Little School Reading Suggestions

Compiled by:  Ms. Sondra Rosoff

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Picture Books New(ish)

Picture Book Classics

Leveled Readers

Leveled Readers Series Books

Chapter Books New(ish)

Chapter Book Series New(ish)

Chapter Book Classics

Chapter Book Series (Classics)

Folk and Fairy Tales

Poetry

Non-Fiction



Picture Books New(ish)

Agee, Jon  :  Terrific

                     Nothing

 

Ahlberg, Allan & Ingman, Bruce:  The Pencil


Armstrong, Jennifer:  Magnus at the Fire


Barton, Chris and Lichtenheld, Tom: Shark vs. Train


Borden, Louise:  The Greatest Skating Race


Bridges, Shirin Yim:  Ruby’s Wish


Bruel, Nick:  Bad Kitty

                      Who is Melvin Bubble?


Cronin, Doreen:  Diary of a Fly

                            Diary of a Worm

 

Diakite, Penda:  I Lost My Tooth in Africa


Donaldson, Julia:  The Snail and the Whale 


Feiffer, Jules:  Meanwhile . . . 


Fleischman, Paul:  Weslandia


Fleming, Candace:  Sunny Boy!:  The Life and Times of a Tortoise 


Gerstein, Mordicai:  The Man Who Walked Between the Towers


Gerstein, Mordicai:  The Mountains of Tibet


Gravett, Emily:  Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears


Grey, Mini:  Traction Man is Here!


Grimes, Nikki:  Danitra Brown, Class Clown


Hopkinson, Deborah:  Apples to Oregon 


Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody:  The Top Job


Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie:  Nora’s Ark


Kloske, Geoffrey:  Once Upon a Time, the End


Laden, Nina:  Romeow and Drooliet


Lasky, Kathryn:  Marven of the Great North Woods


Lindbergh, Reeve:  Our Nest


Mahy, Margaret:  The Great White Man-Eating Shark


McCully, Emily Arnold:  Mirette on the High Wire


McKissack, Patricia C.:  Precious and the Boo Hag


Ogburn, Jacqueline:  The Bake Shop Ghost


Palatini, Margie:  The Web Files


Priceman, Marjorie:  How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World


Rathmann, Peggy:  Officer Buckle and Gloria


Rylant, Cynthia:  The Old Woman Who Named Things


Say, Allen:  Kamishibai Man


Say, Allen:  Grandfather’s Journey


Shulevitz, Uri:  How I Learned Geography 


Smith, Lane:  The Happy Hocky Family


Smith, Lane:  John, Paul, George & Ben


Snicket, Lemony and Kalman, Maira:  13 Words


Stanley, Diane:  Saving Sweetness


Stein, David Ezra:  Interrupting Chicken


Thomas, Jan:  Rhyming Dust Bunnies


Valckx, Catharina:  Lizette’s Green Sock


Wells, Rosemary:  Hazel’s Amazing Mother


Wiesner, David:  Flotsam


Willems, Mo:  Knuffle Bunny 


Willems, Mo:  Knuffle Bunny Too


Woodruff, Elvira:  The Memory Coat


Woodson, Jacqueline:  Show Way

     


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Picture Book Classics 

Allard, Harry:  Miss Nelson is Missing!

                         Miss Nelson is Back


Ardizzone, Edward:   Tim All Alone


Barrett, Judi:  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs


Bemelmans, Ludwig:  Madeline


Brown, Margaret Wise:  Goodnight Moon 


Burningham, John:  Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car


Burton, Virginia Lee:  Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel


Carle, Eric: The Very Hungry Caterpillar


Cohen, Miriam:  When Will I Read?


Charlip, Remy:  Fortunately


dePaola, Tomie:  Strega Nona 


Freeman, Don:  Fly High Fly Low


George, Jean Craighead:  Nutik, the Wolf Pup


Henkes, Kevin:  Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse


Hoban, Russell:  Bedtime for Frances


Hoban, Russell:  Bread and Jam for Frances 


Jeschke, Susan:  Perfect the Pig


Johnson, Crockett:  Harold and the Purple Crayon


Keats, Ezra Jack:  The Snowy Day


Kimmel, Eric:  Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins


Leaf, Munro:  The Story of Ferdinand


Lionni, Leo:  Frederick


Lionni, Leo:  Swimmy


McCloskey, Robert:  Blueberries for Sal


McLerran, Alice:  Roxaboxen


Meddaugh, Susan:  Martha Speaks


Sendak, Maurice:  Where the Wild Things Are 


Seuss, Dr.:  Horton Hatches the Egg


Slobodkina, Esphyr:  Caps for Sale


Steig, William:  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble


Steig, William:  Doctor De Soto


Swift, Hildegarde H.:  The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge


Titus, Eve:  Anatole


Turkle, Brinton:  Do Not Open


Turkle, Brinton:  Obadiah the Bold


Van Allsburg, Chris:  The Widow’s Broom


Van Allsburg, Chris:  The Wreck of the Zephyr


Ward, Lynd:  The Biggest Bear


Williams, Jay:  Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like


Yashima, Taro:  Crow Boy



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Leveled Readers

              

Cole, Joanna:  Bony-Legs


Gerstein, Mordicai:  Arnold of the Ducks


Hoff, Syd:  Sammy the Seal


Palmer, Helen:  A Fish Out of Water


Parish, Peggy:  No More Monsters for Me!


Seuss, Dr. :  The Cat in the Hat


Seuss, Dr. :  Green Eggs and Ham


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Leveled Readers Series Books

Adler, David:  Cam Jansen


Arnold, Tedd:  Fly Guy


Baker, Keith:  Mr. and Mrs. Green 


Chaconas, Dori:  Cork & Fuzz


Hall, Katy and Eisenberg, Lisa:  Riddles


Howe, James:  Pinky and Rex


Lobel, Arnold:  Frog and Toad


Marshall, Edward:  Fox and His Friends


Osborne, Mary Pope:  Magic Tree House 


Parish, Peggy:  Amelia Bedelia


Roy, Ron:  A to Z Mysteries


Rylant, Cynthia:  Mr. Putter & Tabby 


Rylant, Cynthia:  Henry and Mudge


Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman:  Nate the Great


Thomas, Shelley Moore:  Good Knight


Van Leeuwen, Jean:  Amanda Pig


West, Tracey:  Pixie Tricks


Willems, Mo:  Elephant & Piggie

 

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Chapter Books New


Angleberger, Tom:  The Strange Case of Origami Yoda


Buyea, Rob:  Because of Mr. Terrupt


Draper, Sharon M.:  Out of My Mind


Preus, Margi:  Heart of a Samurai


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Chapter Books New(ish)

 

Avi:  Hard Gold


Balliett, Blue:  Chasing Vermeer


Broach, Elise:  Masterpiece 


Broach, Elise:  Shakespeare’s Secret


Clements, Andrew:  Frindle


Creech, Sharon:  Ruby Holler


Curtis, Christopher Paul:  Bud, Not Buddy


DiCamillo, Kate:  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane


DiCamillo, Kate:  Tale of Despereaux


Donaldson, Julia:  The Giants and the Joneses


Fleischman, Sid:  The Whipping Boy


Gaiman, Neil:  The Graveyard Book


Gutman, Dan:  The Homework Machine


Hurwitz, Johanna:  PeeWee & Plush


Jenkins, Emily:  Toys Go Out


Jones, Diana Wynne:  Witch Week


Levine, Gail Carson:  Dave at Night


Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon


Lombard, Jenny: Drita, My Homegirl


Look, Lenore:  Alvin Ho


O’Connor, Barbara:  How to Steal a Dog


Rex, Adam:  The True Meaning of Smekday


Seidler, Tor:  Gully’s Travels


Selznick, Brian:  The Invention of Hugo Cabret


Weeks, Sarah:  Oggie Cooder 


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Chapter Book Series New(ish)


Barrows, Annie:  Ivy + Bean


Benton, Jim:  Franny K. Stein


Birney, Betty G.:  According to Humphrey


Byng, Georgia:  Molly Moon


DiCamillo, Kate:  Mercy Watson 


DiTerlizzi & Black:  The Spiderwick Chronicles


DuPrau, Jeanne:  The City of Ember 


Funke, Cornelia:  Inkheart


Gantos, Jack:  Joey Pigza


Herge:  The Adventures of Tintin


Holm, Jennifer L. & Holm, Matthew:  Babymouse


Kinney, Jeff:  Diary of a Wimpy Kid 


Lasky, Kathryn:  Guardians of Ga’Hoole


Martin, Ann M. & Godwin, Laura:  The Doll People


McDonald, Megan:  Judy Moody


McDonald, Megan:  Stink


Pennypacker, Sara:  Clementine


Richler, Mordecai:  Jacob Two-Two 


Riordan, Rick:  Percy Jackson & the Olympians 


Rodda, Emily:  Deltora Quest


Rowling, J. K.:  Harry Potter


Sage, Angie:  Septimus Heap


Scieszka, Jon:  The Time Warp Trio


Smith, Jeff:  Bone


Stilton, Geronimo:  Geronimo Stilton


Various Authors:  The 39 Clues


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Chapter Book Classics


Barrie, J.M.:  Peter Pan


Burnett, Frances Hodgson:  The Secret Garden


Carroll, Lewis:  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland


Caudill, Rebecca:  Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?


Dahl, Roald:  James and the Giant Peach


Henry, Marguerite:  Misty of Chincoteague


Holling, Holling Clancy:  Paddle-to-the-Sea


Field, Rachel:  Hitty:  Her First Hundred Years


Fisher, Dorothy Canfield:  Understood Betsy


Fitzhugh, Louise:  Harriet the Spy


Grahame, Kenneth:  The Wind in the Willows


Kipling, Rudyard:  Just So Stories


Konigsburg, E.L.:  From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler


Lawson, Robert:  Ben and Me 


L’Engle, Madeleine:  A Wrinkle in Time


McCloskey, Robert:  Homer Price 


Milne, A.A.:  Winnie-the-Pooh


Selden, George:  The Cricket in Times Square


Stevenson, Robert Louis:  Treasure Island


Twain, Mark:  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


White, E.B.:  Charlotte’s Web



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Chapter Book Series (Classics)


Banks, Lynne Reid:  The Indian in the Cupboard


Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Cleary, Beverly: Romona


Cooper, Susan: The Dark is Rising Sequence


Dixon, Franklin W.:  The Hardy Boys


Eager, Edward:  Tales of Magic 


Gannett, Ruth Stiles:  My Father’s Dragon


Keene, Carolyn:  Nancy Drew Mystery Stories


Lewis, C.S.:  The Chronicles of Narnia 


Lindgren, Astrid:  Pippi Longstocking


Lovelace, Maud Hart:  Betsy-Tacy


Montgomery, L.M.:  Anne of Green Gables


Norton, Mary:  The Borrowers 


Taylor, Sydney:  All-of-a-Kind Family


Warner, Gertrude Chandler:  The Boxcar Children


Wilder, Laura Ingalls:  Little House Books 


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Folk and Fairy Tales


The Arabian Nights


Babbitt, Natalie:  Ouch!


Craig, M. Jean:  The Donkey Prince 


Deedy, Carmen Agra:  Martina the Beautiful Cockroach


Demi:  One Grain of Rice 


Forest, Heather:  The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies


Gerstein, Mordicai:  Jonah and the Two Great Fish


Gerstein, Mordicai:  Tales of Pan


Hodges, Margaret: The Boy Who Drew Cats


Hodges, Margaret:  Saint George and the Dragon


Homer retold by Lupton, Hugh:  The Adventures of Odysseus


Homer retold by Osborne, Mary Pope:  Tales from the Odyssey


Huck, Charlotte:  Princess Furball


Kimmel, Eric A.: The Jar of Fools


Kimmel, Eric A.:  Three Samurai Cats


Lurie, Alison:  Clever  Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales 


Martin, Rafe:  The Rough-Face Girl


San Souci, Robert D.:  The Talking Eggs


Talbott, Hudson:  O’Sullivan Stew


Willey, Margaret:  Clever Beatrice 


Yolen, Jane:  Greyling


Young, Ed:  Seven Blind Mice


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Poetry


Clements, Andrew: Dogku


Florian, Douglas:  Bing Bang Boing 


Issa, Kobayashi: Today and Today: Haiku


Janeczko, Paul B.:  A Kick in the Head 


Katz, Susan:  Oh, Theodore!  Guinea Pig Poems


Kuskin, Karla:  Moon, Have You Met My Mother?


Milne, A. A.:  The World of Christopher Robin


Reibstein, Mark: Wabi Sabi


Rex, Adam:  Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich 


Ruddell, Deborah: A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems


Sidman, Joyce:  Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems 


Sierra, Judy:  Monster Goose 


Singer, Marilyn:  Mirror Mirror:  A Book of Reversible Verse



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Non-Fiction


Agee, Jon:  Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?  and Other Oxymorons 


Beeler, Selby:  Throw Your Tooth on the Roof


Bishop, Nic:  Frogs 


Bolden, Tonya:  Maritcha:  A Nineteenth Century American Girl  


Borden, Louise:  The Journey That Saved Curious George


Brenner, Barbara:  The Boy Who Loved to Draw:  Benjamin West


Brown, Laurie Krasny:  How to Be a Friend


Burton, Virginia Lee:  Life Story 


Cole, Joanna:  Magic School Bus (Series)


Cook, Sally and Charlton, James:  Hey Batta Batta Swing! : The Wild Old Days of Baseball 


Curlee, Lynn:  Capital 


D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin:  Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths


Demi:  Gandhi


Fleming, Candace:  The Lincolns


Fleming, Thomas:  Everybody’s Revolution 


Floca, Brian: Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo II


Fradin, Dennis Brindell:  Duel!  Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words


Fritz, Jean:  George Washington’s Breakfast


Gates, Phil:  The History News:  Medicine 


Gibbons, Gail:  Coral Reefs


Giff, Patricia Reilly:  Don’t Tell the Girls:  A Family Memoir


Gourley, Catherine:  Welcome to Felicity’s World, 1774


Griffin, Judith Berry:  Phoebe The Spy


Hatkoff, Isabella,  Hatkoff, Craig and Kahumbu, Dr. Paula:  Owen & Mzee


Helfer, Ralph:  The World’s Greatest Elephant 


Hofmeyr, Dianne and Daly, Jude:  the Star-Bearer


Hopkinson, Deborah and Ransome, James E.:  Sky Boys:  How They Built the Empire State Building 


Hutchins, Hazel:  A Second is a Hiccup


Jones, Charlotte Foltz:  Mistakes That Worked


Kerley, Barbara:  The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins


Kindersley, Barnabas & Anabel:  Children Just Like Me


King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.:  I Have a Dream


Kurlansky, Mark:  The Story of Salt


Leedy, Loreen:  Measuring Penny


Luenn, Nancy:  Celebrations of Light 


Lunde, Darrin:  Hello, Bumblebee Bat 


McNulty, Faith:  How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World


Millard, Dr. Anne:  A Street Through Time:  A 12,000-Year Walk Through History 


Montgomery, Sy:  The Tarantula Scientist


Morrison, Taylor:  The Buffalo Nickel


Nagda, Ann Whitehead:  Panda Math


Nagda, Ann Whitehead and Bickel, Cindy:  Tiger Math


Nelson, Kadir:  We Are the Ship:  The Story of Negro League Baseball 


Neuschwander, Cindy:  Sir Cumference and the First Round Table 


O’Connor, Jane:  If the Walls Could Talk:  Family Life at the White House  


Rappaport, Doreen:  Abe’s Honest Words


Rubin, Susan Goldman:  Delicious:  The Life & Art of Wayne Thiebaud 


Rylant, Cynthia:  The Journey:  Stories of Migration 


St. George, Judith: So You Want to Be President?


Sayre, April Pulley:  Vulture View 


Schwartz, David M. and Schy, Yael:  Where in the Wild?


Scott, Elaine:  When Is a Planet Not a Planet?


Sis, Peter:  Starry Messenger


Sis, Peter:  The Wall


Stiles, David:  The Tree House Book 


Talbott, Hudson:  River of Dreams 


Talbott, Hudson:  United Tweets of America 


Thimmesh, Catherine:  Team Moon


Various Authors:  Eyewitness Books Series 


Winters, Kay:  Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak


Yolen, Jane and Stemple, Heidi Elisabet Yolen:  Roanoke:  The Lost Colony 


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