Literature List for Grades 1 3

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1 Literature List for Grades 1 3 Your child will enjoy reading literature related to mathematics at home. Many of these titles can be found at your local library. Grade 1 Unit 1 Anno s Counting Book Mitsumasa Anno HarperCollins Publishers, 1986 City by Numbers Stephen T. Johnson Viking, 2003 Unit 2 12 Ways To Get To 11 Eve Merriam Simon and Schuster, 1996 Unit 3 A Counting Book Paul Giganti, Jr. Missing Mittens HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 Pattern Bugs Trudy Harris Millbrook Press, 2001 Two Ways to Count to Ten Ruby Dee Henry Holt & Company, 1988 Unit 4 How Big Is a Foot? Rolf Myller Dell Publishing Company, 1992 Jack and the Beanstalk (Any version acceptable) Unit 5 Just Enough Carrots HarperCollins Publishers, 1997 Let s Count Probably Pistachio HarperTrophy, 2001 The Warlord s Beads Virginia Walton Pilegard Pelican Publishing Company, 2001 Unit 6 26 Letters and 99 Cents Mulberry Books, 1995 Deena s Lucky Penny Barbara derubertis Kane Press, 1999 Unit 7 Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres Greenwillow Books, 2000 Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes Roseanne Thong Chronicle Books, 2000 Unit 8 Ed Emberley s Picture Pie: A Cut and Paste Drawing Book Ed Emberley Little Brown & Co., 2006 Follow the Money Holiday House, Inc., Home Connection Handbook

2 Unit 9 Fraction Action Holiday House, 1996 Lulu s Lemonade Barbara derubertis Kane Press, 2000 Unit 10 Arctic Tundra (One Small Square Series) Donald Silver McGraw-Hill, 1997 Cactus Desert (One Small Square Series) Donald Silver McGraw-Hill, 1997 It s About Time, Max! Kitty Richards Kane Press, 2000 Tropical Rain Forest (One Small Square Series) Donald Silver McGraw-Hill, 1997 Welcome to the Green House Jane Yolen Putnam Publishing Group, 1997 Welcome to the Ice House Jane Yolen Putnam Publishing Group, 1998 Grade 2 Unit 1 12 Ways to Get to 11 Eve Merriam Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996 Even Steven and Odd Todd Kathryn Cristaldi Scholastic Inc., 1996 Lots of Ladybugs! Counting by Fives Michael Dahl Picture Window Books, 2005 Math Counts Pattern Henry Pluckrose Children s Press, 1995 One Hundred Hungry Ants Elinor J. Pinczes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999 Unit 2 Elevator Magic HarperCollins, 1997 Math for All Seasons Scholastic Inc., 2005 Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale Lily Toy Hong Albert Whitman & Co., 1993 Unit 3 26 Letters and 99 Cents Mulberry Books, 1995 A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure Angeline Sparagna LoPresti Charlesbridge Publishing, 2003 Pigs on a Blanket Scholastic Inc., 1996 Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money Aladin, 1997 The Big Buck Adventure Shelly Gill and Deborah Tobola Scholastic Inc., 2000 Teacher Masters for Family Communication 55

3 Unit 4 26 Letters and 99 Cents (See Unit 3.) A Cloak for the Dreamer Aileen Friedman Betcha! Scholastic Inc., 1997 Inch by Inch Leo Lionni HarperCollins Publishers, 1995 The $1.00 Word Riddle Book Math Solutions, 1990 Unit 5 Grandfather Tang s Story Ann Tompert Dragonfly Books, 1997 Shapes, Shapes, Shapes Greenwillow Books, 1996 The Greedy Triangle Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes Grace Maccarone Cartwheel Books, 1998 Unit 6 A Remainder of One Elinor J. Pinczes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 Amanda Bean s Amazing Dream Cindy Neuschwander Scholastic Inc., 1998 A Counting Book Paul Giganti, Jr. One Hundred Hungry Ants (See Unit 1.) Sea Squares Joy N. Hulme Hyperion Books for Children, 1999 Unit 7 A Cloak for the Dreamer (See Unit 4.) Anno s Magic Seeds Mitsumasa Anno Putnam Juvenile, 1999 One Grain of Rice Demi Scholastic Inc., 1997 Probably Pistachio HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 The Grapes of Math Scholastic Inc., 2004 Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale (See Unit 2.) Unit 8 Apple Fractions Jerry Pallotta Scholastic Inc., 2002 Ed Emberley s Picture Pie: A Cut and Paste Drawing Book Ed Emberley Little, Brown, 2006 Fraction Action Holiday House, 1996 Give Me Half! Steck-Vaughn, 1999 Only One Marc Harshman Dutton Children s, Home Connection Handbook

