Kindergarten Reading List

• Amato, Max. Perfect• Antony, Steve. Unplugged• Asche, Frank. Happy Birthday, Moon• Bourgeois, Paulette. Franklin Goes to School• Brett, Jan. Mitten• Brown, Margaret. Goodnight Moon• Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar• Christelow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys• Chung, Arree. Mixed: A Colorful Story• Dean, James. Pete the Cat• Delton, Judy. Two Good Friends• Eastman, PD. Are You My Mother?• Ehlert, Lois. Leaf Man• Evans, Claire. The Three Little Superpigs• Fleming, Denise. In the Small, Small Pond• Freeman, Don. Corduroy• Gerth, Melanie. Ten Little Ladybugs• Gramatky, Hardie. Little Toot• Henkes, Kevin. Old Bear• Hoban, Russell. A Baby Sister for Frances• Keats, Ezra. The Snowy Day• Klassen, Jon. This Is Not My Hat• Lionni, Leo. Little Blue and Little Yellow• Lopshire, Robert. Put Me in the Zoo• Lucado, Max. You Are Special

• Martin, Bill. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom• Minarik, Holmelund. Little Bear• Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake• Pfister, Marcus. Rainbow Fish• Pinkney, Jerry. The Lion & The Mouse• Piper, Watty. The Little Engine That Could• Raschka, Chris. A Ball For Daisy• Rey, H.A. Curious George• Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are• Seuss, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham• Shannon, David. Duck on a Bike • Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready

For Kindergarten• Slobodkina, Esphyr. Caps for Sale• Wilson, Karma. Bear Feels Sick• Wood, Audrey. Ten Little Fish• Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?• Zion, Gene. No Rose for Harry

First Grade Reading List

• Arnold,Tedd. Hi, Fly Guys!• Brett, Jan. Mitten• Buckley, Helen. Grandmother and I• Bulla, Clyde. Daniel’s Duck

• Burton, Virginia. Maybelle the Cable Car • Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug• Chandler, Edna. Cowboy Sam • Coerr, Eleanor. The Josefina Story Quilt• Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo• Daugherty, James. Andy and the Lion• Davoll, Barbara. The Potluck Supper • De Regniers, Beatrice. May I Bring a Friend?• Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia • Ets, Marie. Just Me • Flack, Marjorie. Angus and the Ducks• Frasconi, Antonio. The House that Jack Built• Freeman, Don. Corduroy • Graham, Margaret. Benjy’s Dog House• Gramatky, Hardie. Little Toot • Hader, Berta. The Big Snow • Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum• Hoban, Russell. Bedtime for Frances • Hoff, Syd. Danny and the Dinosaur• Hunt, Angela. A Gift for Grandpa • Kann, Victoria. Pinkalicious• Keats, Ezra. Whistle for Willie • Keats, Ezra. Peter’s Chair • Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed• Leaf, Munro. How to Behave and Why • Leaf, Munro. How to Speak Politely and Why

• Leithart, Peter. Wise Words: Family Stories that Bring the Proverbs to Life

• Lewis, Kim. Floss • Lionni, Leo. Inch by Inch• Littledale, Freya. The Magic Fish • Lloyd-Jones, Sally. The Jesus Storybook Bible• Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad All Year• London, Jonathan. Froggy’s Sleepover• Lucado, Max. Hermie• Lowry, Jannette. The Poky Little Puppy• Marshall, James. George and Martha • McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings• Myron, Vicki. Dewey: There’s a Cat in the

Library• Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake• O’Connor, Jane. Fancy Nancy• Osborne, Mary. Magic Tree House• Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones• Piper, Watty. The Little Engine that Could• Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit• Rey, Margaret. Curious George• Richardson, Arleta. A Day at the Fair • Schachner, Judith. Skippy Jon Jones• Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are• Shannon, David. A Bad Case of Stripes• Sharmat, Marjorie. Nate the Great • Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic

• Tang, Greg. Math Fables• Taylor, Helen. Little Pilgrim’s Progress • Turkle, Brinton. Thy Friend, Obadiah • Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear• Wilder, Laura. My First Little House Books• Williams, Vera. A Chair for My Mother • Wood, Audrey. Quick as a Cricket• Zion, Gene. Harry the Dirty Dog

Second Grade Reading List

• Aardemas, Verna. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

• Alder, David. Cam Jansen• Anderson, C. W. Billy and Blaze • Andersen, Hans C. The Emperor’s New Clothes• Anderson, Laurie. Vet Volunteers• Baglio, Ben. Animal Ark• Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline • Bontemps, Arna & Conroy Jack. The Fast

