Reading List

20,000 Leagues under the Sea
A Bear Called Paddington
Abel’s Island
Adam of the Road
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy…
Adventures of Isabel*
Adventure’s Sherlock Holmes
Aesop
Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible
Alice in Wonderland
Amazing Grace (Mary Hoffman)
Amelia Bedelia
Anansi the Spider
Anderson’s
and Now Miguel
Animal Crackers
Animal Farm
Anne Frank
Anne Green Gables
Anno’s Alphabet, Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
Arabian Nights
Arachne’s Tapestry
A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back*
Around World 80 Days
Autobio Benjamin Franklin
Babar
Babe: The Gallant Pig
Baby Beebee Bird
Battle Hymn Republic
Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Beauty & the Beast
Ben & Me
Ben Hur
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Betsy series, Haywood
Big Red
Black Beauty
Black is Brown is Tan +
Black SHips before Troy
Black Stallion
Blind Man & Elephant
Blueberries for Sal
Book of Nonsense
Book of Three
Born Free
Borrowers (C)
Boy Old Prague
Bread & Jam for Frances
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Bridge to Terabithia (C)
Bunny Cakes
Cabin Faced West
Caddie Woodlawn
Call it Courage
Call of Wild
Caps for Sale
Captain Courageous
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Castle & Cathedral
Chanticleer and the Fox
Charlotte’s Web
Cheaper by the Dozen
Chester’s Way*
Chicken Little
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe +
Child’s Calender
Child’s Garden of Verse
CHristmas Carol
Cinderella
Cloudy w/Chance of Meatballs
Collected Verse Edgar Guest
Concord Hymn
Connecticut Yankee in King Aruther’s Court
Constitution
Counte Monte Crisco
Courage of Sarah Noble
Cricket & Bullfrogs
Cricket in Time Square
Crow Boy
Crucible
Curious George
Dancing Stars: An Iroquois Legend
Dark is Rising
David Copperfield
Davy Crockett Legends
Days Like This
Declaration Independence
Deerslayer
Dinotopia
Don Quixote
Dr. Seuss
Dred Scott Decision
Dr Jekyl & Mr. Hyde
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths (C)
D’Aulaire’s Norse Gods & Giants
East O’the Sun & West O’the Moon
Education of Henry ADams
Eight Cousins
Eloise*
Emily Post’s Etiquette
Emperor’s New Clothes
Enchanted Castle
Ender’s Game
ERnestine G. Carey
Ethan Frome
Every Time I climb a Tree
Favorite Fairytales Told Around the World
Fishing Day – by Andrea Davis Pinkney +
Flatland
Foundation Series
Fourth Wiseman
Frankenstein
Freddy the Detective
Freedom Summer – by Debbie Wiles +
Frog & Toad
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basill E. Frankweiler (C)
Gay-Neck, Story of Piegion
Gettysburg ADdress
Gift of Magi
Ginger Pye
Give me Liberty or GIve me Death
Giving Tree
God Save the Flag
Goldilocks
Good Earth
Goodnight Moon
Goose that Laid the Golden Egg
Great Brain Series
Great Classical Myths
Great Expectations
Grimm’s
Guess How Much I Love You
Gulliver’s Travels
Hamilton’s Mythololgy
Hamlet (Lamb version)
Hans Brinker
Hansel & Gretel
Harriet the Spy
Harriet Tubman
Harry the Dirty Dog
Heidi
Henry Hikes to Finchburg
Henry Huggin series
Henry’s Freedom Box – by Ellen Levin +
Hiding Place
Highwayman
HIstory Reborn
Hitty, her First Hundred Years
Hobbit
Homer Price
Horton Hears a Who
House of Sixty Fathers
House Seven Gables
How Many Spots does a Leopard Have
Huckleberry Finn
Hug
Humbug Mountain
Hundred Dresses +
Icarus and Daedalus
I have a Dream
Incredible Journey
In Flander’s Field
Invincible Louisa
Ira Sleeps Over
Island of the Blue Dolphin
It’s Okay to be Different – by Todd Parr +
Ivanhoe
I’m Nobody
Jack & beanstalk
Jack & Three Sillies
Jamberry
James & Giant Peach
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear
Jessica (Kevin Henkes)
Joan of Arc (Twain)
John Henry
Johny Tremain
Journey Home
Journey to Center Earth
Jo’s Boys
Julie of the Wolves
Julius Cesar (Shakespeare)
Jungle Book
Just So (Kipling)
King Arthur & Round Table
King Midas and the Golden Touch
King of the Wind
Kon Tiki
Laddie
Last Mohicans
Laughing Boy
Legend Sleepy Hollow
Let America be American again
Light in the Forest
LIncoln, Man of the People
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Little Bear
Little boy Blue
Little Britches Series
Little Engine that Could
Little House
Little Lord Faunterleroy
Little Men
Little Prince
Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Women
Lonesome GOds
Lon Po Po: Red Riding Hood Story
Lord of Rings
Madame Curie
Madeline
Madlenka
Make way for Ducklings
Mama, Do You Love Me? +
Many Moons
Mary Poppins
Matchlock Gun
Mathematicians are People, too
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel
Millions of Cats
Miracles on Maple Hill
Miss Hickory
Miss Pickerell
Misty of Chincoteague
Moby Dick
Moffat Series
More, More, More Said the Baby
Mother Goose
Moves make the man
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Mrs. Katz and Tush +
Mrs. Piggle-wiggle
Mrs Frisby & Rats of Nimh
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter’s
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Dad (Anthony Browne)
My Dog is Lost+
My Family & Other Animals
My Friend Flicka
Mythology Edith Hamilton
Narnia
Narrative of Life of Frederick Do9uglas
National Velvet
Night Before Christmas
Noah Webster’s 1828
Noah’s Ark
North to Freedom
Nursery Tales told Around the World
O Captain
Odysseus and the Cyclops
Officer Buckle & Gloria
Old Ironsides
Old Man & Sea
Old Yeller
Oliver Twist
Olivia
One Fine Day
Onion John
On Numbers
On the Day You Were Born
Orpheus and Eurydice
Owl Moon
Paul Bunyon
Paul REvere’s Ride
Pecos Bill
Perilous Guard
Persephone and Hades
Perseus and Medusa
Peter Pan
Peter Rabbit
Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun
Phantom Tollbooth
Pied Piper
Pinocchio
Piping Down the Valleys
Pippi Longstockings
Poetry:
Pollyana
Prairie Songs
Present Crisis
Princess & pea
Puss in Boots
Rabbit Hill
Rabbits Makes a Monkey of Lions
Raisin in the Sun
Ramona Series
Rapunzel
Rapunzel(Paul O. Zelinsky)
Real Benjamin Franklin
Real George Washington
Real Thomas Jefferson
Red Badge of Courage
Red Pony
Ride a Purple Pelican
Rifles for Watie
Riki Tiki Tavi
Road not taken
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Romeo & Juliet
Rumplestilskin
Sable*
Sackett Series
Sammy & the DinoSaur
Sarah, Plain & Tall
Scarlet Pimpernel
Secret Garden
Secret of the Andes
Shrinking of Treehorn
Sister Anne’s Hands – by Marybeth Lorbiecki +
Sleeping Beauty
Snowflake Bentley
Snow Treasure
Snow White
Soldiers, Statesmen, & Heroes
Song of Hiawatha
Sonnets Shakes
Sounder
Spiritual Lives of Great Composters
Stellaluna
Stories of Gods & Heroes
Story of Babar
Story of my Life Helen Keller
Strawberry Girl
Strega Nona
Stuart Little
Summer of the Monkeys
Sundiat
Swamp Angel*
Swinger of Birches
Swiss Family Robinson
Sword in Stone
Sylvester & Magic Pebble
Tale of Arabian Nights
Tales from Shakespeare Charles & Mary Lamb
Tales of Mystery & Imagination Poe
The Cabin Faced West
The Cat Who went to Heaven
The Children of Green Knowe
The Chosen
The Dark Frigate
The Door in the Wall
The Empty Pot
The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia
The Enormous Egg
The Fun of It: Random Records of my Own flying…
The Labors of Hercules
The Light in the Forest
THe Man with the Hoe
The Matchlock Gun
The Mittens
The Mousewife
The Napping House
The Other Side – by Jacqueline Woodson +
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales +
The Piggy in the Puddle
The Polar Express
The Quest for the Golden Fleece
The Rainbow People
The Reluctant Dragon
The Robe
Theseus and the Minotaur
The Story of Ferdinand
The Story of Mankind
The Trojan Horse
The Very Busy SPider
The Virginian
The Yearling
Thor & the Giants
Three Billy Goats Gruff
THree Little Pigs
Time Machine
To Kill a Mockinbird
Tom Sawyer
Tom Thumb
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Too Many Tamales
Treasure Island
Tree Grows in Brooklynn
Trumpeter of Krawkow
Trumpet of the Swans
Tuck Everlasting*
Twenty-One Balloons
Ugly Duckling
Ulysses
Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales
Under the Lemon Moon
Up From Slavery
Velveteen Rabbit
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Walking Drum
Washington, the Indispensable Man
Westing Game
Wheel on the School
When Sophia Gets Angry
Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Wild Things Are
Whipping Boy
White Fang
White Socks Only – by Evelyn Coleman +
William Tell
Wind in Willows
Winne the Pooh
Witch Blackbird Pond
Wizard of Earthsea
Wonder Book Nathanial Hawthorne
Wonderful WIzard of Oz
Wrinkle in Time
Wynken, Blynken & Nod
Yo! Yes? – by Christoper Raschka +
Yoki +
Yolanda’s Genius*
You Come Too

* Mother-Daughter book club suggestions.
+ Race discussion books.

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