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Literature Index

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Beginning Readers

Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping by Peggy Parish(1.8)
Can You See What I See? Toys by Walter Wick
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell (1.2)
Curious George by H.A. Rey (1.5)
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Esther and the King from The Beginner's Bible
Fox on the Box (The) by Barbara Gregorich
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad: Ice Cream by Arnold Lobel
Jesus and His Friends from The Beginner's Bible
Jonah and the Big Fish from The Beginner's Bible
Magic Matt and the Dinosaur by Grace Maccarone
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Margaret McNamara
Noah and the Ark from The Beginner's Bible
Noodles the Puppy: I Am Brave by Hans Wilhelm
Noodles the Puppy: I Won't Share by Hans Wilhelm
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Spring is Here: A Story About Seeds by Joan Holub
Trucktown: Zoom! Boom! Bully by Jon Scieszka
Zachary's Zoo by Mike and Amy Nappa

Reading Level: Second Grade

Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner (2.5)
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (2.5)
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery by D. Cushman (2.4)
Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation by D. Cushman (2.4)
Bargain for Frances (A) by Russell Hoban (2.5)
Battle for St. Michael's (The) by E.A. McCully
Bear's Hiccups by Marion Dane Bauer
Boston Coffee Party (The) by D. Rappaport (2.7)
Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by N.S.
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express by E. Coerr
Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Roberts Bulla (2.7)
Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr (2.8)
Christopher Columbus by Stephen Krensky (2.7)
Clara and the Bookwagon by N.S. Levinson (2.7)
Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla (2.3)
Drinking Gourd (The) by F.N. Monjo (2.0)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler
Duck and Company by Kathy Caple
Fancy Nancy and the Boy From Paris by J. O'Connor
Farm Animals by Wade Cooper
Finding Providence by Avi
Fire Cat (The) by Esther Averill
First Flight by George Shea (2.9)
Five Brilliant Scientists by Lynda Jones 
Fly High, Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
Fly on the Ceiling (The) by Julie Glass (2.8)
Franklin and the Duckling by S. Jennings
Frog and Toad Together by A. Lobel (2.9)
George the Drummer Boy by N. Benchley
George Washington and the General's Dog by Frank Murphy
Giving Tree (The) by Shel Silverstein (2.6)
Great Snake Escape (The) by Molly Coxe
Happy Birthday, Eeyore! by Isabel Gaines
Helen Keller by Elizabeth MacLeod
Henry and Mudge: The First Book by C. Rylant
Horse in Harry's Room (The) by Syd Hoff
Hurray for the Lord's Army by Mary Manz Simon
Jake's Brave Night by Crystal Bowman
Josefina Story Quilt (The) by Eleanor Coerr
Long Way to a New Land (The) by J. Sandin
Long Way Westward (The)by Joan Sandin (2.9)
Mercy Watson Fights Crime by Kate DiCamillo
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride by Kate DiCamillo
Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo(2.7)
Morris Goes to School by Bernard Wiseman
Morris Has a Cold by Bernard Wiseman (2.0)
Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Fine China Plate by Gunn
Nate the Great and the Big Sniff by M. and M. Sharmat (2.1)
Oliver by Syd Hoff (2.1)
One Hundredth Day of School (The) by Abby Klein
Pinky and Rex and the Double-Dad Weekend by J.H.

Books, Short Stories, and Poems for
Grades Three and Four

Adventures of Robin Hood (The) by Howard Pyle

Alexander and Bucephalus retold by James Baldwin

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Androclus and the Lion retold by James Baldwin

Antonio Canova retold by James Baldwin

Ants and the Grasshopper (The) by Aesop

Arnold Winkelried retold by James Baldwin

At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

Barmecide Feast (The) retold by James Baldwin

Bear Called Paddintong (A) by Michael Bond (4.5)
Bears on Hemlock Mountain (The) by Alice Dalgliesh (3.5)

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit

Bell of Atri (The) retold by James Baldwin

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares by Frank Murphy (3.0)
Big Bike Mystery (The) by P. Wilson & Sandy Dengler
Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck (4.8)
Black Douglas (The) retold by James Baldwin

Blind Men and the Elephant (The) retold by James Baldwin

Book of Golden Deeds (A) by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Brave Three Hundred (The) retold by James Baldwin

Breadwinner (The) by Deborah Ellis (4.5)
Bremen Town Musicians (The) by Brother Grimm (3.5)

Bruce and the Spider retold by James Baldwin

Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog by Eva Moore (3.5)
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (3.1)

Casabianca retold by James Baldwin

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (4.4)
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kim Smith (4.5)
Corduroy by Don Freeman (3.5)

Cornelia's Jewels retold by James Baldwin

Courage of Sarah Noble (The) by Alice Dalgliesh (4.2)
Cricket in Times Square (The) by George Selden (4.3)

Damon and Pythias retold by James Baldwin (3.4 & 4.7)

Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (The) by Cathy Moore (3.2)
Diogenes the Wise Man retold by James Baldwin

Doctor Goldsmith retold by James Baldwin

Edith Herself by Ellen Howard (4.8)
Endless Tale (The) retold by James Baldwin
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown (4.0)
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (4.8)
George Washington and his Hatchet retold by James Baldwin

Grace Darling retold by James Baldwin

Great Brain (The) by John Fitzgerald (4.8)
Great Gilly Hopkins (The) by Kathering Paterson (4.6)
Great Tulip Trade (The) by Beth Wagner Brust
Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson (4.6)
Hansel and Gretel by the Grimm Brothers (3.7)
Hare and the Tortoise (The) by Aesop
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary (4.3)
Heroes (The) by Charles Kingsley
Horatius at the Bridge retold by James Baldwin

How Napoleon crossed the Alps retold by James Baldwin

Hundred Dresses (The) by Eleanor Estes (3.8)

Inchcape Rock (The) retold by James Baldwin

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by B. Lord (4.7)
Julian, Secret Agent by Ann Cameron (4.2)

Julius Caesar retold by James Baldwin

Jungle Book (The) by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

King Alfred and the Beggar retold by James Baldwin

King Alfred and the Cakes retold by James Baldwin

King and his Hawk (The) retold by James Baldwin

King Canute on the Seashore retold by James Baldwin

Kingdoms (The) retold by James Baldwin

King John and the Abbot retold by James Baldwin

Laconic Answer (A) retold by James Baldwin

Last Princess (The) by Fay Stanley (4.5)
Lion and the Mouse (The) by Aesop
Lion to Guard Us (A) by Clyde Robert Bulla (3.9)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingals Wilder (4.8)
Little Match Girl (The) by Hans Christian Anderson (3.3)
Little Princess (A) by Freances Hodgson Burnett
Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky (3.5)
Lost Prince (The) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Maximilian and the Goose Boy retold by James Baldwin

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Mignon retold by James Baldwin

Miller of the Dee (The) retold by James Baldwin

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry G. Allard (3.1)
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (4.1)
Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary (4.0)
Night Swimmers (The) by Betsy Byars (4.3)
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingals Wilder (4.7)

Other Wise Men of Gotham retold by James Baldwin

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall (3.9)
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Picciola retold by James Baldwin

Pocahontas retold by James Baldwin

Prairie School by Avi (3.1)
Princess and the Goblin (The) by George MacDonald
Princess Bride by William Goldman (4.0)
Railway Children (The) by Edith Nesbit
Reluctant Dragon (The) by Kenneth Grahame (4.0)
Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary (4.9)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by E. Coerr (4.7)
Selfish Giant (The) by Oscar Wilde (3.5)
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong (4.3)
Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf (The) by Aesop
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4.5)
Sign of the Beaver (The) by Elizabeth Speare (4.0)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert retold by James Baldwin

Sir Philip Sidney retold by James Baldwin

Sir Walter Raleigh retold by James Baldwin

Socrates and his House retold by James Baldwin

Sons of William the Conqueror (The) retold by James Baldwin

Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla
Story of Cincinnatus (The) retold by James Baldwin

Story of Dr. Dolittle (The) by Hugh Lofting

Story of Regulus (The) retold by James Baldwin

Story of Robin Hood (A) retold by James Baldwin

Story of William Tell (The) retold by James Baldwin

Sword of Damocles (The) retold by James Baldwin

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Three Men of Gotham retold by James Baldwin

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson (3.7)
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel (3.7)

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Ungrateful Guest (The) retold by James Baldwin

Ungrateful Soldier (The) retold by James Baldwin

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz (4.7)

Water Babies (The) by Charles Kingsley

White Ship (The) retold by James Baldwin

Whittington and his Cat retold by James Baldwin

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie (4.5)







































































Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth
Grade Reading Material

Abel's Island by William Steig (6.2)
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (6.4)
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (6.1)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) by Mark Twain (8.0)

Ali and the Golden Eagle by Wayne Grover (6.0)
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (6.5)
And Then There Was One by Margery Facklam (5.1)
Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan (5.6)

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery (7.9)
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (7.6)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (8.6)

Arrow Over the Door (The) by Joseph Bruchac (5.2)
At Her Majesty's Request by Walter Dean Myers (6.2)
At the Back of the North Wind by George McDonald (6.0)
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman (6.3)
Beduin's Gazelle (The) by Frances Temple (6.7)
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray
Big Red by Jim Kielgaard (5.8)
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey (6.4)by Doris Gates (6.4)by Katherine Paterson (6.0)by William Durbin
Black Stallion (The) by Walter Farley (5.1)
Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty (5.5)
Born in the Year of Courage by Emily Crofford (6.5
Borrowers Afloat (The) by Mary Norton (5.4)
Borrowers (The) by Mary Norton (5.6)
Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (6.5)
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen (6.1)
Broken Blade (The) by William Durbin (7.4)
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (5.6)
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (6.6)
Call It Courage by Sperry Armstrong (5.0)
Call of the Wild (The) by Jack London (7.3)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (6.6)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth (6.3)
Christy by Catherine Marshall (6.2)
Clue in the Old Album (The) by Carolyn Keene
Colibri by Ann Cameron (6.2)
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Bumberg (6.0)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8.7)

Crossing (The) by Gary Paulsen (6.3)
Dark Frigate (The) by Charles Boardman Hawes (5.5)
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (5.8)
Door in the Dragon's Throat (The) by Frank Peretti
Door in the Wall (The) by Marguerite De Angeli (6.5)
Double Fudge by Judy Blume (6.0)
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (6.0)
Drums by James Boyd (8.1)
Eagle of the Ninth (The) by Rosemary Sutcliff (7.0)
Elsie's Endless Wait based on the books by Martha Finley
Endless Steppe (The) by Esther Hautzig (6.3)
Escape from the Island of Aquarius by Frank Peretti
Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serralllier (6.0)
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (6.2)
Fantastic Flight by Patrick O'Brien (6.2)
Fighting Ground (The) by Avi (5.5) 
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (5.0)
Girl of the Limberlost (A) by Gene Strat Porter (5.2)
Golden Goblet (The) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (6.3)
Good Master by Kate Seredy (5.9)
Great Brain (The) by John D. Fitzgerald (6.9)
Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh (6.1)

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (8.1)

Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson (5.6)
Hobbit (The) by J.R.R. Tolkein (7.2)
Holes by Louis Sachar (6.5)
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (5.1)
Horse and His Boy (The) by C.S. Lewis (5.8)
House of Sixty Fathers (The) by Meindert DeJong (5.2)
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (7.9)
Incredible Journey (The) by Sheila Burnford (6.5)
Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs (8.0)

Invisible Man (The) by H.G. Wells (7.7)

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (8.3)

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (8.1)

Journey Home (The) by Isabelle Holland (5.5)
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo (6.6)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (6.4)
Kathleen's Abiding Hope by Tracy Leininger Craven
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (5.7)
Kite Rider (The) by Geraldine McCaughrean (6.2) 

