An Abbreviated List of Good Reads
And two notes:
· Read alouds are encouraged, for younger and older students alike
· The age-levels are approx.; you might find a good book in younger or older age levels
K-2
· A Treasury of Children’s Literature by Armand Eisen
· A Zooful of Animals by William Cole
· Amelia Bedelia by Penny Parish
· Barney’s Horse by Syd Hoff
· Beauty and The Beast by Jan Brett
· The Beginner’s Bible by Karyn Henley
· Biographies (Washington, Lincoln, Franklin, etc) by Ingri d’Aulaire
· Billy and Blaze by Clarence Anderson
· Corduroy by Don Freeman
· Fables by Arthur Lobel
· Frog and Toad Series by Arthur Lobel
· Harry The Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
· Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
· Mouse Soup by Arthur Lobel
· Norman The Doorman by Don Freeman
· Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs by Nancy Levinson
· The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
· The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others by Beatrix Potter
3-4
· The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
· Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
· The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
· Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Florence & Richard Atwater
· Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
· The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
· A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
· Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
· The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
· On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
· The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
· The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
· Stuart Little by E.B. White
· The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid
· A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne
· Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
· The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
· The Penderwicks Books by Jeanne Birdsall
· The “Shoe” Books by Noel Streatfeild
· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
· Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest by Ann McGovern
· Leonardo da Vinci by Norman V. Marshall
· Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
· The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
· Toliver’s Secret by Esther Brady
· A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
· The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
5-6
· Alexander the Great by Peter Green
· The Bandit of Ashley Downs by Dave Jackson
· Bolivar by John Guyatt
· The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
· Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
· Paddle to the Sea by Clancy Holling
· Teresa of Calcutta: Serving the Poorest of the Poor by Jeanene D. Watson
· The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
· The Adventure of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
· Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
· The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin
· Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
· Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
· Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
· The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit
· Frozen Summer by Mary Jane Auch
· The Light Princess by George MacDonald
· Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
· The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
· Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
· The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
· Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
· Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Doyle
· Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
· Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris
· Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
· Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
· The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
· The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse by Peter and Iona Opie
· Peter Pan (unabridged) by James Matthew Barrie
· The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
· The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
· The Wishing Tree by William Faulkner
7-8
· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
· Hatchet by Gary Paulson
· Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
· The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C.S. Lewis
· Father Brown Mystery Stories by G.K. Chesterton
· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
· Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
· The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
· Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
· Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
· Gullivar’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
· Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
· Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
· Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
· Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
· Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
· The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
· Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
· The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
· Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
· You Come Too, Favorite Poems for Young Readers by Robert Frost
· The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
· Watership Down by Richard Adams
· The Wise Woman and Other Fantasy Stories by George MacDonald