Sooner Hound • Brown, Marcia. Dick Whittington and His Cat• Bruel, Nick. Bad Kitty• Burton, Virginia. The Little House

• Burton, Virginia. Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel

• Calhoun, Mary. Cross-Country Cat • Cannon, Janell. Stellaluna • Cauley, Lorinda. The Ugly Duckling• Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle• Cleary, Beverly. Ribsy• Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus• Dalgliesh, Alice. The Bears on Hemlock

Mountain• DeBrunhoff, Jean. Babar • DiCamillo, Kate. Mercy Watson• Flack, Marjorie. The Story about Ping • Gag, Wanda. Millions of Cats• Galdone, Paul. The Gingerbread Boy• Galdone, Paul. The Three Bears• Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs • Gauch, Patricia. Thunder at Gettysburg • Gutman, Dan. My Weird School• Harrison, Paula. Rescue Princesses• Harness, Cheryl. Three Young Pilgrims• Haywood, Carolyn. Betsy & Billy• Henkes, Kevin. The Year of Billy Miller• Hoffman, Mary. Grace at Christmas• Hope, Laura Lee. The Bobbsey Twins • Kline, Suzy. Horrible Harry• Lansky, Bruce. My Teacher’s in Detention

• Le Gallienne, Eva. Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen

• Leaf, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand • Lewis, Beverly. The Cul-De-Sac Kids• Lewis, C. S. The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe• Lord, Cynthia. Shelter Pet Squad• Loveless, Maude. Betsy-Tacy • MacLachlan, Patricia. Barkus• Mattick, Lindsay. Finding Winnie: The True Story

of the World’s Most Famous Bear• McCloskey, Robert. Blueberries for Sal• McCloskey, Robert. Lentil• McCloskey, Robert. One Morning in Maine• McCloskey, Robert. Time of Wonder • McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody• Meadows, Daisy. Rainbow Magic• Messner, Kate. Ranger in Time• Miles, Ellen. The Puppy Place• Milne, A. A. When We Were Young• Milne, A. A. Now We are Six • Mlynowski, Sarah. Whatever After • Mowat, Farley. Owls in the Family • Myers, Bill. The Incredible Worlds of Wally

McDoogle• O’Connor, Jane. Nancy Clancy • Osborne, Mary. Magic Tree House• Nesbit, E. The Railway Children

• Parrish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia• Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones• Pena, Matt de la. Last Stop on Market Street• Politi, Leo. Song of the Swallows • Rathman, Peggy. Office Buckle and Gloria• Roop, Peter and Connie. Keep the Lights

Burning, Abbie • Roy, Ron. A-Z Mysteries• Sharmat, Marjorie. Nate the Great• Siegal, Ida. Emma is on the Air• Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree• Sobol, Donald. Encyclopedia Brown • Sobol, Donald. Secret Agents Four • Slobodkina, Esphyr. Caps for Sale • Sproul, R. C. The King Without a Shadow • Steig, William. Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa• Stilton. Geronimo and Thea Series• Taha, Karen. A Gift for Tia Rosa • Tarshis, Lauren. I Survived• Thaler, Mike. Black Lagoon• Warner, Gertrude. The Boxcar Children• West, Jerry. The Happy Hollisters • Williams, Jay. Danny Dunn • Williams, Marjorie. The Velveteen Rabbit• Yolen, Jane. Owl Moon• Ziefert, Harriet. A New Coat for Anna

Third Grade Reading List

• American Girl series• Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper’s Penguins• Bailey, Carolyn. Miss Hickory • Barrie, James. Peter Pan• Barrows, Annie. Ivy and Bean• Bond, Michael. Paddington • Bulla, Clyde. A Lion to Guard Us• Bulla, Clyde. Shoeshine Girl • Cleary, Beverly. Ramona • Clements, Andrew. Jake Drake• Collodi C. Pinocchio• D’Aulaire, I. E. Benjamin Franklin • Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory• Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble• DiCamillo, Kate. Mercy Watson• Dixon, Franklin. Hardy Boys• Edmonds, Walter. The Matchlock Gun • Erickson, John. Hank the Cowdog• Estes, Eleanor. The Moffats • Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion• Fleischman, Sid. The Whipping Boy• Fritz, Jean. The Cabin Faced West • Gannett, Ruth. My Father’s Dragon• Gardiner, John. Stone Fox

• Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows (Scholastic Jr. Classic)

• Hall, Donald. Ox-Cart Man • Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague• Hering, Marianne. Imagination Station • Herriot, James. James Herriot’s Treasury• Holling, H. C. Paddle-to-the-Sea • Hurwitz, Johanna. Aldo Applesauce • Hutchens, Paul. Sugar Creek Gang• Jackson, Dave & Neta. Trailblazer Series • Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew• Kellogg, Steven. Paul Bunyan• King-Smith, Dick. Babe: The Gallant Pig• Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories • Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book (Scholastic

Jr. Classic)• Korman, Gordon. Island and Swindle series• Lawson, Robert. Rabbit Hill • Lewis, C. S. The Horse and His Boy• Lupica, Mike. Comeback Kids• MacGregor, Ellen. Miss Pickerell • MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall• McCloskey, Robert. Homer Price • McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure • Messner, Kate. Ranger in Time• Miles, Ellen. Puppy Place• Naylor, Phyllis. Shiloh

• Nesbit, E. The Railway Children • Nesbit, E. The Story of the Treasure Seekers • Peretti, Frank. The Door in the Dragon’s Throat • Reece, Colleen. American Adventure Series • Richardson, Arleta. In Grandma’s Attic • Roddy, Lee. Family Adventures • Rupp, Rebecca. Dragon of Lonely Island• Sachar, Louis. Sideways Stories• Scieszka, Jon. The Time Warp Trio: Sam

Samurai • Stanley, Diane. The True Adventure of Daniel

Hall• Streatfeild, Noel. Ballet Shoes • Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Stories (Scholastic Jr.

Classic)• White, E. B. Stuart Little• Winterfeld, Henry. Detectives in Togas

Fourth Grade Reading List

• Adamson, Joy. Born Free • Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women • Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three

• Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting• Baglio, Ben. Pony on the Porch• Blackwood, Gary. The Shakespeare Stealer• Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grader• Burnett, Frances H. A Little Princess • Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden• Burnford, Sheila. The Incredible Journey • Carlson, Natalie. The Family Under the Bridge • Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland• Clements, Andrew. Frindle• Craig, David. First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville

Wright Invented the Airplane.• D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar. Leif the Lucky • Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory• Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox• Daugherty, James. The Magna Charta• Davies, Jacqueline. The Lemonade Wars• DeAngeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall• Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of William

Thomas Emerson: a Revolutionary War Patriot• DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Despereaux• DuBois, William Pene. Twenty-one Balloons• Estes, Eleanor. Ginger Pye• Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses • Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion • Field, Rachel. Calico Bush • Funke, Cornellia. Inkheart

• George, Jean C. My Side of the Mountain • George, Jean C. The Missing Gator of Gumbo

Limbo• Grahame, Kenneth. The Reluctant Dragon • Green, Roger Lancelyn. King Arthur and His

Knights of the Round Table• Gregory, Kristiana. The Winter of Red Snow:

The Diary of Abigial Jane Stewart• Gutman, Dan. The Homework Machine• Hanes, Mari. Two Mighty Rivers • Henry, Marguerite. King of the Wind • Jacques, Brian. Redwall • Keene, Carolyn. The Secret of the Old Clock• Knight, Eric. Lassie Come-Home • Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-Up Files of

Mrs. Basel E. Frankweiler• Lawson, Robert. Ben and Me • L’Engle, Madeliene. A Wrinkle in Time • Lenski, Lois. Prairie School • Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl • Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspian• Lofting, Hugh. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle • Martin, Ann. A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of

a Stray• McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure • Morey, Walt. Gentle Ben

• Murphy, Elspeth Campbell. The Mystery of the the Dolphin Detective

• Myers, Bill. My Life as a Smashed Burrito with Extra Hot Sauce

• Norton, Mary. The Borrowers• Peretti, Frank. The Cooper Kids Adventure • Prum, Deborah M. Rats, Bulls, and Flying

Machines• Rebsamen, Frederick. Beowulf• Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief • Robertson, Keith. Henry Reed, Inc. • Robinson, Barbara. The Best Christmas

Pageant Ever • Selden, George. The Cricket in Time Square• Seredy, Kate. The Good Master• Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers • Sis, Peter. Starry Messenger: Galileo• Smith, Dodie. The 101 Dalmations• Speare, Elizabeth. The Sign of the Beaver • Stanley, Diane and Peter Vennema. Bard of

Avon• Stanley, Diane. Joan of Arc• Street, James. Good-bye My Lady • Taylor, Sydney. All-of-A-Kind Family • Thurber, James. Many Moons • Travers, P. I. Mary Poppins • Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• Vernon, Louise A. Thunderstorm in the Church• White, E. B. The Trumpet of the Swan• Wilson, N. D. 100 Cupboards• Wilson, N. D. Leepike Ridge

Fifth Grade Reading List

• Alcott, Louisa. Little Men• Avi. Crispin• Beatty, Patricia. Turn Homeward, Hannalee • Brink, Carol. Caddie Woodlawn • Burnett, Frances. Little Lord Fauntleroy • Burnett, Frances. The Little Princess• Burnett, Frances. The Secret Garden• Byars, Betsy. The Summer of the Swans • Cameron, Bruce. Ellie’s Story• Cameron, Eleanor. Mushroom Planet • Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw • Clements, Andrew. Lunch Money• Curtis, Christopher. Bud, Not Buddy• Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe• De Jong, Meindert. Journey from Peppermint

Street • De Jong, Meindert. The House of Sixty Fathers

• De Jong, Meindert. The Wheel on the School • Dodge, Mary. Hans Brinker • Enright, Elizabeth. Thimble Summer • Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain• Gates, Doris. Blue Willow • George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves • Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller • Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows • Gratz, Alan. Refugee• Hanes Mari. Two Mighty Rivers • Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! The Best Dog in

Vietnam• Lathan, Jean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch• Lewis, C. S. The Silver Chair• Lewis, C. S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader• London, Alexander. The Wild Ones• Lupica, Mike. Home Team• Lynch, Chris. Vietnam and World War II• MacDonald, George. The Princess and Curdie• MacDonald, George. The Princess and the

Goblin • Montgomery, Lucy. Anne of Green Gables • Nielsen, Jennifer. A Night Divided• North, Sterling. Rascal • Norton, Mary. The Borrowers• O’Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of

NIMH

• O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphin • Patterson, James. House of Robots• Pearce, Philippa. Tom’s Midnight Garden • Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine and Pax• Porter, Eleanor. Pollyanna • Rawks, Wilson. Summer of the Monkeys • Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows • Ryan, Pam. Paint the Wind• Sachar, Louis. Holes• Smith, Roland. My Brother’s Secret• Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond• Spyri, Johanna. Heidi • Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island • Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels • Terhune, Albert. Lad: A Dog • Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit • Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days• Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth • Wallace, Bill. No Dogs Allowed• Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson

Sixth Grade Reading List

• Adams, Richard. Watership Down

• Alexander, Lloyd. The Prydain Chronicles • Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains• Avi. Old Wolf• Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz • Bishop, Claire. Twenty and Ten• Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 • Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles • Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker: A Novel About

the Navajo Marnies of WWII• Clements, Andrew. Extra Credit• Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage• Curtis, Christopher. Mighty Miss Malone• DiCamillo, Kate. Raymie Nightingale• Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol • Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes • Eareckson, Joni. Joni • Field, Rachel. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years • Fisher, Dorothy. Understood Betsy • Gantos, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt• Henty, G. H. By Right of Conquest• Henty, G. H. In the Reign of Terror • Holm, Jennifer. The Fourteenth Goldfish• Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle• Jacques, Brian. Marlfox • Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book • Kjelgaard, James. Big Red • Lester, Julius. The Tales of Uncle Remus

• Lewis, C. S. The Magician’s Nephew• Lewis, C. S. The Last Battle• London, Jack. The Call of the Wild • London, Jack. White Fang • Marshall, Catherine. Christy • O’Hara, Mary. My Friend Flicka • Orczy, Emmuska. The Scarlet Pimpernel • Orwell, George. Animal Farm• Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling • Skrypuch, Marsha. Stolen Girl• Sorensen, Virginia. Miracles on Maple Hill • Speare, Elizabeth. The Bronze Bow • Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl• Sterling, Dorothy. Freedom Train • Sutherland, Tui. Wings of Fire• Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Taylor, Theodore. The Cay • Ten Boom, Corrie. The Hiding Place• Trapp, Maria Augusta. The Story of Trapp Family

Singers • Tunnell, Michael. Candy Bomber • Turnage, Shelia. The Odds of Getting Even• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn • Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper • Van Leeuwen, Jean. Bound for Oregon

• Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days • Weeks, Sarah. Save Me a Seat• Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds• Wiles, Deborah. Countdown• Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune, Free Man