Chester Community Charter School Recommended Reading List Grades K-5 This is the recommended Chester Community Charter School Book List for the summer of 2019. Students can use this as a guide for choosing books at their local library, online and in book stores. At CCCS we believe that reading, in general, is highly effective at building up a child's knowledge in a vast amount of subject areas, including English, math, science and history. Studies have discovered a greater intellectual progress in vocabulary, spelling and math than that of a child not reading more than the required school amount. Therefore reading is a strong tool for growing in comprehension skills and general knowledge of the world. ©2019 Kindergarten Recommended Reading List Books About Me Williams • I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson • Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy • I Like to Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow Rathman • The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle • Swimmy by Leo Lionni • My Five Senses by Aliki • Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens • Owen by Kevin Henkes Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes • When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer • James Marshall’s Mother Goose by James Family Stories Marshall • Just Me Books by Mercer Mayer • My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells • Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse • Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola Predictable Books Folktales and Fairy Tales (Stories with a pattern using rhyme or • Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg rhythm.) • Cinderella by Marcia Brown • Curious George by H. A. Rey • The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian • Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Wildsmith Ahlberg • Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann • The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone • The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach • Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell • The Three Bears by Paul Galdone Sharmat • The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen • Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Asbjornsen • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág • Three Little Pigs by James Marshall • What’s in Fox’s Sack? by Paul Galdone • The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppé Beginning, Middle, and End Concept • The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian • Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole Andersen • A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Stories in Rhyme Dusen • All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila • Love You Forever by Robert Munsch Hamanaka • Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins • Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna • The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Aardema Brown • Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk Color and Counting Books Friends • Frog Counts to Ten by John Liebler • Benjamin and Tulip by Rosemary Wells • Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni • We Are Best Friends by Aliki • Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana • Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff Hoban • Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert Fabulous Science Books Caldecott Winners and Honor Books • Cars and How they Go by Joanna Cole • Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Frogs • Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert and Toads by Barry Clark • Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans • More, More, More Said the Baby by Vera B. ©2019 First Grade Recommended Reading List Fun Books to Share • And I Mean It, Stanley by Crosby Bonsall Math in Picture Books • Arthur series by Marc Brown • How Much Is a Million? by David M. • A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon Schwartz • Berenstain Bear series by Jan and Stan • One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Berenstain Prints by Diana Pomeroy • Clifford series by Norman Bridwell • Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in • Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish Reverse, (A Tale of Wickedness—and • The Eye Book by Theo LeSieg Worse!) by William Wise • Franklin series by Paulette Bourgeois • Froggy series by Jonathan London • Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss Classics to Read to a First Grader • Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold • Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus • How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long • The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton • Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park • Make Way for Ducklings by Robert • Little Critter series by Mercer Mayer McCloskey • Morris the Moose by Bernard Wiseman • When Will I Read? by Miriam Cohen • Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Caldecott Awards and Honor Books • Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister • Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson • The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle • Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove Learning to Read Series • The Hello, Goodbye Window by • Hello Reader! Norton