Picture Books Too Good to Miss! (K-2)

Audrey Woods - The Napping House***, Silly Sally, Heckedy Peg***

Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Bernard Waber - Ira Sleeps Over***, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile

Dr. Seuss - too many titles to mention. 

Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Lonely Firefly, The Very Busy Spider

Ezra Jack Keats - A Letter to Amy

Gene Zion - Harry the Dirty Dog

H.A. Rey  - Curious George

Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day***

Kevin Henkes - Chester’s Way, Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse

Laura Numeroff - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Leo Lionni - Little Blue and Little Yellow, Swimmy

Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline

Marc Brown - “Arthur” series

Mem Fox - Time for Bed

Popular Authors

Robert Kraus - Leo the Late Bloomer***, Milton the Early Riser***,and Herman the Helper

Rosemary Wells – McDuff and sequels

Russel Hoban - Bread and Jam for Frances, Bedtime for Frances***

Steven Kellogg - The Mysterious Tadpole, Johnny Appleseed

Tomie dePaola - Strega Nona***, Strega Nona meets her Match

Trinka Hakes Noble - The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash***

Vera B. Williams - A Chair for My Mother, Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe, Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea

William Steig - Dr. De Soto***, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Brave Irene

Great Read-Alouds For All Ages

Aesop - Aesop Fables

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales

Julie Andrews - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

James M. Barrie - Peter Pan

Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey

Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Ian Fleming – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Kenneth Graham - Wind in the Willows

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Robert O’Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Mordecai Richler - Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

George Selden - The Cricket in Times Square

Books for PK

One Happy Classroom by Charnan Simon

Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bougeois

Mapping Penny’s World by Loreen Leedy

Hopscotch Around the World by Mary D. Lankford

50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth by Earth Works Group

What Makes a Magnet? By Franklyn M. Branley

Pop! A Book About Bubbles by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Air Is All Around You by Franklin M. Branley

Books for Students Entering Kindergarten

Big Dog, Little Dog by P.D. Eastman

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Martin

Crazy Hair Day by Barney Saltzberg

Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Fabian Escapes by Peter McCarthy

Follow the Drinking Gourd by J. Winter

Freight Train by Crews

Hill of Fire by T. Lewis***

Hondo & Fabian by Peter Mc Carthy

Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? An Adventure in Color by T. Hoban

Jamaica’s Find by J. Havell

Letters and Sounds by Rosemary Wells

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

Pet Show by E. Keats

Sheep in a Jeep by Shaw

Space Case by E. Marshall

Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester

The Fat Cat Sat on a Mat by Karlin

Three by the Sea by E. Marshall***

Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel***

What Mommies and Daddies Do Best by Laura Numeroff

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by L. Moss

Books for Students Entering First Grade

A Day in the Life of a Mayor:  Featuring NYC Mayor

Rudy Giuliani by Liza N. Burby

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day by Judith Viorst***

A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

Aliens for Breakfast by Jonathon Etra***

Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban***

Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina***

Dear, Deer by Jene Barretta

Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel***

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolden Harold

If You Give A Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff

Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

Kate Meets the Impressionists by James Mayhew

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus***

Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

Martha Walks the Dog by Susan Meddaugh

Mirandy and Brother Wind by Pat Mckissack

Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Music, Music for Everyone by Vera B. Williams

My Little Island by Frane Lessac

Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmart***

On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman

Over the Meadow by Ezra Keats

Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola

Peanut Butter and Jelly:  A Play Rhyme by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Piggie Pie by Maggie Palatini

Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee by James Howe

Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

Smitten:  A Lint-Free Love Story by David Gordon

The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola

The Listening Walk by Paul Showers

The Old House by Pamela Duncan Edwards

The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston

The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller

The Teeny Tiny Woman by Paul Galdone***

There’s an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer

Thomas Edison:  The Great American Inventor by Louise Egan

Thomas Jefferson & the Ghostriders by Howard Goldsmith

Books for Students Entering Second Grade

Ambur Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danzinger

Dog Breath by Dave Pilkey

Eyewitness:  Media & Communications by Clive Gifford

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Florence Nightingale by Shannon Zemlicka

Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant

Horrible Harry Takes The Cake by Suzy Kline

John F. Kennedy & the Stormy Sea by Howard Goldsmith

Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park

Kid Who Only Hit Homers by Matt Christopher

Knights of the Kitchen Table, by Jon Scieska

Life in a Bucket of Soil by Alvin Silverstein

Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? by Louis Sachar

Mount Rushmore by Marion Danebauer

Moxy Maxwell Does not Like Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford

My Dog May Be A Genius by Jack Prelutsky

Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat***

Pirates by Gail Gibbons

Poppleton Forever by Cynthia Rylant

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Bug in the Teacher’s Coffee by Kalli Dakos

The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skere Catling***

The Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

What Makes the Light Bright, Thomas Edison? By Melvin & Gilda Berger

Books for Students Entering Third Grade

A Job for Jenny Archer  by Ellen Conford

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger

Babe the Gallant Pig, Water Horse, or any of his animal stories by Dick King-Smith

Baseball Card Adventure series by Dan Gutman

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

City Green by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Dear Little Wolf by Ian Whybrow

Encyclopedia Brown mysteries by Donald Sobol

Fairy Dust & The Quest For the Egg  by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

How to Be Cool in Third Grade by Laurie Lawlor

Levers by Angela Royston

Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, My Teacher is an Alien series by Bruce Coville

Moonwalk by Judith Donnelly

Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Series by Betty Bard MacDonald

Ramona series, Henry Huggins and many others by Beverly Cleary

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Stories Julian Tells by Anne Cameron

Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swan, or Charlotte’s Web   by E. B. White

The American Girl Series  by Valerie Tripp et al.

The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons

Who was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards

Witches, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Books for Students Entering Fourth Grade

Call It Courage by Armstrong Perry

Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz

Diary of a Whimpy Kid Series-Jeff Kinney

Fantastic Mr. Fox by: Roald Dahl

Football Genius by Tim Green

Gossamer by Lois Lowry

Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by B.B. Lord

Lemony Snicket – A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Alive by David A. Adler

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars

Misty by Marguerite Henry

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

Rascal by Sterling North

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Silverwing by Bruce Coville

Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan

Swordbird by Nancy Y. Fan

The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aseop’s Elementary School by Candace Fleming

The Gypsy Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Prince of the Pond by Donna Jo Napoli

The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain

What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz

Books for Students Entering Fifth Grade

A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

All About Sam by Lois Lowry

Anastasia and sequels by Lois Lowry

BFG by Roald Dahl

Blue Willow by Doris Gates

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carsen Levine

Eleven: A Mystery by Patricia Giff Reilly

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg

Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Penny From Heaven by Jennifer Holm

Raleigh’s Page by Allen Armstrong

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Remember This Titan by Steve Sullivan

The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck

The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz

The Fire Within by Chris D’Lacey

The Coming of the Dragons by A.J.Lake

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Di Camillo

The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Federick

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney

The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

Three Cups of Tea for Young Readers by Greg Mortensen

Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Whittington by Alan W. Armstrong

Books for Students Entering Sixth Grade

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peack

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Crash by Jerry Spinelli

Crispin Cross of Lead by Avi

Eragaon Series by Christopher Paolini

Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Journey by Patricia MacLachlan

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes

Sara Bishop by Scott O’Dell

Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

The Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite D’Angeli

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Landry News by Andrew Clements

The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda

The Young James Bond Series by Charles Higson

View From Saturday by E.L.Konigsburg

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

12 Again by Sue Corbett

Books for Students Entering Seventh Grade

A Very Improbable Story:  A Math Adventure by Edward Einhorn

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Ryan

DK Eyewitness Books:  MEDIEVAL LIFE by Andrew langley

Escape From Warsaw by Ian Serraillier

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fighting Ground by Avi

Grapes of Math by Greg tang and Harry Briggs

Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Inkheart Series by Funke

Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander

Islam (DK Eyewitness Books) by Philip Wilkinson

Islam (World Faiths) by Trevor Barnes

London Calling by Edward Bloor

Multiplying Menace:  The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin

by Pam Calvert

Mummy Math:  An Adventure in Geometry by

Cindy Neuschwander

On My Honor by Marion Bauer

One-eyed Cat by Paula Fox

Park’s Quest by Katherine Paterson

Patterns in Peru:  An Adventure in Patterning by

Cindy Neuschwander

Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Sir Cumference Series by Cindy Neuschwander

Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowsha

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

The Alchemist by Michael Scott

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Incas by

David Jones

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenten Lee Stewart

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras?:  A Math Adventure

By Julie Ellis

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

Books for Students Entering Eighth Grade

A Night to Remember (Titanic) by Walter Lord

A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Dune by Herbert

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Four Perfect Pebbles – A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jamison by Lois Lenski

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Run Boy Run by Uri Orlev

Shane by Jack Schaefer

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill

The Thief by Megan Whaler Turner

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

The Wave by Todd Strasser

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee