The OEA-Retired sponsors Read Across America every year to get kids excited about reading. To celebrate Read Across America, OEA-R has an archive of retired members, active members, and authors reading books. Members and students have the ability to access the library. Enjoy the archive of readers over the years!
Click on each book title to watch a video of the book reading by an OEA member.
Chocolate Milk Por Favor by Maria Dismondy
Grace Goes to Washington by Kelly DiPucchio
It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A Different Pond by Bao Phi
The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Same, Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
The Skin You Live In by Michael Taylor
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Joanna Gaines
She Persisted in Sports by Chelsea Clinton
So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
Happy In Our Skin by Fran Maniskin
Whoever You Are by Mem Fox
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justice by Meg Gaertner
I Can’t Read, Oh! What Shall I Do by Steven Mitchell
I am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown
A World Together by Sonia Monzano
Emmanuel’s Dream by Laurie Ann Thompson
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
Book Fiesta by Pat Mora
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
A New Kind of Wild by Zara Gonzalez Hoang
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams
Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom Deluise
Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry
The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates
The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow
Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo by John Lithgow
Skin Like Mine by Latashia M Perry
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
What Makes Us Unique by Jillian Roberts
Fiona Love at the Zoo by Richard Cowdrey
Little Tree by Loren Long
OTIS by Loren Long
The Brown Crayon by Michael G. Williams
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
The Cloud Factory by Paul Stutzman
I am Enough by Grace Byers
Sammy the Sea Star by Elaine Reynolds and Cindy Jarrett
Daddy Loves Me by Izzy Down
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Kindness Machine by Christina Dankert
Nana Bee and Me by Jocelyn Dabney
House Mouse, Senate Mouse by Peter Barnes and Cheryl Shaw Barnes
Gracie’s Grace by S.R.D. Harris
Kaydee the Bumblebee by Gabrielle Hill
Aliyah’s Missing Teddy Bear by Seneca Bing
Alliteration Boosts Communication by Larry Carey
Jenny Mei is Sad by Tracy Subisak
Girl You are Magic by Ashley Ferguson
Boy You Are Brilliant by Ashley Ferguson
Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler
The Great Cloud Rescue by Paul Stutzman
Only Ants for Andy by Jasher Awan
Buddy’s New Buddy by Christina Geist
There Once was a Buckeye Who Lived in the Shoe by Stephanie Duwve
Jabari Jabari, What I Love About Me by Amber Hill
Jacobi Jacobi, What Can I Be by Amber Hill
Diary of a Drifter by Steven Roof
The Journey of Ama Ketewa by Afia Chrarrah
Anatasia Meets Jackie Robinson by Marina Rae Cheney
We Can Vote by Ann Bonwill
What Can a Citizen Do by David Eggers
Not Done Yet by Tameka Fryer Brown
Citizen Baby by Megan Bryant
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
The Night Before Election Day by Natasha Wing
One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote by Bonnie Worth
If I Ran for President by Catherine Stier
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara / A is for Awesome by Eva Chen
Rosa Parks – An Itty Bitty Biography
Choosing Brave by Angela Joy
Adventures of Democracy Land by Monica Ramirez
Americana Adventure by Michael Garland
If You’re Going to a March by Marsha Freeman
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
Vote For Our Future by Margaret McNamara