K: Once I Ate a Pie, by Patricia MacLachlan
1st: Hotel Deep, by Kurt Cyrus
2nd: Basho and the River Stones, by Tim Myers; OR Wabi Sabi, by Mark Reibstein
3rd: Emma’s Poem, by Linda Glaser
4th: The Adventures of Mark Twain, by Huckleberry Finn
5th: Write On, Mercy! by Gretchen Woelfle; OR Rutherford B., Who Was He? by Marilyn Singer
Link for grade 3
"The New Colussus," by Emma Lazarus