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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 go to Birmingham by  Stones in Water Christopher Curtis  Sewer Soup  The Diary of Anne Frank (Play  Summer of the Swans version)  Julie of the Wolves  Summer of My German Soldier  Moccasin Trail

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Grade 7 continued  Dicey’s Song  Where the Red Fern Grows  The Girl Who Owned a City  Crispin the Cross Lead  Dicey’s Song  Black Beauty  Among the Hidden  White Fang  The Foxman  The City of Ember  Among the Hidden  Granny Torrelli Makes Soup  Trueslight  Coraline  Chu Ju’s House  Skellig  Milkweed  Savvy  A Wrinkle in Time  Lily’s Crossing  Adam of the Road  Pictures of Hollis Woods  Caddie Woodlawn  The Secret of NIMH  The Phantom Toolbooth

Grade 8  The Giver by Lois Lowry  Rumble Fish  The Bully by Paul Langan  That Was Then, This Is Now  The Gun by Paul Langan (RtI group  Maus only)  Ender’s Game  Wonder by RJ Palcio  The House of the Scorpion  The Outsiders by SE Hinton  Code Talkers  Post Crescent and Scope Magazines  The Book Thief  Johnny Tremain  Tangerine  Touching Spirit Bear  Black Beauty  Band of Brothers  Fever 1793  The Five People You Meet in Heaven  The Giver  The Hobbit  East  The Martian Chronicles  Uglies  The Westing Game  The Freedom Writers’ Diary  Tex  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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HIGH SCHOOL

Grade 9 English  Romeo and Juliet by William  The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Shakespeare Tan  A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Hansberry  The Language of Literature by  Oedipus Rex by Sophocles McDougall Littell  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  Mirrors and Windows by EMC  The Autobiography of Miss Jane Publishing Pittman by Ernest Gaines

Grade 9 Honors English  Romeo and Juliet by William  Glass Menagerie Shakespeare  A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine  Great Expectations Hansberry  Oedipus Rex/Greek Mythology by  The Language of Literature by Sophocles McDougall Littell  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  Mirrors and Windows by EMC  A Mid-summer Night’s Dream Publishing  Pride and Prejudice

Grade 10 English  And Then There Were None by  Julius Caesar by William Agatha Christie Shakespeare  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dickens  The Language of Literature by  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak McDougall Littell

Grade 10 Honors English  Julius Caesar by William  The Winter of Our Discontent Shakespeare  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak  And Then There Were None by  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Agatha Christie Dickens  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Grade 11 English  The Scarlet Letter  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  Death of a Salesman  Hamlet by Shakespeare  Angela’s Ashes  The Language of Literature by  The Old Man and the Sea McDougall Littell  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Grade 12 English  Lord of the Flies by William Golding  Growing and Inch by Stanley Gordan  The Crucible by Arther Miller West  The Freedom Writers’ Diary by Erin  Taming of the Shrew by William Gruwell and the Freedom Writers Shakespeare  “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan  1984 by George Orwell  “Superman and Me” by Sherman  Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Alexie  “Miss Rosie” by Lucille Clifton  Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

AP English Language and Composition  Reading Critically, Writing Well by John Brassil, Sandra Coker, and Carl Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, Glover, Ph.D. and Alison M. Warriner  “Chrysanthemums” by John  The Prentice Hall Guide to Research Steinbeck Writing Second Edition by Dean  The Things They Carried by Tim Memering O’Brien  Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers  “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan 12th Edition by C. David Mead  “Superman and Me” by Sherman  Patters for College Writing: A Alexie Rhetorical Reader and Guide Second  “Miss Rosie” by Lucille Clifton Edition by Laurie G. Kirszner and  The Freedom Writers’ Diary by Erin Stephen R. Mandell Gruwell and the Freedom Writers  Elements of Language by Judith L.  Poetry Starters picture prompts by Irvin, Lee Odell, Richard Vacca, Teacher’s Discovery Renee Hobbs, and John E. Warriner  The Awakening by Kate Chopin  Cracking the AP English Language  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor and Composition Exam 2013 by Dostoyevsky Richard Hartzell, Ph.D.  Dead Poets Society  English Language and Composition:  Trade books and various handouts Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis by

AP Composition and Literature  Scarlet Letter  Angela’s Ashes  Ethan Frome  The Great Gatsby  Old Man and the Sea  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  Death of a Salesman  Catcher in the Rye

A parent may opt their child out of reading a specific book if the parent/guardian should find it inappropriate in any way. The parent/guardian, teacher, and principal will discuss an alternate book/assignment. 10