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Readers for Grades 1 to 3

 
Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner
Boston Coffee Party (The) by Doreen Rappaport
Buffalo Bill and the Pon Express by Eleanor Coerr
Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr
Clara and the Bookwagon by Nancy Smiler Levinson
Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla
Fire Cat (The) by Esther Averill
Fly High, Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley
George Washington and the General's Dog by Frank Murphy
Great Snake Escape (The) by Molly Coxe
Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
Horse in Harry's Room (The) by Syd Hoff
Josefina Story Quilt (The) by Eleanor Coerr
Long Way to a New Land (The) by Joan Sandin
Long Way Westward (The) by Joan Sandin
Morris Goes to School by B. Wiseman
Sam the Minutman by Nathaniel Benchley
Small Wolf by Nathaniel Benchley
Trucktown: Zoom! Boom! Bully by Jon Scieszka
Zachary's Zoo by Mike and Amy Nappa

Books for 8- to 12-year-olds

  

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Aesop's Fables by Cherry GilChrist

Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories, editor Philip Smith

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth

Amelia Bedelia Bookworm by Herman Parish

Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Arrow Over the Door (The) by Joseph Bruchac

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan

Beauty and the Beast by Kalinowski & Dixey

Beduin's Gazelle (The) by Frances Temple

Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck

Blue Willow by Doris Gates

Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty

Born in the Year of Courage by Emily Crofford

Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen

Boxcar Children (The) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Breadwinner (The) by Deborah Ellis

Bronze Bow (The) by Elizabeth George Speare

Call It Courage by Sperry Armstrong

Cat Who Went to Heaven (The) by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Chalkbox Kid (The) by Clyde Robert Bulla

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Christmas Carol (A) by Charles Dickens

Christopher Columbus by Stephen Krensky

Cinderella by Audrey McIlvain 

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg

Courage of Sarah Nobel (The) by Alice Dalgliesh

Cricket in Time Square (The) by George Selden

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin

Dick Whittington by Crook & Duffield

Elves and the Shoemaker (The) by Crook & Campbell

Emperor and the Nightingale (The) by Crook & McBride

Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams by Avi

Go Fish by Mary Stolz

Golden Goblet (The) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Good Master by Kate Seredy

Great Brain (The) by John D. Fitzgerald

Great Gilly Hopkins (The) by Kathering Paterson

Hannah by Gloria Whelan

Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson

Helen Keller by Stewart Graff

Horse and His Boy (The) by C.S. Lewis

House of Sixty Fathers (The) by Meindert DeJong

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Jack and the Beanstalk by Bradshaw & Mumford

Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo

Jungle Book (The) by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Lily and Miss Liberty by Carla Stevens

Moonshiner's Son by Carolyn Reeder

Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

Musicians of Bremen (The) by Simon Smith

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Peter and the Wolf by Herndon, James, & Jakeman

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Phantom Tollbooth (The) by Norton Juster

Pied Piper of Hamelin by Longman

Pippi LongStocking by Astrid Lindgren

Princess and the Frog (The) by Crook & Dixey

Rat-Catcher's Son (The) by Carolyn London

Rascal by Sterling North

Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling

Selfish Giant (The) by Oscar Wilde

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Single Shard (A) by Linda Sue Park

Sleeping Beauty by Taylor & Dixey

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Snow White and Rose Red by Hadley & Lupton

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Bradshaw & Press

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Singing Tree (The) by Kate Seredy

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

Star of Light by Patricia St. John

Stink Alley by Jamie Gilson

Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Swiss Family Robinson (The) by Johann David Wyss

Three Billy Goats Gruff by Williams & McBride

Tinderbox (The) by Hughes & Williams

Tom Thumb by Crook & Duffield

Toy Story (The) by Swinburne & Cann

Tree That Would Not Die (The) by Ellen Levine

True Story of Pocahontas (The) by Lucille Rech Penner

Twenty-one Balloons (The) by William Pene du Boise

Ugly Duckling (The) by (Hans Christian Andersen) Fox & Cann

Westing Game (The) by Ellen Raskin

Wheel on the School (The) by Meindert DeJong

When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

Wizard of Oz (The) by L. Frank Baum, Mary Hadley







































































Books for Middle School Students

 

Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) by Mark Twain

Ali and the Golden Eagle by Wayne Grover

Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin

Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray

Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey

Broken Blade (The) by William Durbin

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Call of the Wild (The) by Jack London

Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Child's Anthology of Poetry (A) edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Dark Frigate (The) by Charles Boardman Hawes

Eagle of the Ninth (The) by Rosemary Sutcliff

Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serralllier

Hittite Warrior by Joanne S. Williamson

Hobbit (The) by J.R.R. Tolkein

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Ides of April (The) by Mary Ray

Incredible Journey (The) by Sheila Every Burnford

Indian Captive by Lois Lenski

In Search of Honor by Donna Lynn Hess

Invisible Man (The) by H.G. Wells

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Ann Cameron

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

King's Fifth (The) by Scott O'Dell

Kite Fighters (The) Linda Sue Park

Light in the Forest (The) by Conrad Richter

Li Lun: Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The) by C.S. Lewis

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer

Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson

Murder for Her Majesty (A) by Beth Hilgartner

Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Odyssey (The) by Homer

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Samurai's Tale (The) by Christian Haugaard

Scarlett Pimpernel (The) by Baroness Orczy

Second Mrs. Giaconda (The) by E.L. Konigsburg

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy

Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher

Shakespeare Stealer (The) by Gary L. Blackwood

Tales of a Korean Grandmother by Frances Carpenter

The Endless Steppe by Esther Rudomin Hautzig

Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Trumpeter of Krakow (The) by Eric Philbrook Kelly

Water Sky by Jean Craighead George

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Witch of Blackbird Pond (The) by Elizabeth George Speare

Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The) by Joan Aiken

Wrinkle in Time (A) by Madeleine L'Engle

Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Yearling (The) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi

Yung Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foremen Lewis

Books for Ninth Graders

 

Best of Father Brown (The) by C.K. Chesterton

Best Short Stories by O. Henry

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Christmas Carol (A) by Charles Dickens

Flames of Rome (The) by Paul L. Maier

Gammage Cup (The) by Carol Kendall

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English by John Bunyan

Red Badge of Courage (The) by Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Road From Home by David Kheridan

Screwtape Letters (The) by C.S. Lewis

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (The)

          by Robert Louis Stevenson

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Wise Woman and Other Stories (The) by George MacDonald and others

 

Books for Tenth Graders

 

Brave New World (The) by Harper Lee

Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Hiding Place (The) by Corrie Ten Boom

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heryedahl

Metamorphosis (The) by Franz Kafka

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Old Man and the Sea (The) by Ernest Hemingway

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

 

Books for Eleventh Graders

 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The) by Mark Twain

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Crucible (The) by Arthur Miller

Emma by Jane Austin

Giver (The) by Lois Lowry

Grapes of Wrath (The) by John Steinbeck

Jungle (The) by Upton Sinclair

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Scarlet Letter (The) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Secret Life of Walter Mitty (The) by James Thurber

Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A) by Betty Smith

 

Books for Twelfth Graders

 

Ancient World Literature, Part I (Creation Stories, etc.)

An Essay on Man, Epistle One by Alexander Pope

Beowulf

Canterbury Quintet by Geoffrey Chaucer, Michael Murphy (Editor)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft

Great Gatsby (The) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Importance of Being Earnest (The) by Oscar Wilde

Mansfield Park by Jane Austin

Perrine's Sound and Sense by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Tale of Two Cities (A) by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte