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Character Studies Booklist

Way Books Go Together Titles

Dynamic Duos (sidekicks) • Ivy and Bean

• Magic Treehouse
• Bink and Gollie
• Pinky and Rex

Strong Main Characters • Amber Brown

• Judy Moody
• Clementine
• Ramona
• Big Nate
• Clarice Bean
• Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

Bullies and the Bullied • The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

• EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken by Sally Warner
• Jake Drake, Bully Buster by Andrew Clements
• Horrible Harry and the Hallway Bully by Suzy Kline
• Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? By Louis Sachar
• Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
• Pinky and Rex and the Bully by James Howe

New Kid in Town • My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada

• The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
• Dragon Slayer Academy: The New Kid at School by Kate
McMullan
• One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
• Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes
• Brand New School, Brave New Ruby by Derrick Barnes
• Back to School, Mallory by Laurie B. Friedman
• Hey, New Kid! By Betsy Duffey

May be photocopied for classroom use. © 2015 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).
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Way Books Go Together Titles

Fitting In/ New Beginnings • How to Be Cool in the Third Grade by Betsy Duffey
• Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli
• How Not to Start Third Grade by Cathy Hapka
• Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade by Suzy Kline
• Stuart Goes to School by Sara Pennypacker

Kids Who Love Their Pets • Sable by Karen Hesse

• Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
• Silver by Gloria Whelan
• Henry and Mudge

Books by the Same Author • Judy Moody & Stink

• Mercy Watson & Bink and Gollie

May be photocopied for classroom use. © 2015 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).