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Suggested
Literacy Lists
Archdiocese of Hartford
Catholic Schools
Grades K through 12
2011
“Literacy allows the person to develop his possibilities, to broaden his talents, to enrich his relationships…
Literacy and education are an essential duty and investment for humanity's future…”
~Pope John Paul, II, 1995
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May 2011
Dear Teachers,
The following lists of books were created as a guide for you in choosing reading material for your students.
The list does not pretend to be a complete inventory of all that is wonderful in children’s literature. It is, rather,
a collection of award winning titles, titles that teachers in our schools have used with success or that publishers
of approved texts have recommended. To it you should add those pieces of children’s literature that you and
your students treasure.
The books listed are arranged in general grade levels. The placement of a book in a particular grade had as
much to do with the subject matter of the material as the reading level. A book like A Taste of Blackberries is
readable for the average second grader. Its theme of a child dealing with the death of a friend, however, is
usually more appropriate to third or fourth grade.
With this list we make the following recommendations:
Read children’s books. Knowing the literature available to your students will help you find books that
appeal to them and aid in the education process.
Read aloud to your students every day. However old your students may be, they are never too old to
listen to a good story. Read aloud from children’s literature in all subject areas and wherever it is
appropriate in your school day and with your youngsters.
When putting together a reading list for your students, be sure you are familiar with every book you
include. If you haven’t read a particular piece of literature, make sure you know the content of the
material. Read book reviews and annotated bibliographies of children’s literature.
In any supplemental or summer reading list you create, be sure to include nonfiction, drama and poetry.
Never require your students to read a book that you have not read from cover to cover.
Sincerely,
ADH Curriculum Commission 2010
Valerie Mara, Director of Curriculum Design
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Grades K-2
Title
Author
Fiction - Series
I Can Do It Myself
Adams, Diane
Yound Cam Jansen and 100th Day of School
Adler, David
The Stupids
Allard, Harry
Just How Long Can a Long String Be?!
Baker, Keith
Madeline
Bemelmans, Ludwig
The Berenstain Bears
Berenstain, Jan and Stan
Poinsettia
Bond, Felicia
Franklin Series
Bourgeois, Paulette
Not All Animals Are Blue: A Big Book of Little Differences
Boutignon, Beatrice
My First Prayers
Brooks, Jeremy
Flat Stanley
Brown, Jeff
Clifford, The Big Red Dog
Brown, Marc
Rex and Lilly
Brown. L.
The Neighborhood Mother Goose
Crews, Nina
Llama Llama Misses Mama (Great for preschool separation anxiety) Dewdney, Anna
Manners in Public
Finn, Carrie
Star of the Week: A story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles Friedman, Darlene
Zoo Day, ¡Ole!: A Counting Book
Gershator, Phillis
Arthur’s Loose Tooth
Hoban, Lillian
Frog and Toad
Lobel, Arnold
All Mercer Mayer titles
Mayer, Mercer
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Numeroff, Laura
Laura Numeroff Series
Numeroff, Laura
Fancy Nancy
O'Connor, Jane
Magic Tree House
Osborne, Mary Pope
Amelia Bedelia
Parish, Peggy
Junie B. Jones
Park, Barbara
Penguin Series
Pfister, Marcus
Curious George
Rey, H.A.
Henry and Mudge
Rylant, Cynthia
Fiction
The Jolly Postman
Ahlberg, Janet and Allen
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Allard, Harry
Draw Draw Draw
Ames, Lee J.
Two Terrible Frights
Aylesworth, Jim
Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth
Bate, Lucy
Madeleine
Bemelmans, Ludwig.
The Berenstain Bears
Berenstain, Stan and Jan.
Martin’s Hats
Blos Jean
And I Mean It, Stanley
Bonsall, Crosby
Mine’s the Best
Bonsall, Crosby
Tacky the Penguin
Brett, Jan
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Clifford, the Big Red Dog
Bridwell, Norman.
Goodnight, Moon
Brown, Margaret W
The Curious Garden
Brown, Peter
Little Beauty
Browne, Anthony
Big Wolf and Little Wolf
Brun-Cosme, Nadine
My Brother, Ant
Byars, Betsy
Verdi
Cannon, Janel
The Mixed-Up Chameleon
Carle, Eric
The Very Busy Spider
Carle, Eric
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carle, Eric
ABC, I Like Me
Carlson, Nancy
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Child, Lauren
Strega Nona
de Paola, Tomie
Here We All Are
de Paola, Tomie
*All Tomie dePaola Books
dePaola, Tomie
God Says I Am
Derico, Laura
The Story of Easter
Doyle, Christopher
Go Away Big Green Monster
Emberley, Ed
Olivia
Falconer, Ian
Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live in Room 10
Finchler, Judy
All the World
Frazee, Marla and Lane, Beach
Iggy Pig's Snowball Fight
French, Vivian
Millions of Cats
G’ag, Wanda
A Book
Gerstein, Mordicai
A Peek Into My Church
Goody, Wendy and Veronica Kelly
A Country Far Away
Gray, Nigel
That's What a Friend Is
Hallinan, P.K.
The Wolf Who Cried Boy
Hartman, Bob
Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!
Hayes, Geoffrey
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret
Heide, Florence Parry
Birds (Perfect for pre-school)
Henkes, Kevin
Chrysanthamum
Henkes, Kevin
Amy Loves the Fall
Hoban, Julia
Sammy the Seal
Hoff, Sid
Amazing Grace
Hoffman, Mary
The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin
Kellogg, Steven
Why Am I here?
Kelly, Matthew
The Three Little Tamales
Kimmel, Eric
Miss Spider's Tea Party
Kirk, David
Horrible Harry and the Dungeon
Kline, Suzy
Leo the Late Bloomer
Kraus, Robert
The Day the Goose Got Loose
Lindburgh, Reeve
A Color of His Own
Lionni, Leo
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Lovell, Patty
Give a Little Love
Mack, Lizzie
Listen to the Rain
Martin, Bill, Jr. and John Archambault
Lottie’s New Beach Towel
Mathers, Petra
There's a Nightmare in My Closet
Mayer, Mercer.
Make Way for Ducklings
McCloskey, Robert.
The 100th
Day of School
Medearis, Angela Shelf
One
Otoshi, Kathryn
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
Pallotta, Jerry
The Kissing Hand
Penn, Audrey
The Rainbow Fish
Pfister, Marcus
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The Rainbow Fish and the Big Whale
Pfister, Marcus
The Christmas Star
Pfister, Michelle
The Little Engine That Could
Piper, Watty.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Potter, Beatrix
The Balloon Farm
Potter, Harvey
Curious George
Rey, H.A.
The Dog Who Had Kittens
Robertas, Polly
Surprise Soup
Rodman, Mary Ann
Eggbert
Ross, Tom
A Day Without Crayons
Rusch, Elizabeth
Spaghetti Eddie
SanAngela, Ryan
A Symphony of Whales
Schuch, Steve
Where the Wild Things Are
Sendak, Maurice
The Cat in the Hat
Seuss, Dr.
The Giving Tree
Silverstein, Shel
Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100th Day
Slate, Joseph
Little Mouse Gets Ready
Smith, Jeff
Caps for Sale
Solbodkina, Esphyr
Chato’s Kitchen
Soto, Gary
Katie and the Night Noises
Sweeney, Jacqueline
Ira Sleeps Over
Waber, Bernard.
Farmer Duck
Wadell, Martin
Apples
Wallace, Nancy
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Williams, Linda
Mortimer's First Garden
Wilson, Karma
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Wojciechowski, Susan
Harry the Dirty Dog
Zion, Gene
Poetry/Songs
Goody O’Grumpity
Brink, Carol Ryrie
All the Colors of the Earth
Hamanaka, Sheila
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Jackson, Alison
One World, One Day
Kerley, Barbara
Who Stole the Cookies
Moffatt, Judith
Poetry
Prelusky, Jack
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Color
Sidman, Joyce
Rainsong/Snowsong
Sturges, Philomel
Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals
Whipple, Laura (Compiled by)
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
Yolen, Jane
Nonfiction
Abe Lincoln's Hat
Brenner, Martha
Check It Out: A Book about Libraries
Gibbons, Gail
Compost:Growing Gardens from Your Garbage
Glaser, Linda
Our Father, The Prayers Jesus Taught
Joslin, Mary
Martin L. King
King, Coretta
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr, Greg and the Three Cups of Tea Lopez, Rafael
Martin L. King Day
Lowery, Linda
Work
Morris, Ann
(Children of Korphe, Pakistan describe their world and how they worked
with an American to build a school for their village Mortenson, Greg and Roth, Susan L
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Bugs
Parker, Nancy &Wright, J.R.
Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos El de los
ninos Smith, Gail Saunders
10 Things I can Do to Help My World: Fun and Easy Eco-tips Walsh, Melanie
Folktales/Fables
And Sunday Makes Seven (Costa Rica)
Baden, Robert
Stone Soup
Brown, Marcia
Gracias * Thanks (with nostalgic folk art illustrations)
Cousins, Lucy
Raven: A Trickster from thePacific Northwest
Hillman, E
Armadilly Chili
Ketteman, Helen
Min-Yo and the Moon Dragon (Asia)
Lattimore, Deborah Nourse
The Tortoise and the Hare
McDermott, G.
Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales
Mora, Pat
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Steig, William
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,
is good for him.” ~Maya Angelou
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Grades 3-4
Title
Author
Fiction-Series
Ellie McDoodle: A New Kid in School
Barshaw, Ruth McNally
Paddington Bear
Bond, Michael
The Curse of the Ancient Mask: And Other Case Files
Cheshire, Simon
Ramona
Cleary, Beverly
Amber Brown
Danziger, Paula
Hardy Boys
Dixon, Franklin
Nancy Drew
Keene, Carolyn
Herbie Jones
Kline, Suzy
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series
MacDonald, Betty
Judy Moody Series
McDonald, Megan
Amelia Bedelia
Parish, Peggy
Maze of Bones
Riordan, Rick
The Unfortunate Events Series
Snicket, Lemony
Encyclopedia Brown
Sobal, Donald
Boxcar Children Books
Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Little House on the Prairie
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Fiction
Meet Samantha
Adler, Susan
Postcards from Vietnam
Allard, Denise
The Nightingale
Anderson, Hans Christian
Arion and the Dolphins
Anderson, Lonzo
Indian in the Cupboard
Banks, Lynne
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Blume, Judy
Superfudge
Blume, Judy
How to Eat Fried Worms
Blume, Judy
Wagon Wheels
Brenner, Barbara
The Chalk Box Kid
Bulla, Clyde Robert
Trouble River
Byers, Betsy
The Night the Monster Came
Calhoun, Mary
The Most Beautiful Place in the World
Cameron, Ann
Nim and the War Effort
Choi, Yangsook
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Jackrabbit Goalie
Christopher, Matt
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Cleary, Beverly
Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Clifton, Lucille
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald
James and the Giant Peach
Dahl, Roald
The BFG
Dahl, Roald
Matilda
Dahl, Roald
Backyard Angel
Delton, Judy
How My Parents Learned to Eat
Friedman, Ina
Joey Pigza Loses Control
Gantos, Jack
Stone Fox*
Gardner, John K
The Lotus Seed
Garland, Sherry
Fourth Grade Celebrity
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Dream Wolf
Goble, Paul
The Mariah Delany Lending Disaster
Greenwald, Sheila
Among the Hidden
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Marvin of the Great North Woods
Hawkes, Kevin
Time Flies
Heide, Florence
When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Hest, Amy
The Three Sillies
Hewitt,Kathryn
Alvin Fernald, Master of Disguise
Hicks, Clifford
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
Howe, James
Aldo Applesauce
Hurwitz, Johanna
Baseball Fever
Hurwitz, Johanna
Meg Mackintosh and the Case of the MissingBabe Ruth Baseball Landon, Lucinda
Chronicles of Narnia
Lewis, C. S.
Hill of Fire
Lewis, Thomas P.
Frederick
Lionni, Leo
Anastasia Krupnik
Lowry, Lois
Pippi Longstocking
Lundgren, Astrid
Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacLachlan, Patricia
Skylark
MacLachlan, Patricia
What You Know First
MacLachlan, Patricia
The Hundred Penny Box
Mathis, Sharon Bell
Homer Price
McCloskey, Robert
Judy Moody
McDonald, Megan
Red Ribbon Rosie
Marzollo, Jean
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Noble, Trinka H.
Pink and Say
Polacco, Patricia
The Secret Moose
Rogers, Jean
Esperanza Rising
Ryan, Pam Munoz
The Daring Rescue of Marlon the Swimming Pig
Saunders, Susan
The Story of Mrs. Lovewright & the Purrless Cat
Segal, Lore
Chester Cricket’s New Home
Seldon, George
Wringer
Spinelli, Jerry
Caleb and Kate
Steig, William
Dr. DeSoto
Steig, William
Obadiah the Bold
Turkle, Brinton
Jumanji
Van Allsburg, Chris
Benjy and the Power of the Zingies
Van Leeuwen, Jean
Keepers
Watts, Jeri Hanel
Dog with the Golden Eyes
Wilbur, Francis
Charlotte’s Web
White, E.B.
Stuart Little
White, E.B.
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The Trumpet of the Swan
White, E.B.
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Allard, Harry
Freckle Juice
Blume, Judy.
Ramona Quimby, Age Eight
Cleary, Beverly.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Lobel, Arnold
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Mosel, Arlene
Nate the Great
Sharmat, Marjorie W
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Silverstein, Shel.
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Sobol, Donald J
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Viorist, Judith
Charlotte's Web
White, E.B
Little House on the Prairie
Wilder, Laura I
Nightmare at the Book Fair
Gutman, Dan
Punished(refrences to anagrams, palindromes, and oxymorons) Lubar, David
Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Summer Reading is Killing Me
Scieszka, Jon
We Are the Ship
Nelson, Kadir
The London Eye Mystery
Dowd, Siobhan
Gully's Travels
Seidler, Tor
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
Hopkinson, Deborah
The Masterpiece
Broach, Elise
Savvy
Law, Ingrid
The Magician's Elephant
DiCamillo, Kate
The Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth George
Folktales
Anansi Finds a Fool
Aardema, Verna
Borreguita and the Coyote:
Aardema, Verna
A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico
Aardema, Verna
How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck
Aardema, Verna
One Grain of Rice (India)
Demi
The People Could Fly
Hamilton, Virginia
Brother Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale
Ho, Minfong & Ros, Saphan
Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale
London, Jonathan
The Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale
Mollel, Tololwa M.
The Girl Who Spun Gold
Hamilton, Virginia
One-Eyed Giant
Osborne, Mary Pope
Nonfiction
Look to the Stars
Aldrin, Buzz
Zoom
Banyai, Istvan
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-new Colors
(creation of fluorescent color)
Barton, Chris
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
Bulla, Clyde Robert
Our Wet World
Collard III, Sneed B.
Mermaid Queen: the Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman Corey, Shana
Head-On with Hurricane Camille
Cory, George
Ballpark:The Story of America's Baseball Fields
Curlee, Lynn
Extreme Animals:The Toughest Creatures on Earth
Davies, Nicola
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle
Dennis, Brian
Antarctic Journal
Dewey, Jennifer Owings
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Stargazers
Gibbons, Gail
Hot Jazz Special
Hannah, Johnny
Walt Whitman: Words for America
Kerley, Barbara
Snakes Are Hunters
Lauber, Patricia
The Edible Pyramid
Leady, Loreen
I Want to Be a Veterinarian
Maze, S. & O’Neill, C.
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick
Bugs
Parker, Nancy W. & Wright, Jean R.
I, Vivaldi
Shefelman, Janice
Clara Barton
Stevenson, Augusta
Voyage on the Great Titanic
White, Ellen Emerson
Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks
Wick, Walter
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Winter, Jonah
Orphan of Ellis Island
Woodruff, Elvira
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
Poetry
Sing a Song of Popcorn
deRegniers, B.S., Moore, E. & White, M.
A Curious Collection of Cats
Franco, Betsy
Great Estimations
Goldstone, Bruce
Honey, I Love
Greenfield, Eloise
Poems for Children and Other Creatures
Hornby, G.
You and Me: Poems of Friendship
Mavor, S.
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
O'Neill, M.
Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems About the Rain Forest
Salas, Laura Purdie
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Silverstein, Shel
First Food Fight This Fall: And Other School Poems
Singer, Marilyn
What's the Weather Inside?
