# Patricia Polacco — books assigned in US schools

**7** 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

- history (2)
- world war, 1939-1945 (2)
- birds
- bullies
- france
- friendship
- jews
- kindness
- school principals
- schools

## Genres

- Realistic Fiction (3)
- Children's
- Historical Fiction

## Every Patricia Polacco title on file

- [The Butterfly](https://readinglist.school/book/the-butterfly) _(Grades 3–6 · 1972)_
- [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)_
- [Mr. Lincoln's Way](https://readinglist.school/book/mr-lincolns-way) _(Grades 3–8 · 2001)_
- [Tucky Jo and Little Heart](https://readinglist.school/book/tucky-jo-and-little-heart) _(Grades 3–5 · 2015)_
- [For the Love of Autumn](https://readinglist.school/book/for-the-love-of-autumn) _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Thank You, Mr. Falker](https://readinglist.school/book/thank-you-mr-falker) _(Grades 3–5)_

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_Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. JSON API: https://readinglist.school/api/author/patricia-polacco · HTML view: https://readinglist.school/author/patricia-polacco._