Themes and Other Subjects
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See also Curriculum Areas.
Subjects:
- African Americans: Black Characters and Issues (Annotated booklist)
- Air: See Wind (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Airplanes (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- American Indians: See Native Americans (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Ancient Greece: See Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Ancient Rome: See Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Animals (Annotated Booklist): See also Spiders and Insects (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Appalachia (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Aquatic Life: See Oceans (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Rivers (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Architecture and Buildings (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Artists: See Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- The Arts (Subject Category with Links to Subtopics)
- Astronomy (Annotated Booklist)
- Athletes: See Sports (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Atmosphere: See Wind (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Weather
- Autobiographies: See Memoirs and Biographies (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Biographies and Memoirs (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Biomes: See Deserts (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Oceans (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Rivers (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Bisexual: See LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
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- Black Americans: Black Characters and Issues (Annotated booklist)
- Bugs (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Buildings and Architecture (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Bullies and Bullying (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Characters: See Fools and Tricksters (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Bullies and Bullying (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Book Characters Who are Readers (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Teachers as Characters in Books Set in Schools (Annotated Booklist)
- Cities and Towns (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Civil Rights: See Martin Luther King (Topic Page with links to related articles)
- Civil War, The American (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Classrooms, Books Set In (Annotated Booklist)
- Colonial America, 1600-1776 (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Color (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Communities: See Cities and Towns (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Farms (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Family Stories and Local History (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Computation and Picture Books (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Country Life: See Farms (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Crafts: See Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Quilts (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Creativity: See Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Cultures: See Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Dark Ages: See Middle Ages (Annotated Booklist)
- Data Gathering and Picture Books (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Death, Dying and Grief (Annotated Booklist) and also Tuck Everlasting (Featured Book with activities and related books) and Charlotte's Web (Featured Book with activities and related books)
- Deserts (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Depression, The Great (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Diversity: See Tolerance, Racism and Prejudice (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Black Characters and Issues (Annotated booklist) and also Martin Luther King (Topic Page with links to related articles) and also LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- Economics: See The Great Depression (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Ecosystems: See See Deserts (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Oceans (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Rivers (Featured Subject with books and activities)
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Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Tongue-in-Cheek Versions. (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Families (Featured Subject with books and activities)
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- Family Stories and Local History (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Farms (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Flight (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Folk Tales and Fairy Tales, Tongue-in-Cheek Versions. (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Food (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Fools and Tricksters (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Friendship (Annotated Booklist)
- Funny Books (Annotated Booklist)
- Gay: See LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- Genres: See Biographies and Memoirs (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Folk Tales and Fairy Tales, Tongue-in-Cheek Versions (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Humor (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Mysteries (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Poetry (Annotated Booklist) and Quests (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Time and Time Travel Fantasies (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Geology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Great Depression, The (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Greek Mythology: See Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Grief: See Death, Dying and Grief (Annotated Booklist)
- Health: See Food (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- The Holocaust (Annotated Booklist)
- Homelessness: See Fly Away Home (Featured Book with activities and related books) and Maniac Magee (Featured Book with activities and related books)
- Homosexual: See LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- Human Rights: See Martin Luther King Day (Topic Page with links to related articles) and Slavery in the US (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Women's History (Featured Subject with books and activities).
- Humor (Annotated Booklist)
- Insects and Spiders (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Inventions: See Flight (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Trains (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Lesbian: See LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- Language Arts (Subject Category with Links to Subtopics)
- Living History Museum, (Classroom Activity with books)
- Local History and Family Stories (Featured Subject with books and activities)
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- Mammals: See Animals (Annotated Booklist)
- Marine Life: See Oceans (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Martin Luther King Day (Topic Page with links to related articles)
- Math (Subject Category with links to subtopics)
- Math and the Oral Traditions (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Math Month in the School Library (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Math Program, Books in the (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Math and My Place in Space by Hirst (Featured Book with activities and related books)
- Math and Mud Flat Olympics by Stevenson (Featured Book with activities and related books)
- Medieval or Mediaeval: See Middle Ages (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Memoirs and Biographies (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Meteorology, see Weather (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also Winter (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Middle Ages (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Minerals: See Geology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Money: See The Great Depression (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Moon, The: See Space, Outer (Annotated Booklist)
- Multiculural, Diversity and Tolerance: See Tolerance, Racism and Prejudice (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Martin Luther King (Topic Page with links to related articles) and Native Americans (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Black Characters and Issues (Annotated booklist)
- Mysteries (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Native Americans (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- People of Color: See Black Characters and Issues (Annotated booklist)
- Needlework: See Quilts (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Nutrition: See Food (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Nutrition Treasure Hunt (Classroom Activity with books)
- Occupations and Work (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also, Farms (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Women's History (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Oceans (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Occupations: See Art, Crafts and Artists (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Patterns and Picture Books (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Pets: See Animals (Annotated Booklist)
- Physical Education (Subject Category with Links to Subtopics)
- Pilgrims, The Time of: 1600-1700 (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Poetry (Annotated Booklist)
- Prejudice: See Tolerance, Racism and Prejudice (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Quests (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Quilts (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Racism: See Tolerance, Racism and Prejudice (Featured Subject with books and activities): See also Martin Luther King (Topic Page with links to related articles) and Slavery in the US (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Native Americans (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Reading
- Revolutionary War, (American) (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Rivers (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Rocks and Minerals: See Geology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Roman Mythology: See Mythology (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Schools, Books Set In (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Science (Subject Category with Links to Subtopics)
- Slavery in the US. (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Social Skills: See Friendship (Annotated Booklist) and Bullies and Bullying (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Social Studies (Subject Category with Links to Subtopics)
- Solar System (Annotated Booklist)
- Space, Outer (Annotated Booklist)
- Spiders and Insects (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Sports (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Stars: See Space (Annotated Booklist)
- States, Individually Through Literature, The US (Annotated Booklist)
- Sun, The: See Space (Annotated Booklist)
- Teachers as Characters (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Technology: See Flight (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Trains (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Time and Time Travel Fantasies (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Timeline Activity (Classroom Activity with books)
- Tolerance, Racism and Prejudice (Featured Subject with books and activities): See also Martin Luther King Day (Topic Page with links to relate articles)
- Trains (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Transportation: See Flight (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Trains (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Transgender: See LGBT (Annotated Booklist)
- United States History (Subject Category with links to subtopics)
- United States, Regions: American Southwest (see Deserts) (Featured Subject with books and activities), and Appalachia (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also States, Individually Through Literature, The US (Annotated Booklist)
- Weather (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also Winter (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Wind (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Westward Movement (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Wind (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also Weather (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Winter (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also Weather (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Women's History (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also, Quilts (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- Work and Occupations (Featured Subject with books and activities). See also, Farms (Featured Subject with books and activities) and Women's History (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- World History (Subject Category with links to subtopics)
- World War II (Featured Subject with books and activities)
- World War II (Classroom Activity with books)
- Writing
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