Wilson, Karma
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Grades 5-6
Title
Author
Fiction The Violin Man
Hooper, Maureen Brett
The Sear of Shadows
Avi
Never Mind!: A Twin Novel
Avi
S.O.R. Losers
Avi
The Man Who Was Poe
Avi
Tuck Everlasting
Babbitt, Natalie
The Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Blume, Judy
Masterpiece
Broach, Elise
The Secret Garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Pinballs
Byars, Betsy
The Moon and I
Byers, Betsy
Summer of the Swans
Byers, Betsy
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Cleary, Beverly
Ramona Quimby, Age Eight
Cleary, Beverly
The Landry News
Clements, Andrew
Me and the Eggman
Clymer, Eleanor
Sahara Special
Codell, Esme Raji
Waiting for Normal
Connor, Leslie
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Coville, Bruce
Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald.
Garfield Counts to Ten
Davis, Jim
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
DeClements, Barthe
Solving Zoe
Dee, Barbara
Guests
Dorris, Michael
Morning Girl
Dorris, Michael
My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier Durrant, Lynda
The Black Stallion
Farley, Walter
The Great Brain
Fitzgerald, John D
Harriet the Spy
Fitzhugh,Louis
The Cabin Faced West
Fritz, Jean
Julie of the Wolves
George, Jean Craighead
Left Handed Shortstop
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Lily’s Crossing
Giff, Patricia Reilly
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Can’t Catch Me, I’m the Gingerbread Man
Gilson, Jamie
Hobie Hansen, You’re Weird
Gilson, Jamie
Hello,My Name Is Scrambled Eggs
Gilson, Jamie
Old Yeller
Gipson, Fred
Just Ella
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Rapunzel's Revenge
Hale, Shannon
Immigrant Girl: Becky of Eldridge Street
Harvey, Brett
Brooklyn Bridge
Hesse, Karen
Scat
Hiaasen, Carl
My One Hundred Adventures
Horvath, Polly
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
Howe, Deborah and James
The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein
Hurwitz, Johanna
Aldo Peanut Butter
Hurwitz, Johanna
A Llama in the Family
Hurwitz, Johanna
Kira-Kira
Kadohata, Cynthia
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Kelly, Jacqueline
Regarding the Fountain
Klise, Kate
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg, E.L.
Throwing Shadows (Short Stories)
Konigsburg, E.L.
View From Saturday
Konigsburg, E.L.
Also Known as Harper
Leal, Ann
Day of Tears
Lester, Julius
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lewis, C.S.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lin, Grace
Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lord, Bette Boa
Number the Stars
Lowry, Lois
The Whilloughbys
Lowry, Lois
Number the Stars
Lowry, Lois
A Season of Comebacks
Mackel, Kathy
The Fact and Fictions of Minna Pratt
MacLachlan, Patricia
The Pushcart War
Merrill, Jean
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery. L.M.
Beowulf
Morpurgo, Michael
Owls in the Family
Mowat, Farley
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
Myers, Walter Dean
The Laziest Boy in the World
Namiako, Lensey
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton, Juster
Island of the Blue Dolphins
O'Dell, Scott
Skinnybones
Park, Barbara
Mick Harte Was Here
Park, Barbara
The Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson, Katherine
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Civil War ) Philbrick, Rodman
Where the Red Fern Grows
Rawls, Wilson
My Brother Louis Measures Worms and Other Louis Stories Robinson, Barbara
How to Eat Fried Worms
Rockwell, Thomas
Dog Days
Rodowsky, Colby
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Rowling, J.K.
Under the Blood Red Sun
Salisbury, Graham
Cricket in Time Square
Seldon, George
Black Beauty
Sewell, Anna
Canned
Shearer, Alex
The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn’t Hear
Shreve, Susan
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Silverstein, Shel.
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A Taste of Blackberries
Smith, Doris Buchanan
The Egypt Game
Snyder, Zilpha Keetley
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Sobol, Donald J.
The Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth George
Maniac Magee
Spinelli, Jerry
Loser
Spinelli, Jerry
Crash
Spinelli, Jerry
Enola Holmes Mysteries (sister of Sherlock Holmes)
Springer, Nancy
When You Reach Me
Stead, Rebecca
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark
Isabel of the Whales
Velmans, Hester
Poetry Sports Pages
Adoff, Arnold
The Basket Counts
Adoff, Arnold
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe
Bagert, B.
To Remember Robert Louis Stevenson
Bailey, A.C.
