Open Court

Grade 2

Courage

920 Dow

Dowswell, Paul. Tales of real heroism. Tulsa, Oklahoma : EDC

Pub., 1996.

B Kin

Adler, David A. A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st

ed. New York : Holiday House, c1989. A brief, illustrated,

biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader

whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil

disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for

equal rights.

B Law

Brown, Don. Ruth Law thrills a nation. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, c1993. Describes the record-breaking flight of a

daring woman pilot, Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York in

1916.

E Bem

Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline. New York : Puffin Books, 1998,

c1939. Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve

little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an

attack of appendicitis.

E Cou

Couric, Katie, 1957-. The brand new kid. 1st ed. New York :

Doubleday, 2000. Lazlo, who has just moved to the United

States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls

have the courage to befriend him.

E Cut

Cutler, Jane. The cello of Mr. O. 1st ed. New York : Dutton

Children's Books, 1999. When a concert cellist plays in the

square for his neighbors in a war-besieged city, his

priceless instrument is destroyed by a mortar shell, but he

finds the courage to return the next day to perform with a

harmonica.

E Gre

Green, Norma B. The hole in the dike. New York : Crowell,

[1975] c1974. Retells the tale of the little boy whose

resourcefulness and courage saved his country from being

destroyed by the ocean.

E Hen

Henkes, Kevin. Sheila Rae, the brave. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1987. When brave Sheila Rae, who

usually looks out for her sister Louise, becomes lost and

scared one day, Louise comes to the rescue.

E Hob

Hoban, Lillian. Arthur's loose tooth : story and pictures. 1st

ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1985. Arthur the chimp is a

little worried about losing his loose tooth, until his

sister and their babysitter show him the real meaning of

bravery.

E Mar

Martin, Bill, 1916-. White Dynamite & Curly Kidd. 1st Owlet ed.

New York : H. Holt and Co., 1989. Lucky Kidd watches her

father ride a mean bull at the rodeo and thinks about

becoming a bull rider herself.

E Pin

Pinkney, J. Brian. JoJo's flying side kick. New York : Aladdin

Paperbacks, 1998, c1995. Everyone gives JoJo advice on how

to perform in order to earn her yellow belt in tae kwon do

class, but in the end she figures it out for herself.

E Ste

Stevenson, James, 1929-. What's under my bed? 1st ed. New York

: Greenwillow Books, c1983. Grandpa tells his two young

houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was

scared at bedtime.

E Wel

Wells, Rosemary. Shy Charles. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books

for Young Readers, c1988. Being painfully timid and shy

does not keep a young mouse from rescuing his babysitter in

an emergency situation, although after becoming a hero he

still says zero.

F Dal

Dalgliesh, Alice, 1893-. The courage of Sarah Noble. New York :

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1986], c1954.

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds

courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in

the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when

her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

PB e

Farrell, Edward, 1948-. Young Jackie Robinson : baseball hero.

[Mahwah, N.J.] : Troll Associates, c1992. A biography of

the first African-American player in modern American major

league baseball, emphasizing the prejudice he had to

overcome by sheer courage.

PB e

Peet, Bill. Cowardly Clyde. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally

decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act

brave.

PB e

Ingoglia, Gina. Joe Camp's Benji, fastest dog in the West.

Racine, Wis. : Golden Press, [1979] c1978. Relates how

Benji proves his bravery with a very valiant act of courage

and earns his title "the fastest dog in the West.".