Kindergarten Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

E BR Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's jelly beans. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, [2004].

Arthur has a reputation of being slow, but that trait comes in very handy when it comes

to winning the jelly bean contest at Muffy's Spring Fling party.

E CA Carle, Eric. Does a kangaroo have a mother, too? 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2000.

Presents the names of animal babies, parents, and groups, for example, a baby kangaroo

is a joey, its mother is a flyer, its father is a boomer, and a group of kangaroos is a troop,

mob, or herd.

E CA Carle, Eric. The mixed-up chameleon. Trophy ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1988, c1984.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon

decides it would rather just be itself.

782.4 Ca Carle, Eric. Today is Monday. New York : Philomel Books, c1993.

Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come

and eat it up.

E Ca Carle, Eric. The very busy spider. New York : Philomel, 1984.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web.

398.2 EG Egielski, Richard. The gingerbread boy. New York : HarperCollins, c1997.

A freshly baked gingerbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes his

pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

E Fei Feiffer, Jules. Bark, George. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

George is a puppy who does not sound like a puppy should, despite the efforts of his

mother.

E HE Henkes, Kevin. Wemberly worried. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2000.

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list

of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

636.7 HO Horenstein, Henry. Arf! Beg! Catch! : dogs from A to Z. New York : Scholastic, c1999.

Labeled photographs present words related in some way to dogs.

E Wis Margaret Wise Brown. Goodnight Moon. New York, NY : Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1947.

E Pi Piper, Watty, pseud. The Little Engine That Could. New York : Platt & Munk, c1991.

Although he is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full

of toys over the mountain. On die-cut board pages.

E Ras Raschka, Christopher. Yo! Yes? New York : Orchard Books, c1993.

Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

E Wa Walsh, Ellen Stoll. Mouse paint. New York : Harcourt, 1989.

Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of

color.

E Wi Williams, Vera B. "More more more," said the baby : 3 love stories. New York : Greenwillow

Books, c1990.

Three babies are given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.

E YO Yolen, Jane. How do dinosaurs say good night? New York : Blue Sky Press, c2000.

Mother and child ponder the different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from slamming

his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and kiss.

Grade 1 Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

PC E BLU Blume, Judy. The pain and the great one. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young

Readers, c1984.

A six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) see each other as a

troublemaker and the best-loved in the family.

E Bu Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968. Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel;. Boston, : Houghton

Mifflin, 1939.

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline,

electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one

new job leads to another.

E Ca Carle, Eric. The grouchy ladybug. New York : T.Y. Crowell Co., c1977c.

A grouchy ladybug who is looking for a fight challenges everyone she meets regardless of

their size or strength.

E CA Carle, Eric. The very hungry caterpillar. New York : Philomel Books, c1987.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and

very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to

sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

E DE Denim, Sue, 1966-. The Dumb Bunnies. New York : Scholastic, c1994.

Follows the adventures of the Dumb Bunnies, a family of rabbits who do everything without

any rhyme or reason.

E Re Curious George goes to the aquarium. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1984.

Curious George jumps in with the seals during his visit to the aquarium and becomes the

star attraction.

398.2 FO Forest, Heather. Stone soup. Little Rock, Ark. : August House LittleFolk, 1998.

Two hungry travelers use a stone as a soup starter and demonstrate the benefits of

sharing. Includes a recipe for soup.

E HE Henkes, Kevin. Owen. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1993.

Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but

when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.

E KI Kimmel, Eric A. I took my frog to the library. New York : Puffin Books, 1992.

A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results.

E KL Kleven, Elisa. The puddle pail. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1997.

When his older green brother suggests that he collect things, Ernst, a young blue crocodile,

comes up with an unusual choice: puddles.

E LI Lionni, Leo, 1910-. Inch by inch. [New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, [1994], c1960.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a

toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

E Bri Norman Bridwell. Clifford the Big Red Dog. New York : Scholastic, Inc., 1963.

E NU Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If you give a mouse a cookie. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1985.

A young boy, having given a cookie to a bossy mouse, is run ragged by the energetic

rodent's subsequent requests.

E Pf Pfister, Marcus. The rainbow fish. New York : North-South Books, 1992.

The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and

friendship.

Grade 2 Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

F AD Adler, David A. Cam Jansen and the mystery at the monkey house. New York, N.Y. : Penguin

Books, 1993.

Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to solve a monkey-

smuggling mystery at the city zoo.

F Bl Blume, Judy. Freckle juice. New York, : Four Winds Press, [1971].

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

E Br Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's tooth. Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1985.

Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits

impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out.

E Bu Bunting, Eve. Smoky night. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy

and his mother learn the value of getting along with others.

398.2 DE De Paola, Tomie. The legend of the bluebonnet : an old tale of Texas. New York, N.Y. : Putnam

& Grosset Group, 1996, c1983.

A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower

called bluebonnet to Texas.

E HO Hoban, Russell. Bread and jam for Frances. Trophy ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1986.

Frances learns that she likes to eat other things besides bread and jam.

E Ke Keats, Ezra Jack. Peter's chair. New York, : Harper & Row, [1967].

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he

rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

E LE Lester, Helen. Tacky the penguin. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1988.

Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd

behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.

Lobel, Arnold. Days with Frog and Toad. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1979.

Frog and Toad spend their days together, but find sometimes it's nice to be alone.

Lobel, Arnold. Frog and toad together. New York : Harper & Row,.

Five further adventures of two best friends as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test

their bravery.

E Ma Mayer, Mercer. There's a nightmare in my closet. New York : Dial, 1968.

A young boy decides to do something about the nightmare that hides in his closet every

night.

E MI Minarik, Else Holmelund. A kiss for Little Bear. Trophy ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1984,

c1968.

Several animals help relay a kiss to Little Bear from his grandmother.

E RY Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the best day of all : the fourteenth book of their

adventures. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1995.

Henry and his big dog Mudge celebrate Henry's birthday with a pinata, a lively birthday

party, and a cake shaped like a fish tank, making May first the best day ever.

E Sc Scieszka, Jon. The true story of the 3 little pigs. New York : Puffin Books, 1996, c1989.

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with

the three little pigs.

E Sh Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman. Nate the Great. New York : Dell/Yearling, 1972. Nate the Great, a junior detective, is determined to solve the mystery of the missing

picture of his friend.

Grade 3 Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

E Al Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson is back. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1982.

When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in room 207 plan to "really act

up.".

E Ban Bang, Molly. The paper crane. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1985.

A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that

magically comes alive and dances.

E BA Barrett, Judi. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks/Simon &

Schuster, 1982, c1978.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup, snows mashed

potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn.

E CA Carle, Eric. A house for Hermit Crab. New York : Simon, 1987.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates

and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

F CL Cleary, Beverly. Ramona forever. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1984.

Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change

in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family,

and her father's getting a job.

F Cl Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the brave. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1975.

Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher.

PB Fic DA Dahl, Roald. The BFG. New York : Puffin, 1984,c1982.

Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Sophie helps him to save

the world from other mangobbling cannybull giants.

F Da Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox. [1st ed.]. New York, : Knopf, [1970].

Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox

and his family.

E De De Paola, Tomie. Strega Nona's magic lessons. New York : Voyager Books/Harcourt Brace,

c1982.

Big Anthony disguises himself as a girl in order to take magic lessons from Strega Nona.

E Fr Freeman, Don. A pocket for Corduroy : story and pictures. 1st ed. New York : Viking, 1978.

A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat.

E HO Howe, James, 1946-. Pinky and Rex. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1990.

Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals

or dinosaurs, find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little

sister Amanda.

B PO Malam, John. Beatrix Potter. Minneapolis, Mn. : Carolrhoda Books, 1998.

A brief biography of the British writer best known for her stories about a naughty little

rabbit named Peter.

398.2 MC McDermott, Gerald. Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti. New York : H. Holt, 1986,

c1972.

In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider

is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.

E RI Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c1991.

A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself

and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.

398.2 YO Young, Ed. Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China. New York : Putnam, 1996,c1989.

Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as

their grandmother.

