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| School Bus | A simple story about a school bus going across town. |
| Moon Cake | Bear decides he wants to see what the moon tastes like, so he builds a rocketship and takes off and thinks he lands on the moon and even gets a taste.(AR) |
| Goodnight Moon | A story about saying goodnight to everything around you.(AR) |
| Cat on the Mat | A rhyming book about what happen when a cat is resting on a mat and one by one several animals come along to join her. |
| Have You Seen My Cat? | A boy tries to find a cat by asking people from all over the world. He sees some very interesting kinds of cats until he finally finds his own. |
| Of Colors and Things | A wordless book about colors and objects that usually come in that color. |
| Exactly the Opposite | Photographs depict opposites in a very clear manner for young children. |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | An alphabet rhyme that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree. |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Harold uses his fantastic purple crayon to draw himself some wonderful adventures.(AR) |
| Carl Goes Shopping | When mother asks Carl, a gentle rottweiler, to watch the baby while she shops in the department store, Carl and the baby have their own adventures. |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep. |
| Sheep in a Jeep | Records the misadventures of a group of sheep that go riding in a jeep. |
| Dr. Seuss's ABC | Alphabet book in silly rhyme. |
| Happy Birthday Moon | When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.(AR) |
| Mouse Paint | Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color. |
| Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose | An illustrated collection of 204 Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including well-known ones such as "Little Boy Blue". |
| Ten Black Dots | A colorful and fun way to count from 1 to 10 using dots that go together to make a picture. |
| Mouse Count | The story of a greedy snake catching mice one at a time and what happens when he wants just one more. |
| Rooster's Off To See the World | Rooster decides he wants to see the world and he asks animals he meets along the way to accompany him. |
| Black & White Rabbit's ABC | Travel through the alphabet with Black And White Rabbit during the course of his day. |
| Rosie's Walk | Follow Rose as she takes an interesting walk around the farm. |
| I Like Me | A spunky pig tells of all her special qualities and how she feels good about herself. |
| Who Sank the Boat | An amusing story of five animals and their attempt to go for a ride on the bay. |
| Milk & Cookies | While spending the night at Grandfather's house, a baby bear dreams of feeding milk & cookies to a dragon. (AR) |
AR beside the book indicates Accelerated Reader.
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| Pancakes for Breakfast | A story about making pancakes for breakfast. |
| Deep in the Forest | A curious bear explores cabin in the forest with disastrous results. (A wordless book) |
| Changes, Changes | The story of a boy and girl who use blocks to create different objects. |
| Carl Goes to Daycare | The family dog goes to daycare and the events that happen. (A wordless book) |
| Carl Goes Shopping | The family dog goes shopping and the events that happen.(A wordless book) |
| Good Dog, Carl | The family dog takes good care of his human charge. (A wordless book) |
| Over in the Meadow | A story reinforcing counting. |
| Ten Bears in my Bed | A story introducing subtraction to children. |
| Old Black Fly | The story of a black fly on a hot summer day on a wild alphabetical romp. |
| Jambo Means Hello | A book of common Swahili words and their English counterparts. |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | The story of letters and their mishap in a coconut tree. |
| Anno's Alphabet | An alphabet book.(A wordless book) |
| Color Zoo | A book about colors and shapes that makes zoo animals. |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See? | A predictable story line reinforcing color words. |
| Ten Black Dots | A story about shapes within shapes. |
| Happy Birthday Moon | The story of a bear who wants to give the moon a birthday present.(AR) |
| We're Going On a Bear Hunt | The story of children on a adventerous hunt for a bear.(AR) |
| Little Miss Muffet | A story rhyme about a scary spider. |
| The Three Little Kittens | A story about 3 kittens who have to face the consequences after losing their mittens. |
| The Three Little Pigs | A story about 3 pigs who have to live in the world with a wolf. |
| Humpty Dumpty | A story about an egg named Humpty who meets a sad ending. |
| Hickory Dickory Dock | A rhyme story of a mouse and the things that happen while climbing a clock. |
| Mary had a Little Lamb | The story of a pet who follows Mary everywhere. |
| The House that Jack Built | The story of a man who built a house containing a variety of interesting characters. |
| Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | A nursery rhyme about looking at stars. |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | The story of a little girl who enters the bears house and the mischief she does. |
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| Tigress | Herdsmen work with a wildlife sanctuary to keep their animals safe from a marauding tigress. |
| From Seed to Plant | Simple text that describes growth of a plant. |
| Families are Different | Tells how a family came together. |
| It Looked Like Spilt Milk | Spots of white look like shapes of different things but they are all just one thing. |
| Flat Stanley | Adventures of Stanley, a little boy who wakes up flat after a bulletin board falls on him during the night.(AR) |
| Josefina Story Quilt | Faith wants to take Josefina her hen when they move to California. Many adventures lay in store. |
| Happy Birthday Moon | Bear wants to give moon a birthday present. (AR) |
| Amazing Grace | Although classmates tell Grace she cannot play Peter Pan because she is black and a girl, she discovers she can do anything she sets her mind to.(AR) |
| And the Green Grass Grew All Around | Folk poetry for everyone |
| Amelia Bedelia | Amelia Bedelia starts to work as a maid but she gets a little confused by the Roger's list.(AR) |
| Small Pig | Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away to the city where he becomes permanently stuck in what he thought was a mud puddle. (AR) |
| Abraham Lincoln | Picture book story of life of President Lincoln. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Picture book story of the life of Benjamin Franklin. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Picture book story of the life of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. |
| Helen Keller | Picture book story of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Picture book story of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Picture book story of author of the Declaration of Independence and president. |
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| All Night Near the Water | A story about mallard ducks. |
| Cuddley Dudley | Dudley penguin is tired of being surrounded by a family who cuddles him, but finds something worse than an affectionate family. |
| Tree Trunk Traffic | The comings and goings of animals on and around a backyard maple tree. |
| Tar Beach | A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home(AR) |
| Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky | With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother. (AR) |
| Dinner at Aunt Connie's House | As Melody and Lonnie play hide-and -seek in Aunt Connie's the portraits of famous Afro-American women speak to them. |
| The Relatives Came | The relatives come from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.(AR) |
| Chipmunk Song | A child lives the life of a chipmunk. |
| Where Butterflies Grow | Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. (AR) |
| Chicken Sunday | To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat. (AR) |
| Angel Child, Dragon Child | A Vietnamese girl attending school in the U.S. makes a new friend who presents her with a wonderful gift. (AR) |
| Honey, I Love | Afro-American poetry |
| Nathaniel Talking | The life of a nine-year old told in rap and verse |
| Something Big has Been Here | A collection of humorous poems. |
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| Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | This short biography traces Virginian Patrick Henry's life from farmer to statesman. AR 4 (1 point) |
| Shiloh | This Newberry winner tells about an eleven-year old boy from West Virginia who discovers a lost, mistreated beagle. He tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a heartless man. This story of courage shows it's not always easy to separate right from wrong. AR 5.1 (3 points) |
| A Taste of Blackberries | This narrator guides the reader through his emotional reactions to the death of his friend Jamie. Jamie was a special child, full of surprises, one who had an answer for everything. Jamie would court danger and always escape; however, he couldn't escape his allergy to bees. AR 3.0 (2 points) |
| Stone Fox | This touching story is based on a Rocky Mountain legend of a ten-year old boy who hopes to pay the back taxes on his Grandfather's farm with the prize from a dog sled race. The sad but successful ending makes this one heart-breaking winner. AR 3.5 (1 point) |
| Bunnicula | What if a pet rabbit really is a vampire? Chester the Cat believes he has discovered one and sets out to prove to the human family that he is right. Told by laconic family dog Harold with doglike observations and concerns for food, this story in the series is humorous and fast moving.AR4.5 (2 points) |
| The Green Book | Vivid writing tells the story of a family from the future who must leave Earth to colonize a new planet. How do they survive? What is the importance of stories in a new land? This thought-provoking short novel begins and ends with the same sentence, a magical discovery for fourth graders. AR 6.5 (2 points) |
| My Side of the Mountain | In this stirring story about a fifth grade boy's survival in the Catskills, the author uses authentic details to present nature. AR 5.9 (7 points) |
| Encounter | Christopher Columbus's discovery of the new world is seen through the eyes of a Taino boy. The book shows Columbus discovering a people with an established culture and civilization, an encounter that changed the world forever. AR 3.9 (.5 points) |
| Julian, Secret Agent | Twelve short chapters present the escapades of Julian, hsi brother Huey, and their friend Gloria when they become "crimebusters".AR 3.1 (1 point) |
| Muggie Maggie | In eight short chapters, Maggie resists mastering cursive writing in the third grade until she discovers its advantages. AR 4.0 (1 point) |
| The Mud Pony | A poor Indian boy becomes a powerful chief when Mother Earth turns his artistic creation of a clay pony into a real pony. This Pawnee legend conveys the spirit and wonder of faith and courage.AR 3.7 (.5 points) |
| Yeh-Shen | In this Chinese version of Cinderella, a fish replaces the fairy godmother. AR 4.5 (1 point) |
| Black snowman | Using the magical poweers of the kente cloth (African scarf), a black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his African American heritage as well his own self-worth. AR 3.5 (1 point) |
| Annie and the Old One | Annie tries to stop time so her grandmother won't die. She comes to understand her American Indian heritage and the fact that time cannot be stopped. |
| The Boy and the Ghost | In this folktale a poor boy spends a night in a haunted house and is rewarded for his bravery. AR 3.0 (.5 points) |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Cleary's book is a portrayal of a child in a single-parent family. Readers must draw inferences from this story told completely in letters written by sixth-grader Leigh Botts to the author of his favorite books. AR 4.0 (3 points) |
| Arthur for the Very First Time | Arthur spends the summer with his eccentric aunt and uncle. He is accused of being an observer rather than a doer. This story is full of warmth, humor, and quirky characters, both human and animal. AR 4.0 (3 points) |
| Homer Price | McCloskey tells the humorous adventures of an irresponsible boy who comes up with ingenious solutions to strange dilemmas. AR 6.5 (4 points) |
| The Castle in the Attic | A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal guest. The sequel is Return to the Castle. AR 6.2 (6 points) |
| Freckle Juice | A hilarious tale of a boy who wants one thing more than anything else-freckles! But when a classmate sells him a secret juice formula, strange things begin to happen. AR 2.0 (.5 points) |
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| From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweileer | Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury. AR 4.8 |
| Encounter | A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvado recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492. AR 3.9 |
| Rosa Parks, My Story | When Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955, she sparked the entire Civil Rights Movement. AR 6.0 |
| 4B goes wild | Fourth graders on a three-day camping tripwith their teachers experience frights and delights. AR 5.2 |
| Soup | The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town. AR 4.5 |
| Number the Stars | Set in Denmark in 1943 during the German occupation, a ten-year-old girl discovers her bravery when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. This is a Newberry winner. (*Sensitive issue - deals with the Holocaust) |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | In this story set in Brooklyn, 1947, a Chinese girl, Shirley Temple Wong, is a new immigrant. She starts to feel at home when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. AR 4.7 |
| Indian in the Cupboard | When a nine-year old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a key for his birthday, he discovers himself involved in an adventure when the Indian comes to life. This book is one in a series. AR 6.1 |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Two lonely children invent a kingdom based on a fantasy world in literature. One child dies abruptly in a flash flood. (*Sensitive issue - deals with death) AR 7.0 |
| Call It Courage | A survival story in which Mafatu defies a taboo, steals a much needed spear from an idol, fights dangerous animals, and escapes from cannibals. Having proven himself, Mafatu returns to his former life. AR 5.0 |
| Tuck Everlasting | The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover a ten-year-old girl and a stranger who know their secret about a spring whose waters prevent one from growing old. AR 6.3 |
| Maniac Magee | An orphan, Maniac Magee, is accepted and well-liked by all who meet him, but he enjoys his independence so much that he has trouble accepting help from anyone. By the books end, Maniac Magee understands the importance of family as a support group. AR 5.0 |
| On My Honor | A young boy gives his word to his father, then bows to peer pressure. There is a swimming accidentand his friend dies. This is a book about choices people make and the ones they refues to make. (*Sensitive issue - delas with death) AR 5.3 |
| The Castle in the Attic | A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal guest. The sequel is Return to the Castle. AR 6.2 |
| Superfudge | Fudge loves to drive his brother, Peter, crazy. He is a human hurricane and creates many unforgettable surprises. AR 4.8 |
| The Celery Stalks at Midnight | This is the sequel to Bunnicula. Chester the Cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetable on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood. AR 4.9 |
| Runaway Ralph | A mouse named Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp. AR 4.9 |
| Little House on the Prairie | A classic story about a family who heads west from the big woods of Wisconsin. AR 4.8 |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | This book shows the humor and seriousness about a loving family that has its problems but its shares of joy as well. The reader sees life through young Ramona's eyes and shows her young readers that they are not alone. AR 4.5 |
| My Side of the Mountain | In this stirring story about a fifth grade boy's survival in the Catskills, the author uses authentic details to present nature. AR 5.9 |