Summer Road Trip Booklist

  Welcome Road Tripper!

Looking for cool books to read for the Summer Road Trip Contest?

Download these recommendations from the National Education Association (list being continually updated).

You can also download other books about states from the Bookshare library. Try doing a search with the name of a state and see what you find!

Remember to share your thoughts after you have read the books to get credit for the contest. Still need to sign up for the contest? Enter today!

On your mark, get set, READ!

 

• Alabama
• Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis
• Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack
• Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph by Katharine E. Wilkie
• Alaska
• Kiana's Iditarod by Shelley Gill
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Child of the Wolves by Elizabeth Hall
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Eagle's Shadow by Nora Martin
• Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
• Kavik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey
• The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford
• Arizona
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• Tarantula Shoes by Tom Birdseye
• Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
• As the Crow Flies by Elizabeth Winthrop
• Arkansas
• Bill Clinton: President of the 90's by Robert Cwiklik
• Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
• Only the Names Remain: The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer
• California
• Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
• The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenberg
• Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
• Annie's Promise by Sonia Levitin
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
• Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
• Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
• Working Cotton by Sherley Williams
• Maxi, the Star by Debra & Sal Barracca
• Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
• Colorado
• Face to Face by Marion Dane Bauer
• Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde by Caroline Arnold
• Bearstone by Will Hobbs
• The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
• Connecticut
• Windcatcher by Avi
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
• McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleishman
• Delaware
• Red Bird by Barbara Mitchell
• Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse
• A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
• District of Columbia
• The Wall by Eve Bunting
• Nightwalkers by Judy K. Morris
• Florida
• Panther Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Bigmama's by Donald Crews
• Stealing Home by Mary Stolz
• Michael Graves by Eric Kudalis
• Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Georgia
• Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler
• Turn Homeward Hannalee by Patricia Beatty
• Greg Maddux, Ace by John Torres
• Herschel Walker by Jim Aenagh
• Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
• The PeeWee Jubilee Jubilee by Judy Delton
• Only the Names Remain: the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer
• Hawaii
• Pearl Harbor by Deborah Hopkinson
• Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
• The Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian
• The Story of the U.S.S. Arizona by Conrad Stein
• The Last Princess: The story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i by Fay Stanley
• Idaho
• West to a Land of Plenty by Jim Murphy
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• The Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Eco Mystery by Jean Craighead George
• Jenny of the Tetons by Kristiana Gregory
• Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures by Patrick F. McManus
• Illinois
• Christmas Blizzard by Helen Ketteman
• A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
• Lincoln, a Photo Biography by Russell Freedman
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
• Indiana
• Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Julie Meyer by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
• The Christmas Blizzard by Helen Ketterman
• A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
• A Place Called Freedom by Scott Russell Sanders
• Iowa
• McBroom Tells TheTruth by Sid Fleischmann
• Kate Shelley and The Midnight Express by Wetterer
• Kansas
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Kentucky
• Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
• Tarantula Shoes by Tom Birdseye
• Louisiana
• Bill and Pete To The Rescue by Tomie DePaola
• Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace
• The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
• Mama Don't Allow by Thatcher Hurd
• My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
• Maine
• Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume
• Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McClosky
• Time of Wonder by Robert McClosky
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field
• Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop
• Maryland
• Count Me In by Cal Ripken
• The Fox Hunt Mystery: Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
• Massachusetts
• Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
• Make way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky
• She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head by Kathryn Lasky
• The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George
• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
• Anastasia at Your Service by Lois Lowry
• Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst by Lois Lowry
• Who's That Stepping On Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
• Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellog
• Michigan
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Minnesota
• Tracker by Gary Paulsen
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Betsy-Tacy by Maud Lovelace
• Kirsten: An American Girl Books by Janet Shaw
• Mississippi
• Let The Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
• Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• The Well: David's Story by Mildred Taylor
• The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
• Goodbye, Charles Lindbergh by Louise Borden
• The Haunted Cabin Mystery: Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Night cry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Missouri
• Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger MacBride
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Montana
• Wolf Stalker by Gloria Skurzynski
• Nebraska
• Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
• Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
• Nevada
• Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Levinson
• Cowboy Country by Ann Herbert Scott
• The Runaways by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Weird Stories from the Lonesome Cafe by Judy Cox
• Chico and Dan by Harold Keith
• New Hampshire
• Gathering Of Days by Joan Blos
• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Bailey
• New Jersey
• Captain Grey by Avi
• Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson
• Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers
• Fighting Ground by Avi
• New Mexico
• And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
• New York
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein by Johanna Hurwitz
• And Still the Turtle Watched by Sheila MacGill-Callahan
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Hattie and the Wild Waves by Barbara Cooney
• Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
• Remember Me to Harold Square by Paula Danziger
• North Carolina
• Wright Brothers by Russell Freedman
• Who Comes With Cannons by Patricia Beatty
• My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
• Meet Addy: an American Girl by Connie Porter
• Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver
• Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney
• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
• North Dakota
• Sitting Bull by Herman Viola
• Buffalo Before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osborne
• Ohio
• M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• Oklahoma
• Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Smith
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Winston Rawls
• Oregon
• A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
• Pennsylvania
• Christmas Cookie Tree by Ruth Hershey Irion
• Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
• The Winter of Red Snow (Dear America) by Christina Gregory
• The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
• What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz
• Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine C. Logan by Mary Pope Osborne
• The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
• Rhode Island
• Something Upstairs by Avi
• The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Christmas Tree Farm by Sandra Jordan
• South Carolina
• Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi
• Hurricane Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Secret of Gumbo Grove by Eleanora E. Tate
• South Dakota
• First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tennessee
• Davy Crockett by Anne Ford
• Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley by Marguerite Henry
• Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
• Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla
• Texas
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett
• Hank, the Cow Dog by John Erickson
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
• Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon
• Utah
• Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
• Vermont
• Soup by Robert Newton Peck
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin
• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
• The Canada Geese Quilt by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
• Virginia
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
• George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz
• Journal of James Edward Pease by Jim Murphy
• The Relatives Came by Cynthis Rylant
• The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara B. Wallace
• Felicity: an American Girl by Valerie Tripp
• When Will This Cruel War be Over by Barry Denenberg
• Washington
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm
• The Last Man's Reward by David Patneaude
• West Virginia
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• Wisconsin
• Rascal by Sterling North
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura I. Wilder
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• Wyoming
• My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
• Red Dog by Bill Wallace