Themes by Topic
Missouri R.1.I Compare, contrast and analyze connections between
R.1.I.c text to world (text ideas and the world by responding to literature that reflects a culture and historic time frame)
- Literature Themes: Around the World
- 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: "Dear America Book: West to a Land of Plenty" by Jim Murphy
- 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: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
- Literature: "Mountain Born" by Elizabeth Yates
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
- Literature: "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
- Literature: "Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Giff
- Literature: "Poppy" by Avi
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- Literature: "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraws
- 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 Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
- Literature: "The War with Grandpa" by Robert Kimmel Smith
- Literature: "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "Trouble River" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
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