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PDI offers FREE literature resources for the following novels. Resources include a book summary, book activities, writing ideas, vocabulary words, discussion questions, and an online quiz students can take with immediate scoring!
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FREE Novel Resources Currently Available. They appear in alphabetical order.
A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry
A Story A Story by Gail E. Hailey (Caldecott Winner)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
If Animals Kissed Goodnight by Ann Whitford Paul
The Apple Doll by Elisa Kleven
Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott (Caldecott Winner)
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Honor Winner)
Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming
Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Bravo, Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Newbery Winner)
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Newbery Winner)
Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Newbery Honor Winner)
City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Corduroy Lost and Found by B.G. Hennessy
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Newbery Winner)
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Newbery Winner)
Delicious by Helen Cooper
The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Newbery Winner)
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (Newbery Honor Winner)
Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley (Caldecott Winner)
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Newbery Honor Winner)
Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
Franny's Friends by Catarina Kruusval
The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Caldecott Winner)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery Winner)
The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen (Caldecott Winner)
Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster (Caldecott Winner)
Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks (Caldecott Winner)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Newbery Winner)
A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
The Hungry Thing by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Winner)
I Am David by Anne Holm
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Newbery Winner)
The Jolly Mon by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett
The Judge by Harve Zemach (Caldecott Winner)
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery Winner)
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
The Little House by Virgina Lee Burton (Caldecott Winner)
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Caldecott Winner)
The Lonely Moose by John Segal
The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Caldecott Winner)
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Caldecott Winner)
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Caldecott Winner)
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith
My Apron by Eric Carle
My Brother Sam is Dead by James & Christopher Collier (Newbery Honor Winner)
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Caldecott Winner)
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Never Take a Shark to the Dentist by Judi Barrett
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery Winner)
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Winner)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Over in the Meadow by Louise Voce
Owl Moon by Jane Yolan (Caldecott Winner)
Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad
The Perilous Road by William Steele (Newbery Honor Winner)
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Newbery Winner)
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Honor Winner)
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Honor Winner)
Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting (Caldecott Winner)
Someday by Alison McGhee and Peter Reynolds
Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman (Caldecott Winner)
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Caldecott Winner)
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Winner)
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Caldecott Winner)
Ten Out of Bed by Penny Dale
There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Caldecott Winner)
To Be Like the Sun by Susan Marie Swanson
Truman's Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan
Trupp by Janell Cannon
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Turning of the Year by Bill Martin Jr.
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Newbery Winner)
Verdi by Janell Cannon
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Newbery Winner)
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Newbery Honor Winner)
Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolan
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Newbery Winner)
What Happens on Wednesdays by Emily Jenkins
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant (Caldecott Winner)
Where the Giants Sleep by Mem Fox
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Will's Mammoth by Rafe Martin and Stephen Gammell
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Winner)
The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (Newbery Winner)
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