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Pre-Kindergarten Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? | Martin, Jr., Bill | E MAR |
Corduroy | Freeman, Don | E FRE |
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed | Christelow, Eileen | E CHR |
I Want to Be a Veterinarian | Driscoll, Laura | J 636.089 D |
I Wish I Was a Polar Bear | Bove, Jennifer | J 599.786.B |
If You’re Happy and You Know It | Warhola, James | E WAR |
I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean | Sherry, Kevin | E SHE |
Llama Llama Red Pajama | Dewdney, Anna | E DEW |
Mouse Paint | Walsh, Ellen Stoll | E WAL |
Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus | Dean, James | E DEA |
Rhyming Dust Bunnies | Thomas, Jan | E THO |
Row, Row, Row Your Boat | Cabrera, Jane | E CAB |
Sheep in a Jeep | Shaw, Nancy | E SHA |
Snuggle Up with Mother Goose | Opie, Iona Archibald | E GHA |
Stack the Cats | Ghahremani, Susie | E GHA |
Twohy, Mike | E TWO | |
Tap the Magic Tree | Matheson, Christie | E MAT |
There’s a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake | Long, Loren | E LON |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle, Eric | E CAR |
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen, Michael | E ROS |
Kindergarten Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin, Jr., Bill and John Archambault | E MAR |
Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type | Cronin, Doreen | E CRO |
Daywalt, Drew | E DAY | |
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Willems, Mo | E WIL |
Frog and Fly: Six Slurpy Stories | Mack, Jeff | E MAC |
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? | Yolen, Jane | E YOL |
How Rocket Learned to Read | Hills, Tad | E HIL |
I Hear a Pickle (And Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!) | Isadora, Rachel. | E ISA |
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! | Carlson, Nancy L. | E CAR |
I Wish I Was a Wolf | Bove, Jennifer | J 599.773 B |
The Kissing Hand | Penn, Audrey | E PEN |
Lola Plants a Garden | McQuinn, Anna | E MCQ |
No, David! | Shannon, David | E SHA |
Falconer, Ian | E FAL | |
A Puppy for Helen Keller | Nakamura, May | J 636.7 N |
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | Litwin, Eric | E LIT |
Please, Mr. Panda | Antony, Steve | E ANT |
Supertruck | Savage, Stephen | E SAV |
Where Is the Green Sheep? | Fox, Mem and Judy Horacek | E FOX |
Wild About Books | Sierra, Judy | E SIE |
Z Is for Moose | Bingham, Kelly L. | E BIN |
First Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
All the Way to Havana | Engle, Margarita | E ENG/ON THE GO E ENG |
Hale, Bruce | E HAL | |
Clever Jack Takes the Cake | Fleming, Candace | E FLE/FAIRY TALES E FLE |
Rey, H.A. | E REY/FAVORITE FRIENDS E REY | |
Dory Fantasmagory | Hanlon, Abby | J FIC HAN |
Rubin, Adam | E RUB/FOOD E RUB | |
Duck, Duck Porcupine! | Yoon, Salina | ER YOO |
Froggy Gets Dressed | London, Jonathan | E LON |
Hi! Fly Guy | Arnold, Tedd | ER ARN |
Interrupting Chicken | Stein, David Ezra | E STE |
My Toothbrush is Missing | Thomas, Jan
|
ER THO |
Officer Buckle and Gloria | Rathmann, Peggy | E RAT/SCHOOL E RAT |
A Piece of Home | Watts, Jeri | E WAT/GROWING UP E WAT |
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré | Denise, Anika Aldamuy | J B BELPRE |
Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade | Greene, Stephanie | J FIC GRE |
Ride, Otto, Ride! | Milgrim, David | ER MIL |
Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival | Moore, Lindsay | J 599.786 M |
This Is Not My Hat | Klassen, Jon | E KLA |
We Are in a Book! | Willems, Mo | ER WIL |
Where’s Rodney? | Bogan, Carmen | E BOG/NATURE E BOG |
Second Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Amy and the Missing Puppy | Barkley, Callie | J FIC BAR |
Bad Kitty: Camp Daze | Bruel, Nick | J FIC BRU |
Bookmarks Are People Too! | Winkler, Henry & Lin Oliver | J FIC WIN |
Bread and Jam for Frances | Hoban, Russell | ER HOB |
Breathe with Me: Using Breath to Feel Strong, Calm, and Happy | Gates, Mariam | J 613.192 G |
Dinosaurs Before Dark | Osborne, Mary Pope | J FIC OSB |
Eva Sees a Ghost | Elliott, Rebecca | J FIC ELL |
Frog and Toad are Friends | Lobel, Arnold | ER LOB |
Hello, Nebulon! | O’Ryan, Ray | J FIC ORY |
Horrible Harry and the Dragon War | Kline, Suzy | J FIC KLI |
Humphrey’s Really Wheely Racing Day | Birney, Betty G. | J FIC BIR |
Ivy + Bean | Barrows, Annie | J FIC BAR |
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Park, Barbara | J FIC PAR |
Mercy Watson to the Rescue | DiCamillo, Kate | J FIC DIC |
The Princess in Black | Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale | J FIC HAL |
Rise of the Earth Dragon | West, Tracey | J FIC WES |
Stink, the Incredible Shrinking Kid | McDonald, Megan | J FIC MCD |
Sweet Senior Pups | Einhorn, Kama | J 636.7 E |
Tales for Very Picky Eaters | Schneider, Josh | ER SCH |
When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | Mahin, Michael | J B SANTANA |
Third Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
The Boxcar Children | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | J FIC WAR |
Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure | Cronin, Doreen | J FIC CRO |
Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way! | Voake, Steve | J FIC VOA |
Dragonbreath | Vernon, Ursula | J FIC VER |
Fairest of All | Mlynowski, Sarah | J FIC MLY |
I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 | Tarshis, Lauren |
J FIC TAR |
Judy Moody | McDonald, Megan | J FIC MCD |
The Lemonade War | Davies, Jacqueline | J FIC DAV |
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye | Stilton, Geronimo | J FIC STI |
The Mount Rushmore Calamity | Brown, Jeff | J FIC BRO |
Mrs. Noodlekugel and the Four Blind Mice | Pinkwater, Daniel Manus | J FIC PIN |
The Race to Chimney Rock | Wiley, Jesse | J FIC WIL |
The Sasquatch Escape | Selfors, Suzanne | J FIC SEL |
Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Sachar, Louis | J FIC SAC |
Start Now: You Can Make a Difference | Clinton, Chelsea | J 646.7 C |
Krulik, Nancy E | J FIC KRU | |
Tornado | Byars, Betsy | J FIC BYA |
Welcome, Wombat | Einhorn, Kama | J 599.24 E |
The World According to Humphrey | Birney, Betty G. | J FIC BIR |
Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom | Holub, Joan | J FIC HOL |
Fourth Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Because of Winn-Dixie | DiCamillo, Kate | J FIC DIC |
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild | Thimmesh, Catherine | J 599.789 T |
Charlotte’s Web | White, E.B. | J FIC WHI |
Dragons in a Bag | Elliott, Zetta | J FIC ELL |
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library | Grabenstein, Chris | J FIC GRA |
Front Desk | Yang, Kelly |
J FIC YAN |
Hello, Universe | Kelly, Erin Entrada | J FIC KEL |
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka |
Scieszka, Jon | J B SCIESZKA |
A Long Way from Chicago | Peck, Richard | J FIC PEC |
Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | J FIC WIL |
The Maze of Bones | Riordan, Rick | J FIC THI |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | DiCamillo, Kate | J FIC DIC |
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish | O’Hara, Mo | J FIC OHA |
Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge:George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away |
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong | J B JUDGE |
The One and Only Ivan | Applegate, Katherine | J FIC APP |
Sisters | Telgemeier, Raina | GN J B TELGEMEIER |
The Seer of Shadows | Angleberger, Tom | J FIC ANG |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Blume, Judy | J FIC BLU |
The Terrible Two | Barnett, Mac & Jory John | J FIC BAR |
The Wild Robot | Brown, Peter | J FIC BRO |
Colfer, Chris | J FIC COL |
Fifth Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
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Among the Hidden | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | J FIC HAD |
Blood on the River | Carbone, Elisa | J FIC CAR |
Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | J FIC PAT |
The Dark Thirty | McKissack, Pat | J FIC MCK |
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler |
Hendrix, John | J 230.044 H |
Fish In a Tree | Hunt, Lynda Mullaly | J FIC HUN |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Barnhill, Kelly | J FIC BAR |
Harbor Me | Woodson, Jacqueline | J FIC WOO |
Inside Out & Back Again | Lai, Thanhha | J FIC LAI |
Lawn Boy | Paulsen, Gary | J FIC PAU |
Masterpiece | Broach, Elise | J FIC BRO |
The Mysterious Howling | Wood, Maryrose | J FIC WOO |
One Crazy Summer | Williams-Garcia, Rita | J FIC WIL |
Refugee | Gratz, Alan | J FIC GRA |
Save Me a Seat | Weeks, Sarah and Gita Varadarajan | J FIC WEE |
Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill | Montgomery, Heather L. | J 591.7 M |
Swindle | Korman, Gordon | J FIC KOR |
Wait Till Helen Comes | Hahn, Mary Downing | J FIC HAH |
When You Reach Me | Stead, Rebecca | J FIC STE |
Wonder | Palacio, R.J. | J FIC PAL |
Sixth Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid |
Thuras, Dylan | J 910.41 T |
Alexander, Kwame | J FIC ALE | |
The City of Ember | DuPrau, Jeanne | J FIC DUP |
Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz | YA FIC RYA |
Ghost | Reynolds, Jason | J FIC REY |
The Giver | Lowry, Lois | YA FIC LOW |
Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | YA FIC PAU |
Island of the Blue Dolphins | O’Dell, Scott | J FIC ODE |
Lone Stars | Lupica, Mike | J FIC LUP |
A Long Walk to Water | Park, Linda Sue | J FIC PAR |
A Million Ways Home | Winget, Dianna Dorisi | J FIC WIN |
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl | McAnulty, Stacy | J FIC MCA |
The Player King | Avi | J FIC AVI |
Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale | Hale, Nathan | GN J 940.5425 H |
The Serpent’s Secret | DasGupta, Sayantani | J FIC DAS |
Spy School | Gibbs, Stuart | J FIC GIB |
Squirm | Hiaasen, Carl | J FIC HIA |
The War That Saved My Life | Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | J FIC BRA |
Where the Red Fern Grows | Rawls, Wilson | J FIC RAW |
A Wrinkle in Time | L’Engle, Madeleine | J FIC LEN |
Seventh Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Brown Girl Dreaming | Woodson, Jacqueline | J B WOODSON |
Cinder | Meyer, Marissa | YA FIC MEY |
Counting By 7s | Sloan, Holly Goldberg | YA FIC SLO |
Doll Bones | Black, Holly | J FIC BLA |
Drama | Telgemeier, Raina | GN J FIC TEL |
The Eighth Day | Salerni, Dianne K. | J FIC SAL |
Fever, 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | YA FIC AND |
The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century | Bascomb, Neal | YA 940.4 B |
Into the Wild | Hunter, Erin | YA FIC HUN |
It All Comes Down to This | English, Karen | J FIC ENG |
Last Man Out | Lupica, Mike | J FIC LUP |
The Maze Runner | Dashner, James | YA FIC DAS |
A Million Shades of Gray | Kadohata, Cynthia | J FIC KAD |
A Night Divided | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | J FIC NIE |
Night of the Howling Dogs | Salisbury, Graham | J FIC SAL |
No Better Friend: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of | Weintraub, Robert | YA 940.547252 W |
Okay for Now | Schmidt, Gary D. | YA FIC SCH |
The Ruins of Gorlan | Flanagan, John | J FIC FLA |
Scythe | Shusterman, Neal | YA FIC SHU |
The Thing About Jellyfish | Benjamin, Ali | J FIC BEN |
Eighth Grade Suggested Reading List
Title | Author | Call Number |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Alexie, Sherman | YA FIC ALE |
Akata Witch | Okorafor, Nnedi | YA FIC OKO |
Along for the Ride | Dessen, Sarah | YA FIC DES |
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie | Sonnenblick, Jordan | YA FIC SON |
Endangered | Schrefer, Eliot | YA FIC SCH |
Eragon | Paolini, Christopher | YA FIC PAO |
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia | Fleming, Candace | YA 947.083 F |
Hey, Kiddo | Krosoczka, Jarrett J. | GN YA B KROSOCZKA |
Hideout | Key, Watt | YA FIC KEY |
The Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne | YA FIC COL |
Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults: A True Story of the Fight for Justice | Stevenson, Bryan | YA B STEVENSON |
Long Way Down | Reynolds, Jason | YA FIC REY |
Mark of the Thief | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | YA FIC NIE |
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Riggs, Ransom | YA FIC RIG |
The Outsiders | Hinton, S.E. | YA FIC HIN |
Skink No Surrender | Hiaasen, Carl | YA FIC HIA |
Stargirl | Spinelli, Jerry | YA FIC SPI |
Alexander, Kwame | YA FIC ALE | |
Tangerine | Bloor, Edward | YA FIC BLO |
Warcross | Lu, Marie | YA FIC LU |