Recommended Reading
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- K5 - 3rd Grade
Adoff, Arnold. Eats: Poems
Allen, Gertrude E.
Everyday Animals
Everyday Turtles, Toads, and Their Kin
Anderson, Hans Christian. The Ugly Duckling
Berg, Jean Horton. The Little Red Hen
Brown, Marcia. The Bun
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress
Farley, Walter. Little Black, a Pony
Panek, Dennis. Catastrophe Cat
Pape, Donna Lugg. King Robert the Resting Ruler
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tolstoy, Alexi. The Great Big Enormous Turnip
Voight, Virginia. Nathan Hale
Walker, Barbara. Pigs and Pirates
Walter, Frances, and Violet T. Peason. Here’s Benjie!
Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear
Wolcott, Patty. The Cake Story
Zion, Gene.
Harry the Dirty Dog
The Storm Book
- 3rd - 6th Grades
Anderson, Hans Christian.
The Little Match Girl
The Nightingale
Atwater, Richard, and Florence Atwater.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Barrie, Sir James M. Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz
Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Collodi, Carlo. The Adventures of Pinocchio
Kipling, Rudyard.
The Elephant’s Child
Just So Stories
Spyri, Johanna. Heidi
Travers, Pamela L. Marry Poppins
White, E.B.
Charlotte’s Web
The Trumpet of the Swans
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Farmer Boy
The First Four Years
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
These Happy Golden Years
- 6th - 8th Grades
Alcott, Louisa May.
Jo’s Boys
Little Men
Little Women
Aldrich, Thomas B. The Story of a Bad Boy
Burnford, Shelia. The Incredible Journey
Byars, Betsy. The Summer of the Swans
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book
Kjelgaard, Jim. Big Red
Montgomery, L. M.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling
Seredy, Kate. The Good Master
Serraillier, Ian. The Silver Sword
Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Bronze Bow
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sperry, Armstrong. Call it Courage
Stevenson, Robert Louise. Treasure Island
Sutcliff, Rosemary.
Dawn Wind
Eagle of the Ninth
Knight’s Fee
Lantern Bearers
The Mark of the Horse Lord
The Silver Branch
Simon
Warrior Scarlet
Ullman, James Ramsey. Banner in the Sky
Verne, Jules.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wyss, Johann David. The Swiss Family Robinson
- 9th - 12th Grades
Austen, Jane.
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Blackmore, Richard D. Lorna Doone
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Catton, Bruce. Banners at Shenandoah
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
Cooper, James Fenimore.
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
Dickens, Charles.
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexander.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Elliot, George. Silas Marner
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Victor.
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hunt, Irene. Up A Road Slowly
Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Kipling, Rudyard. Captain Courageous
Lewis, C.S.
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Orwell, George. Animal Farm
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped
Twain, Mark.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur
