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- Pre-Kindergarten
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- Sixth Grade
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |