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Title Author Grade Level Bear Gets Dressed Harriet Ziefert PK Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin, Jr. PK Five Silly Monkeys Susie Brooks PK Good Night, Gorilla Peggy Rathman PK How Do You Do a Didgeridoo? Nick Page PK Mouse’s First Fall Lauren Thompson PK Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Bill Martin, Jr. PK The Very Lonely Firefly Eric Carle PK Where’s My Nose? Susan Ring PK Where's Spot? Eric Hill PK A Duck So Small A. H. Benjamin PK+ Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds Cynthia Rylant PK+ Adventures of Riley series Amanda Lumry PK+ Are You My Mother? P. D. Eastman PK+ Baloney (Henry P.) PK+ Bear Snores On Karma Wilson PK+ Big Plans Bob Shea PK+ Bob the Dog Rodrigo Folgueira PK+ Butterflies Keep Flying Ali Pfautz PK+ Clifford stories Norman Bridwell PK+ Dance Matthew Van Fleet PK+ Dandylion Lizzie Finlay PK+ Don't Fidget a Feather Erica Silverman PK+ Dooby Dooby Moo Doreen Cronin PK+ Fat Men From Space Daniel Pinkwater PK+ Franklin Wants a Pet Paulette Bourgeois PK+ Franklin's Halloween Paulette Bourgeois PK+ Goodnight iPad: a Parody for the next generation Ann Droyd PK+ Goodnight Moon PK+ Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney PK+ Hooray for the Golly sisters Betsy Byars PK+ How to Fool a Cat: Japanese Folktales for Children Hiroko Fujita & Fran Stallings PK+ Hurry Up Franklin Paulette Bourgeois PK+ If You Give a Pig a Pancake Laura Numeroff PK+ Jolly Snow Jane Hissey PK+ Little Blue Truck Alice Schertle PK+ Little Raccoon Catches a Cold Susan Canizares PK+ Llama, Llama series Anna Dewdney PK+ 1

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Meet Me at the Moon Gianna Marino PK+ Memoirs of a Goldfish Devin Scillian PK+ Memoirs of a Hamster Devin Scillian PK+ Mountain Christmas Marc Harshman PK+ Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss PK+ Mr. Grumpy's Motor Car John Burningham PK+ Never Ask a Dinosaur to Dinner Gareth Edwards PK+ Old Bear and His Cub Olivier Dunrea PK+ One Duck Stuck Phyllis Root PK+ Over in the Meadow Olive A. Wadsworth PK+ Pete the Cat series Eric Litwin PK+ Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! David McPhail PK+ Pout Pout Fish series Deborah Diesen PK+ Puddle Pug Kim Norman PK+ Purple, Green & Yellow Robert Munsch PK+ Read to Tiger S. J. Fore PK+ Spider series Robert Kraus PK+ Stellaluna Janell Cannon PK+ Sunflower House Eve Bunting PK+ Take Me Home, Country Roads adapted by Christopher Canyon PK+ The Emperor Who Forgot His Birthday Jim Edmiston PK+ The Night Before series Natasha Wing PK+ The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch PK+ The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats PK+ The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf PK+ The Thanksgiving Bowl Virginia Kroll PK+ The Three Snow Bears Jan Brett PK+ The Tooth Book Dr. Seuss PK+ The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle PK+ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle PK+ The Widow’s Broom Chris Van Allsburg PK+ The Winged Pony Betty Beloat PK+ Tikki Tikki Tembo Arlene Mosel PK+ Tony Baloney series Pam Munoz Ryan PK+ Tractor Mac Saves Christmas Billy Steers PK+ Two Christmas Mice Corinne Demas PK+ Under the Ocean Anouck Boisrobert PK+ Warning: Do Not Open This Book Adam Lehrhaupt PK+ Whistle for Willie Ezra Jack Keats PK+ 2

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Your Personal Penguin Sandra Boynton PK+ Ava the Monster Slayer Lisa Maggiore PK - K Betty Bunny Wants Everything Michael B. Kaplan PK - K Big series (Big Fire Engine, Big Bulldozer, Big Racing Car, Kay Barnes PK - K Big Tractor) Bunny’s Noisy Book Margaret Wise Brown PK - K Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie Jennifer Berne PK - K Cookie's Week Cindy Ward PK - K Fairy Tales for Mr. Barker Jessica Ahlburg PK - K Glamourpuss Sarah Weeks PK - K I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track Joshua Prince PK - K I See My Dad Grace Maccarone PK - K Little White Duck Walt Whippo PK - K Max’s Christmas Rosemary Wells PK - K Mother Bruce Ryan Higgins PK - K Press Here Herve Tullet PK - K Ribbit Rodrigo Folgueira PK - K Tap the Magic Tree Christie Matheson PK - K The Best Easter Egg Hunt Ever Dawn Casey PK - K The Big Bug Ball Dee Lillegard PK - K The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog Ana Martin Larranaga PK - K The Eagle and the Wren Jane Goodall PK - K The Lamb-A-Roo Diana Kimpton PK - K The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf PK - K The Turnip Jan Brett PK - K The Wide-Mouthed Frog Keith Faulkner PK - K The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith PK - K There Was an Old Monster! Rebecca and Adrian Emberley PK - K 10 Little Hot Dogs John Himmelman PK - 1st A Chick and Pug Christmas Jennifer Sattler PK - 1st A House is a House For Me Mary Ann Hoberman PK - 1st A Mud Pie for Mother Scott Beck PK - 1st Blue Balloon Mick Inkpen PK - 1st Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey PK - 1st Blue's Clues Holly Melton PK - 1st Carl's Sleepy Afternoon Alexandra Day PK - 1st Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Doreen Cronin PK - 1st Count the Monkeys Mac Barnett PK - 1st Crocodaddy Kim Norman PK - 1st 3

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Farmer Brown books Teri Sloat PK - 1st Giraffes Can't Dance Giles Andreae PK - 1st Hattie the Bad Jane Devlin PK - 1st Hedgehugs Steve Wilson PK - 1st How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? Jane Yolen PK - 1st Hot Rod Hamster Cynthia Lord PK - 1st I Got Two Dogs Fannie and Blue John Lithgow & Robert Neubecker PK - 1st I Love You, Stinky Face Lisa McCourt PK - 1st If I Built a Car Chris Van Dusen PK - 1st In the Rain with Baby Duck Amy Hest PK - 1st It’s Too Windy! Hans Wilhelm PK - 1st Knuckleball Ned R.A. Dickey PK - 1st Knuffle Bunny books Willems PK - 1st Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans PK - 1st Mooseltoe Margie Palatini PK - 1st Mother Goose Mary Engelbreit PK - 1st Oliver's Red Toboggan Paul Kortepeter PK - 1st One Mitten Kristine O'Connell George PK - 1st Only One Marc Harshman PK - 1st Pocket Full of Kisses Audrey Penn PK - 1st Sleep Big Bear Sleep Maureen Wright PK - 1st Steam Train, Dream Train Sherri Duskey Rinker PK - 1st Thank You for Being My Friend Peter Bently PK - 1st Thanksgiving for Emily Ann Teresa Johnston PK - 1st The Blackberry Mouse Matthew Grimsdale PK - 1st The Christmas Wish Lori Evert PK - 1st The Feel Good Book Todd Parr PK - 1st The Flying School Bus Mary G. Eubank PK - 1st The Hello, Goodbye Window Norman Juster PK - 1st The Last Christmas Tree Stephen Krensky PK - 1st The Laughing Dragon Kenneth Mahood PK - 1st The Not So Quiet Library Zachariah OHora PK - 1st The Old Lady Who series Lucille Colandro PK - 1st The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy Jane Thayer PK - 1st The Trellis and the Seed Jan Karon PK - 1st The Very Lazy Ladybug Isobel Finn PK - 1st There's a Mouse about the House Richard Fowler PK - 1st Touch the Brightest Star Christie Matheson PK - 1st A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee Chris Van Dusen PK - 1st 4

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A Fish Out of Water Helen Palmer PK - 2nd A Fly Went By Mike McClintock PK - 2nd A Halloween Scare in West Virginia Eric James PK - 2nd All Pigs Are Beautiful Dick King-Smith PK - 2nd And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd Ask Me Why series Southwestern Company PK - 2nd Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham PK - 2nd Beany and Scamp Lisa Bassett PK - 2nd Beatrice Doesn’t Want To Laura Numeroff PK - 2nd Bella's Rules Elissa Haden Guest PK - 2nd Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake Michael Kaplan PK - 2nd Boober Fraggle's Giant Wish Jocelyn Stevenson PK - 2nd Bunny Loves to Read Peter Bently PK - 2nd Can I Play Too? Mo Willems PK - 2nd Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth PK - 2nd Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd Chester’s Way Kevin Henkes PK - 2nd Children Make Terrible Pets Peter Brown PK - 2nd Cloudette Tom Lichtenheld PK - 2nd Corduroy books Don Freeman PK - 2nd Cowboy Small Lois Lenski PK - 2nd Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes PK - 2nd Dinosaurs Love Underpants Claire Freedman PK - 2nd Dirty Joe, the Pirate: A True Story Bill Harley PK - 2nd Dragons Love Tacos Adam Rubin PK - 2nd Dragons Love Tacos 2 Adam Rubin PK - 2nd Duck, Duck, Dinosaur Kallie George PK - 2nd Duck on a Tractor David Shannon PK - 2nd Duck Soup Jackie Urbanovic PK - 2nd Duncan the Story Dragon Amanda Driscoll PK - 2nd Eggbert: The Slightly Cracked Egg Tom Ross PK - 2nd Ella the Elegant Elephant Carmela D'Amico PK - 2nd Elmer the Elephant books David McKee PK - 2nd Forest Night, Forest Bright Jennifer Ward PK - 2nd Fox in Sox Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd Frederick Leo Lionni PK - 2nd Friends Go Adventuring Helme Heine PK - 2nd Gerald McBoing Boing Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd Gilbert series Jane Clarke PK - 2nd 5

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Goldilocks and the Three Dinaosaurs Mo Willems PK - 2nd Grandfather Tang's Story Ann Tompert PK - 2nd Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd Hairy Maclary series Lynley Dodd PK - 2nd Hensel and Gretel: Ninja Chicks Corey Rosen Schwartz PK - 2nd Honey... Honey... Lion! Jan Brett PK - 2nd Horton Hatches the Egg Dr. Seuss PK - 2nd How Many Trucks Could a Tow Truck Tow Charlotte Pomerantz PK - 2nd How to Babysit a Grandma Jean Reagan PK - 2nd How to Babysit a Grandpa Jean Reagan PK - 2nd How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum Lois Wyse PK - 2nd Hurty Feelings Helen Lester PK - 2nd I Don't Want to Be a Frog Dev Petty and Mike Boldt PK - 2nd If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff PK - 2nd If You Give a Mouse an iPhone Ann Droyd PK - 2nd If You Take a Mouse to School Laura Numeroff PK - 2nd If You Take A Mouse To The Movies Laura Numeroff PK - 2nd In November Cynthia Rylant PK - 2nd Jesse Bear What Will You Wear Nancy White Carlstrom PK - 2nd John Henry: An American Legend Ezra Jack Keats PK - 2nd Ladybig Girl series David Soman PK - 2nd Little Blue and Little Yellow Leo Lionni PK - 2nd Little Engines Can Do Big Things Britt Allcroft PK - 2nd Little Kids First Big Book of Why Amy Shields PK - 2nd Lost and Found Oliver Jeffers PK - 2nd Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey PK - 2nd Making the Moose Out of Life Nicholas Oldland PK - 2nd Martha Speaks Susan Meddaugh PK - 2nd Mercer Mayer books Mercer Mayer PK - 2nd Mim's Christmas Jam Andrea Davis Pinkney PK - 2nd Miranda's Ghosts Udo Weigelt PK - 2nd Miss Smith Michael Garland PK - 2nd Monsters Love Underpants Claire Freedman PK - 2nd Mo’s Mustache Ben Clanton PK - 2nd Motor Miles John Burningham PK - 2nd My Big Dog Janet Stevens, Susan Stevens Crummel PK - 2nd My Dad at the Zoo Coralie Saudo PK - 2nd My Lucky Day Keiko Kasza PK - 2nd Nanette's Baguette Mo Willems PK - 2nd 6

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Not Your Typical Dragon Dan Bar-el PK - 2nd Nugget and Fang: Friends Forever―or Snack Time? Tammi Sauer PK - 2nd Olivia Ian Falconer PK - 2nd Otis series Loren Long PK - 2nd Peanut Butter & Cupcake Terry Border PK - 2nd Pigeon books Mo Willems PK - 2nd Pinkalicious Victoria Kann PK - 2nd Pinocchio Steffi Fletcher PK - 2nd Pirates Love Underpants Claire Freedman PK - 2nd Poppleton books Cynthia Rylant PK - 2nd Possum Come A-Knockin' Nancy Van Laan PK - 2nd Put Me In the Zoo Robert Lopshire PK - 2nd Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson PK - 2nd Sally and the Purple Socks Lisze Bechtold PK - 2nd Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp Carol Diggory Shields PK - 2nd Snowmen at Night Caralyn Buehner PK - 2nd Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Eileen Spinelli PK - 2nd Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy Carl R. Sams, Jean Stoick PK - 2nd Stuck Oliver Jeffers PK - 2nd Sylvia Jean, Scout Supreme Lisa Campbell Ernst PK - 2nd That is Not a Good Idea Mo Willems PK - 2nd The Baby Blue Cat series Ainslie Pryor PK - 2nd The Brothers Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm PK - 2nd The Crow’s Tale Naomi Howarth PK - 2nd The Day the Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt PK - 2nd The Day the Crayons Came Home Drew Daywalt PK - 2nd The Elephant's Child Rudyard Kipling PK - 2nd The Gardener Sarah Stewart PK - 2nd The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair Kate Bernheimer PK - 2nd The Golden Egg Book Margaret Wise Brown PK - 2nd The Great Fuzz Frenzy Janet Stevens PK - 2nd The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster David Conway PK - 2nd The Hiccupotamus Aaron Zenz PK - 2nd The King of Little Things Bill Lepp PK - 2nd The Lion Inside Rachel Bright PK - 2nd Don Ferguson PK - 2nd The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper PK - 2nd The Little Pig Judy Dunn PK - 2nd The Littlest Bunny in West Virginia Lily Jacobs PK - 2nd 7

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The Mine-O-Saur Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen PK - 2nd The Monster at the End of This Book Jon Stone PK - 2nd The Monster Trap Dean Morrissey PK - 2nd The Monstore Tara Lazar PK - 2nd The Napping House Audrey Wood PK - 2nd The Night Gardener Terry and Eric Fan PK - 2nd The Purple Kangaroo Michael Ian Black PK - 2nd The Rubber Legged Ducky John G. Keller PK - 2nd The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown PK - 2nd The Snatchabook Helen Docherty PK - 2nd The Snurtch Sean Ferrell PK - 2nd The Spiffiest Giant in Town Julia Donaldson PK - 2nd The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Jon Scieszka PK - 2nd The Swan’s Gift Brenda Seabrooke PK - 2nd The Sweet Touch Lorna Balian PK - 2nd The Sweetest Fig Chris Van Allsburg PK - 2nd The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter PK - 2nd The Thingumajig Book of Manners Irene Keller PK - 2nd The Wolf’s Chicken Stew Keiko Kasza PK - 2nd There's No Such Thing as a Dragon Jack Kent PK - 2nd This Book Just Ate My Dog! Richard Byrne PK - 2nd This Moose Belongs to Me Oliver Jeffers PK - 2nd Toads on Toast Linda Bailey PK - 2nd Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens PK - 2nd Ugly Pie Lisa Wheeler PK - 2nd Underpants Wonderpants Peter Bently PK - 2nd Watch Out! Claire Llewellyn PK - 2nd Water Boy David McPhail PK - 2nd What's the Big Idea, Molly? Valeri Gorbachev PK - 2nd What's the Time, Grandma Wolf? Ken Brown PK - 2nd Who Done It? Olivier Tallec PK - 2nd Wolf! Becky Bloom PK - 2nd Yonie Wondernose Marguerite De Angeli PK - 2nd Ziggy Piggy and the Three Little Pigs Frank Asch PK - 2nd A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue Julia Cook PK - 3rd A Day With No Crayons Elizabeth Rusch PK - 3rd A Fine, Fine School Sharon Creech PK - 3rd Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure Don Brown PK - 3rd Any Dr. Seuss books Dr. Seuss PK - 3rd 8

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Any Eric Carle books Eric Carle PK - 3rd Arnie the Doughnut Laurie Keller PK - 3rd Axle Annie Robin Pulver PK - 3rd Babar the King Jean De Brunhoff PK - 3rd Babushka Baba Yaga Patricia Polacco PK -3rd Bad Dog Marley John Grogan PK - 3rd Bad Kitty Nick Bruel PK - 3rd Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer Melissa Sweet PK - 3rd of Macy's Parade Bats at the… books Brian Lies PK - 3rd Bear Stays Up Karma Wilson PK - 3rd Beatrice’s Goat Page McBrier PK - 3rd Big Al Andrew Clements PK - 3rd Big Bad Bubble Adam Rubin PK - 3rd Black Lagoon Adventures series Mike Thaler PK - 3rd Brave Irene William Steig PK - 3rd Bugs in My Hair David Shannon PK - 3rd Charlie the Ranch Dog Ree Drummond PK - 3rd Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully Audrey Penn PK - 3rd Chester the Worldly Pig Bill Peet PK - 3rd Chicken Cheeks Michael Ian Black PK - 3rd Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett PK - 3rd Comet's Nine Lives Jan Brett PK - 3rd Cranberryport books Wende Devlin PK - 3rd Crankenstein Samantha Berger PK - 3rd Creepy Carrots Aaron Reynolds PK - 3rd Cross-Country Cat Mary Calhoun PK - 3rd Curious George books H. A. Rey & Margaret Rey PK - 3rd Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Seprent Bill Peet PK - 3rd Daisy Comes Home Jan Brett PK - 3rd Danny and the Dinosaur Syd Hoff PK - 3rd David books David Shannon PK - 3rd Desert Night Shift Conrad J. Storad PK - 3rd Doctor DeSoto William Steig PK - 3rd Duck on a Bike David Shannon PK - 3rd Duck! Rabbit! Amy Krouse Rosenthal PK - 3rd Eagle Boy Richard Lee Vaughan PK - 3rd Enemy Pie Derek Munson PK - 3rd Epossumondas Coleen Salley PK - 3rd 9

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Ezra Jack Keats books Ezra Jack Keats PK - 3rd Falling for Rapunzel Leah Wilcox PK - 3rd Fifty Cents and a Dream Jabari Asim PK - 3rd Frances books Russell Hoban PK - 3rd Franklin series Paulette Bourgeois PK - 3rd Frida Jonah Winter PK - 3rd Frog and Toad series Arnold Lobel PK - 3rd Froggy series Jonathan London PK - 3rd Giggle, Giggle, Quack Doreen Cronin PK - 3rd Gingerbread Cowboy Janet Squires PK - 3rd Goodnight Selfie Scott Menchin PK - 3rd Gregory the Terrible Eater Mitchell Sharmat PK - 3rd Guess Again Mac Barnett PK - 3rd Hampire! Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen PK - 3rd Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson PK - 3rd Harry Hungry Steven Salerno PK - 3rd Harry the Dirty Dog books Gene Zion PK - 3rd Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates Carolyn Crimi PK - 3rd Hip Hop Dog Chris Raschka PK - 3rd How I Became a Pirate Melinda Long PK - 3rd How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head Bill Peet PK - 3rd How to Bake an American Pie Karma Wilson PK - 3rd I Ate a Cicada Today Jeff Crossan PK - 3rd I Stink! Kate McMullin PK - 3rd I Wish I Had Duck Feet Dr. Seuss PK - 3rd I Wish I Were a Butterfly James Howe PK - 3rd If You Give a Dog a Donut Laura Numeroff PK - 3rd If You Give a Moose a Muffin Laura Numeroff PK - 3rd Ira Sleeps Over Bernard Waber PK - 3rd I Wanna Iguana Karen Kaufman Orloff PK - 3rd Jan Brett books Jan Brett PK - 3rd Jungle Drums Graeme Base PK - 3rd Kiss the Cow Phyllis Root PK - 3rd Legend of Texas Bluebonet Tomie dePaola PK - 3rd Little Critter books Mercer Mayer PK - 3rd Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China Ed Young PK - 3rd Lyle the Crocodile books Bernard Waber PK - 3rd Marsupial Sue John Lithgow PK - 3rd Martha Doesn't Say Sorry Samantha Berger PK - 3rd 10

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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton PK - 3rd Miss Nelson is Missing Harry G. Allard, Jr. PK - 3rd More Than Anything Else Marie Bradby PK - 3rd Mr. Grumpy's Motor Car John Burningham PK - 3rd Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale John Steptoe PK - 3rd Mustache Baby Bridget Heos PK - 3rd My Brave Year of Firsts Jamie Lee Curtis PK - 3rd My Dog is a Chicken Susan McElroy Montanari PK - 3rd My First Little House Books Laura Ingalls Wilder PK - 3rd Never Say a Mean Word Again Jacqueline Jules PK - 3rd Officer Buckle and Gloria Peggy Rathman PK - 3rd Oh, The Places You'll Go Dr. Seuss PK - 3rd Oh, Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur? Bonnie Worth PK - 3rd Once I Ate a Pie Patricia MacLachlan PK - 3rd Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me Eric Carle PK - 3rd Periwinkle’s Journey Judy Petersen-Fleming PK - 3rd Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue Maurice Sendak PK - 3rd Piggy Pie Margie Palatini PK - 3rd Pinduli Janell Cannon PK - 3rd Please, Open This Book Adam Lehrhaupt PK - 3rd Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg PK - 3rd Pop's Bridge Eve Bunting PK - 3rd Previously Allan Ahlberg PK - 3rd Probuditi! Chris Van Allsburg PK - 3rd Rainbow Fish series Marcus Pfister PK - 3rd Randy Riley's Really Big Hit Chris Van Dusen PK - 3rd Rappy the Raptor Dan Gutman PK - 3rd Ready, Freddy! series Abby Klein PK - 3rd Reuben and the Balloon Merle Good PK - 3rd Reuben and the Blizzard Merle Good PK - 3rd Rocket Writes a Story Tad Hills PK - 3rd Rocks in My Pockets Marc Harshman, Bonnie Collins PK - 3rd Sally Goes to the Vet Stephen Huneck PK - 3rd Salt in His Shoes Deloris Jordan PK - 3rd Santa Calls William Joyce PK - 3rd Shark Detective Jessica Olien PK - 3rd Shortcut Donald Crews PK - 3rd Smelly Socks Robert Munsch PK - 3rd Splat the Cat books Rob Scotton PK - 3rd 11

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Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon Patty Lovell PK - 3rd Stanley's Party Linda Bailey PK - 3rd Stick Man Julia Donaldson PK - 3rd Stone Soup Marcia Brown PK - 3rd Strega Nona Tomie dePaola PK - 3rd Substitute Creacher Chris Gall PK - 3rd Superworm Julie Donaldson PK - 3rd Ten Naughty Little Monkeys Suzanne Williams PK - 3rd Thanksgiving Graces Mark Moulton PK - 3rd The Ant and the Elephant Bill Peet PK - 3rd The Bicycle Man Allen Say PK - 3rd The Biggest Bear Lynd Ward PK - 3rd The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Steven Kroll PK - 3rd The Bookshop Dog Cynthia Rylant PK - 3rd The Bremen Town Musicians Brothers Grimm PK - 3rd The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes DuBose Heyward PK - 3rd The Dump Man’s Treasures Lynn Plourde PK - 3rd The Emperor's Egg Martin Jenkins PK - 3rd The Emporor's New Clothes Hans Christian Anderson PK - 3rd The Frazzle Family Finds a Way Ann Bonwill PK - 3rd The Giant Jam Sandwich Janet Burroway, John Vernon Lord PK - 3rd The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson PK - 3rd The Hallo-Wiener Dav Pilkey PK - 3rd The House on East 88th Street Bernard Waber PK - 3rd The Incredible Book Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers PK - 3rd The Interrupting Chicken David Ezra Stein PK - 3rd The Kissing Hand Audrey Penn PK - 3rd The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Linda Williams PK - 3rd The Lonely Book Kate Bernheimer PK - 3rd The Man in the Moon William Joyce PK - 3rd The Missing Mitten Mystery Steven Kellogg PK - 3rd The Mitten Jan Brett PK - 3rd The Odd Egg Emily Gravett PK - 3rd The Old Woman Who Named Things Cynthia Rylant PK - 3rd The Popcorn Dragon Jane Thayer PK - 3rd The Recess Queen Alexis O'Neill PK - 3rd The Retired Kid Jon Agee PK - 3rd The Sandman William Joyce PK - 3rd The Secret Life of Squirrels Nancy Rose PK - 3rd 12

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The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant Jean De Brunhoff PK - 3rd The Talking Eggs Robert D. San Souci PK- 3rd The Three Billy Goats Gruff Stephen Carpenter PK - 3rd The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot Margaret McNamara PK - 3rd The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Eugene Trivizas PK - 3rd The Tomten Astrid Lindgren PK - 3rd The Underpants Zoo Brian Seldelbach PK - 3rd The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams PK - 3rd The Wheels on the Race Car Alex Zane PK - 3rd There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea Jennifer Ward PK - 3rd There's a Wocket in My Pocket Dr. Seuss PK - 3rd Those Darn Squirrels! Adam Rubin PK - 3rd Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day Jamie Lee Curtis PK - 3rd Too Many Toys David Shannon PK - 3rd Too Much Noise Ann McGovern PK - 3rd Turtle Bay Saviour Pirotta PK - 3rd Warthogs in the Kitchen Pamela Duncan Edwards PK - 3rd We Forgot Brock Carter Goodrich PK - 3rd We’re All Wonders R. J. Palacio PK - 3rd We're Going on a Bear Hunt Helen Oxenbury PK - 3rd When I am Old Angela Johnson PK - 3rd When Spring Comes Kevin Henkes PK - 3rd Why is the Snow White? Heinz Janisch PK - 3rd Wings Christopher Myers PK - 3rd Yoda Gets a Buddy Beth Stern PK - 3rd You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Mary Ann Hoberman PK - 3rd Read Together Do Not Open This Book Michaela Muntean PK - 4th Horton Hears a Who! Dr. Seuss PK - 4th Library Mouse Daniel Kirk PK - 4th Magic School Bus series Joanna Cole PK - 4th Scarredy Squirrel series Melanie Watt PK - 4th The Wartville Wizard Don Madden PK - 4th What Do You Do With an Idea? Kobi Yamada PK - 4th Actual Size Steve Jenkins PK - 5th Chicken Soup With Rice Maurice Sendak PK - 5th The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry Bill Martin, Jr. (editor) PK - 5th Enemy Pie Derek Munson PK - 7th Eliza and the Dragonfly Susie Caldwell Rinehart K+ 13

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Grandpa’s Tractor Michael Garland K+ Hey! Listen to This edited by Jim Trelease K+ Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast Josh Funk K+ Mousekin's Golden House Edna Miller K+ Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow K+ Pssst! Adam Rex K+ The Berenstain Bears books Stan and Jan Berenstain K+ The Great Ball Game Joseph Bruchac K+ The Night Before Christmas Clement Clarke Moore K+ The Princess and the Pizza Mary Jane Auch K+ The Random House Book of Poetry for Children Jack Prelutsky K+ The Secret Garden (adapted from the original) Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted by K+ Margaret DeKeyser Three Hens and a Peacock Lester Laminack K+ Hair in the Air Gary Hogg K - 1st Late for School Steve Martin K - 1st McDuff series Rosemary Wells K - 1st Moose on the Loose Kathy-Jo Wargin K - 1st The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Don Wood K - 1st Hungry Bear Superworm Julia Donaldson K - 1st The Very Cranky Bear Nick Bland K - 1st A Bad Case of Stripes David Shannon K - 2nd A Helping Hand Tammy S. Berg K - 2nd A Sick Day for Amos McGee Philip C. Stead K - 2nd Ada Twist, Scientist Andrea Beaty K - 2nd Amy's Light Robert Nutt K - 2nd Arthur books Marc Brown K - 2nd Best Friends (A Fraggle Rock Book) Jocelyn Stevenson K - 2nd Biscuit Alyssa Satin Capucilli K - 2nd Buddy and Earl Maureen Fergus K - 2nd Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina K - 2nd Carnivores Aaron Reynolds K - 2nd Chickens Aren't the Only Ones Ruth Heller K - 2nd Clayton’s Path Brett Bishop, Laura Olsen K - 2nd Dog Blossom Comes Home James Herriot K - 2nd Dogs’ Night Meredith Hooper K - 2nd Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct Mo Willems K - 2nd Elephant and Piggy books Mo Willems K - 2nd

