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Kindergarten Core Literature List:
  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom-Martin
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar-Carle
  • Courduroy-Freeman
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear
  • The Big Red Strawberry
  • Cat In the Hat-Suess
  • Cookie’s Week-Ward
  • Gingerbread Man-Aylesworth
  • Goodnight Moon-Brown
  • Gregory the Terrible Eater-Sharmat
  • Harry the Dirty Dog-Zion
  • Where the Wild Things Are-Sendak
  • It Looked Like Spilt Milk-Shaw
  • Jack and the Beanstalk-Galdone
  • Little Engine That Could-Piper
  • The Mitten-Brett
  • Make Way for Ducklings-McClosky
  • Happy Birthday Moon-Asch
  • Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
  • Rosie’s Walk-Hutchins
  • Runaway Bunny-Brown
  • Swimmy-Lionni
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit-Potter
  • Ten Black Dots- Crews
  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff-Galdone
Grade 1 Literature List:


  • Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day-Viorst
  • Sheep in a Jeep—Shaw
  • Is Your Mama a Llama?–Guarino
  • Little Red Hen-Galdone
  • Blueberries for Sal—McCloskey
  • Curious George-Rey
  • Goodnight Owl—Hutchins
  • Ira Sleeps Over—Weber
  • Love You Forever—Munsch
  • Princess and the Pea-Ziefert
  • Rainbow Fish-Pfister
  • Seasons of Arnold’s Tree-Gibbons
  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble—Steig
  • There’s a Nightmare in My Closet—Mayer
  • Tikki Tikki Tembo-Mosel
  • Very Busy Spider-Carle
  • Leo the Late Bloomer-Kraus
  • The Velveteen Rabbit–Willilam
  • Whose Mouse are You?-Kraus
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever–Robinson
  • Arthur Writes a Story—Brown
  • Bread and Jam for Frances-Hoban
  • Charlie Needs a Cloak—De Paola
  • George and Martha-Marshall
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie—Numeroff
  • Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth—Bate
  • Napping House—Wood
  • Rechenka’s Egg—Polacco
  • Stone Soup—Brown
  • Tacky the Penguin—Lester
  • Three Little Pigs—Kellogg
  • Two Bad Ants—Van Allsburg
  • Woman Who Outshone the Sun—Martinez
  • Caps for Sale—Slobodkina
  • Are You MyMother?—Eastman
  • Nate the Great—Sharmat
Grade 2 Literature List:


  • Fossils Tell of Long Ago-Aliki
  • Frog and Toad are Friends-Lobel
  • Giving Tree-Silverstein
  • Story of Johnny Appleseed-Aliki
  • The Adventures of Taxi Dog-Barracca
  • Anansi the Spider-McDermott
  • Amelia Bedilia-Parish
  • A Bargain for Francis-Hoban
  • The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash-Noble
  • Chair for MyMother
  • Corn is Maize-Aliki
  • Digging up Dinosaurs-Aliki
  • Hailstones and Halibut Bones-O’Neill
  • Happy Birthday Martin Luther King-Marzollo
  • Helen Keller-Davidson How Many Days to America-Bunting
  • Magic Tree House Books- Obsborne
  • Milk Makers-Gibbons
  • A New Coat for Anna-Ziefert
  • The Ox Cart Man-Hall
  • Patchwork Quilt-Flourno
  • New Kid on the Block-Prelutsky
  • Polar Express-Van Allsburg
  • Ramona the Pest-Cleary
  • Snail’s Spell-Ryder
  • Strega Nona-De Paola
  • Ugly Duckling-Cauley
  • Wednesday’s Surprise-Bunting
  • The Whingdingdilly-Peet
  • Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears- Ardema
  • What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs- Carrick
Grade 3 Literature List:


  • Charlotte’s Web-White
  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins–Atwater
  • Little House in the Big Woods—Wilder
  • Ramona Quimby, Age 8-Cleary
  • All About Sam—Lowry
  • Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar—Anno
  • Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from — Chief Seattle–Jeffers
  • Cinderella—Perault
  • Coulbus—D’Aulaire
  • Courage of Sarah Noble—Dalglisesh
  • Song of the Swallows-Politi
  • Girl Who Loved Wild Horses—Goble
  • Each Orange Had Eight Slices-Giganti
  • Fables-Lobel
  • From Sea to Shining Sea—Cohn
  • James and the Giant Peach—Dahl
  • Knots on a Counting Rope-Martin
  • Louis Braille-Davidson
  • Mouse and the Motorcycle—Cleary
  • Mrs. Piggle Wiggle—MacDonald
  • Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine—Ness
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall–MacLachlan
  • Squanto—Bulla
  • When I Was Young in the Mountians—Rylant
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends—Silverstein
  • Wump World—Peet
Grade 4 Literature List:


  • By the Great Horn Spoon-Fleischman
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins-O’Dell
  • Two Years Before the Mast (juvenile version)- Dana
  • Fudg-a-mania-Blume
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Dahl
  • The BFG-Dahl
  • The Black Stallion-Farley
  • Blue Willow-Gates
  • Carlota-O’Dell
  • Children of the Dust Bowl-Stanley
  • Hank the Cow Dog-Erickson
  • How to Eat Fried Worms-Rockwell
  • If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake-Levine
  • Junipero Serra-Gleiter
  • Little House on the Prairie-Wilder
  • Misty of Chincoteague-Henry
  • My Side of the Mountain-George
  • Pasquala: The Story of a Californian Indian Girl-Faber
  • Patty Reed’s Doll-Laurgaard
  • Pedro’s Journal-Conrad
  • Rascal-North
  • Stone Fox-Gardiner
  • War with Grandpa-Smith
  • Zia-O’Dell
Grade 5 Literature List:


  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- Lewis
  • Sign of the Beaver-Speare
  • Where the Red Fern Grows-Rawls
  • Secret Garden-Burnett
  • Ben and Me-Lawson
  • Ben Franklin of Old Philadelpia-Cousins
  • Brighty of the Grand Canyon-Henry
  • The Cabin Faced West-Fritz
  • Caddie Woodlawn-Brink
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw-Cleary
  • Fighting Ground-Avi
  • Frindle-Clements
  • A Gathering of Days-Blos
  • George Washington-Krensky
  • I, Columbus: My Journal-Roop
  • In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson- Lord
  • A Week in the Woods-Clements
  • Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher-Coville
  • Letters From Rifka-Heese
  • Number the Stars-Lowry
  • Sarah Plain and Tall-McLachian
  • Shiloh-Naylor
  • Sing Down the Moon-O’Dell
  • A Single Shard-Park
  • Tolliver’s Secret-Brady
  • The Trouble with
  • Tuck-Taylor Tuck Everlasting-Babbitt
  • Walk Two Moons-Creech
  • Wheel on the School-De Jong
Grade 6 Literature List:


  • The Boy of the Painted Cave–Denzel
  • The Book of Greek Myths-D’Aluare
  • The Bronze Bow–Speare
  • The Cay–Taylor
  • Hatchet-Paulson
  • The Egypt Game–Snyder
  • The Chronicles of Narnia–Lewis
  • Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
  • Summer of the Swans—E.B.White
  • Tales of Ancient Egypt
  • Aesop’s Fables–Aesop
  • A Wrinkle in Time—L’Engle
  • Bridge to Terabithia-Paterson
  • The Rainbow People-Yep
  • The Cricket in Times Square-Selden
  • Phantom Tollbooth-Juster
  • The House of Sixty Fathers—Dejong
  • Mara, Daughter of the Nile—McGraw
  • Holes-Sachar
  • Bud, Not Buddy-Curtis
  • Maniac Magee-Spinelli
  • The Westing Game—Raskin
  • Julie of the Wolves—George
  • Homesick, My own Story–Fritz
  • Absolutely Normal Chaos-Creech
  • Sounder—Armstrong
Grade 7 Literature List:


  • The Giver-Lowry
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry-Taylor
  • The Samurai’s Tale-Haugaard
  • Catherine Called Birdy-Cushman
  • Adam of the Road-Gray
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die-Peck
  • The Black Pearl-O’Dell
  • The Castle in the Attic-Winthrop
  • The Door in the Wall-de Angeli
  • Dragonwings-Yep
  • I, Juan de Pareja-Trevino
  • Jacob Have I Loved-Patterson
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood-Pyle
  • The Pearl-Steinbeck
  • Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes-Coerr
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
  • Trumpeter of Krakow-Kelly
  • Yeh Shen; A Cinderella Story From China- Louie
  • Zlata’s Diary-Filipovic
Grade 8 Literature List:


  • Across Five Aprils-Hunt
  • Slave Dancer-Fox
  • My Brother Sam is Dead-Collier/Collier
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Twain
  • Outsiders-Hinton
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle-Avi
  • Anne Frank-Frank
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • To Be a Slave-Lestera
  • Witch of Blackbird Pond-Speare O Poineers-Cather
  • Night-Wiesel
  • Summer of My German Soldier-Greene
  • The Education of Little Tree-Carter
  • Nothing But the Truth-Avi
  • Kidnapped-Stevensen
  • Little Women-Alcott
  • Call of the Wild-London
  • The Ox Bow Incident-Clark
  • The Red Badge of Courage-Crane
  • April Morning-Fast
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Stowe
  • And Then There Were None-Christie
Grade 9-10 Literature List:


  • To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee
  • Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
  • Odyssey-Homer
  • House on Mango Street-Cisneros
  • Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
  • Ethan Frome-Wharton
  • Black Like Me-Griffin
  • Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
  • Great Expectations-Dickens
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Angelou
  • The Chocolate War-Cormier
  • Death in the Family-Agee
  • The Martian Chronicles-Bradbury
  • Barrio Boy-Galarza
  • The Hobbit-Tolkein
  • The Red Pony-Buck
  • The Hounds of Baskerville-Doyle
  • The Color Purple-Walker
Grade 11 Literature List:


  • The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
  • The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne
  • Raisin in the Sun-Hansberry
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Twain
  • A Farewell to Arms-Hemingway
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
  • Fahrenheit 451-Bradbury
  • The Awakening-Chopin
  • Death of a Salesman-Miller
  • The Glass Menagerie-Williams
  • Dear America, Letters from Viet Nam
  • Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Jungle-Sinclair
  • Heart of Darkness-Conrad
  • The Good Earth-Buck
  • I Heard The Owl Call My Name-Craven
  • Sound and the Fury-Faulkner
  • Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden- Greenberg
  • House of Seven Gables-Hawthorne
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God-Hurston
  • Ramona-Jackson
  • The Bourne Identity-Ludlum
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-McCullers
  • Beloved-Morrison
  • The Bluest Eye-Morrison
Grade 12 Literature List:


  • Frankenstein-Shelley
  • Hamlet or MacBeth-Shaekspeare
  • Wuthering Heights-Bronte
  • Crime and Punishment-Dustoyevsky
  • Oedipus Rex-Sophocles
  • Pygmalion-Shaw
  • Dolls House-Ibsen
  • Metamorphosis-Kafka
  • Rosencranz and Guildenstern-Stoppard
  • Iliad-Homer
  • Am I Blue-Walker
  • The Stranger-Camus
  • Mrs. Dalloway-Woolf
  • Trial and Death of Socrates-Plato
  • A Modest Proposal-Swift
  • Candide-Voltaire
  • Cry the Beloved Country-Paton
  • Tess of the D’Ubervilles-Hardy
  • Graduation-Angelou
  • Shooting an Elephant-Orwell
  • Hard Times-Dickens











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