Cricket Songs: Japanese Haiku
Behn, H.
If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems about School Dakos, Kalli
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Fleischman, Paul
That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems
Janeczko, Paul B.
Baseball in April
Soto, Gary
Neighborhood Odes
Soto, Gary
Mississippi Mud
Turner, Ann
Federico Garcia Lorca
Lazaro, Geogina
Omnibeasts
Florian, Douglas
Nonfiction Martin Luther King, Jr.: Free at Last
Adler, David A.
Live Writing
Fletcher, Ralph
Abraham Lincoln’s World
Foster, Genevieve
Buffalo Hunt
Freedman, Russell
Music
Grimshaw, Carolyn
The Journey
Hanamaka, Sheila
The Statue of Liberty
Haskins, Jim
Social Smarts: Manners for Today’s Kids*
James, E. & Barkin, C.
Garden
Maass, Robert
Emergency
Masoff, Joy
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Ringgold, Faith
Children of the Dust Bowl
Stanley, Jerry
Adventures in Cartooning: The Story of Josef Albers
Sturn, James; Arnold, Andrew
A Faraway Island
Thor, Annika
(Two Jewish sisters from Vienna, Austria are sent by their parents to Sweden to escape the Nazis.)
River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River
Talbott, Hudson
George Washington Carver
Bolden, Tonya
Walt Whitman: Words for America
Kerley, Barbara
Langston Hughes, American Poet
Walker, Alice
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Curlee, Lynn
The Mysterious Universe: Supernova, Dark Energy, and Black Holes Jackson, Ellen
Miss Spitfire (Annie Sullivan's story)
Miller, Sarah
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Stone, Tanya Lee
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“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely
bookshelf on the wall.” - Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Suggested Reading 7-8
Title
Author
Fiction
The Postcard
Abbott, Tony
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Chains
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Sounder
Armstrong, William
Fantastic Voyage
Aronson, Marc
Robert F. Kennedy: A Twentieth-Century Life
Aronson, Marc
Fairy Tales of the Orient
Asimov, Isaac
Seer of Shadows
Avi
The Crispin: Cross of Lead
Avi
Midnight Magic
Avi
Nothing But the Truth
Avi
Tuck Everlasting
Babbitt, Natalie
Peeled
Bauer, Joan
Tangerine
Bloor, Edward
Pieces of Georgia: A Novel
Bryany, Jen
Ender's Game
Card, Orson Scott
And then There Were None
Christie, Agatha
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Collier, James Lincoln
The Golden Fleece
Colum, Padraic
My Daniel
Conrad
Dark is Rising
Cooper, Susan
The Grey King
Cooper, Susan
I Am the Cheese
Cormier, Robert
Skin Deep
Crane, E. M.
My Side of the Mountain
Crane, E.M.
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Craven, Margaret
Walk Two Moons*
Creech, Sharon
The Wanderer
Creech, Sharon
The Seeing Stone
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Red Kayak
Cummings, Priscilla
Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis, Christopher
Catherine, Called Birdy
Cushman, Karen
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
The Sign of the Four
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Johnny Tremain
Forbes, Esther
The Slave Dancer
Fox, Paula
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Freedman, Russell
Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution
Gardner, Sally
Summer of My German Soldier
Green, Bette
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Grisham, John
Uprising
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
The Gift of the Magi
Henry, O.
The Outsiders
Hinton, S.E.
Soldier Boy
Hughes, Dean
Across Five Aprils
Hunt, Irene
The Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard
Pop
Korman, Gordan
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Latham, Jean Lee
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Lee, Harper
Wrinkle in Time
L'Engle, Madeline
A Wind in the Door
L'Engle, Madeline
Swiftly Tilting Planet
L'Engle, Madeline
Many Waters
L'Engle, Madeline
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
White Fang
London, Jack
The Giver
Lowry Lois.
Anastasia Krupnik
Lowry, Lois
Heat
Lupica, Mike
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Mass, Wendy
After the Rain
Mazer, Norma Fox
Sing Down the Moon
O'Dell, Scott
The Black Pearl
O'Dell, Scott
My Friend Flicka
O'Hara, Mary
Airborn
Oppel, Kenneth
Jacob Have I Loved
Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson, Katherine
Hatchet
Paulson, Gary
A Soldier's Heart
Paulson, Gary
The Cook Camp
Paulson, Gary
A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Peck, Richard
A Year Down Yonder
Peck, Richard
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
Peck, Robert Newton
The Westing Game
Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows
Rawls, Wilson
Light in the Forest
Richter
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Rinaldi, Ann
Freaky Friday
Rodgers, Mary
Harry Potter Series
Rowling, J.K.
