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Common Core Classroom

Candlewick Presss fiction and nonfiction books offer rich themes and strong characters
with varying points of view, making for a perfect connection to Common Core.
Included here is a sampling of titles.
Visit our Pinterest page to find titles grouped by subject, as well as teacher resources.

* Indicates Text Exemplar

KindergartenGrade 1
K1
Stories

Interrupting Chicken

library lion

A NEW YEARS REUNION

this is not my hat

ISBN: 978 -0-7636-4168-9 / $16.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3784-2/ $6.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6748-1 / $5.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5599-0 / $15.99

10 things I can do
to help my world

I pledge allegiance

miss mingo and the

first day of school

oscar and the frog

A Book About Growing

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4134-4 / $6.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4030-9 / $6.99

mural on second avenue

on the farm

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6349-0 / $6.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5591-4 / $6.99

K1
Informational

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4144-3 / $16.99

K1
Poetry

A Collection of Small Poems

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2314-2 / $6.99

K1
Math

days like this

how many, how many,

how many

ISBN: 978-1-5640-2656-9 / $6.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2527-6 / $8.99

a little bitty man

and Other Poems for the Very Young

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2379-1 / $15.99

one duck stuck

the shape of things

ISBN: 978-0-7636-1566-6 / $6.99

ISBN: 978-1-5640-2698-9 / $6.99

wheres my teddy?

ISBN: 978-1-5640-2280-6/ $6.99

Grades 23
23
Stories
23
Informational

because of winn-dixie
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4432-1 / $6.99

Bat loves the night*

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2438-5 / $6.99

The cuckoos haiku

23
Poetry

and Other Birding Poems

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3049-2 / $17.99

23
Math

An Invitation to Fractions
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4130-6 / $6.99

full house

joe and sparky

get new wheels

judy moody
saves the world

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6641-5 / $3.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4859-6 / $5.99

how did that get

in my lunchbox?

THe MUSEUM BOOK*

lincoln and his boys

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3723-1 / $16.99

White owl, barn owl

The Story of Food

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6503-6/ $5.99

A Guide to Strange
and Wonderful Collections
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3370-7 / $18.99

Digger, Dozer, Dumper

make magic! do good!

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5078-0 / $15.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5746-8 / $17.99

and Other School Poems for Two Voices

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3174-1 / $18.99

the great divide

minnies diner

one is a snail, ten is a crab

A Mathematical Marathon
ISBN: 978-0-7636-1592-5 / $6.99

A Multiplying Menu
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3313-4/ $6.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4143-6 / $6.99

messing around on
the monkey bars

A Counting by Feet Book

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2631-0 / $6.99

Grades 45
45
Stories

Frances Hodgson Burnetts

the secret garden*

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4732-2 / $14.99

45
Informational

breakfast in the rainforest

45
Poetry

african acrostics

A Visit with Mountain Gorillas

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5134-3 / $7.99

A Word in Edgeways
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5818-2 / $7.99

kizzy ann stamps

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6976-8 / $5.99

delivering justice

the miraculous journey

of edward tulane
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4367-6 / $6.99

extreme animals

W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3880-1 / $7.99

The Toughest Creatures on Earth

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4127-6 / $7.99

classic poetry*

Lady Liberty: A biography

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4210-5 / $12.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5301-9 / $7.99

zora and me
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5814-4 / $6.99

what color is my world?

The Lost History of
African-American Inventors
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6442-8 / $5.99

a poke in the i

A Collection of Concrete Poems

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2376-0 / $7.99

Grades 68
68
Stories

good masters! sweet ladies!

68
Informational

almost astronauts

13 Women Who Dared to Dream

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4502-1/ $17.99

68
Poetry

Poems for Four Voices

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3805-4/ $7.99

Voices from a Medieval Village

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5094-0 / $6.99

big talk

samE sun here

the unforgotten coat

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6451-0/ $7.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5729-1/ $15.99

beyond courage

The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance

During the Holocaust
ISBN: 978-0-7636-2976-2/ $22.99

courage has no color

when i was your age

Original Stories About Growing Up

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5892-2/ $14.99

into the unkown

Americas First Black Paratroopers

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6548-7/ $17.99

How Great Explorers Found

Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4948-7 / $19.99

a kick in the head

twelve rounds to glory

maggot moon

romeo & juliet

something about america

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6553-1 / $16.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6807-5 / $12.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3415-5 / $6.99

terezn

war in the middle east

classic poetry*
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4210-5 / $12.99

An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4132-0 / $9.99

The Story of Muhammad Ali

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5002-5/ $7.99

Grades 89
89
Stories
89
Informational
89
Poetry

first crossing

Stories About Teen Immigrants

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3291-5 / $8.99

the dark Game

True Spy Stories

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6066-6 / $9.99

classic poetry*
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4210-5 / $12.99

the impossible rescue

The True Story of an

Amazing Arctic Adventure
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5080-3 / $22.99

new found land

Lewis and Clarks Voyage of Discovery

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3288-5/ $14.99

Voices from the Holocaust

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6466-4 / $9.99

requiem

Poems of the Terezn Ghetto

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6465-7/ $7.99

A Reporters Story
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4376-8 / $9.99

you hear me

Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

ISBN: 978-0-7636-1159-0 / $6.99

Grades 912
912
Stories
912
Informational
912
Poetry

The Astonishing life of

Octavian nothing, VOL I
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3679-1 / $10.99

gaia warriors

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6262-2 / $8.99

master of deceit

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4808-4 / $14.99

J. Edgar Hoover and America

in the Age of Lies
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5025-4 / $25.99

classic poetry*

lies, knives, and

girls in red dresses

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4210-5 / $12.99

the knife of
never letting go

feed

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4406-2 / $17.99

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4576-2 / $9.99

War is . . .

Soldiers, Survivors, and

Storytellers Talk About War
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4231-0 / $6.99

october mourning

A Song for Matthew Shepard

ISBN: 978-0-7636-5807-6 / $15.99

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Life: an exploded diagram

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6342-1 / $8.99

we are the weather makers

The History of Climate Change
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4656-1 / $9.99

the watch that ends the night

Voices from the Titanic
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6331-5 / $14.99

K1 Stories

K1 informational

K1 Poetry

K1 math

68 Stories

23 informational

23 Poetry

68 informational

68 Poetry

Grades 89

Grades 23
23 Stories

C a n d l e w i ck P r e s s

Grades 68

KindergartenGrade 1

23 math

89 Stories

89 informational

89 Poetry

Common Core
Classroom
With a focus on critical and independent thinking,
the Common Core State Standards require close
and thoughtful reading of both fiction and
nonfiction. As an independent publisher,
Candlewick Press creates some of the finest
literature available to children.

Grades 45
45 Stories

45 informational

Grades 912
45 Poetry

912 Stories

912 informational

912 Poetry

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