Issues -- Civil Disobedience -- Connection: Civil Protest : Rebel by Allan Baillie ; Discussion ; The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill -- Creativity -- Connection: The Creative Spirit : The Collector of Moments by Quint Buccholz ; Discussion ; Chicago Blues by Julie Reece Deaver ; Destiny by Vicki Grove -- Differences -- Connection: Marching to a Different Drummer : Aliens in My Nest: Squib Meets the Teen Creature by Larry Shles ; Discussion ; Lizard by Dennis Covington ; Seventh Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw ; Geeks by Jon Katz -- Connection: Judging by Appearances : Appearing Tonight, Mary Heather Elizabeth Livingstone by Oliver Dunrea ; Discussion ; Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White ; Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M. E. Kerr ; The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton -- Connection: Understanding Differences : Wings by Christopher Myers ; Discussion ; Randall's Wall by Carole Fenner ; Strays Like Us by Richard Peck -- Guns and Violence -- Connection: Coping with Guns and Violence : Just One Flick of a Finger by Marybeth Lorbiecki ; Discussion ; One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox ; The Rifle by Gary Paulsen -- The Holocaust -- Connection: Gentiles Saving Jews : Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti ; Discussion ; Forging Freedom by Hudson Talbott ; Number the Stars by Lois Lowry -- Connection: Coping with the Holocaust : Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank ; Children of Bach by Eilis Dillon ; The Grey Striped Shirt by Jacqueline Jules -- Connection: Surviving War : The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco ; Discussion ; Good Night Maman by Norma Fox Mazer ; Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo -- Homelessness -- Connection: Coping with Homelessness : Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Tonight by Sea by Francis Temple ; Monkey Island by Paula Fox --

Magic -- Connection: Finding Magic : Nobody Rides the Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell ; Discussion ; Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville ; The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen -- Mind Control -- Connection: Fighting Those Who Control : The Watertower by Gary Crew ; Discussion ; A Dusk of Demons by John Christopher ; The Giver by Lois Lowry ; Others See Us by William Sleator -- Miracles -- Connection: Experiencing Miracles : The Acrobat and the Angel by Mark Shannon ; Discussion ; The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans ; The Trees Kneel at Christmas by Maud Hart Lovelace -- Native American Identity -- Connection: Preserving Identity : Cheyenne Again by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; A Woman of Her Tribe by Margaret A. Robinson ; The Rainmakers by E. J. Bird -- Perception -- Connection: Different Perceptions : Switch on the Night by Ray Bradbury ; Discussion ; Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi -- Connection: Different Perspectives : From a Distance by Julie Gold ; Discussion ; Fly Free by C. S. Adler ; The Door in the Lake by Nancy Butts -- The Pioneer Spirit -- Connection: Pioneer Life : Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner ; Discussion ; Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner ; Bluestem by Frances Arrington -- The Power of Nature -- Connection: Appreciating Nature : The Bird House by Cynthia Rylant ; Discussion ; Going Through the Gate by Janet S. Anderson -- Connection: Facing Danger : River of Life by Debbie S. Miller ; Discussion ; River Runners by James Huston ; River Danger by Thomas J. Dygard -- Connection: Coping with Winter : The Silver Swan by Michael Morpurgo ; Discussion ; Tracks in the Snow by Lucy Jane Bledsoe ; The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare -- The Price of Freedom -- Connection: Those in Bondage : The Wagon by Tony Johnston ; Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; Discussion ; Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen ; Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons ; Dear Austin by Elvira Woodruff -- Problems of Society -- Connection: Resisting Drugs : The House That Crack Built by Clark Taylor ; The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam ; Discussion ; Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers -- Connection: Fighting Drugs : Riding the Tiger by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Go Ask Alice by Anonymous ; Breaking the Ring by Donna Walsh Inglehart -- Connection: The Inner City : Smoky Night by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; The $66 Summer by John Armistead ; Circle of Fire by William Hooks -- Connection: The Great Depression : Tree of Hope by Amy Littlesugar ; Discussion ; Treasures in the Dust by Tracey Porter ; Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine -- Connection: Consequences of Carelessness : The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg ; Discussion ; Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes --

