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District Reading Lists

Listed below are the recommended reading lists for each grade level. 

Pre-Kindergarten Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Goodnight Moon (Brown)
  • Ten Black Dots (Crews)
  • Little Red Hen (Galdone)
  • On Market Street (Lobel)
  • The Kissing Hand (Penn)
  • Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Martin Jr.)
  • One Duck Stuck (Root)
  • Each Peach Pear Plum (Ahlberg)
  • Jump Frog Jump (Kalan)
  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Seuss)
  • Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Carlstrom)

 

Kindergarten Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Peter's Chair (Keats)
  • Just For You (Mayer)
  • The Hat (Brett)
  • Corduroy (Freeman)
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Martin Jr.)
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle)
  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Martin Jr. & Archambault)
  • Bear Shadow (Asch)
  • Swimmy (Lionni)
  • Rosie’s Walk (Hutchins)
  • There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Taback)

 

First Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • The Mitten (Brett)
  • The Doorbell Rang (Hutchins)
  • If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (Numeroff)
  • The Napping House (Wood)
  • One Hungry Monster (O’Keefe)
  • Whistle for Willie (Keats)
  • Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Aardema)
  • Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young (Prelutsky)
  • Tiny Seed (Carle)
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst)
  • A Flag For Our Country (Spencer)

 

Second Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles)
  • The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch)
  • Amelia Bedelia (Parish)
  • Nate the Great (Sharmat)
    Lon Po Po (Young)
  • Lunch Line (Nagel)
  • Max’s Money (Slater)
  • Arthur Meets the President (Brown)
  • Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body (Cole)
  • Wolves (Gibbons)

 

Third Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Helen Keller (Graff)
  • Sarah Plain and Tall (MacLachian)
  • The Boxcar Children (First in Series) (Warner)
  • A Chair for My Mother (Williams)
  • Stellaluna (Cannon)
  • Knots on a Counting Rope (Martin)
  • Thunder Cake (Polacco)
  • How My Parents Learned to Eat (Friedman)
  • Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane (Cole)
  • Rain Forest (Taylor)

 

Fourth Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater)
  • Cricket in Times Square (Seldon)
  • Bud Not Buddy (Curtis)
  • Bunnicula Strikes Again (Howe)
  • Harriett the Spy (Fitzhugh)
  • Matilda (Dahl)
  • Mississippi Bridge (Taylor)
  • Once on this Island (Whelan)
  • Shiloh (Naylor)
  • Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing (Blume)

 

Fifth Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Be a Perfect Person in 3 Days (Manes)
  • Bloomability (Creech)
  • Brian’s Return (Paulsen)
  • Challenger Disaster: Tragic Space Flight (Bredeson)
  • Charley Skedaddle (Beatty)
  • Double Life of Pocahontas (Fritz)
  • It’s All Greek to Me (Scieszka)
  • John Henry (Lester)
  • Poppy (Avi)
  • Volcanoes (Meister)
  • Your Mother was a Neanderthal (Scieszka)

 

Sixth Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Tuck Everlasting (Babbit)
  • The Twenty-One Balloons (du Bois)
  • House of Dies Drear (Hamilton)
  • Night Journey (Lasky)
  • Hatchett (Paulsen)
  • The Westing Game (Raskin)
  • On the Far Side of the Mountain (George)
  • The View from Saturday (Konigsburg)
  • Belle Prater’s Boy (White)
  • Missing May (Rylant)

 

Seventh Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Avi)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Baum)
  • Calico Bush (Field)
  • The Outsiders (Hinton)
  • Across Five Aprils (Hunt)
  • Winter Room (Paulsen)
  • The Yearling (Rawlings)
  • Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
  • Black Beauty (Sewell)
  • Out of the Dust (Hesse)

 

Eighth Grade Reading List 2000-2003 [Top]
  • Little Women (Alcott)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
  • Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
  • The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Farmer)
  • Profiles in Courage (Kennedy)
  • Call of the Wild (London)
  • Freak the Mighty (Philbrick)
  • Red Pony (Steinbeck)
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
  • Holes (Sachar)
  • Child’s Personal Selections

Last updated 8/29/06

 

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