Here are the lists you asked me to post here also of Chapter book go alongs. I'll post each volume separately. The usual disclaimer - I have not read all these books, just compiled other lists. Please review each book you read your child to be sure it's a good fit for you.
Volume 1
The Story About Ping
Young Fu of the Upper Yang Tze (Lewis) {China}
Little Pear (Lattimore) {China}
The Year of the Panda (Schlein) {China}
Trumpet of the Swan (E. B. White) {water foul}
Lentil
Henry Huggins books (Cleary) {boy's life}
Homer Price/More Homer Price (McCloskey) {boy/inventor}
Wheels of Time* (Gourley) {bio of Henry Ford}
Madeline
The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson) {France}
The Happy Orpheline/other Orpheline books (Carlson) (OOP) {France}
Thea Stilton and the Mystery in Paris (Geronimo Stilton) {Paris, France}
A Pair of Red Clogs
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Coatsworth) {cats/Japan life}
The Big Wave (Buck) {Japan disaster}
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure (Coerr) {post WWII Japan life)
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (Godden) OOP {Japanese dolls}
Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure (Geronimo Stilton) {Japan}
The Rag Coat
The Hundred Dresses (Estes) {poverty/clothes}
Christy (Marshall) {appalachia life}
Where the Lilies Bloom (Cleaver) {appalachia life}
Who Owns the Sun
The Slave Dancer (Fox) {slavery}
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates) {journey from slavery to freedom}
Freedom Train (Sterling) {underground railroad}
Nettie's Trip South (Turner)* {contrast north and south}
Mike Mulligan
Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution* (Simonds) {factory modernization}
Thrashin' Time (Weitzman) {farm modernization}
The Great Brain series (Fitzgerald) {problem solving}
Ben and Me (Lawson) {Ben Franklin, inventor}
The Glorious Flight
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk (Sobol) {first flight}
The Wright Brothers (Childhood of Famous Americans) OOP? or others {first flight}
Thomas Edison (Childhood of Famous Americans) (Guthridge) {inventors}
Eli Whitney (Childhood of Famous Americans) (OOP?) or others {inventors}
book on Amelia Earhart {first flight}
book on Chuck Yeager {first flight}
The Flight of the Lone Eagle (Foster) {Charles Lindbergh}
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) {travel}
Johnny Appleseed: God's faithful planter, John Chapman (David R. Collins) {apples, travel}
Grandfather's Journey
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) {travel}
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Eleanor Coerr) {post WWII Japan}
Gulliver's Travels (Swift) {travel}
Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure (Geronimo Stilton) {Japan}
Cranberry Thanksgiving
Squanto, Friends of the Pilgrims (Bulla) {first Thanksgiving}
other stories on the Pilgrims {first Thanksgiving}
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
Gentle Ben (Morey) {bears}
Ballet Shoes (Streatfeild)* {dancing}
The Bears of Blue River (Major) {bears}
Papa Piccolo
book on Marco Polo {Italian explorer}
Mandy (Edwards) {orphans}
Cat Stories (Herriott) {cats}
The Other Kitten (St. John) {cats}
Geronimo Stilton#48: The Mystery in Venice (Geronimo Stilton) {Venice, Italy}
Very Last First Time
Stone Fox (Gardiner) {dogsled racing}
Water Sky (George) {boy visits Alaska}
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) {antarctic}
Clown of God
Samantha books {orphan's life}
Looking For Home (Richardson) {western migration/orphans}
Whistle Stop--Wait (Richardson) (OOP) {western migration/orphans}
The Apprentice (Llorente) {time period}
The Ordinary Princess (M. M. Kaye) {ordinary person}
Storm in the Night
Stealing Home by Mary Stolz {about Grandfather, Thomas and Ringo the cat!}
The Silent Storm* (Garland) {hurricane's effects on a girl}
Go Fish (Stolz) {same characters}
Storm Chasers (Herman) {tornadoes}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornado}
Akavak:An Inuit-Eskimo Legend* (Houston) {journey with grandfather}
Coast to Coast* (Byars) {flight with grandfather}
Racing the Sun* (Pitts) {grandfather/Indians}
Katy and the Big Snow
Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm (Stevens)* {snowstorm}
The Wheel on the School (De Jong) {community works together}
Snow Treasure (McSwigan) {WWII Norway}
Night of the Moonjellies
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham) {ocean navigation}
The Nickel-Plated Beauty* (Beatty) {family works together}
Henry Reed Inc./Henry Reed's Babysitting Service (Robertson) {teenage entrepreneur}
Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
Snow Dog* (Kjelgaard) {life of a husky}
Tracks in the Snow* (Bledsoe) {girls adventure}
Sunshine - mom to 4dc - dd11, ds9 1/2, ds8 and ds6 1/2.