Self-Identity -- Connection: Finding One's Way : Goose by Molly Bang ; Discussion ; Nowhere to Call Home by Cynthia deFelice ; Park's Quest by Katherine Paterson -- Connection: Finding One's Identity : The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek by Jenny Wagner ; Discussion ; Even Stephen by Johanna Hurwitz ; Hold Fast to Dreams by Andrea Davis Pinkney -- Suicide -- Connection: Coping with Suicide : I Never Knew Your Name by Sherry Garland ; Discussion ; Face at the Edge of the World by Eve Bunting -- The Wages of War -- Connection: Classic Struggles : The Illiad and the Odyssey, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams ; Discussion ; Aleta and the Queen by Priscilla Galloway ; The Immortal by Christopher Pike -- Connection: Finding Courage : The Cello of Mr. O. by Jane Cutler ; Discussion ; The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito by Sheila Garrigue ; The Cay by Theodore Taylor -- Connection: Finding Hope : The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico ; Discussion ; Stones in the Water by Donna Jo Napoli -- Connection: The Aftermath of War : The Wall by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn ; The Car by Gary Paulsen -- Wisdom -- Connection: Finding Wisdom : The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale retold by Mary Casanova ; Discussion ; Yossi Tries to Help God by Miriam Chaikin ; Switchers by Kate Thompson -- Witchcraft -- Connection: Facing Witchcraft : The Red Heels by Robert San Souci ; Discussion ; Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan ; The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare -- Working Together -- Connection: Collaborating : The Eagle and the Wren, a Fable retold by Jane Godall ; Discussion ; Willie the Frog Prince by C. S. Adler ; What's to Be Scared of, Suki? by C. S. Adler --

Lures to Language -- Alliteration : Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; Fed Up! A Feast of Frazzled Foods by Rex Barron ; The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg -- Anagrams : Elvis Lives and Other Anagrams by Jon Agee -- Biography Poems : The Microscope by Maxine Kumin -- Descriptive Writing : Todd by Ruth Brown -- Exaggeration : Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg ; Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs -- Metaphor/Personification : Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger ; Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root ; Workshop by Andrew Clements -- News Article : The Egyptian News by Scott Steedman -- Nonfiction Narrative : White Bear, Ice Bear by Joanne Ryder -- Opposites : Fortunately by Remy Charlip -- Palindromes : So Many Dynamos by Jon Agee -- Parody: Cinderella : Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale by Joanne Compton ; Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston ; Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale by Helen Ketteman ; Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson ; Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters ; Cinderella, Skeleton by Robert San Souci ; Cinderella's Rat by Susan Meddaugh ; Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween by Deborah Lattimore ; Dinorella by Pamela Duncan Edwards -- Parody: Fairy Tales : The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka ; Hansel and Pretzel by Mike Thaler ; Jim and the Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs ; Help Yourself, Little Red Hen! by Alvin Granowsky ; Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley ; Sleepless Beauty by Frances Minters ; Snow White in New York by Fiona French ; Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl ; True Story of the Three LIttle Pigs by Jon Scieszka ; Fairy Tales from Another Point of View by Nancy Polette --

Parody: Literary and Film : The Happy Hockey Family by Lane Smith ; Kat Kong by Dave Pilkey ; Oh Brother! by Arthur Yorinks ; Black Hearts at Battersea by Joan Aiken ; The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman ; The December Rose by Leon Garfield ; The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ted Dewan -- Swine Lake by James Marshall ; Honk by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; About Swan Lake -- Parody: Mother Goose : The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam ; The Thinker's Mother Goose by Nancy Polette ; Whatever Happened to Humpty Dumpty? And Other Surprising Sequels to Mother Goose Rhymes by David Greenberg -- "Paul Revere" Poetry : Iron Horses by Verla Kay ; Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails by Verla Kay -- Puns : Ding Dong, Ding Dong by Margie Palatini ; Hoots and Toots and Hairy Brutes by Larry Shles ; Nose Drops by Larry Shle -- The Quest Tale : Pondlarker by Fred Gwynne -- Repetition : The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes -- Similes : A Surfeit of Similes by Norton Juster -- Story Starters : Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg -- Tone Poem : Listen to the Rain by Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault.