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This is the basic list for Clarke and Stanley Schools. The list for Hadley School will appear at the end of these lists.
ENTERING KINDERGARTEN:
Penn The Kissing Hand
ENTERING GRADE 1:
Agee Milo’s Hat Trick
Bemelmens Madeline
Blume Freckle Juice (jFIC and jPB)
Bourgeois Franklin Rides A Bike
Brett Daisy Comes Home (jP/PB only)
Bruchac How Chipmunk Got HisStripes(j398.2B)
Burton The Little House
Choi The Name Jar (jP/PB only)
Christelow Five Little Monkeys
Eastman Are You My Mother? (jE)
Edwards Clara Caterpillar (jP/PB only)
Gantos Rotten Ralph Helps Out (jE)
Henkes Owen,
Henkes Wemberly Worried
Jenkins Five Creatures
Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon
Kellogg A Penguin Pup For Pinkerton
Kimmel Anansi And The Magic Stick (jP/PB only)
LeSieg Ten Apples Up On Top! (jE)
Long When Papa Snores
Look Henry’s First Moon Birthday
Mayer There’s An Alligator Under My Bed
McCloskey Make Way For Ducklings
Middleton Tabitha’s Terrifically Tough Tooth
Numeroff If You Give A Pig A Pancake, (RR)
Numeroff If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Pattou Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden
Piper The Little Engine That Could (RR)
Rey Curious George
Rylant The Great Gracie Chase
Shaw Sheep In A Jeep
Showers The Listening Walk (jP/PB only)
Smith Loki And Alex
Stevens And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
Stewart The Journey
Suen The Hamster Chase (jE & jE/PB)
Watt Leon The Chameleon
Wells McDuff Series
Wick Optical Tricks
Winthrop Dumpy La Rue
Wood Quick As A Cricket
Wood The Napping House
Recommended Authors For Entering Grade 1 : Kevin Henkes, The Story of Babar (& others), Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, Rosemary Wells A,B,C’s (any title), Counting (any title)
RR=Reading Rainbow shelf.
All books are jP and jP/PB (paperback) unless otherwise noted.
ENTERING GRADE 2:
Allard Miss Nelson Series
Arnold No More Water In The Tub,
Arnold Sign Maker’s Assistant
Barracca The Adventures Of Taxi Dog
Bercaw Halmoni’s Day
Brown Flat Stanley (jFIC & jPB)
Cannon Stellaluna
Capucilli Biscuit series(jE)
Cherry The Great Kapok Tree : A Tale Of The Amazon Rain Forest (RR)
Creech Fishing In The Air
Danziger You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown (jFIC & jPB)
DePaola Strega Nona
Ehlert Waiting For Wings
Finchler Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live In Room 10
Gantos Rotten Ralph Helps Out (jE)
Guarino Is Your Mama A Llama
Hale Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (jPB)
Henkes Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
Hest The Friday Nights Of Nana
Hoffman Amazing Grace (RR)
Hood Look! I Can Read! (jE/PB)
Keats Peter’s Chair
Kerley The Dinosaurs Of Waterhouse Hawkins (j 567.9 K Oversize)
Kvasnosky Zelda And Ivy
Leedy Mapping Penny’s World (j 912 L)
Lester Tacky the Penguin
Lobel Frog And Toad Series (jE)
Markle Outside And Inside Dinosaurs (j 567.9 M)
Meddaugh Martha And Skits,
Meddaugh Martha Blah Blah
Meister Tiny the Snow Dog,
Meister When Tiny was Tiny
Minarik Little Bear Series (jE)
Osborne Tonight On The Titanic : Magic Tree House Series (jPB)
Paladini The Web Files
Park Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy (jPB)
Polacco Mrs. Katz and Tush
Preller The Case Of The Spooky Sleepover Jigsaw Jones Mystery #4 (jPB)
Prelutsky It’s Raining Pigs And Noodles (j 811 P)
Rylant Henry And Mudge Series, (jE)
Rylant Mr. Putter and Tabby Series (jE)
Scieszka The Stinky Cheese Man,
Scieszka True Story Of The Three Little Pigs
Seeger Abiyoyo
Sendak Chicken Soup With Rice, A Book Of Months
Sharmat Nate The Great Series (jE)
Silverstein The Giving Tree (jFIC)
Simont The Stray Dog
Standiford The Bravest Dog Ever: The True story of Balto (jE)
Steptoe Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter (RR)
Wick Can You See What I See
Wick I Spy series
Wiesner The Three Pigs
Wood King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Young Lon Po Po (j 398.2 Y)
Zion Harry The Dirty Dog
Recommended Authors For Grade 2: Any Frances book (Hoban), Amelia Bedelia books (Parish), Henry and Mudge series (Rylant), Little Bear Books (Minarik)
RR=Reading Rainbow Shelf.
Books are jP and jP/PB (paperback) unless otherwise noted.
ENTERING GRADE 3:
Adler Cam Jansen Series (jFIC & jPB)
Aliki Digging Up Dinosaurs RR (j 567.9 A)
Aliki Mummies Made In Egypt RR (j 393.3 B)
Allard Miss Nelson Is Missing
Artell Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood (j 398.2 A)
Atwater Mr. Popper’s Penguins (jFIC & jPB)
Avi Poppy (jFIC & jPB)
Barrett Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Blume Freckle Juice(jFIC & jPB)
Blume Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing (jFIC &j PB)
Cameron The Stories Julian Tells (jFIC &j PB)
Cherry The Great Kapok Tree (RR)
Christopher Stranger In Right Field (jFIC &j PB)
Cleary Ramona Quimby, Age 8(jFIC & jPB)
Cleary Ramona the Pest ((jFIC & jPB)
Cole Bony Legs (jE & jE PB)
Dadey Bailey School Kids Series (jPB)
Dahl Fantastic Mr. Fox (jFIC & jPB)
Dahl The BFG (jFIC & jPB)
Danzinger Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon (jFIC & jPB)
Ernst Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale
Etra Aliens For Breakfast (jPB)
Ferris Go Free Or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman (jB Tubman)
Ferris Walking The Road To Freedom: Story about Sojurner Truth (jB Truth)
Ferris What Are You Figuring Now? Benjamin Banneker(jB Banneker)
Fleming Where Once There Was A Wood
Frasier Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Freeman Pocket for Corduroy
George Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary (jP/PB only)
Giff Oh, Boy, Boston (jPB)
Hopkins Sports! Sports! Sports! (jE)
Jeffers Brother Eagle, Sister Sky a (jP/PB) Message From Chief Seattle
Kline Horrible Harry And The Dungeon (jFIC & jPB)
Krull Wilma Unlimited (jB Rudolph)
Landon Meg Mackintosh Series (jFIC &j PB)
MacLachlan Sarah, Plain And Tall*
McGill Molly Bannaky (Don’t own)
Parish Amelia Bedelia (jE)
Peterson The Littles (jPB)
Polacco The Bee Tree,
Polacco The Keeping Quilt
Preller Jigsaw Jones Mystery series (jPB)
Robinson The Best School Year Ever (jFIC & jPB)
Rockwell How To Eat Fried Worms (jFIC & jPB)
Rodowsky Not My Dog (jFIC & PB)
Ross M and M series (jE)
Roy A-Z Mysteries series (jPB)
Sachar Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped At Birth? (jPB)
Scieszka Baloney,
Scieszka Math Curse (RR)
Sobol Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (jFIC &j PB)
Steig Brave Irene
Steig Doctor DeSoto
Stevenson Rocks In His Head
White Charlotte’s Web (jFIC & jPB)
Yolen Letting Swift River Go
Recommended Authors for Grade 3: Paula Danziger, Allen Say, David Adler, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Patricia McKissack, BarbaraCooney, Robert McCloskey, John Peterson, Jon Scieszka, Chris Van Allsburg.
RR=Reading Rainbow.
*Newbery Award.
Books are jP and jP/PB (paperback) unless otherwise indicated.
