K12 Recommended Reading 2012

K¹² Recommended Reading 2012

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Recommended Reading for Kids at Every Level

The K¹² reading experts who created our Language Arts courses invite you to enjoy our ‘Recommended Reading” list for grades K–12.

Kindergarten

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle  The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg  Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel  Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle  Wifred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox  The Napping House by Don & Audrey Wood  Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins  Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw  Corduroy by Don Freeman

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

Grades 1–2

 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst  The Day Jimm's Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hake Noble  Huge Harold by Bill Peet  The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins  Young Cam Jansen series by David Adler – Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie – Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery – Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery  Amelia Bedelia Series by Peggy Parrish – Amelia Bedelia – Amelia Bedeilia and the Baby – Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping – Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm  Nate the Great Series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat – Nate the Great – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base – Nate the Great and the Monster Mess  Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne – Dinosaurs Before Dark – The Knight at Dawn – Mummies in the Morning – Pirates Past Noon  Frog and Toad Series by Arnold Lobel – Frog and Toad are Friends – Frog and Toad Together – Days with Frog and Toad  The Littles (First Reader Series) by John Peterson – The Littles First Readers Series #01: The Littles Make a Friend – The Littles First Readers Series #06: The Littles and the Secret Letter – The Littles First Readers Series #07: The Littles Go On a Hike

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

Grades 2–3

 Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes  Freckle Juice by Judy Blume  The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron  Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown  Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary  Cam Jansen Series by David Adler – Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds – Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball – Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery – Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary  Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol – Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective – Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues – Encyclopedia Brown Gets his Man by  The Littles series by John Peterson – The Littles – The Littles Go Exploring – The Littles to the Rescue – The Littles Give a Party by

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

Grades 3–4

 Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith  Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh  How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell  Superfudge by Judy Blume  A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl  The Borrowers series by Mary Norton – The Borrowers – The Borrowers Afield – The Borrowers Afloat – The Borrowers Avenged  The Mouse & the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary  Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry  King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry  Holes by Louis Sachar  Heidi by Johanna Spry  Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie – Little House in the Big Woods – Farmer Boy – On the Banks of Plum Creek – The Long Winter – By the Shores of Silver Lake  Black Beauty by Anna Sewell  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

Grades 5–6

 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame  Homer Price by Robert McCloskey  Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander – The Book of Three – The Black Cauldron – The Castle of Llyr – Taran Wanderer – The High King  The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper – Over Sea, Under Stone – The Dark Is Rising – Greenwitch – The Grey King – Silver on the Tree  The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson  The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Prince Caspian – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – The Silver Chair – The Horse and His Boy – The Magician's Nephew – The Last Battle  Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski  The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill  From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg  The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg  Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George  The Westing Game by Ellen Rasking  The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle  Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett  The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald  The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald  Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren  The Black Stallion by Walter Farley  The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks  Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine  Five Children and It by E. Nesbit  The 13 Clocks by James Thurber

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

Grades 7–8

 Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables – Anne of Avonlea – Anne of the Island – Anne's House of Dreams – Anne of Ingleside  National Velvet by Enid Bagnold  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas  A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin  Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls  The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring – The Two Towers – The Return of the King by  The Red Pony by John Steinbeck  The Chosen by Chaim Potok  The Once and Future King by T.H. White  The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques – Redwall – Mossflower – Mattimeo – Mariel of Redwall  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain  Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech  Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

K12 Recommended Reading 2012

High School

 Animal Farm by George Orwell  Billy Budd by Hermann Melville  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain  Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton  The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury  The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien  Hard Times by Charles Dickens  The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  Jesse by Gary Soto  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor  Lord of the Flies by William Golding  The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury  The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie  Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya  Night by Elie Wiesel  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton  The Pearl by John Steinbeck  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor  The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen  A Separate Peace by John Knowles  Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens  White Fang by Jack London  The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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