Suggested Books that Can Be Used to Reinforce the 7 Habits
Lower
Elementary Book List
Habits:
The Berenstain Bears and the
Bad Habit by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bread
and Jam for France by Russell Hoban
D. W., Picky Eater
by Marc Brown
Berenstain Bears and Too Much
Teasing by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Sam Who Never Forgets by Eve
Rice
Paradigms:
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard
Waber
Stone Soup (any version)
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
Circle of Influence:
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
Mirette and the High Wire by
Emily Arnold McCully
Alexander & the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
The Empty Pot by Demi
Habit 1 - Be Proactive:
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
The Little Engine that Could
by Watty Piper
King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
by Audrey Wood
The Very Lonely Firefly by
Eric Carle
The Carrot Seed by Ruth
Krauss
Habit 2 - Begin with the End
in Mind:
The Very Busy Spider by Eric
Carle
Whistle for Willie by Ezra
Jack Keats
Click, Clack, Cows that Moo
by Doreen Cronin
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric
Carle
Galimoto by Karen Lynn
Williams
Habit 3 - First Things First:
Froggy Gets Dressed by
Jonathan London
The Little Red Hen by Paul
Galdone
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
Alejandro’s Gift by Richard
E. Albert
Habit 4 – Think Win-Win:
Alexander and the Wind-Up
Mouse by Leo Lionni
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus
Pfister
The Doorbell Rang by Pat
Hutchins
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
by Eric Carle
Let’s Be Enemies by Janice
May Udry
Habit 5 - Seek First to
Understand then to Be Understood:
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The True Story of the Three
Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret
Wise Brown
Are You My Mother? by P.D.
Eastman
Is Your Mama a Llama? by
Deborah Guarino
Habit 6 - Synergy:
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
A Chair for My Mother by Vera
B. Williams
Clifford’s Spring Clean-Up by
Norman Bridwell
How the 2nd Grade
Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty
Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw:
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack
Keats
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up
Late! by Mo Willems
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
Me I Am! by Jack Prelutsky
Upper Elementary
Book List
Habit 1 - Be
Proactive:
“Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher” by Bruce Coville
“On My Honor” by Marion Bauer
“Someday a Tree” by Eve Bunting
“Salt
in His Shoes, Michael Jordan: In Pursuit of a Dream” by Deloris Jordan
“The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor” by Wendy
Towle
Habit 2 - Begin
with the End in Mind:
“Where Do You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus?” by Jean
Fritz
“Lucy Mastermind” by Alan Feldman “Eddie,
the Incorporated” by Phyllis Naylor
“Bobby Baseball” by Robert Kimmel Smith
“The School Story” by Andrew Clements
Habit 3 - Put First Things First:
“The Week Mom
Unplugged the TV’s” by Terry Wolfe Phelan
“Irving Black’s Strange Snack” by Roz Rosenbluth
“Esperanza Rising” by Pam Munoz Ryan
“The TV Kid” by
Betsy Byars
“Justin & the Best Biscuits in the World” by Mildred Pitts Walter
Habit 4 - Think Win-Win:
“The Butter Battle Book” by Dr. Seuss
“Dragon Stew” by Tom McGowen
“Law
of the Great Peace” by John Bierhart
“The Checker Players” by Alan Venable “Hiawatha,
Messenger of Peace” by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Habit 5 - Seek
First to Understand, Then to Be Understood:
“Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd” by Mame Farrell
“Witch of Blackbird Pond” by Elizabeth George Speare
“Rules” by Cynthia
Lord
“Veronica Knows Best” by Nancy Robinson “The
Bully of Barkham Street” by Leonard Shortall
Habit 6 -
Synergize:
“The View from Saturday” by E.L.
Konigsburg
“A
Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle
“Ruby Holler” by Sharon Creech
“The Chalk box Kid” by Clyde Robert Bulla
“Chicken
Sunday” by Patricia Polacco
Habit 7 - Sharpen
the Saw:
“The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” by Chris Van Allsburg
“Uncle Willie
and the Soup Kitchen” by DyAnne DiSalvo Ryan
“The New Kid on the block” by Jack Prelutsky “A
Light in the Attic” by Shel Silverstein
“Wind
in the Long Grass: A Collection of Haiku” edited by William Higginson
