Recommended Readings by Grade

  • K & 1st Grade

    • Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie dePaola
    • The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl 
    • Miss Rumphius by Barbara Clooney
    • Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobe
    • The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
    • Poem: Mice by Rose Fyleman
    • Poem: Clouds by Christina Rossetti
    • Poem: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary by Mother Goose

  • 2nd Grade

    • Aesop's Fables
    • James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story, Roald Dahl
    • Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
    • A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond
    • Mr. Popper’s Penguin, Richard and Florence Atwater
    • Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
    • Nate the Great by Majorie Weinman Sharmat 
    • The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
    • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
    • The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
    • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
    • The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgrend
    • The Magic Faraway Tree Series by Enid Blyton
    • Poem: The Frog, Hillaire Belloc
    • Poem: Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
    • Poem: The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Poem: The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • 3rd Grade

    • The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
    • Beatrix Potter by Alexandra Wallner
    • All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
    • Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
    • A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
    • Riding the Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla
    • The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
    • Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
    • The Good Master by Kate Seredy 
    • Babe, The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
    • The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • The Secret Valley by Clyde Robert Bulla
    • Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
    • The Lion in the Box by Marguerite De Angeli
    • The White Stallion of Lipizza by Marguerite Henry
    • St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
    • Minn of the Mississippi by Holling Clancy Holling
    • Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling
    • Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling
    • Tree in the Trail by Holling Clancy Holling
    • Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James
    • How the Forest Grew by William Jasperjohn
    • Alexander the Great by Andrew Langley
    • The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
    • House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
    • Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
    • The Borrowers by Mary Norton
    • Beaver of Weeping Water by Marian Rumsey
    • A Triumph for Falvius by Caroline Dale Snedeker
    • The Great Quillow by James Thurber
    • Stuart Little by E.B. White
    • The Magic Faraway Tree Series by Enid Blyton
    • The Famous Five Series by Enid Blyton
    • American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
    • Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
    • The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
    • The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
    • Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
    • The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
    • Poem: The Oak, Alfred Lord Tennyson 
    • Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 
    • Poem: Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Poem: Farewell to the Farm by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • 4th Grade

    • Boy, Roald Dahl
    • The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum
    • The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
    • Sounder, William Armstrong
    • Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Donald Sobol
    • The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    • The Matchlock Gun, Walter Edmonds
    • Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla
    • The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
    • The Singing Hill by Meindert DeJong
    • Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
    • The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
    • The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
    • My Side of the Mountain by Jean C. George
    • Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
    • Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
    • The Box of Delights by John Masefield
    • The Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey
    • Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
    • Water Buffalo Days by Huynh Quang Nhuong
    • Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
    • Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
    • Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier
    • The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
    • The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski
    • Buffalo Knife by William O. Steele
    • Flaming Arrows by William O. Steele
    • Winter Danger by William O. Steele
    • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 
    • Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
    • Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
    • Poem: The Yak, Hillaire Belloc
    • Poem: My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • 5th Grade

    • Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
    • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
    • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
    • Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
    • The Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, John Erickson
    • The Raft, Robert Trumbull 
    • The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    • Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodges Burnett
    • Peter Pan by James Barrie
    • Pedro’s Journal by Pam Conrad
    • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
    • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl  
    • The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
    • The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
    • Stowaway by Karen Hesse
    • The Princess and The Goblin by George MacDonald
    • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
    • The Good Master by Kate Seredy
    • Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
    • Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff
    • Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkein
    • The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
    • Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
    • Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals by Matthew Mehan
    • Poem: Matilda, Hillaire Belloc
    • Poem: Silver by Walter de la Mare 

  • 6th Grade

    • Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
    • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 
    • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
    • Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard
    • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome 
    • Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (and series) by Ralph Moody
    • The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 
    • The Railway Children by E. Nesbit  
    • The Yearling by Marjorie Rowlings
    • Shane by Jack Schaefer
    • The Lone Hunt by William O. Steele
    • Trail Through Danger by William O. Steele
    • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
    • A Man for Others (St. M. Kolbe) by Patricia Treese
    • The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
    • Where the Red Fern Grows by WilsonRawls
    • Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith 
    • Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 
    • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 
    • Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
    • Drums by James Boyd
    • Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness by John Mason Brown
    • Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone
    • The Boy in the Alamo by Margaret Cousins
    • The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis by Louis de Wohl
    • Duel in the Wilderness by Karin Clafford Farley
    • Ben Franklin: Inventing America by Thomas Fleming
    • The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
    • Edmund Campion: Hero of God’s Underground by Harold Gardiner
    • Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor
    • Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody
    • Captured by the Mohawks by Sterling North
    • The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter  
    • We Were There on the Oregon Trail by William Steele
    • The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum
    • The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery
    • Poem: Pied Beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins
    • Poem: There is no Frigate like a Book by Emily Dickinson

  • 7th Grade

    • The Scarlet Pimpernel, Barones Orczy Emmuska
    • Cheaper by the Dozen, Ernestine Carey and Frank Gilbreth
    • White Fang, Jack London
    • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly 
    • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    • King Arthur and His Knights, Howard Pyle
    • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) by C. S. Forester
    • Call of the Wild by Jack London  
    • The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
    • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
    • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne  
    • Up Periscope by Robb White
    • The Scarlet Pimpernel, Barones Orczy Emmuska
    • Cheaper by the Dozen, Ernestine Carey and Frank Gilbreth
    • White Fang, Jack London
    • King Arthur and His Knights, Howard Pyle
    • Throne of the World by Louis de Wohl
    • The Last Crusader: Don John of Austria by Louis de Wohl  
    • Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor
    • Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
    • Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat by Milton Meltzer
    • The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
    • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
    • The Flying Tigers by John Toland
    • Silence over Dunkerque by John R. Tunis
    • Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery
    • Poem: Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer
    • Poem: The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol

  • 8th Grade

    • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
    • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
    • The Ancient Ocean Blues by Jack Mitchell
    • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain  
    • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 
    • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne  
    • Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
    • Bambi by Felix Salten
    • The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
    • Ben Hur by Lew Wallace  
    • The Great Siege of Malta by Ernle Bradford 
    • The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
    • Dream and Your Dreams Will Fall Short by Pedro Casciaro  
    • A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
    • Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome by Peter Connolly
    • The Roman Army by Peter Connolly
    • Caesar’s Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge
    • The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
    • Shiloh by Shelby Foote
    • The Shadow of His Wings by Gereon Karl Goldmann
    • 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howrath
    • The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories, O. Henry
    • The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker
    • Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
    • Poem: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats
    • Poem: The Gift Outright by Robert Frost 
    • Poem: The Cloud Confines by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    • Poem: A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • Poem: The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson

9th-12th grade coming soon!