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This resource center was designed for busy teachers looking for resources for using children's and young adult literature in the classroom. Each resource consists of:

  Book Summary

  Novel Activities

  Vocabulary Words

  Writing Activities for Each Domain

  Discussion Topics

  An Online Test with Instant Results

These resources are a compliment to PDI's Literature Units. For more information on PDI's Literature Units click here.

Special Holiday Books: (More titles will be added throughout December)

The Christmas Bears by Chris Conover

Reindeer Christmas by Mark Kimball Moulton

I See Santa Everywhere by Glenn McCoy

What Santa Can't Do by Douglas Wood

Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown

The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George

The Perfect Thanksgiving by Eileen Spinelli

Thanksgiving at Our House by Wendy Watson

A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting

'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

FREE Novel Resources Currently Available. Click the title to access the resource.

A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry

A Story A Story by Gail E. Haley

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst

All Aboard for Dreamland by Melanie Harby

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

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith

Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri

Boogie Knights by Lisa Wheeler

Bravo, Livingstone Mouse! by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

City of Masks by Mary Hoffman

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

Copper Sun by Susan M. Draper

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Corduroy Lost and Found by B.G. Hennessy

Crickwing by Janell Cannon

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Delicious by Helen Cooper

The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep

Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley

Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Elephant Quilt by Susan Lowell

Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow

Franny's Friends by Catarina Kruusval

Giant Meatball by Robert Weinstock

The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen

Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster

Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks

Holes by Louis Sachar

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

I Am David by Anne Holm

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Jolly Mon by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett

The Judge by Harve Zemach

Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg

kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

Little Boy by Alison McGhee

Little Cloud by Eric Carle

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from Chine by Ed Young

The Lonely Moose by John Segal

Madam President by Lane Smith

The Magic Hat by Mem Fox

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

Max's Dragon by Kate Banks

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall

The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Monster by Walter Dean Meyers

Monster Mess by Margery Cuyler

My Apron by Eric Carle

My Brother Sam is Dead by James & Christopher Collier

My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann

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

Off to First Grade by Louise Borden

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Over in the Meadow by Louise Voce

Owl Moon by Jane Yolan

Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad

The Perilous Road by William Steele

Puppies and Piggies by Cynthia Rylant

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting

Someday by Alison McGhee and Peter Reynolds

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

Tadpole Rex by Kurt Cyrus

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

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

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

Verdi by Janell Cannon

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolan

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

What Happens on Wednesdays by Emily Jenkins

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

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

The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Yoko Writes Her Name by Rosemary Wells

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