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (8.1)

Little Prince (The) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (6.2)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8.6)

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (5.8)
Middle Moffat (The) by Eleanor Estes (5.2)
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (The) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (6.0)
Millie's Courageious Days based on characters by M. Finley
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (5.9)
Miracle Worker (The) by William Gibson (7.0)
Mouse and the Motorcycle (The) by Beverly Cleary (6.1)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (6.3)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O'Brien (5.9)
Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman (5.3)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (6.6)
Nancy's Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene (5.0)
Old Yeller by Gred Gipson (5.8)
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (6.4)
Oxford Book of Poetry for Children (The) by E. Blishen (6.1)
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (7.7)
Phantom Tollbooth (The) by Norton Juster (7.4)
Pippi LongStocking by Astrid Lindgren (6.6)
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (6.3)
Princess and the Goblin (The) by George MacDonald (5.9)
Pushcart War (The) by Jean Merrill (6.6)
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary (5.4)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (5.5)
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (6.2)
Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary (6.2)
Rascal by Sterling North (7.9)
Rifles for Waities by Harold Keith (7.3)
Samurai's Tale (The) by Christian Haugaard
Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 

Scarlett Pimpernel (The) by Baroness Orczy
Secret Garden (The) by Frances Burnett (7.5)
Sea Wof (The) by Jack London (8.0)

Secret of the Old Clock (The) by C. Keene (5.0)
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (5.5)
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (5.1)
Single Shard (A) by Linda Sue Park (6.6)
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (5.5)
Son of the Black Stallion by Walter Farley (5.9)
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (6.5)
Steadfast Tin Soldier (The) by Hans Christian Anderson (6.3)
Stuart Little by E.B. White (5.5)
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (5.2)

Swiss Family Robinson (The) by Jonathan Wyss (8.9)

Tall Tale America by Walter Blair (6.5)
Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen (6.5)
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O'Dell

Tombs of Anak (The) by Frank E. Perretti

Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea by Frank E. Perretti

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (8.0)

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (The) by Avi (7.2) 
Trumpeter of Krakow (The) by Eric Kelly (8.1)

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (6.3)
TV Kid (The) by Betsy Byars (5.0)

Twenty-one Balloons (The) by William Pene du Boise (7.9)
Voyages of Dr. DoLittle (The) by Hugh Loftong (8.0)

Watership Down by Richard Adams (6.2)
Westing Game (The) by Ellen Raskin (5.3)
When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (5.1)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (6.2)
Windcatcher by Avi (5.3)
Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne (5.9)
Witch of Blackbird Pond (The) by E.G. Speare (6.0)
Wrinkle in Time (A) by Madeleine L'Engle (5.5)
Wizard of Oz (The) by Frank Baum (6.2)
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (7.0)
Yearling (The) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (7.3)
You Come Too by Robert Frost (6.9)
 

Reading Level: Ninth Grade

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (9.6)
Best of Father Brown (The) by C.K. Chesterton
Best Short Stories by O. Henry
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by M. Twain (9.2)
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
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (9.1)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (9.9)
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (9.5)
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
Silas Mariner by George Eliot (9.7)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (The) 
Tale of Two Cities (A) by Charles Dickens (9.2)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (9.3)
Wise Woman and Other Stories (The) by George MacDonald and others

Reading Level: Tenth Grade

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (10.0)
Brave New World (The) by Harper Lee
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (10.5)
Hiding Place (The) by Corrie Ten Boom
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
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (10.1)

Reading Level: Eleventh Grade

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The) by Mark Twain
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The) by A.C. Doyle
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Crucible (The) by Arthur Miller
Emma by Jane Austin
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 (11.3)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Scarlet Letter (The) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (11.7)
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (The) by James Thurber
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A) by Betty Smith

Reading Level: Twelfth Grade

An Essay on Man, Epistle One by Alexander Pope
Beowulf
Canterbury Quintet by Chaucer, M. Murphy (Ed.)
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
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (12)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (12.3)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte