K: Are You a Ladybug? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries; Mrs. Schepis’s ladybug book; or What the Ladybug Heard, by Julia Donaldson; or The Very Grouchy Ladybug, by Eric Carle
1st: Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly, by Alan Madison
2nd: Start SOS Files, by Betsy Byars
3rd: Start Punished, by David Lubar
4th: Kamishibai Man, by Allen Say, with YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwbk6rzODoI
5th: A Long Way from Chicago, by Richard Peck (Warner); Lawn Boy, by Gary Paulsen (Curry); Ahrens, start either Lawn Boy or LA Long Way from Chicago