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The Ocean Planet Week 1
The Ocean Planet

Books for Younger Readers

Crabs by Lola M. Schaefer

Hotel Deep by Kurt Cyrus

 

Look Inside the Ocean by Patricia Malfatti

 

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole

 

Marine Birds by Bobbie Kalman

 

Ocean Worlds by Francesca Baines

 

Sea Creatures by Judy Nayer

 

I Wonder Why the Sea is Salty by Anita Ganeri

 

Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt

 

Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies

 

Swimmy by Leo Lionni

When the Tide is Low by Shelia Cole

 

Reference Book

Aquarium Fish by Dick Mill 

Books for Older Readers

Destination Deep Sea by Jonathan Grupper

Dark Day in the Deep Sea by Mary Pope Osborne

A Dolphin Named Bob by Twig C. George

Hammerhead Sharks by Anne Welsbacher

Mako Sharks by Anne Welsbacher

The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau Vol.1-20

Sea Monsters by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce

Shark Life by Peter Benchley

Venturing the Deep Sea by Laurie Lindop

Whale Sharks by Anne Welsbacher
The Art of Motion Week 2
The Art of Motion 

Books for Younger Readers

 

Dory Story by Jerry Pallotta

 

Ducks Fly by Lydia Dabcovich

 

Flotsam by David Wiesner

 

Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London

 

Hurricane! By Jonathan London

 

The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson

 

Oswald and the Timberdoodles by Pricilla Cummings

 

Sailaway Home by Bruce Degen

 

Sam: the Tale of a Chesapeake Bay Rockfish by Kristina Henry

 

A Swim through the Sea by Kristin Joy Pratt

 

Tugboats by Robert Maass

Books for Older Readers

 

Dolphins and Sharks by Mary Pope Osbourne and Natalie Pope Boyce

 

Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osbourne

 

Face to Face With Dolphins by Flip and Linda Nicklin

 

Face to Face With Whales by Flip and Linda Nicklin

 

First Sail by Richard Henderson

 

High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osbourne

 

Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks by Kenneth Mallory

 

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Art of Motion by Loree Griffin Burns

 

Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

 

What Makes an Ocean Wave? By Melvin and Gilda Berger
Sea People Week 3
Sea People

Books for Younger Readers

Beach Ball by Peter Sis

Curious George Goes to the Beach by Margaret & H. A. Rey

 

How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long

 

Let’s go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants by M.K. Brown

 

Mr. Putter & Tabby Feed the Fish by Cynthia Rylant

 

My Father’s Boat by Sherry Garland

 

Punia and the King of Sharks by Lee Wardlow

 

Turtle Bay by Savior Pirotta

 

Where Did All the Water Go? by Carolyn Stearns

 

Waterman’s Child by Barbara Mitchell

Books for Older Readers

Alone on a Desert Island by Ginny McReynolds

Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Earth, Sea, and Sky: The Work of Edmond Halley by Linda Walvoord Girard

Escape from the Island of Ice by Phillipe O’Grady

Explorer by Rupert Matthews

Fact or Fiction: Pirates by Stewart Ross

Ferdinand Magellan: The First Voyage

 Around the World by Betty Burnett

Henry Hudson by Josepha Sherman

John Cabot by Marian Rengel

A Journey to the New World by Kathryn Lasky

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Pippi Goes on Board by Astrid Lindgren

Pirate by Richard Platt

Pirates by Will Osbourne and Mary Pope Osbourne

Pocket Guide to Flags by Sue Heady

Red Kayak by Pricilla Cummings

Remarkable Journeys: The Story of Jules Verne by Willian Schoell

Sailors Whalers Fantastic Sea Voyages by Valerie Petrillo

Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKenna

Sir Francis Drake: Circumnavigator of the Globe and Privateer for Queen Elizabeth by Joy Paige

Stanley, Flat Again by Jeff Brown

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

Three Years on the Ocean by James I. Clark

Trapped in the Deep by Robert Geline

The Travels of Marco Polo by Mary Hull

Treasure  Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick
Sea Shopping Week 4
Sea Shopping

Books for Younger Readers

 

Beach Feet by Lynn Reiser

 

Chesapeake 123 by Priscilla Cummings

 

Meet Chadwick and his Chesapeake Bay Friends by Priscilla Cummings

 

Out of the Ocean by Debra Frasier

 

Until I Saw the Sea by Alison Shaw

 

Watching Water Birds by Jim Arnosky

 

Waterfowl by Dave Beaty

 

When the Tide is Low by Sheila Cole

 

Books for Older Readers

 

Animals of the Seashore by Hidetomo Oda

 

Beachcombing by Jim Arnosky

 

The Crab on the Seashore by Jennifer Coldrey

 

Finding Birds in the Chesapeake Marsh by Zora Aiken

 

Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds: The story of a Food Web by Victoria Crenson

 

Seashore by Steve Parker

 

Seashells in My Pocket by Judith Hansen

 

Where the Waves Break: Life at the Edge of the Sea by Anita Mainig

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