphabet

Animals

• Gone Wild

Architecture and Building

• Castle
• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• Sector Seven

Asian-American

• Grandfather's Journey (Japanese)
• Tibet (Tibet/China)

Bear

• Tops & Bottoms

Biography

• Abraham Lincoln
• Duke Ellington
• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• Snowflake Bentley
• So You Want to Be President?
• Starry Messenger

Cats

• Hondo & Fabian

Chapter Books (Beginners)

• Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Christmas

• Polar Express

Comic, Graphic Novel, Sequential Art

• Amulet: Book 1: The Stonekeeper
• Daisy Kutter: The Last Train
  
• Flight: Volume One
• Flight: Volume Two
• Flight: Volume Three
• Flight: Volume Four
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Shooting War
• Stephen King's The Gunslinger Born (Dark Tower Graphic Novel)
  

Dinosaurs

• Time Flies

Dogs

• Hondo & Fabian
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
• The Stray Dog

Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Tall Tales

• Fables
  • Tops & Bottoms
• Fairy Tales
  • Rapunzel
• Folk Tales
  • John Henry
  • Joseph had a Little Overcoat
  • Spider and the Fly
  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Stinky Cheese Man & Fairly Stupid Tales
  • The Three Pigs
• Tall Tales
  • John Henry
  • Swamp Angel
• Trickster Tales
  • Raven: a Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Fantasy

• Jumanji
• Tuesday

Fly

• Spider and the Fly

Folk Tales (see Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Tall Tales)

Frogs

• In the Small, Small Pond
• Tuesday

Gardening

• Tops & Bottoms

Historical Fiction

• Late 1800s
  • Mirette on the High Wire
• 1930s
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Insects

• Spider and the Fly

Iron Curtain

• The Wall

Journeys

• Grandfather's Journey (Japanese)
• Tibet (Tibet/China)

Mice

• My Friend Rabbit

Middle Ages

• Castle

Museum

• Time Flies

Music

• Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin

Myths and Legends

• Noah's Ark

Native Americans

• Raven: a Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Pets

• Hondo & Fabian

Pig

• Mercy Watson to the Rescue
• Olivia
• The Three Pigs

Poetry

• Spider and the Fly

Pond Life

• In the Small, Small Pond

Presidents

• Abraham Lincoln
• So You Want to Be President?

Rabbits

• My Friend Rabbit
• Tops & Bottoms

Religious

• Noah's Ark

Safety

• Officer Buckle and Gloria

Science

• Young Children
  • In the Small, Small Pond
• Young Adults
  • Stiff

Slavery

• Henry's Freedom Box

Spider

• Spider and the Fly

Stories for Young Children

• Hondo & Fabian
• My Friend Rabbit
• Olivia
• The Stray Dog

Tall Tales (see Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Tall Tales)

Tightrople Walking

• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• Mirette on the High Wire

Trickster Tales (see Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Tall Tales)

Underground Railroad

• Henry's Freedom Box

Urban

• Harlem
• Smoky Night
• Tar Beach

Wordless Books

• Flotsam
• Sector Seven
• Tuesday

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