Volume 2
The Giraffe that Walked to Paris
Morgan's Zoo (Howe)* {zoo}
A Zoo in My Luggage (Durrell) {zoo collection}
King of the Wind (Henry) {relationship animal/handler}
Thea Stilton and the Mystery in Paris (Geronimo Stilton) {Paris, France}
Three Names
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Wilder) {time period}
Other Little House Books (Wilder) {prairie, time period}
James Herriot's Dog Stories {dogs}
Follow My Leader (Garfield) {dogs}
Sounder (Armstrong)* {dogs}
Old Yeller (Gipson)* {dogs}
The Bears of Blue River (Major) {adventure/woods}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornado}
Ginger Pye (Eleanor Estes) {dogs}
Wee Gillis
Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands (MacDonald)* {Scotland}
William Tell (Fisher) {Swiss legend}
Owl Moon
Owls in the Family (Mowat) {owls}
There's an Owl in the Shower (George) {owls}
My Side of the Mountain (George) {adventure/woods}
A New Coat For Anna
Eli Whitney, boy mechanic (Dorothea J Snow - Childhood of Famous Americans) {cotton}
Mrs Katz and Tush
My Always Prayer Shawl (Oberman)* {Jewish immigration}
Journey to America (Levitan)* {Jewish immigration}
Silver Days (Levitan)* {Jewish immigration}
All-Of-A-Kind Family (Taylor) {Jewish life post WW1}
Mirette on the High Wire
The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson) {France}
Geronimo Stilton #24: Field Trip to Niagara Falls (Geronimo Stilton) {Niagara Falls}
Thea Stilton and the Mystery in Paris (Geronimo Stilton) {Paris, France}
The Niagara Falls Mystery (Gertrude Chandler Warner – Boxcar Children Special #8) {Niagara Falls}
They Were Strong and Good
Charley Skedaddle* (Beatty) {Civil War}
Tall Boy’s Journey* (Kraus) {adoption}
Visiting Miss Pierce* (Derby) {adoption}
Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt) {Civil War}
Babar, to Duet or not to Duet
books from Famous Children's Series (Rachlin) {lives of composers}
The Story of Ferdinand
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus (Fritz) or others {Spanish explorer}
Down, Down the Mountain
Blue Ridge Billy (Lenski) (OOP) {Smokey mtn story}
Linnea's Windowsill Garden (Bjork) {gardening}
Strawberry Girl (Lenski) {depression era}
The Cabin Faced West (Jean Fritz)
Where the Lilies Bloom (Bill Cleaver) {appalachia}
Make Way for Ducklings
The Trumpet of the Swan (White) {birds/Boston}
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Secret Garden (Burnett) {garden}
Nothing is Impossible, The Story of Beatrix Potter (Aldis)
Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fleming)* {cars}
All Those Secrets of the World
The Night Crossing (Ackerman) {WWII Europe}
Twenty and Ten (Bishop)* {WWII Europe}
Snow Treasure (McSwigan) {WWII Norway}
A Boy's War (Davis {acct of WWII-Burma}
Miss Rumphius
The Secret Garden (Burnett) {gardening}
The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Gray Bridge
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop) {lighthouse}
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates) {from slavery to freedom}
Freedom Train (Sterling) {underground railroad}
Runaway to Freedom (Smucker)* {underground railroad}
Freedom Crossing (Clark) {underground railroad}
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Bailey's Window (Lindbergh)* {drawing to life}
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl) {boy/fantasy}
The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) {boy/fantasy}
Amelia Bedelia books (Parrish) {for puns}
When I was Young in the Mountains
Where the Lilies Bloom (Cleaver) {appalachia life}
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountains (Burch) {appalachia life}
The Cabin Faced West (Jean Fritz)
Where the Lilies Bloom (Bill Cleaver) {appalachia}
Gramma's Walk
The Remembering Box (Clifford)* {grandmothers}
Follow My Leader (Garfield) {handicaps/blindness}
From Anna (Little) {handicap/depression era}
Sunshine - mom to 4dc - dd11, ds9 1/2, ds8 and ds6 1/2.
Volume 3
The Bee Tree
The Sign of the Beaver (Speare) {wilderness survival}
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Gold Rush Fever (Barbara Greenwood) {klondike gold rush}
The Klondike Ring (Andrea and David Spalding) {Klondike, gold rush, gold}
Andy and the Circus
Toby Tyler (Otis) {circus}
The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar
Misty of Chicoteague (Henry) {wild horses}
Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) {isolated island life}
Stay Away From Simon (Carrick)* {life in Martha's Vineyard}
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere, Boy of Old Boston (Stevenson) (OOP)
Johnny Tremain (Forbes)
A Spy in Williamsburg (Laurence) (OOP)
Mr Revere and I (Lawson)
Young Paul Revere's Boston (Epstein) (OOP)
Paul Revere (Childhood of Young Americans) (Stevenson)
Phoebe the Spy (Judith Barry Griffin) {Revolutionary War}
Henry the Castaway
Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe) {explorers}
Treasure Island (Stevenson) {explorers}
Kidnapped (Stevenson) {adventure}
Daniel Boone: Frontier Adventures (Brandt)* or others {explorers}
Arctic Explorer, Story of Matthew Henson (Ferris) {explorers}
books on other explorers
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) {explorers}
My Father's Dragon/Elmo and the Dragon/The Dragons of Blueland (Gannett) {adventure}
The Finest Horse in Town
Riding Freedom (Ryan) {horses}
Misty of Chicoteague (Henry) {horses}
Truman's Aunt Farm
Understood Betsy (Fisher) {brought up by aunts}
Pollyanna (Porter) {brought up by aunt}
The Duchess Bakes a Cake
The Door in the Wall (deAngeli) {Middle Ages}
book on King Arthur {Middle Ages/royalty}
Robin Hood {Middle Ages}
Medallion (Watkins) {Middle Ages/royalty}
Andy and the Lion
Born Free (Adamson) {lions}
The Butterfly Lion (Morpurgo) {boy raises lion}
Daniel's Duck
Charlotte's Web (White) {county fair}
The Great Wheel (Lawson) {world's fair}
Trumpet of the Swan (E. B. White) {water foul}
Warm as Wool
Mountain Born (Yates) {sheep farming}
Pioneer Cat (Hooks)* (western expansion/wagon travel)
Next Spring an Oriole (Whelan)* {westward expansion/wagon travel}
Old Ramon (Schaefer) {sheep herding}
The Cabin Faced West (Jean Fritz)
The Salamander Room
The Cricket in Times Square (Seldon) {animal environment}
Climbing Kansas Mountains
Arthur, For the Very First Time (MacLachlan)* {farm life}
One Day in the Prairie (George) {tornadoes}
Little House on the Prairie books (Wilder) {prairies}
Amber on the Mountain
Heidi (Spyri) {mountain life}
Just Juice (Hesse) {Appalachia/learning to read}
Where the Lilies Bloom (Bill Cleaver) {appalachia}
Little Nino's Pizzeria
A Cricket in Times Square (Seldon) {family business}
The Clay Marble (Ho) {homelessness}
Sunshine - mom to 4dc - dd11, ds9 1/2, ds8 and ds6 1/2.
Volume 4
The Raft
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) {boating}
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) {Rafting}
Grass Sandles
Dawn of the Red Dragon (Mary Pope Osborne – Magic Tree House Series #37 ) {Basha, Japan}
Cowboy Charlie
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale (Laurie Myers) {Lewis and Clark}
Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party (Rachel Laurgaard) {pioneers, cattle drive}
Roxaboxen
Mailing Mae
Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker (Childhood of Famous Americans)(Augusta Stevenson) {
Snowflake Bentley
Trouble at Otter Creek (Marilyn Miller) {Green Mountain Men}
Gullywasher
American Tall Tales (Adrien Stoutenburg)
Arabella
Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss) {
Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome) {
Baby Island (Carol Ryrie Brink) {islands}
Nim's Island {same author}
Higgins Bend Song and Dance
American Tall Tales (Adrien Stoutenburg)
Albert
John Audubon: Young Naturalist (Miriam E. Mason)
Hickory Chair
Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind (Margaret Davidson – Scholastic Biography) {
Follow My Leader (James B. Garfield)
Hanna's Cold Winter
Twenty and Ten (Claire Huchet Bishop) {World War II}
Hatmaker's Sign
Toliver's Secret (Esther Wood Brady) {American Revolution}
Phoebe and the General (Judith Berry Griffin) {American Revolution}
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos (Robert Lawson) {Ben Franklin}
Pumpkin Runner
Magic Tree House- Dingos at Dinnertime {Australia}
Angleo
Last edited by Sunshine C; 02-07-2015 at 06:43 PM. Reason: updating
Sunshine - mom to 4dc - dd11, ds9 1/2, ds8 and ds6 1/2.
I was just going through the links from the archives on Little Red Lighthouse, and it seemed like all of them were dead except the ones from nycgovparks. The ones I found there were
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/for...ghlights/11044
and
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/for.../monuments/810
Deanna -- married to my prince Eric since 2006; mother of three: Ian (Feb. '08), Elijah (Nov. '09), and Arianna (Nov. '11).