[CALIBK12] Road Trip novels-USA

[Anne Sadeghpour]

I don't know if The Watsons Go to Birmingham would fit the bill..............it's from Michigan to  Alabama.  
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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Rusty Tooley [rusty at tooleymail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:19 AM
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I love “Oliver Woodman” – I read it to my second graders in the lesson when I introduce atlases.
For a chapter book, I recommend “Henry Reed’s Journey,” by Keith Robertson (Viking, 1963). As I recall, Henry and his friend Midge are traveling across country in a station wagon with her parents, from the west coast, I think, to New Jersey. The story more or less ends when they are about halfway (“We made it to New Jersey with no further adventures” kind of summary). I have not read (re-read) it in several years, but I don’t recall that it’s hopelessly dated.
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Rusty Tooley
Teacher Librarian
Barron Park Elementary School
Palo Alto Unified School District
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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Traci Cope
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:01 AM


I have a Fifth Grade teacher who is looking for a novel to read with her class would fit into a unit related to a "road trip" across the United States.

I have a great picture book to introduce the class to the unit, The Journey of Oliver Woodman. I need a chapter book with a similar theme.