The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas. Following the introduction, this book contains the following chapters: (1) And I Mean It, Stanley; (2) Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery; (3) Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation; (4) Boston Coffee Party; (5) Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express; (6) Biscuit Goes to School; (7) Cave Boy; (8) Chang's Paper Pony; (9) Crocodile and Hen; (10) Danny and the Dinosaur; (11) Five Silly Fisherman; (12) Golly Sisters Go West; (13) The Great Snake Escape; (14) The Horse in Harry's Room; (15) The Ice-Code Birthday; (16) Little Bear; (17) Little Bear's Visit; (18) Mouse Tales; (19) Mystery of the Pirate Ghost; (20) No Fighting, No Biting; (21) No Mail for Michael; (22) No More Monsters for Me; (23) Oliver; (24) Oscar Otter; (25) Owl at Home; (26) Porcupine's Pajama Party; (27) Pretty Good Majic; (28) R is Radish; (29) Sammy the Seal; (30) Scruffy; (31) Sleepy Dog; (32) Small Pig; (33) Smallest Cow in the World; (34) Stanley; and (35) Three by the Sea.