Maggie Shores

Purple Class
Childrens Literature
Miller-Levy
February 22, 2016
Multigenre Text Set

Book #1
Title:
How To Be A Friend: a guide to making friends and
keeping them

Author:
Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

Illustrator:
Publication date:
1998

Genre:
Nonfiction, Informational, Procedural Nonfiction

Reading Level:
3.5

Summary:
How to Be a Friend is a nonfiction book that is wonderful for all audiences
because it teaches the basics to friendship. The book goes through different scenarios
that could happen when making friends. There are various examples of who can be a
friend, ways to be a friend, and making up with a friend. There are also ideas and
suggestions about how to get through an argument, how not to be a friend, and bullies.
This book is practical for all age suggestions but is on a lower level for beginners on
what it looks like to be a great friend.

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Book #2
Title:
Our Friendship Rules

Author:
Peggy Moss and Dee Dee Tardif

Illustrator:
Alissa Imre Geis

Publication date:
2007

Genre:
Fiction, Picture book, realistic fiction

Reading Level:
3.0

Summary:
Our Friendship Rules is a book about a little girl and her best friend Jenny Martin.
The book begins with the friendship in a wonderful place with great memories and all
the things they do together. A new girl moves to school in the middle of the story and her
name is Rolinda Sparks, which is titled the coolest girl in school. The narrator then
decides she wants to be as popular as Rolinda and cuts her hair like her, wears the
same shoes, and does anything to become Rolindas friend. The narrator then gets into
trouble and tells Jennys biggest secret which breaks the friendship. The two girls end
up making best friend rules. The story ends on a positive note, and the girls are all
friends after lots of tears.

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Book #3
Title:
My Best Friend Will

Author:
Jamie Lowell and Tara Tuchel

Illustrator:
Publication date:
2005

Genre:
Nonfiction, Information Book, Picture Book

Reading Level:
Summary:
My Best Friend Will is a special book written by a little girl named Jamie Lowell
and a speech/language pathologist and autism specialist, named Tara Tuchel. This book
is about Jamies friend names Willie, or better known as Will. This book talks about a
friendship that is unique because Will has autism. The book gives insight into how a
autistic individual thinks, feels, and acts. It shows how the friendship with Will is alike
with anyone else that has a friend. The book also gives examples of how to
communicate with Will and how it can be a challenge to do so. The end of the book
gives great tips for teacher about autism and how to teach it to young students. There
are also teacher website resources, recommended books, and activities.

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Book #4
Title:
The Friendly Four

Author:
Eloise Greenfield

Illustrator:
Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Publication date:
2006

Genre:
Stories in Rhyme

Reading Level:
3.5

Summary:
The Friendly Four is a book with lots of poetry about four friends. The book is set up in a
dialogue with friend to friend. The book begins with the character Drummond and how
he feels lonely. Luckily, a new neighbor moves in town and he makes a new friend. The
two play and enjoy each other. Then another young boy becomes new and joins the
friend group. There ends up being four friends that form a bond, go on adventures, and
even create a new town they call the town of Good summer. Summer ends a one friend
goes off, but they end the summer of well with new friends and on a positive start for a
new summer next year.

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Book #5
Title:
Best Best Friends

Author:
Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Illustrator:
Publication date:
2006

Genre:
Realistic Fiction, Picture Book

Reading Level:
2.0

Summary:
Best Best Friends is a short story picture book about two best friends named Clare and
Mary. The story tells about the adventures the two go on and how they love each other
a lot. It was Marys birthday and jealous comes between the two girls. Clare and Mary
then have conflict and tell each other they are not friends. They play with different
people, then come back to each other as friends at the end.

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Book #6
Title:
Friends

Author:
Helme Heine

Illustrator:
Helme Heine

Publication date:
1982

Genre:
Fantasy, Picture Book

Reading Level:
3.2

Summary:
Friends is an adventurous story about a rooster named Charlie, Johnny the mouse, and
fat Percy, the pig. They begin their journey on a bicycle, play hide-and-seek, play
pretend, and end up so tired from their activities. They decide they are hungry and need
sleep, they face a conflict trying to decide where to sleep. They decide that friends
cannot be together all of the time. The story ends on a positive note, and they end of
dreaming of their friendships in their separate beds.

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Book #7
Title:
My Friend Jacob

Author:
Lucille Clifton

Illustrator:
Thomas Di Grazia

Publication date:
1980

Genre:
Realistic Fiction, Picture Book

Reading Level:
Summary:
My Friend Jacob is a lower level book about the friendship between a boy named Jacob

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Book #8
Title:
Tarra and Bella: The Elephant and Dog who
became best friends

Author:
Carol Buckely

Illustrator:
Carol Buckely

Publication date:
2009

Genre:
Science Nonfiction, Informational,

Reading Level:
5.9

Summary:
Tarra and Bella: The Elephant and Dog who became best friends

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