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District Reading List Freedom Area School District Book List The following is a list of books that are used throughout the District. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Kindergarten OEU1 Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for OEU3 Kindergarten Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Panda Kindergarten Buttons Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Pete the Cat – I Love My White Shoes Dust Bunnies Pete the Cat – Rockin’ in My School Chrysanthemum Shoes I Like Me Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus My Family The Pigeon Wants a Hot Dog Hunky Dory Found It The Pigeon Stays Up Late National Geographic Pack on Apples Go Away Big Green Monster and Pumpkins Where the Wild Things Are Night Creatures Pigeon Wants A Puppy ABC of Jobs People Do Charlie’s Superhero Underpants My Book of Planets OEU2 What Can Live in the Ocean The Three Little Pigs What’s the Weather Today Goldilocks and the Three Bears Weather The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Little Red Hen OEU4 Wolf’s Coming Me Too! Three Snow Bears Froggy Plays T-Ball Billy Goat’s Fluff Franklin in the Dark Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza The Life of a Sunflower The Mitten The Life of a Frog The Hat The Life of a Ladybug Gingerbread Baby The Life of a Butterfly About Winter Pack Polar Animals Arctic Animals Hibernation 1 Grade 1 OEU1 OEU2 continued Moonbear Mapping Information Moonbear’s Books Mapping the World Moongame Scholastic Atlas of Exploration My Five Senses Maps Kissing Hand Types of Maps Brand New Pencils, Brand New Books How to Read a Map Wemberly Worried Looking at Maps and Globes First Day Jitters Me on the Map The Night Before First Grade First Grade, Here I Come! OEU3 Fall The Magic School Bus: Midnight on the Knuffle Bunny Moon Take Me Out of the Bathtub The Moon I’m Still in the Bathtub The Sun Leo the Late Bloomer What Makes Day and Night Maxine in the Middle Stars Sound Spring Scholastic News How Do You Know It’s Spring How Do We Use Light? It’s Spring Sources of Light Light and Dark OEU4 Shadows and Reflections If You Give a Pig a Pancake Magic School Bus Gets a Bright Idea If You Give a Cat a Cupcake Pumpkin Pumpkin If You Give a Moose a Muffin Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give a Dog a Donut OEU2 The Mitten The Tortoise and the Hare The Three Snow Bears The Ant and the Grasshopper Hedgie The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Hedgie’s Surprise The Boy Who Cried Wolf Stephanie’s Ponytail The Frog and the Ox Smelly Socks The Fox and the Crane Thomas’ Snowsuit The Little Red Hen Butterflies Chicken Little Creepy Crawly Bugs Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving The Life Cycle of a Butterfly The Night Before Thanksgiving Monarch Butterfly A Turkey for Thanksgiving A Monarch Butterfly’s Life Turkey Trouble From Seed to Plant Christmas in Italy Roots Christmas in Germany Stems Christmas in Mexico Leaves Mapping Communities Flowers 2 Grade 2 OEU1 OEU4 Three Cheers for Tacky Aesop’s Fables Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Books by Tomie de Paola Sammy has the Flu National Geographic for Kids I’m Never Alone Martin Luther King, Jr. Amelia Earhart OEU2 Fantastic Flying Machines Mousekin’s Lost Woodland Jackie Robinson Desert Giant Sojourner Truth The Gray Wolf Sonia Sotamayor The Salamander Room Jane Goodall Weird Bird Beaks Rosa Parks The Basics of Matter Abraham Lincoln How Things are Different Charlotte’s Web The Three Little Pigs What is Matter? Zoom How I Spent My Summer Vacation OEU3 Cinderella Monsterella Seriously, Cinderella is so Annoying! Bigfoot Cinderella Reader’s Theater versions of fairytales Versions of Fairytales – to show kids different author’s versions Books on air, land and water pollution 3 Grade 3 OEU1 Ms. Nelson is Missing OEU3 The Memory String Randolph and the Lion Day We Built a Snow Penguin The Ant and the Grasshopper Pool Summersault How the Sun was Saved Fishing Derby Aesop’s Fables Max Raven and the Flood Snow Camping The Mystery Wind Mind Game Grasshopper and Toad I’m the Guest The Sleeping Dog Spare the Turkey Country Mouse and City Mouse Scottie’s Spring Training How Tigers Grow Their Stripes The Titanic Lost and Found How the Sun and Moon Got in the Sky Pompeii…Buried Alive The Squire’s Bride How Zebras Got Their Stripes OEU2 Dedeluys and Icarus Chester The Fox and Stork Chester’s Back The Lion and the Fox Chester’s Masterpiece A Golden Tragedy Henry and Mudge books Persephone a Greek Myth Curious George books Medusa’s Stony Stare Amelia Bedilia books Indiana Jones books OEU4 Star Wars books A-Z Albert Einstein Bats A-Z Book Odd Boy Out Migrating Geese Various Inventor books Leap! A salmon’s Story Halmoni and the Picnic Gorillas Ruby Bridges Gray Wolf Thank You Mr. Falker A Prairie Dog’s Life Looking After Louis Elephants Let’s Talk About Dyslexia Whales Some Kids Have Autism You’re a Jellyfish Walruses Manatees Seals, Sea Lions and Sea Turtles Bears Monkey Business Penguins 4 Grade 4 OEU1 OEU3 continued The Word Eater Poetry for Young People: American Yeh-Shen:A Cinderella Story from China Poetry Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Lunch Money and Other Poems About Cinderella School The Egyptian Cinderella Poetry for Young People Edward Lear Adelita: A Cinderella Story from Mexico Love That Dog Cinderella Flashy, Clashy, and Oh So Cinder-Elly Splashy…Poems on Color Cinderella Bigfoot Weather Poems for All Seasons Scholastic News Poetry for Young People by Emily A to Z guided levels: non-fiction Dickinson Rhyming Dust Bunnies Poetry Basics OEU2 Awful Ogre’s Awful Day Mythlopedia: Oh My Gods My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks Mythlopedia: She’s All That If You Find A Rock Mythical Beasts of Greece and Rome There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Usborne Greek Myths for Young a Clover Children I Can Write Poems Who Was - series Young Readers Thesaurus Henry’s Freedom Box Rhyming Dictionary Take a Stand Rosa Parks Discoverworks – science textbook National Geographic Kids/World History Biographies OEU4 A to Z guided levels: Biography Shredderman Our Country’s Regions The Skinny on Bullying Imagine OEU3 Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully Magic Tree House: Civil War on Sunday Wonder Voices of the Civil War Just Kidding A Split History of the Civil War My Secret Bully The Gettysburg Address Stand Up Speak Up Sarah, Plain and Tall Scholastic Magazine Articles George Washington’s Socks Endangered Animals The Revolutionary War Tigress If You Lived At a Time of the Turtle Girl Revolutionary War MLK, Jr. Magic Tree House: Revolutionary War on Wednesday Rosa Parks Boxes for Katie Anne Frank The Freedmen’s Bureau Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story Big Mama’s Camp Fortunate History of the Run Shortcut Ghosts of the Civil War Memoirs of a Goldfish Bull Run A Memoir by Ralph Fletcher: Marshfield Dreams Woods Runner When I Was a Kid Chains 5 Grade 5 OEU1 OEU3 Hatchet Out of the Dust Point Blank Esperanzo Rising Hoot Sign of the Beaver The Westing Game Pink and Say From the Mixed Up Files of Bail E Frank Number of the Stars Weiler Bud Not Buddy A-Z Detective Camp Al Capone Does My Shirt 39 Clues (The Maze of Bones & Clue The Journal of Jasper Jonathon Pierce Book) The Year of the Boar and Jackie Bunnicula Robinson Encyclopedia Brown The Long Winter Mystery of the Sea Jelly Freedom Crossing April Fools Day Sarah Plain and Tall A-Z Mysteries Caddie Woodlawn Jack Russel Farmer Boy Jigsaw Jones and the Case of the Meeting Father in Plymouth Snowboarding Follow the Drinking Gourd Super Star Cam Jansen OEU4 Nate the Great (Monster Mess, Phony Mouse Guard Clue) Point Blank Guts Amulet Bone OEU2 Arthur and Lancelot Dr. Seuss King Arthur and the Nights of the Shel Silverstein Round Table Jack Prelutstsky Treasure Island Poetry Packet Hercules Health Book Wisconsin My Brother’s Keeper Joshua T. Bates Ballad of the Civil War Where the Red Fern Grows The Christmas Pageant Running Out of Time Freedom Crossing Loser Conspiracy 365 Maniac Magee Toilet Paper Tigers Tuck Everlasting Brian’s Winter 6 MIDDLE SCHOOL Grade 6 Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Scorpions Kehret Walk Two Moons Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Holes Children’s Biographies from the Hiroshima public library or school library Hatchet Brothers Grimm from the school The Giver library The Whipping Boy Matilda Robert and the Clickety Clackety Stargirl Teeth Ferdinand Magellan Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone My Side of the Mountain The Diary of Anne Frank Dollhouse Murders Tuck Everlasting Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Cage The Cay Bridge to Terabithia Across Five Aprils Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You The Westing Game Maniac Magee Summer of My German Soldier Sing Down the Moon Knots In My Yo-yo String To Kill a Mockingbird The Outsiders A Single Shard The Watsons Go To Birmingham My Brother Sam is Dead On My Honor Because of Winn Dixie Gathering Blue The Tale of Despereaux A Year Down Yonder Rascal Wringer Where the Red Fern Grows Bud, Not Buddy Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Crash (used in the past but not this year)) My Side of the Mountain Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Guts (used in the past but not this year) The Indian in the Cupboard Grade 7 Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Holes Mikaelsen Avalanche Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Sounder Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Treasure Island Mildred Taylor The Devil’s Arithmetic The Watsons
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