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Grade One
- Tana Hoban
- Bruce McMillan
- Robert McCloskey
- Denise Fleming
- Lois Ehlert
- Cynthia Rylant
- Mercer Mayer
- Audrey Wood
- Kevin Henkes
- Tedd Arnold
- Mem Fox
- Arnold Lobel
- All folk and fairy tales
- All Mother Goose Rhymes
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Grade Two
- Tomie dePaola
- Marc Brown
- Barbara Park
- Suzy Kline
- Mary Pope Osborne
- David Adler
- Marjorie Sharmat
- Abby Klein
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Patricia Polacco
- Debbie Ann Dadey
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Grade Three
- Patricia Reilly Giff
- Beverly Cleary
- Seymour Simon
- Peggy Parish
- Paula Danziger
- Jane Yolen
- Mordicai Gerstein
- Eve Bunting
- Shel Silverstein
- Judith Viorst
- Bruce Lansky
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Grade Four
- Johanna Hurwitz
- Robert Newton Peck
- Andrew Clements
- Matt Christopher
- Jean Fritz
- Jack Prelutsky
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Patricia McKissack
- "My America" books
- Dick King-Smith
- Judy Blume
- Patricia MacLachlan
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Grade Five
- Avi
- Katherine Paterson
- Gordon Korman
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Jon Scieszka
- Dan Gutman
- Peg Kehret
- Will Hobbs
- Sharon Creech
- Douglas Florian
- "Dear America" diaries
- Gary Paulsen
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*It is important to select books that are neither too easy nor too hard and to select books of interest.
*Check with a librarian for additional age appropriate books in a variety of genres such as poetry, biography, fiction and nonfiction.
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Grade Six
- Esperanza Rising, Ryan, P.
- Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, Kehret, P.
- Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, Van Draanen, W.
- Mick Harte Was Here, Park, B.
- On My Honor, Bauer, M.
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Gantos, J.
- Honus and Me, Gutman, D.
- Alanna: The First Adventure, Pierce, T.
- The Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, Murphy, J.
- Bud, Not Buddy, Curtis, C.
- Riding Freedom, Ryan, P.
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Grade Seven
- Homeless Bird, Whelan, G.
- Redwall, Jacques, B.
- Skin I’m In, Flake, S.
- Other Side of Truth, Naidoo, B.
- Maze, Hobbs, W.
- Art of Keeping Cool, Lisle, J.
- Night Hoops, Deuker, C.
- Flags of our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima, Bradley, J.
- Witness, Hesse, K.
- Race to Save the Lord God Bird, Hoose, P.
- Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery, Feinstein, J.
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Grade Eight
- Soldier X, Wulffson, D.
- House of the Scorpion, Farmer, N.
- Witch Child, Rees, C.
- Golden Compass, Pullman, P.
- Stargirl Spinelli, J.
- Peter & the Starcatchers, Barry, D.
- On the Devil's Court, Deuker, C.
- When My Name Was Keoko, Park, L.
- A Corner of the Universe, Martin, A.
- If You Come Softly, Woodson, J.
- Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis, Nelson, P.
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Grade Nine
- Hoops, Myers, W.
- Kim: Empty Inside, Sparks, B.
- When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka, J.
- Touching Spirit Bear, Mikaelsen, B.
- The Man Without a Country, Hale, E.
- Beyond the Burning Time, Lasky, K.
- Eragon, Paolini, C.
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Covey, S.
- Every Second Counts, Armstrong, L.
- Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, Goodwin, D.
- Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start, Appelt, K.
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Grade Ten
- A Girl’s Life Online, Tarbox, K.
- Flatbellies, Hollingsworth, A.
- The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd, S.
- A Walk in the Woods:Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bryson, B.
- Battle of Jericho, Draper, S.
- River Thunder, Hobbs, W.
- A Summer Life, Soto, G.
- New Found Land: a Novel, Wolf, A.
- The Cage, Sender, R.
- Electric Universe, Bodanis, D.
- I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Volavkova, H.
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Grade Eleven
- The Kite Runner, Hosseini, K.
- The Killer Angels, Shaara, M.
- Warriors Don’t Cry, Beals, M.
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Brashares, A.
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom, M.
- The Lovely Bones, Sebold, A.
- Middlesex, Eugenides, J.
- Bel Canto, Patchett, A.
- When I Was Puerto Rican, Santiago, E.
- Undaunted Courage, Ambrose, S.
- 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Collins, B.
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Grade Twelve
- Centaur Aisle, Anthony, P.
- Ceremony, Silko, L.
- Fallen Angels, Myers, W.
- Peace Like a River, Enger, L.
- A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines, E.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn, A.
- Native Son, Wright, R.
- Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America…, Ehrenreich, B.
- Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, Keller, E.
- Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, Grogan, J.
- Red Suitcase: Poems, Nye, N.
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*It is important to select books that are neither too easy nor too hard and to select books of interest.
*Or any other book suitable for a secondary student.
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