Recommended Reading Lists
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Read-Aloud Program - List #2

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
All About Alfie by Shirley Hughes
Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack
Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm by Carla Steens
Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown
Aunt Minnie McGranahan by Mary Skillings Prigger
Baby in a Basket by Gloria Rand
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed by Helen Cooper
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Bill Martin, Jr.
Call me Ahnighito by Pam Conrad
A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
Chewy Louie by Howie Schneider
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Corduory by Don Freeman
Courage of Sarah Nobel by Alice Dalgliesh
Curious George by H.A. Rey
The Cut-Ups Cut Loose by James Marshall
Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle
Dreamland by Roni Schotter
Edward and the Pirates by David McPhail
Erandi's Braids by Antonio Hernandez Madrigal
Fairy and Folk Tales such as The Arabian Nights, Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children, From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women
Frederick by Leo Lionni
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
The Gingerbread Boy retold by Richard Egielski
Grandaddy's Place by Helen Griffith
Harry in Trouble by Barbara Ann Porte
The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber
The Hunter by Paul Geraghty
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
The Island of the Skog by Steven Kellogg
Jack and the Beanstock by John Howe
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Little Red Riding Hood retold by Trina Schart Hyman
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Mailing May by Michael O Tunnell
Make Way for the Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Matthew's Dragon by Susan Cooper
May We Sleep Here Tonight? By Tan Koide
Max by Bob Graham
Max's Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Toggle's Zipper by Robin Pulver
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Nine for California by Sonia Levitin
No Jumping on the Bed by Tedd Arnold
No, No, Jo! By Kate and Jim McMullan
Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley by Evan Levine
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
The Pied Piper of Hamelin retold by Robert Holden
The Poppy Seeds by Robert Clyde Bulla
Red's Great Chase by Simone Lia
Regards to the Man in the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats
Rip-Roaring Russell by Johanna Hurwitz
Rolie Poli Olie by William Joyce
Rotten Teeth by Laura Simms
Saving Sweetness by Diane Stanely
The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague
The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
The Stories of Julian Tells
The Story of Little Babaji by Helen annerman
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Thomas Mead by Pat Hutchins
The Three Robbers b Tomi Ungerer
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
Truman's Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
What's Under My Bed? By James Steenson
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Where's My Teddy? By Jez Alborough
Where's Waldo? By Martin Handford
William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow
Wolf Story by William McCleery
Zeke Pippin by William Steig

Third - Fifth Grade

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Big Jabe by Jerdine Nolen
Brave Irene by William Steig
By the Dawn's Early Light: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner by Steven Kroll
Captain Abdul's Pirate School by Colin McNaughton
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
A Day's Work by Eve Bunting
Disaster! Catastrophes That Shook the World by Richard Bonson and Richard Platt
Don't Go Near that Rabbit, Frank! By Pam Conrad
Encounter by Jane Yolen
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
A Gift for Tia Rosa by Karen Taha
Gulliver's Adventures in Lilliput by Jonathan Swift
Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Johnny on the Spot by Edward Sorel
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii by Fay Stanley
The Legend of the Bluebonnet retold by Tomie Depaola
The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes
A Little Excitement by Marc Harshman
The Lost Children retold by Paul Goble
The Magic Paintbrush by Robin Muller
Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky
The Minpins by Roald Dahl
Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill
Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
Nicholas Pipe by Robert San Souci
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
The Principal's New Clothes by Stephanie Calmenson
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
The Samurai's Daughter by Robert D San Souci
A School for Pompey Walker by Michael Rosen
The Shrinking of Treehorn by Florence Parry Heide
The Silver Pony by Lynd Ward
Sleep Out by Carol Carrick
Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella by Alan chroede
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
This Time, Tempe Wick? By Patricia Lee Gaugh
Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch
Tintin in Tibet by Herge
The Tree That Would Not Die by Ellen Levine
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree Mitchell
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
The Whingdingdilly by Bill Peet
The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg

Short Novels - Grades 3rd - 5th

The Bear's Home by Marilyn Sachs
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith
The Friendship by Mildren Taylor
Frindle by Andre Clements
The Half A-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford
Herbie Jones by Suzy Kline
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes
Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Littles by John Peterson
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
Old YellerOld Yeller by Fred Gipson
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Sara Crewe by Frances Hogson Burnett
Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla
Skinnybones by Barbara Park
The Smartest Man in Ireland by Mollie Hunter
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
Stargone John by Ellen Kindt McKenzie
The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera Propp
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Full-Length Novels 3rd - 5th Grade

The Adventures of Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
Bambi by Felix Salten
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
Caddie Woodlawn
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catlng
Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallac
A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote
Francie by Karen English
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
The Gift of the Pirate Queen by Patricia Reilly Giff
Gratefully Yours by Jane Buchanan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
The Indian in the Cupboard y Lynne Reid Banks
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
The Land I Lost by Huynh Quang Nhuong
Lilly's Crossing by Patrica Reilly Giff
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh
The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C.O'Brien
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead
Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Brunett
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
Street Child by Berlie Doherty
A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady
The Trolls by Polly Horvath
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Under the Bridge by Ellen Kindt McKenzie
Weasel by Cynthia Defelice
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (poetry)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

6th Grade and Up

Baseball in April by Gary Soto
The Friendship by Mildred Taylor
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Purple Deaths: The Mysterious Flu of 1918 by David Getz
The Rifle by Gary Paulsen
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
Stone Fox by John R. Gardiner
A Taste of Blackberries by Doris B. Smith
The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Patterson
Bud, Not Buddy (by Christopher Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Church
Caddie Woodlawn by by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Captain Grey by Ava
The Case of the Baker Street Irregularity
A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes by Louis Sachar
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
My Daniel by Pam Conrad
North to Freedom by Annie Holm
Nothing But the Truth: A documentary Novel by Avi
Nothing to Fear by Jackie French Kollier
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
Plague Year by Stephanie Tolan
The Rebounder by Thomas Dygard
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell
Scorpions by Waler Dean Myers
Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman
Snow Bound by Harry Mazer
Sour Land by William H. Armstrong
Tangerine by Edwrad Bloor
Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen
Thunder Cave by Roland Smith
The War of Jenkin's Ear by Michael Morpurgo
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree By Bill Britain
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Word by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen