Student Book Suggestions
Kindergarten and 1st Grades
Aliki ~ The Story of Johnny Appleseed
A Medieval Feast
Andersen, Hans Christian ~ The Ugly Duckling
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Andrae, Giles~ Deer at the Brook
Batchelor, Mary ~ The Children’s Bible in 365 Days
Bedard, I. Michael ~ Emily
Bemelmans, Ludwig ~ Madeline (series)
Bridwell, Norman ~ Clifford the Big Red Dog
Brown, Margaret Wise ~ Goodnight Moon
The Runaway Bunny
Big Red Barn
Goodnight Moon
Brunhoff, Jean and Laurent ~ The Story of Babar
Butterwick, Nick ~ Stories Jesus Told
Chaucer, Geoffrey ~ Chanticleer and the Fox
Carle, Eric ~ The Very Busy Spider
Brown Bear; Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?
Cave, Katherine ~ Henry’s Song
DeAngeli, Marguerite ~ The Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
Farnsworth, Bill~ Twice Yours
Fransconi, Antonio~ The House that Jack Built
Gladone, Paul~ Henny Penny
The Little Red Hen
The Three Little Kittens
Milne, A.A. ~ When We Were Very Young
The World of Winnie the Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Piper, Watty ~ The Little Engine That Could
Potter, Beatrix ~ The Tale of Peter Rabbit (series)
Rey, H. A. ~ Curious George
Scarry, Richard ~ What Do People Do All Day?
The Funniest Story Book Ever
Suess, Dr. ~ Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?
The Foot Book (and others…)
Tudor, Tasha ~ The Lord is My Shepherd: The 23rd Psalm
Williams, Margery ~ The Velveteen Rabbit
Zion, Gene ~ Harry, the Dirty Dog
Wojciechowski, Susan ~ The Christmas Miracles of Jonathan Toomey
Zolotow, Charlotte ~ Big Sister and Little Sister
2nd, 3rd and 4th Grades
Aesop ~ Aesop’s Fables
Alexander, Lloyd ~ Truthful Harp
Andersen, Hans Christian ~ Treasury of Fairy Tales
Snow Queen
Little Match Girl
Barrie, J.M. ~ Peter Pan
Bond, Michael ~ A Bear Called Paddington
Bulla, Clyde Robert ~ Riding the Pony Express
Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrim
Daniel’s Duck
Chalk Box Kid
Lion to Guard Us
Bunting, Eve ~ Butterfly House
Fly Away Home
Burgess, Thornton W. ~ Old Mother West Wind
Burleigh, Robert ~ Into the Air: The Story of the Wright Brothers’ First Flight
Burnett, Frances Hodgsen ~ Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Burnford, Sheila ~ The Incredible Journey
Byars, Betsy ~ The Summer of the Swans
Carroll, Lewis ~ Alice in Wonderland
Cleary, Beverly ~ Ribsy
Henry Huggins
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Collodi, Carlo ~ The Adventures of Pinocchio
Coolidge, Susan ~ What Katy Did (series)
The Courage of Sarah Noble
DeAngeli, Marguerite ~ Bright April
The Door in the Wall
DePaola, Tomi ~ Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
The Art Lesson
Dickens, Charles ~ The Magic Fishbone
Dixon, Franklin W. ~ The Hardy Boys
Fitzhugh, Louise ~ Harriet the Spy
Fleming, Sid ~ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Freedman, Florence B. ~ Two Tickets to Freedom
Fritz, Jean ~ Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution
Galdon, Paul ~ The Aesop Fox Fables
Gray ~ Adam of the Road
Hawthorne, Nathaniel ~ Pandora’s Box
Hausman, Laurence ~ Stories of the Arabian Nights
Keene, Carolyn ~ Nancy Drew
Keller, Helen ~ The Story of My Life
Kipling, Rudyard ~ Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
Krementz, Jill ~ A Very Young Skater
Lawson, Robert ~ They Were Strong and Good
Lewis, C.S. ~ Chronicles of Narnia
Lucado, Max ~ You Are Special
MacLean, Molly ~ Adventures of the Greek Heroes
McGriffen, Lee ~ Iron Scouts of the Confederacy
Milne, A. A. ~ The World of Christopher Robin
Osborne, Mary Pope ~ Magic Treehouse Series
Parks, Rosa ~ I am Rosa Parks