ENTERING GRADE 4:
Abbott Secrets Of Droon series (jPB only)
Aliki Wild And Wooly Mammoths (j596.6 A)
Banks The Indian In The Cupboard
Barasch Radio Rescue (jP)
Blume Fudge-a-Mania
Borden Sleds On Boston Common
Bower The Shipwrecked Sailor (j 398.2 B)
Coville My Teacher Is An Alien (PB only)
Dahl James And The Giant Peach
Duffey Cody
Erickson The Original Adventures Of Hank The Cowdog (PB only)
Ferris Native American Doctor, The Story Of Susan LaFlesche Picotte(jB LaFlesche)
George My Side Of The Mountain (MS)
Greenburg The Zack Files (PB only)
Greene Owen Foote series
Hahn Time For Andrew : A Ghost Story
Heide Some Things Are Scary (jP)
Howe Bunnicula
Hurwitz New Neighbors For Nora
Kehret Earthquake Terror
King-Smith Ace: The Very Important Pig
Lauber Lost Star (jB Earhart,A/L)
Lowry Anastasia Krupnik
MacLachlin Caleb’s Story
Martin Claudia And The Phantom Phone Calls (PB only)
Mowat Owls In The Family (PB only)
Nixon Search For The Shadowman
O’Brien Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH*
O’Brien The Hindenburg (j 629.133 O)
Osborne The Magic Treehouse Series (mostly jPB)
Prelutsky Awful Ogre’s Awful Day (j 811 P Oversize)
Richler Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang
Sachar Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Scieszka Time Warp Trio (series)
St.George So You Want To Be President?(j 973 S)
Tang The Grapes Of Math (j793.7 T, jP/PB)
Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s Casey At The Bat (j 811 T Oversize) (Also Gr. 5)
White Stuart Little
Wood A Share Of Freedom (Out of print)
Recommended Authors For Grade 4 : Ann Turner, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Patricia Polacco, Lois Lowry, Eleanor Coerr, Mildred Taylor, Shel Silverstein, Matt Christopher, Roald Dahl, Ann McGovern.
MS=Middle School Reading list, shelved upstairs
* Newbery Award Winners.
All others are jFic & jPB unless otherwise noted.
ENTERING GRADE 5 :
Adams Best Book Of Volcanos (do not own)
Banks Farthest Away Mountain,
Banks Indian and the Cupboard (also Gr. 5)
Bellairs Treasure Of Alpheus Winterborn
Byars The Dark Stairs
Cleary Dear Mr. Henshaw*
Clements School Story
Conrad My Daniel
Creech Chasing Redbird, (MS)
Creech Walk Two Moons*
Dahl Matilda
Danziger Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon
DiCamillo Because Of Winn Dixie
Farmer The Warm Place (jPB only)
Fleischman The Whipping Boy*
Frank Anne Frank, The Diary Of Young Girl (j 940.54 F also jPB)
Haddix Running Out Of Time
Hahn Time For Andrew (Also Gr. 4)
Hahn Wait Till Helen Comes : A Ghost Story
Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
Konigsburg From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiller*
Lewis The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (MS)
Lord In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson
Millard A Street Through Time (don’t own)
Namioka Yang The Youngest And His Terrible Ear
Naylor Shiloh*
O’Dell Island Of The Blue Dolphins, *
O’Dell Zia
Paterson Bridge to Terabithia*
Polacco Pink And Say (jFic Oversize)
Robinson The Best School Year Ever
Rowling Harry Potter Series
Recommended Authors for Grade 5 : C.S. Lewis, Robert Newton Peck, Lloyd Alexander, E.L. Konigsburg, Patricia McLachlan, Scott O’Dell, Betsy Byars, John Bellairs, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Jane Yolen, Sharon Creech, Gary Paulsen, Katherine Paterson, Ann Rinaldi.
MS=Middle School Reading List, shelved upstairs
* Titles are Newbery Award Winners.
All others are jFIC and jPB unless otherwise noted.
Additional Titles for Grade 5:
Brenner On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon (jB Audubon)
Buck The Big Wave
Cole Story of Ruby Bridges (jB Bridges)
Curtis Elijah of Buxton
Dahl Matilda
Dicamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography (jB Lincoln)
Giblin The Many Rides of Paul Revere (jB Revere)
Prelutsky Good Sports: Rhymes (j 811 P)
Ryan Esperanza Rising (MS)
Young Abigail Adams (Out of print) Sabin
Schlitz Good Masters, Sweet Ladies (j 812 S*)
San Souci Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend (jB Shelley)
Hadley School Grades K to 2
Anno Anno’s counting book
Anno Anno’s journey
Bang Grey lady & strawberry catcher
Bang Ten, nine, eight
BemelmansMadeline’s rescue*
BrunhoffStory of Babar
Buehner Fanny’s dream
Burton Mike Mulligan & his steam shovel
Crews Freight train
Crews Truck
Daugherty Andy and the lion
Ehlert Color zoo
Fleming In the small, small pond (T)
Gag Millions of cats
Goode Mama’s perfect present
Grossman My little sister ate 1 hare
Haas Sugaring
Hale Mary had a little lamb
Hall Apple pie tree
Hoban Shadows and reflection
Hogrogian One fine day*
Hoopes Unbeatable bread
Hunter Possum’s harvest moon
Hurd Art dog
Isadora Ben’s trumpet
Johnson Alphabet city
Johnson Lost
Keats Goggles
Lobel On Market Street
London Red wolf country
Low Mice twice
Lyon Ada’s pal
Mathis Hundred penny box (jFic)
Minarik Little Bear’s visit (jE)
Mosel Funny little woman*
Ness Sam, Bangs & Moonshine (jFic)*
Newcome Toddlerobics (T)
Numeroff Why a disguise?
Pilkey Paperboy
Pluckrose Pattern ++
Pluckrose Counting ++
Plume Bremen town musicians
Ray Mud
Rohman Time flies ++
Rosen We’re going on a bear hunt
Schlein More than one
Schwartz How much is a million?
Sendak In the night kitchen
Seuss If I ran the zoo
Shannon Tomorrow’s alphabet
Sharmat Gila monsters meet you at airport (RR)
Sharmat Mitchell is moving (jE RR)
Shea New moon
Simon Topsy turvys
Stoeke Minerva Louise at school
Strete They thought they saw him
Wiesner Free fall
Wiesner Tuesday*
Williams “More, more, more” said the baby
Wood King Bidgood’s in the bathtub
Yashima Crow boy
Young Seven blind mice
Zion Harry the dirty dog
All books are jP and jP/PBB (paperback) unless otherwise noted. * Means Caldecott winner, RR means Reading Rainbow, ++ means paperback only, and T means toddler.
Hadley School Grades 3 & 4
Bachrach Tell them we remember (YA 940.5318 B)
Bang Paper Crane (jP RR)
Banks Mystery of the cupboard
Baylor Hawk I’m your brother (jP/PB)
Bunting Blue and the gray (jP)
Bunting Train to somewhere (jP)
Carris Beware the ravens, Aunt Morebella
Clement Frindle
Coerr Mieko and the fifth treasure
Cooper The boggart and the monster
Cottonwood Quake
Cushman Ballad of Lucy Whipple
DeFelice Apprenticeship of Lucas Whittaker
Dooley Everybody bakes bread (jP)
Emberley Drummer Hoff (jP Caldecott)
Estes Hundred dresses
Feelings Moja means one (jP/PB)
Fenner Yolanda’s genius (jPB only)
Fleischman 13th floor: a ghost story
Fleischman Abracadabra Kid (jB FLEISCHMAN)
Fritz You want women to vote…(jB STANTON)
Gibbons Mountain wedding (jP/PB)
Giff Lily’s crossing
Greenstein Mrs. Rose’s garden (jP)
Gregory Winter of red snow
Haddix Running out of time
Hahn Time for Andrew
Hobbs Far North
Konigsburg View from Saturday*
Korman Toilet paper tigers
Krauss Very special house (jP)
Levine Ella enchanted
Lowry Stay! Keepers story
MacBride Little house on rocky ridge (jPB only)
McCloskey One morning in Maine (jP)
McCully Ballot box battle (jP)
Mead Junebug (jPB only)
Meyer White lilacs (jPB only)
Milhous Egg tree
Mills Dinah for president
Murphy The great fire (j 977.31 M)
Nash Custard the dragon & wicked …(jP)
Naylor Shiloh season
Park Mick Harte was here
Patneaude Someone was watching
Paulsen Brian’s winter
Provenson Glorious flight (jP Caldecott)
Sawyer Journey cake, ho! (j 398.2 S Caldecott)
Schnur Koufax dilemma
Sharmat Big fat enormous lie (jE)
Sisulu Day Gogo went to vote (jP/PB only)
Spinelli Wringer
Stanley Saving Sweetness (jP)
Steig Amazing Bone (jP RR)
Taylor The Well
Turkle Thy friend Obadiah (jP/PB only)
Warren Orphan train rider (j 362.73 W)
Will Finders keepers (jP)
Williams Working cotton (jP/PB only)
Williams Titanic crossing
Williams Behind the bedroom wall (jPB only)
Winthrop Battle for the castle (jPB only)
Wisler Mr. Lincoln’s drummer (jPB only)
Wood The Bunyans (jP)
Woodruff Magnificent mummy maker
Yashima Umbrella (jP)
Yolen Emperor and the kite (jP/PB only)
Zemach Judge, an untrue tale (jP)
All books are jFic and jPB (paperback) unless otherwise noted. * Means Newbery winner, RR means Reading Rainbow.
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