Elementary Staff's Favorite Books

 

  Mr. Vandercar:
Sneeches by Dr. Seuss
The Garden of Abdul Gazazi by Chris Van Allsburg
Dream Snow by Eric Carle
Uncanny by Paul Jennings
Uncovered by Paul Jennings
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
Purple, Green, and Yellow by Robert Munch
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
  Mrs. Camer:
The Little House by Virginia  Lee Burton
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Diary of Anne Frank
   
 

Ms. Senft:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Corduroy by Don Freeman
 

Mr. Brade:
Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
 

Ms. Neuberg:
When I Grow Up I Want to Be Me by Sandra Magsamen
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
  Ms. Williamson:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hitty, the First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
 

Mrs. Vervack:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  Mrs. Spetter:
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  Mrs. Markovitz:
Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
 
 

Ms. Smith:
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
So You Want to be President? By Judith St. George
 

Ms. Jensen:
Holes by Louis Sachar
Crash by Jerry Spinelli

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
 

Mrs. Sheridan:
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Kevin Henkes’ books
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
 

Mrs. Duvall:
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!! By Dr. Suess
Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann
Hank Zipper Series by Henry Winkler
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
 

Mrs. Crist:
Any Kevin Henkes book, but especially Weekend with Wendell
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Gugi Gugi by Chih-Yuan Chen
  Mrs. Defenbaugh:
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
 
  Ms. Histed:
Where’s Spot by Eric Hill
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
 

Mrs. Lucas:
PARTS by Tedd Arnold
Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Purple, Green and Yellow, I Have To Go and really all Robert Munch Books!
  Mrs. Oskroba:
The Sneeches, What Was I Scared Of? and other stories by Dr. Seuss
 
   
  Mrs. Podbelski:
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
 
  Mrs. Borse:
Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
  Mr. Mac:
Go Dog Go by P. D. Eastman
 
  Mrs. Segura:
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
  Mrs. Mattice:
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
 

 

Mrs. Boehnke:

Piggies by Audrey Wood
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton                      
King Bidgood’s In the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
 

 
 

Ms. O’Connor:
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Owen & Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, & Dr. Paul Kahumbu

 

 

(created 08/31/10)