Riordan, Rick ~ The Percy Jackson Series
Roddy, Lee ~ Robert E. Lee: Christian General and Gentleman
St. Exupery, Antoine de ~ The Little Prince
Scieszka, Jon ~ The Story of Three Little Pigs by a Wolf
Speare, Elizabeth George ~ The Bronze Bow
The Sign of the Beaver
Spyri, Johanna ~ Heidi
Van Allsburg, Chris ~ The Polar Express
Ventura, Piero ~ In Search of Troy
Watts, Isaac ~ Divine Songs for Children
Wilder, Laura Ingalls ~ Little House in the Big Woods
5th and 6th Grades
Adams, Richard ~ Watership Down
Anderson, Laurie Halse ~ Fever 1793
Babbit, Natalie ~ Tuck Everlasting
Bendick, Jeanne ~ Archimedes and the Door of Science
Birdsall, Jeanne ~ The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Bobbitt, Natalie ~ Tuck Everlasting
Bruchac, Joseph ~ March Toward the Thunder
Bunyan, John ~ The Pilgrim’s Progress (children’s version)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson ~ The Secret Garden
Carroll, Lewis ~ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Conrad, Pam ~ My Daniel
Crew, Linda ~ Children of the River
Defoe, Daniel ~ Robinson Crusoe
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan ~ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
DuBois, William Pene ~ The Twenty-One Balloons
Dumas, Alexandre ~ The Three Musketeers
Feinstein, John ~ Last Shot
Foster, Genevieve ~ Augustus Caesar’s World
Fox, Paula ~ The Slave Dancer
Freedman, Russell ~ One-Eyed Cat
Give Me Liberty: The Story of the Declaration of Independence
Voyage to Freedom
Gay, David ~ Voyage to Freedom
George, Jean Craighead ~ My Side of the Mountain
One Day in the Desert
Julie of the Wolves
Gipson, Fred ~ Old Yeller
Hall, Jeannie ~ Viking Tales
Haddix, Margaret Peterson ~ Uprising
Henry, Marguerite ~ King of the Wind
Hodges, Margaret ~ Saint George and the Dragon
Irving, Washington ~ Rip Van Winkle
Juster, Norton ~ The Phantom Tollbooth
Kipling, Rudyard ~ Captains Courageous
The Jungle Books
Konigsburg, E. L. ~ From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
L’Engle, Madeleine ~ A Wrinkle in Time
Lofting, Hugh ~ Dr. Dolittle
London, Jack ~ White Fang
Lord, Walter ~ A Night to Remember
Mass, Wendy ~ 11 Birthdays
Montgomery, L.M. ~ Anne of Green Gables
Naylor, Phyllis ~ Shiloh
Norton, Mary ~ The Borrowers
O’Hara, Mary ~ My Friend Flicka
Orwell, George ~ Animal Farm
Paulsen, Gary ~ Hatchet
Peck, Richard ~ Fair Weather
Picard, Barbara Leonie ~ The Iliad of Homer
Raskin, Ellen ~ The Westing Game
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan ~ The Yearling
Sewell, Anna ~ Black Beauty
Speare, Elizabeth George ~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spyri, Johanna ~ Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Lewis ~ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped
Stewart, Trenton Lee ~ The Mysterious Benedict Society
Swift, Jonathan ~ Gulliver’s Travels
Taylor, Mildred ~ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tolkien, J.R.R. ~ The Hobbitt
Travers, Pamela L. ~ Mary Poppins
Twain, Mark ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life on the Mississippi
Verne, Jules ~ Around the World in 80 Days
Westwood, Jennifer ~ Stories of Charlemagne
Wiggin, Kate Douglas ~ Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Winthrop, Elizabeth ~ The Castle in the Attic
Woodruff, Elvira ~ Dear Austin: Letters From the Underground Railroad
Wyss, Johann David ~ Swiss Family Robinson
Zusak, Markus ~ The Book Thief
Any titles by the following authors:
Louisa May Alcott; James Matthew Barrie; Frank L. Baum; Lewis Carroll; Joel Chandler; Walter Farley; Johnny Gruelle; Marguerite Henry; Rudyard Kipling; Lois Lowry; Mark Twain; Lawrence Yep
