UPDATED 8-5-2021 Edmond Public Schools Elementary Extended Text List 2021-2022
The list below is a working document, meaning it is reviewed and updated annually following the guidelines outlined in the Oklahoma Academic Standards. All books on this list have been approved under district and state guidelines for use at Edmond Public Schools.
Teachers may choose to read one or more novels as a class from the following grade-level lists.
Grade 3
Title Author Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves Roop, P.C. Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Edited by:Philip Smith Amber Brown is not a Crayon Danziger, Paula Annie and the Old One Miles, Miska Beautiful Land Antle, Nancy Ben and Me Lawson, Robert Best Christmas Pageant Ever Robinson, Barbara Blackberries in the Dark Jukes, Mavis Boxcar Children, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler Buffalo Before Breakfast-Magic Treehouse Osborne, Mary Pope Bunnicula Howe, Deborah Captain Nobody Pitchford, Dean Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald Charlotte's Web White, E.B. Chocolate Fever Smith, Robert Kimmel Chocolate Touch Catling, Patrick Skene Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh, Alice Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary, Beverly Deborah Sampson Goes to War Stevens, Bryna Fantastic Mr. Fox Dahl, Roald Flat Stanley Brown, Jeff Freckle Juice Blume, Judy Fudge Graeber, Charlotte Turner
Hank the Cowdog Erickson, John R. How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas UPDATED 8-5-2021 Hundred Dresses, The Estes, Eleanor Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Coville, Bruce Judy Moody McDonald, Megan Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Walter, Mildred Pitts Kid in the Red Jacket, The Park, Barbara Lily and Miss Liberty Stevens, Carla Little House on the Prairie Wilder, Laura Ingalls Magic Finger Dahl, Roald Magic School Bus books Cole, Joanna Magic Tree House: Twister on Tuesday Osborne, Mary Pope Marvin Redpost, Class President Sachar, Louis Molly's Pilgrim Cohen, Barbara Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Cleary, Beverly
Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard and Florence My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters Park, Barbara Not My Dog Rodowsky, Colby F. Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Cleary, Beverley Report Card, The Clements, Andrew Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Coeer, Eleanor Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan, Patricia Secret Soldier, The McGovern, Ann Skylark MacLachlan, Patricia Soft Rain Cornelissen, Cornelia Stone Fox Gardiner, John Reynolds Stuart Little White, E.B. Superfudge Blume, Judy Take a Giant Leap, Neil Armstrong! Roop, Peter and Connie Tornado Byars, Betsy Toys Go Out Jenkins, Emily Trail of Tears Bruchac, Joseph Wanted Dead or Alive The Story of Harriett Tubman McGovern, Ann Who Was King Tut? Edward, Roberta UPDATED 8-5-2021
Grade 4
Title Author Abduction Kehret, Peg
American Tall Tales Stoutenburg, Adrien Among the Hidden Haddin, Margaret Peterson
Artemis Fowl Erin Colfer Because of Mr. Terupt Buyea, Rob Because of Winn-Dixie Kate Dicamillo
Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Barbara Robinson BFG, The Roald Dahl Birchbark House, The Erdrich, Louise Cabin Faced West Fritz, Jean Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Dahl, Roald Children of the Longhouse Buchac, Joseph Christmas Genie, The Gutman, Dan
Cracker Jackson Byars, Betsy Cricket in Times Square, The Selden, George
Danger Along the Ohio Willis, Patricia Danger in Quicksand Swamp Wallace, Bill
Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary, Beverly Dog Called Kitty, A Wallace, Bill
Dolphin Adventure Grover, Wayne Eagle Song Joseph Bruchac Earthquake Terror (5 books) Kehret, Peg Eighteenth Emergency, The Byars, Betsy Encyclopedia Brown books Sobol, Donald J.
Flora and Ulysses DiCamillo, Kate Frindle Clements, Andrew From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankwiler Konigsburg, E.L.
Great Gilly Hopkins Peterson, Katherine UPDATED 8-5-2021 Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh, Louise Hate that Cat Creech, Sharon Helen Keller from Tragedy to Triumph Wilkie, Katherine E. Help I'm a Prisoner in the Library Cliford, Edith Hundred Penny Box, The Dillon, Leo
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Tarshis, Lauren Indian in the Cupboard, The Banks, Lynne Reid
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao James and the Giant Peach Dahl, Roald
Jim Ugly Sid Fleischman Journey into Terror Wallace, Bill Kid Who Ran for President, The Gutman, Dan
Lemonade War, The Davies, Jacqueline Lightning Thief, The Riordan, Rick Love that Dog Creech, Sharon Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Dicamillo, Kate Misty of Chincoteague Henry, Marguerite
Moki Penney, Grace Jackson Night of the Twisters Ruckman, Ivy Nightmare Mountain Kehret, Peg
One and Only Ivan, The Applegate, Katherine
Out of the Dust Hess, Karen Owls in the Family Mowat, Farley
Ralph S.Mouse Cleary, Beverly Ramona and Her Father Cleary, Beverly Red Dog Wallace, Bill
Restart Korman,l Gordon Roxie and the Hooligans Naylor, Phyllis School's Out Hurwitz, Johanna Shiloh Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shipwreck: Island, Book 1 Korman, Gordon UPDATED 8-5-2021 Sounder Armstrong, William H.
Soup Peck, Robert Newton Spotting the Leopard Myers, Anna Summer of the Monkeys Rawls, Wilson Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Blume, Judy Taste of Blackberries, A Smith, Doris Buchanan Trapped in Death Cave Wallace, Bill
Trumpet of the Swan White, E.B. Volcanoes and Earthquakes Lauber, Patricia Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Wilson
Who was Harry Houdini? Sutherland, Tui T.
Who was Thomas Jefferson? Fradin, Dennis Brindell Whipping Boy, The Fleischman, Sid
Zane & the Hurricane Philbrick, Rodman UPDATED 8-5-2021
Grade 5
Title Author
Across America on an Emigrant Train Murphy, Jim Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Fritz, Jean Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot Gormley, Beatrice Behind Rebel Lines Reit, Seymour Benjamin Franklin Kent, Deborah Bigger Calvert, Patricia Blood on the River - Jamestown 1607 Carbone, Elisa Bound for Oregon VanLeeuwen, Jean
Borrowers, The Norton, Mary Brady Fritz, Jean Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine Bud, Not Buddy Curtis, Christopher Paul
Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie Call it Courage Sperry, Armstrong
Call Me Ruth Sachs, Marilyn Call of the Wild, The London, Jack
Caught in the Act Nixon, Joan L. Cay, The Taylor, Theodore Charley Skedaddle Beatty, Patricia Chasing Vermeer Balliett, Blue
City of Gold and Lead, The Christopher, John Danger on Panther Peak Wallace, Bill
Devil's Arithmetic, The Yolen, Jane Dogsong Paulsen, Gary Early Thunder Fritz, Jean Extra Credit Clements, Andrew UPDATED 8-5-2021 Family Apart, A Nixon, Joan Lowery
Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge Wallace, Bill Fighting Ground, The Avi
Freaky Friday Rodgers, Mary Freedom Crossing Clark, Margaret Goff
Freedom Trail Marsh, Carol Freedom Train Sterling, Dorothy George Washington's Socks Woodruff, Elvira Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne
Helen Keller Davidson, Margaret Holes Sachar, Louis
Hoot Hiaasen, Carl House of Dies Drear, The Hamilton, Virginia
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) Yousafzai, Malala & McCormick, Patricia
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain Burch, Robert If You Lived in Colonial Times McGovern, Ann Incredible Journey, The Burnford, Sheila
Indian Captive Lenski, Lois Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Selznick, Brian Invincible Louisa Meigs, Cornelia Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell, Scott
Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Catcher Coville, Bruce Jip: His Story Paterson, Kathryn Journey to the New World: Diary of Patience Lasky, Kathryn
Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighead Keeping Room, The Myers, Anna
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Irving, Washington Let the Circle be Unbroken Taylor, Mildred D. Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lewis, C.S.
Lion to Guard Us, A Bulla, Clyde Robert Long Way From Chicago, A Peck, Richard UPDATED 8-5-2021 Loser Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee Spinelli, Jerry
Miracles on Maple Hill Sorensen, Virginia Mr. Tuckett Paulsen, Gary Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH O'Brien, Robert My Brother Sam is Dead Collier, James
My Name is Sally Little Song Woods, Brenda My Side of the Mountain George, Jean Craighead
Number the Stars Lowry, Lois Old Yeller Gipson, Fred Out of My Mind Draper, Sharon M.
Perilous Road, The Steele, William O. Peter and the Starcatchers Pearson, Barry Pinballs, The Byers, Betsy
Place to Belong, A Nixon, Joan Lowery
Poison in the Colony Carbone, Elisa Rascal North, Sterling
Red Thunder Varley, John Report Card, The Clements, Andrew Riddle of Penncroft Farm, The Jenson, Dorothea
River, The Paulson, Gary Road to Memphis, The Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred D.
Sarah Bishop Scott O'Dell Secret Garden, The Burnett, Frances Hodges
Secret of Nimh, The O'Brien, Robert C. Shades of Gray Reeder, Carolyn Sign of the Beaver, The Speare, Elizabeth Sing Down the Moon O'Dell, Scott
Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy Loftin, Nikki Stinker from Space Service, Pamela F. UPDATED 8-5-2021 Summer of Riley, The Bunting, Eve Summer of the Swans Byars, BetsyCromer Take Me Out to the Airfield Quackenbush, Robert Trouble River Byars, Betsy Cromer Trouble with Tuck, The Taylor, Theodore Twenty-One Balloons, The Dubois, William Pene Walk Two Moons Creech, Sharon Watsons Go to Birmingham, The Curtis, Christopher Paul Weasel DeFelice, Cynthia Westing Game, The Raskin, Ellen
What Could Go Wrong? Roberts, Willa Davis Winter Room, The Paulsen, Gary Who was Albert Einstein? Brallier, Jess M. Wind Catcher Avi Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Speare, Elizabeth George
Wonder Palacio, R. J.
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The Cameron, Eleanor Woods Runner Paulson, Gary Wrinkle in Time, A L'Engle, Madelein