Learning to read

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• 26 Fairmount Avenue  By Tomie Depaola
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Francie Learning To Read)
• A Weave Of Words By Robert San Souci.
• All Joseph Wanted By Ruth Radin, About A Boy (4Th Grade?) Whose Mother Doesn't Read.
• Anastasia Krupnik Books, By Lois Lowry
• Aunt Chip And The Great Triple Creek Dam Affair By Patricia Polacco.
• Behind The Scenes At The Museum By Kate Atkinson
• Book By Peter Catalanotto.
• Carlo Likes Reading By Jessica Spanyol,
• Clara And The Bookwagon By Levinson.
• Daljit And The Unqualified Wizard By Catherine Storr
• Dicey's Song,
• Do Bananas Chew Gum? By Jamie Gilson, (1980)
• Edward And The Pirates.By David Mcphail
• Francie By K. English
• Great Expectations By Dickens
• Half Magic By Edward Eager
• Happy Little Family By Rebecca Caudill (1947) In Its Last Chapter Has 4-Year-Old Bonnie, Who Has Been
• Heidi By Johanna Spyri
• Hog-Eye By Susan Meddaugh.
• Holes, By Louis Sachar - Stanley Teaches Zero How To Read At Camp Green Lake.
• How To Write Really Badly By Anne Fine
• I Can Read With My Eyes Shut.
• I Hate Books! By Kate Walker
• Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Jackobs
• Jeremiah Learns To Read By Jo Ellen Bogart.Is About A Grandfather Who Has Many Strengths, But Cannot Read.
• Just Juice, By Karen Hesse.  Juice Is A 9-Year Old Girl Who Struggles To Read -- And Helps Her Father Learn To Read Too.
• King Of The Barbareens By Janet Hitchman Tells Of Her Temporary Reading Difficulties Following Whooping Cough
• Least Of All By Carol Purdy
• Library Lil By Williams.
• Maniac Magee By Spinelli. Maniac Finds Refuge In The Zoo With An Old Ball Player And Teaches Him To Read.
• Marvin One Too Many By Katherine Paterson.
• Mitch And Amy By Beverly Cleary Includes A Boy Who Has Some Difficulty With Reading.
• Molly Bannaky By Alice Mcgill.
• More Than Anything Else By Marie Bradby.
• Nellie Cameron,
• Nightjohn  By Gary Paulsen
• Olaf Reads By Joan Lexau
• Polk Street School By Patricia Reilly Giff Books Include Reading Lessons And Children Who Find Reading Difficult
• Push_ By Sapphire Is A Novel About A Young Woman Who Overcomes Many  Hardships In Life To Fulfill Her Desire To Learn To Read.
• Raising Sweetness By Stanley, Diane  (1999)
• Ramona The Brave.
• Read For Me, Mama By Vashanti Rahaman.
• Read To Your Bunny. Wells, Rosemary. Scholastic, 1997.
• Reading Can Be Fun By Munro Leaf
• Rollo Learning To Read By Jacob Abbott.
• Running The Road To Abc  By Lauture, Denize  Illus. By: Ruffins, Reynold (1996)
• Sword Of The Rightful King, By Jane Yolen
• Santa's Book Of Names By David Mcphail
• Sarney: A Life Remembered By Gary Paulsen
• Sounder  By Armstrong, William H.  Illus. By: Barkley, James
• Summer Thunder By Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Thank You, Mr. Falker By Polacco -- In Which A Child Has Difficulty Learning To Read.
• The Bird, The Frog And The Light By Avi.
• The Day Of Ahmed's Secret By Florence Parry
• The Flunking Of Joshua T. Bates,
• The Girl Who Hated Books.Pawagi, Manjusha, Illustrated By Leanne Franson. Second Story Press, 1998.
• The Lion's Share By Chris Conover.
• The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read By Black.
• The Wednesday Surprise By Bunting
• To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
• Tomas And The Library Lady By Pat Mora.
• Wall Of Words By Tim Kennemore Includes A Girl With Dyslexia
• Watch For The Ghost By Sheila Haigh -- Features A Boy Who Has Trouble With Reading And His Father Who Tries To Coach Him, But Makes Matters Worse By Being Too Impatient.
• When Will I Read? By Miriam Cohen
• Will The Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up,
• Wolf Bloom
• You're A Brave Man, Julian Zimmerman By Claudia Mills

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