Juster and Chris Raschka • I Can Read Books • Owen by Kevin Henkes • Puffin Easy-to-Read • The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg • Step Into Reading Levels 1–4 Alphabet Books • Animalia by Graeme Baese • The Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta • Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg ©2019 2nd Grade Recommended Reading List Recommended 2nd Grade Author Guided Reading Level Book Titles Amy Loves the Snow Julia Hoban F Are You There, Bear? Ron Maris F Calico Cat at the Zoo Donald Charles F A Dozen Dogs Harriet Ziefert F My Dog's the Best! Stephanie Calmenson F Who Will Be My Friends? Syd Hoff F Biscuit Alyssa Satin Capucilli G The Great Race David McPhail G How Do You Make a Bubble? William H. Hooks G Hungry Animals Little Readers Series G I'm a Caterpillar Jean Marzollo G Just Enough Lynn Salem & J. Stewart G Put Me in the Zoo Robert Lopshire H Bee My Valentine! Miriam Cohen H Building a House Byron Barton H Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown H The Great Big Enormous Turnip Aleksei Tolstoi & Graff H Nikolaevich If I Had an Alligator Mercer Mayer H Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and Other Alvin Schwartz Dogs I Tongue Twisters Pat Hutchins The Dragon Series: Dragon Gets By; Dav Pilkey I Dragon's Fat Cat ;Dragon's Halloween; Dragon's Merry Christmas; A Friend For Dragon Father Bear Comes Home Else H. Minarik I Fix It David McPhail I Just Grandma and Me Mercer Mayer I ©2019 The Napping House Don & Audrey Wood I The Camp Knock Knock Mystery Russell Hoban K Bear Shadow Frank Asch J Bear's Bargain Frank Asch J Camp Big Paw Doug Cushman J Froggy Learns to Swim Jonathan London J Funny Bones Allan & Janet Ahlberg J The Case of the Cat's Meow Ann Douglas K The Case of the Double Cross Crosby Bonsall K Clifford, the Big Red Dog Crosby Bonsall K Clifford, the Small Red Puppy Norman Bridwell K Four on the Shore Three by the Sea Norman Bridwell K Froq and Toad series Edward Marshall K Alison's Puppy Arnold Lobel K Amelia Bedelia Books Marion Dane Bauer K The Cam Jansen Mystery series Pegav Parish L The Case of the Cool-Itch Kid David Adler L The Clue at the Zoo Patricia Reilly Giff L The Mystery of the Blue Ring Patricia Reilly Giff L ©2019 3rd Grade Recommended Reading List Recommended 3rd Grade Author Guided Reading Level Book Titles Cam Jansen (Chapter Book Series) David Adler L The Fire Cat Esther Averill J Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett M The Berenstain Bears (Series) Stan and Jan Berenstain L Flat Stanley (Series) Jeff Brown M Arther (Series) Marc Brown Various Levels, J-M Stega Nona (Stories) Tomie DePaola M Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise Kate Dicamillo K How to be cool in Third Grade Betsy Duffey N Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman L Boundless Grace Marry Hofflman M Bunnicula (Series) James Howe L Horrible Harry (Series) Suzy Kline L Frog and Toad (Series) Arnold Lobel K Judy Moody and Stink Megan McDonald M Magic Tree House (Chapter Book Series) Mary Osborne Pope M Amelia Bedilia Peggy Parish L Junie B. Jones (Chapter Book Series) Barbara Park M Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Patricia Pollacco K Dare Chicken Sunday Patricia Pollaco N Curious George (Storybooks) H.A.Ray J-M A to Z Mysteries (Series) Ron Ray N Poppleton (Series) Cynthia Rylant J Mr. Putter (Series) Cynthia Rylant J Henry and Mudge (Series) Cynthia Rylant J ©2019 Nate the Great (Series) Majorie Sharmat K The Treasure Uri Shulevitz K Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Erica Silverman J Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens L Pigsty Mark Teague K Dear Mrs. LaRue Mark Teague L Black Lagoon (Series) Mike Thaylor N Boxcar Children (Series) Gertrude Warner 0 Mr. Wuffles Dave Wiesner K Silly Sally Audrey Wood C Sweet Dream Pie Audrey Wood 0 Rude Giants Audrey Wood K Heckedy Peg Audrey Wood L ©2019 4th Grade Recommended Reading List Recommended 4th Grade Book Titles Author Guided Reading Level The World According to Humphrey Betty Birney 0 Superfudge Judy Blume Q Arthur (Chapter Book Series) Marc Brown M Serafina's Promise Ann Burg s The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron N Beverly Cleary Series Beverly Cleary p Bailey School Kids (Chapter Book Series) Debbie Dadey M-Q Amber Brown Goes Fourth Paula Danzinger 0 The Incredible Book Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers N My Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannet N Horrible Harry (Chapter Book Suzy Kline M Series) Magic Tree House (Chapter Book Series Mary Osborne 0 A-Z Mysteries (Chapter Book Series) Ron Roy N Encyclopedia Brown (Chapter Donald Sobol p Book Series) The Treasure Uri Shulevitz K Boxcar Children (Chapter Book Gertrude Warner 0 Series) Stoppiing by Woods on a Snowy Robert Frost K Evening Granda's Stories Langston Hughes K Eating While Reading Gary Soto N All Behold the Umbrellaphant Jack Prelutsky N Who has seen the Wind? Christina Rossetti L Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein N Picture Book Biographies David Adler M Bat loves the Night Nicola Davis M Eyewitness Readers Various Authors Levels J-S ©2019 Move! Steve Jenkins L Tsunami Kimiko Kajikawa N Magic School Bus (Chapter Book Eva Moore p Series) Non Fiction Science Books (Various Titles) Simon Seymour 0-R ©2019 5th Grade Recommended Reading List Recommended 5th Grade Book Titles Author Guided Reading Level