Suggested Reading List (September 2018)
First Grade:
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Day
Are you My Mother?
Bear Snores On
Best Friends for Frances
Blueberries for Sal
Caps for Sale
Christopher Church Mouse Series
Chrysanthemum
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cookies
Corduroy
Dogger
Do unto Otters
Dr. de Soto
Emmanuel’s Dream
Ferdinand the Bull
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Friend
Frog and Toad
Harry the Dirty Dog
I can’t said the Ant
If I ran a Zoo
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Ira Sleeps Over
Ketzel, The Cat that Composed
Lentil
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Little Bear
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Madeline
Make Way for Ducklings
Mouse Soup
Obadiah and Rachel
One Morning in Maine
Petunia
Ping
Please Elephant, Don’t Sneeze
Sam’s Pet Temper
Sheila Rae the Brave
Snowy Day
Strictly No Elephants
The Biggest Bear
The Carrot Seed
The Fire Cat
The First Steps: How One Girl put Segregation on Trial
The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
The Giving Tree
The Hole Story of the Doughnut
The Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats
The Story of Ping
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Wonderful Things you Will Be
Ticki Ticki Tembo
Wemberly Worried
What Do You do with an Idea?
What Do You do with a Problem?
What Do You do with a Chance?
Woodrow, the White House Mouse
Second Grade:
100 Dresses
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Amos and Boris
Anna Hibiscus
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Betsy-Tacy
Billy and Blaze
B is for Betsy
Brave Irene
Charlotte's Web
Daisy Comes Home
Flat Stanley
Happy Jack Squirrel & Other Thornton W.
Henner’s Lydia
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
Janette Oke’s Animal Friends
Katy and the Big Snow
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
Milly Molly Mandy
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Original Thomas Stories by Reverend
Paddle to the Sea
Sarah Plain and Tall
Sooki
Stone Soup
Thank you, Mr. Falker
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and other Beatrix Potter
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
The Boy Who Loved Math
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Crippled Lamb
Thee, Hannah
The Little House
The Littles Series
The Memory Coat
The Olive Series
The Original Winnie the Pooh Series
The Story of Ruby Bridge
The Ugly Duckling
The Velveteen Rabbit
When Jessie Come Across the Sea
Winnie: The Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
You are Special
Third & Fourth Grades:
A Dog Called Kitty
A Little Princess
All of the Kind Family Series
A Young Underground Series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cricket in Times Square
Doctor in Rags
Eddie & Louella
Eddie’s Menagerie
Heart Strangely Warmed
Henry Huggins
Home on the Blue Ridge
Home on the Rock Pile
In Grandma’s Attic
Ink on his Fingers
Lassie Come Home
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Misty of Chincoteague
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
My Side of the Mountain
Night Preacher
Peter and the Pilgrim
Pollyanna
Ralph the Mouse
Strawberry Girl
Stuart Little
Trailblazers Series
The Adventures of a South Pole Pig
The Beggars Bible
The Bible Smuggler
The Borrowers
The Doll People
The King’s Book
The Lion,The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Little House Series
The Man who Laid the Egg
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Moffats
The Railway Children
The Saturdays
The Secret Church
The Secret Garden
The Works of his Hands
Thunderstorm in Church
Fifth & Sixth Grades:
Anne of Green Gables
Blue
Caddie Woodlawn
Caddie Woodlawn’s Family
Celestial Message
Cheaper by the Dozen
Christian Heroes then and Now
Chu Ju’s House
Five Little Peppers
Ginger Pye
God Knows My Size
Freedom Seekers Series
I Survived...
Jane of Lantern Hill
Listening for Lions
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Number the Stars
Old Yeller
Pinkie Pye
Pollyanna
Prince Caspian
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Shakespeare Stealer
Sounder
Summer of the Monkeys
Swiss Family Robinson
The BFG
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
The Dawn Treader
The Earth is Round
The Horse and His Boy
The House of Sixty Fathers
The Lost Prince
The Sign of the Beaver
Tom Sawyer
Trumpet of the Swan
Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Where the Red Grows
Seventh & Eighth Grades:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Across Five April
Adam of the Road
A Girl of the Limberlost
Animal Farm
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
Anne of Avonlea and the Rest
Around the World in Eighty Days
Angels on Call
Bridge Called Hope
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Chinese Ginger Jars
Eight Cousins
End of the Spear
Esperanza Rising
Freckles
God’s Smuggler
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
Homer Price
I am Malala (Teen Version)
Johnny Tremain
Kisses for Katie
Little Men
Little Women
Mars Diaries
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Pilgrim’s Progress
Peace Child
Prelandrera
Queen of the Dark Chamber
Red Scarf Girl
Safely Home
Saving Kabul Corner
Screwtape Letters
Shooting Kabul
Sign of the Beaver
Ten Fingers for God
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Boy on the Wooden Box
The Bronze Bow
The Hobbit
The Insanity of God
The Last Battle
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Pushcart Wars
The Silver Chair
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
The Trumpeter of Krakow
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Thunder Dog
To Kill a Mockingbird