Reading List

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one and the same."
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First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade | Seventh Grade | Eighth Grade

First Grade, Mrs. Diana Jones

   

Fiction and Non-Fiction

   
Amazing Grace   Hoffman, Mary
Amelia Bedelia   Parish, Peggy
An Arthur Adventure   Brown, Marc
Arthur's Honey Bee   Hoban, Lillian
Ask Mr. Bear   Flack, Marjorie
Bently and Egg   Joyce, William
Blueberries for Sal   McCloskey, Robert
Caps for Sale   Slobodkina, Esphyr
Charlotte's Web   White, E.B.
Cherries and Cherry Pits   Williams, Vera B.
Corduroy   Freeman, Dan
Cross Country Cat   Calhoun, Mary
Dinotopia   Gurney, James
Do Animals Dream?   Pope, Joyce
Fossils Tell of Long Ago   Aliki
Frederick   Lionni, Leo
Goodnight Moon   Brown, Margaret Wise
Grandfather's Journey   Say, Allen
Grandpa's Face   Greenfield, Eloise
Henry and Mudge   Rylant, Cynthia
Honey I Love   Greenfield, Eloise
How Many Days to America?   Bunting, Eve
Humphrey and the Lost Whale   Tukuda, Wendy & Hall, Richard
Ira Sleeps Over   Waber, Bernard
Knots on a Counting Rope   Martin, Bill Jr.
Koko's Story   Patterson, Francine
Miss Rumphius   Cooney, Barbara
Muggie Maggie   Cleary, Beverly
New Kid on the Block   Prelutsky, Jack
Now One Foot, Now the Other   de Paola, Tomie
Ox-Cart Men   Hall, Donald
Polar Express   Van Allsburg, Chris
Q is for Duck   Elting, Mary
Sarah, Plain And Tall   MacLachlan, Patricia
Seven Chinese Brothers   Mahy, Margaret
Shaka: King of the Zulus   Stanley, Diane & Vennema, Peter
Sleeping Ugly   Yolen, Jane
Snakes   Simon, Seymour
Snowy Day   Keats, Ezra Jack
Stone Soup   McGovern, Ann
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble   Steig, William
Tales of Amanda Pig   Van Leuwen, Jean
The Discovery of America   Maestro, Betsy
The Doorbell Rang   Hutchins, Pat
The Gingerbread Man   Galdone, Jean
The Giving Tree   Silverstein, Shel
The Josefina Story Quilt   Coerr, Eleanor
The Keeping Quilt   Polacco, Patricia
The Little Monkeys   Christelow, Eileen
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale   Brett, Jan
The Paperbag Princess   Munsch, Robert
The Tale of Peter Rabbit   Potter, Beatrix
The Ugly Duckling   Anderson, Hans Christian
The Very Hungry Caterpillar   Carle, Eric
Tree of Life   Bas, Barbara
Winnie the Pooh   Milne, A.A.

 

Folklore

   
Charlie Needs a Cloak   de Paola, Tomie
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters   Steptoe, John
The Day the Goose Got Loose   Lindbergh, Reeve
The Enormous Watermelon   Parkes and Smith
The Golden Goose   Grimm, Wilhelm & Jacob
The Rough Faced Girl   Martin, Rafe
The Three Billy Goats Gruff   Galdone, Paul
The Turnip   Morgan, Pierr
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears   Aardema, Verna

 
   

Fantasy and Science Fiction

   
A House for Hermit Crab   Carle, Eric
Big Old Bones   Carrick, Carol
Catwing   LeGuin, Ursula
Commander Toad   Yolen, Jane
Dinosaur Dream   Nolan, Dennis
Hattie and the Fox   Fox, Mem
James and the Giant Peach   Dahl, Roald
Knights of the Kitchen Table   Scieszka, Jon
Magic School Bus Series   Cole, Joanna & Egen, Bruce
Mouse on a Motorcycle   Cleary, Beverly
On Market Street   Lobel, Arnold
Polar Express   Van Allsburg, Chris
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble   Steig, William
The Little Engine That Could   Piper, Watty
The Wizard of Oz   Baum, Frank L.
Where the Wild Things Are   Sendak, Maurice

 
   
Poetry

   
A Child's Garden of Verses   Stevenson, Robert Louis
A Treasury of Best Loved Rhymes   Mother Goose
And Action Rhymes   Calmenson, Stephanie & Cole Joana
Chicken Soup with Rice   Sendak, Maurice
Each Peach, Pear, Plum   Ahlberg, Janet & Allan
Owl Moon   Yolen, Jane
The Ballad of the Pirate Queen   Yolen, Jane
The Eensy Weensy Spider: Fingerplays    
Where the Sidewalk Ends   Silverstein, Shel
     
Publications    
Highlights    
News Pilot    
Ranger Rick    
World Magazine    

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Second Grade,
Mrs. Giovanna Mugrace-Taylor

   
A Chair For My Mother   Williams, Vera B.
A Pocket for Corduroy   Freeman, Don
Abuela   Dorros, Arthur
Blueberries for Sal   McCloskey, Robert
Dr. De Soto   Steig, William
Frog and Toad   Lobel, Arnold
Get Out of Bed   Munsch, Robert
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie   Joffe Numeroff, Laura
Miss Rumphius   Cooney, Barbara
Swimmy   Lionni, Leo
The Art Lesson   de Paola, Tomie
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash   Hakes Noble, Trinka
The Great Kapok Tree   Cherry, Lynne
The Paperbag Princess   Munsch, Robert
The Patchwork Quilt   Flournoy, Valerie

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Third Grade, Mrs. Kimberly Sullivan

   
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   Dahl, Roald
Good Grief Third Grade   O'Shaughnessy McKenna, Collen
How to Eat Fried Worms   Rockwell, Thomas
Magic Tree House (book series)   Pope Osbourne, Mary*
Matilda   Dahl, Roald
Ramona (book series)   Cleary, Beverly*
The Mouse and the Motorcycle   Cleary, Beverly
     
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Fourth Grade, Mrs. Philomena Prior

   
Because of Winn Dixie   DeCamillo, Kate
Mr. Popper's Penguins   Atwater, Florence and Richard
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing   Blume, Judy
The Mouse and the Motorcycle   Cleary, Beverly

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Fifth Grade, Emilia Randazzo

   
Across Five Aprils   Hunt
Amos Fortune, Free Man   Yates
A Single Shard   Park
By The Great Horn Spoon   Fleischman
Call It Courage   Sperry
Dragon's Gate   Yep
Eggs   Spinelli
Fig Pudding   Fletcher
The .25 Miracle   Nelson
Good Bye, Mr. Chips   Hilton
Island of the Blue Dolphins   O'Dell
Joshua's Song   Harlow
Misty and Me   Girion
Mountain Light   Yep
Number the Stars   Lowry
Numbering All the Bones   Rinaldi
Out of the Dust   Hesse
Shimmershine Queens   Yarborough
The Breadwinner   Ellis
The Cat Who Went to Heaven   Coatsworth
The Chocolate Touch   Catling
The Wish Giver   Brittain
The Watsons go to Birmingham   Hilton
Which Way Freedom   Hansen
White Fang   London

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Sixth Grade, Mrs. Victoria DiBiasi

   
Call of the Wild   London, Jack
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil    
E. Frankweiler   Konigsburg, E.L.
Maniac Magee   Spinelli, Jerry

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Seventh Grade, Mrs. Linda Delicce

   
My Brother Sam is Dead   Collier, James L. and Christopher
The Outsiders   Hinton, S.E.
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry   Taylor, Mildred

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Eighth Grade, Mrs. Teresa Berrisford

   
And Then There Were None   Christie, Agatha
The Pigman's Legacy   Zindel, Paul
The Witch of Blackbird Pond   Speare, Elizabeth George

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