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Emphasis on Reading K-1
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17 Things I'm Not Allowed To Do Anymore
by Jennifer Offill
Easy Reading
Bean Thirteen
by Matthew McElligott
Easy Reading
Jack's Talent
by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Easy Reading
Jake Stays Awake
by Michael Wright
Easy Reading
Llama, Llama Mad at Mama
by Anna Dewdney
Easy Reading
Oh, Theodore!
by Susan Katz
Easy Reading
Super Guinea Pigs to the Rescue
by Udo Weigelt
Easy Reading
The Mine-o-Saur
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Easy Reading
Wind Flyers
by Angela Johnson
Easy Reading
 
Grades 3-5
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Clementine
by Pennypacker, Sara
Dexter the Tough
by Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Listen!
by Tolan, Stephanie S.
No Talking
by Clements, Andrew
Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!: The First Experiment
by Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Roxie and the Hooligans
by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Rules
by Lord, Cynthia
Stumptown Kid
by Gorman, Carol and Ron J. Findley
The Blue Ghost
by Bauer, Marion Dane
The Ghost's Grave
by Kehret, Peg
The Homework Machine
by Gutman, Dan
The Missing Manatee
by DeFelice, Cynthia
The Sloppy Copy Slipup
by DiSalvo, DyAnne
The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco
by Repka, Janice
The Thing About Georgie
by Graff, Lisa
 
Read Aloud Books
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Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Challenging
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Challenging
Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Average
Pictures of Hollis Woods
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Challenging
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
by Judy Blume
Easy Reading
The Mystery of Mr. Nice
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
Average
 
Senior High School Books
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41 Stories
by O. Henry
Average
A People's History of American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Average
A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treaise
by Benedict de Spinoza
Challenging
A Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume
Challenging
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
by Jermey Bentham
Challenging
Candide, Zadig, Micromegas
by Voltaire
Challenging
Celtic Myths and Legends
by T. W. Rolleston
Average
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Average
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Average
Critique of Judgment
by Immanuel Kant
Challenging
Critique of Practical Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Challenging
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Challenging
Dancing Wu Li Masters
by Gary Zukau
Average
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Easy Reading
Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
by G. W. Leibniz
Challenging
Discourse on Method and Meditations
by Rene Descartes
Challenging
Divided We Fall
by Hayne Johnson
Average
Druids
by Morgan Llwelyn
Average
Essay on the Freedom of the Will
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Challenging
First Man in Rome
by Colleen McCullough
Challenging
Foundation
by Issac Asminov
Average
Foward the Foundation
by Issac Asimov
Easy Reading
Great Expectations
by Landon Jones
Challenging
Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Average
Hoffa
by Ken Englade
Easy Reading
Human All-Too-Human
by Friedrick Nietzsche
Challenging
In Retrospect
by Robert MacNamara
Average
John Adams
by David McCullogh
Average
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Average
Laws
by Plato
Challenging
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
Challenging
Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
Average
MacBeth
by William Shakespeare
Average
Midnight Stands in American History
by Richard Shekman and Kurt Reiger
Easy Reading
My Life
by Bill Clinton
Average
Nature's End
by Whitely Strieber and James Kunetka
Challenging
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Easy Reading
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemmingway
Easy Reading
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Average
Pennsylvania Dutch: The Amish and the Mennonites
by Kem Knapp Sawyer
Easy Reading
Pensees
by Blaise Pascal
Challenging
People of the Wolf
by Gear and Gear
Average
Philosophy of Right
by G. W. F. Hegel
Challenging
Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
Average
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Average
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
Challenging
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Average
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
by John Locke
Challenging
Superpower
by Robert Hargreaves
Challenging
The Basis of Morality
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Challenging
The Book of Psalms
by King James Bible
Average
The Boss
by Athan G. Theoharris and John S. Cox
Easy Reading
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Easy Reading
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
Average
The Family - the Bush Dynasty
by Kitty Kelley
Average
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, et. al.
Challenging
The Good War
by Studs Terkel
Easy Reading
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
Average
The Metaphysics
by Aristotle
Challenging
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
by Mark Twain
Easy Reading
The Philosophy of History
by G. W. F. Hegel
Challenging
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Average
The Prince
by Niccolo' Machiavelli
Challenging
The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
Average
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
by Robert Frost
Easy Reading
The Roaring 80s
by Adam Smtih
Challenging
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Average
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith
Challenging
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Easy Reading
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Challenging
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Average
Truman
by David McCullogh
Easy Reading
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Challenging
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Average
Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist
by Frederick Nietzsche
Challenging
Utopia
by Sir Thomas More
Average
Yali's Question
by Fredrick Errington
Challenging
 
Upper Elementary and Middle School
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City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
Average
Code Orange
by Caroline B. Cooney
Dragon's Keep
by Janet Lee Carey
Eclipse
by Stephenie Meyer
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
by Sid Fleischman
Average
New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
The People of Sparks
by Jeanne DuPrau
The Prophet of Yonwood
by Jeanne DuPrau
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
Challenging
 
Emphasis on Reading 2-3
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Campy: The Story of Roy Campanella
by David A. Adler
Average
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars
by Douglas Florian
Average
Hair for Mama
by Kelly A. Tinkham
Easy Reading
Maybelle in the Soup
by Katie Speck
Average
Piper Reed Navy Brat
by Kimberly Willis Holt
Average
Pssst!
by Adam Rex
Easy Reading
Rudy Rides the Rails
by Dandi Daley Mackall
Average
The Longest Season
by Cal Ripken Jr.
Easy Reading
The Mutiny on the Bounty
by Patrick O'Brien
Average
Wolf! Wolf!,
by John Rocco
Easy Reading
 
Great 4th Grade Reads
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7 X 9 = Trouble
by Mills, Claudia
A Long Way From Chicago
by Peck, Richard
A Single Shard
by Park, Linda Sue
Anna Casey's Place in the World
by Fogelin, Adrian
Artemis Fowl (series)
by Colfer, Eoin
Baseball Saved Us
by Mochizuki, Ken
Because of Winn-Dixie
by DiCamillo, Kate
Ben and Me
by Lawson, Robert
Bud, Not Buddy
by Curtis, Christopher
Bunnicula
by Howe, Deborah
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
by Lewis, C.S.
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Cleary, Beverly
Escaping the Giant Wave
by Kehret, Peg
Esperanza Rising
by Ryan, Pam
Flying Solo
by Fletcher, Ralph
Gregor the Overlander
by Collins, Suzanne
Holes
by Sachar, Lois
Hoot
by Hiassen, Carl
How to Eat Fried Worms
by Rockwell, Thomas
Janitor's Boy
by Clements, Andrew
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
by Gantos, Jack
Lewis and Clark and Me
by Myers, Laurie
Love, Ruby Lavendar
by Wiles, Deborah
Number the Stars
by Lowry, Lois
Pictures of Hollis Woods
by Reilly Giff, Patricia
Pippi Longstocking (series)
by Lindgren, Astrid
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Taylor, Mildred
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Coerr, Eleanor
Saving Lily
by Kehret, Peg
Superfudge
by Blume, Judy
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
by Robinson, Barbara
The Borrowers (series)
by Norton, Mary
The City of Ember
by DuPrau, Jeanne
The Indian in the Cupboard
by Reid Banks, Lynn
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by DiCamillo, Kate
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Juster, Norton
The School Story
by Clements, Andrew
The Summer of the Swans
by Byars, Betsy
The Volcano Disaster
by Kehret, Peg
The Word Eater
by Amato, Mary
The Year of Miss Agnes
by Hill, Kirkpatrick
Through My Eyes
by Bridges, Ruby
Wayside School is Falling Down
by Sachar, Lois
 
Welcome to School
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It's Mine!
by Leo Lionni
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!
by Nancy Carlson
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff
Old Black Fly
by Jim Aylesworth and Stephen Gammell
Pepita Talks Twice
by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
 
American Literature
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Average
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Challenging
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
Average
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Easy Reading
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Challenging
 
Emphasis on Reading 4-6
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A Song for Harlem
by Patricia C. McKissack
Average
Aurora County All-Stars
by Deborah Wiles
Average
Chess Rumble
by Jesse Joshua Watson
Average
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
by Cynthia Kadohata
Challenging
Crossover Dribble
by P.J. Farris
Average
Dragon Slippers
by Jessica Day George
Challenging
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
by Sarah Miller
Challenging
Monsters and Water Beasts—Creatures of Fact or Fiction?
by Karen Miller
Average
Regarding the Bees—A Lesson, in letters, on Honey, Dating, and Other Sticky Subjects
by Kate Klise
Average
The Garden of Eve
by K. L. Going
Challenging
 
I Am Amazing! I Feel Fine!
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Good Job, Oliver!
by Laurel Molk
Jamaica Tag-Along
by Juanita Havill and Anne Sibley O'Brien
Jamaica's Find
by Juanita Havill and Ann Sibley O'Brien
Sometimes I Feel Like a Storm Cloud
by Lezlie Evans and Marsha Gray Carrington
Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth
by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
 
Mysteries
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4 1/2 Friends and the Secret Cave
by Friedrich, Joachim
A Case for Jenny Archer
by Conford, Ellen
A Weekend at the Grand Hotel
by Labatt, Mary
Case of the Fidgety Fox
by Rylant, Cynthia
Chasing Vermeer
by Balliett, Blue
Dawn Undercover
by Dale, Anna
Deadly Waters
by Skurzynski, Gloria
Disappearing Act: A Herculeah Jones Mystery
by Byars, Betsy Cromer
Down the Rabbit Hole
by Abrahams, Peter
Encyclopedia Brown (series)
by Sobol, D.
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by Konigsburg, E.L.
How Can A Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark?
by Bailey, Linda
Mission: Hollywood
by Abela, Deborah
Nancy Drew (series)
by Keene, C.
Penalty Shot
by Christopher, Matt
Room One: A Mystery or Two
by Clements, Andrew
Sammy Keyes (series)
by VanDraanen, Wendelin
Secrets of Vesuvius
by Lawrence, Caroline
Shakespeare's Secret
by Broach, Elise
Terror at the Zoo
by Joosee, Barbara
The Big Nap
by Hale, Bruce
The Boxcar Children (series)
by Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Case of the Barfy Birthday and Other Super-Scientific Cases
by Torrey, Michele
The Case of the Gasping Garbage
by Torrey, Michele
The Dark Stairs
by Byars, Betsy Cromer
The Egypt Game
by Snyder, Z
The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor
by Naylor, Phyllis Reyolds
The Falcon's Mateser
by Horowitz, Anthony
The Fire Bug Connections
by George, Jean Craighead
The Ghost of Captain Briggs
by Labatt, Mary
The Hamster of the Baskervilles
by Hale, Bruce
The Hardy Boys (series)
by Dixon, F.
The Haunted Clock Tower Mystery
by Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Last Treasure
by Anderson, Janet
The Light on Hogback Hill
by De Felice, Cynthia
The Man Who Was Poe
by Avi
The Mansion in the Mist
by Bellairs, John
The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo
by George, Jean Craighead
The Mystery of Mr. Nice
by Hale, Bruce
The Mystery of the Secret Message
by Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Secret of the Missing Grave
by Crossman, David
The Secret of the Underground Room
by Bellairs, John
The Serial Sneak Thief
by Hildick, E. W.
The Vandermark Mummy
by Voigt, Cynthia
The Westing Game
by Raskin, Ellen
Windcatcher
by Avi
Wrapped in a Riddle
by Hamilton, Virginia
 
Newberry Award Winning Authors
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Because of Winn Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Easy Reading
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Patterson
Average
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Average
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Challenging
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Challenging
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Easy Reading
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Easy Reading
 
Those Nearest & Dearest
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A Chair for my Mother
by Vera B. Williams
Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
by Eric Carle
It Takes a Village
by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
Leola and the Honeybears
by Melodye Rosales
My Best Friend
by Pat Hutchins
Peter's Chair
by Ezra Jack Keats
That Toad is Mine!
by Barbara Shook Hazen and Jane Manning
The Little Red Hen
by Carol Ottolenghi
The Three Bears
by Paul Galdone
Will You Be My Friend?
by Nancy Tafuri
 
World Literature
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Average
Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Average
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Challenging
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Average
 
Classical Literature
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Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch
Challenging
The Aeneid
by Virgil
Challenging
The Iliad
by Homer
Challenging
The Odyssey
by Homer
Challenging
 
Head To Toe
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Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
Bunny's Noisy Book
by Margaret Wise Brown and Lisa Mccue
Hopper
by Marcus Pfister
Little Red Riding Hood (an adaptation)
The Princess and the Pea
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
Too Much Noise
by Ann McGovern and Simms Taback
 
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula Le Guin
Challenging
Bone
by Jeff Smith
Easy Reading
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Easy Reading
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Average
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
Easy Reading
Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
Average
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
Easy Reading
The Color of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
Average
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Average
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Average
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Average
 
Contemporary Fiction
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Ella Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn
Average
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn
Average
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
Challenging
Patriot Games
by Tom Clancy
Average
Sharpe's Tiger
by Bernard Cornwell
Average
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Average
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Average
 
What's On The Menu?
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Bunny Cakes
by Rosemary Wells
Down the Road
by Alice Shertle
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Seuss
Gregory, the Terrible Eater
by Mitchell Sharmat and Jose Aruego
If you give a moose a muffin
by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond
Mrs. McTats and her Houseful of Cats
by Alissa Satin Capucilli
Supermarket
by Kathleen Krull and Melanie Hope
Tap-tap
by Karen Lynn Williams
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear
by Don and Audrey Wood
 
Sing a Song-Paint a Picture
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Child-Size Masterpieces
by Aline D. Wolf
Degas and the Little Dancer
by Laurence Anholt
Max found two sticks
by Brian Pinkney
Salsa
by Lillian Colon-Vila
 
Winter Weatherland
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A Letter to Amy
by Ezra Jack Keats
A Rainy Day
by Robin Nelson
A Windy Day
by Robin Nelson
How Cold Was It?
by Jane Barclay and Janice Donato
How Do You Know It's Winter?
by Allan Fowler
Now I Know What Makes the Weather
by Palazzo
On the Same Day in March
by Marilyn Singer and Frane Lessac
Snip, Snip...Snow!
by Nancy Poydar
Think About the Weather
What's the Weather Today?
by Allan Fowler
 
Words and Roads Take Us Places
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Dad and Me in the Morning
by Patricia Lakin and Robert C. Steele
Dear Juno
by Soyung Pak and Susan Kathleen Hartung
Did you hear about Jake?
by Louis Vitellaro Tidd
Follow That Bus
by Suzan Reid
How Many Stars are in the Sky?
by Lenny Hort
Mailing May
by Michael O. Tunnell
Tap-tap
by Karen Lynn Williams
 
Buggy About Spring
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Ant Cities
by Arthur Dorros
Cucumber Soup
by Vickie Leigh Krudwig
Hopper Hunts for Spring
by Marcus Pfister
It's Spring
by Linda Glaser
Leo the Lightning Bug
by Eric Drachman
My Father's Hands
by Joanne Ryder and Mark Graham
Possum and the Peeper
by Anne Hunter
Splish, Splash, Spring
by Jan Carr
The Boy Who DIdn't Believe in Spring
by Lucille Clifton
The Bugliest Bug
by Carol Diggory Shields
Under One Rock
by Anthony Fredericks
Waiting for Wings
by Lois Ehlert
What Are the Chances?
 
City Gardens & Country Farms
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Benny's Pennies
by Pat Brisson
Carlos and the Squash Plant
by Jan Stevens
Farm Alphabet Book
by Jane Miller
If It Weren't For Farmers
by Allan Fowler
Summer Sun Risin'
by W. Nikola-Lisa
The Dandelion Seed
by Joseph Anthony
The Ugly Vegetables
 
Fur & Feathers
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Annie and the Wild Animals
by Jan Brett
Baby Animals Learn
by Pamela Chanko
Birdhouse for Rent
by Harriet Ziefert
If Anything Ever Goes Wrong at the Zoo
Telling Time with Big Mama Cat
Tender Moments in the Wild: Animals and Their Babies
The Elephants' Ears
The Salamander Room
by Anne Mazer
 

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