Recommended Reading List

Listed below are titles and authors, grouped according to grade level and appropriateness.

Kindergarten-Grade 2

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
• Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
• The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale by Jan Brett
• An Arthur Adventure by Marc Brown
• Arthur’s Jelly Beans by Marc Brown
• Arthur’s Science Fair Trouble by Marc Brown
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, said the Sloth by Eric Carle
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• One Red Rooster by Kathleen Carrol
• Ten Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow
• Vote! by Eileen Christelow
• A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
• Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
• Fairy Tails, Folk Tales and Fables by Dorothy Daniel
• Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
• Old Granny and the Bean Thief by Cynthia DeFelice
• Q is for Duck by Mary Elting
• Olivia by Ian Falconer
• Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer
• Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
• Tough Boris by Mem Fox
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone
• Back to School for Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos
• Addition Annie by David Gisler
• Where Does it Go? by Bill Graham
• The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
• I Touch, I Hear, I See by Rachel Isadora
• Pecos Bill by Patsy Jensen
• Golden Retrievers by Stuart Kallen
• Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
• Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty
• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
• Can You Guess?/Hats, Hats, Hats by Margaret Miller
• Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
• Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff
• Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne
• Amelia Bedelia Series by Peggy Parish
• Junie B. Jones Series by Barbara Park
• The Littles by John Lawrence Peterson
• Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
• New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
• It’s About Time, Max! by Kitty Richards
• My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
• Tricky Tongue Twisters by Joseph Rosenbloom
• Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
• Stories about Rosie by Cynthia Rylant
• Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Carl R. Sams
• Butterflies by Mari C. Schuh
• Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak
• Don’t Laugh at Me by Steve Seskin
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
• Meet the Gizmos by John Tocco
• Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Stories about Rosie by Cynthia Voight
• Atomic Ace by Jeff Weigel
• The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
• Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation by Mark Teague

Recommended Authors

• Jan Brett
• Norman Bridwell
• Marc Brown
• Eric Carle
• Tomie dePaola
• Gail Gibbons
• Kevin Henkes
• Pat Hutchins
• Leo Lionni
• Arnold Lobel
• Robert McCloskey
• Barbara Park
• Patricia Polacco
• Cynthia Rylant
• Mark Teague
• Jane Yolen

Grade 3 – 5

• The Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbot
• Cam Jansen by David Adler
• Thank You, Sarah by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Journey to Nowhere by Mary Jane Auch
• Poppy by Avi
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
• The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
• All Keyed Up by Matt Christopher
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• The School Story by Andrew Clements
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Di’Camillo
• The Tales of Despereaux by Kate Di’Camillo
• Tiger Rising by Kate Di’Camillo
• Spiderwick Series by Tony Di’Terlizzi
• Bailey School Kids Series by Debbie Dadey
• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
• Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. by James T. DeKay
• The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
• Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans
• The Warm Place by Nancy Farmer
• Go Free or Die: A Story of Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
• True Stories About Abraham Lincoln by Ruth Belov Gross
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Sable by Karen Hesse
• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Lucy Rose by Katy Kelly
• Pearl Harbor is Burning by Kathleen Kudlinski
• Fables by Arnold Lobel
• Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
• Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
• Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
• Spider Kane by Mary Pope Osborne
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Alida’s Song by Gary Paulsen
• When Lightening Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco
• Where the Red Fern Grows by William Rawls
• Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• George W. Bush by Patrick Ryan
• Wayside School by Louis Sachar
• Time Warp Trio Series by Jon Scieszka
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• A Series of Unfortunate of Events by Lemony Snicket
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• Stuart Little by E.B. White
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Did You See What I Saw? by Kay Winters
• Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker by Carolyn Meyer
• Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O’Dell and Elizabeth Hall
• The Adventures of the Cat with the Missing Ear Collected and Edited by Scott Emerson

Recommended Authors

• Tony Abbot
• David Adler
• Judy Blume
• Matt Christopher
• Beverly Cleary
• Andrew Clements
• Bruce Coville
• Paula Danziger
• Kate Di’Camillo
• Scott Emerson
• Patricia Reilly Giff
• Elizabeth Hall
• Madeleine L’Engle
• Lois Lowry
• Carolyn Meyer
• Scott O’Dell
• Mary Pope Osborne
• Barbara Park
• Gary Paulsen
• Jack Prelutsky
• J.K. Rowling
• Jon Scieska
• Shel Silverstein
• E.B. White