K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

1984 Orwell, George 9

10 for Dinner Bogart, Jo Ellen 3

100 Book Race: Hog Wild in the Reading Room, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 1

1000 Acres, A Knoph, Alfred A. 12 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids, The Ultimate Fonseca, Christina 6 Handbook (BOE approved April 2014) 11 Birthdays Mass, Wendy 4

12 Ways to Get to 11 Merriam, Eve 2

2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 6

2002: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 6

2061: Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur 6

26 Fairmount Avenue dePaola, Tomie 2

4 Valentines In A Rainstorm Bond, Felicia 1

5th of March Rinaldi, Ann 5 6 Titles: Eagles, Bees and Wasps, Alligators and Crocodiles, Morgan, Sally 1 Giraffes, Sharks, Tortoises and Turtles 79-Squares Bosse, Malcolm 6

A Likely Place Fox, Paula 4

A Night to Remember Lord, Waler 6

A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust 1933-1945 Chaikin, Miriam 5

A, My Name Is Alice Bayer, Jane 2

Abandoned Puppy Costello, Emily 3

Abby My Love Irwin, Hadley 6

ABC Bunny, The Gag, Wanda 1

Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington Harness, Cheryl 2

Abe Lincoln Grows Up Sandburg, Carl 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 1 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Abe Lincoln's Hat Brenner, Martha 2

Abel's Island Steig, William 3

Abigail Adams, Girl of Colonial Days Wagoner, Jean Brown 2

Abraham Lincoln Cashore, Kristen 2

Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer, Leader, Legend Fontes, Justine & Ron 2

Abraham Lincoln: Great Man, Great Words Cashore, Kristen 5

Abraham Lincoln: Our 16th President Luciano, Barbara L. 4

Absolutely Almost (BOE approved Nov 2015) Graff, Lisa 6

Absolutely Normal Chaos Creech, Sharon 4

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The (BOE Alexie, Sherman 10 Approved Apr 2016) Accident, The Carrick, Carol 3

Accident, The Strasser, Todd 6

Accidental Tourist, The Tyler, Anne 9

Acids and Bases Baldwin, Carol 8

Acorn People Jones, Ron 6

Across China Jenkins, Peter 8

Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene 5

Across the Stream Ginsburg, Mirra 1

Across the Wild River Gutman, Bill 4

Adam of the Road Grey, Elizabeth Jane 6

Addie Across the Prairie Lawler, Laurie 4

Adrift:Seventy-Six Days Lost At Sea Callahan, Steven 6

Adventure in Alaska Kramer, Sydelle 3

Adventure in the Haunted House McBrier, Page 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 2 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Adventure of Backyard Sleepout McArthur, Nancy 3 Adventure of the Bailey School Kids: Dragons Don’t Cook Dadey, Debbie 2 Pizza Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein, The Hurwitz, Johanna 2

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 9

Adventures of Isabel, The Nash, Ogden 2

Adventures of Johnny May Branscum, Robbie 6

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Author Conan 6 Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Zombies Don’t Play Dadey, Debbie 3 Soccer Adventures of Tom Sawyer* Twain, Mark 6

Adventures of Ulysses Evslin, Benard 6

Aeneid of Virgil Mandelbaum, Virgil and Allen 9

Aesop's Fables Watson, Carol 3

African Folktales Abrahams, Roger 8

African Poison Murders Huxley, Elspeth 8

After the Bomb Miklowitz, Gloria 6

After the Bomb: Week One Miklowitz, Gloria 6

After the Dancing Days Rostkowski, Margaret 6

After the First Death* Cormier, Robert 6

After the Rain Mazer, Norma Fox 6

Afternoon of the Elves Lisle, Janet Taylor 4

Ah, Wilderness & Two Other Plays O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone 9

A-Hunting We Will Go Langstaff, John 1

Air is All Around Us Branley, Franklyn 1

Al Capone Does My Shirts (BOE approved April 2014) Choldenko, Gennifer 4

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 3 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Alas Babylon Frank, Pat 9

Albert the Alabatross Hoff, Syd 1

Albert the Running Bear Gets the Jitters Isenberg, Barbara 1

Albert's Toothache Williams, Barbara 2

Alchemist, The (BOE Approved April 2015) Coelho, Paulo 9

Aldo Applesauce Hurwitz, Johanna 3

Aleutian Sparrow Hesse, Karen 6

Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand (BOE approved Nov 2015)Scott, Liz and Jay 1

Alexander & The Terrible Horrible No Good… Viorst, Judith 1

Alexander & The Wind-Up Mouse Lionni, Leo 1

Alexander Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Viorst, Judith 2 Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Viorst, Judith 1 (BOE approved Nov 2015) Alice in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 9

Aliens for Breakfast Spinner, Stephanie 2

Alison’s Wings, 1996 Bauer, Marion Dane K

Alistair's Elephant Sadler, Marilyn 1

All About Alligators Arnosky, Jim 2

All About Deserts: The Question and Answer Book Sanders, John 3

All About Seeds Kuchalla, Susan K

All About Seeds Berger, Melvin 2

All By Myself Mayer, Mercer 1

All Creatures Great & Small* Herriot, James 6

All Keyed Up Christopher, Matt 1

All My Sons Miller, Arthur 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 4 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

All My Toys Are On The Floor Blocksma, M. 1

All New Jonah Twist Honeycutt, N. 3

All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, E. 9

All the King's Men Warren, R.P. 9

All Things Bright & Beautiful Herriot, James 9

Alligator Shoes Dorros, Arthur 1

Alligator With The Lean Mean Smile Nordlicht, Lillian 1

Alligators and Crocodiles Stone, Lynn 3

All-of-A-Kind Family Taylor, Sydney 4

All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare, William 9

Almost Starring Skinnybones Park, Barbara 4

Along the Dangerous Trail Gutman, Bill 4

Alpha Kids Series Sundance Publishers K

Alphabatics MacDonald, Suse 1

Always Inventing: The True Story of Thomas Alva Edison Murphy, Frank 2

Always Room for One More Leodhas, Sorche Nic 2

Amanda Pig & Her Big Brother Oliver Van Leeuwen, Jean 1

Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman Zindel, Paul 6

Amazing Bats Greenway, Frank 3

Amazing Bears Greenway, T. 3

Amazing Birds Parsons, Alexandra 3

Amazing Bone Steig, William 3

Amazing Butterflies and Moths Still, John 3

Amazing Crocodiles and Reptiles Ling, Mary 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 5 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, The Mazer, Anne 3

Amazing Gorillas! (BOE approved Nov 2015) Thomson, Sarah L. 1

Amazing Lizards Smith, Trevor 3

Amazing Mark Supraner, Robyn 1

Amazing Monkeys Steedman, Scott 3

Amazing Power of Ashur Fine, The Sobol, Donald 4

Amazing Rescues Shea, George 2

Amazing Sharks Thomson, Sarah L. 1

Amazing Snakes Parsons, Alexandra 3

Amazing Spiders Parsons, Alexandra 3

Amazing World of Butterflies and Moths Sabin, Louis 3

Amazing World of Spiders Craig, Janet 2

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon Danziger, Paula 2

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Ryan, Pam Munoz 4

Amelia Bedelia Series Parish, Peggy and Herman 1

Amelia Earhart Parlin, John 9

America’s History Bernstein, Vivian 8

America’s Story Bernstein, Vivian 8

American Dream, The Albee, Edward 9

American Dreams: Lost and Found Terkel, Studs 9

American Girls Series Shaw-Adler-Tripp 4

American Holiday (10 book set) (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Nelson, Robin 1

Amigo Baylor, Byrd 2

Amigo Means Friend Everett, Louise 1

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Aminal, The Balian, Lorna & Lecia 1

Among the Hidden, 1998* Haddix, Margaret Peterson 4

Amos & Boris Steig, William 2

Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth 5

Amphibians Are Animals Holloway, Judith K

An American Childhood Dillard, Annie 9

An Elf for Christmas Hollands, Judith 2

An End to Perfect Newton, Suzanne 6

An Enemy of the People Ibsen, Henrik 9

An Even Break Hite, Sid 5

An Extraordinary Egg Lionni, Leo K

Anansi the Spider McDermott, G. 2

Anastasia Again Lowry, Lois 6

Anastasia Ask Your Analyst Lowry, Lois 6

Anastasia At Your Service Lowry, Lois 6

Anastasia Has the Answers Lowry, Lois 6

Anastasia Krupnik Lowry, Lois 3

Anastasia on Her Own Lowry, Lois 6

Anastasia's Chosen Career Lowry, Lois 6

Anazi & The Moss-Covered Rock Kimmel, Eric 1 Deady, Kathleen W. Ancient China 6 DuBois, Muriel L. DuBois Ancient Egypt Deady, Kathleen W. 6

Ancient Greece Covert, Kim 6

Ancient One, The Baron, T.A. 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 7 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Ancient Rome DuBois, Muriel L. 6

And Both Were Young L'Engle, Madeleine 6

And I Mean It, Stanley Bonsall, Crosby 1

And Now Miguel Krumgold, Joseph 5

And One For All Nelson, Theresa 6

And Then There Were None* Christie, Agatha 6

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Fritz, Jean 4

And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry St. Seuss, Dr. 1

Androcles & the Lion Shaw, George Benard 9

Andy Pig's Great Flying Adventure Koci, Marta 1

Anelina Ballerina Holabird, Katharine 2

Angel Child, Dragon Child Surat, Michele Marie 2

Angus Series Flack, Marjorie 1

Animal Ark Series Baglio, Ben 2

Animal Defenses Grambo, Rebecca 3

Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara 11

Animal Families Feinstein, J. 1

Animal Farm* (BOE approved October 2013) Orwell, George 7

Animal Inn Vail, Virginia 3

Animal Strike at the Zoo Wilson, Karma K

Animal, the Vegetable & John D. Jones Byars, Betsy 4

Animals Carle, Eric K

Animals At Night Peters, Ralph K

Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People Barrett, Judi 1

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Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Barrett, Judi 1

Anna Banana And Me Blegvad, Lenore 1

Anna to the Infinite Power Ames, Mildred 6

Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner Schwartz, Amy 1

Anna's Garden Songs Steele, Mary Q. 2

Anne Frank Remembered Gies, Miep 6

Anne Frank:Diary of a Young Girl Frank, Ann 6

Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, Lucy Maud 5

Annie and the Old One Miles, Miska 2

Annie Bananie Komaiko, Leah 1

Annie John Kincaid, Jamaica 6

Anno's Journey (BOE approved Nov 2015) Anno, Mitsumasa K

Another Orphan Kessel, John 9 Another Point of View Series The Little Red Hen/ Help Granowsky, Alvin 2 Yourself Little Red Hen Ant and The Dove, The Aesop 1 Ant and the Grasshopper, The: An Aesop's Fable Paxton, Tom K (BOE approved Nov 2015) Antarctica Cowcher, Helen 2

Antarctica Land of Endless Water George, Michael 3

Anteater Named Arthur Waber, Benard 2

Anthem Rand, Ayn 9

Antigone Sophocles 9

Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William 9

Anything To Win Miklowitz, Gloria 6

Apple Tree, Apple Tree Blocksma, Mary 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 9 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

April Morning* Fast, Howard 8

April Rabbits Cleveland, David 1

April’s Kitten Newberry, Clare 2

Apt. 3 Keats, Ezra Jack 2 Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind Wiles, Sara 9 River Reservation (BOE Approved Nov 2014 ) Archer's Goon Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Archy's Life of Mehitable Marquis, Don 9

Arctic and Antarctic Regions Sabin, Francene 4

Are You There Bear? Maris, Ron 1

Arm of the Starfish L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Armies of Ants Retan, Walter 2

Arrowsmith Lewis, Sinclair 9

Art of Keeping Cool, The Lisle, Janet Taylor 7

Arthur Meets the President Brown, Marc 2

Arthur Series Brown, Marc 1

Arthur Series Hoban, Lillian 1

Arthur’s Teacher Trouble Brown, Marc 2

Arthur's Birthday Brown, Marc 2

Arthur's Pet Business Brown, Marc 2

As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William 9

As You Like It Shakespeare, William 9

Ask Me No Questions Schlee, Ann 6

Ask Mr. Bear Flack, Marjorie 1

Assistant, The Malamud, Bernard 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 10 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices (BOE approved Nov 2015)Peacock, Louise 3

At Home in the Rain Forest (BOE Approved April 2013) Willow, Diane 2

At Mary Bloom's Aliki 1

At the Seashore Schwartz, David M. 3

Atami Dragons Klass, David 6

Athletic Shorts Crutcher, Chris 8

Atlantis, The Lost City Donklin, Andrew 4

Attaboy, Sam! Lowry, Lois 2

Aunt Clara Brown, Official Pioneer Lowery, Linda 3

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky Ringgold, Faith 5

Australia Santrey, Laurence 2

Autobiography of Ben Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 9

Autumn Leaves are Falling Fleming, Maria K

Autumn Street Lowry, Lois 5

Avalanche Roth, Arthur 4

Avalanche! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2

Babar and The Ghost Brunhoff, Laurent de 1

Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 9

Babe: The Gallant Pig King-Smith, Dick 2

Baby Alligator Clarke, Ginger L. 3

Baby Animals Kuchalla, Susan K

Baby Animals Learn Chanko, Pamela 1

Baby Whales Drink Milk Esbensen, Barbara Juster K

Baby Who Got All the Blame, The Nelson, JoAnne 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 11 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Baby Zoo Animals Kaufman, Elizabeth 2

Babysitters Little Sister #1 “Karen’s Witch” Martin, Ann M. 3

Babysitting Is A Dangerous Job Roberts, Willo Davis 5

Back Home Magorian, Michelle 6

Back to Paul Revere Gormley, Beatrice 4

Back to the Day Lincoln was Shot Gormley, Beatrice 4

Back Yard Tent Daniel, Kira 1

Bad Bear Ahlberg, Allan. 1

Bad Case of Stripes, A Shannon, David K

Badger in the Basement Baglio, Ben 4

Badger On the Barge Howker, Janni 6

Bag Full of Pups Gackenbach, Dick 1

Bag of Smiles, The Cowley, Joy 1

Bagthorpes Abroad Cresswell, Helen 6

Bagthorpes Haunted Cresswell, Helen 6

Bagthorpes Unlimited Cresswell, Helen 6

Bagthorpes Vs the World Cresswell, Helen 6

Bah! Humbug? Balian, Lorna 2

Ballad of the Civil War, A Stolz, Mary 3

Balto and the Great Race Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody 3

Banana Twist Heide, Florence Parry 4

Banner In the Sky Ullman, James Ramsey 6

Banza Wolkstein, Diane 2

Barefoot – Escape on the Underground Railroad Duncan, Pamela 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 12 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Barn Cat Saul, Carol P. K

Barn, The 1994 Avi 3

Barnetts, The Eggleton, Jill 1

Barry the Bravest Saint Bernard Hall, Lynn 2

Bartholomew and The Oobleck Seuss, Dr. 1

Baseball Ballerina Cristaldi, Kathryn 1

Baseball Counting Book, The McGrath, Barbara Barbieri 2

Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki, Ken 3

Basil Series Titus, Eve 2

Bat Loves the Night (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Davies, Nicola 2

Bat Zamboree Appelt, Kathi 2

Bathing Ugly Busselle, Rebecca 6

Bats Althea 1

Battle of the Class Clowns Baer, Jacqueline A. 2

Battle Off Midway Island Taylor, Theodore 6

Battles of Lexington and Concord, The Peacock, Judith 4

Be A Perfect Person In Just 3 Days Manes, Stephen 3

Bea & Mr.Jones Schwartz, Amy 2

Bean Trees, The Kingsolver, Barbara 9

Bear and the Fly, The Winter, Paula K

Bear Ate Your Sandwich, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Sarcone-Roach, Julia K

Bear Called Paddington Bond, Michael 3

Bear Facts Gentner, Norma L. 1

Bear Shadow Asch, Frank K

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 13 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Bear’s Busy Year, 1990 Leonard, Marcia K

Bear’s New Friend Wilson, Karma K

Beardance Hobbs, Will 4

Bearing an Hourglass Anthony, Piers 9

Bears Kuchalla, Susan K

Bears Krauss, Ruth 1

Bears 1,2,3 Ziefert, Harriet 1

Bears Are Curious Milton, Joyce 1

Bears on Hemlock Mountain Dalgliesh, Alice 2

Bears, Bears and More Bears Morris, Jackie 1

Bears, Bears Everywhere Connelly, Luella 1

Bears's Toothache McPhail, David 1

Bearstone Hobbs, Will 4

Beast & The Halloween Horror Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Beast in Ms Rooney's Room, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Beast in the Bathtub Stevens, Kathleen 1

Beats Me, Claude Nixon, Joan Lowery 2

Beautiful Christmas Tree Zolotow, Charlotte 3

Beauty and the Beast Various Authors 3

Beauty:Retelling of Beauty & the Beast McKinley, Robin 6

Because of Mr. Terupt (BOE Approved April 2014) Buyea, Rob 6

Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo, Kate 3

Becket Anouilh, Jean 9

Bedford Reader, The (4th Short Edition) Kennedy, X J 11

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 14 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Bedtime for Bear Stoddard, Sandol 1

Bedtime For Frances Hoban, Russell K

Beetles Watts, Barrie 1

Beetles, Lightly Toasted Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 5

Beezus & Ramona Cleary, Beverly 2

Begger Queen Alexander, Lloyd 6

Begin at the Beginning Schwartz, Amy 1

Begonia for Miss Applebaum, A Zindel,Paul 6

Behind Rebel Lines Reit, Seymour 5

Behind the Attic Wall Cassidy, Sylvia 5

Bell Jar, The Plath, Sylvia 9

Beloved Marrison, Toni 11 H

Ben and Me Lawson, Robert 3

Ben and The Bear Riddell, Chris 1

Ben and the Porcupine Carrick, Carol 3

Ben Franklin and the Magic Square Murphy, Frank 2

Benjamin & Tulip Wells, Rosemary 2

Benjamin Franklin Roop, Peter and Connie 3

Benjamin Franklin Davidson, Margaret 4

Benji the Bug Olson, Marjorie 1

Benjy & the Power of Zingies Van Leeuwen, Jean 4

Benny's Bad Day Pellowski, Michael 1

Beowulf Anonymus 9

Berenstain Bear Series Berenstain, Stan 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 15 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Berenstain Bear’s New Pup, The Berenstain, Stan K

Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The (BOE approved Nov Berenstain, Stan & Jan 1 2015) Bermuda Triangle Donkin, Andrew 3

Bess’s Log Cabin Quilt Love, D. Anne 3

Best Bug Parade, The Murphy Stuart Y. 1

Best Castle Ever, The Ziefert, Harriet 1

Best Christmas Pageant Ever Robinson, Barbara 3

Best Dressed Bear, The Blocksma, Mary 1

Best Enemies Leverich, Kathleen 2

Best Friends Hollaner, Cass 2

Best Friends Kellogg, Steven 2

Best Friends Albright, Molly 3

B-e-s-t Friends Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Best Little Girl in the World Levenkron, Steven 6

Best Little Monkeys in the World Standiford, Natalie 1

Best of Friends, The Rostkowski, Margaret 6

Best Teacher in the World Chardie, Bernice 2

Best Thanksgiving Book Whitehead, Patricia 1

Best Town in the World, The Baylor, Byrd 2

Betsy & the Circus Haywood, Carolyn 2

Beyond Safe Boundaries Sacks, Margaret 6

Beyond the Burning Lands Christopher, John 6

Beyond the Chocolate War Cormier, Robert 6

Beyond the Divide Lasky, Kathryn 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 16 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

BFG Dahl, Roald 3

Bhavagad-Gita Anonymus 9

Bible As History Keller, Werner 8

Bible, The 9

Big Bad Bruce Peet, Bill 3

Big Balloon Race Coerr, Eleanor 1

Big Bird Says Lerner, Sharon 1

Big Block of Chocolate, The Redhead, Janet 1

Big Bunny & the Magic Show Kroll, Steven 3 Masestro, Betsy Big City Port 2 Delvecchio, Ellen Big Fat Enormous Lie Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 1

Big Fat Hen Daxer, Keith 1

Big Fat Pie Edwards, Pat 1

Big Mamma's Crews, Donald 2

Big Max Platt, Kin 1

Big Orange Splot Pinkwater, D. Manus 1

Big Red Kjelgaard, Jim 4

Big Red Apple Johnston, Tony K

Big Red Barn Brown, Margaret Wise 1

Big Shark’s Lost Tooth Metzger, Steve K

Big Snow, The Hader, Berta K

Big Something, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Giff, Patricia Reilly 1

Big Tree Buff, Conrad 5

Big Wave, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Buck, Pearl S. 3*

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Bigger Book of Lydia Willey, Margaret 6

Bigger Giant, The Green, Nancy 2

Biggest Bear, The Ward, Lynd 1

Biggest Cookie in the World, The Hayward, Linda 1

Biggest Pumpkin Ever Kroll, Steven 3

Bill and Pete dePaola, Tomie 1

Bill Peet: an autobiography Peet, Bill 5

Billy Budd and Other Stories Melville, Herman 9

Billy Jo Jive, Super Private Eye Shearer, John 2

Billy the Bird King-Smith, Dick 2

Bingo Brown & The Language of Love Byars, Betsy 5

Binky Bros, Detectives Lawrence, James 1

Binky Brothers & the Fearless Four Lawrence, James 3

Bird Watch Jennings, Terry K

Birds Kuchalla, Susan K

Birds Canizares, Susan 1

Birds (Now I Know) Kuchalla, Susan 1

Birds Nests Curran, Eileen K

Birds, The Aristophanes 9

Birds-Life Cycle Books Braithwaite, Althea 1

Birthday Party, The Pinter, Harold 9

Birthday Present for Mama Lorian, Nicole 1

Black Bear Adventures Hansen, Mary Lewis 3

Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 4

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Black Boy Wright, Richard 9

Black Cauldron Alexander, Lloyd 6

Black Elk Speaks Neihardt, John 9

Black Like Me Griffin, John Howard 9

Black Pearl O'Dell, Scott 5

Black Stallion Farley, Walter 4

Black Star, Bright Dawn* O'Dell, Scott 5

Blackberries in the Dark Jukes, Mavis 3

Blackbird's Nest Harvey, Olive 1

Blair's Nightmare Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5

Bless Me Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo 9

Bless the Beasts & the Children Swarthout, Glendon 9

Blessing Way Hillerman, Tony 9

Blind Flight Milton, Hilary 3

Blind Outlaw Rounds, Glen 3

Blitzcat Westall, Robert 6

Blizzard! Snowstorm Fury Turck, Mary C. 2

Blizzard’s Wake Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis 5

Blood & Thunder Adventures On Hurrican Peak Mahy, Margaret 6

Blood Brothers: Four Men of Science Sterne, Emma Gelders 5

Blood on the River (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Carbone, Elisa 5

Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond, The Woods, Brenda 6

Blubber Blume, Judy 4

Blue and the Gray, The Bunting, Eve 5

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Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Heat Moon, William Least 9

Blue Hill Meadows, The Rylant, Cynthia 2

Blue or Gray? A Family Divided Connell, Kate 5

Blue Ridge Summer Naice, M. 4

Blue Sword McKinley, Robin 6

Blue Willow Gates, Doris 5

Blueberries For Sal McCloskey, Robert 1

Blue-Eyed Daisy Rylant, Cynthia 6

Bluest Eye, The * Morrison, Toni 11

Boa Constrictors Bargar & Johnson 2

Boat to No Where, A Wartski, Maureen Crane 6

Boat to Nowhere Wartski, Maureen Crane 5

Bobbsey Twins, Mystery On the Mississippi Hope, Laura Lee 3

Bobby's Zoo Lunn, Carolyn 1

Bobsledding and the Luge Brimner, Larry Dane 2

Body Facts Drew, David 2

Body Maps Drew, David 3

Bollo Caper Buchwald, Art 5

Bony-Legs Cole, Joanna 1

Book About Planets & Stars Reigot, Betty Polisar 2

Book About Your Skeleton, A Gross, Ruth Belor 4

Book of Animal Records, The Drew, David 1

Book of Three Alexander, Lloyd 6

Book Report from the Black Lagoon (BOE approved April 2014) Thaler, Mike 1

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Book Thief, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Zusak, Markus 7

Boom Town, 1998 Levitin, Sonia K

Born Free Adamson, Joy 6

Born Into Light Jacobs, Paul Samuel 6

Borrowed Children Lyon, George 6

Borrowers, The Norton, Mary 4

Boss For a Week Handy, Libby 2

Boston Coffee Party, The Rappaport, Doreen 3

Boston Tea Party, The Furstinger, Nancy 4

Boundary Waters Nichols, James 6

Boxcar Children Warner, Gertrude Chandler 2

Boy and the Ghost, The San Souci, Robert 2

Boy in the Doghouse, A , (1991) Duffey, Betsy 2

Boy in the Off White Hat Hall, Lynn 6

Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Boyne, John 7

Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Littledale, Freya 2

Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, The (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Kamkwamba, William 9

Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, The; (picture book)(BOE Kamkwamba, William 4 Approved Apr 2016) Boy Who Remembered Everything Abbott, Jennie 5

Boy Who Reversed Himself, The Sleator, William 6

Boy who Saved Baseball, The Ritter, John 4

Boy Who Spoke Chimp, The Yolen, Jane 3

Boy Who Wanted a Family, The Gordon, Shirley 3

Boy: Tales of Childhood (BOE Approved October 2013) Dahl, Roald 6

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Brady Fritz, Jean 5 Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Appleman 11 Writing Brain on Quartz Mountain Anderson, Margaret 3

Brave Irene Steig, William 3

Brave Little Steam Shovel Evers, Alf 1

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 9

Brave New World Revisited Huxley, Aldous 9

Bravest Blacksmith, The Owens, Thomas 3

Bravest Cat!, The The True Story of Scarlett Driscoll, Laura 1

Bravest Dog Ever, The Standiford, Natalie 1

Bread & Butter Journey Colver, Anne 3

Bread and Jam for Frances Hoban, Russell 2

Breadwinner, The Ellis, Deborah 5

Break with Charity, A: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials Rinaldi, Ann 10

Bremen-Town Musicians Gross, Ruth Belov 1

Brian's Song Blinn, William 9

Brian's Winter Paulsen, Gary 5

Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder, Thornton 9

Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine 5

Bridges at Toko-Ri Michener, James 9

Bright Freedom's Song Houston, Gloria 5

Bright Shadow Thomas, Joyce 9

Brighty of the Grand Canyon Henry, Marguerite 5

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Aardema, Verna 1

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Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales, The Vuong, Lynette Dyer 6

Broccoli Tapes, The Slepian, Jan 3

Broderick Ormondroyd, Edward 2

Brontosaurus Redhead, J. 2

Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes 9

Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Martin, Bill 1

Brown Girl Dreaming Woodson, Jacqueline 6

Brown Waters, Black Berets Cutler, Thomas 8

Bubba: The Cowboy Prince Ketteman, Helen 3

Bubblegum Jorgensen, Gail 1

Buck Stops Here Provensen, Alice 2

Bud, Not Buddy Curtis, Christopher 6

Buddies Park, Barbara 6

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express Coerr, Eleanor 2

Buffalo Brenda Pinkwater, Jill 6

Buffalo Hunt Freedman, Russell 4

Buffalo Knife Steele, William O. 3

Buffalo Robe Jensen, Millie 9

Bugs McKissack, Pat Fredrick 1

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Dussling, Jennifer 2

Building Blocks Voigt, Cynthia 6

Buildings Chessen, Betsy K

Bulb, The Garrard, Ian 1

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Bull Run Fleischman, Paul 5

Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! Fritz, Jean 5

Bully of Barkham Street Stolz, Mary 5

Bully Trouble Cole, Joanna 2

Bumblebee Flies Anyway Cormier, Robert 6

Bumps In The Night Allard, Harry 2

Bunches & Bunches of Bunnies Mathews, Louise 1

Bunnicula Howe, James 2

Bunny Trouble Wilhelm, Hans 1

Bunny Who Found Easter Zolotow, Charlotte 1 Buried Bones Mystery, The (Clubhouse Mysteries #1) Draper, Sharon M. 3 (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Buried City of Pompeii, The Tanaka, Shelly 4

Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The Byars, Betsy 5

Buster Loves Buttons! Manushkin, Fran 1

Buster’s Dino Dilemma Brown, Marc 2

Busy Beavers Dabcovich, Lydia 1

Busybody Nora Hurwitz, Johanna 2

But Names Will Never Hurt Me Waber, Bernard 3

But Not Like Mine Facklam, Margery 1

But Not Stanleigh Cloven, George 1

Butter Battle Book, The Suess, Dr. 1

Butterflies Braithwaite, Althea 1

Butterflies and Moths Bailey, Donna 1

Butterfly Canizares, Susan 1

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Butterfly Revolution Butler, William 9

Butterfly, The Nash, Pamela 1

Buttermilk Cosgrove, Stephen 3

Button Box, The Reid, Margarette 2

Button Soup Disney, Walt K

Buz Egielski, Richard 2

Buzz Buzz Buzz Barton, Byron 1

Buzz Said the Bee Lewison, Wendy K

Bystander (BOE Approved April 2015) Preller, James 6

C is for Colorado Shirley, Gayle 1

C.O.L.A.R. Slote, Alfred 4

Cabin Faced West Fritz, Jean 5

Cabin in Cripple Creek, A Luxa, Sue 4

Cactus Hotel Guiberson, Brenda 1

Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol 4

Cage, The Sander, R. 6

Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time Culin, Charlotte 6

Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman 9

Cake That Mack Ate Robart, Rose 1

Cal Cameron By Day, Spiderman By Night Canon, A. E. 6

Caleb & Kate Steig, William 2

Caleb's Story (BOE Approved November 2014) MacLachlan, Patricia 2

Call it Courage Sperry, Armstrong 4

Call of the Wild London, Jack 6

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Cam Jansen Series Adler, David 2

Camilla L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Can We Be Friends? Wright, Alexandra 3

Can We Get That Here? Foley, Donna 2 Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers Berger, Melvin and Gilda 4 About Space Exploration Can You Hear Me, Grandad? Thomson, Pat 1

Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? Danziger, Paula 6

Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear Waddell, Martin 2

Canada Canizares, Susan 1

Canada Geese Quilt, The Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie 3

Candide Voltaire 9

Candy Corn Contest, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Cannery Row Steinback, John 9

Can't You Make them Behave King George? Fritz, Jean 3

Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey 9

Canticle for Leibowitz, A Miller, Walter 9

Canyons Paulson, Gary 6

Caps for Sale Slobodkina, Esphyr 1

Caps, Hats, Socks & Mittens Borden, Louise 1

Captive Indian Boy Hafer, Flora Van Buren 4

Captive, The Hansen, Joyce 5

Capybobby Peet, Bill 2

Carnival Burden-Patmon, Denise 2

Carol Reef Hideway-The Story of a Clown Anemonefish Boyle, Doc 3

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Carrie King, Stephen 6 Krauss, Ruth and Carrot Seed, The 1 Johnson, Crockett Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Latham, Jean Lee 5

Cars Rockwell, Anne 1

Case of the Baker Street Irregular Newman, Robert 6

Case of the Cat's Meow Bonsall, Crosby 2

Case of the Cool Itch Kid Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Case of the Dumb Bells Bonsall, Crosby 2

Case of the Hungry Stranger Bonsall, Crosby 2

Case of the Lost Boy, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Hillestad Butler, Dori 2

Case of the Lost Lookalike Farley, Carol 5

Case of The Missing Cat Palazzo-Craig, Janet 2

Case of the Missing Dinosaur Brandt, Keith 3

Case of the Nervous Newsboy Hildick, E. W. 4

Case of the Scaredy Cats Bonsall, Crosby Newell 1

Case of the Two Masked Robbers, The Hoban, Lillian K

Casey Jones York, Carol Beach 2

Cassie Binegar MacLachlan, Patricia 5

Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth 4 Eileen Giuffre Cotton, Carole Castle Life in the Middle Ages (book2web) 7 F. Stice, Phoebe Carroll Castle of Llyr Alexander, Lloyd 6

Cat Ate My Gymsuit Danziger, Paula 5

Cat In The Hat Suess, Dr. 1

Cat In The Hat Comes Back Suess, Dr. 1

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Cat Walk Stolz, Mary 3

Cat Who Went to Heaven, The Coatsworth, Elizabeth 3

Cat’s Burglar, The Parish, Peggy 2

Catalogue of the Universe Mahy, Margaret 6

Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D. 9

Caterpillar and th Polliwog, The Kent, Jack 1

Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman, Karen 6

Cat's Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Catwings LeGuin, Ursula 2

Cave Boy Dubowski, Cathy 2

Cay Taylor,. Theodore 5

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day-Dreaming of Change Kupperstein, Joel K Jardano, Kimberly & Callella- Celebrating Presidents’ Day K Jones, Trisha Celebrating Thanksgiving Kupperstein, Joel K

Celebrating the Powwow Kalman, Bobbie 1

Celery Stalks at Midnight Howe, James 3

Cells and Systems Wallace, Holly 5

Ceremony of Innocence Highwater, Jamake 6

Chains (BOE Approved October 2011) Halse Anderson, Laurie 5

Chair for My Mother Williams, Vera 1

Chalk Box Kid, The Bulla, Clyde Robert 2

Champ On Ice Peters, Sharon 1

Changeover Mahy, Margaret 6

Changes Creyling 3

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Changes in Latitudes Hobbs, Will 5

Changes, Changes Hutchins, Pat K

Changing Seasons Greydanus, Donald K

Chapters: My Growth as a Writer Duncan, Lois 6

Character Education Series Various Authors K

Charley Skedaddle Beatty, Patricia 5

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald 3

Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator Dahl, Roald 5

Charlie Brown Series Schulz, Charles 1

Charlie Needs A Cloak dePaola, Tomie 1

Charlie’s Raven George, Jean Craighead 4

Charlotte Sometimes Farmer, Penelope 4

Charlotte's Web White, E.B. 3

Chasing Lincoln's Killer (BOE Approved April 2013) Swanson, James L. 8

Chasing Verneer Balliett, Blue 4

Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth, Frank 6

Chemical Reactions Baldwin, Carol 8

Cherries and Cherry Pits Williams, Vera 2

Chester Cricket's New Home Selden, George 5

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride Selden, George 2

Chester The Wordly Pig Peet, Bill 2

Chick and the Duckling Ginsburg, Mirra 1

Chick Challenge Baglio, Ben 3

Chick That Wouldn’t Hatch, The Daniel, Claire 1

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Chicken Forgets Miles, Miska 1

Chicken Little Kellogg, Steven 1

Chicken Pox Party, The Wyeth, Sharon Dennis 2

Chicken Soup with Rice Sendak, Maurice 1

Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 9

Chicken's Aren't the Only Ones Keller, Ruth 1

Child of the Silent Night Hunter, Edith 4

Childhood's End Clarke, Arthur 9

Children Around the World Wilkins, Verna K

Children Of Green Knowe Boston, Lucy M. 5

Children Of The River Crew, Linda 6

Children of the Wolf Yolen, Jane 6

Child's Garden of Verses, A Stevenson, Robert 3

Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies Roberts, Moss 8

Chinese Lives Zhang X, Sang Y 8

Chinese New Year's Dragon Sing, Rachel 2

Chisholm Trail, The Mercati, Cynthia 4

Chocolate Fever Smith, Robert Kimmel 3

Chocolate Touch Catling, Patrick 3

Chocolate War Cormier, Robert 6

Choice of Weapons Parks, Gordon 9

Choose Your Own Adventure Series Various Authors 2

Chosen, The Potok, Chaim 9

Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 5

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Christmas Cup, The Patterson, Nancy Ruth 3

Christmas Secret Lexau, Joan 2

Christmas with Ida Early Burch, Robert 5

Christopher Columbus Krensky, Stephen 1

Christopher Columbus McGavern, Ann 3 Garcia, Gabriel Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 11 H Translated by: Gregory Chronicles of Narnia Lewis, C. S. 5

Chrysanthemum Henkes, Kevin 2

Cider House Rules Irving, John 11

Cinderella McKissack, Pat 1

Cinderella Karlin, Barbara 2

Cinder-Ella Minters, Frances 2

Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween Lattimore, Deborah Nourse 3

Circle of Fire Hooks, William 6

Circle of Gold Boyd, Candy Dawson 4

Circus Days Pare, Roger 1

City Mouse, Country Mouse Wallner, John 1

City Not Long After, The Murphy, Pat 6

City of Ember, The DuPrau, Jeanne 4

City of Gold & Lead Christopher, John 6

City Rhythms Nayer, Judy 2

City Storm Parker, Mary 2

Clara and the Book Wagon Levison, Nancy 2

Class Clown Hurwitz, Johanna 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 31 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Class Pictures Sachs, Marilyn 6

Class President Hurwitz, Johanna 3

Classification: From Mammals to Fungi Spilsbury, Louise and Richard 7

Claude the Dog Gackenbach, Dick 1

Clean House for Mole & Mouse, A Ziefert, Harriet 1

Clementine Pennypacker, Sara K

Clifford Series Bridwell, Norman 1

Close to the Edge Miklowitz, Gloria 6

Cloud Book dePaola, Tomie 2

Clouds Trueit, Trudi Strain 6

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett, Judi 1

Clover Sanders, Dori 6

Clue at the Zoo, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 1

Clue Junior “The Case of the Chocolate Fingerprints” Hinter, Parker 3

Clues in the Woods Parish, Peggy 1

Cobras Bargar & Johnson 2

Cock-a-doodle-hoooooo! Manning, Mick K

Cocktail Party, The Eliot, T.S. 9

Cold River Judson, William 9

Cold Sassy Tree Burns, Olive 6

Collecting Things Is Fun! Graves, Kimberly 1

Come a Stranger Voigt, Cynthia 6

Come Away from the Water, Shirley (BOE approved Nov 2015) Burningham, John K

Come On Up! Kim, Joy K

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 32 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Come Out & Play Little Mouse Kraus, Robert 1

Comeback Dog Thomas, Jane Resh 4

Comedy of Errors, The Shakespeare, William 9

Comets and Meteor Showers Sipiera, Paul 2

Coming About Clements, Bruce 6

Coming and Going Men Fleischman, Paul 6

Coming onto the Country McPhee, John 9

Commander Toad Series Yolen, Jane 2

Communities All Over Foley, Donna K

Complete Plays of Sophocles, The Sophocles 9

Complete Tales and Poems Poe, Edgar Allan 6

Conjuring Summer In Ames, Mildred 6 Santos, Marisa De Los and Connect the Stars 6 Teague, David Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Ct. Twain, Mark 9

Connections Gallo, Donald 7 Conquistadores: Building a Spanish Empire in the Americas, Stein, Conrad 5 The Conrad, Joseph, Three Novels Conrad, Joseph 9

Contender, The Lipsyte, Robert 8

Cookcamp, The Paulsen, Gary 6

Cookies Week Ward, Cindy 1

Copperheads Bargar, Sherie 2

Coral Reef Berger, Melvin 3

Corduroy Freeman, Don 1

Coriolanus Shakespeare, William 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 33 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Corn Raid, The (A Story of the Jamestown Settlement) Collier, James Lincoln 5

Could Be Worse Stevenson, James 1

Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 9

Counting Is For The Birds Mazzola, Frank Jr. 3

Country Mouse and City Mouse McKissack, Pat 1

Courage Has No Color (BOE Approved April 2015) Stone, Tanya Lee 6

Courage of Sarah Noble, The Dalgliesh, Alice 3

Cracker Jackson Byars, Betsy 6

Crack-Of-Dawn Walkers Hest, Amy 3

Crane Wife, The Yagawa, Sumiko 3

Crash, Bang, Boom Spier, Peter 2

Crawlspace Lieberman, Herbert 9

Crazy Horse Electric Game, The Crutcher, Chris 6

Crazy Quilt Riley, Jocelyn 6

Cream of Creature from the School Cafeteria Thaler, Mike 2

Creatures Townsend, John 6

Creepy Crawlies A to Z Aisworth, Louisa 1

Cricket in Times Square Selden, George 3

Crictor Ungerer, Tom 2

Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Crisis in Space Apollo 13 Beyer, Mark 4

Crispin Avi 6

Crocodile Beat Jorgensen, Gail 1

Crocodiles and Alligators Seventy, V. 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 34 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Cross Country Cat Calhoun, Mary 1

Crossing Paulsen, Gary 6

Crow Boy Yashima, Taro 2

Crucible, The Miller, Arthur 9

Crumbling Earth: Erosion and Landslides Mary Closon 8

Crutches Hatling, Peter 6

Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan 9

Crying of Lot 49, The Pynchon, Thomas 9

Crystal Cave Stewart, Mary 9

Cub in the Cupboard Baglio, Ben 4

Cuckoo Clock Cuckoo, The Fuchshuber, Annegert 2

Cuckoo Sister Alcock, Vivien 6

Curious George Series Rey, H.A. & M. 1

Curse of the Blue Figurine Bellairs, John 6

Custard Kid, The Deary, Terry 3

Custer Died for Your Sins De Loria, Vine 9

Cybil War Byars, Betsy 5

Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond 9

Dabcovich, Lydia D'adamo, Francesco 5

Dakota Dugout Turner, Ann 1

Dance Away Aruego, Jose 1

Dancing Carl Paulsen, Gary 6

Dancing Teepees Sneve, Virginia 2

Dancing with Manatees McNulty, Faith 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 35 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Dandelion Freeman, Don 1

Dandelion Wine Bradbury, Ray 9

Dandelions Bunting, Eve 2

Danger on Midnight River Paulsen, Gary 3

Danger On Panther Peak Wallace, Bill 5

Danger! Volcanoes Simon, Seymour K

Dangerous Promise, A - The Orphan Train Adventure Nixon, Joan Lowry 5

Daniel's Duck Bulla, Clyde Robert 1

Danny and the Dinosaur Hoff, Syd 1

Daphne's Book Hahn, Mary 5

Dar Tellum:Stranger from a Distant Planet Berry, James 3

Daring Resue of Marlon the Swimming Pig, The Saunders, Susan 2

Dark & Deadly Pool Nixon, Joan Lowry 6

Dark and Full of Secrets Carrick, Carol 3

Dark Behind the Curtain Cross, Gillian 6

Dark Dark Tale Brown, Ruth 1

Dark is Rising Cooper, Susan 6

Darkangel Pierce, Meredith 6

Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur 9

Daughters of Eve Duncan, Lois 6

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 6

David’s Journey on the Underground Railroad Sibley, Linda 4

Davita's Harp Potok, Chaim 9

Day at Greenhill Farm, A Nicholson, Sue 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 36 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Day It Snowed Tortillas, The Hayes, Joe 4

Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Noble, Trinka Hakes 1

Day No Pigs Would Die Beck, Robert 6

Day of the Blizzard (BOE Approved November 2014) Moskin, Marieta 2

Day the Senior Class Got Married Miklowitz, Gloria 6

Day The Teacher Went Bananas, The Howe, James 1

Day We Walked on the Moon, The Sullivan, George 4

Daybreak Baez, Joan 9

Days With Frog and Toad Lobel, Arnold 1

Deadly Game of Magic Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Deadly Powers of Medusa Osborne, Will 4

Deadly Promise, A Nixon, Joan Lowery 5

Dear America Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie Gregory, Kristiana 4

Dear America My America – The Starving Time Hermes, Patricia 3

Dear America Our Strange New Land Hermes, Patricia 3

Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam Edelman, Benard 6

Dear Garbage Man Zion, Gene 2

Dear Levi (Letters From the Overland Trail) Woodruff, Elvira 2

Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary, Beverly 4

Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John 9

Death in the Afternoon, 1996 Chester, Kate 5

Death Knell Wilde, Nicholas 6

Death of A Salesman Miller, Arthur 9

Death of Ivan Ilych Tolstoy, Leo 9

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Death On The Nile Agatha, Christie 6

Deathwatch White, Robb 6

Debra Sampson Goes to War Stevens, Bryna 3

December Secrets Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

DeDe Takes Charge Hurwitz, Johanna 2

Deenie Blume, Judy 6

Deep in the Forest Turkle, Brinton 1

Deep Wizardry Duane, Diane 6

Define “Normal” Peters, Julie Anne 7

Demian Hesse, Hermann 9

Demolished Man Beste, Alfred 9

Demons, Gods & Holy Men - Indian Myths Husain, Shahrukh 8

Denver Days Luxa, Sue 4

Deputy Dan and the Bank Robbers Rosenbloom, Joseph 2

Deryni Archives Kurtz, Katherine 6

Deryni Checkmate Kurtz, Katherine 6

Deryni Rising Kurtz, Katherine 6

Desert Solitaire Abbey, Edward 9

Deserts Steele, Christy 6

Destination Everest Glenn, Karen 2

Destination: Antarctica Swan, Robert 5

Destiny Grove, Vicki 6

Detective Story, The Hatherill, George 9

Devil's Advocate Shaw, G.B. 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 38 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Devil's Arithmetic Yolen, Jane 6

Diagnostic System, The Stille, Darlene R. 2

Dialogues of Plato Plato 9

Diary of a Sunflower (BOE Approved April 2014) Pugliano, Carol 2

Diary of a Worm Cronin, Doreen K

Dicey's Song Voigt, Cynthia 6

Dick Whittington Brown, Marcia 3

Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? Caudill, Rebecca 4

Did You Ever See? Einsel, Walter 1

Did You Hear That? Blocksma, Mary 1

Did You Know? Hill, Sandi 1

Diego Rivera Vasquez, Sarah 2

Dig a Dinosaur Gentner, Norma 1

Digby Shook Hazen, Barbara K

Digging Up Dinosaurs Aliki 2

Digging Up the Past (The Adventure of Wishbone) Sathre, Vivian 4

Dinner at Alberta's Hoban, Russell 1

Dinosaur Day Donnelly, Liza 1

Dinosaur Days Milton, Joyce 1

Dinosaur Dream Nolan, Dennis 2

Dinosaur Explorer Dixon, Dougal K

Dinosaur Garden Donnelly, Liza 1

Dinosaur Habitat Griffith, Helen 2

Dinosaur Hunters McMullan, Kate 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 39 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Dinosaur Named Sue, A Robinson, Fay 2

Dinosaur Story Cole, Joanna 2

Dinosaur Time Parish, Peggy 2

Dinosaur Who Wouldn't Go to School Salmon, Michael 2

Dinosaurs Elting, Mary 1

Dinosaurs Charlesworth, Liza 2

Dinosaurs Alive and Well! Brown, Laurie & Marc 2

Dinosaurs Before Dark Osborne, Mary Pope 2

Dinosaurs Travel Brown, Laurie & Marc 2

Dinosaurs, 1987 Gibbons, Gail K

Dinousaurs' Halloween Donnelly, Liza 1

Dirty Beasts Dahl, Roald 1

Disappearance, The Guy, Rosa 6

Disaster at Sea Donkin, Andrew 2

Discovery of the Americans, The Maestro, Betsy and Giulio 2

Dispatches Herr, Michael 9

Dive! Berger, Melvin 3

Diving Bell and The Butterfly, The (BOE Approved April 2012) Bauby, Jean-Dominique 11

Diving Dolphins Wallace, Karen 2

Divorce Express, The Danziger, Paula 6 Do I Need It? Or Do I Want It?: Making Budget Choices Larson, Jennifer S. 2 (BOE approved Nov 2015) Do Not Open Turkle, Brinton 2

Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? Berger, Melvin and Gilda 1

Do You Love Me? Gackenbach, Dick 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 40 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Do You Want to be My Friend? Carle, Eric K

Doc Graber, Richard 6

Doctor DeSoto Steig, William 1

Does 3rd Grade Last Forever? Schanback, Mindy 2

Dog on Barkham Street Stolz, Mary 3

Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter, The Christopher, Matt 2

Dogsbody Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Dogsong Paulsen, Gary 5

Doll Bones (BOE Approved April 2014) Black, Holly 5

Dollhouse Murders, The Wright, Betty Ren 4

Doll's House, A Ibsen, Henrik 9

Dolphin Morris, Robert 1

Dolphin Named Bob, A George, Twig C. 3

Dolphin Reader, The (Second Edition) Hunt, Douglas 11

Dolphin Treasure (BOE Approved November 2014) Grover, Wayne 2

Dolphins Berger, Melvin 1

Dolphins Bokoske, Sharon 1

Dolphins and Porpoises Gordon, Sharon 1

Dolphins at Daybreak Osborne, Mary Pope 2

Don Quixote deCervantes, Miguel 9

Don’t Call Me Beanhead! Wejciechowski, Susan 2

Donkey's Tale Oppenheim, Joanne 1

Don't Blame the Music Cooney, Caroline 9

Don't Look Behind You Duncan, Lois 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 41 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Don't Make Me Smile Park, Barbara 4

Doolittle Raid, The Schultz Duane 8

Doomsday Plus Twelve Forman, James 6

Door in the Air, The Mahy, Margaret 6

Door In the Wall de Angeli, Marguerite 5

Doorbell Rang Hutchins, Pat 1

Dorrie Series Coombs, Patricia 2

Double Dragon Trouble McMullan, Kate 3

Dove, The Graham, Robin 9

Down a Dark Hall Duncan, Lois 6

Down By The Bay Raffi 1

Down on the Funny Farm King, Patrick 1

Downriver Hobbs, Will 6

Downsiders Shusterman, Neal 7

Downtown Mazer, Norma Fox 6

Downwind Moeri, Louise 6

Dozen Dogs Ziefert, Harriet 1

Dr. Faustus Marlowe, Chrstopher 9

Dr. Franklin’s Island Halam, Ann 7

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 9

Dr. Seuss's ABC Seuss, Dr. K

Dr. Zhivago Pasternak, Boris 9

Dr.Chill's Project Hoobler, Thomas 6

Dragon Granowsky, Alvin 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 42 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Dragon Rider Funke, Cornelia 4

Dragondrums McCaffrey, Anne 6

Dragon's Blood Yolen, Jane 6

Dragons Dawn McCaffey, Anne 6

Dragons in the Waters L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Dragonsinger McCaffrey, Anne 6

Dragonsong McCaffrey, Anne 6

Dragonwings Yep, Laurence 5

Dream Time Gascoigne, Toss 6

Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (BOE Approved Apr Hale, Christy K 2016) Drift Mayne, William 4

Drinking Gourd, The Monjo, F. N. 2

Drip Drop Gordon, Sharon 1

Drita, My Homegirl Lombad, Jenny 3 Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Pink, Daniel H. 9 Motivates Us (BOE approved Jan 2011) Drop Dead Cunningham, Julia 5

Drummer Hoff Emberley, Barbara 1

Dubliners, 1991 Joyce, James 11

Duck Lloyd, David 1

Dune Herbert, Frank 9

Duplicate, The Sleator, William 6

Durango Kid 9

Durango Street Bonham, Frank 6

E Pluribus Unicorn Sturgeon, Theodore 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 43 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Each Orange Has Eight Slices Giganti, Paul K

Each Peach Pear Plum Ahlberg, Janet 1

Eagels Baker, Lucy 3

Eagle Feather Bulla, Clyde Robert 2

Early Thunder Fritz, Jean 5

Earth Brandt, Keith 2

Earth Erupts Closon, Mary 8

Earthquack! Palatini, Margie 1

Earthseed Sargent, Pamela 9

East of Eden Steinbeck, John 9

Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf Green, Phyllis 4

Echidna and the Shade Tree Lofts, Pamela 1

Eclipse Darkness In Daytime Branley, Franklyn Mansfield 2

Eddie's Happenings Haywood, Carolyn 3

Eddie's Menagerie Haywood, Carolyn 3

Eency Weency Spider Oppenheim, Joanne 1

Effect of Gamma Rays On..... Zindel, Paul 6

Effles Bath Thompson, R. 1

Egypt Game, The Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5

Egyptian Cinderella Climo, Shirley 6

Eight Plus One Cormier, Robert 6

Eighth Moon Lord, Bette Bao 6

El Deafo Bell, Cece 5

El Dorado Adventure Alexander, Lloyd 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 44 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Eleanor Everywhere-The Life of Eleanore Roosevelt Kulling, Monica 2

Electricity and Magnetism Adamczyk, Peter 5

Elephant in Trouble Crawford, Thomas 1

Elephant is Child, The – Rudyard Kipling Medley, Linda, Ill. 1

Elephants (BOE Approved October 2011) Depree, Helen K

Elephants Can Paint Too! (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Arnold, Katya K

Elephants Swim Riley, Linda Capus K

Eli Peet, Bill 1

Elihu the Elephant Brennan, Gale 2

Ella Earns Her Own Money (BOE approved Nov 2015) Bullard, Lisa 1

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (BOE approved Nov 2015) Chodos-Irvine, Margaret K

Ella the Bad Speller Kraus, Robert 2

Ellen Foster Gibbons, Kaye 9

Ellen Tebbitts Cleary, Beverly 2

Ellery Queen's the Golden Thirteen Queen, Ellery 9

Ellis Island Quiri, Patricia 2 Ellis Island (We the People: Modern America) Raatma, Lucia 3 (BOE approved Nov 2015) Ellray Jakes Walks the Plank Warner, Sally 3

Elmer McKee, David K

Elmer And The Dragon Gannett, Ruth Stiles 2

Elves and the Shoemaker, The Littledale, Freya 1

Emil the Eagle LeFleur, Thomas 2

Emily's Runaway Imagination Cleary, Beverly 3

Emma Stevenson, Juliet 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 45 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Emma's Christmas Trivas, Irene 3

Emma's Pet McPhail, David 2

Emma's Poem Glasser, Linda 3

Emmett's Pig Stolz, Mary 2

Emperor Jones O'Neill, Eugene 9 Anderson, Hans Christian Emperor's New Clothes 2 Westcott, Nadine Empire Of The Sun Ballard, J.G. 6

Empty Pot, The Demi 2

Empty School House Carlson, Natalie Savage 5

Empty Sleeve, The Garfield, Leon 6

Encounter Yolen, Jane 5

Encyclopedia Brown Series Sobol, Donald 2

Endangered Animals-Zoobooks Wexo, John Bonnett 3

Enders Game Card, Orson Scott 6

Endgame: A Play Beckett, Samuel 9

Endless Steppe, The Hautzig, Elizabeth 6

English Creek Doig, Ivan 9

Enormous Crocodile Dahl, Roald 1

Enormous Egg, The Butterworth, Oliver 4

Enormous Turnip Hunia, Fran 1 George, Andrew Epic of Gilgamesh, The 11 Translation by) Eric Lund, Doris 9

Erin McEwan Your Days Are Numbered Ritchie, Alan 6

Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes Ganeri, Anita 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 46 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (BOE Approved November Grabenstein, Chris 4* 2015) Escape From Slavery:Five Journeys to Freedom Rappaport, Doreen 3

Escape from Warsaw Serraillier, Ian 6

Escape on the Missouri Thomasma, Kenneth 3

Escape to Witch Mountain Key, Alexander 4

Esperanza Rising* Ryan, Pam Munoz 4

Essays of E.B. White, The White, E.B. 9

Essential Gandhi: An Anthology, The Fischer, Louis 6

Estate, The Singer, Isaac Bashevis 9

Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 9

Euphonia and the Flood Calhoun, Mary 2

Eva: A Novel Dickerson, Peter 6

Everest - Reaching for the Sky Masoff, Joy 2

Everest: Book One: The Contest Korman, Gordon 6

Everest: Book Three: The Summit Korman, Gordon 6

Everest: Book Two: The Climb Korman, Gordon 6

Everett Anderson's Goodbye Clifton, Lucille K

Everlasting Hills, The Hunt, Irene 6

Every Living Thing Rylant, Cynthia 6

Every Soul a Star Mass, Wendy 5

Everybody Needs A Rock Baylor, Byrd 1

Everybody Say Cheese Bates, Betty 4

Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes Danziger, Paula 6

Everything on a Waffle Horvath, Polly 4

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Excuses, Excuses Avitabile, Robert 1

Executive Branch, The Smalley, Carol Parenzan 6

Exploding Frog, The Aesop 1

Exploration and Conquest Maesto, Betsy and Giulio 4

Explorers from Columbus to Armstrong Everett, Felicity 4

Exploring and Mapping the Am. West Alter, Judy 4

Extreme Machines Maynard, Christopher 2

Extreme Sports Platt, Richard 4

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Safran, Jonathan 11

Eye of the Needle Sloat, Teri 2

Fables Lobel, Arnold 2

Fables Ginsburg, Mirra 3

Face at the Edge of the World Bunting, Eve 6

Face of A Hero Boulle, Pierre 9

Face the Music Corcoran, Barbara 6

Facts & Fictions of Minna Pratt, The MacLachlan, Patricia 6

Fade Cormier, Robert 9

Faery Flag, The Yolen, Jane 6

Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray 9

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (BOE Approved October 2013)Pullman, Philip 9

Fallen Angels Myers, W.D. 8

Fallen Spaceman, The Harding, Lee 3

Families Share Williams, Roxanne Lanizak K

Family Apart, A Nixon, Joan Lowery 5

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Family Maskot, The Singer, I. 9

Family Under the Bridge, The Carlson, Natalie Savage 4

Family, The Singer, I. 9

Fancy Nancy at the Museum (BOE Approved April 2014) O'Conner, Jane K

Fanny Cosgrove, Stephen 3

Fantail, Fantail Mahy, Margaret 1

Fantastic Freshman Brittain, Bill 6

Fantastic Frogs Robinson, Fay K

Fantastic Mr. Fox Dahl, Roald 2

Fantastic Voyage* Asimov, Isaac 5

Far from Home Sebestyen, Ouida 6

Far North* Hobbs, Will 4

Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest 9

Farewell to Manzanar Wakasuki Houston, Jeanne 9

Farewell To Shady Glade Peet, Bill 3

Farmer In The Dell, The Rae, Mary Maki 1

Farming Gibbons, Gail 1

Farmyard Cat, The Anello, Christine 1

Farthest Shore LeGuin, Ursula 6

Fast Frog Ahlbert, Allan 1

Fat Cat Kent, Jack 2

Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The Karlin, Nurit K

Fat Girl Sachs, Marilyn 6

Fat Men From Space Pinkwater, Daniel 3

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Father Figure Peck, Richard 6

Father Fox's Pennyrhymes Watson, Clyde 2

Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan 9

Feathers For Lunch Ehlert, Lois K

Febold Feboldson- The Fix-it Farmer York, Carol Beach 2

Feeling Things Fowler, Allan 1 Burier, Jon and Schade, Felix and the 400 Frogs 2 Susan Fell Back Kerr, M. E. 6

Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 8

Fences Wilson, August 9

Ferrell Davis Peterson, Brian C. 4

Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge Wallace, Bill 5

Fever 1793 Anderson, Laurie Halse 5

Ficciones Borges, Jorge 11 H

Fiddler on the Roof Stein, Joseph 9

Fifth Grade Magic Gormley, Beatrice 5

Fighting Fish (Life Cycles) Schwartz, David M. 3

Fighting Ground, The Avi 5

Figure in the Shadows Bellairs, John 6

Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye Lowry, Lois 6

Finding David Dolores Willey, Margaret 6

Finding the Titanic Ballard, Robert D. 3 Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Mattick, Lindsay 4 Bear (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Fir Tree, The Andersen, Hans Christian 3

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Fire and Hemlock Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Fire Fighter Royston, Angela 2

Fire Flies Brinckloe, Julie 1

Fire In The Heart Murrow, Lisa Ketchum 6

Fire! Raging Destruction Bondar, Barbara 3

Fire, Fire, Said Mrs. McGuire Martin, Bill 1

Firefly Named Torchy Waber, Bernard 3

Firegirl (BOE Approved April 2015) Abbott, Tony 6

First American Colonies Oney, Yannick 2

First Clay Gathering, A Naranjo-Morse, N. 2

First Day Jitters Danneberg, Julie 2

First Dinosaurs, The Dixon, Dougal 2

First Experiences: Going to the Dentist Hewitt, Sally K

First Flight McPhail, David 2

First Flight Shea, George 2

First Light Stead, Rebecca 6

First Passover, A Swartz, Leslie 2

First Snow McCully, Emily Arnold K

First Thanksgiving, The Hayward, Linda 1 First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Ung, Loung 12 of Cambodia Remembers (BOE Approvee October 2013)

Fish in a Tree (BOE approved Nov 2015) Hunt, Lynda Mullaly 6

Fishy Color Story Wylie, Joanne 1

Five Chinese Brothers, The Bishop, Claire Huchet 2

Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Suess, Dr. 2

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Five Little Ducks Raffl 1

Five Little Foxes & the Snow Johnston, Tony 1

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Christelow, Eileen 1

Five Minutes Peace Murphy, Jill 1

Five Notable Inventors Hudson, Wade 5

Fixer, The Malamud, Bernard 9

Flag for Our Country, A Spencer, Eve 3

Flame Trees of Thika Huxley, Elspeth 6

Flame-Colored Taffeta Sutcliff, Rosemary 6

Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll Branley, Franklyn 2

Flat Stanley Brown, Jeff 1

Flight of the Cassowary LeVert, John 6

Flight of the White Wolf Ellis, Melvin Richard 5

Flight to Freedom Veciana-Suarez, Ana 5

Flip Flop Girl Paterson, Katherine 6

Flip Series Dennis, Wesley 1

Flipped (BOE Approved April 2013) Van Draanen, Wendelin 7

Floating in Space Branley, Franklyn M. 2

Floods Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2

Flora and Ulysses (BOE Approved November 2014) DiCamillo, Kate 3

Flotsam (BOE approved Nov 2015) Wiesner, David K

Flowering Judas & Other Stories Porter, Katherine Ann 9

Flowers Braithwaite, Althea 1

Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 9

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Flunking of Joshua T. Bates Shreve, Susan 3

Flush Hiaasen, Carl 5

Flute’s Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush Cherry, Lynne 2

Flutterby Cosgrove, Stephen 2

Fly Away Home Bunting, Eve 2

Flyaway Hall, Lynn 6

Flying Flea, Callie, and Me, The Wallace, Carol & Bill 3

Flying Saucer Full of Spaghetti, A Krahn, Fernando K

Flying Solo Fletcher, Ralph 5

Fog Magic Sauer, Julie 4

Follow a Raindrop: The Water Cycle Ward, Elsie 2

Follow Me Ziefert, Harriet 2

Follow My Leader Garfield, James 4

Follow The Dream Sis, Peter 2

Following the Mystery Man Hahn, Mary Downing 5

Food Chains and Webs: From Producers to Decomposers Spilsbury, Louise and Richard 7

Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake Martin, Rafe 2

Fools Crow Welch, James IB

Football Dreams Guy, David 6

Football That Won, The Sampson, Michael 2

Footprints In The Sand Benjamin, Cynthia 1

For the Love of the Game – Michael Jordan & Me Greenfield, Eloise 3

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest 9

Forbidden City Bell, William 7

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Forces & Motion Trumbauer, Liza 3

Forecast Hall, Malcolm 2

Forecasting William F. Schley 6

Forests Nelson, Julie 6

Forever Amber Brown Danziger, Paula 2

Forgetful Bears Weinberg, Larry 1

Forgetfuls Give a Wedding Weinberg, Larry 1

Forgotten Door Key, Alexander 5

Formal Feeling, A Oneal, Zibby 6

Forty - Second Parallel (42nd) Dos Passos, J. 9

Fossils Tell of Long Ago Aliki 1

Found (The Missing, Book 1) Haddix, Margaret Peterson 6

Foundation Trilogy, The Asimov, Isaac 9

Foundling Fox Korshunow, Irina 2

Foundling, The Carrick, Carol 3

Four Black Puppies Grindley, Sally K

Four Major Plays - IBSEN Ibsen, Henrik 12

Four On The Shore Marshall, Edward 1

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story (BOE Approved Perl, Lila 6 October 2013) Blumenthal Lazan, Marion Four Scary Stories Johnston, Tony 1

Fourteen Sachs, Marilyn 6

Fourteenth Goldfish, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Holm, Jennifer 5

Fourth Grade Celebrity Giff, Patricia Reilly 4

Fox and His Friends Series Marshall, Edward 1

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Fox Be Nimble Marshall, James 1

Fox On the Box, The Gregorich, Barbara 1

Fox Went Out on Chilly Night Spier, Peter 1

Fox, The Lawrence, D. H. 9

Foxes Braithwaite, Althea 1

Foxes and Wolves Ripper, Charles 3

Fraction Fun Adler, David 3

Frances Series Hoban, Russell 1

Frank and Stein and Me Platt, Kin 6

Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 9

Frankenstein Moved in on the 4th Floor Levy, Elizabeth 3

Franklin in the Dark Bourgeois, Paulette 1

Freak the Mighty Philbrick, Rodman 6

Freaky Friday Rodgers, Mary 5

Freckle Juice Blume, Judy 2

Freddie's Spaghetti Doyle, Catherine 1

Frederick Lionni, Leo K

Frederick Douglass Patterson, Lillie 5

Free At Last Bull, Angela 3

Freedom Crossing Goff Clark, Margaret 5

Freedom Songs Moore, Yvette 8

Freedom Summer (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Wiles, Deborah 4

Freedom Train Sterling, Dorothy 5

Freight-Train Crews, Donald K

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Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving Stevenson, James 2 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Flagg, Fannie 11 Whistle Stop Cafe Friedrich Richter, Hans Peter 6

Friend is Someone Who Likes You Anglund, Walsh 1

Friendly Book, The Brown, Margaret Wise 1

Friendly Snowman Gordon, Sharon 1

Friends Are a Special Part of Christmas Schulz, Charles 1

Friends Till the End Strasser, Todd 6

Friends, The Guy, Rosa 6

Friendship, The Taylor, Mildred 4

Friendship, The Wallace, B. 5

Frindle Clements, Andrew 3

Frog & Toad Series Lobel, Arnold 1

Frog Goes to Dinner Mayer, Mercer K

Frog Prince Continued, The Scieszka, Jon 2

Frog Prince, The Tarcov, Edith 1

Frog Prince, The Wang, Mary Lewis 1

Frog Went A-Courtin' Langstaff, John 2

Frog, The Nash, Pamela 1 Canizares, Susan & Moreton, Frogs 1 Daniel Frog's Home Butterworth, C. 1

Frogs, The Aristophanes 9

From Earth to Moon Verne, Jules 9

From Egg to Robin Canizares, Susan 1

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From One to One Hundred Sloat, Teri 1

From Tadpole to Frog Kottke, Jan 1

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Konigsburg, E. L. 5

Frosty the Snowman Bedford, Annie North K

Fudge-a-mania Blume, Judy 3

Funny Feet Weiss, Leatie 1

Funny Fingers, Funny Toes Damon, Laura K

Funny Fish Story, A Wylie, Joanne 1

Funny Little Woman, The Mosel, Arlene 1

Funny Old Man And Funny Old Woman, The Barber, Martha 1

Funnybones Ahlberg, Allan 2

Fur Mark, Jan 1

Fury Witch Freeman, D. 2

Futuretrack 5 Westall, Robert 6

Fuzzy Rabbit Billam, Rosemary 1

Gadget War, The Duffey, Betsy 2

Galactic Warlord Hill, Douglas 4

Gammage Cup, The Kendall, Carol 5

Gandhi Fischer, Louis 6

Garbage Juice for Breakfast Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Garden For A Groundhog, A Balian, Lorna 2

Garden in My Mind, The McCumbee 3

Gas Giants, The Drew, David 3

Gathering Blue Lowry, Lois 6

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Gathering Of Days:New England Girls Journal* Blos, Joan 5

Gathering of Old Men, A Gaines, Ernest 6

Gem X (BOE Approved April 2012) Singer, Nicky 8

Gentle Ben Morey, Walt 5

Gentlehands Kerr, M. E. 6

George Konigsburg, E. L. 5

George & Martha Series Marshall, James 1

George Bush-Story of 41st Presdent Sufrin, M. 4

George the Drummer Boy Benchley, Nathaniel 2

George Washington and the General’s Dog Murphy, Frank 1

George Washington Carver Eliot, T.S. 5

George Washington, Our First Leader Stevenson, Augusta 2

George Washington, Our First President Jackson, Garrett 3

George Washington, Soldier, Hero, President Fontes, Justine & Ron 2

George Washington, Young Leader Santrey, Laurence 3

George Washington's Breakfast Fritz, Jean 3

George Washington's Socks Woodruff, Elvira 4

George's Marvelous Medicine Dahl, Roald 3

Georgie Bright, Robert 1

Geraldine's Big Snow Keller, Holly 1

Germs Make Me Sick Berger, Melvin 1

Ghost Belonged to Me Peck, Richard 6

Ghost Cadet Alphin, Elaine Marie 4

Ghost Canoe Hobbs, Will 4

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Ghost in the Big Brass Bed Coville, Bruce 5

Ghost in the Third Row Coville, Bruce 5

Ghost Named Rhonda, A Greenburg, Dan 3

Ghost Next Door St.John, Wylly Folk 6

Ghost of Now Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Ghost of Windy Hill Bulla, Clyde Robert 2

Ghost On The Hill Maccarone, Grace 3

Ghost Town Treasure Bulla, Clyde Robert 4

Ghost With The Halloween Hiccups, The Mooser, Stephen 2

Ghost Wore Gray, The Coville, Bruce 4 Martin, Bill & Archambault, Ghost-Eye Tree 2 John Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik 9

Ghosts Beneath Our Feet Wright, Betty Ren 4

Ghosts I Have Been Peck, Richard 6

Ghosts of the White House Harness, Cheryl 3

Giant Dinosaurs Rowe, Erna 2

Giant Story Mouse Tale Fushchuber, A 1

Giants in the Earth Rolvag, Ole Edvart 9

Gift for Tia Rosa Taha, Karen 2

Gift Of The Sacred Dog Goble, Paul 3

Gingerbread Boy Galdone, Paul 1

Gingerbread Man Schmidt, Karen 1 Gingerbread Man, Loose in School, The (BOE Approved April Murray, Laura K 2013) Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Dahl, Roald 2

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Girl Called Al, A Greene, Constance C. 3

Girl Named Helen Keller, A Lundell, Margo 2

Girl of His Dreams, The Mazer, Harry 6

Girl Who Knew It All Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Goble, Paul 3

Girl Who Owned a City Nelson, O.T. 5

Girl Who Wanted A Boy, The Zindel, Paul 6

Girl With the Silver Eyes, The Roberts, Willo Davis 5

Giver, The Lowry, Lois 6

Giving Tree, The Silverstein, Shel 2

Glass Menagerie, The Williams, Tennesse 9

Gloomy Gus the Hippopotamus Brennan, Gale 2

Glorious Flight: Across The Channel, The Provensen, Alice 4

Glory Field, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Myers, Walter Dean 8

Gnome from Nome, The Cosgrove, Stephen K

Go and Hush the Baby Byars, Betsy 1

Go Ask Alice Anonymous 6

Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman Ferris, Jeri 5

Go Tell Aunt Rhody Aliki K

Go Tell It On The Mountain Baldwin, James 9

Go Well, Stay Well Jones, Toeckey 6

Goat in the Garden Baglio, Ben 4

Goats, The Cole, Brock 6

Gobble, Growl, Grunt Spier, Peter 2

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God, the Universe and Hot Fudge Sundaes Howe, Norma 6

Godzilla Ate My Homework Jones, Marcia Thornton 2

Goggles Keats, Ezra Jack 1

Going West Van Leeuwen, Jean 2

Gold Cadillac, The Taylor, Mildred 5

Gold Fever McMorrow, Catherine 2

Gold Rush – Life in the Old West, The Kalman, Bobbie 4

Golden Fleece & Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Colum, Padraic 4

Golden Goose Grimm Brothers 1

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Buehner, Caralyn K

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Marshall, James 1

Golly Sisters Go West Byars, Betsy 2

Gone Fishing Long, Earlene R. 1

Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 9

Gone-Away Lake Enright, Elizabeth 4

Good Courage, A Tolan, Stephanie 6

Good Dog, The Avi 4

Good Hunting, Blue Sky Parish, Peggy 2

Good Morning, Chick Ginsburg, Mirra 1

Good News Brenner, Barbara 2

Good Night, Mr. Tom Magorian, Michelle 6

Good Soldier, The Ford, Ford Madox 9

Good Times Are Killing Me, The Barry, Lynda 6

Good Work, Amelia Bedelia Parish, Peggy 2

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Goodbye and Keep Cold Davis, Jenny 6

Good-Bye House Asch, Frank 1

Goodbye Mr. Chips Hilton, James 6

Goodbye Tomorrow Miklowitz, Gloria 6

Good-Bye, My Wishing Star Grove, Vicki 3

Goodnight Moon Brown, Margaret Wise 1

Goodnight Owl Hutchins, Pat 1

Goodnight, Goodnight Rice, Eve 2

Gooney Bird Greene Lowry, Lois 2

Gooseberry Park Rylant, Cynthia 3

Gorilla Browne, Anthony 2

Gorilla Did It, The Hazen, Barbara Shook 1

Gorillas Demuth, Patrica 2

Gorillas Simon, Seymour 3

Grace in the Wilderness Siegal, Aranka 6

Graduation of Jake Moon, The Park, Barbara 5

Grandpa, Grandpa Cowley, Joy K

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Creech, Sharon 3

Granny Was A Buffer Girl Doherty, Berlie 6

Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John 9

Grasshopper and Crickets Watts, Barrie 1

Grasshopper and the Ants Franklin, P. 2

Grasslands Scheff, Duncan 6

Gravity Is A Mystery Branley, Franklyn 2

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Gray Boy Arnosky, Jim 4

Great Attitude, A Hill, Sandi 1

Great Big Enornous Turnip, The Tolstoy, Alexei 1

Great Brain Series Fitzgerald, John 4

Great Cheese Conspiracy Van Leeuwen, Jean 4

Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper Van Leeuwen, Jean 4

Great Computer Dating Caper Bethancourt, T. Ernesto 6

Great Day For Up Suess, Dr. 1

Great Easter Egg Mystery Sabin, Fran 2

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 9

Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald, F.Scott 9

Great Gilly Hopkins Paterson, Katherine 5

Great Green Turkey Creek Monster Flora, James 1 Great Houdini – World Famous Magician and Escape Artist, Kulling, Monica 2 The Great Race Of The Birds & Animals Goble, Paul 3

Great Santini, The Conroy, Pat 9

Great Skinner Strike, The Tolan, Stephanie 6

Great Soap Bubble Ride Poskanser, Susan Cornell 1

Great Taos Bank Robbery, The Hillerman, Tony 9

Greatest Slump of All Time Carbeet, David 9

Greatest Treasure, The Demi 2

Great-Grandpa’s in the Litter Box Greenburg, Dan 2

Greedy Cat Cowley, Joy 1

Greedy Goat Bolton, Faye 1

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Greek Gods, The Evslin, Benard 4

Green Book Paton-Walsh, Jill 4

Green Eggs and Ham Suess, Dr. 1

Green Ghost of Appleville, The Marzollo, Jean 3

Green Lion of Zion Street, The Fields, Julia 2

Green Plants: From Roots to Leaves Spilsbury, Louise and Richard 7

Green Thumbs Everyone Giff, Patricia Reilly 1

Greenwitch Cooper, Susan 6

Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne 5

Gregory, the Terrible Eater Sharmat, Mitchell 1

Greg's Microscope Selsam, Millicent 2

Grey King Cooper, Susan 6

Grey Whales Are Missing Thrush, Robin 6

Grimm's Fairy Tales Kramer, Nora 4

Grizzly Johnson, Annabel and Edgar 5

Grizzwold Hoff, Syd 1

Grouchy Ladybug, The Carle, Eric 1

Grover Cleaver, Vera and Bill 5

Growing Season Carter, Alden R. 6

Growing Up Feet Cleary, Beverly 1

Growing Vegetable Soup Ehlert, Lois 1

Growl! Berger, Melvin 2

Guardian of Isis Hughes, Monica 6

Guinea Pig Gang Baglio, Ben 3

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Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 9

Gum on The Drum, The Gregorich, Barbara 1

Guns for General Washington Reit, Seymour 5

Guns of Navarone McLean, Alistair 9

Gus the Greedy Puppy Dale, Jenny 2

Gus Was a Real Dumb Ghost Thayer, Jane 2

Gus, A Beaver Highsmith Taylor, Bonnie 4 Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and The Brian Paulsen, Gary 6 Books Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood Conford, Ellen 6

Half Nelson, Full Nelson Stone, Bruce 6

Halloween Dream Dolgin, Phyllis 1

Halloween Performance Bond, Felicia 1

Hamlet Shakespeare, William 9

Hamlet and King Lear Shakespeare, William 9

Hamster Hotel Baglio, Ben 3

Handmaid's Tale, The Atwood, Margaret IB

Hang Tough, Paul Mather Slote, Alfred 4

Hanging Out With Cici Pascal, Francine 6

Hangman's Ghost Trick Corbett, Scott 3

Hannah Whelan, Gloria 2

Hannah’s Journal Moss, Marissa 3

Hansel & Gretel Gross, Ruth Belov 1

Hanukkah! Schotter, Roni 2

Happy , Happy Mother's Day Tripp, Valerie 1

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Happy Birthday To You Suess, Dr. 1

Happy Birthday, Dear Duck Bunting, Eve 1

Happy Birthday, Dr. King! Jones, Kathryn D. 2

Happy Birthday, Moon Asch, Frank 1

Happy Day Kraus, Ruth 1

Happy Easter, Little Critter Mayer, Mercer 1

Happy Hippopotami Martin Jr, Bill 1

Happy Honey: The Best Fall of All Godwin, Laura K

Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 Avi 4

Hard Times Dickens, Charles 9

Hardy Boys Dixon, Franklin 4

Harold & the Dinosaur Mystery Frost, Erica 2

Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh, Louise 4

Harriet Tubman Sabin, Francene 5

Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Fox, Mem K

Harris and Me Paulsen, Gary 6

Harry & Hortense at Hormone High Zindel, Paul 6

Harry & the Terrible Whatzit Gackenbach, Dick 1

Harry the Dog Series Zion, Gene 1

Harry's Mad King-Smith, Dick 6

Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster Clifford, Eth 2

Hatchet Paulsen, Gary 4

Hating Book Zolotow, Charlotte 1

Hattie and the Fox Fox, Mem 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 66 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Haunted St. George, Judith 6

Haunted House Parish, Peggy 1

Haunting Mahy, Margaret 6

Haunting of Cabin 13 Holl, Kristi 4

Haunting of Grade Three Maccarone, Grace 3

Haunting of Hill House, The Jackson, Shirley 9

Have You Seen Birds? Oppenheim, Joanne 1

Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Have You Seen My Cat? Carle, Eric 1

Have You Seen My Duckling? Tafuri, Nancy K

Have You Seen the Crocodile? West, Colin 1

Haymeadow, The Paulsen, Gary 6

Hazel Rye Cleaver, Vera and Bill 6

Hearing Things Fowler, Allan 1

Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The McCullers, Carson 9

Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 9

Heart of the Matter Greene, Graham 9

Heartbeat Creech, Sharon 4

Heartbeat And Other Stories Sieruta, Peter 6

Heart's Blood Yolen, Jane 6

Heavenly Zoo; Legends and Tales Lurie, Alison 5

Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik 9

Hedgehogs in the Hall Baglio, Ben 4

Helen Keller Graff, Stewart 2

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Helen Keller Keller, Helen 4

Helen Keller Davidson, Margaret 5

Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark Hurwitz, Johanna 2

Helga High Up Neuhaus, D. 2

Helga's Dowry dePaola, Tomie 2

Hello, Cat, You Need a Hat Gelman, Rita Golden 1

Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs Gilson, Jamie 5

Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library Clifford, Eth 4

Henny Penny Galdone, Paul 1

Henny Penny Zimmerman, H. Werner 1

Henry and Mudge Series Rylant, Cynthia 2

Henry Bear's Park McPhail, David 2

Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, Henry David 9

Henry Huggins Cleary, Beverly 4

Henry IV, Part I Shakespeare, William 9

Henry IV, Part II Shakespeare, William 9

Henry Reed Series Robertson, Keith 4

Henry Series Cleary, Beverly 3

Henry V Shakespeare, William 9

Henry VIII Shakespeare, William 9

Herbie Jones and the Second Grade Slippers Kline, Suzy K

Herbie Jones Series Kline, Suzy 3 Martin, Bill & Archambault, Here Are My Hands 1 John Here At The Scenic View Motel Wyss, Thelma 6

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Here Comes Hungry Albert Whitehead, Patricia 1

Here Comes the Strikeout Kessler, Leonard 2

Here Comes Winter Craig, Janet 1

Here Is The Tropical Rainforest Dunphy, Madeleine 3

Herman the Great Olsen, Zora 3

Herman the Helper Kraus, Robert 1

Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich Childress, Alice 6

Hero and the Crown McKinley, Robin 6

Hero’s Trail: A Guide for a Heroic Life, The 2002 Barron, T. A. 6

Heroes & Monsters Of Greek Myths Evslin, Benard 6

Heron Street Turner, Ann 2

Hey, Get Off Our Train Burningham, John 2

Hey, Kid! Gelman, Rhonda 2

Hi, Cat! Keats, Ezra Jack 1

Hibernation (Scholastic Reader Level 2) (BOE Approved April Kosara, Tori K 2013)

Hidden Talents (BOE Approved April 2014) Lubar, David 6

Hide and Seek Vos, Ida 6

Hiding Place TenBoom Corrie 9

Higglety Pigglety Pop Sendak, Maurice 2

High Deryni Kurtz, Katherine 6

High King Alexander, Lloyd 6

High Trail to Danger Nixon, Joan Lowery 5 High Voyage, The: The Final Crossing of Christopher Litowsky, Olga 7 Columbus High Wizardry Duane, Diane 5

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 69 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr High-Rise Private Eyes # 4: The Case of the Troublesome Rylant, Cynthia K Turtle Hill of Fire Lewis, Thomas 1

Him She Loves Kerr, M.E. 6

Hip - Hippo - Ray Ahlbert/Amstutz 1

Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher Thaler, Mike 1

Hiroshima Hersey, John 6

His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsot Carter, Dorothy Sharp 6

History of Rasselas, The - Prince of Abissinia Johnson, Samuel 11

History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Fielding, Henry 9

Hit and Run Phipson, Joan 6

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 6

Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 6

Hoboken Chicken Emergency Pinkwater, Danial 3

Hold Fast (BOE Approved November 2014) Balliett, Blue 6

Holding Me Here Concord, Pam 6

Hole is to Dig Krauss, Ruth 1

Holes* Sachar, Louis 4

Holiday Handwriting School, The Pulver, Robin 1

Hollow Hills Stewart, Mary 9

Home Alone Schick, Eleanor 1

Home Before Morning Van Devanter, Lynda 6

Home for a Puppy Gordon, Sharon 1

Home of the Brave (BOE Approved November 2014) Applegate, Katherine 4

Homecoming Voigt, Cynthia 6

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Homeless Bird Whelan, Gloria 7

Homer Price McCloskey, Robert 2

Homesick, My Own Story Fritz, Jean 5

Homework Hassles Klein, Abby 1

Homework Machine, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Gutman, Dan 3*

Hondo L'Amour, Louis 9

Honest Truth, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Gemeinhart, Dan 6

Honey Bus Cutting, Brain & Jullian 1

Hoop Heroes Kramer, Sydelle 2

Hoops Myers, Walter Dean 6

Hoot* Hiaasen, Carl 4

Hop on Pop Seuss, Dr. K

Hope was Here Bauer, Joan 6

Horrible Harry Series Kline, Suzy 2

Horse in Harry’s Room, The Hoff, Syd K

Horse to Remember Savitt, Sam 6

Horton Hatches The Egg Seuss, Dr. 1

Horton Hears A Who Seuss, Dr. 1

Hot Air Henry Calhoun, Mary 3

Hound of the Baskervilles, The Doyle, Arthur Conan 9

House For a Hermit Crab Carle, Eric 1

House is a House For Me Hoberman, Mary Ann 1

House Mouse - Senate Mouse Barnes, Peter & Cheryl 3

House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia 6

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House of Spirits Allende, Isabel 11 H

House of Stairs Sleator, William 6

House of the Scorpion, The Farmer, Nancy 7

House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 9

House On Hackman's Hill, The Nixon, Joan Lowery 4

House on Mango Street, The Cisneros, Sandra 9

House on the Gulf, The Haddix, Margaret Peterson 5

House That Jack Built Cutts, David 1

House That Jack Built Simon, I. 1

House With the Clock in its Walls Bellairs, John 6

House Without a Christmas Tree Rock, Gail 4

How A Plant Grows Kalman, Bobbie 4

How America Works Holmes, Nigel 3

How and Why Animals Hatch From Eggs Pascoe, Elaine 2

How and Why Spiders Spin Silk Pascoe, Elaine 2 How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And other outrageous Paulsen, Gary 6 tales about extreme sports (BOE Approved October 2013) How Big Is A Brachiosaurus? Carroll, Susan 2

How Could You Do It, Diane Pevsner, Stella 5

How do things Grow? Althea 3

How Do We Move Morgan, Sally K

How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head Peet, Bill 2

How Green Was My Valley Llewellyn, Richard 9

How I Survived the Oregon Trail Wilson, Laura 2

How Many Days to America Bunting, Eve 2

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How Many Snails? Giganti, Paul K

How Much is A Million? Schwartz, David M. 1

How Pizza Came to Queens Khalsa, Dayal Kaur 2

How Spider Saved Easter Kraus, Robert 1

How Spider Saved Halloween Kraus, Robert 1

How The Grinch Stole Christmas Seuss, Dr. 1

How To Catch A Ghost Mitchell, Betty Jean (Noodles) 1

How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas 3

Howl Like the Wolves Von der Grun, Max 9

Howliday Inn Howe, James 4

Howl's Moving Castle Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Hugh Pine Van de Wetering, Janwillem 3

Human Body Riddle Book, The Fleming, Maria 3

Human Comedy, The Saroyan, William 9

Humanoids, The Williamson, Jack 9

Humbug Rabbit Balian, Lorna 2

Humbug Witch Balian, Lorna 2

Hummingbird’s Life, A Himmelman, John 1

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hugo, Victor 9

Hundred Dresses Estes, Eleanor 3

Hunger Games Trilogy, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Collins, Suzanne 9 (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez Rodriquez, Richard 9

Hunger Scream Ruckman, Ivy 6

Hungry Crocodile Webb, Melissa 1

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Hungry Thing Slepian, Jan 2

Hungry, Hungry Sharks Cole, Joanna 2

Hunter in the Dark Hughes, Monica 6

Hunter of Fossils, A Baylor, B. 2

Hunting the Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals Dixon, Dougal 2

Hunting With My Camera Enting, Brian 3

Hurricane Sorneson, Margo 4

Hurricanes! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2

Hurry Up, Jessie Ziefert, Harriet 1

Hush Little Baby Aliki 1

I Am A Leaf Marzollo, Jean 1

I Am a Star, Child of the Holocast Auerbacher, Inge 9

I Am Rosemarie Moskin, Marieta 6

I Am the Cheese Cormier, Robert 6

I Can Be a Baseball Player Greene, Carol 2

I Can Blink Asch, Frank 1

I Can Build A House Wantanabe, Shigeo 1

I Can Read About Christopher Columbus Knight, David 3

I Can Read About Creepy Crawly Creatures Naden, C. J. 1

I Can Read About Dinosaurs Howard, Linda 1

I Can Read About Spiders Merrians, Deborah 1

I Can Read About Trees and Plants Warren, Elizabeth 1

I Can Roar Asch, Frank 1

I Can Take A Walk Wantanabe, Shigeo 1

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I Can't Said the Ant Cameron, Polly 1

I Feel Like The Morning Star Maguire, Gregory 6

I Go With My Family to Grandma's Levinson, Riki 1

I Hate My Brother Harry Dragonwagon, Crescent 2

I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret 6

I Just Forgot Mayer, Mercer 1

I Know a Lady Zolotow, Charlotte 1

I Know An Old Lady Boone, R. 1

I Know What You Did Last Summer Duncan, Lois 6

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya 11

I Like Books Browne, Anthony 1

I Like Me! Carlson, Nancy 1

I Love You Mary Jane Balian, Lorna 2

I Never Loved Your Mind Zindel, Paul 6

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenberg, Joanne 9

I See Patterns Benton, Linda 1

I Spy Noonan, Diana 1

I Want A Pet Gregorich, Barbara 1

I Want To Be An Astronaut Barton, Byron 1

I Was a Second Grade Werewolf Pinkwater, Danial 2 I was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Lawlor, Veronica 3 Ellis I Was Walking Down the Road Barchas, Sarah 1

I Wear the Morning Star Highwater, Jamake 6

I Went Walking Williams, Sue K

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I Will Call It Georgie's Blues Newton, Suzanne 6

I Will Not Wear That Sweater Marie, Susan 1

I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe, James 1

I Wish You More (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Krouse Rosenthal, Amy K

I, Amber Brown Danziger, Paula 2

I, Robot Asimov, Isaac 9

I’m Sorry, Almira Ann Kurtz, Jane 2

Ice Cream Soup Herman, Gail 1 Dubowski, Mark and Cathy Ice Mummy 3 East Ice People, The Barjavel, Rene 9 Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Exepedition Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody 6 (BOE Approved November 2014) Iceberg Hermit Roth, Arthur 5

Icky, Sticky Gloop Matthews, Morgan 1

I'd Like to Be Kroll, Steven 2 Ida B… and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and Hannigan, Katherine 5 (Possibly) Save the World Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain Burch, Robert 3

Idylls of the King Tennyson, Lord Alfred 9

If At First You Do Not See Brown, Ruth 1

If I Could Nayer, Judy 2

If I Ever Mayer, Mercer 1

If I Ran The Circus Seuss, Dr. 1

If I Ran The Zoo Seuss, Dr. 1

If I Were An Ant Moses, Amy K

If the Dinosaurs Came Back Most, Bernard 1

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Numeroff, Laura Joffe 1

If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln McGovern, Ann 3

If You Grew Up With George Washington Gross, Ruth Belov 3

If You Had Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Moore, Kay 3

If You Lived At The Great San Francisco Earthquake Levine, Ellen 4

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days Brenner, Barbara 2

If You Made a Million (BOE approved Nov 2015) Schwartz, David M. 3

If You Say So Claude Nixon, Joan Lowery 3

If You Were An Animal Doctor Levine, Ellen 2

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution Levy, Elizabeth 3

Iggie's House Blume, Judy 3

Iliad, The Homer 9

I'll Fix Anthony Viorst, Judith 2

I'll Meet You At The Cucumbers Moore, Lilian 3

Illustrated Man, The Bradbury, Ray 9

Illyrian Adventure Alexander, Lloyd 6

I'm King Of The Castle Watanabe, Shigeo 1

I'm Really Dragged…but Nothing Gets Me Down Hentoff, Nat 9

I'm Terrific Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 3 Milne, A. A. and Mayer, Images of Beauty: Ugly Duckling, Beauty & Beast 5 Marianna

Imagine a Day (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Thomson, Sarah L. 4

Imagine a Night (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Thomson, Sarah L. 4

Imani's Gift at Kwanzaa Burden-Patmon, Denise 2

Immigrant Kids (BOE approved Nov 2015) Freedman, Russell 3

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Imogene's Antlers Small, David 1

Importance of Being Earnest, The Wilde, Oscar 9

Important People of the Revolutionary War Smolinski, Diane 5

In 1492 Marzollo, Jean 1

In a Dark Dark Room Schwartz, Alvin 1

In A Dark, Dark Wood Melser, June K

In A Pickle and Other Funny Idioms Terban, Marvin 4 Cristini, Ermanno and In My Garden 2 Puricelli In Our Country Canizares, Susan 1

In Search Of Tutankhamun Ventura, Piero and Ceserani 6

In Summer Light Oneal, Zibby 6

In The Attic Oram, Hiawyn 1

In the Beginning:Creation Stories From Around the World Hamilton, Virginia 6

In the Dinosaur's Paw Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

In the Garden McDougall, Jim K Cristini, Ermanno and In the Pond 2 Puricelli In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao 4

In This Sign Greenberg, Joanne 9

Incident at Hawk's Hill Eckert, Allan 5

Incredible Journey Burnford, Sheila 5

Indian Country: America's Sacred Land Hillerman, Tony 9

Indian In the Cupboard Banks, Lynne Reid 4

Indian School, The Whelan, Gloria 2

Indian Tales and Legends Grey, J.E.M. 6

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Indians Silver, D. 1

Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Jerome 9

Insects Are Animals Holloway, Judith K

Inside the Titanic Marschau, Ken 2

Interstellar Pig Sleator, William 6

Into the Dream Sleator, William 4

Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon 9

Invaders from Outer Space Kindersley, Porling 4

Invasion from Below the Earth Curtis, Philip 5

Invincible Louisa Alcott, Louisa 6

Invincible Summer Ferris, Jean 6

Invisible Boy, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Ludwig, Trudy 2

Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph 9

Invisible Stanley Brown, Jeff 2

Iqbal (BOE Approved Apr 2016) D'Adamo, Francesco 5

Ira Says Good-Bye Waber, Bernard 1

Ira Sleeps Over Waber, Bernard 1

Is There Room For Me? Pigdon, Keith and Woolley 1

Is Your Mama a Llama? Guarino, Deborah 2

Isaac Campion Howker, Janni 6

Ish Reynolds, Peter K

Ishi Kroeber, Theodora 9

Isis Pedlar, The Hughes, Monica 6

Island Boy Cooney, Barbara K

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Island Of Ogres Namioka, Lensey 6

Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell, Scott 5

Island of the Skog, The Kellogg, Steven K

Island on Bird Street Orlev, Uri 6

Island, The Paulsen, Gary 6

Islander, The Rylant, Cynthia 3

It Came From Beneath the Bed Howe, James 2

It Could Still Be a Bird Fowler, Allan 1

It Could Still Be a Fish Fowler, Allan 1

It is the Law Magalnick, Barbara 3

It Looked Like Spilt Milk Shaw, Charles 1

It’s a Fruit, It’s a Vegetable, It’s a Pumpkin Fowler, Allan K

It’s Mine! Lionni, Leo K

Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox Maccarme, Grace 1

It's A Good Thing There Are Insects Fowler, Allan 1

It's An Ardvark Eat Turtle World Danziger, Paula 6

It's Christmas! Prelutsky, Jack 2

It's Halloween Prelutsky, Jack 2

It's Like This, Cat Neville, Emily Cheney 6

It's Not the End of the World Blume, Judy 5

It's So Nice To Have A Wolf Around the House Allard, Harry 2

It's Valentine's Day Prelutsky, Jack 2

Izzy Willy Milly Voigt, Cynthia 6

J.B.: A Play in Verse MacLeish, Archibald 9

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J.T. Wagner, Jane 2

Jack and The Beanstalk Various Authors 1

Jackalope Stevens, Janet 1

Jackal's Head Peters, Elizabeth 6

Jackaroo: A Novel of the Kingdom Voigt, Cynthia 6

Jacket I Wear in the Snow, The Neitzel, Shirley K

Jackie Robinson Brandt, Keith 3

Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball O’Connor, Jim 2

Jacob Have I Loved Paterson, Katherine 6

Jacob's Rescue, A Holocaust Story Drucker, M. & Halperin, M. 4

Jake Baked the Cake Hennessy, B. G. K

Jake Drake, Know it All Clements, Andrew 2

Jamaica's Find Havill, Juanita 1

Jamberry Degen, Bruce 1

James & the Giant Peach Dahl, Roald 3

James Meets the Prairie Allen, Katy 2

Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte 9

Janet's Thingamajigs Cleary, Beverly 1

Japanese Tales and Legends McAlpine, Helen 6

Jar of Dreams, A Uchida, Yoshiko 4

Jason's Women Okimato, Jean Davies 6

Jelly Belly Smith, Robert Kimmel 3

Jenius: the Amazing Guinea Pig King-Smith, Dick 2 Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Konigsburg, E.L. 3 Elizabeth

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Jennifer, Tom Hamill, Juanita 2

Jeremy Bean's St. Pastrick's Day Schertle, Alice 2

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Carlstrom, Nancy White 1

Jessica Henkes, Kevin 1

Jigaree, The Cowley, Joy K

Jigsaw Jones Mystery, A (Series) Preller, James 2

Jillian Jiggs Gilman, Phoebe 1

Jim and the Beanstalk Briggs, Raymond 3

Jim the Boy Earley, Tony 6

Jimmy D. Sidewinder and Me Salassi, Otto 6

Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash Noble, Trinka Hakes 2

Jim's Dog Muffins Cohen, Miriam 1

Jingle Bells Chartier, Normand 1

Jobs People Do Ganeri, Anita K

Joey The Jack-O'Lantern Palazzo-Craig, Janet 1

Jog Frog Jog Gregorich, Barbara 1

John Brown's Body Benet, Stephen Vincent 9

John Henry Naden, Corinne 2

John Patrick Norman McHennessey Burningham, John K

Johnny Appleseed Demuth, Patricia K

Johnny Appleseed Moore, Eva 2

Johnny Appleseed York, Carol Beach 2

Johnny Appleseed, 1988 Kellogg, Steven K

Johnny Lions Book Thacher Hurd, Edith K

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Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther Hoskins 5

Jolly Monsters, The Gordon, Sharon 1

Josefina Story Quilt, The Coerr, Eleanor 1

Joseph Andrews Fielding, Henry 9 Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Denenberg, Barry 3 Patriot, The (My Name is America) Journey Back, The Reiss, Johanna 6

Journey Home* Uchida, Yoshiko 4

Journey Into A Black Hole Branley, Franklyn Mansfield 3

Journey Into War Donaldson, Margaret 6

Journey to An 800 Number Konigsburg, E. L. 6

Journey to Ellis Island Bierman, Carol 3

Journey To Jo'burg Naidoo, Beverly 8

Journey to the Center of the Earth Verne, Jules 6

Journey to the River Sea Ibbotson, Eva 5

Juan Ponce de Leon Sakurai, Gail 4

Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas 9

Judge Benjamin Series McInerney, Judith 3

Judicial Branch, The Smalley, Carol Parenzan 6

Judy Moody Goes to College, 2008 McDonald, Megan 3

Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighead 6

Julie's Daughter Rodowsky, Colby F. 6

Julius Hoff, Syd 1

Julius - The Baby of the World Henkes, Kevin 2

Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William 9

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Jump, Frog, Jump Kalan, Robert 1

Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard 6

Jungle, The Sinclaire, Upton 9

Junie B. Jones Series Park, Barbara 2

Jurassic Dinosaurs Dixon, Dougal 2 Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln – The Story of the Gettysburg Fritz, Jean 2 Address Just a Rainy Day Mayer, Mercer 1

Just Camping Out Mayer, Mercer 1

Just For You Mayer, Mercer 1

Just Go to Bed Mayer, Mercer 1

Just Grandpa and Me Mayer, Mercer 1

Just Like Abraham Lincoln Waber, Benard 2

Just Like Daddy Asch, Frank 1

Just Me & My Little Sister Mayer, Mercer 1

Just Me and My Puppy Mayer, Mercer 1

Just One Friend Hall, Lynn 6

Just Shopping with Mom Mayer, Mercer 1

Justin & the Best Biscuits in the World Walter, Mildred Pitts 3 Kafir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age Mathabane, Mark 6 In Apartheid South Africa Kangaroo Eggleton, Jill 1

Kangaroo, The Granowsky, Alvin 1

Kate Little, Jean 5

Kate's Book Shura, Mary Francis 3

Katie’s Trunk Turner, Ann 2

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Katy & The Big Snow Burton, Virginia Lee 1

Katy No-Pocket Payne, Emma 2

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie Roop, Peter 2

Keep Your Mouth Closed, Dear Aliki K

Keeper of the Isis Light Hughes, Monica 6

Keeper, The Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 6

Keeping Healthy Hewitt, Sally K

Kermit the Hermit Peet, Bill 3

Kestral, The Alexander, Lloyd 6

Kevin's Grandma Williams, Barbara 1

Key to the Treasure Parish, Peggy 2

Kid in the Red Jacket, The Park, Barbara 4

Kid Who Ran For President, The Gutman, Dan 4

Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis 6

Kid's Money Book, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) McGillian, Jamie Kyle 5 Kids Throughout History: Kids During the American Civil Wroble, Lisa A. K War (BOE Approved October 2011) Kids Throughout History: Kids During the Renaissance Wroble, Lisa A. K (BOE Approved October 2011) Kids Throughout History: Kids in Colonial Times Wroble, Lisa A. K (BOE Approved October 2011) KidsThroughout History: Kids in Ancient Greece Wroble, Lisa A. K (BOE Approved October 2011) KidsThroughout History: Kids in Pioneer Times Wroble, Lisa A. K (BOE Approved October 2011) KidsThroughout History: Kids in the Middle Ages Wroble, Lisa A. K (BOE Approved October 2011) Killing Mr. Griffin Duncan, Lois 6

Killing Season Brenner, Barbara 6

Kim Kipling, Rudyard 6

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Kindness Rylant, Cynthia 6

Kindred Butler, Octavia E. 10

King Arthur Pyle, Howard 5

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Wood, Audrey 1

King John Shakespeare, William 9

King Lear Shakespeare, William 9

King Midas Littledale, Freya 1

King of the Wind Henry, Marguerite 6

King's New Clothes, The McKissack, Pat & Fredrick 1

Kiss for Little Bear Minarik, Else Holmelund 1

Kiss the Clown Adler, Carole 9

Kissing Hand, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Penn, Audrey K

Kit Carson Burke, Rick 3

Kite Runner, The * Hosseini, Khaled 10

Kites Sail High Heller, Ruth 1

Kitten Crowd Baglio, Ben 3

Kitten in the Cold Baglio, Ben 4

Kitten's First Full Moon (BOE approved Nov 2015) Henkes, Kevin K

Kittens in the Kitchen Baglio, Ben 4

Klondike Gold Rush, The Sheperd, Donna Walsh 4

Knee - Knock Rise Babbitt, Natalie 4

Knights of the Kitchen Table Scieszka, Jon 2

Knots in My Yo-Yo String Spinelli, Jerry 5 Martin, Bill & Archambault, Knots On A Counting Rope 2 John

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Koalo Lou Fox, Mem 2

Koko's Kitten Patterson, Francine 3

Koko's Story Patterson, Francine 1

Kon Tiki Heyerdahl, Thor 6

Korean Children's Day Suyenaga, Ruth 2

Kumquat May, I'll Always Love You Grant, Cynthia 6

Lady Bugs Braithwaite, Althea 1

Lady Bugs Watts, Barrie 1

Laila's Wedding Sakakeeny, Kaleel 2

Lake Woebegon Days Keillor, Garrison 9

Lamb in the Laundry Baglio, Ben 4

Lamb Who Came to Dinner, The Smallman, Steve K

Lance Armstrong – The Race of His Life Armstrong, Kristin 2

Land Battles of the Revolutionary War Smolinski, Diane 5

Landry News, The Clements, Andrew 3

Language of Goldfish Oneal, Zibby 6

Last Dinosaur, The Murphy, Jim 2

Last Enchantment, The Stewart, Mary 9

Last Look Bulla, Clyde Robert 2

Last Manchu Pu Yi, Henry 6

Last Mission Mazer, Harry 6

Last of the Breed L'amour, Louis 7

Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore 9

Last Silk Dress, The Rinaldi, Ann 5

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Last Treasure, The Anderson, Janet S. 5

Late George Aply, The Marquand, John 9

Laura Ingalls Wilder Walker, Pamela 3

Lazy Bear, The Wildsmith, Brian 1

Leanin Dog, The Nuzum, KA 4

Learning Tree, The Parks, Gordon 9

Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 9

Left Hand of Darkness, The LeGuin, Ursula 9

Left-Handed Shortstop Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Legand of the India's Paintbrush dePaula, Tomie 2

Legend Days Highwater, Jamake 6

Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington 5

Legend Of The Blue Bonnet, The dePaola, Tomie 2

Legend Of The Milky Way Lee, Jeanne 3

Legislative Branch, The Smalley, Carol Parenzan 6

Lemonade Trick Corbett, Scott 2

Lemonade War, The (BOE Approved April 2013) Davies, Jacqueline 2

LeMorte D'Arthur Mallory,Thomas 9

Lentil McCloskey, Robert 2

Leo And Emily Brandenberg, Franz 1

Leo and Emily and the Dragon Brandenberg, Franz 2

Leo the Lop Cosgrove, Stephen 2

Leo the Lucky Kitten Dale, Jenny 2

Leo-The Late Bloomer Kraus, Robert 1

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Leprechauns Never Lie Balian, Lorna 2

Les Miserables Hugo, Victor 9

Let the Circle Be Unbroken Taylor, Mildred 6

Let’s Go Apple Picking! Lakin, Patricia K

Let’s Go Home, Little Bear Waddell, Martin 2

Let's Be Enemies Udry, Janice May 1

Let's Get A Pet Cowley, Joy 1

Let's Get A Pet Greydanus, Rose 1

Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science Series Various Authors 1

Letter for Mr. Lincoln, A Cunningham, Alvin Robert 3

Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, A De Young, C. Coco 4

Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, A (1999) DeYoung, C. Coco 3

Letter, The Witch, & the Ring Bellairs, John 6

Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9

Letting Go Hall, Lynn 6

Lewis And Clark Stein, R. Conrad 4

Lewis and Clark Sabin, Francene 5

Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Bursell, Susan 4

Libby On Wednesday Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5

Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began Penner, Lucille Recht 2

Life Among the Savages Jackson, Shirley 9

Life Cycles: Caterpillar to Butterfly Hewitt, Sally K

Life in the Desert Baker, Lucy 3

Life In The Forest Curran, Eileen K

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Life in the Meadow Curran, Eileen 1

Life in the Oceans: Animals, People, Plants Baker, Lucy 3

Life In The Pond Curran, Eileen K

Life of a Butterfly, A Bernard, Robin 1

Life of Pi Martel, Yann 12

Life of the Butterfly, The Drew, David K

Life Without Friends White, Ellen Emerson 6

Life.Is.Not.Fair. Bargar, Gary W. 6

Light A Single Candle Butler, Beverly 5

Light in August Faulkner, William 9

Light In The Forest, The * Richter, Conrad 5

Lightning Hopping, Lorraine Jean 3

Lightning Thief, The 2005 Riordan, Rick 4

Like Mother,Like Daughter Bauer, Marion 6

Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura 12 H

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Henkes, Kevin 1

Lily and Miss Liberty Stevens, Carla 2

Lily Learns About Wants and Needs (BOE approved Nov 2015) Bullard, Lisa K

Lily the Lost Puppy Dale, Jenny 2

Lily's Crossing Giff, Patricia Reilly 4

Limestone Caves Gallant, Roy A. 4

Limit, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Landon, Kristen 6

Lincoln: A Photobiography Freedman, Russell 5

Lindgren, Astrid Dubowski, Cathy 1

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Lion and the Mouse Aesop 3

Lion In The Valley Peters, Elizabeth 6

Lion to Guard, A Bulla, Clyde Robert 4

Lionel At Large Krensky, Stephen 2

Lisa Bright & Dark Neufeld, John 6 Martin, Bill & Archambault, Listen to the Rain 2 John Listen! Tolan, Stephanie 4

Listening Silence, The Root, Phyllis 3

Listening Woman Hillerman, Tony 9

Little Bear Series Minarik, Else Holmelund 1

Little Beaver and the Echo MacDonald, Amy 2

Little Boy Who Loved Dirt & Almost Became Superslob Vigna, Judith 1

Little Britches (The Wild Country) Moody, Ralph 5

Little Brother Doctorow, Corey 9

Little Bunny's Lunch Nelson, JoAnne 2

Little Christmas Star Craig, Janet 1

Little Critter Series Mayer, Mercer 1

Little Engine That Could Piper, Watty 1

Little Fish That Got Away Cook, B. 1

Little Fox Goes to the End of the World Tompert, A. 2

Little Fox’s Secret Finky, Mary Peace 4

Little Ghost French, Vivian K

Little Gorilla Bornstein, Ruth 1

Little House Burton, Virginia Lee 1

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Little House Chapter Book Series Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2

Little House on the Prairie Series Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2

Little Love, A Hamilton, Virginia 6

Little Monster Series Mayer, Mercer 1

Little Mouse Makes a Mess Leonard, Marcia 2

Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Black, Irma Simonton 1

Little Owl Leaves the Nest Leonard, Marcia 1

Little Pig's Birthday Leonard, Marcia 1

Little Prince de Saint-Exupery, Antoine 1

Little Princess Burnett, Frances Hodgson 6

Little Quack’s New Friend Thompson, Lauren K

Little Rabbit's Baby Brother Manushkin, Fran 1

Little Rabbit's Baby Sister Leonard, Marcia 1

Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth Bate, Lucy 2

Little Raccoon & The Outside World Moore, Lilian 1

Little Red Hen Galdone, Paul 1

Little Red Hen McQueen, Lucinda 1

Little Red Riding Hood Hyman, Trina Schart 1

Little Shopping, A Rylant, Cynthia 2

Little Soup’s Birthday Peck, Robert Newton 2

Little Sure Shot: The Story of Annie Oakley Spinner, Stephanie 2

Little Tim & The Brave Sea Captain Ardizzone, Edward 1

Little Witch’s Big Night Hautzig, Deborah 2

Little Women Alcott, Louisa May 6

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Littles Go Exploring, The Peterson, John 3

Littles Have A Wedding, The Peterson, John 3

Littles Seno's, The Peterson, John 3

Littles Take a Trip, The Peterson, John 3

Littles, The Peterson, John 3

Littlest Leaguer Hoff, Syd 1

Lives of Christopher Chant Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Living in Space Daynes, Katie 2

Living Up the Street Soto, Gary 6

Lizard Music Pinkwater, Daniel 5

Lizards Home Shannon, George 1

Lizard's Song Shannon, George 1

Lizzie Lies a Lot Levy, Elizabeth 4

Loch Ness Monster (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Locked in the Library Brown, Marc 2

Locked In Time Duncan, Lois 6

Lon Po Po Young, Ed 3

London Eye Mystery, The (BOE Approved November 2014) Dowd, Siobhan 6

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Sillitoe, Alan 9

Long Ago in Oregon Lewis, Claudia Louise 3

Long Day's Journey Into Night O'Neill, Eugene 9

Long Live The Queen White, Ellen Emerson 6

Long Secret Fitzhugh, Louise 5

Long Walk to Water, A (BOE approved April 2014) Park, Linda Sue 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 93 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Long Way from Chicago, A Peck, Richard 2

Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael 9

Long Way Westward, The Sandin, Joan 1

Longest Journey in the World Morris, William 1

Look Homeward Angel Wolfe, Thomas 9

Look Out, He's Behind You Bradman, Tony 1

Look Through My Window Little, Jean 5

Look To The North – A Wolf Pup Diary George, Jean Craighead 2

Look What I Can Do Aruego, Jose K

Look...A Butterfly Cutts, David K

Look…What do you see? Rye, Jennifer 3

Looking At Animals in Cold Places Butterfield, Moira 2

Lorax, The Seuss, Dr. 1

Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph 9

Lord of the Flies Golding, William 9

Lord Valentine's Castle Silverberg, Robert 6

Lorenzo Waber, Bernard 1

Loser Spinelli, Jerry 4

Lost Horizon Hilton, James 9

Lost in the Museum Cohen, Miriam 2

Lost in the Storm Carrick, Carol 1

Lost Star-The Story of Amelia Earhart Lauber, Patricia 4

Lots of Rot Cobb, Vicki 2

Lottery Rose Hunt, Irene 5

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 94 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Lotus Caves Christopher, John 5

Louis Braille Davidson, Margaret 3

Louisa May Alcott McGill, Marci R. 4

Louisiana Purchase, The Jaffe, Elizabeth 4

Lovable Lyle Waber, Bernard 3

Love You Forever Munsch, Robert 1

Love, From the Fifth Grade Celebrity Giff, Patricia Reilly 4

Loved One, The Waugh, Evelyn 9

Lovely Bones, The Sebold, Alice 11

Love's Labor Lost Shakespeare, William 9

Lowji Discovers America, 2005 Fleming, Candace 3

Lucille Lobel, Arnold 1

Lucita Comes Home to Oaxaca Cano, Robin B. 1

Luck of Roaring Camp and Others Harte, Bret 9

Lucky Bear Phillips, Joan 1

Lucky Jim Amis, Kingsley 9

Lucky Lottery, The Roy, Ron 3

Lucky Stone, The Clifton, Lucille 2

Lucky's Choice Jeschke, Susan 1

Lulu Walks the Dogs (BOE approved Nov 2015) Viorst, Judith 1

Lunch Money Clements, Andrew 3

Lyddie Paterson, Katherine 6

Lyle Finds His Mother Waber, Bernard 3

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Waber, Bernard 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 95 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

M & M Series Ross, Pat 1

Macbeth Shakespeare, William 9

Macbeth and The Emperor Jones Shakespeare, William 9

Machine Gunners, The Westall, Robert 6

Machineries of Joy, The Bradbury, Ray 7

Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave 9

Madeline Series Bemelmans, Ludwig 1

Maggie Marmelstein Series Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 4

Magic Finger Dahl, Roald 2

Magic Fish Littledale, Freya 1

Magic Hat, The Fox, Mem 1

Magic in the Park Chew, Ruth 2

Magic School Bus at the Waterworks Cole, Joanna 2

Magic School Bus Fights Germs, The Egan, Kate K

Magic School Bus Gets Caught in a Web, The Lane Jeanette 1

Magic School Bus Gets Programmed, The Cole, Joanna 3

Magic School Bus Inside the Earth Cole, Joanna 2

Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System Cole, Joanna 3

Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor Cole, Joanna 3

Magic School Bus Rides the Wind, The Capeci, Anne 1

Magic School Bus, The Cole, Joanna 2

Magic School Bus, The : The Wild Whale Watch Moore, Eva 2

Magic Spectacles, The Moore, Lilian 1

Magic Top Mystery O'Connor, Jim and Jane 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 96 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Magic Tree House (Series) Osborne, Mary Pope 2

Magicians of Caprona Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Mailing May Tunnell, Michael O. 1

Main Street Lewis, Sinclair 9

Main Travelled Roads Hamlin, Garland 9

Major Barbara Shaw, George Benard 9

Major of Caterbridge, The Hardy, Thomas 9

Make Way for Ducklings McCloskey, Robert 1

Making a Law Magalnick, Barbara 3

Makra Choria Mayhar, Ardath 6

Maltese Falcon, The Hammett, Dashiell 9

Mammals Are Animals Holloway, Judith 1

Man and Superman Shaw, George Benard 9

Man for All Seasons Bolt, Robert 9

Man in the High Castle Dick, Phillip 9

Man in the Woods, The Wells, Rosemary 6

Man of Property Galsworthy, John 9

Man of the Family Moody, Ralph 6

Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes, The Krasilovsky, Phyllis 1

Man Who Dropped From the Sky, The Shyne, Kevin 3

Man Who Never Was, The Montagu, Ewen 9

Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The (BOE Approved Gerstein, Mordicai 3 Apr 2016) Man Who Was Poe Avi 6

Man Who Would Be King, The Kipling, Rudyard 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 97 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Manchild in the Promised Land Brown, Claude 9

Maniac Magee* Spinelli, Jerry 5

Manor, The Singer, Isaac Bashevis 9

Manta Rays Berger, Melvin 1

Many Waters L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Map Is a Picture Rinkoff, Barbara 1

Maps Cicciarelli, Joellyn Thrall K

Maps and Globes Knowlton, Jack 1

Mara, Daughter of the Nile McGraw, Eloise 6

Marching to Freedom Story of Martin Luther King Milton, Joyce 4

Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster Greenwald, Sheila 4

Marisol and Magdalena Chambers, Veronica 6

Mark of Conte Levitin, Sonia 6

Mars: The Red Planet Demuth, Patricia 2

Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray 9

Martiner K. Saves the Day Gelman, R. 1

Marvin Redpost “Alone in His Teacher’s House” Sachar, Louis 2

Marvin Redpost “Class President” Sachar, Louis 2

Marvin Redpost “Is He a Girl” Sachar, Louis 2

Marvin Redpost “Kidnapped at Birth” Sachar, Louis 2

Marvin Redpost “Why Pick Me” Sachar, Louis 2

Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, Out of Control Sachar, Louis 3

Mary Had a Little Lamb Hale, Sarah 2

Mary Wore Her Red Dress Peek, Merle 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 98 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Masai & I Krou, Virginia 2

Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary 9

Master Builder Ibsen, Henrik 9

Master Puppeteer Paterson, Katherine 6

Math for the Real World Nonfiction Leveled Books Rosen Publisher K

Math In The Bath (and other fun places, too!) Atherlay, Sara 2

Matilda Bone Cushman, Karen 7

Matt Christopher Sports Series Christopher, Matt 3

Matthew's Dream Lionni, Leo 2

Maui Hooks Hawaii (BOE Approved April 2014) Scheu, Judy 1

Maurice's Room Fox, Paula 3

Maus I: A surviors Tale - My Father Bleeds History Spielgelman, Art 11

Maus II: A Survivors Tale - And Here My Troubles Began Spielgelman, Art 11

Max + Me + the Time Machine Greer, Gery 6

Max Malone Make a Million Herman, Charlotte 2

Max the Dog That Refused to Die Wayne, Kyra Petrovskaya 5

Maxie the Mutt Peters, Sharon K

Max's Christmas Wells, Rosemary 2

May Flower McGovern, Ann 3

May I Bring a Friend? De Regniers, Beatrice K

May I Cross Your Golden River? Dixon, Paige 6

Maybe a Mole Cunningham, Julia 3

Maybe Garden, The Burke-Weiner, Kimberly 1

May'naise Sandwiches and Sunshine Tea Belton, Sandra 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 99 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Maze Runner, The (BOE Approved October 2013) Dashner, James 6

McBroom Tells The Truth Fleischman, Sid 3

Me and the Terrible Two Conford, Ellen 6

Me and the Weirdos Sutton, Jane 4

Meaning of Maggie, The (BOE Approved April 2015) Sovern, Megan Jean 6

Meantime, The MacKinnon, Bernard 6

Measure for Measure Shakespeare, William 9

Meet …(Series) Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Various Authors 2

Meet Kirsten Shaw, Janet 4

Meet Our Families Perkins, G.L. K

Meet the Austins L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Meet the Lincoln Lions Band Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Megan's Island Roberts, Willo Davis 5

Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson 9

Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949 Fluek, Toby 6

Memory Mahy, Margaret 6

Memory Coat, The Woodruff, Elvira 3

Men of Iron Pyle, Howard 6

Merchant of Venice Shakespeare, William 9

Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle, Howard 5

Merry Christmas from Eddie Haywood, Carolyn 2

Merry Christmas Mom and Dad Mayer, Mercer 1

Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare, William 9

Mesa Verde Goldish, Meish 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 100 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Rockliff, Mara 4 Baffled All of France (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Messenger Lowry, Lois 6

Metals Baldwin, Carol 8 Canizares, Susan & Chanko, Mexico 1 Pamela Mia Hamm Dougherty, Terri 2

Mice Twice Low, Joseph 2

Microlife: From Amoebas to Viruses Claybourne, Anna 7

Midnight Fox Byars, Betsy 4

Midnight Hour Encores Brooks, Bruce 6

Midnight Zone Woodward, John 6

Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare, William 9

Might Mizzling Mouse Henstra, Frisco K

Mighty Machines Oxlade, Chris K

Mike and the Magic Cookies Buller, Jon 2

Mike Fink Kellogg, Steven 2

Mike Fink (Folk Tales of America) York, Carol Beach 2

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Burton, Virginia Lee 1

Milagro Beanfield War Nicholas, John 9

Million Dollar Jeans Roy, Ron 6

Million Dollar Shot, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Gutman, Dan 3

Millions of Cats Gag, Wanda 1

Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World Peck, Richard 6

Mindset Dweck PhD., Carol S. 9

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain Lobel, Arnold 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 101 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Miracle Worker, The Gibson, William 9

Miracles on Maple Hill Sorensen, Virginia 5

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The DiCamillo, Kate 4

Mishmash Cone, Moly 3

Miss Hickory Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin 3

Miss Know-It-All York, Carol 3

Miss Know-It-All Returns York, Carol 3

Miss Nelson Series Allard Jr., Harry G. 1

Miss Rumphius Cooney, Barbara 2

Miss Spider’s Wedding Kirk, David 2

Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Eco Mystery, The George, Jean Craighead 4

Missing Piece Meets Big O Silverstein, Shel 3

Missing Tooth, The Cole, Joanna 2

Mississippi Bridge Taylor, Mildred 5

Misty and Me Girion, Barbara 4

Misty of Chincoteague Henry, Marguerite 3

Mitch and Amy Cleary, Beverly 5

Mitchell is Moving Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 1

Mitten Tresselt, Alvin 1

Mitzi and Frederick the Great Williams, Barbara 4

Mitzi and the Terrible Tyrannosaurus Williams, Barbara 4

Mixed-Up Magic Cole, Joanna 1

Mixtures, Compounds and Solutions Baldwin, Carol 8

Moby Dick Melville, Herman 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 102 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Moby Dick-Adapt. Melville, Herman 9

Moffat Series Estes, Eleanor 4

Moll Flanders DeFoe, Daniel 9

Molly's Monsters Slater, Teddy 1

Molly's Pilgrim Cohen, Barbara 2

Molly's Wish Supraner, Robyn 2

Molly's Wish To Molly's Special Wish Supraner, Robyn 1

Mom, You're Fired! Robinson, Nancy 4

Monarch Butterfly’s Life, A Himmelman, John 2

Monday, I Love You Greene, Constance C. 6

Monday, Monday, I Like Monday Martin, Bill 1

Mondo “Book Shop” Series Level A - I Various Authors K

Monkey Ch’eng-en, Wu 12

Monkey See Monkey Do Gave, Marc 1

Monkeys Whitehead, Patricia K

Monkeys and Apes Morris, Dean 3

Monster Myers, Walter Dean 7

Monster & The Baby Mueller, Virginia 1

Monster Books, The (Series) Blance, Ellen & Cook, Ann 1

Monster Movie Cole, Joanna 1

Monster Tracks Delaney, A. 1

Monster Under My Bed, The Gruber, Suzabbe K

Monster Valentines Cole, Joanna 2

Moo Moo, Brown Cow Wood, Jakki K

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 103 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Moon and I, The Byars, Betsy 5

Moon and the Face McKillip, Patricia 6

Moon Over Manifest (BOE approved Nov 2015) Vanderpool, Clare 6

Moonbear Series Asch, Frank 1

Mooncake Asch, Frank 1

Moondial Cresswell, Helen 6

Moon-Flash McKillip, Patricia 6

Moonlight Ormerod, Jan K

Moonlight Man, The Fox, Paula 6

Moonwalk The First Trip to the Moon Donnelly, Judy 3

More Spaghetti, I Say! Gelman, Rita Golden 1

More Stories Julian Tells Cameron, Ann 2

More Than Anything Else (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Bradby, Marie 2

Morning Dance Aruego, Jose 1

Morris & Boris Series Wiseman, Bernard 1

Morris's Disappearing Bag Wells, Rosemary 2

Mortal Engines Reeve, Philip 7

Mossflower Jacques, Brian 6

Most Beautiful Place In the World, The Cameron, Ann 3

Mostly Michael Smith, Robert Kimmel 3

Mother Courage and Her Children Brecht, Bertolt 9

Mother Goose Various Authors 1

Mother Rabbit's Son Tom Gackenbach, Dick 1

Mother's Day Mice, The Brett, Jan 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 104 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Mother's Day, El Dia de las Madres Matiella, Ana Consuelo 2

Mottled Lizard Huxley, Elspeth 6

Mouse and the Motorcycle Cleary, Beverly 2

Mouse Box, The Cowley, Joy 1

Mouse Count Stollwalsh, Ellen K

Mouse Magic Baglio, Ben 3

Mouse Paint Walsh, Ellen Stoll K

Mouse Party (BOE Approved April 2014) Robinson, Fay 1

Mouse Soup Lobel, Arnold 1

Mouse Tales Lobel, Arnold 1

Mousetrap & Other Plays, The Christie, Agatha 9

Moves Make the Man, The Brooks, Bruce 6

Mr. Brown's Magnificent Apple Tree Winer, Yvonne 1

Mr. Grumpy's John Burningham, John 1

Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers Wennick, Karen 3

Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard 2 Mr. Putter and Tabby Series, Bake the Cake, Pick the Rylant, Cynthia 2 Pears, Walk the Dog, Row the Boat, Fly the Plane, Pour the

Mr. Terupt Falls Again (BOE Approved April 2014) Buyea, Rob 6

Mr. Tucket, 1995 Paulsen, Gary 4

Mrs. Brice's Mice Hoff, Syd 1

Mrs. Fish, Ape & Me the Dump Queen Mazer, Norma Fox 6

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH O'Brien, Robert 4

Mrs. Grimbles Eggleton, Jill 1

Mrs. Grimbles Grapevine Eggleton, Jill 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 105 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Mrs. Huggins and Her Hen Hannah Dabcovich, Lydia 1

Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash Weeks, Sarah K

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series MacDonald, Betty 3

Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy Rayner, Mary 2

Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm Cowley, Joy K

Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare, William 9

Mud Lewison, Wendy 1

Mudshark (BOE Approved November 2014) Paulsen, Gary 3

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Steptoe, John 2

Muffy and Fluffy Palazzo-Craig, Janet 1

Muggie Maggie Cleary, Beverly 3

Mumkin Cosgrove, Stephen 3

Mummies Made In Egypt Aliki 6

Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 6

Mummy, The Will and The Crypt Bellairs, John 5

Munch, Munch, Munch Gentner, Norma 1

Murder for Her Majesty Hilgartner, Beth 6

Murder In A Pig's Eye Hall, Lynn 6

Murder in the Cathedral Eliot, T.S. 9

Murders in the Rue Morgue Poe, Edgar Allan 9

Muscles and Bones Usborne Science 4

Museum, The Cutting, Brain & Julian 1

Music of Dolphins, The Hesse, Karen 6

Mustang: A Combat Marine Averill, Gerald 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 106 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Mustard Graeber, Charlotte 3

My Antonia Cather, Willa Sibert 9

My Brother Sam Is Dead Collier, James Lincoln 5

My Brother, Ant, 1996 Byars, Betsy K

My Daniel Conrad, Pam 6

My Darling, My Hamburger Zindel, Paul 6

My Father's Dragon Gannett, Ruth Stiles. 2

My First Easter dePaola, Tomie 2

My Five Senses Aliki 1

My Global Address Nunn, Tamara 1

My Hundred Children Kuchler-Silberman, L. 6

My Life and Hard Times Thurber, James 9

My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies Viorst, Judith 1

My Mom Travels a Lot Bauer, Caroline Feller 1

My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim 9

My New Boy Phillips, Joan 1

My Prairie Year (Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted) Harvey, Brett 2

My Red Umbrella Bright, Robert 1

My Robot Buddy Slote, Alfred 3

My Secret Hiding Place Greydanus, Rose 1

My Shadow Ran Fast Sands, Bill 9

My Side of the Mountain George, Jean Craighead 4

My Teacher Sleeps in School Weiss, Leatie 2

My Trip to Alpha 1 Slote, Alfred 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 107 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

My Visit to the Dinosaurs Aliki 1

Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Author Conan 4

Mysterious Benedict Society, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Stewart, Trenton Lee 6

Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 9

Mysterious Tadpole Kellogg, Steven 2

Mystery at the Jelly Bean Factory Sabin, Francene 3

Mystery in the Night Woods Peterson, John Lawrence 2

Mystery of Death Trap Mine Carey, Mary V. 5

Mystery of Pirate Ghost, The Hayes, Geoffrey 2

Mystery of the Alamo Ghost, The Marsh, Carole 4

Mystery of the California Mission Trail, The Marsh, Carole 4

Mystery of the Coughing Dragon West, Nick 5

Mystery of the Giant Footprints, The Krahn, Fernandoi K

Mystery of the Haunted House, The Shannon, J. 1

Mystery of the Haunted Trail Loarimer, Janet 5

Mystery of the Lost Ring Supraner, Robyn 2

Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten Kellogg, Steven 1

Mystery of the PB & J Jam, The Cosson, M.J. 2

Mystery of the Rocky Mountains, The Marsh, Carole 4

Mystery of the Underground Railroad, The Marsh, Carole 4

Naked Mole-Rat Letters Amato, Mary 5

Name of This Book is Secret, The (BOE Approved November Bosch, Pseudonymous 6 2014) Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs dePaola, Tomie 1 Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew Case of the Sneaky Keene, Carolyn 1 Snowman

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 108 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Nancy Drew Mysteries Keene, Carolyn 5

Nanda Devi: The Tragic Expedition Roskelly, John 6

Napping House Wood, Audrey 1

Nargun And The Stars Wrightson, Patricia 6

Nasty Stinky Sneakers Bunting, Eve 2

Nate the Great Series Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 1

National Anthem, The Quiri, Patricia 2

National Geographic Science Readers Series (BOE Approved Various Authors K April 2013) Native Son Wright, Richard 9

Natural Disasters - Earthquakes Thompson, Luke 3

Natural Disasters - Volcanoes Thompson, Luke 4

Naval Warfare of the Revolutionary War Smolinski, Diane 5

Naya Nuki Thomasma, Kenneth 4 Michael Cart and Charlotte Necessary Noise 9 Noruzi Necessary Parties Dana, Barbara 6

Nectar in a Sieve Markandaya, Karmala 9

Nell the Naughty Kitten Dale, Jenny 2

Nell's Quilt Terris, Susan 6

Nest of Wood Ducks Shaw, Evelyn S. 1

Nettie’s Trip South Turner, Ann 5

Never Cry Wolf Mowat, Farley 6

Never Ride Your Elephant to School Johnson, Doug K

Never, Ever Shout in the Zoo Wilson, Karma K

New Americans, The Maestro, Betsy and Giulio 2

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 109 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

New Coat for Anna Ziefert, Harriet 2

New Kid at School, The McMullan, Kate 3

New Kid on the Block Prelutsky, Jack 3

Next Spring an Oriole Whelan, Gloria 3

Nice Girl From Good Home Arrick, Fran 6

Nicky's Christmas Surprise Ziefert, Harriet 1

Night Weissel, Elie 6

Night After Christmas Stevenson, James 2

Night Gardener, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Auxier, Jonathan 5

Night Journeys Avi 5

Night Kites Kerr, M. E. 6

Night of the Full Moon Whelan, Gloria 2

Night of the Twisters Ruckman, Ivy 4

Night Riding Martin, Katherine 6

Night Shift King, Stephen 6

Night Swimmers Byars, Betsy 5

Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, R. 9

Night Tokyo Burned, The Edoin, Hoito 6

Night Walkers, The Coontz, Otto 5

Nightingale, The Anderson, Hans Christian 3

Nightpool Murphy, Shirley Rousseau 6

Nighty Nightmare Howe, James 3

Nitter Pitter Cosgrove, Stephen K

No Blade of Grass Christopher, John 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 110 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

No Carrots for Harry Lungerman, Jean 2

No Exit and Three Other Plays Sartre, Jean -Paul 9

No Fighting, No Biting! Minarik, Else Holmelund 1

No Flying in the House Brock, Betty 1

No Jumping on the Bed Arnold, Tedd K

No Kidding Brooks, Bruce 6

No Mail For Mitchell Siracusa, Catherine 1

No Room For A Sneeze Supraner, Robyn 1

No Such Thing As A Witch Chew, Ruth 3

No Talking Clements, Andrew 3

No Toothe, No Quarter Buller, Jon & Schade, Susan 2

Noah's Ark Spier, Peter K

Nobody Else Can Walk it For You Peterson, P. J. 6

Nobody Listens to Andrew Guilfoile, Elizabeth 1

Nobody's Baby Now Benjamin, Carol Lea 6

Nobody's Family Is Going to Change Fitzhugh, Louise 6

Noisy Nora Wells, Rosemary 1

Nonmetals Baldwin, Carol 8

Norma Jean, Jumping Bean Cole, Joanna 1

Norman the Doorman Freeman, Don 3

North American Indians Gorsline, Douglas 3

North by Night Ayres, Katherine 5

Nory Ryan's Song Giff, Patricia Reilly 8

Not Now, Said The Cow Oppenheim, Joanne 1

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 111 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Not This Bear Myers, Bernice 1

Nothing But the Truth Avi 6

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Schotter, Roni 2

Nothing Here But Stones Oswald, Nancy 4

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade DeClements, Barthe 4

Not-Just-Anybody Family Byars, Betsy 3

Not-So-Buried Treasure Berenstain, Stan 2

Not-So-Jolly Roger, The Scieszka, Jon 3

Nova Delaney, Samuel R. 9

Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family Johnson, Dolores 4

Now One Foot, Now the Other dePaola, Tomie 2

Number The Stars* Lowry, Lois 4

Nursery School Rabbit Geras, Adele 1

Nutty Can't Miss Hughes, Dean 4

O, Pioneers Cather, Willa 9

Obadiah Melser, June K

Obnoxious Jerks Manes, Stephen 6

Obon Suyenaga, Ruth 2 Canizares, Susan & Chanko, Ocean 1 Pamela Ocean Biome, The Smithyman, Kathryn 6

Oceans Steele, Christy 6

Octopus Berger, Melvin 1

Octopus, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Odyssey, The Homer 9

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 112 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Oedipus Plays, The Sophocles 9

Of Colors and Things Hoban, Tana K

Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset 9

Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John 9

Of Nightingales That Weep Paterson, Katherine 6

Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford, William 9

Oh Beans! Weiss, Ellen 2

Oh, Honestly Angela Robinson, Nancy 4

Oh, Kojo! How Could You! Aardema, Verna 2

Oh, Were They Ever Happy! Spier, Peter 1

Oh, What a Thanksgiving! Kroll, Steven 3

Okay for Now (BOE Approved April 2012) Schmidt, Gary D. 6

Old Bear Hissey, Jane 2

Old Black Fly Aylesworth, Jim K

Old Henry Blos, Joan 2

Old MacDonald Had a Farm Graboff, Abner 1

Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest 9

Old Mother Hubbard Provensen, Alice 1

Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog Marshall, James 2

Old Stormalong York, Carol Beach 2

Old Yeller Gipson, Fred 4

Olden Days Mathieu, Joe 2

Olga Carries On Bond, Michael 4

Oliver & The Runaway Alligator McBrier, Michael 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 113 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Oliver and the Lucky Duck McBrier, Page 2

Oliver Button Is A Sissy dePaola, Tomie 1

Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 4

Om-Kas-Toe of the Blackfeet Thomasma, Kenneth 4

On Christmas Eve Brown, Margaret Wise 2

On Fire Sebestyen, Ouida 6

On Fortune's Wheel Voigt, Cynthia 7

On Market Street Lobel, Arnold 1

On My Honor Bauer. Marion Dane 3

On The Banks Of Plum Creek Wilder, Laura Ingalls 3

On the Beach Shute, Nevil 6

On The Devil's Court Deuker, Carl 6

On the Edge Cross, Gillian 6

On the Far Side of the Mountain George, Jean Craighead 5

On the field with … Emmitt Smith Christopher, Matt 4

On the Move, 2000 Strandling, Jan K

On The Way Home Wilder, Laura Ingalls 4

On Writing King, Stephen 11

Once & Future King, The White, T.H. 9

Once Upon a Marigold Ferris, Jean 5

Once Upon A Springtime Marzollo, Jean 2

Once Upon MacDonald's Farm Gammell, Stephen 1

Once: A Lullaby Nichol, B. P. 1

One and Only Ivan, The (BOE Approved November 2014) Applegate, Katherine 3

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 114 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

One Child Hayden, Torey L. 6

One Cold Wet Night Melser, June and Cowley, Joy 1

One Cool Friend Buzzeo, Toni 2

One Day in the Alpine Tundra George, Jean C. 4

One Day in the Desert George, Jean C. 4

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 9

One Day In The Prairie George, Jean Craighead 3

One Day in the Woods George, Jean Craighead 4

One Fat Summer Lipsyte, Robert 6

One Fine Day Hogrogian, Nonny 2

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Seuss, Dr. 1

One Golden Summer Luxa, Sue 4 One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference Milway, Katie Smith 5 (BOE approved Nov 2015) One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 9

One Hungry Monster O’Keefe, Susan Heyboer 2

One in The Middle is the Green Kangaroo Blume, Judy 1

One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, The Blume, Judy 2

One Little Monkey Calmenson, Stephanie 1

One Morning in Maine McCloskey, Robert 1

One Wooly Wombat Trinca, Rod 1

One Zillion Valentines Modell, Frank 2

One-Eyed Cat Fox, Paula 5

Onion John Krumgold, Joseph 5

Only My Mouth is Smiling Riley, Jocelyn 6

Updated November 11, 2016 *previously approved at higher grade level 115 K- 12 Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr

Oops Mayer, Mercer 1

Operation: Dump the Chump Park, Barbara 3

Opossum and the Great Firemaker Mike, Jan M. 3

Optimist's Daughter, The Welty, Eudora 9

Orange, The (Series) Nash, Pamela 1

Ordinary People Guest, Judith 9

Orphan and the Doll Friedman, Tracy 3

Orphan Journey Home Ketchum, Liza 4 Orphan of Ellis Island, The (Time Travel Adventures) Woodruff, Elvira 3 (BOE approved Nov 2015) Orphan Train Series Nixon, Joan Lowery 2

Orphaned Pup Lapp, Eleanor 5

Orphans in the Sky Heinlein, Robert 9

Oscar Otter Benchley, Nathaniel 1

Othello Shakespeare, William 9

Other Side of the Family, The Pople, Maureen 6

Other Side of the Island, The 2008 Goodman, Allegra 6

Other, The Tryon, Thomas 9

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Blume, Judy 2

Our Communities Foley, Donald K

Our Journey West Thompson, Gare 3 Our New Life in America (National Geographic Reading Thompson, Gare 3 Expeditions)* (BOE Approved April 2015) Our Teacher Miss Pool Owen, Richard 1

Out of Africa Dineson, Isak 9

Out of My Mind (BOE Approved April 2013) Draper, Sharon M. 5

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Out of the Bug Jar Thomas, Kathleen 4

Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen 6

Outer Space and All That Junk Gilden, Mel 6

Outlaws of Sherwood McKinley, Robin 6

Outside Shot, The Myers, Walter Dean 6

Outsiders, The Hinton, S. E. 6

Over In the Meadow Various Authors 1

Over Sea Under Stone Cooper, Susan 6

Over the River and Through the Wood Child, Lycia Maria 2

Over the Rugged Mountain Gutman, Bill 4

Overnight At Mary Bloom's Aliki 1

Ovid Ovid 9

Owen (BOE approved Nov 2015) Henkes, Kevin K Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Hatkoff, Isabella & Craig and 2 Friendship (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Kahumbu, Dr. Paula Owen Foote: Mighty Scientist Greene, Stephanie 3

Owl At Home Lobel, Arnold 1

Owl at School Nicoll, Helen 1

Owl in the Office Baglio, Ben 4

Owl Moon Yolen, Jane 1

Owliver Kraus, Robert 1

Owls In the Family Mowat, Farley 3

Ox-Bow Incident, The Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 9

Ox-Cart Man Hall, Donald 1

Paddington Helps Out Bond, Michael 4

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Paddle To The Sea Holling, Holling C. 3

Page Four Klass, Sheila Solomon 6

Pain And the Great One Blume, Judy 1

Paint Brush Kid, The Bulla, Clyde Robert 2

Paintbox Penguins: A Book about Colors Leonard, Marcia 1 Eberts, Marjorie and Gisler, Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza 1 Margaret Panda, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Paper Party, The Freeman, Don 1

Paradise Lost Milton, John 9

Pardon Me You're Stepping on My Eyeball Zindel, Paul 6

Pardon Said the Giraffe West, Colin 1

Park Bench, The Takeshita, Fumiko 3

Park's Quest Paterson, Katherine 6

Parrot, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Passage to India Forster, E.M. 9

Pat The Bunny Kunhardt, Dorothy 1

Patchwork Quilt, The Flournoy, Valerie 2

Pathki Nana, Kootenai Girl Thomasma, Kenneth 3

Patrick's Dinosaurs Carrick, Carol 1

Paul Bunyan Various Authors 2

Paul Revere Sullivan, George 3

Paul the Pitcher Sharp, Paul 1

Paul's Game Towne, Mary 6

Pea Patch Jig, The Hurd, Thacher 2

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Peace Breaks Out Knowles, John 9

Peace Like a River Enger, Leif 9

Peak Smith, Roland 5

Peanut Butter & Jelly Haas, Dorothy 3

Pearl Harbor Krensky, Stephen 2

Pearl Harbor is Burning! Kudlinski, Kathleen 4

Pearl, The Steinbeck, John 9

Pecos Bill Kellogg, Steven 3

Pecos Bill (Folk Tales of America) Lyman, Nanci 2 Rulfo, Juan Translated by Pedro Paramo 11 H Margaret Sayers Peden Pee Wee Scouts Series Delton, Judy 2

Pegasus, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Penguins Kaufman, Elizabeth Elias 1

Penguins Paint, The Tripp, Valerie 1

Penny and Her Marble (BOE Approved November 2014) Henkes, Kevin 1

Pentimento: A Book of Portraits Hellman, Lillian 9

Peppermints in the Parlor Wallace, Barbara Brooks 5

Pere Goriot de Balzac, Honore' 9

Perfect the Pig Jeschke, Susan 1

Perilous Road, The Steele, William O. 5

Permanent Connections Bridger, Sue E 6

Perry, A Pronghorn Antelope Highsmith Taylor, Bonnie 4 Perspectives: Language Arts Grades 4-5 by College of Dullaghan, Barbara 5 William & Mary Center for Gifted Ed (BOE approved Nov 2015) Pet Show Keats, Ezra Jack 1

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Litwin, Eric K

Pete the Parakeet Gordon, Sharon 1

Peter and the North Wind Littledale, Freya 1 Pearson, Ridley and Barry, Peter and the Starcatchers 4 Dave Peter Pan Barrie, Jim 1

Peter's Chair Keats, Ezra Jack 3

Phantom Tollbooth Juster, Norton 4

Phil the Ventriloquist Kraus, Robert 1

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe Greene, Bette 5

Phoebe The Spy Griffin, Judith 4

Phoebe's Revolt Babbitt, Natalie 3

Phoenix Rising:How to Survive Your Life Grant, Cynthia 6

Phoenix Too Frequent Fry, Christoper 9

Piano Lesson, The (BOE Approved October 2011) Wilson, August 9

Pick-A-Path Dinosaur Adventure Logan, Nora 2

Picking Apples and Pumpkins Mills, Liz K

Pickle Things Brown, Marc Tolon 1

Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 9

Picnic McCully, Emily Arnold K

Picnic with Piggins Yolen, Jane 2

Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln, A Adler, David 2

Picture Book of Amelia Earhart, A Adler, David 4

Picture Book of Anne Frank, A Adler, David 3

Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin, A Adler, David 3

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Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A Adler, David 2

Picture Book of George Washington, A Adler, David 2

Picture Book of Harriet Tubman, A Adler, David 3

Picture Book of Helen Keller, A Adler, David 3

Picture Book of Martin Luther King, A Adler, David 3

Picture Book of Sojourner Truth, A Adler, David 4

Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson, A Adler, David 2

Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wilde, Oscar 9

Picture the Past - Life on a Pioneer Homestead Isaacs, Sally Senzell 2

Pictures of Adam Levoy, Myron 6

Pictures of Hollis Woods Reilly Giff, Patricia 3

Pierre Sendak, Maurice 1

Pig Out Blues Greenberg, Jan 6

Pig Pig Grows Up (Series) McPhail, David 1

Pig Who Saved the Day, The Crawford, Thomas 2

Piggins Yolen, Jane 2

Piggy In The Puddle, The Pomerantz, Charlotte 1

Piglet in a Playpen Baglio, Ben 4

Pigman Zindel, Paul 6

Pigman's Legacy Zindel, Paul 6

Pigs in Hiding Dubonevich, Arlene 1

Pigs Might Fly King-Smith, Dick 2

Pigs Will Be Pigs Axelrod, Amy 2

Pike of Pike's Peak Baker, Nina 4

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard, Annie 9

Pilgrim Children Had Many Chores Lems-Tardif, Gina K

Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John 9

Pilot Down, Presumed Dead Phleger, Majorie 4

Pinballs Byars, Betsy 4

Pink and Say Polacco, Patricia 5

Pinky and Rex and the Bully Howe, James 1

Pinky and Rex and the School Play (BOE Approved April 2013) Howe, James K

Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee Howe, James 2

Pinky Pye Estes, Eleanor 4

Pioneer Cat Hooks, William H. 2

Pioneer Girl – The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Anderson, William 3

Pioneers, The Gorsline, Marie 4

Pippa Mouse Boegehold, Betty Virginia 1

Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid 3

Pippi on the Run Lindgren, Astrid 2

Pirates! Maynard, Christopher 2

Pistachio Prescription, The Danziger, Paula 6

Pizza Monster, The Sharmat, Majorie and Mirchell 2

Plague, The Camus, Albert 9

Plain Girl Sorensen, Virginia 3

Plains Indians Ansary, Mir Tamim 2

Planets In Our Solar System, The Branley, Franklyn M. 2

Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The McArthur, Nancy 4

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Playbody of the Western World Synge, John Millington 9

Playground Fun Gordon, Sharon 1

Playhouse for Monster Mueller, Virginia 1

Please Don’t Go! Wilhelm, Hans K

Pocahontas and the Strangers Bulla, Clyde Robert 1

Pocket Aristotle Kaplan, Justin 9

Pocket Bible 9

Pocket for Corduroy Freeman, Don 1

Pocket Full of Kisses, A (BOE Approved April 2013) Penn, Audrey K

Pokemon – I Choose You West, Tracy 3

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Martin Jr, Bill Carle, Eric K

Polar Bears Baker, Lucy 3

Polar Express, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Van Allsburg, Chris 3

Polk St. Series Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Polka Dot Private Eye Series Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Pompeii "Buried Alive"! Kunhardt Davis, Edith 3

Ponies at the Point Baglio, Ben 4

Pony Express Bailer, Darice 2

Pony Express, The Mercati, Cynthia 2

Pony on the Porch Baglio, Ben 4

Pony Pals “A Pony in Trouble” Betancourt, Jeanne 3

Pony Pals “Detective Pony” Betancourt, Jeanne 2

Pony Pals “Runaway Pony” Betancourt, Jeanne 3

Pony Pals “The Missing Pony Pal” Betancourt, Jeanne 3

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Pony Pals “The Wild Pony” Betancourt, Jeanne 3

Pony Parade Baglio, Ben 3

Pony, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Pookins Gets Her Way Lester, Helen 1

Pool of Fire Christopher, John 6

Poor Old Polly Melser, June K

Poorly Pig Ahlberg, Allan 1

Popcorn Book dePaola, Tomie 2

Popcorn Dragon, The Thayer, Jane K

Popcorn Popper, The Nelson, JoAnne 2

Poppleton Everyday Rylant, Cynthia 2

Poppleton In Spring Rylant, Cynthia 2

Poppy and the Outdoors Cat Haas, Dorothy 2

Poppy the Panda Gaokenback, Dick 1

Poppy, 1995 Avi 3

Porcupine Named Fluffy, A Lester, Helen K

Porcupine's Pajama Party Harshman, Terry 1

Portable Dorthy Parker, The Parker, Dorothy. 9

Portrait of A Lady James, Henry 9

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Joyce, James 9

Possessed, The Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Post Office Book, Mail and How Its Moves Gibbons, Gail 2

Postcards From Canada Dawson, Zoe 1

Postcards From… Series Arnold, Helen 2

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Powder Puff Puzzle Giff, Patricia Reilly 4

Power and the Glory, The Greene, Graham 9

Powwow Coombs, Linda 2

Prairie Songs Conrad, Pam 6

Prank Lasky, Kathryn 6

Praying Mantis (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

President's Daughter White, Ellen Emerson 6 Dubowski, Mark and Cathy Pretty Good Magic 2 East Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 11

Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark 6

Prince in Waiting, The Christopher, John 6

Prince, The Machiavelli, Niccolo 9

Prince's Tooth Is Loose, The Ziefert, Harriet 1

Princess Academy Hale, Shannon 4

Princess Academy, The Hale, Shannon 2

Princess and the Pea, The Stevens, Janet 1

Princess Ashley Peck, Richard 6

Princess Bride, The (BOE Approved October 2012) William Goldman 7

Principal's New Clothes, The Calmenson, Stephanie 2

Printer’s Apprentice, The Krensky, Stephen 2

Probably Still Nick Swansen Wolff, Virginia Euwer 6

Profiles in Courage Kennedy, John F. 9

Prometheus Bound Aeschylus 9

Proof: a play (BOE Approved October 2011 Auburn, David 9

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Proud Taste For Scarlet & Miniver Konigsburg, E.L. 5

Puddin'head Wilson Twain, Mark 9

Pueblo Storyteller Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane 3

Pumpkin, Pumpkin Titherington, Jeanne 1

Punished!, 2006 Lubar, David 2

Puppet Masters Heinlein, Robert 9

Puppies in the Pantry Baglio, Ben 4

Puppy Puzzle Baglio, Ben 3

Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, The Thayer, Jane 3

Purple Climbing Days Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Pushcart War Merrill, Jean 5

Pygmalion Shaw, George Bernard 9

Q is for Duck Elting, Mary 2

Quack Said The Billy Goat Causley, Charles 1

Quakes McMorrow, Catherine 2

Quartzsite Trip Hogan, William 9

Quick As A Cricket Wood, Audrey 1

Quiet American Greene, Graham 9

Quilt Story, The Johnstone, Tony 2

R is for Rocket Bradbury, Ray 7

R.U.R. Capek, Karel 9

Rabbit Ears Montgomery, Robert 6

Rabbit Hill Lawson, Robert 4

Rabbit Hole: a play (BOE Approved October 2011) Lindsay-Abaire, David 9

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Rabbit Race Baglio, Ben 3

Rabbits On Roller Skates Wahl, Jan 1

Rachel’s Journal Moss, Marissa 3 Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog Stein, Garth 7 (Adapted for young readers) (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Racing the Sun Pitts, Paul 5

Ragweed, 1999 Avi 3

Railroad! A Story of the Transcontinental Railroad Bailer, Darice 3

Rain Spier, Peter K

Rain Kalan, Robert 1

Rain Forest Ride Andrews, Julia 2

Rain Forest Secrets Dorros, Arthur 2

Rain Reign (BOE approved Nov 2015) Martin, Ann M. 6

Rainbow Jordan Guy 6

Rainbow of My Own Freeman, Don 1

Raindrops Roll (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Sayre, April K

Raisin in the Sun, A Hansbury, Lorraine 9

Raising a Seeing Eye Dog (BOE Approved October 2011) Glassman, Jackie K

Ralph S. Mouse Cleary, Beverly 3

Ramayana, The Narayan, R.K. 12

Ramona Series Cleary, Beverly 2 Ranger's Apprentice: Book One The Ruins of Gorlan Flanagan, John 7 (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Rascal* North, Sterling 3

Rat Is Dead and Ant Is Sad Baker, Betty 1

Ratha's Creature Bell, Claire 6

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Rattlesnakes: The Snake Discovery Library Bargar, Sharie 2

Ravi's Diwali Surprise Kacker, Anisha 2

Real Hole Cleary, Beverly 1

Real Thief Steig, William 3

Rear View Mirrors Fleischman, Paul 6 Reason for A Flower, The : A Book About Flowers, Pollen Heller, Ruth 1 and Seeds Rebecca du Maurier, Daphne 9

Rebels Of The Heavenly Kingdom Paterson, Katherine 6

Reconstruction Peacock, Judith 4

Records and Oddities Hopkins, John 2

Red Badge of Courage, The Crane, Stephen 9

Red Book, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Lehman, Barbara K

Red Dog Wallace, Bill 5

Red Hawk and the Sky Sisters Dominic, Gloria 3

Red Is Best Stinson, Kathy 1

Red Pony, The Steinbeck, John 6

Red Riding Hood Marshall, James 2

Red Sky at Morning Bradford, Richard 9

Red White and Blue-The Story of the American Flag Herman, John 1

Redwall Jacques, Brian 6

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Dunning, Stephen 6

Reluctant Dragon, The Shepard, Ernest 5

Reluctant God, The Service, Pamela 6

Remember Me to Harold Square Danziger, Paula 6

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Remember the Alamo! Mercati, Cynthia 4

Remembering the Good Times Peck, Richard 6

Rent a Third Grader Hiller, B. B. 3

Report Card, The Clements, Andrew 3

Reptiles Are Animals Holloway, Judith K

Return of the Indian Banks, Lynne Reid 5

Return of The King Tolkien, J. R. R. 6

Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 9

Revolutionary War Home Front, The Smolinski, Diane 5

Revolutionary War on Wednesday Osborne, Mary Pope 3

Revolutionary War Soldiers Smolinski, Diane 5

Revolutionary War, The January, Brendan K

Rhinoceros and other Plays Ionesco, Eugene 9

Rhinoceros Wakes Me Up in the Morning, A Goodspeed, Peter 1

Ribsy Cleary, Beverly 3

Rich And Famous Like My Mom Coleman, Hila 6

Richard II Shakespeare, Willliam 9

Richard III Shakespeare, William 9

Riddle of Penncroft Farm, The Jansen, Dorothea 5

Riddle of the Red Purse Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Riders of the Purple Sage Gray, Zane 9

Riders to the Sea Synge, John Millington 9

Riding The Iron Rooster Theroux, Paul 6

Rifles for Watie Keith, Harold 5

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Rigby Leveled Reader Collection: Rigby Flying Colors Various Authors 1

Rigby Leveled Reader Collection: Rigby PM Various Authors 1

Rigby: Literacy Tree Series Various Authors K

Right Number of Elephants, The Sheppard, Jeff 1

Ring of Endless Light L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Rip Van Winkle Irving, Washington 2

Rivals, The Congreve, William 9

River Parade Day, Alexandra 2

River Rats Stoermer, Caroline 6 Braun, Eric and Sandra Rivers, Lakes, and Ponds 6 Donovan Robbery At the Diamond Dog Diner, The Christelow, Eileen 2

Robert & The Hairy Disaster Seuling, Barbara 2

Robinson Crusoe DeFoe, Daniel 9

Robot Dreams Asimov, Isaac 7

Robot Series Cook, Ann and Mack, Herb 1

Robots & Empire Asimov, Isaac 6

Rock 'n' Roll Nights Strasser, Todd 6

Rockets & Spaceships Wallace, Karen 2 Rocks & Minerals (Scholastic True or False) Berger, Melvin and Gilda 1 (BOE Approved April 2013) Rocks & Minerals (Wonders of our World) (BOE Approved April Morris, Neil 3 2013) Rocky Mountain Summer Baxter, Linda 3

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred 5

Roll Over! A Counting Song Peek, Merle 1

Roller Skates Calmenson, Stephanie K

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Romance of Tristan and Iseult, The Bedier, M. Joseph 9

Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story Shakespeare, William 9

Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 9

Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Room One (BOE Approved October 2011) Clements, Andrew 4

Rooster and The Weather Vane Peters, Sharon 1

Rooster Who Went to His Uncle’s Wedding, The Ada, Alma Flor 1

Rooster's Off To See The World Carle, Eric 1

Root Cellar, The Lunn, Janet 5 Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs Applegate, Katherine 2 (BOE Approved April 2014) Roscoe's Leap Cross, Gillian 6

Rose Beyond The Wall, The Holl, Kristi 5

Rose in My Garden, The Lobel, Arnold 2

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Stoppard, Tom 9

Rosetta Stone, The Budge, E. A. Wallis 6

Rosie's Razzle Dazzle Harris, Robie H. 3

Rosie's Walk Hutchins, Pat 1

Rotten Ralph Gantos, Jack 1

Round Trip Jonas, Ann 1

Rub-A-Dub Dub: What's In The Tub? Blocksma, Mary 1

Rub-A-Dub-Suds Peters, Sharon 1

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Fitzgerald, Edward 9

Rubber Rabbit Ahlberg, Allan 1

Ruby in the Smoke Pullman, Philip 6

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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer May, Robert 2

Rules* Lord, Cynthia 4

Rumble Fish Hinton, S. E. 6

Rumor of Otters Savage 6

Rumpelstiltskin Zelinsky, Paul 2

Runaway Bunny Brown, Margaret Wise 1

Runaway Ralph Cleary, Beverly 2

Runaway To Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad Shucker, Barbara 5

Runner Voigt, Cynthia 6

Running in the Family Ondaatje, Michael 11

Runt, 2002 Bauer, Marion Dane 3

Russell Rides Again Hurwitz, Johanna 1

S is for Space Bradbury, Ray 7

S.O.R. Avi 3 Thompson, Kathleen & Sacagawea 3 Gleiter, Jan Sacajawea Milton, Joyce 1

Sadako & The Thousand Paper Cranes Coerr, Eleanor 3

Sagebrush Highsmith Taylor, Bonnie 2

Saguard Cactus Berquist, Paul & Shirley 3

Sails Literacy Series Eggleston, Jill K

Saint Joan Shaw, G.B. 9

Sam and the Lucky Money (BOE approved Nov 2015) Chinn, Karen 1

Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt Ernst, Lisa Campbell 2

Sam Patch-The Big Time Jumper York, Carol Beach 2

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Sam The Minuteman Benchley, Nathaniel 1

Sam Who Never Forgets (BOE Approved October 2011) Rice, Eve K

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine Ness, Evaline 2

Samantha Slade: Monster Sitter Smith, Susan 4

Sand Cake Asch, Frank 1

Santa Clauses, The Broger, Achim 1

Sarah Bishop O'Dell, Scott 5

Sarah Morton's Day Waters, Kate 2

Sarah, Plain and Tall Maclachlan, Patricia 2

Sarah's Unicorn Coville, Bruce 1

Sassafras Cosgrove, Stephen 2

Save That Raccoon Miklowitz, Gloria 2

Saving The President Brenner, Barbara 5

Savvy, 2008 Law, Ingrid 4

Say Goodnight, Gracie Deaver, Julie Reece 6

Say Hello to the Hitman Bennett, Jay 6

Scarlet Letter, The Hawthorne, Nathanial 9

Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers Series Various Authors K

School Days Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2

School Days According to Humphrey (BOE approved Nov 2015) Birney, Betty G. 3

School Story, The Clements, Andrew 3

Schooled Korman, Gordon 5

Schoolhouse Mystery Warner, Gertrude 3

Schoolhouse on the Prairie Mercati, Cynthia 2

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Schwa was Here, The Shusterman, Neal 9

Science Vocabulary Readers series by Scholastic Various Authors K

Scientists Chanko, Pamela 1

Scorpions Myers, Walter Dean 6

Scrub Dog Of Alaska Morey, Walt 5

Scruffy Stonley, Jack 3

Sea Around Us, The Carson, Rachel 9

Sea Creatures Faundez, Anne K

Sea of Ice/The Wreck of the Endurance Keelling, Monica 3

Sea Runners, The Doig, Ivan 9

Sea Songs Livingston, Myra Cohn 2

Sea Wolf London, Jack 9

Seabird Holling, Holling C. 4

Seabiscuit Dubowski, Cathy East 1

Seafloor Woodward, John 6

Seahorse, The (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1

Seahorses Berger, Melvin 1

Seals Baker, Lucy 3

Seance Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Searching for Candlestick Park Kehret, Peg 6

Season for Unicorns, A Levitin, Sonia 6

Season of Promise Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary Hermes, Patricia 2

Seasons Of Arnold's Apple Tree, The Gibbons, Gail 1

Seasons Of Splendour - Tales Of India Jaffrey, Madhur 8

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Seasons of the Farm Miller, Jane 1

Seasons, The Smith, Ian K

Secession Peacock, Judith 4

Second Mrs. Giaconda, The Konigsburg, E. L. 7

Second-Grade Friends Cohen, Miriam 1

Secret City, USA Holman, Felice 6

Secret Garden, The* Burnet, Frances Hodgson 4

Secret Life Of Bees, The Monk Kidd, Sue 9

Secret of Foghorn Island, The Hayes, Geoffrey 2

Secret of the Andes Clark, Ann Nolan 5

Secret School, The* Avi 4

Secret Sharer, The Conrad, Joseph 9

Secret Silent Screams Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Secret Soldier, The: Story of Deborah Sampson McGovern, Ann 3

Secret Under My Skin, The McNaughton, Janet 6

See How It Grows Graves, Kimberly K

See How It Grows (Series) Nash, Pamela 1

See You In Second Grade Cohen, Miriam 1

See You Tomorrow Charles Cohen, Miriam 1

Seed is a Promise, A. Merrill, Claire 2

Seed, The (Series) Nash, Pamela 1

Seedfolks Fleischman, Paul 7

Seeing Earth from Space Lauber, Patricia 4

Selected Short Stories of Hawthorne Hawthorne, Nathaniel 9

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Sending of Dragons Yolen, Jane 6

Sense & Sensibility Austen, Jane 9

Sentries Paulsen, Gary 6

Separate Peace, A Knowles, John 9

Seven Little Rabbits Becker, John 1

Seventeen Against The Dealer Voigt, Cynthia 6

Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 6

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Staples, Suzanne Fisher 6

Shackleton Expedition, The Fine, Jill 4

Shadow and Light Bacon, Katherine Joy 6

Shadow Club Shusterman, Neal 6

Shadow In Hawthorn Bay Lunn, Janet 5

Shadow in the North, The Pullman, Philip 6

Shadow Maker, The Hansen, Ron 4

Shadow Nose Levy, Elizabeth 3

Shadow of a Bull Wojciechowska, Maia 4

Shadow of the Wolf Whelan, Gloria 3

Shake Hands with Shakespeare Cullum, Albert 6

Shake My Sakes & All Raffee Picture Books Raffi 1

Shake My Sillies Out Raffi 1

Shakespeare Stealer, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Blackwood, Gary 6

Shakespeare’s Scribe Gary Blackwood 7

Shane Schaefer, Jack 6

Shark Beneath The Reef George, Jean Craighead 6

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Shark Lady McGovern, Ann 2

Sharks Berger, Melvin 1

Sharks Chessen, Betsey 1

Sharks McGovern, Ann 3

Sharks Sheikh-Milles, Jonathan 3

Shattered Chain Bradley, Marion Zimmer 9

Shawn and Keeper/Show-and-Tell London, Jonathan 1

She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 9

Sheepdog in the Snow Baglio, Ben 4

Sheila Rae The Brave Henkes, Kevin 2 Canizares, Susan & Moreton, Shelter 1 Daniel Sherluck Bones Mystery Book 1 Razzi, Jim 4

Sherman Is A Slowpoke Sharmat, Mitchell 1

Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution Fritz, Jean 5

Shiloh (BOE approved Nov 2015) Reynolds-Naylor, Phyllis 3*

Shipwrecks of the Explorers Smith, KC 5

Shoeshine Girl Bulla, Clyde Robert 4

Shoo, Fly Guy Arnold, Tedd K

Show and Tell Gordon, Sharon 1

Show and Tell Frog, The Oppenheim, Joanne 1

Show Me No Mercy Perske, Robert 6

Sick Day for Amos McGee, A (BOE approved Nov 2015) Stead, Philip K

Siddartha Hesse, Hermann 9

Sideway Stories from Wayside School Sachar, Louis 3

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Sign of the Beaver Speare, Ellizabeth George 4

Sign of the Chrysanthemum, The Paterson, Katherine 6

Sign Painter’s Secret, The: Story of a Revolutionary Girl Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas 3

Silas Marner Eliot, George 9

Silent Spring Carson, Rachel 9

Silly Sheep Ahlberg, Allan 1

Silly Tilly’s Valentine Hoban, Lillian K

Silver Whelan, Gloria 2

Silver Mazer, Norma Fox 6

Silver Dollar Girl Ayres, Katherine 4

Silver on the Tree Cooper, Susan 6

Simon A Red Fox Highsmith Taylor, Bonnie 4

Simple Machines Bains, Rae 3

Simple Pictures Are Best Willard, Nancy 2

Sing Down the Moon O'Dell, Scott 4

Sing, Sam, Sing Larkin, Bruce K

Single Shard, A* Park, Linda Sue 5

Singularity Sleator, William 6

Sirens and Spies Lisle, Janet Taylor 6

Sister Carrie Drieser, Theodore 9

Sitting Bull Recht Penner, Lucille 2

Six Characters in Search of An Author Pirandello, Luigi 9

Six Foolish Fishermen Elkin, Benjamin 1

Six Plays Hellman, Lillian 9

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Sixteen Gallo, Donald R. 6

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You DeClements, Barthe 6

Skeeter Smith, Kay Jordan 6

Skeleton Hiccups Cuyler, Margery K

Skeletons Wood, Lily 3

Skelton Inside You, The Blaestrino, Phillip 2

Skinnybones Park, Barbara 3

Skip to My Lou Westcott, Nadine Bernard K

Sky Inside, The 2008 Dunkle, Clare B. 6

Sky is Full of Stars Branley, Franklyn M. 3

Skyfire Asch, Frank 2

Skylark, Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall Maclachlan, Patricia 3

Slake's Limbo Holman, Felice 5

Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Slave Dancer Fox, Paula 5

Sled Surprise, The Barron, Gifford 1

Sleep Out Carrick, Carol 2

Sleepers, Wake Jacobs, Paul Samuel 6

Sleeping Ugly Yolen, Jane 2

Sleepover Friends Series Saunders, Susan 4

Sleepy Bear Dabcovich, Lydia 1

Sleepy Book Zolotow, Charlotte 1

Slinky, Scaly Snakes Dussling, Jennifer 2

Sloppy Kisses Winthrop, Elizabeth 1

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Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, said the Sloth Carle, Eric 1

Small Pig Lobel, Arnold 2

Smelling Things Fowler, Allan 1

Snail, The (Series) Nash, Pamela 1

Snail's Spell, The Ryder, Jonne 2

Snake That Went to School Moore, Lilian 2

Snakes Broekel, Ray 1

Snakes Petty, Kate 1

Snakes Gross, Ruth Belov 2

Snakes and Lizards Morris, Dean 3

Snakes and Their Young Bailey, Donna 1

Snakes! Penner, Lucille 2

Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death Pinkwater, Daniel 6

Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror Pinkwater, Daniel 6

Sneetches And Other Stories Seuss, Dr. 1

Snow Bound Mazer, Harry 6

Snow Child, The Littledale, Freya 2

Snow Lion McPhail, David 2

Snow Treasure McSwigan, Marie 4

Snowman, The Briggs, Raymond 1

Snows of Killmanjaro Hemingway, Ernest 9

Snowshoe Trek to Otter River Budbill, David 5

Snowy Day Keats, Ezra Jack 1

So Can I Facklam, Margery 1

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So Long At The Fair Irwin, Hadley 6

So Sick Ziefert, Harriet 1

So You Want to Be a Wizard Duane, Diane 6 St. George, Judith & Small, So You Want to Be President 3 David Soccer Rosenthal, Bert 3

Soccer (BOE Approved October 2011) Herzog, Brad K

Soccer Sam Marzollo, Jean 2

Socks Cleary, Beverly 2

Socksnatchers, The Balian, Lorna 2

Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears Cornelissen, Cornealia 5

Soft Skull Sam Hoff, Syd 1

Solar System Vogt, Gregory 3

Soldier's Heart Paulsen, Gary 8

Solitary Hill, L. 6

Solitary Blue. A (The Tillerman Cycle) Voigt, Cynthia 6

Solomon the Rusty Nail Steig, William 2

Solve Them Yourself Mysteries Hitchcock, Alfred 5

Somehow Tenderness Survives Rockman, Hazel 6

Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island Bunting, Eve 6

Something Queer Series Levy, Elizabeth 2

Something Upstairs Avi 5

Something Upstairs; A Tale Of Ghosts Avi 6

Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray 9

Sometimes It's Turkey; Sometimes It's Feathers Balian, Lorna 2

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Somewhere In the Darkness Myers, Walter Dean 6

Son For A Day Gerson, Corinne 4

Son of Interflux Korman, Gordon 6

Song and Dance Man Ackerman, Karen 1

Song Lee and the “I Hate You” Notes Kline, Suzy 3

Song of the Hermit Thrush-An Iroquois Legend Dominic, Gloria 4

Song of the Trees Taylor, Mildred 4

Sons from Afar Voigt, Cynthia 6

Sophocles I - Three Tragedies Sophocles 9

SOS Titanic Bunting, Eve 7

Soul of A New Machine Kidder, Tracy 9

Soul-Singer of Tyrnos Mayhar, Ardath 6

Soun Tetoken Thomasma, Kenneth 3

Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner, William 9

Sound of Chariots, A Hunter, Mollie 6

Sound of Waves Mishima, Yukio 9

Sound the Jubilee Forrester, Sandra 5

Sounder Armstrong, William H. 5

Soup Series Peck, Robert Newton 4

Space Busters Space Mysteries Parker, Steve 5

Space Case Marshall, Edward 1

Space Rock Buller, Jon 2

Space Station - Accident on Mir Royston, Angela 4

Space Witch Freeman, Don 2

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Spacebusters - A Race to the Moon Wilkinson, Philip 4

Spectacles Raskin, Ellen 2

Specter Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Spell for Chameleon Anthony, Piers 6

Spell of the Sorceror's Skull Bellairs, John 6

Spelling Bee Gordon, Sharon 1

Spider and the Fly Howitt, Mary 1

Spider, The Nash, Pamela 1

Spiders Gibbons, Gail 1

Spiders are Animals Holloway, Judith 1

Spider's First Day At School Kraus, Robert 1

Spirit of the Wild West, The Owens, L.L. 2

Squanto Friend Of Pilgrims Bulla, Clyde Robert 3

Square Against the World Mercati, Cynthia 3

Square Against the World: Story of a Sod House Mercati, Cynthia 2

Stacy Says Good-bye Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Stage Fright Martin, Ann 4

Stalker Nixon, Joan Lowery 6

Stand on Zanzibar Brunner, John 9

Stanley Hoff, Syd 1

Stanley and Rhoda Wells, Rosemary 1

Star Spangled Banner, The Spier, Peter 2

Star Wars, Attack of the Clones Arnold, Eric 3

Star Wars, Episode I: Anakin to the Rescue Venn, Cecilia 1

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Star Wars, Episode I: Anakin’s Fate Cerasini, Marc 2

Star Wars, Episode I: Danger of the Core Thomas, Jim 2

Star Wars, Luke’s Fate Thomas, Jim 2

Stargirl (BOE Approved April 2014) Spinelli, Jerry 6

Starplace, The Grove, Vicki 5

States of Matter Baldwin, Carol 8

Statue of Liberty , The Recht, Lucille 1

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Cruther, Chris 9

Stealing Home Denenberg, Barry 4

Stellaluna Cannon, Janell 1

Stepping on the Crackes Hahn, Mary Downing 6

Stinker From Space Service, Pamela 4

Stinker's Return Service, Pamela 4

Stock Car Kings Gutelle, Andrew 3

Stone Fox Gardiner, John Reynolds 3

Stone Pony, The Calvert, Patricia 6

Stone Soup McGovern, Ann 1

Stonewalkers, The Alcock, Vivien 6

Stonewall’s Gold: A Novel of the Civil War Mrazek, Robert J. 8

Stonewards; A Ghost Story Conrad, Pam 6

Stories In Stone Kittinger, Jo S. 3

Stories Julian Tells Cameron, Ann 2

Stories of the North London, Jack 6

Storm Chasers – Tracking Twisters Herman, Gail 3

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Storm is Coming Tekavec, Heather K

Storm Runners (BOE Approved April 2014) Smith, Roland 6

Storm Runners: Eruption (BOE Approved April 2014) Smith, Roland 6

Storm Runners: The Surge (BOE Approved April 2014) Smith, Roland 6

Story of an African Farm, The Schreiner, Olive H

Story of Anne Frank, The Lewis, Brenda Ralph 3

Story of Anne Sullivan, The Selden, Bernice 4

Story of Chicken Licken Ormerod, Jan 1

Story of Christopher Columbus Osborne, Mary Pope 3

Story of Dinosaurs (Now I Know) Eastman, David K

Story of Ferdinand, The Leaf, Munro 1

Story of George Washington Quiet Hero Milton, Joyce 4

Story of Holly and Ivy, The Godden, Rumer 3

Story of Jackie Robinson: The Bravest Man in Baseball, The Davidson, Margaret 4

Story Of Johnny Appleseed, The Aliki 1

Story Of Jumping Mouse, The Steptoe, John 3

Story of Ping, The Flack, Marjorie 2

Story of Sacajawea, The Rowland, Della 3

Story of the Christmas Rose Richardson, I. M. 2

Story of the Kind Wolf, The Nickel, Peter 2

Story Snail, The Rockwell, Anne 1

Stotan! Crutcher, Chris 6

Strange Attractors Sleater, William 6

Strange Creatures That Really Lived Selsam, Millicent 2

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Strange Disappearance of Arthur Cluck, The Benchley, Nathaniel 1

Stranger Came Ashore Hunter, Mollie 6

Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert 9

Stranger With My Face Duncan, Lois 6

Stranger, The Camus, Albert 9

Stranger, You And I Calvert, Patricia 6

Strawberry Girl Lenski, Lois 3

Strawberry Thanksgiving Jennings, Paulla 2

Stray Dog, The Simont, Marc K

Streams to the River, River to the Sea* O'Dell, Scott 4

Strega Nona dePaola, Tomie 2

Strega Nona: Her Story dePaola, Tomie 2

Strictly for Laughs Conford, Ellen 6

String in the Harp Bond, Nancy 6

Stringbean's Trip To The Shining Sea Williams, Vera 2

Strongest One of All, The Choi, Y. Kim K

Struggle for a Continent Maestro, Betsy and Giulio 3

Stuart Little White, E. B. 2

Stupids Series Allard, Harry 2

Suddenly Super Rich Miklowitz, Gloria 6

Suds Angell, Judie 6

Sugar Blue Cleaver, Vera 6

Summer Life, A Soto, Gary 6

Summer of Fear Duncan, Lois 6

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Summer of My German Soldier Greene, Bette 6

Summer of Riley, The Bunting, Eve 4

Summer of the Green Star Lee, Robert C 6

Summer of the Monkeys Rawls, Wilson 5

Summer of the Swans Byars, Betsy 5

Summer Pony Doty, Jean Slaughter 2

Summer to Die Lowry, Lois 5

Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway, Ernest 9

Sun, He Dies. The Highwater, Jamake 6

Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali Niani, D.T. 12

Sunlit Zone Woodward, John 6

Sunshine Makes the Seasons Branley, Franklyn 1

Super Cluck O’Connor, Jane and Robert K

Super Fudge Blume, Judy 3

Super Storms Simon, Seymour 1

Supernaturalist,The 2004 Colfer, Eoin 6

Surprise Party Gordon, Sharon 1

Surprise Party, The Prager, Annabelle 1

Surprise, Surprise Pascal, Francine 2

Surprises Hopkins, Lee Bennett 1

Surviving the Applewhites Tolan, Stephanie 6

Susan B. Anthony Tremain, J 5

Swamp Monsters Christian, Mary Blount 1

Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune Brancato, Robin F. 6

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Sweet Touch Balian, Lorna 1

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Hamilton, Virginia 6

Swiftly Tilting Planet L'Engle, Madelieine 6

Swiftwater Loring, E. 9

Swim With the Dolphins Kranking, Kathleen W. 2

Swimmy Lionni, Leo 1

Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Jean Rudolph 5

Switcharound Lowry, Lois 6

Sword in the Stone, The White, Terence Hanbury 9

Sword of the Spirits, The Christopher, John 6

Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride Amstel, Marsha 3

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig, William 1

Tacky the Penguin Lester, Helen 1

Tacky-Three Cheers for Tack Lester, Helen K

Tails of the Bronx Pinkwater, Jill 5

Taking Terri Mueller Mazer, Norma Fox 6

Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Potter, Beatrix 1

Tale of Despereaux, The* DiCamillo, Kate 2

Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse & Other Mouse Stories Potter, Beatrix 2

Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Potter, Beatrix 1

Tale of the Bunny Picnic, The Hearn, Diane Dawson 1

Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, The Paterson, Katherine 2

Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles 9

Tales from a Troubled Land Paton, Alan 9

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Tales From Silver Lands Finger, Charles 4

Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing Blume, Judy 3

Tales of Amanda Pig Van Leeuwen, Jean 1

Tales of An Ashanti Father Appiah, Peggy 6

Tales of Greek Heroes Green, Roger Lancelyn 4

Tales of Olga da Polga Bond, Michael 3

Tales of Oliver Pig Van Leeuwen, Jean 1

Tales of the American Revolution Hall, Peg 3

Tales of the Old West Hall, Peg 5

Tales of Trickery From the Land of Spook Schwartz, Alvin 4 Tales, Trails & Tommyknockers: Stories from Colorado's Friggens, Myriam 4 Past Talking Earth George, Jean Craighead 5

Tall City, Wide Country Chwast, Seymour 1

Tallyho, Pinkerton! Kellogg, Steven 1

Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare, William 9

Taming the Star Runner Hinton, S. E. 6

Tancy Hurmence, Belinda 6

Tangerine (BOE Approved April 2014) Bloor, Edward 6

Taran Wanderer Alexander, Lloyd 6

Tarantula & the Red Chigger Robertson, Mary Elsie 6

Taste of Blackberries Smith, Doris Buchanan 2

Teacher From The Black Lagoon, The Thaler, Mike 2

Teacher Who Could Not Count, The McKee, Craig 1

Teacher’s Funeral, The Peck, Richard 2

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Tears of a Tiger Draper, Sharon 9

Teddy Bear's Scrapbook Howe, Deborah 3

Teddy On Time Pellowski, Michael 1

Teen Angel: And Other Stories Gingher, Marianne 6

Teeny Tiny Bennett, Jill 1

Teeny Tiny Woman O'Connor, Jane 1

Teeny Tiny Woman Seuling, Barbara 1

Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea LeGuin, Ursula 7

Tell-Tale Tiger Ahlberg, Allan 1

Tempest, The Shakespeare, William 9

Ten Little Indians Christie, Agatha 6

Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley, Joy 1

Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9 Moore, Lilian & Adelson, Terrible Mr. Twitmeyer 2 Leone Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House Blaine, Marge 2

Terrible Wave Dahlstedt, Marden 5

Terror Below – True Shark Stories del Prado, Dana 2

Terror on the Amazon – The Quest for El Dorado Gates, Phil 3

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas 9

Tet: The New Year Tran, Kim-Lan 2

Tex Hinton, S. E. 6

Thank you Mr. Falker Polocca, Patricia 3

Thank You, Jackie Robinson Cohen, Barbara 6

Thanksgiving Meachen Rau, Dana 2

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Thanksgiving Is … Borden, Louise 1

Thanksgiving Mice Roberts, Bethany K

Thanksgiving Treasure Rock, Gail 5

That Crazy Eddie and the Science Project of Doom Cox, Judy 2

That Was Then, This is Now Hinton, S. E. 6

That's Not All Schneider, R. 1

That's Not Santa Kessler, Leonard 1

That's What A Friend Is Hallinan, P. K. 1

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Haddon, Mark 9

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Farmer, Nancy 6 Lane, Sheila and Kemp, The Last of the Mohicans (Take Part 4 Marion The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement C 1

Their Eyes were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale H Berger, Samantha & Moreton, Then and Now K Daniel

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (BOE approved Nov 2015) Grisham, John 6

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy* Arnold, Tedd K

There’s a Dragon in my Sleeping Bag, 1994 Howe, James K

There’s an Owl in the Shower George, Jean Craighead 4

There's A Bat in Bunk Five Danzinger, Paula 6

There's A Boy In the Girl's Bathroom Sacher, Louis 5

There's A Dragon in My Garden Cutting, Brian 1

There's A Hippopotamus Under My Bed Thaler, Mike 1

There's A Nightmare In My Closet Mayer, Mercer 1

There's A Witch Under the Stairs Smith, Maggie 2

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There's An Alligator Under My Bed Mayer, Mercer 1

There's No Such Thing as a Dragon Kent, Jack 2

There's Someone in My Attic Mayer, Mercer 1

Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose Seuss, Dr. 1

Thief Lord, The Funke, Cornelia 5

Thin Wood Walls (BOE Approved October 2013) Patneaude, David 6

Things Birds Eat, The Chessen, Betsey 1

Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 9

Things I Did for Love Conford, Ellen 6

Things I Like Browne, Anthony K

Things Not Seen (BOE Approved April 2014) Clements, Andrew 6

Third Eye, The Duncan, Lois 6

Third Grade Angels (BOE Approved November 2014) Spinelli, Jerry 3

Third-Story Cat, The Baker, Leslie 2

Thirteen Stories of Eudora Welty Welty, Eudora 9

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub Gilson, Jamie 4 Canizares, Susan & Moreton, This Bird Can Fly 1 Daniel This Family of Women Peck, Richard 9

This is the Bear Hayes, Sarah 1

This is the Place For Me Cole, Joanna 2

This Place Has No Atmosphere Danzinger, Paula 6

This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9

Thomas 1778-Patriots on the Run Pryor, Bonnie 5

Those Mysterious Dinasaurs Ingoglia, Gina 2

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Those Summer Girls I Never Met Peck, Richard 6

Thread That Runs So True, The Stewart, Jesse 9

Three Bears Galdone, Paul 1

Three Billy Goats Gruff Various Authors 1

Three Blind Mice Ivimey, John 1

Three By The Sea Marshall, Edward 1

Three Comedies of American Fam. Life Various Authors 6 Mortenson, Greg and Relin, Three Cups of Tea (BOE approved Jan 2011) 9 David Mortenson, Greg and Relin, Three Cups of Tea, Young readers edition 6 David Three Days On A River In A Red Canoe Williams, Vera 2

Three Ducks Went Wandering Roy, Ron 1

Three Faces of Eve, The Thigpen, Corbett & Cleckly,Hervey 9

Three King's Day Zapater, Beatriz McConnie 2

Three Little Kittens, The Galdone, Paul 1

Three Little Pigs Galdone, Paul 1

Three Little Pigs, The Grace, Ellen 1

Three Little Witches Gordon, Sharon 1 Frivazas, Eugine and Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig 2 Oxenbury, Helen Three Names MacLachlan, Patricia 1

Three Times Lucky (BOE Approved November 2014) Turnage, Sheila 5

Three Wishes Craig, M. Jean 1

Three Yellow Dogs Cohen, Caron Lee K

Three-Hat Day Geringer, Laura 1

Through Grandpa's Eyes MacLachlan, Patricia 1

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Through the Hidden Door Wells, Rosemary 6

Through the Medicine Cabinet Greenburg, Dan 3

Thump, Bump: Tiny the Dancing Hippo Craig, Janet 1

Thunderwith Hathorn, Libby 6

Thy Friend, Obadiah Turkle, Brinton 1

Tidal Zone Woodward, John 6

Ties that Bind, Ties that Break Namioka, Lensey 6

Tiger Eyes Blume, Judy 6

Tiger in the Well, The Pullman, Philip 7

Tiger is a Scaredy Cat Phillips, Joan 1

Tiger Rising, The* (BOE Approved April 2015) DiCamillo, Kate 5

Tiger Woods/Golf’s Young Master Kramer, S.A. 3

Tight Times Hazen, Barbara Shook 2

Tikki Tikki Tembo Mosel, Arlene 1

Tilly Witch Freeman, Don 2

Time for a Number Rhyme None 1

Time for a Rhyme None 1

TIME for Kids Nonfiction Reader Series (BOE Approved April Various Authors 2 2015) Time Machine, The Wells, H. G. 6

Time of Angels, A Hesse, Karen 7 Time Twister: Journal #3 of a Cardboard Genius Asch, Frank 3 (BOE Approved November 2014) Tiny Seed, The Carle, Eric 1

Titanic Lost.. and Found, The Donnelly, Judy 3

Titus Andronicus Shakespeare, William 9

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To A God Unknown Steinbeck, John 9

To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 6

To Life Sender, Ruth Minsky 6

To Take a Dare Zindel, Paul 6

To The Lighthouse Wolfe, Viginia 9

To The Top! Kramer, Sydelle 2

Toad Food and Measle Soup McDonnell, Christine 3

Toad Hunt, The Chenery, Janet 1

Today Was A Terrible Day Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Tog the Dog Hawkins, Colin 1

Toliver’s Secret Wood-Brady, Ester 5

Tom and the Two Handles Hoban, Russell 1

Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Twain, Mark 9

Tomato, The Nash, Pamela 1

Tombs of Atuan Le Guin, Ursula K 6

Tommy at the Grocery Store Grossman, Bill 2

Tomorrow's Sphinx Bell, Claire 6

Too Late the Phalarope Paton , Alan 9

Too Many Rabbits Parish, Peggy 1

Too Many Toys, 2008 Shannon, David K

Too Much Junk Food Berenstain, Stan 1

Too Much Noise McGovern, Ann 1

Tooth Fairy, The Peters, Sharon 1

Tooth Trouble Klein, Abby 1

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Top Secret Gardiner, John Reynolds 3

Tornado Byars, Betsy 2

Tornado Alert Branley, Franklyn M. K

Tornadoes Cassie, Brian K

Tornadoes! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2

Tortilla Curtain, The Boyle, T. Coraghessan 9H

Tortoise & The Hare, The Stevens, Janet 1

Tortoise & the Hare, The: Friends At the End Granowsky, Alvin 2

Touch – What do you feel? Wood, Nicholas 3

Touching Spirit Bear Michaelson, Ben 6

Tough Luck Karen Hurwitz, Johanna 4

Tough to Tackle Christopher, Matt 3

Tournament Upstart Dygard, Thomas J. 6

Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett, Jan K

Tracker* Paulsen, Gary 5

Tracks Erdrich, Louise H

Trail of Tears, The Bruckac, Joseph 3

Trail of the Screaming Teenager, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

Trains Gibbons, Gail 1

Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Fritz, Jean 5

Transall Saga, The (BOE approved April 2014) Paulsen, Gary 6

Trap, The (BOE approved April 2014) Smelcer, John 6

Traveler and the Farmer, The Cowley, Joy 1

Travelers Through Time #1: Back to the Titanic Gormley, Beatrice 7

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Travels Across America Series Leacock, Elspeth 4

Travels of Ferdinand Magellan, The Mattern, Joanne 7

Travels of Francisco de Coronado, The Crisfield, Deborah 7

Travels of Francisco Pizarro, The Bergen, Lara 7

Travels of Henry Hudson, The Mattern, Joanne 7

Travels of Herman Cortes, The Crisfield, Deborah 7

Travels of John and Sebastian Cabot, The Mattern, Joanne 7

Travels of Juan Ponce de Leon, The Crisfield, Deborah 7

Travels of Lewis and Clark, The Bergen, Lara 7

Travels of Marco Polo, The Bandon, Alex 7

Travels of Samuel de Champlain, The Mattern, Joanne 7

Travels of Sieur de la Salle, The Bergen, Lara 7

Travels of Vasco da Gama, The Mattern, Joanne 7

Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 6

Treasure of Alpheous Winterboren, The Bellairs, John 6

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Smith, Betty 6

Tree In The Trail Holling, Holling C. 1

Tree is a Home, A Kelley, Dr. Alden 1

Tree Is Nice, A Udry, Janice May 1

Tree of Freedom Caudill, Rebecca 5

Tree, The Nash, Pamela 1

Treeful of Pigs Lobel, Arnold 2

Trees Gordon, Sharon K

Trees Braithwaite, Althea 1

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Tricksters, The Mahy, Margaret 6 Dadey, Debbie and Marcia Triplet Trouble and the Field Day Disaster, 1996 K Thornton Jones Trojan Horse, The: How the Greeks won the War Little, Emily 3

Trolley Car Family, The Clymer, Eleanor Lowenton 3

Trouble At The Mines Rappaport, Donna 4

Trouble for Lucy Stevens, Carla 3

Trouble River Byars, Betsy 3

Trouble With Dad, The Cole, Babette 2

Trouble with Gramary Levin, Betty 6

Trouble With Mom, The Cole, Babette 2 Trouble With Tuck, The: The Inspiring Story of a Dog Who Taylor, Theodore 2 Triumphs Against All Odds Truck Trouble Royston, Angela 1

True Blue Elste, Joan 2 True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, The Appelt, Kathi 3 (BOE Approved November 2014) True Book, A – Geysers Brimner, Larry Dane 2

True Book, A – Glaciers Brimner, Larry Dane 2

True Book, A – The Bill of Rights Quiri, Patricia 3

True Books on Geography Series Peterson, David 2

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Avi 6

True Life Treasure Hunts Donnelly, Judy 4

True Story of Corky the Blind Seal Irvine, Georgeanne 2

True Story of Pocahontas, The Penner, Lucille 1

True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Scieszka, Jon 3

True Talents (BOE Approved April 2014) Lubar, David 6

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Trumpet of the Swan, The White, E.B. 3

Trunk, The Wildsmith, Brian 1

Trustee From the Toolroom Shute, Nevil 9

Tuck Everlasting Babbitt, Natalie 5

Tundra Nelson, Julie 6

Tunes for Bears to Dance To Cormier, Robert 6

Tunnel Vision Arrick, Fran 6 Tunnels of Cu Chi, The: A Harrowing Account of America's Mangold, Tom 6 Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam Turn Homeward, Hanalee Beatty, Patricia 5

Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller James, Henry 9

Turnabout Haddix, Margaret 5

Turtle and Tortoise Serventy, Vincent 1

Turtle Tale Asch, Frank 1

Turtles (Now I Know) Craig, Janet 1

Tut's Mummy...Lost and Found Donnelly, Judy 3

TV Kid, The Byars, Betsy 3

Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William 9

Twelve Angry Men Rose, Reginald 9

Twelve Bells for Santa Bonsall, Crosby Newell 1

Twelve Days of Christmas Brett, Jan 2

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Verne, Jules 5

Twenty-One Ballons du Bois, William Pene 5

Twerp (BOE approved Nov 2015) Goldblatt, Mark 6

Twilight Zone Woodward, John 6

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Twisted Window Duncan, Lois 6

Twister on Tuesday Osborne, Mary Pope 2

Twisters! Recht Penner, Lucille 2

Two Bad Ants Van Allsburg, Chris 2

Two for Survival Roth, Arthur 9

Two Gentlemen From Verona Shakespeare, William 9

Two of Them Aliki 2

Two Times the Fun Cleary, Beverly 1

Two Towers Tolkien, J. R. R. 6

Two-Thousand Pound Goldfish, The Byars, Betsy 5

Tyrannosaurus Rex Granowsky, Alvin 1

Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast Prelutsky, Jack 2

Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater Wilhelm, Hans 2

Ty's One-Man Band Pitts, Mildred K

Uglies Westerfeld, Scott 7

Uglies, 2005 Westerfeld, Scott 6 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Hillenbrand, Laura 9 Redemption (BOE approved Nov 2015) Uncle Elephant Lobel, Arnold 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beechar 9

Under the Lemon Moon Fine, Edith Hope 2

Undertakers Gone Bananas, The Zindel, Paul 6

Uneasy Money-Paper Brancato, Robin F. 6

United States Constitution, The Leebrick, Kristal 4

Unusual Spiders Bailey, Donna 1

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Unvanquished, The Faulkner, William 9

Up a Road Slowly Hunt, Irene 5

Up Country Carter, Alden R. 6

Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T. 9

Up the Down Staircase Kaufman, Bel 9 Upchuck and the Rotten Willy: The Great Escape Wallace, Bill 3 (BOE Approved November 2014) Upon the Head Of A Goat Siegel, Aranka 6

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere (BOE Approved April Lamana, Julie 6 2015) Upstairs Room, The* Reiss, Johanna 4

Us and Uncle Frank Lowry, Lois 4

Usborne Book of Space Facts, The Becklake, Sue 1

Valentine Bears, The Bunting, Eve 2

Valentine Express, The Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth K

Vanishing Pumpkin, The Johnston, Tony 2

Vanity Fair Thackerey, William Makepeace 9

Velveteen Rabbit, The Williamss, Margery 1

Veronica Ganz Sachs, Marilyn 4

Very Busy Spider, The Carle, Eric 1

Very First Thanksgiving Day, The Gowler Greene, Rhonda K

Very Hungrey Caterpillar, The Carle, Eric 1

Very Worst Monster, The Hutchins, Pat 1

Victory Conrad, Joseph 9

Vietnam War, The Devaney, John 6

View from Saturday, The Konigsburg, E.L. 5

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View From the Cherry Tree, The Roberts, Willo Davis 5

Village By the Sea, The Fox, Paula 6

Vincent Van Gogh Lucas, Eileen 2

Virgin and the Gypsy, The Lawrence, D.H. 9

Visions: 19 Short Stories Gallo, Donald R. 6

Visiting Miss Caples Kimmel, Elizabeth C. 7

Volcano! Hopping, Lorraine 2

Volcanoes-Mountains that Blow Their Tops Nirgiotis, Nicholas 2

Volcanos! Mountains of Fire Arnold, Eric 2

Voyage of the Frog, The Paulsen, Gary 6

Wagon Train Kramer, Sydelle 2

Wagon Wheels Brenner, Barbara 1

Wagon, The Johnston, Tony 5

Wagons Ho! A Diary of the Oregon Trail Mercati, Cynthia 2

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story Hahn, Mary Downing 4

Wait Till the Moon is Full Brown, Margaret Wise 1

Waiting for Anya Morpurgo, Michael 6

Waiting for Godot Becket, Samuel 9

Waiting for Sunday Blackburn, C. 1

Waiting For The Rain Gordon, Sheila 6

Wake Me When The Band Starts Playing Hopper, Nancy J. 6

Wake Up, Groundhog! Hill, Susanna Leonard K

Wake Up, Sun Harrison, David 1

Walden and Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David 9

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Walden and Other Writings Thoreau, Henry David 9

Walk Across America, A Jenkins, Peter 9

Walk In Wolf Wood Stewart, Mary 5

Walk Through Cold Fire Forshay-Lunsford, Cin 6

Walk Two Moons Creech, Sharon 5

Walkabout Marshall, James Vance 6

Wanderer, The Creech, Sharon 4

Wanted, Mud Blossom Byars, Betsy 4

Wapshot Chronicles, The Cheever, John 9

War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo 9

War At Home, The Green, Connie Jordan 6

War Between the Classes, The Miklowitz, Goria 6

War of the Worlds, The Wells, Herbert George 9

War Party Steele, William O. 3

War that Saved My Life, The Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker 6

War With Grandpa, The Smith, Robert Kimmel 4

War Within, The Matas, Carol 5

Wart, Son of Toad Carter, Alden R. 6

Warton and Morton Series Erickson, Russell E. 3

Washington Irvings, The Headless Horseman Standiford, Natalie 2

Washout, The Carrick, Carol 3

Wasteland & Other Poems Eliot, T.S. 9

Watch Out for the Chicken Feet In dePaola, Tomie 2

Watch Out, Man-Eating Snake Giff, Patricia Reilly 2

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Watch Out, Ronald Morgan Giff, Patricia Reilly 1

Water For Dinosaurs And You Gans, Roma 1

Watership Down* Adams, Richard G. 6

Watsons Go to Birmingham Curtis, Chirstopher P. 4

Way of the Peaceful Warrior Millman, Dan 9

Way to Rainy Mountain, The (BOE Approved November 2014) Momaday, N. Scott 9

Way To Start The Day, The Baylor, Byrd 1

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger Sacher, Louis 2

Wayside School is Falling Down Scher, Louis 4

We Are Best Friends Aliki 1 We Beat The Streets: How a Friendship Pact Led to Davis, Sampson 6 Success (BOE Approved October 2013) Jenkins, George We Can Make Graphs Williams, Rozanne Lanozak 1

We Gather Together… Now Please Get Lost! deGroat, Diane K

We Have Always Lived in a Castle Jackson, Shirley 9

We Need Directions! DeCapua, Sarah K

We Sing Nursery Rhymes & Lullabies Beall, Pamela Conn 1

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Traditional 1

Weather Fleisher, Julian K

Weather - Poems for All Seasons Hopkins, Lee Bennett 2

Weather Words and What They Mean Gibbons, Gail 2

Web of Life, The Storer, John H. 9

Wednesday Surprise, The Bunting, Eve 2

Wee Gillis Leaf, Munro 2

Week in the Woods Clements, Andrew 5

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Weekly Reader Series: Let's Read About Animals Various Authors K

Welcome Home Jellybean Shyer, Marlene Fanta 5

Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Well, The Taylor, Mildred 4

Wellspring Hawkins, Edward 9

Wemberly Worried (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Henkes, Kevin K

We're Back ! A Dinosaur's Story Talbott, Hudson 2

West With The Night Markham, Beryl 6

West, The Thompson, Gare 4

Westing Game, The Raskin, Ellen 5

Westmark Alexander, Lloyd 6

Wet Cats Gelman, Rita Golden 1

Whale - Gentle Giant Langford, Milton 3

Whale In The Sky Siberell, Anne 2

Whales Berger, Melvin 1

Whales Simon, Seymour 3

Whales & Dolphins (I Can Read About) Anderson, J. I. 1

Whales, The Gentle Giants Milton, Joyce 2

What A Good Lunch Watanabe, Shigeo 1

What About Exploring Space Aims, Leslie 3 What Can You Do with Money? Earning, Spending and Larson, Jennifer S. 2 Saving (BOE approved Nov 2015) Canizares, Susan & Berger, What Do Artists Do? 1 Samantha What Do We Buy?: A Look at Goods and Services Nelson, Robin 2 (BOE approved Nov 2015) What Do You Do With a Kangaroo? Mayer, Mercer 1

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What Do You Do, Dear? Joslin, Sesyle 2

What Do You Say, Dear? Joslin, Sesyle 1

What Do You See? Nayer, Judy 2

What Happend to Patrick's Dinosaur? Carrick, Carol 2

What Happens to a Hamburger? Showers, Paul 2

What I Did Last Summer Prelutsky, Jack 1

What If They Knew? Hermes, Patricia 3

What if You’d Been at Jamestown? Keller, Ellen 2

What is a Biome? Kalman, Bobbie 3

What is a Mammal? Day, Jenifer W. 1

What Is A Reptile? Kuchalla, Susan K What is Money Anyway?: Why Dollars and Coins Have Larson, Jennifer S. 2 Value (BOE approved Nov 2015) What Makes an Ocean Wave? Berger, Melvin and Gilda 3

What Makes Day and Night? Branley, Franklyn M. 1

What Next, Baby Bear? Murphy, Jill 1

What Spot? Bonsall, Crosby Newell 1

What the Witch Left Chew, Ruth 3

What to Do About Alice? Kerley, Barbara 3

What Whiskers Did Carroll, Ruth K

What Will the Weather Be? DeWitt, Lynda K

What’s in the Sky? Smith, Ian K

What's Claude Doing? Gackenbach, Dick 1

What's In Fox's Sack? Galdone, Paul 1

What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin Fritz, Jean 4

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Wheels for Walking Richmond, Sandra 6

Wheels On The Bus Raffi 1

When Dinosaurs Came with Everything Broach, Elise K

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Kerr, Judith 5

When I Get Bigger Mayer, Mercer 1

When I Was Young In the Mountains Rylant, Cynthia 1

When It Snows Nelson, JoAnne 2

When Jessie Came Across the Sea (BOE approved Nov 2015) Hest, Amy 3

When Marian Sang Munoz Ryan, Pam 2

When Michael Calls Farris, John 9

When Small is Tall Reit, Seymour 2

When The Alligator Came To Class Hollander, Cass 2

When the Emperor Was Divine Otsuka, Julie 9

When the Legends Die Borland, Hal 9

When the Mountain Meets the Moon Lin, Grace 3

When the Phone Rang Mazer, Harry 6

When We First Met Mazer, Norma Fox 6

When You Reach Me (BOE Approved April 2014) Stead, Rebecca 6

Where Did My Mother Go? Preston, Edna Mitchell 1 Where Do We Keep Money?: How Banks Work Larson, Jennifer S. 2 (BOE approved Nov 2015) Where Does the Garbage Go? Showers, Paul K Wilson, Karma & Chapman, Where is Home, Little Pip?, 2008 K Jane Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Wilhelm, Kate 9

Where the Lilies Bloom Cleaver, Bill 6

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Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Wilson 5

Where Wild Things Are Sendak, Maurice 1

Where's My Easter Egg? Ziefert, Harriet 1

Where's Spot? Hill, Eric 1

Where's The Halloween Treat? Ziefert, Harriet 1

While Mrs. Caverlet Was Away Nash, Mary 4

Whingdingdilly Peet, Bill 2

Whipping Boy Fleischman, Sid 3

Whispering Cloth, The Deitz Shea, Pegi 2

Whistle For Willie Keats, Ezra Jack 1

White Bird Bulla, Clyde Robert 3

White Crow Frederick, Shirley K

White Dynamite & Curly Kidd Martin,Archambault 2

White Fang London, Jack 6

White House Autumn White, Ellen Emerson 6

White Mountains, The Christopher, John 5

White Snow, Bright Snow Tresselt, Alvin 2

White Stag, The Seredy, Kate 5

White Stallion, The Shub, Elizabeth 2

White Water, Still Water Bosworth, J. Allan 5

Who Am I? Jenness, Aylette 2

Who Comes with Cannons? Beatty, Patricia 5

Who Has the Lucky-Duck in Class 4? Twohill, Maggie 4

Who is Carrie ? Collier, James and Christopher 6

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Who is the Beast? Baker, Keith K

Who Said Boo? Hollaner, Cass 2

Who Said Red? Serfozo, Mary 1

Who Sank the Boat? Allen, Pamela 1

Who Stole The Apples? Heuck, Sigrid 1

Who Took the Farmer's Hat? Nodset, Joan L. 1

Who Wants A Cheap Rhinoceros? Silverstein, Shel 1

Who Was Dr. Seuss? (BOE Approved November 2014) Pascal, Janet B. 2

Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? (BOE Approved November 2014) Demuth, Patricia 2

Who Was Louis Braille? (BOE Approved November 2014) Frith, Margaret 2

Who Was Thomas Jefferson Fardin, Dennis 3

Who Will Be My Friends Hoff, Syd K

Who’s Hiding? Lanczak Williams, Rozanne 1

Whole Nine Yards, The Malmgren, Dallin 9

Who's Afraid of the Dark? Bonsall, Crosby Newell 1 Who's Buying Who's Selling?: Understanding Consumers Larson, Jennifer S. 2 and Producers (BOE approved Nov 2015) Who's In Rabbit's House? Aardema, Verna 2

Who's That? Stevens, Harry 1

Whose Mouse Are You? Kraus, Robert 1

Why Can't I Fly? Gelman, Rita Golden 1

Why Don't Polar Bears Have Stripes? (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Smith, Katherine K

Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams Fritz, Jean 4

Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburger Williams, Sheila 6

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's E Aardema, Verna 1

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Why Not, Lafayette? Fritz, Jean 5

Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean 12

Wild Cat Peck, Robert Newton 4

Wild Children, The Holman, Felice 6

Wild Swans, The Andersen, H. C. 3

Wild Weather Tornados Hopping, Lorraine 2

Wild, Wild Wolves Milton, Joyce 1

Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species Wright, Alexandra 3

Will You Sign Here John Hancock? Fritz, Jean 4

William, Where Are You? Gerstein, M. 1

William's Doll Zolotow, Charlotte 2

Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender Ransom, Candace 2

Willy The Wimp Browne, Anthony 1

Willy Wong: American Oakes, Vanya 5

Wind Bacon, Ron 2

Wind Blew, The Hutchins, Pat 1

Wind in the Door, A L'Engle, Madeleine 6

Wind in the Willows, The Grahame, Kenneth 5

Windcatcher Avi 4

Winged Colt of Casa Mia, The Byars, Betsy 5

Winning Brancato, Robin F. 6

Winning Kicker Dygard, Thomas J. 6

Winter According to Humphrey (BOE approved Nov 2015) Birney, Betty G. 3

Winter Day, A Florian, Douglas 1

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Winter Hero Collier, James Lincoln 6

Winter of Our Discontent, The Steinbeck, John 9

Winter Pony Doty, Jean Slaughter 2

Winter Room, The Paulsen, Gary 6

Winter Worm Business Giff, Patricia Reilly 3

Winter's Tale, The Shakespeare, William 9

Wise Old Woman, The Uchida, Yoshiko 2

Wish Giver, The Brittain, Bill 5

Wishing Tree, The Chew, Ruth 3

Wish-Washy Day Cowley, Joy 1

Wit: a play (BOE Approved October 2011) Edson, Margaret 9

Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Speare, Elizabeth George 5

Witch Week Jones, Diana Wynne 6

Witch's Christman Bridwell, Norma 1

Witch's Garden, The Chew, Ruth 3 Collier, James and With Every Drop of Blood 6 Christopher Wizard of Earthsea, A Le Guin, Ursula K 6

Wizard Of Oz Baum, Lyman Frank 4

Wizard, the Fairy, & The Magic, The Lester, Helen 1

Wobble, the Witch Cat Calhoun, Mary 2

Wobbly Tooth, The Cooney, Nancy Evans 1

Woggle of Witches Adams, Adrienne 2

Wolf of Shadows Strieber, Whitley 6

Wolf Rider; A Tale of Terror Avi 6

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Wolf's Chicken Stew, The Kasza, Keiko 2

Wolves For Kids Wolpert, Tom 3

Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Aiken, Joan 5

Wonder (BOE Approved April 2013) Palacio, R.J. 5

Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom, The Cameron, Eleanor 3

Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs Gilman, Phoebe 2

Wonders of the Desert Sabin, Louis 2

Wonders of the Sea Sabin, Louis 2

Woodrow, the White House Mouse Barnes, Peter & Cheryl 3

Woodsong Paulsen, Gary 4

Woosh! A Read-Together Book Melser, June K Word Weaving: A Creative Approach to Teaching and Johnson, David M 9 Writing Poetry Words by Heart Sebestyen, Ouida 6

World According to Humphrey, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Birney, Betty G. 3

World War I McGowen, Tom 7 Eileen Giuffre Cotton, Carole World War I (book2web) 7 F. Stice, Chester A. Cotton World War II McGowen, Tom 7 Eileen Giuffre Cotton, Carole World War II (book2web) 7 F. Stice, Chester A. Cotton Worm Day (Mr. Rose's Class) Ziefert, Harriet 3

Wright 3 , The Balliett, Blue 5

Wright Brothers, The Sullivan, George 4

Wringer Spinelli, Jerry 6

Wrinkle in Time, A L'Engle, Madeleine 5

Writing Places Chanko, Pamela K

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Wuggie Norple, The Pinkwater, Daniel M. 2

Wump World, The Peet, Bill 2

Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily 9

Yankee Doodle and the Secret Society Bolin, J. J. 2

Year Down Yonder, A Peck, Richard 2

Year of Billy Miller, The (BOE Approved November 2014) Henkes, Kevin 2

Year of Decision, 1846 DeVoto, Bernard 9

Year of Impossible Goodbyes Choi, Sook N. 6

Year of the Book, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Cheng, Andrea 3

Year Of The Gopher, The Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 6

Year of the Panda, The Schlein, Miriam 2

Year Without Michael, The Pfieffer, Susan Beth 6

Yearling, The Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan 6

Yertle The Turtle Seuss, Dr. 1

Yesterday's Daughter Calvert, Patricia 6

You and Me, Little Bear Waddell, Martin 1

You Can't Go Home Again Wolfe, Thomas 9

You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader (BOE approved Nov 2015) Sanborn, Mark 10

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