Older Elementary and Middle On the Field with Mia Hamm (J796.3
School (Continued) Christopher)
Dovey Coe (J Dowell) Mia Hamm plays soccer for UNC
before winning a gold medal
Outspoken 12-year-old Dovey wants
to set the record straight The Wright Brothers: How They Invented
How to Steal a Dog (J O’Connor) the Airplane (J629.13 Freedman)
Georgina lives in a car with her family
in a small NC town
The Wright Brothers
Children’s
I Will Call It Georgie’s Blues (J High School and Young Adult
Newton)
13-year-old Neal escapes his pastor
Accidents of Nature (J Johnson)
17-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and
Books
father’s pressure with music
Into the Air: The Story of the Wright
Brothers' First Flight (Graphic
goes to camp in NC
Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hit (J Gingher) about
Burleigh) In 1961 Bobby writes a risqué song
Graphic novel about the Wright
brothers
about a girl from his NC hometown
The Lumbee (J973 Dial)
North
The Jack Tales (J398.2 Chase) The Lumbee Indians of NC
18 NC folktales
The Moves Make the Man: A Novel (J
Perfect Family (J Oughton)
15-year-old Marie gets pregnant in a
Carolina
Brooks) small NC town in the 1950s
A black basketball player and a white Trial Valley (J Cleaver)
baseball player become friends In the Great Smoky Mountains, three
children raise themselves after their
father dies
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Preschool and Early Elementary My Great-Aunt Arizona (JE Houston)
The Green Gourd: A North Carolina For 57 years, Arizona taught in a one-
Folktale (J398.2 Hunter) room schoolhouse
An old woman needs a water dipper, Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit
so she picks a gourd & his Walkin' Talkin' Friends (J398.2
T is for Tarheel: A North Carolina McGill)
Alphabet (J975.6 Crane) Folklore from NC
Alphabet book about NC
Older Elementary
Early Elementary First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Wright Invented the Airplane (J629.13
Sit-Ins (JE Weatherford) Busby) Older Elementary and Middle
School
Connie tells the story of protests The Wright brothers
against Jim Crow laws To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers The Baptism (J Moses)
An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk (J629.13 Old) 12-year-old African American twins
Leon and Luke grow up in rural NC
on a Barrier Island (J508.7 Wright- The Wright brothers of the 1940s
Frierson)
Blue (J Hostetter)
A mother and daughter explore a
NC island 13-year-old Ann wears the pants in
the family while her father fights in
Jack the Giant Chaser: An WWII and polio strikes NC
Appalachian Tale (J398.2 Compton)
Buttermilk Hill (J White)
Jack tries to get rid of a giant living
on a mountain 10-year-old Piper uses poetry to
escape her family’s divorce
Moss Gown (J398.2 Hooks)
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance (J Tate)
NC folktale that is similar to
Cinderella 13-year-old Celeste moves from
Raleigh to Harlem