Books Relating to the Three CAMP-US Themes
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Character Development
Arthur Makes the Team by Marc Brown (Little, Brown, ISBN: 0-316-1551-7)
Baseball Ballerina by Kathryn Cristaldi (Random House, ISBN: 0-679-81734-4)
Brave As by Janice Marriott (Learning Media, ISBN: 0-478-22944-5)
Corduroy by Don Freeman (Puffin, ISBN: 0-140-50173-8)
Could We Be Friends? by Bobbi Katz (Mondo, ISBN: 1-572-55229-8)
Franklin is Bossy by Paulette Bourgeois (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-47757-9)
Franklin Plays the Game by Paulette Bourgeois (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-22631-2)
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (HarperCollins, ISBN: 0-064-44020-6)
Hoop Heroes by Ken Call and Sydelle A. Kramer (Grosset & Dunlap, ISBN: 0-448-41647-6)
Kenny and the Little Kickers by Claudio Marzollo (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-45417-X)
Last One In is a Rotten Egg by Leonard Kessler (HarperTrophy, ISBN: 0-064-44118-0)
Let's Talk About Feeling Angry by Joy Berry (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-62386-9)
Lionel and Amelia by Leone Peguero (Mondo, ISBN: 1-572-55197-6)
Manners by Aliki (HarperTrophy, ISBN: 0-688-04579-0)
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola (Voyager, ISBN: 0-156-68140-4)
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-06203-4)
Playing Right Field by Willy Welch (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-439-13994-5)
Princess Pooh by Kathleen M. Muldoon (Concept Books, ISBN: 0-807-56627-6)
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book by Richard Scarry (Random House, ISBN: 0-394-82681-7)
Rosie's Story by Martine Gogoll (Mondo, ISBN: 1-879-53163-1)
Soccer Cousins by Jean Marzollo (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-72454-X)
Soccer Sam by Jean Marzollo (Random House, ISBN: 0-394-88406-X)
Spirit of Hope by Bob Graham (Happy Cat Books, ISBN: 1-899-24858-7)
Stop Picking On Me by Pat Thomas (Barrons, ISBN: 0-764-11461-1)
The Straight Line Wonder by Mem Fox (Mondo, ISBN: 1-572-55205-0)
Sugar Cakes Cyril by Phillis Gershator (Mondo, ISBN: 1-572-55224-7)
Teammates by Peter Golenbock (Voyager, ISBN: 0-152-84286-1)
The Bad Dad List by Anna Kenna (Learning Media, ISBN: 0-478-22902-X)
A Big Fat Enormous Lie by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Puffin, ISBN: 0-140-54737-1)
The Knife by Pauline Cartwright (Learning Media, ISBN: 0-478-22942-9)
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, ISBN: 0-399-23116-1)
Three Cheers for Tacky by Helen Lester (Scott Foresman, ISBN: 0-395-82740-X)
Willy the Wizard by Anthony Browne (Knopf, ISBN: 0-679-87644-8)

Substance Abuse
The Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone by Stan and Jan Berenstain (Random House, ISBN: 0-679-83612-8)
Let's Talk About Saying No by Joy Berry (Scholastic, ISBN: 0-590-62425-3)
My Big Sister Takes Drugs by Judith Vigna (Albert Whitman, ISBN: 0-807-55317-4)
My Dad by Niki Daly (Margaret K. McElderry, ISBN: 0-689-50620-1)
31 of Tameka's Urban Life Tales (Arise Foundation, ISBN: 1-586-14099-X)
The Boy Who Drank Too Much by Shep Greene (Laurel Leaf, ISBN: 0-440-90493-5)
The House that Crack Built by Clark Taylor (Chronicle, ISBN: 0-811-80123-3)

Respect for the Environment
The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore) by Stan and Jan Berenstain (Random House, ISBN: 0-679-82351-4)
I Stink! by Kate McMullan (Joanna Cotler, ISBN: 0-060-29848-0)
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN: 0-395-53308-2)
Mr. Garbage by William H. Hooks (Bantam, ISBN: 0-553-37579-2)
Saving the Park by Sarah Wilson (Learning Media, ISBN: 0-478-22952-6)
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry (Voyager Books, ISBN: 0-152-02614-2)
The Great Trash Bash by Loreen Leedy (Holiday House, ISBN: 0-823-41634-8)
Transforming Trash by Pat Quinn (Learning Media, ISBN: 0-478-23772-3)

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Richard Sinatra is the project director of CAMP-US, Queens, NY chapter.