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| Children entering Pre-School |
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss Chicka, Chicka, Boom by Bill Martin Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss No, David! by David Shannon Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Swimmy by Leo Lionni The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Tom and Pippo by Helen Oxenbury (a series of books) When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang |
| Students entering Kindergarten |
| Click,
Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabet Adventure by Doreen
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| Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French Jazz by Walter Dean Myers Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by jane Yolen Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman Olivia by Ian Falconer One Green Apple by Eve Bunting When Sophia Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
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| Students entering Grade 2 |
| Iris and Walter: The School Play by Elissa Haden Guest Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin My Buddy by Audrey Osofsky My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston Owen & Mzee: True Story of of Remarkable Friendship by Craig Hatkoff Leaf Man Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger Song Lee in 2B by Suzy Kline Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens |
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| Students entering Grade 3 |
| The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Zoom by Istavan Banyai Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide George and Martha by James MarshallGorillas by Seymour Simon Hey, New Kid! by Betsy Duffey Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver Brothers by Yin John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith
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| Students entering Grade 4 | A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements Secrets of the Sphinx by James Giblin Cook-a-Doodle-Doo by Susan Stevens Crummel For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone by Jack Prelutsky Fourth Grade Fuss by Johanna Hurwitz Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The Widow’s Broom by Chris Van Allsburg Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan |
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| Students entering Grade 5 | City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli Homework Machine by Dan Gutman Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Anne Petry Matilda by Roald Dahl Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine by Diane Stanley Night Journeys by Avi Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde Where the Sidewalks Ends by Shel Silverstein Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise |
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| Students entering Grade 6 | Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Hoot by Carl Hiassen Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Morning Girl by Michael Dorris The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies by Eve Bunting The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton Save Queen of Sheba by Louise Moeri So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan Tales of Desperaux–Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton Tiger Woods: An American Master by Nicholas Edwards The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis |
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| Students entering Grade 7 | Airborne by Kenneth Oppel A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck Broken Blade by William Durbin The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danzinger Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Downriver by Will Hobbs Fire, Bed & Bone by Henrietta Branford Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen The Hunting of the Last Dragon by Sherryl Jordan Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt Love among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris The Man Who Was Poe by Avi Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior by Edward Clayton The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon The River by Gary Paulsen Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ronald Koertge Squashed by Joan Bauer The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park |
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| Students entering Grade 8 | Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech Among the Imposters by Margaret Haddix Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim Dune by Frank Herbert The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. Tolkien Freedom’s Children edited by E. Levine Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary Holes by Louis Sachar I Am Regina by Sally M. Keehn Indian Chiefs by Russell Freedman The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder The White Mountains by John Christopher Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic |
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| Students entering Grade 9 | Brighton
Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound (author: Simon)
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| Students entering Grade 10 |
Bronx Masquerade (author: Grimes) Cape Ann (author: Sullivan) Dragonsong (or series) (author: McCaffrey) Emako Blue (author: Woods) Jubilee (author: Walker)
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| Students entering Grade 11 | All My Sons (author: Miller) Death Be Not Proud (author: Gunther) The Invisible Man (author: Ellison) The Little Foxes (author: Hellman) Shattering Glass (author: Giles) Stargirl (author: Spinelli) Sailing Around the Room (author: Collins) Song of the Buffalo Boy (author: Garland) Wait Til Next Year (author: Goodwin)
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| Students entering Grade 12 | And Then There Were None (author: Christie) Jane Eyre (author: Bronte) Kite Runner (author: Hosseini) A Lesson Before Dying (author: Gaines) Light Thickens (author: Marsh) Life of Pi (author: Martel) Purple Hibiscus (author: Adichie) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (author: Eliot) A Tale of Two Cities (author: Dickens) Woman Warrior (author: Kingston)
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