HIGH SCHOOL
Most books on this list are actually adult books of interest to young
adults.
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Watership Down |
Adams |
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I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou |
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The Education Of Little Tree |
Carter |
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The House on Mango Street |
Cisneros |
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Gai-Jin |
Clavell |
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Jurassic Park |
Crichton |
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Ellen Foster |
Gibbons |
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Lord of the Flies |
Golding |
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Black Like Me |
Griffin |
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That Was Then, This Is Now |
Hinton |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop |
Café Flagg |
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A Prayer For Owen Meany |
Irving |
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Flowers For Algernon |
Keyes |
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The Body (Stand By Me) |
King |
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Animal Dreams |
Kingsolver |
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Into Thin Air |
Krakauer |
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Out of the Madness : from the projects to a life of hope |
Ladd |
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She’s Come Undone |
Lamb |
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To Kill A Mockingbird |
Lee |
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Where the Heart Is |
Letts |
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Tomorrow, When the War Began (5 titles) |
Marsden |
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Out of Nowhere |
Ouida |
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The Grapes of Wrath |
Steinbeck |
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The Color Purple |
Walker |
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle Schoolers read things from all over the map!
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Beyond the Western Sea (3 titles) |
Avi |
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The Lost Years Of Merlin (3 titles) |
Barron |
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Where the Lilies Bloom |
Cleaver |
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The Chocolate War |
Cormier |
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Bloomability |
Creech |
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Snail Mail No More |
Danziger & Martin |
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Eva |
Dickinson |
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm |
Farmer |
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Shadow Spinner |
Fletcher |
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Kissing Doorknobs |
Hesser |
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The Maze |
Hobbs |
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The Luckiest Girl |
Levenkron |
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Dragonsong (3 titles) |
McCaffrey |
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Mary Bloody Mary |
Meyer |
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Anne of Green Gables (8 titles) |
Montgomery |
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break |
Namioka |
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A Day No Pigs Would Die |
Peck |
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The Golden Compass (3 titles) |
Pullman |
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The Light In The Forest |
Richter |
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Buried Onions |
Soto |
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Toughing It |
Springer |
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The Hobbit (5 titles) |
Tolkien |
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Homecoming (6 titles) |
Voigt |
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Pigman |
Zindel |
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So many good books!
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THIRD GRADE
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SECOND GRADE
Make sure you encourage you child to read on his own, but be sure you also
continue reading to him. Browse the non-fiction shelves for topics of
interest for your child. Encourage a lifetime love of learning and reading!
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Cam Jansen (20 titles) |
Adler |
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Poppy (4 Tales From the Dimwood Forest)* |
Avi |
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Never Grab A Deer By It’s Ear |
Bare |
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The World According To Horses |
Budiansky |
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Mouse and the Motorcycle (3 titles) |
Cleary |
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Each Orange Had Eight Slices |
Giganti |
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Redwall* |
Jacques |
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Like Jake and Me |
Jukes |
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Pecos Bill |
Kellogg |
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Annie Bananie and the Pain Sisters |
Komaiko |
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Fox In Love (9 titles) |
Marshall |
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Amelia Bedelia (5 titles) |
Parish |
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Magic Tree House (21 titles) |
Osborne |
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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (16 titles) |
Park |
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Henry and Mudge (15 titles) |
Rylant |
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Grandfather’s Journey |
Say |
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So You Want To Be President? |
Small |
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Stuart Little* |
White |
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denotes chapter books)
As the child starts learning to read, practice is important. Choose books for them to successfully read by themselves but also continue to read-aloud and team-read (‘you read a page, then I’ll read a page’). In the Children’s Room there are many Easy Readers (ER’s) to choose from. Keep reading run!
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Miss Nelson Is Waiting |
Allard |
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The Story of Little Babaji |
Bannerman |
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Bootsie Barker Bites |
Bottner |
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Old Black Fly |
Aylesworth |
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Arthur’s Teacher Trouble (many titles) |
Brown |
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Strega Nona |
dePaola |
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Some Smug Slug |
Edwards |
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Iktomi and the Boulder |
Goble |
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26 Letters and 99 Cents |
Hoban |
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Amazing Grace |
Hoffman |
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Mirette On The High Wire |
McCully |
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Martha Speaks |
Meddaugh |
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Little Bear |
Minarik |
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The Borrowers (6 titles) |
Norton |
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Thunder Cake |
Polacco |
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The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs |
Scieszka |
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Tops and Bottoms |
Stevens |
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Little House On The Prairie (9 titles)* |
Wilder |
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A Chair For My Mother |
Williams |
(* denotes chapter books)
KINDERGARTEN
By this age longer picture books with more involved themes are appropriate.
You can also be reading chapter books aloud, a few chapters/day (* denotes
chapter books). Pictures are not as important now since their mind’s eye is
perfectly capable of creating imaginary images. Stimulating children to use
their imagination is important.
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People’s Ears |
Aardema |
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Cleversticks |
Ashley |
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Stellaluna |
Cannon |
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It Takes A Village |
Cowen-Fletcher |
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James and the Giant Peach* |
Dahl |
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My Father’s Dragon* |
Gannett |
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Chrysanthemum |
Henkes |
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Masai and I |
Kroll |
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Ferdinand |
Leaf |
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Frederick |
Lionni |
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Roxaboxen |
McLerran |
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Chicka Chicka Boom |
Martin |
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The Salamander Room |
Mazer |
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Now We Are Six |
Milne |
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The Adventures of Peter Rabbit (20 titles) |
Potter |
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Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner |
Schwartz |
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No, David! |
Shannon |
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten |
Slate |
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The 3 Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig |
Trivizas |
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Ira Sleeps Over |
Waber |
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Heckedy Peg |
Wood |
(*denotes chapter books)
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This age loves rhyming and books with repetitive words and phrases so they can chime in! Colors, concepts, surprises, and funny stories are especially popular.
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St. Helena Public
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Booklists prepared by the St. Helena Library, appropriate for:
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California Department of Education: California Reading Lists (Based on your child's California Achievement Test Scores) |
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Links to Award Winning Children's Books websites: The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The California Young Readers Medal is awarded each year to books nominated, read and voted for by students throughout California. The Newbery Medal is awarded each year by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The Scott O'Dell Award is presented for a work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
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TODDLER
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Sounder |
Armstrong |
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The Indian In The Cupboard (5 titles) |
Banks |
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The Wizard of Oz (14 titles) |
Baum |
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The House With A Clock In It’s Walls (7 titles) |
Bellairs |
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (3 titles) |
Blume |
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Caddie Woodlawn |
Brink |
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Jeremy Thacher, Dragon Hatcher |
Coville |
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Amber Brown (9 titles) |
Danziger |
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Hank the Cowdog (37 titles) |
Erickson |
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The Hundred Dresses |
Estes |
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The Black Stallion (18 titles) |
Farley |
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Stone Fox |
Gardiner |
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Misty of Chincoteague (5 titles) |
Henry |
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Tintin (24 titles) |
Herge |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (7 titles) |
Lewis |
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The Story of Dr. Dolittle (12 titles) |
Lofting |
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Soup (14 titles) |
Peck |
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Sideways Stories From Wayside School (3 titles) |
Sachar |
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Time Warp Trio (9 titles) |
Scieszka |