Titles & Toolkits

Choose to Read Ohio toolkits enhance the reading and discussion experience. The toolkits include author biographies, book summaries, questions for discussion, project ideas and extension activities, links to entertaining and educational resources such as author interviews, audio and video clips, and suggestions for real or virtual field trips.
2011-12 children's titles
- B is for Buckeye: An Ohio Alphabet by Marcia Schonberg, illustrated by Bruce Langton
- The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming
- The Giant of Seville: A "Tall" Tale Based on a True Story by Dan Andreasen
- Otis by Loren Long
- Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! by Will Hillenbrand (illus.), written by Maureen Wright
2011-12 tween titles
- The Brothers' War: Civil War Poems in Verse by J. Patrick Lewis
- Firegirl by Tony Abbott
- The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
2011-12 teen titles
- Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar
- Bone #1: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
- Sweet, Hereafter by Angela Johnson
- Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
2011-12 adult titles
- All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House by David Giffels
- Blood of the Prodigal: An Amish-Country Mystery by P. L. Gaus
- Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
- The Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini
- Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
2009-10 children's titles
- Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- The Journey that Saved Curious George by Louise Borden
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
- Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng
2009-10 young adult titles
- After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
- Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
- Deadline by Chris Crutcher
- The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
2009-10 adult titles
- Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
- River of Heaven by Lee Martin
- The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins
