Suggested Reading List for K-8
Kindergarten
Astronauts Are Sleeping by Natalie Standiford
Chicka Chicka ABC by Bill Martin
The Chicken Sisters by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Leaf Man by William Joyce
Market Day by Eve Bunting
Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Prairie Primer A to Z by Caroline Stutson
The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Visiting the Art Museum by Laurene Krasny Brown
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss
First Grade
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Bears’ Picnic by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bedtime for Francis by Russell Hoban
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Caps For Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Franklin Rides a Bike by Paulette Bourgeois
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Listening Walk by Paul Showers
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood
Ten Apples Upon Top by Theodore LeSieg
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
The True Storyof the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Second Grade
The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca
Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) by Peggy Parish
The Case of the Spooky Sleepover, Jigsaw Jones Mystery #4 by James Preller
Chicken Soup with Rice, A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy #12 by Barbara Park
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh
Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Tonight on the Titanic, Magic Tree House #17 by Mary Pope Osbourne
You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger
Zelda and Ivy by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Third Grade
The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective ( Series #1)by Donald Sobol
Go Free or Die, A Story about Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Poppy by Avi
Poppy and Rye by Avi
Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
What are you Figuring Now? A Story about Benjamin Banneker by Jeri Ferris
Fourth Grade
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Babysitters Club #2) by Ann Martin
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
Fudge - A - Mania by Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Jacob Two - Two Meets trhe Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
Mrs. Frisley and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
Native American Doctor, The Storyof Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cow Dog by John Erickson
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon
A Share of Freedom by June Rae Wood
Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Time For Andrew, A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Fifth Grade
The Absent Author by Ron Roy
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield
The Enchanted Book by Ruth Chew
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Ghost School by Eth Clifford
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
Koya Delaney & the Good Girl Blues by Elaine Greenfield
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! by Gordon Korman
The Mouse & the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements
Return of the Homerun Kid by Matt Christopher
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting
Sixth Grade
A Ghost in the House by Betty Ren Wright
The Cybil War by Betsy Byars
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Help! I’m Trapped in the First Day of School by Todd Strasser
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith
Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
The Slim Jim Series by Elviran Woodroff
Sounder by William Armstrong
Super Fudge by Judy Blume
Seventh Grade
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Journey From the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
The Maze by Will Hobbs
Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller and David Wingrove
Night by Elie Wiesel
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Redwall by Brian Jacques
River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
Star by Jerry Spinelli
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Eighth Grade
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Children of the River by Linda Crew
The Chosen by Chaim Potak
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flogg
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Midget by Tim Bowler
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