4 Unit 9 How Big Is a Foot? Rolf Myller Dell Publishing Company, 1992 Inchworm and a Half Elinor J. Pinczes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 Measuring Penny Millions to Measure HarperCollins Publishers, 2006 Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking Scholastic Inc., 1998 Spaghetti and Meatballs for All Scholastic Inc, 2008 Twelve Snails to One Lizard Susan Hightower Simon and Schuster, 1997 Unit 10 Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Judith Viorst Aladdin, 1987 Betcha! (See Unit 4.) Follow the Money Holiday House, 2003 How Much Is a Million? HarperTrophy, 1994 How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall Is 1000? Helen Nolan Kids Can Press Ltd., 2001 How the Second Grade Got $ to Visit the Statue of Liberty Nathan Zimelman Albert Whitman & Co., 1992 On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey Dragonfly Books, 2001 Sold! Nathan Zimelman Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000 Unit 11 A Remainder of One (See Unit 6.) Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares Frank Murphy Scholastic Inc., 2001 A Counting Book (See Unit 6.) One Hundred Hungry Ants (See Unit 1.) Pigs Go to Market: Fun with Math and Shopping Sea Squares (See Unit 6.) Unit 12 If You Hopped Like a Frog Math Curse Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith Viking Children s, 2007 The Tortoise and the Hare Janet Stevens Holiday House, 1985 Teacher Masters for Family Communication 57

5 Grade 3 Unit 1 A Million Fish More or Less Patricia C. McKissack Dragonfly Books, 1996 The I Hate Mathematics! Book Little, Brown, and Company, 1975 Unit 2 Math-terpieces Scholastic Inc., 2003 The Grapes of Math Scholastic Inc., 2004 Unit 3 Counting on Frank Rod Clement Houghton Mifflin, 2006 How Big Is a Foot? Rolf Myller Dell Publishing Company, 1992 Measuring Penny Henry Holt & Co., 2000 Probably Pistachio HarperCollins, 2001 Sir Cumference and the First Round Table Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan Charlesbridge Publishing Inc., 2002 Unit 4 A Counting Book Paul Giganti, Jr. The Doorbell Rang Pat Hutchins HarperCollins, 1989 Unit 5 A Million Fish More or Less (See Unit 1.) How Much Is a Million? HarperCollins, 1997 If You Made a Million HarperTrophy, 1994 On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey Dragonfly Books, 2001 The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008 C. Alan Joyce (ed.) World Almanac, 2008 Unit 6 A Cloak for the Dreamer Aileen Friedman Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres Greenwillow Books, 2000 Grandfather Tang s Story A Tale Told With Tangrams Ann Tompert Dragonfly Books, 1997 Shape Various Authors National Gallery of Victoria, 2004 Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan Charlesbridge, Home Connection Handbook

6 The Greedy Triangle Give Me Half! Steck-Vaughn, 1999 Unit 7 Anno s Mysterious Multiplying Jar Mitsumasa Anno and Masaichiro Anno Putnam Juvenile, 1999 Betcha! Scholastic Inc., 1997 If You Hopped Like a Frog Sea Squares Joy N. Hulme Hyperion Books for Children, 1999 The Best of Times Scholastic Inc., 2002 The King s Chessboard David Birch Puffin Books, 1993 Unit 8 Apple Fractions Jerry Pallotta Cartwheel, 2003 Do You Wanna Bet? Your Chance to Find Out About Probability Jean Cushman Houghton Mifflin, 2007 Ed Emberley s Picture Pie: A Cut and Paste Drawing Book Ed Emberley Little Brown & Co., 2006 Grandfather Tang s Story (See Unit 6.) Math Curse Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith Viking Children s, 2007 Pizza Counting Christina Dobson Charlesbridge, 2003 Unit 9 Anno s Magic Seeds Mitsumasa Anno Putnam Juvenile, 1999 DK Encyclopedia of Nature Jenny Finch (ed.) DK Publishing, 2008 Less Than Zero HarperTrophy, 2003 Ranger Rick (magazine) National Wildlife Federation Zoobooks Wildlife Education Unit 10 A Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth Julie Glass Random House, 1998 Millions to Measure HarperCollins Publishers, 2006 Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen Putnam Juvenile, 1996 Fraction Fun David Adler Holiday House Inc., 1997 Teacher Masters for Family Communication 59