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Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse Rebecca Janni K - 2nd Extra Yarn Mac Barnett K - 2nd Fluffy and Friends series Kate McMullan K - 2nd Fly Guy series Tedd Arnold K - 2nd Four Pups and a Worm Eric Seltzer K - 2nd Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears Corey Rosen Schwartz K - 2nd Happy Birthday to You Dr. Seuss K - 2nd Henry and Mudge series Cynthia Rylant K - 2nd How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids Tom Rath K - 2nd Humbug Witch Lorna Balian K - 2nd I Need My Monster Amanda Noll K - 2nd If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! Elise Parsley K - 2nd Iggy Peck, Architect Andrea Beaty K - 2nd Ish Peter H. Reynolds K - 2nd Johnny Appleseed: My Story David L. Harrison K - 2nd Market Square James Herriot K - 2nd Miss Maple’s Seeds Eliza Wheeler K - 2nd Mr. Picklepaw's Popcorn Ruth Adams K - 2nd Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Candace Fleming K - 2nd My Pet Book Bob Staake K - 2nd Never Tickle a Tiger Pamela Butchart K - 2nd Oscar, Cat About Town James Herriot K - 2nd Owl Babies Martin Waddell K - 2nd Owl Moon Jane Yolen K - 2nd Policeman Lou Lisa Desimini K - 2nd Rosie's Fiddle Phyllis Root K - 2nd Rosie Revere, Engineer Andrea Beaty K - 2nd Pete Mark Kimball Moulton K - 2nd Stinky Eleanor Davis K - 2nd Stop That Ball! Mike McClintock K - 2nd Tacky the Penguin books Helen Lester K - 2nd Tembo Takes Charge: Katya's Busy Morning Thea Feldman K - 2nd The Book With No Pictures B. J. Novak K - 2nd The Digging-est Dog Al Perkins K - 2nd The Hairy Toe Daniel Postgate K - 2nd The Handstand Lisa Stickley K - 2nd The Hungry Thing Jan Slepian, Ann Seidler K - 2nd The Invisible Boy Trudy Ludwig K - 2nd The Legend of the Doozer Who Didn't Louise Gikow K - 2nd 15

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The Little Green Witch Barbara Barbieri McGrath K - 2nd The Littlest Matsyoshka Corinne Demas Bliss K - 2nd The Name Jar Yangsook Choi K - 2nd The Princess and the Pony Kate Beaton K - 2nd The Rolling Rice Cakes Eric A. Kimmel K - 2nd The Royal Raven Hans Wilhelm K - 2nd The Smushy Bus Leslie Helakoski K - 2nd The Three Ninja Pigs Corey Rosen Schwartz K - 2nd The Web Files Margie Palatini K - 2nd The Worst Best Friend Alexis O’Neill K - 2nd This Tree Counts Alison Formento K - 2nd Too Many Daves Dr. Seuss K - 2nd Turtle! Turtle! Watch Out! April Sayre K - 2nd Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris K - 2nd Underwear! Mary Elise Monsell K - 2nd We Are Growing! (Elephant and Piggy Like Reading!) Laurie Keller, Mo Willems K - 2nd We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost! Diane deGroat K - 2nd What I Saw in the Teachers' Lounge Jerry Pallotta K - 2nd What Pet Should I Get? Dr. Seuss K - 2nd When a Dragon Moves In Jodi Moore K - 2nd Elsie's Bird Jane Yolen K - 3rd Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod Robert J. Blake K - 3rd Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parish K - 3rd Aqualicious Victoria Kann K - 3rd Barn Dance! Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault K - 3rd Best Friends Steven Kellogg K - 3rd Blowin’ in the Wind K - 3rd Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs books Giles Andreae K - 3rd Dadblamed Union Army Cow Susan Fletcher K - 3rd Deep in the Sahara Kelly Cunnane K - 3rd Diary of a Worm Doreen Cronin K - 3rd Dolphins! Sharon Bokoske K - 3rd Fancy Nancy books Jane O'Connor K - 3rd Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Lindsay Mattick K - 3rd Famous Bear First Day Jitters Julie Danneberg K - 3rd Flat Stanley Jeff Brown K - 3rd Freckle Face Strawberry Julianne Moore K - 3rd George Washington and the General's Dog Frank Murphy K - 3rd 16

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Goldilocks Returns Lisa Campbell Ernst K - 3rd Gold Miner's Daughter Jackie Mims Hopkins K - 3rd Huck Runs Amuck Sean Taylor K - 3rd I Met a Moose in Maine One Day Ed Shankman K - 3rd Jackalope Janet Stevens K - 3rd Junie B. Jones series Barbara Park K - 3rd Library Lion Michelle Knudsen K - 3rd Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau Jennifer Berne K - 3rd Mars Needs Moms! Berkeley Breathed K - 3rd Mind Your Manners, Alice Roosevelt Leslie Kimmelman K - 3rd Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu Dayle Ann Dodds K - 3rd Miss Hunnicutt's Hat Jeff Brumbeau K - 3rd Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney K - 3rd Mr. Putter and Tabby books Cynthia Rylant K - 3rd Nerdy Birdy Aaron Reynolds K - 3rd Night of the Pumpkinheads Michael J. Rosen K - 3rd Not Norman: A Goldfish Story Kelly Bennett K - 3rd Ordinary People Change the World series (I am…) Brad Meltzer K - 3rd Otis the Owl Mary Holland K - 3rd Pakkun The Wolf and His Dinosaur Friends Yasuko Kimura K - 3rd Passing the Music Down Sarah Sullivan K - 3rd Petite Rouge Mike Artell K - 3rd Plantzilla Jerdine Nolen K - 3rd Raggedy Ann stories Johnny Gruelle K - 3rd Saving the Liberty Bell Megan McDonald K - 3rd Sheep Emily K. Green K - 3rd Sheltie the Hero Laura Bush, Jenna Bush Hager K - 3rd Skippyjon Jones books Judith Schachner K - 3rd Small Rabbit Miska Miles K - 3rd Smoky Mountain Rose Alan Schroeder K - 3rd St. Patrick's Day Gail Gibbons K - 3rd Stink series Megan McDonald K - 3rd Thank you, Mr. Falker Patricia Polacco K - 3rd The Apple Orchard Riddle Margaret McNamara K - 3rd The Best Seat in Second Grade Katharine Kenah K - 3rd The Bully and the Shrimp Catherine Allison, Kim Geyer K - 3rd The Cat Who Wore a Pot on Her Head Jan Slepian, Ann Seidler K - 3rd The Easter Egg Farm Mary Jane Auch K - 3rd The Empty Pot Demi K - 3rd 17

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The Fire Cat Esther Averill K - 3rd The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) Philomen Sturges K - 3rd The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Mordicai Gerstein K - 3rd The Mischevians William Joyce K - 3rd The Mysterious Tadpole Steven Kellogg K - 3rd The Raft Jim LaMarche K - 3rd The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant K - 3rd The Storm Marc Harshman K - 3rd The Story of Holly and Ivy Rumer Godden K - 3rd The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles K - 3rd The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Jon Scieszke K - 3rd Those Shoes Maribeth Boelts K - 3rd Three Little Cajun Pigs Mike Artell and Jim Harris K - 3rd Thunder Cake Patricia Polacco K - 3rd Tomie dePaola books Tomie dePaola K - 3rd Trust Me, Jack's Beanstalk Stinks!: The Story of Jack and Eric Braun K - 3rd the Beanstalk as Told by the Giant Turtle’s Race With Beaver Joseph Bruchac K - 3rd Two of Everything Lily Toy Hong K - 3rd Uncle Andy's James Warhola K - 3rd Waiting for the Evening Star Rosemary Wells K - 3rd Walter the Farting Dog series William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray K - 3rd When Charlie McButton Lost Power Suzanne Collins K - 3rd When I Was Young in the Mountains Cynthia Rylant K - 3rd Adopted by an Owl Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen K - 4th Aesop's Fables K - 4th Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair Patricia Polacco K - 4th Bartholomew and the Oobleck Dr. Seuss K - 4th Heidi (Grosset & Dunlap Junior Classics) Johanna Spyri K - 4th Heidi Heckelbeck Gets Glasses Wanda Coven K - 4th Itsy Bitsy & Tenny Weeny Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen K - 4th Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels Jamie Michalak K - 4th Kelly of Hazel Ridge Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen K - 4th Mad Scientist Academy series Matthew McElligott K - 4th Out of the Woods Rebecca Bond K - 4th Penny: The Forgotten Coin Denise Brennan-Nelson K - 4th Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling K - 4th Saving Samantha Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen K - 4th The Butter Battle Book Dr. Seuss K - 4th 18

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The Dream Tree Stephen Cosgrove K - 4th The Frightened Frog: An Environmental Tale Brenda Moore, Jean Ohlmann K - 4th The Hard Times Jar Ethell Footman Smothers K - 4th The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey Demi K - 4th The Magic Nesting Doll Jacqueline Ogburn K - 4th The Seven Chinese Brothers Margaret Mahy K - 4th The Sneetches and Other Stories Dr. Seuss K - 4th Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Dr. Seuss K - 4th Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Dr. Seuss K - 4th Dragolin Stephen Cosgrove K - 5th John Henry Julius Lester K - 5th The New Kid on the Block Jack Prelutsky K - 5th The Old Woman and the Willy Nilly Man Jill Wright K - 5th Something Big Has Been Here Jack Prelutsky K - 5th Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Maria Dismondy K - 5th Who You Are Classic Fairy Tales and Fables Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Christian Anderson K - 6th The Tale of Three Trees Angela Elwell and Tim Jonke K - 7th Of Thee I Sing Barack Obama K - 12th Garden books about growing, insects and ecosystem 1st A Poem in Your Pocket Margaret McNamara 1st - 3rd Down on the Funny Farm Patrick King 1st - 3rd Eerie Elementary Jack Chabert 1st - 3rd Every Thing On It Shel Silverstein 1st - 3rd Falling Up Shel Silverstein 1st - 3rd Grace for President Kelly DiPucchio 1st - 3rd I Love You Just Enough Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen 1st - 3rd Kung Pow Chicken series Cyndi Marko 1st - 3rd Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back Shel Silverstein 1st - 3rd Nate the Great and the Monster Mess Marjorie Weinman Sharmat 1st - 3rd No Pirates Allowed Rhonda Gowler Greene 1st - 3rd One Hungry Cat Joanne Rocklin 1st - 3rd Owen & Mzee Isabella Hatkoff & Craig Hatkoff 1st - 3rd Owl Diaries series Rebecca Elliott 1st - 3rd Penny Dreadful series Joanna Nadin 1st - 3rd Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzy Murphy Story Emily Arnold McCully 1st - 3rd The Black Star of Kingston S.D. Smith 1st - 3rd The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto Natalie Standiford 1st - 3rd 19

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The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy Dori Hillestad Butler 1st - 3rd The Minpins Roald Dahl 1st - 3rd The Unhappy Stonecutter Charlotte Guillain and Steve Dorado 1st - 3rd Treasury of Virtues Jennifer Boudart 1st - 3rd Ugly Cute Animals Melvin & Gilda Benger 1st - 3rd Violet the Pilot Steve Breen 1st - 3rd Waylon! One Awesome Thing Sara Pennypacker 1st - 3rd Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1st - 3rd A to Z Mysteries Ron Roy 1st - 4th Alphabeasts Wallace Edwards 1st - 4th Anansi tales Eric Kimmel (retold by) 1st - 4th Andrew Lost series J.C. Greenburg 1st - 4th Ballpark Mysteries #1: The Fenway Foul-up David A. Kelly 1st - 4th Boo! And I Mean It Barbara Park 1st - 4th Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story Anna Egan Smucker 1st - 4th Johnny Appleseed Steven Kellogg 1st - 4th Judy Moody series Megan McDonald 1st - 4th Jumanji Chris Van Alisburg 1st - 4th King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Audrey Wood 1st - 4th Mercy Watson books Kate DiCamillo 1st - 4th Nobody Owns the Sky Reeve Lindbergh 1st - 4th One Grain of Rice Demi 1st - 4th Pee Wee Scouts series Judy Delton 1st - 4th Rags: Hero Dog of WWI Margot Theis Raven 1st - 4th Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story Cynthia Rylant 1st - 4th Tales for Very Picky Eaters Josh Schneider 1st - 4th Thank You, Sarah 1st - 4th The Chicken Squad series Doreen Cronin 1st - 4th The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Susan Wojciechowski 1st - 4th The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes 1st - 4th The Junkyard Wonders Patricia Polacco 1st - 4th The Monster Who Ate My Peas Danny Schnitzlein 1st - 4th The Quiltmakers Gift Jess Brumbeau 1st - 4th Third Grade Detectives series George E. Stanley 1st - 4th Who Would Win? Ultimate Ocean Rumble Jerry Pallotta 1st - 4th Babe: The Gallant Pig Dick King-Smith 1st - 5th Freckle Juice 1st - 5th Hermit Crab Carter Goodich 1st - 5th It’s a Book Lane Smith 1st - 5th 20

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Moose on the Loose Pamela Jane 1st - 5th My Weird School series Dan Gutman 1st - 5th My Weirder School series Dan Gutman 1st - 5th My Weirdest School series Dan Gutman 1st - 5th Ollie’s Odyssey William Joyce 1st - 5th Once Upon a Cool Motorcylce Dude Kevin O'Malley 1st - 5th Our Solar System Seymour Simon 1st - 5th Snow White and Rose Red Brothers Grimm 1st - 5th The Turtle Cynthia Rylant 1st - 5th The Green Ember S.D. Smith 1st - 5th The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups David Wisniewski 1st - 5th Who Pooped in the Colorado Plateau? Scat and Tracks for Gary D. Robson 1st - 5th Kids The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1st - 6th Illustrated stories from Shakespeare William Shakespeare (adapted by Rosie 1st+ Dickens) McBroom's Ghost Sid Fleischman 1st+ McBroom's Zoo Sid Fleischman 1st+ Petunia Pepper’s Picture Day Cathy Breisacher 1st+ Santa’s Twin Dean Koontz 1st+ The Frog Prince Jon Scieszka 1st+ The Frog Prince Continued Jon Scieszka 1st+ "There Are Rocks in My Socks!" Said the Ox to the Fox Patricia Thomas 1st+ Animal Life, Growing Up Karen O'Callaghan 2nd Fang and Claw Frank Buck 2nd Jack and the Bean Snacks (After Happily Ever After) Tony Bradman 2nd - 3rd The Giving Tree Shel Silversten 2nd - 3rd Be Nice to Mice Nancy E. Krulik 2nd - 4th Big Men, Big Country: A Collection of American Tall Tales Paul Robert Walker 2nd - 4th Catwings series Ursula K. Le Guin 2nd - 4th Class Clown Johanna Hurwitz 2nd - 4th Clementine Sara Pennypacker 2nd - 4th George, Can't You Make Them Behave? Jean Fritz 2nd - 4th Hark! A Shark!: All About Sharks Bonnie Worth 2nd - 4th How to Babysit Your Brother Cathy Hapka 2nd - 4th Last Day of School Louise Borden 2nd - 4th Magic Bone Nancy Krulik 2nd - 4th Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales Larry Evans 2nd - 4th Seldovia Sam and the Blueberry Bear Susan Woodward Springer 2nd - 4th

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The Bad Guys Aaron Blabey 2nd - 4th The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse Bruce Hale 2nd - 4th The Eagles are Back Jean Craighead George 2nd - 4th The Value of Believing in Yourself Spencer Johnson & Steve Pileggi 2nd - 4th The Wolves in the Walls Neil Gaiman 2nd - 4th Third Grade Angels Jerry Spinelli 2nd - 4th What If There Were No Bees? Suzanne Slade 2nd - 4th 14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy 2nd - 5th A Mountain Alphabet Margriet Ruurs 2nd - 5th All About Sam Lois Lowry 2nd - 5th A President from Hawaii Joanna Carolan, Dr. Terry Carolan 2nd - 5th An Outlaw Thanksgiving Emily Arnold McCully 2nd - 5th Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School series Andrew Clements 2nd - 5th Boxcar Children series Gertrude Chandler Warner 2nd - 5th Cabin Creek Mysteries Kristiana Gregory 2nd - 5th Cam Jansen mysteries David Adler 2nd - 5th Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 2nd - 5th Dodsworth series Tim Egan 2nd - 5th Dogs in the Dead of Night (Magic Tree House: Merlin Mary Pope Osborne 2nd - 5th Missions) Don't Read This Book Whatever You Do Kalli Dakos 2nd - 5th Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson 2nd - 5th Geronimo Stilton books Elisabetta Dami 2nd - 5th Henry's Freedom Box Ellen Levine 2nd - 5th How to Be Cool in the Third Grade Betsy Duffey 2nd - 5th If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand Kalli Dakos 2nd - 5th Just a Dream Chris Van Allsburg 2nd - 5th My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Mo O’Hara 2nd - 5th Nim's Island Wendy Orr 2nd - 5th Nubs: Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle Brian Dennis 2nd - 5th Paddington collection Michael Bond 2nd - 5th Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 2nd - 5th Shoeshine Girl Clyde Robert Bulla 2nd - 5th Storm Run Libby Riddles 2nd - 5th The Children Who Smelled a Rat Allan Ahlberg 2nd - 5th The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl 2nd - 5th The Gaskitts series Alan Ahlberg 2nd - 5th The Houdini Box Brian Selznick 2nd - 5th The Lemonade War Jacqueline Davis 2nd - 5th 22

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The Littles John Peterson 2nd - 5th The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2nd - 5th The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo 2nd - 5th Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Tim Tingle 2nd - 6th Freedom Overboard (Return to Titanic) series Steve Brezenoff 2nd - 6th Owls in the Family Farley Mowat 2nd - 6th Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff Robert Paul Weston 2nd - 6th Sheep Valerie Hobbs 2nd - 6th The Composition Antonio Skarmeta 2nd - 6th The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 2nd - 6th Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 2nd+ Boy of a Thousand Faces Brian Selznick 2nd+ Choose Your Own Adventure series R. A. Montgomery 2nd+ Crimebiters series Tommy Greenwald 2nd+ Sheltie the Hero Peter Clover 3rd Lion, Tiger, and Bear Kate Ritchey 3rd - 4th The Lucky Baseball Bat Matt Christopher 3rd - 4th A Giraffe and a Half Shel Silverstein 3rd - 5th A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein 3rd - 5th A Pup in King Arthur's Court (Adventures of Wishbone) Joanne Barkan 3rd - 5th Bill Peet books Bill Peet 3rd - 5th Christmas Day in the Morning Pearl S. Buck 3rd - 5th Class Dismissed Allan Woodrow 3rd - 5th Dolphin Adventure: A True Story Wayne Grover 3rd - 5th Dragonsdale Salamanda Drake 3rd - 5th Gandhi Demi 3rd - 5th Gooseberry Park Cynthia Rylant 3rd - 5th Hank the Cowdog series John R. Erickson 3rd - 5th Hank Zipzer series Henry Winkler 3rd - 5th Beverly Cleary 3rd - 5th How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Cowell 3rd - 5th I Survived series Lauren Tarshis 3rd - 5th Once Upon an Ordinary School Day Colin McNaughton 3rd - 5th Pony Pal series Jeanne Betancourt 3rd - 5th Ralph and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary 3rd - 5th Scary Tales series James Preller 3rd - 5th Strawberry Casey Bartsch 3rd - 5th Strudel’s Forever Home Martha Freeman 3rd - 5th 23

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The Backward Bird Dog Bill Wallace 3rd - 5th The Best Halloween Ever Barbara Robinson 3rd - 5th The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks 3rd - 5th The Trouble with Miss Switch Barbara Brooks Wallace 3rd - 5th American Tall Tales Mary Pope Osborne 3rd - 6th Archimedes (Great Names) Susan Keating 3rd - 6th Bailey's Story: A Dog's Purpose Novel W. Bruce Cameron 3rd - 6th Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 3rd - 6th Coal Camp Girl Lois Lenski 3rd - 6th Coraline Neil Gaiman 3rd - 6th Frindle Andrew Clements 3rd - 6th Guys Read series Jon Scieszka 3rd - 6th House of Robots James Patterson 3rd - 6th In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord 3rd - 6th Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Jon Scieszka 3rd - 6th Growing Up Longwalker's Journey Beatrice Harrell 3rd - 6th Louis Armstrong Sandford Brown 3rd - 6th Melonhead and the Big Stink Katy Kelly 3rd - 6th No Talking Andrew Clements 3rd - 6th Sacagawea: Native American Hero William Reynolds Sanford 3rd - 6th Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 3rd - 6th Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner 3rd - 6th The Frog Princess E. D. Baker 3rd - 6th The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle 3rd - 6th Where are the Great Pyramids and Thomas Hoobler 3rd - 6th A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck 3rd - 7th Alexander the Great Demi 3rd - 7th Almost Starring Skinnybones Barbara Park 3rd - 7th Because of Mr. Terupt Rob Buyea 3rd - 7th Ben Franklin's Big Splash Barb Rosenstock 3rd - 7th Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th Boys Against Girls Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3rd - 7th Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis 3rd - 7th Bunnicula series Deborah Howe 3rd - 7th Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink 3rd - 7th Call it Courage Armstrong Sperry 3rd - 7th Can You Survive the Titanic?: An Interactive Survival Allison Lassieur 3rd - 7th Adventure 24

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th Charlotte's Web E. B. White 3rd - 7th Chocolate Fever Robert Kimmel Smith 3rd - 7th Danny the Champion of the World Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri and Edward Parin d’Aulaire 3rd - 7th Deadtime Stories Annette Cascone, Gina Cascone 3rd - 7th Dear America: With the Might of Angels Andrea Davis Pinkney 3rd - 7th Dial-A-Ghost Eva Ibbotson 3rd - 7th Double Fudge Judy Blume 3rd - 7th Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th Fortunately, the Milk Neil Gaiman 3rd - 7th Francis and Eddie: The True Story of America's Underdogs Brad Herzog 3rd - 7th Freedom Run Jim Riggs 3rd - 7th From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg 3rd - 7th Fudge-a-Mania Judy Blume 3rd - 7th Genius Files Dan Gutman 3rd - 7th Goosebumps series R. L. Stine 3rd - 7th Hardy Boys mysteries Franklin W. Dixon 3rd - 7th Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 3rd - 7th Heidi Johanna Spyri 3rd - 7th Homer Price Robert McClosky 3rd - 7th How to Break a Dragon's Heart Cressida Cowell 3rd - 7th How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell 3rd - 7th How to Steal a Dog Barbara O'Connor 3rd - 7th Hotel For Dogs 3rd - 7th Humphrey series Betty G. Birney 3rd - 7th I, Galileo Bonnie Christensen 3rd - 7th Into the Killing Seas Michael P. Spradlin 3rd - 7th Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell 3rd - 7th Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk Liesl Shurtliff 3rd - 7th Jacob's Rescue Malka Drucker 3rd - 7th John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist Kathryn Lasky 3rd - 7th Kenny and the Dragon Tony DiTerlizzi 3rd - 7th Land of Stories series Chris Colfer 3rd - 7th Life of a Fifth Grade Comedian Elizabeth Levy 3rd - 7th Little House series Laura Ingalls Wilder 3rd - 7th Loser Jerry Spinelli 3rd - 7th Magic Tree House (series/chapter books) Mary Pope Osborne 3rd - 7th Matilda Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th 25

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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Charlotte Foltz Jones 3rd - 7th Came to Be Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry 3rd - 7th Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary 3rd - 7th My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George 3rd - 7th Nancy Drew mysteries Carolyn Keene 3rd - 7th Old Wolf Avi 3rd - 7th On the Far Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George 3rd - 7th One Hen Katie Smith Milway 3rd - 7th Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Judy Blume 3rd - 7th Pick of the Litter Bill Wallace 3rd - 7th Pleasing the Ghost Sharon Creech 3rd - 7th Powerless (Supers of Noble's Green) Matthew Cody 3rd - 7th Ralph Mouse books Beverly Cleary 3rd - 7th series Beverly Cleary 3rd - 7th Rascal Sterling North 3rd - 7th Ribsy Beverly Cleary 3rd - 7th Riding Freedom Pam Munoz Ryan 3rd - 7th Saving Zasha Randi Barrow 3rd - 7th Savvy Ingrid Law 3rd - 7th Serafina series Robert Beatty 3rd - 7th Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3rd - 7th Shiloh Season Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3rd - 7th Sideways Stories from Wayside School Louis Sachar 3rd - 7th Skinnybones Barbara Park 3rd - 7th Something Upstairs Avi 3rd - 7th Soup Robert Newton Peck 3rd - 7th Space Case Stuart Gibbs 3rd - 7th E.B. White 3rd - 7th Superfudge Judy Blume 3rd - 7th Swindle Mystery series Gordon Korman 3rd - 7th Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume 3rd - 7th The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson 3rd -7th The BFG Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th The Boys Start the War Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3rd - 7th The Chocolate Touch Patrick Skene Catlling 3rd - 7th The City of Ember Jeanne DuPrau 3rd - 7th The Forgotten Door Alexander Key 3rd - 7th The Girls Get Even Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3rd - 7th 26

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick 3rd - 7th The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Louise Borden 3rd - 7th Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Rodman Philbrick 3rd - 7th The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 3rd - 7th The Pepins and Their Problems Polly Horvath 3rd - 7th The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 3rd - 7th The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry 3rd - 7th The Spiderwick Chronicles Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi 3rd - 7th The Trumpet of the Swan E. B. White 3rd - 7th The View at the Zoo Kathleen Long Bostrom 3rd - 7th The Wild Robot Peter Brown 3rd - 7th The Witches Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th The Worst Best Halloween Ever Barbara Robinson 3rd - 7th The Worst Best School Year Ever Barbara Robinson 3rd - 7th Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer John Grisham 3rd - 7th Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett 3rd - 7th Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth Lloyd Alexander 3rd - 7th Titanic: Young Survivors Allan Zullo 3rd - 7th Treasure Hunters series James Patterson 3rd - 7th Troublemaker Andrew Clements 3rd - 7th Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz 3rd - 7th Trouble River Betsy Byars 3rd - 7th When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 3rd - 7th Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 3rd - 7th Who Was Ben Franklin? Dennis Brindell Fradlin 3rd - 7th Wild Life Cynthia DeFelice 3rd - 7th Wonder R. J. Palacio 3rd - 7th James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 3rd - 7th Maysie, Rosie and Earl Barbara Park 3rd - 7th Adventures of Jimmy Skunk Thornton W. Burgess 3rd - 8th Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) Margaret Peterson Haddix 3rd - 8th Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 3rd - 8th Old Mother West Wind series Thornton W. Burgess 3rd - 8th Scottish Fairy Tales Donald A. Mackenzie 3rd - 8th The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman 3rd - 8th The Wonderful Wizard of L. Frank Baum 3rd - 8th Winnie the Pooh books A. A. Milne 3rd - 8th A Tale Dark and Grimm Adam Gidwitz 3rd+ 27

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Raven Hill Mysteries #5: Dirty Tricks Emily Rodda 4th - 7th Rush Revere series Rush Limbaugh 4th - 7th Shoebag Mary James 4th - 7th The Best of Girls to the Rescue Bruce Lansky (editor) 4th - 7th Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Michael O. Tunnell 4th - 7th Pilot" The Ghost's Grave Peg Kehret 4th - 7th The Kid Who Became President Dan Gutman 4th - 7th The Kid Who Ran for President Dan Gutman 4th - 7th The My Life series Janet Tashjian 4th - 7th There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Louis Sachar 4th - 7th Took: A Ghost Story Mary Downing Hahn 4th - 7th Dork Diaries Rachel Renee Russell 4th - 8th Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 4th - 8th Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis 4th - 8th The Door in the Wall Marguerite de Angeli 4th - 8th Voyage of the Dawn Trader C. S. Lewis 4th - 8th A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket 4th+ Black Beauty Anna Sewell 4th+ Canyon Winter Walt Morey 4th+ John Adams David McCullough 4th+ King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Roger Lancelyn Green 4th+ My Life in Dog Years Gary Paulsen 4th+ Pink & Say Patricia Polacco 4th+ The River Gary Paulsen 4th+ Danger in the Desert T. S. Fields 5th - 7th Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles Patricia C. Wrede 5th - 7th Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Bruce Coville 5th - 7th Mary Poppins P.L. Travers 5th - 7th Number the Stars Lois Lowry 5th - 7th The Fourteenth Goldfish Jennifer L. Holm 5th - 7th Wait Till Helen Comes Mary Downing Hahn 5th - 7th A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park 5th - 8th A Mango-Shaped Space Wendy Mass 5th - 8th Charlie Skedaddle Patricia Beatty 5th - 8th Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney 5th - 8th Ring of Fire Pierdomenico Baccalario 5th - 8th Shawnee Captive Mary R. Furbee 5th - 8th Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare 5th - 8th 29

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