Need a Good Book?Here are some of the best, most fun, most entertaining, most inspiring books available for children to read! Remember, this is only a beginning…
...Grades K-2
Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans
The Mitten / Jan Brett
The Snowman / Raymond Briggs
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel / Virginia Burton
Are You My Mother? / P. D. Eastman
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse / Kevin Henkes
Bedtime for Frances / series by Russell and Lillian Hoban
Danny and the Dinosaur / Syd Hoff
The Snowy Day / Ezra Keats
Fox on Stage / James Marshall
The Story of Ferdinand / Munro Leaf
Make Way for Ducklings / Robert McCloskey
George and Martha / series by James Marshall
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom / Bill Martin & Lois Ehlert
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie / Laura Numeroff
The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter
Curious George / series by H.A. Rey
Henry and Mudge / series by Cynthia Rylant
Where the Wild Things Are / Maurice Sendak
The Cat in the Hat / Dr. Seuss
The Napping House /Audrey Wood
Owl Moon / Jane YolenGrades 3-4
Miss Nelson is Missing / Harry Allard
Stories Julian Tells / Ann Cameron
Ramona / series by Beverly Cleary
Frindle / Andrew Clements
Magic School Bus / series by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degan
Miss Rumphius / Barbara Cooney
The Patchwork Quilt / Valery Flournoy
Stone Fox / John Gardiner
Bunnicula / Deborah Howe
Babe: the Gallant Pig / Dick King-Smith
Horrible Harry / series by Suzy Kline
Frog and Toad / series by Arnold Lobel
Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
Sarah Plain and Tall / 1st of trilogy by Patricia MacLaughlin
Homer Price / Robert McClosky
Amelia Bedelia / by Peggy Parish
Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters / John Steptoe
Jumanji / Chris Van Allsburg
Two Bad Ants / Chris Van Allsburg
Charlotte’s Web / E. B. White
Stuart Little / E. B. White
Little House Books / series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Grades 5-6
Mr. Popper’s Penguins / Richard Atwater
Tuck Everlasting / Natalie Babbitt
The Indian in the Cupboard / series by Lynne Reid Banks
The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes / by Eleanor Coerr
The Dark is Rising / Series by Susan Cooper
The Thirteenth Floor: A Ghost Story / Sid Fleischman
Julie of the Wolves / Jean Craighead George
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub / Jamie Gilson
Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
A Wrinkle in Time / 1st of trilogy by Madeleine L’Engle
Ella Enchanted / Gail Levine
Shiloh / 1st of trilogy by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Hatchet / 1st of trilogy by Gary Paulsen
A Long Way from Chicago / Richard Peck
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone / 1st of series by J. K. Rowling
Holes / Louis Sachar
Chocolate Fever / Robert Kimmel Smith
The Cay / Theodore Taylor
The Hobbit / J. R. R. Tolkien
Dicey’s Song / Cynthis VoigtRead Aloud With All Ages
Aesop’s Fables / Aesop
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales / Hans Christian Andersen
Freckle Juice / Judy Blume
Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library / Eth Clifford
From Sea to Shining Sea / edited by Amy Cohn
Amber Brown / series by Paula Danzinger
Sing a Song of Popcorn / Beatrice de Regniers
The Hundred Dresses / Eleanor Estes
My Father’s Dragon / trilogy by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The People Could Fly / Virginia Hamilton
The Way Things Work / David Macaulay
Winnie the Pooh / A. A. Milne
The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever / Barbara Robinson
Where the Sidewalk Ends / Shel Silverstein
The Polar Express / Chris Van AllsburgWeb sites for recommendations:
California Young Reader Medal
Suggested Series for Students
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