# Patricia Polacco — books assigned in US schools

**3** books by Patricia Polacco appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** K–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/patricia-polacco
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- friendship
- history
- kindness
- soldiers
- spanish language materials
- united states
- united states civil war, 1861-1865
- world war, 1939-1945

## Genres

- Children's
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction

## Every Patricia Polacco title on file

- [Chicken Sunday](https://readinglist.school/book/chicken-sunday) _(Grades K–5 · 1992)_
- [Pink and Say](https://readinglist.school/book/pink-and-say) _(Grades 4–8 · 1994)_
- [Tucky Jo and Little Heart](https://readinglist.school/book/tucky-jo-and-little-heart) _(Grades 3–5 · 2015)_

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