Holes
Shaara
Killer Angels
Shaara, Michael
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Betty
Peak
Smith, Roland
Call It Courage
Sperry, Armstrong
The Red Pony
Steinbeck, John
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor, Mildred
The Cay
Taylor, Theodore
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Banner in the Sky
Ullman
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Verne, Jules
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules
Dicey’s Song
Voight, Cynthia
War of the Worlds
Wells, H. G.
A Brown Bird Singing
Wosmek, Frances
The Extraordinary Adventure of Alfred Kropp
Yancey, Richard
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time
Yee, Lisa
Dragonwings
Yep, Lawrence
Pigman
Zindel,Paul
Nonfiction
George Washington: An Illustrated Biography
Adler, David
Anything But Typical
Baskin, Nora Raleigh
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir
Cleary, Beverly
Sword of the Spirit: A Beginner's Guide to St. Paul
Cuddy, Christopher and Mark Hart
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dahl, Roald
Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom Dean, Walter Myers
Genius: A Photo Biography of Albert Einstein
Delano, Marfe Ferguson
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman
P.T. Barnum Fleming, Candace
Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-
Palestinian Conflict Frank, Mitch
Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop
Greenburg, Jan
Saintbook
Hart, Mark
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Hoose, Phillip
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100 Things Every Catholic Teen Should Know
Lemieux, Todd and Mark Hart
Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American People
Marrin, Albert
Invincible Louisa
Meigs, Cornelia
The Long Road to Gettysburg
Murphy, Jim
The Real Benedict Arnold
Murphy, Jim
Woodsong
Paulson, Gary
Tales of the Dead: Ancient Greece
Ross, Stewart
I Am An American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
Stanley, Jerry
Travels with Charley
Steinbeck, John
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Swanson, James L
Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Secret Childhood during WWII Toll, Nelly S.
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (Essays)
Walker, Alice
Poetry
Voices: Poetry and Art from around the World
Brenner, B. I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry Clinton, C. (Ed) Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
Granndits, John Out of the Dust
Hesse, Karen Going Over to Your Place
Janeczko, Paul (Ed.) Here in Harlem: Poems for Many Voices
Myers, Walter Dean Carver: A Life in Poems
Nelson, Marilyn
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Nelson, Marilyn Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Nelson, Marilyn Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
Silverstein, Shel
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something
that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and
encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”
~Katherine Patterson
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High School Reading List
The College Board: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers The following list was
published by College Boards as recommended high school literature that advanced students should read in
preparing for the Advanced Placement tests.
Recommended for College-Bound Readers
Author Title
-- Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
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Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
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James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur The Crucible
Morrison, Toni Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
Pope John Paul, II The Poetry of John Paul II: Roman Triptych Meditations
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
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Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles Antigone
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard Native Son
The following titles are recommended reading both to maintain fluency and reading level and to encourage
independent reading. Students may find these titles at libraries and bookstores.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Alvarez, Julia. How The García Girls Lost Their Accents.
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Baker, Russell. Growing Up.
Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
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Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of The Medieval World: Biography of
Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Last of the Mohicans.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca.
Eliot, George. Silas Marner.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face.
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.
Haley, Alex. Roots.
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
Homer. The Iliad.
Homer. The Odyssey.
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.
Kuralt, Charles. Charles Kuralt's America.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
London, Jack. The Sea Wolf.
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong.
McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
Myers, Walter Dean. The Glory Field.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
Orwell, George. 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.
Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times.
Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
"Literacy arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the individual who is striving for fulfillment, happiness
and personal benefit…” UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg
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Sources:
1. American Library Association (ALA)
2. Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
3. Houston Area Independent Schools Library Network (HAISLIN)
4. Literature Bookshelf for Christian Children
5. NCEA: Engaging Faith in the World
6. Pearson, Prentice Hall
7. Reading is Fundamental
8. Teachers’ Choices, 2009