Grade 4 Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

F Bl Blume, Judy. Blubber. Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, [1974].

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then

finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.

F BLU Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. New York : Dell Publishing, 1972.

Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing.

Whether he's throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, Fudge is never far from

trouble. When "Fudgie" walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw.

Peter's put up with Fudge too long. How can he get his parents to pay attention to him

for a change.

F COV Coville, Bruce. My teacher is an alien. Minstrel ed. New York : Pocket, 1989.

After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an

alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's

horrible plans.

F Da Dahl, Roald. James and the giant peach. New York, N.Y. : Cornerstone Books, 1992.

Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away

inside a giant peach.

F Woo Elvira Woodruff. George Washington's Socks. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 1991.

B Re Fritz, Jean. And then what happened, Paul Revere? New York : Coward McCann, 1982, c1973.

Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's

life and exciting ride.

F Ga Gardiner, John Reynolds. Stone Fox. New York : Crowell, c1980.

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a

dog sled race he enters.

E HO Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt. 1st Dragonfly Books ed. New York :

Dragonfly Books :, 1995, c1993.

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the

North.

E Le Le Guin, Ursula K. 1929-. Catwings. New York : Orchard Books, c1988.

"A Richard Jackson book." Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a

safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

F LE Levine, Gail Carson. Ella enchanted. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1998,

c1997.

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse

that forces her to obey any order given to her.

F MAR Martin, Ann M. Baby-Sitters Club #4 : Mary Anne Saves the Day. New York : Scholastic Inc.,

1987.

F Sto Mary Stolz. Go Fish. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 1991.

After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old

Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage.

PB F SAC Sachar, Louis. Wayside School gets a little stranger. Avon Books.

Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside

School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

PB Fic Smi Smith, Robert Kimmel, 1930-. Chocolate fever. New York : Puffin, 2006.

Henry breaks out in brown bumps as a result of eating too much chocolate. He then gets caught up in a hijacking and learns a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.

E VA Van Allsburg, Chris. Jumanji. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1981.

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement

than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

Grade 5 Book List

Sorted by Author / Title

F Cl Cleary, Beverly. Ralph S. Mouse. New York : W. Morrow,.

Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and

becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely

boys.

F Cl Cleary, Beverly. Socks. New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1973.

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the

household.

F Da Dahl, Roald. Matilda. <New York> : Viking Kestrel, 1988.

The adventures of Matilda, considered a brilliant pest by her parents, who enters

Crunchem Hall and meets Miss Honey, a teacher who believes in her.

F De DeClements, Barthe. Nothing's fair in fifth grade. New York : Viking, 1981.

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home

problems, finally learns to accept her.

F Fr Fritz, Jean. Homesick, my own story. New York : Putnam, c1982.

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in

China in the 1920's.

Fic Jus Juster, Norton. The phantom tollbooth. 35th anniversary ed. New York : Random House,

c1996, c1961.

When Milo becomes bored, he is magically transported through a tollbooth in his

bedroom to mysterious and magical realms.

F Pat Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 1977.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a

newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway,

Terabithia, during a storm.

F L'En Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time. New York, NY : Dell Publishing, 1962.

F Na Naylor, Phillis Reynolds. Shiloh. New York : Maxwell Macmillian, 1991.

PB Fic ODE O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. New York : Dell, 1987,c1960.

The story of a young Indian girl who survived for eighteen years on a deserted island off

the California coast.

F Pa Paterson, Katherine. The great Gilly Hopkins. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1978.

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes

against everyone who tries to be friendly.

F RO Robinson, Barbara. The best Christmas pageant ever. New York : HarperCollins, c1972.

The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become

involved in the community Christmas pageant.

F SP Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee. Littl Brown Co, 1990.

F WAL Walter, Mildred Pitts. Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World. New York, NY : Scholastic,

Inc., 1986.

A ten year old boy seems he just can't do anything right so his grandfather invites him

to the family ranch. He learns to do real "men's work" and also learns about his family

roots.

pb F Whi White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. 0-590-30271-X. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 1952.