Themes by Topic
Delaware 4.1b Connect their own experience to those of literary characters by responding to the sensory, intellectual, and emotional elements
4.1b.2 Use ideas from the text to describe personal responses to literature (text-to-self connections)
- Literature: "A Boy at War" by Harry Mazer
- Literature: "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
- Literature: "A Taste of Blackberries" by Doris Buchanan Smith
- Literature: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
- Literature: "Blubber" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "Dear America Book: West to a Land of Plenty" by Jim Murphy
- Literature: "Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie" by Kristiana Gregory
- Literature: "Dear America: Christmas After All" by Kathryn Lasky
- Literature: "Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White
- Literature: "Dovey Coe" by Frances O'Roark Dowell
- Literature: "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
- Literature: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Flip-Flop Girl" by Katherine Paterson
- Literature: "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
- Literature: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
- Literature: "Frog and Toad are Friends" by Arnold Lobel
- Literature: "Grandfather's Journey" by Allen Say
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Hitler's Daughter" by Jackie French
- Literature: "Holes" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Life As We Knew It" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Literature: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "Poppy" by Avi
- Literature: "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Great Turkey Walk" by Kathleen Karr
- Literature: "The House Without a Christmas Tree" by Gail Rock
- Literature: "The Iceman" by Don Lessem
- Literature: "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
- Literature: "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo
- Literature: "The War with Grandpa" by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Literature: "The Watsons Go to Birmingham --1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "Trouble River" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder