Recommended Literature Books by Grade Level Elementary Grades (K-5)

In addition to reading as a part of their daily schoolwork, students are encouraged to read for pleasure as a part of their growth in understanding and appreciating classic and contemporary literature and other written materials. These grade-level lists offer suggestions of titles you and your student may want to consider for recreational reading.

If you have additional suggestions for this list of recommended books, please forward those ideas to Claudia at [email protected].

Kindergarten First Grade Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You see? Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bread and Jam for Frances Corduroy Frog and Toad Goodnight, Moon The Great Kapok Tree The Gingerbread Man Ira Sleeps Over The Three Bear Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse The Very Hungry Caterpillar Swimmy

Second Grade Third Grade A Dinosaur Named After Me Charlotte’s Web Grandfather Tang’s Story George’s Marvelous Medicine Island of Skog Little House in the Big Woods Miss Rumphius Mr. Popper’s Penguins Ox-Cart Man Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Sam, Bangs and Moonshine Random House Book of Fairy Tales Six Dinner Sid Stone Fox Strega Nona The Hundred Dresses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble The Velveteen Rabbit Thunder Cake Too Many Tamales

Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Bandit’s Moon Ben and Me By the Great Horn Spoon The Fighting Ground Carlota From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankwiler Danny, Champion of the World Holes Frindle In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Island of the Blue Dolphins The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Owls in the Family Maniac Magee Patty Reed’s Doll My Brother Sam is Dead Shiloh Night of the Twisters Number the Stars The Secret Garden Sign of the Beaver Stowaway Summer of the Monkeys Toliver’s Secret True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Where the Red Fern Grows

Recommended Literature Books by Grade Level Middle and High School Grades (6-12)

Sixth Grade Seventh Grade The Black Pearl Anna of Byzantium Bridge to Terabithia The Book of Greek Myths by D’Aluare Call It Courage The Boy of the Painted Cave The Cay The Bronze Bow Dragonwings Ghosts of Tokkaido Inn Egypt Game King of Shadows Golden Goblet The King’s Shadow Hatchet Legend of Tarik Maroo of the Winter Caves The Outsiders Stranger Came Ashore Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver Samurai’s Tale

Eighth Grade Ninth Grade Across Five Aprils The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Deathwatch Animal Farm The Giver The Illustrated Man Johnny Tremain A Midsummer Night’s Dream Murder on the Orient Express The Miracle Worker Nothing but the Truth Of Mice and Men The Pearl Raisin in the Sun Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Romeo and Juliet Shades of Gray To Kill a Mockingbird Slave Dancer To Be a Slave Tom Sawyer

Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade All Quiet on the Western Front The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Antigone Catcher in the Rye A Place Where the Sea Remembers The Crucible A Separate Peace Death of a Salesman The Bean Trees East of Eden Fahrenheit 451 A Farewell to Arms The Joy Luck Club Farewell to Manzanar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Franny and Zooey Lord of the Flies The Grapes of Wrath Macbeth The Great Gatsby Oedipus Rex Inherit the Wind The Sound of Waves My Antonia The Taming of the Shrew Red Badge of Courage Twelfth Night The Scarlet Letter Warriors Don’t Cry Twelfth Grade The Alchemist Brave New World Canterbury Tales Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Great Expectations Hamlet Jane Eyre Man’s Search for Meaning 1984 Othello Siddhartha Tale of Two Cities Things Fall Apart Utopia Wuthering Heights