Reading List
Explore recommended books for different age groups to nurture a love of reading and broaden our students’ experiences with language.
Recommended Book List for Supplementary Reading
Level: All Ages
Recommended supplementary reading list for all ages
Title | Author |
|---|---|
The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein |
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
Level: Ages 4 - 8
Recommended books for ages 4 to 8 by title and author
Title | Author |
|---|---|
The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg |
Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss |
The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss |
Oh, The Places You'll Go | Dr. Seuss |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Dr. Seuss |
The Lorax | Dr. Seuss |
Horton Hatches the Egg | Dr. Seuss |
Love You Forever | Robert N. Munsch |
The Paper Bag Princess | Robert N. Munsch |
The Art Lesson | Tomie De Paola |
Strega Nona | Tomie De Paola |
Math Curse | Jon Scieszka |
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka |
Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams |
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | John Archambault |
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh | A. A. Milne |
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
Stellaluna | Janell Cannon |
Amazing Grace | Mary Hoffman |
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Judith Viorst |
The Mitten | Jan Brett |
Are You My Mother? | Philip D. Eastman |
The Napping House | Audrey Wood |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig |
The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
Basil of Baker Street | Eve Titus |
The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper |
Curious George | Hans Augusto Rey |
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge | Mem Fox |
Arthur series | Marc Tolon Brown |
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Kevin Henkes |
The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton |
Amelia Bedelia | Peggy Parish |
Caps for Sale | Esphyr Slobodkina |
Clifford, the Big Red Dog | Norman Bridwell |
Level: Ages 9 - 12
Recommended books for ages 9 to 12 by title and author
Title | Author |
|---|---|
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story | Roald Dahl |
The BFG | Roald Dahl |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
Matilda | Roald Dahl |
The Giver | Lois Lowry |
Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
Little House on the Prarie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Little House books | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Charlotte 's Web | E. B. White |
The Trumpet of the Swan | E. B. White |
Stuart Little | E. B. White |
The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis |
The Indian in the Cupboard | Lynne Reid Banks |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh | Robert C. O'Brien |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster |
Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
Stone Fox | John Reynolds Gardiner |
Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary |
Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar |
Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh |
A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein |
Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard Atwater |
My Father's Dragon | Ruth Stiles Gannett |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson |
Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis |