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Reading List 2016

Classes 4 and 5

The list is indicative and not exhaustive.

English

Classics

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Little Women Series by Louisa May Alcott

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gora by Rabindranath Tagore (Mango Classics)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series by Mark Twain

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mango Classics)

Pride and Prejudice (Mango Classics)

Gulliver's Travels and other titles from Classic Starts (Sterling)

Animal Tales

Poppy and Ragweed by Avi

Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Winterling series by Sarah Prineas

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Born to Lead by Paro Anand

There's an Owl in the Shower and Julie of the Wolves series by

Jean Craighead George

Phantom Stallion series by Terri Farley

An Eagle in the Snow and the War Horses series by Michael

Morpurgo

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Mission Survival series by Bear Grylls

Warriors series by Erin Hunter

Kari the Elephant by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Adventure in Kaziranga by Arup Kumar Dutta

Realistic Fiction

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Holes by Louis Sachar

Malgudi Schooldays by R. K. Narayan

Maniac Magee and the Stargirl series by Jerry Spinelli

Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan

St. Clare's and Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Tales of a Fourth Grade nothing and the Fudge series by Judy

Blume

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Flat Track Bullies by Balaji Venkataramanan

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Framed and Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler

Island of the Blue Dolphins series by Scott O'Dell

Wilderness by Roddy Doyle

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindren

The Secret Diary of the World's Worst Cook by Subhadra Sen

Gupta

Fantasy

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien

H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden

The Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell

Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz

Percy Jackson series and The Heroes of Olympus series by

Rick Riordan

Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente

Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke

TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow

Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel

Shiva and the Rise of The Shadows by Karnika Dhillon

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The Stupendous Time Telling Superdog series by Himanjali

Sankar

Young Samurai series by Chris Bradford

The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy

Oops, The Mighty Gurgle by Ram G. Vallath

Septimus Heap Collection by Angie Sage

Mystery

The Secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch

The Magic Thief series by Sarah Prineas

The 39 Clues series by Gordon Korman

The Adventures of Feluda by Satyajit Ray

The Sherlock Holmes Connection by Anushka Ravishankar

The Case of the Candy Bandit by Archit Taneja

Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

Diamond Brothers series by Anthony Horowitz

The Deadly Royal Recipe by Ranjit Lal

The Indus Investigators: Mohenjodaro Mystery by Ilona

Aronovsky

DOA Detective Files: Trouble at the Taj by Sonja Chandrachud

Agent Alfie series by Justin Richards

Historical Fiction

This is How it Happened by Nandini Nayar

Queen of Ice by Devika Rangachari

Horrible Histories series by Terry Deary

Before They Were Famous series by Caroline Corby

Kartik’s War and Let's Go Time Travelling by Subhadra Sen Gupta

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Caravan to Tibet by Deepa Agarwal

Girls of India: A Harappan Adventure by Sunila Gupte and other titles in the series

Three Indian Princesses by Jamila Gavin

Biography

Great Lives series e.g., Verghese Kurien, Sachin Tendulkar

(Scholastic)

Going Solo and Boy by Roald Dahl

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Dead Famous series

My Boyhood Days by Rabindranath Tagore

Scientists Who Have Changed the World series

Others

We, the Children of India by Leila Seth

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

George's Secret Key to the Universe, and other titles

by Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking

The David Beckham Academy series

Sir Cumference series of Math adventures by Cindy

Neuschwander

The Usborne Young Readers series 3

Letters from a Father to his Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru

Tigers for Dinner (Tall Tales) by Ruskin Bond

The Eco Warriors series

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कक्षा 4 एवं 5

ह दंी पुस्तकें

विभिन्न प्रकाशकों की कुछ चुनी हुई पसु्तकों की सचूी नीचे दी गई है। विद्यार्थी इन प्रकाशकों की अन्य रचनाएँ िी पढ़ सकत ेहैं। सी बी टी

भिखारी राजा राजकुमारी मसु्कान की जलेबी मसु्कान गगलहररयों का बीज बैंक अम्मा का पररिार नननहाल में गजुरे ददन अनोखा उपहार कर्था मजंरी खजाना कहाननयों का

प्रथम प्रकाशन आमने सामने मीठे का शौकीन मचुकंुद एक यादगार मेला वपभश फंसी तफूान में

एकलव्य प्रकाशन मेघ की छाया पायल खो गई छुपन छुपाई

कथा आसमान की रानी मेघ और तरंग रिीन्रनार्थ ठाकुर अजुनु महाश्िेता देिी

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एन बी टी इसरो की कहानी खुली छत िाला घर सफेद घोडा

हदल्ली कैटरपपलर पब्ललशर ऐसा देश हमारा

मनोज प्रकाशन मलु्ला नसरुद्दीन की कहाननयां

राजपाल एण्ड सन्स नमक का दरोगा प्रेमचंद गजनन्दनलाल के कारनामे मास्टर जी बड ेघर की बेटी पे्रमचंद

रचना सागर पचंततं्र की कहाननयां

अन्य प्रकाशक तभूलका तमाशा एन सी ई आर टी

Bilingual

अटपटी ऍनी एम जी श्श्मट ि फीप िेस्टेनडॉप ु वपम और पॉम: एक साहसी कारनामा फीप िेस्टेनडॉप ुि माइस बॉहाइस स्कूल का पहला ददन तुला कारोलनेैन ि माररओ नीगाड ु

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Classes 2 and 3

The list is indicative and not exhaustive.

English

Classics

Ladybird Classics, like The Jungle Book (Ladybird)

Favourite Classics series, like The Secret Garden (TickTock )

Junior Classics series, like White Fang, The Hunchback of

Notre Dame, Robin Hood (Kiddz Bookz/Shree Book Centre)

1001 Arabian Nights (Mango Classics)

Great Illustrated Classics, like Little Women (Abdo

Publishing Company)

Animal Tales

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and other stories by

Jill Tomlinson

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Dancing Bees by Ranjit Lal

Babe the Gallant Pig and other titles by Dick King-Smith

Wombat Goes Walkabout by Michael Morpurgo

Little Animal Ark and Animal Ark series by Lucy Daniels

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

A Bear Called Paddington series by Michael Bond

Awesome Animals series (HarperCollins)

Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope

Panda Panic series by Jamie Rix

Eco-Worriers series by Kathryn Lamb

The Pet Sitter series by Julie Sykes

The Killer Cat series by Anne Fine

Cold Paws, Warm Heart and other titles by Madeleine Floyd

Giraffe Trouble by Jean Craighead George

Bindi Wildlife Adventures series by Bindi Irwin

One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson

Magic Ponies series by Sue Bentley

According to Humphrey series by Betty G. Birney

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Realistic Fiction

The Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald

Ready Freddy series by Abby Klein (e.g., Tooth Trouble)

Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon

Andrew’s Loose Tooth and other titles by Robert Munsch

My Weird School by Dan Gutman

Ramona series by Beverly Cleary

Tooter Pepperday and Blue Ribbon Blues by Jerry Spinelli

Middle School series by James Patterson

There's a Pharaoh in Our Bath and other titles by Jeremy Strong

The Magic of the Lost Temple by Sudha Murty

Junie B Jones series by Barbara Park

The Naughtiest Girl by Enid Blyton

In the Zoo series by Alan Rusbridger

Meddling Mooli series by Asha Nehemiah

Wayside School Stories series and Marvin Redpost series by Louis

Sachar

Frindle and other titles by Andrew Clements

Super Soccer Boy series by Judy Brown

Cupcake Diaries by Coco Simon

Arthur Adventure series by Marc Brown

Kylie Jean series by Marci Peschke

Sophie's Adventures by Dick King-Smith

The Secret Diary of the World's Worst Genius by Paro Anand

Fantasy

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

Usborne Young Reading series 1 and 2

Fun in Devlok series by Devdutt Pattanaik

Geronimo Stilton series by Geronimo Stilton

Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin

Beast Quest by Adam Blade

Dinosaur Cove series by Rex Stone

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

The Shy Supergirl by Shabnam Minwalla

Rainbow Magic series by Daisy Meadows

Petu Pumpkin Tooth Troubles and Bookasura by Arundhati Venkatesh

Fantastic Mr. Fox and Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

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Thea Stilton series by Thea Stilton

Pixie Tricks by Tracey West

Andrew Lost series by J. C. Greenburg

The Adventures of the Flying Magic Jharokha series by Shamim

Padamsee

Hello Mr Twiddle series and The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton

Mr Majeika series by Humphrey Carpenter

Daydreamer Dev series by Ken Spillman

Zain & Ana series by Anushka Ravishankar

Corgi Pups series by Jacqueline Wilson

The Boy Who Could Fly and other titles by Sally Gardner

My Secret Unicorn series by Linda Chapman

My Father's Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Secret Kingdom series by Rosie Banks

Moin the Monster Songster by Anushka Ravishankar

Magic Ballerina series by Darcey Bussell

Mr Gum series by Andy Stanton

Key Words Fairy Tales (Alka Publications)

Mystery

The Secret Seven, The Famous Five and The Young Adventurers

series by Enid Blyton

Cam Jansen Mysteries by David A. Adler

A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy

Will Solvit series by Zed Storm

Something Fishy by Pavithra Sankaran

Nancy Clancy series by Jane O'Connor

Sesame Seade Mysteries by Clementine Beauvais

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart series by Elizabeth Singer Hunt

Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries by Leslie Margolis

Sly the Sleuth series by Donna Jo Napoli

The Secrets of Droon series by Tony Abbott

Agent Amelia series by Michael Broad

Ottoline series by Chris Riddell

The Pony Detectives series by Belinda Rapley

Jigsaw Jones Mysteries by James Preller

The David Walliams Collection by David Walliams

Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series by Carolyn Keene and Macky Pamintuan

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Others

Football Academy series by Tom Palmer

Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks, Akbar and the Tricky Traitor,

and Ashoka and the Muddled Messages by Natasha Sharma

My Parents Think I’m Sleeping and other titles by Jack Prelutsky

The Puffin Book of Classic Indian Tales by Meera Uberoi

Kolaba by Sandhya Rao and other regional tales (Tulika Books)

The Story of Babur by Parvati Sharma

Kali and the Rat Snake by Zai Whitaker and Srividya Natarajan

A Wish Fulfilling Cow and Other Classic Indian Tales by Deepa

Agarwal

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

The Magic School Bus series (Levels 3 and 4)

I Can Read series, Level 3 and 4 (HarperCollins)

Puffin Young Readers Level 3

Read it Yourself series Level 3 and 4 (Ladybird)

Step into Reading Step 4 and 5 (Random House)

I Am Reading (Kingfisher Publications)

Ladybird Tales Mini series

Jataka Tales (Mango Classics)

Classic Treasury Fairytales and other titles by Vic Parker

ह दंी पुस्तकें

विभिन्न प्रकाशकों की कुछ चुनी हुई पसु्तकों की सचूी नीचे दी गई है। विद्यार्थी इन प्रकाशकों की अन्य रचनाएँ िी पढ़ सकत ेहैं।

सी बी टी

टीटू ने देखी आनतशबाजी नन्ही परी का जन्मददन नटखट बदंर ि एक और कहानी चींटी की चढ़ाई ककटी पतगं पानी में है जाद ू

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प्रभसद्ध लोक कर्थाएँ ननैतक कहाननयां

एकलव्य प्रकाशन हमारा जॉन नाना नानी ऊँट का फूल मेरा स्कूल नन्हा बाघ सरगम बाल गीत

प्रथम प्रकाशन

यह िी कोई खाना है पापा की मूँछें एक दोस्त की ज़रूरत है गलु्ली का ग़ज़ब वपटारा

कथा

एक बजरबट्टू का गीत िाग गया दटल्ल ूवपल्ला बाररश की एक जादईु बूँद

एन बी टी

नकल बबन अकल काबलुीिाला छोटा सा मोटा सा लोटा अनोखी छुट्दटयां ईदगाह शहीद अब्दलु हमीद

तूललका बुक्स नाचती मधुमश्खखयाँ गोल मोल

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रचना सागर पचंततं्र की कहाननयां

अन्य पुस्तकें कृष्ण सदुामा ए जे पटेल नेहा की अलाम ुघडी गगररजा रानी अस्र्थाना श्जद्दी टीना कमलेश कौभशक चाल्ज़ ुरंग रंगीला गगरगगट

Bilingual मेरी मा ं ककुश कौए नयप और यानका – हॉलैंड के दो बच्च े

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Classes Nursery and 1

The list is indicative and not exhaustive.

English

Single Titles

Cock-A-Moo-Moo by Juliet Dallas-Conté

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

Elephants Never Forget and Alphabets are Amazing Animals

by Anushka Ravishankar

When the Earth Lost its Shapes by Shobha Viswanath

Mr Jeejeebhoy and the Birds by Anitha Balachandran

Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein

Same And Different by Manjula Padmanabhan

Dinosaur As Long As 127 Kids by Geeta Dharmarajan

Bunny and the Pixies by Enid Blyton

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Shy Supergirl by Shabnam Minwalla

Petu Pumpkin Tiffin Thief by Arundhati Venkatesh

Big Bully and M-Me by Arti Sonthalia

The Monster Hunters by Parinita Shelly

Trouble with Magic by Asha Nehemiah

The Vampire Boy by Sharanya Deepak

Maya Saves the Day by Meera Nair

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John

Archambault

Authors

Mother Knows Best and other titles by Jill Murphy

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other titles by Eric Carle

Goodnight Moon and other titles by Margaret Wise Brown

Little Owl’s Night and other titles by Divya Srinivasan

Little White Rabbit and other titles by Kevin Henkes

Opposites in Tinga Tinga Tales and other titles by Claudia

Lloyd

Star of the Week and other titles by Barney Saltzberg

Soccer Beat and other titles by Sandra Gilbert Brug

Rattletrap Car and other titles by Phyllis Root

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The Things I Love about School and other titles by Trace Moroney

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and other titles by Laura Joffe

Numeroff

A Sick Day for Amos and other titles by Philip C. Stead

How Rocket Learned to Read and other titles by Tad Hills

The Story of Babar and other Babar titles by Jean de Brunhoff

Whistle for Willie and other titles by Ezra Jack Keats

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and other titles by Michael Rosen

Are We There Yet and other titles by Jan Fearnley

The Tiger Who came to Tea and other titles by Judith Kerr

The Hedgehog’s Balloon and other titles by Nick Butterworth

Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? and other titles by Martin Waddell

Amazing Animals and other titles by Tony Mitton

Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories and other titles by Richard

Scarry

The Gruffalo and other titles by Julia Donaldson

Dream Animals and other titles by Emily Winfield Martin

Series

Dora the Explorer series

Spot Bakes a Cake and other Spot stories by Eric Hill

Topsy and Tim series by Jean Adamson

Dr Seuss Classic Collection; Beginner Books; Bright and Early

Books by Dr Seuss

Noddy series by Enid Blyton

The Little Engine That Could series by Watty Piper

Franklin the Turtle series by Paulette Bourgeois

The Berenstain Bears series by Stan Berenstain

Corgi Pups series by Jacqueline Wilson

Maisy Makes Gingerbread and other Maisy story books by Lucy

Cousins

The Little Critter series by Mercer Mayer

Bruno Finds a Ball and other titles in Bruno the Bear series

Bubbles’ First Storybook series

Pepper Wants Too Many Toys and other titles in Pepper series

I Don’t … series by Michael Ambrosio

MathStart series and other titles by Stuart J Murphy

Curious George series by Margret Rey

Charlie and Lola series by Lauren Child

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Clifford series by Norman Bridwell

The Frog and Toad collection by Arnold Lobel

The Tale of Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter

The Magic School Bus series Level 1 and 2

Princess Evie’s Ponies series by Sarah KilBride and Sophie

Tilley

The Poky Little Puppy and other Little Golden Books

Peter Pan and other titles from A Little Golden Book Classics

collection

Felix, Puss in Boots and other titles (Leapfrog)

I Want to Do It Myself and other Little Princess Stories by Tony

Ross

Lazy Worm Goes on a Journey and other titles from Scholastic

Early Science Series

Growing Up with Polo and His Friends series (Sheth Publishing

house)

Aesop’s Fables (Mango Books)

Graded Readers

I Can Read, Level 1 and 2 (HarperCollins) Puffin Young Readers Level 1, 2 and 3

Step into Reading Step 1, 2 and 3 (Random House)

Oxford Read At Home Set: Level 1 and 2 (Oxford Reading Tree)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears and other titles in Ladybird First

Favourite Tales

Read it Yourself series Level 1 and 2 (Ladybird)

Ready-to-Read series (Aladdin)

Cambridge Bright Sparks series

Collins Big Cat Read at Home series

Jack and the Beanstalk and other Superphonics Storybooks by Clive

Gifford

A Dragon in a Wagon and other Magic Castle Readers by Jane Belk

Moncure

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ह दंी पुस्तकें

विभिन्न प्रकाशकों की कुछ चुनी हुई पसु्तकों की सचूी नीचे दी गई है। विद्यार्थी इन प्रकाशकों की अन्य रचनाएँ िी पढ़ सकत ेहैं। सी बी टी

ऊपर जाओ, नीचे आओ मेरे स्कूल की येल्लो बस रसीले फल इमली के जूत े चंदामामा का पाजामा गडु्डी सबका एक नाम है

एकलव्य प्रकाशन बबल्ली के बच्चे सापँ ने सोचा सो जा उल्ल ू सरगम बाल गीत प्यारा लड्डू – कविताएँ स्कूल में प्रणि का पहला ददन आई एक खबर तीन दोस्त

प्रथम प्रकाशन मेरे दोस्त बटंी और बबली गली के रंग चूँ चूँ मेरा बटै कहाँ है? खया होता अगर? सरूज और शरे भसहं

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एन बी टी

आम िाली गचडडया एक ददन काकी कहे कहानी चंदा गगनती िलू गया

राजपाल एण्ड सन्स जन्मददन की िेंट अकबर बीरबल (िाग 1-3) कहाितों के गीत

Bilingual

नया स्िेटर एकलव्य प्रकाशन छडी एकलव्य प्रकाशन ककुश कौए प्रर्थम प्रकाशन नटखट कुत्ता प्रर्थम प्रकाशन