Favorite Books by Grade Level
KINDERGARTEN-1ST GRADE
Billy and Blaze by C.W. Anderson
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Two Times the Fun by Beverly Cleary
The King's Equal by Katherine Patterson
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman
Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Storm by Cynthia Rylant
2ND GRADE
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Babe by Dick King-Smith
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
3RD GRADE
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Abel’s Island by William Steig
The Real Thief by William Steig
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park
4TH GRADE
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Dragon: Hound of Honor by Julie Andrews Edwards
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
5TH GRADE
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
6TH GRADE
White Fang by Jack London
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Antigone by Sophocles
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzcy
7TH GRADE
Shane by Jack Shaefer
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
The Romantics by Edmond Rostand
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
Les Misérables (Abridged) by Victor Hugo
8TH GRADE
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
Antigone by Sophocles
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant