Book Title - Grade Level
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Kindergarten

Brown Bear, Brown Bear - Bill Martin, Jr.
Green Eggs And Ham - Dr. Seuss
Gregory, The Terrible Eater - Mitchell Sharmat
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie - Laura Numeroff
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes
Miss Spider's Tea Party - David Kirk
The Cat In The Hat - Dr. Seuss
The Spooky Old Tree - Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

 

 

First Grade
Alexander And The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
Arthur's Tooth - Marc Brown
Berlioz The Bear - Jan Brett
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - Judi Barrett
Frog And Toad All Year - Arnold Lobel
Frog And Toad Together - Arnold Lobel
Make Way For Ducklings - Robert McClosky
Strega Nona - Tomie dePaola
The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats

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Second Grade
From Seed To Plant - Gail Gibbons
Mirette On The High Wire - Emily McCully
One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes
Stone Soup - Ann McGovern
Sylvester And The Magic Pebble - William Steig
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash - Trinka Noble
The Mixed -Up Chameleon - Eric Carle
The Tiny Seed- Eric Carle
The Tortoise And The Hare - Janet Stevens
When The Wind Stops - Charlotte Zolotow

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Third Grade
Alejandro's Gift - Richard E. Albert
Arthur Writes A Story - Marc Brown
If You Made A Million - David Schwartz
Officer Buckle And Gloria - Peggy Rathmann
Ramona Forever - Beverly Cleary
The Armadillo From Amarillo - Lynne Cherry
The Stories Julian Tells - Ann Cameron
Yippee-Yay! A Book About Cowboys And Cowgirls - Gail Gibbons

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Fourth Grade
A Picture Book Of Scagawea - David A. Adler
Danny, The Champion Of The World - Roald Dahl
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary
Frindle - Andrew Clements
Sarah Plain And Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
Seaman's Journal:On the Trail with Lewis and Clark - Patricia Reeder Eubank
The Captain's Dog
The Magic School Bus And The Electric Field Trip - Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen
The Wheel On The School - Meindert DeJong
Where The Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls

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Fifth Grade
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Holes- Louis Sachar
Island Of The Blue Dophin - Scott O'Dell
Lost On A Mountain In Maine - Donn Fendler
Number The Stars - Lois Lowry
Pedro's Journal - Pam Conrad
Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sounder - William Armstrong
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt

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Sixth Grade
A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
Rosa Parks - Mary E. Hull
The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell
The Car - Gary Paulsen
The Watstons Go to Birmingham - Christopher Paul Curtis
Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikaelsen

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Seventh Grade
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Gentlehands - M.E. Kerr
Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth Speare

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Eighth Grade
Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt
Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Behind Rebel Lines - Seymour Reit
Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
Ironman - Chris Crutcher
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
Nothing But The Truth - Avi
The Contender - Robert Lipsyte
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
To Be A Slave - Julius Lester

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Ninth Grade
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
Romeo And Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

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Tenth Grade
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
Night - Elie, Wiesel
OnThe Beach - Nevil Shute
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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