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Madison School Grade 4 Ms. Gage / Ms. Rolfe

Ohio authors. Find authors and biographical information at these sites.

• Ohio Authors and Illustrators
• Ohio Center for the Book: Ohio Authors
• Ohioana Library Ohio Author Sketches
• About.com (Top 6) Books by Northeast Ohio Writers

Books with Ohio settings. Here are a few to get you started. Some titles may be for older kids.

• The artist: a Max and Annie adventure in imagination by Sandra J. Philipson; illustrated by Robert Takatch
• Aurora means dawn by Scott Russell Sanders; illustrated by Jill Kastner.
• The bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Lambert Davis.
• Bertie and May by Bertha Stemm Norton and Andre Norton; Illustrated by Fermin Rocker.
• The borning room Paul Fleischman.
• Captain Kate by Carolyn Reeder
• Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman; illustrated by Eric Von Schmidt.
• Changes for Kit!: a winter story, 1934 by Valerie Tripp; illustrations, Walter Rane; vignettes, Susan McAliley.
• Danger along the Ohio by Patricia Willis.
• Danger on the railroad by Susan Martins Miller.
• Dr. Gravity by Dennis Haseley.
• Earthquake in Cincinnati by Bonnie Hinman.
• Escape from slavery by Norma Jean Lutz; inside illustrations by Adam Wallenta.
• Family tree by Katherine Ayres.
• Fight for freedom by Norma Jean Lutz.
• Florida fog phantoms by Johnathan Rand.
• Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary, Kentucky to Ohio, 1857 by Sharon Dennis Wyeth.
• Gina.Jamie.Father.Bear. by George Ella Lyon.
• Gruel and unusual punishment by Jim Arter.
• Horror from the sky: the 1924 Lorain, Ohio, tornado by Bonnie Highsmith Taylo.r
• How I became an American by Karin Gündisch; translated from the German by James Skofield.
• It Came from Ohio: My Life As a Writer (Goosebumps) by R. L. Stine and Joe Arthur.
• Johnny Appleseed by James Howard Kunstler; illustrated by Stan Olson.
• Katie's dream: the story of a little Amish girl and the customs of her people by Adrienne F. Lund.
• The keepsake chest by Katharine Wilson Precek.
• The land the Cleves built created and written by Douglas Manry and Stephen L. Sloan; illustrations by Douglas Manry.
• Lentil by Robert McCloskey.
• Little pioneers of Cleveland by Dorothy Dickel and Alice Kay Dickel.
• The Lotus Cup by Jane Louise Curry.
• M.C. Higgins, the great by Virginia Hamilton.
• Max's wild goose chase by Sandra J. Philipson; illustrated by Robert Takatch.
• North by night by Katherine Ayres.
• Nothing here but trees by Jean Van Leeuwen; pictures by Phil Boatwright.
• Ogres of Ohio by Johnathan Rand.
• The Ohio hot air balloon geography mystery by Carole Marsh.
• Out of the storm by Patricia Willis.
• The rabbi's girls by Johanna Hurwitz; illustrated by Pamela Johnson.
• Recycling George by Stephen Roos.
• The second bend in the river by Ann Rinaldi.
• The secret in the West Woods by Mary C. Ryan.
• The Shoe Tree of Chagrin by J. Patrick Lewis; illustrated by Chris Sheban.
• Spike's grand adventure by Mike Cargile; illustrated by Tom Shephard.
• Spooky Ohio: 13 Traditional Tales by Chris Woodyard; illustrated by Jessica Wiesel.
• A Street Called Home by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson.
• Susannah by Janet Hickman
• The sycamore tree by Marion Havighurst.
• Takeoffs and landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
• Time for battle by Susan Martins Miller.
• Time pieces: the book of times by Virginia Hamilton.
• Train to midnight: a dream-quest adventure by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos.
• Trouble on the Ohio River by Norma Jean Lutz; illustrated by Adam Wallenta.
• The truth about rats, rules, and seventh grade by Linda Zinnen.
• Warm as wool by Scott Russell Sanders; illustrated by Helen Cogancherry.
• What's so big about Cleveland, Ohio? by Sara Holbrook; illustrated by Ennis McNulty.
• The white feather by Ruth Eitzen; pictures by Allan Eitzen.