RESOURCES • FOR STUDENTS
READINGS FOR STUDENTS
GRADES K-1
Peppe the Lamplighter- Elisa Bartone
Stone Soup- Marcia Brown
The Picnic- Ruth Brown
The Quiltmaker’s Gift- Jeff Brumbeau
Flower Garden- Eve Bunting
A House for Hermit Crab- Eric Carle
Cathedral Mouse- Kay Chorao
Ten Little Mice- Joyce Dunbar
In the Forest- Marie Hall Ets
Gabriella’s Song- Candace Fleming
In the Small, Small Pond- Denise Fleming
In the Tall, Tall Grass- Denise Fleming
Time for Bed- Mem Fox
A Rainbow of My Own- Don Freeman
In the Hush of the Evening- Nancy Price Graff
I Love You, Mouse- John Graham
Little Toot- Hardie Gramatky
Ox-Cart Man- Donald Hall
Gather Up, Gather In- M.C. Helldorfer
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children- James Herriot
The Tale of Three Trees- Angela Elwell Hunt
James and the Rain- Karla Kuskin
The Story of Ferdinand- Munro Leaf
Red Wolf Country- Jonathan London
Beatrice’s Goat- Page McBrier
Jumping Bean- Edna Miller
Mousekin’s Christmas Eve- Edna Miller
Mousekin’s Frosty Friend- Edna Miller
Mousekin’s Golden House- Edna Miller
Mousekin’s Thanksgiving- Edna Miller
Mousekin’s Woodland Sleepers- Edna Miller
Patches Finds a New Home- Edna Miller
Now We Are Six- A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner- A.A. Milne
When We Were Very Young- A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh- A.A. Milne
Alexander and the Magic Mouse- Martha Sanders
Thy Friend, Obadiah- Brinton Turkle
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey- Susan Wojciechowski
Grades 2-3
Under the Lilacs- Louisa May Alcott
The King’s Chessboard- David Birch
Caddie Woodlawn- Carol Ryrie Brink
The Pied Piper of Hamelin- Robert Browning
The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Lame Prince- Dinah Craik
The Courage of Sarah Noble- Alice Dalgliesh
Louis Braille- Margaret Davidson
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille- Russell Freedman
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?- Jean Fritz
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?- Jean Fritz
Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?- Jean Fritz
Black Gold- Marguerite Henry
Born to Trot- Marguerite Henry
Brighty of the Grand Canyon- Marguerite Henry
Justin Morgan Had a Horse- Marguerite Henry
King of the Wind- Marguerite Henry
Misty of Chincoteague- Marguerite Henry
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West- Marguerite Henry
The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
Pyramid- David Macaulay
Sarah, Plain and Tall- Patricia MacLachlan
The Borrowers- Mary Norton
The Star-Spangled Banner- Peter Spier (illustrator)
All-of-a-Kind Family- Sydney Taylor
Samuel Eaton’s Day- Kate Waters
Sarah Morton’s Day- Kate Waters
Stuart Little- E.B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan- E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie- Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek- Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake- Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie- Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Grades 4-6
An Old-Fashioned Girl- Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins- Louisa May Alcott
Jo’s Boys- Louisa May Alcott
Drums- James Boyd
The Incredible Journey- Sheila Burnford
The Black Stallion- Walter Farley
Calico Bush- Rachel Field
Johnny Tremain- Esther Forbes
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane- Russell Freedman
My Side of the Mountain- Jean Craighead George
Old Yeller- Fred Gipson
Adam of the Road- Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Endless Steppe- Esther Hautzig
The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
Secret of the Old Clock- Carolyn Keene
The Hidden Staircase- Carolyn Keene
Captains Courageous- Rudyard Kipling
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
The Call of the Wild- Jack London
Hatchet- Gary Paulsen
White Fang- Jack London
Men of Iron- Howard Pyle
Otto of the Silver Hand- Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights- Howard Pyle
The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions- Howard Pyle
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table- Howard Pyle
The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur- Howard Pyle
Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls
The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Rollerskates- Ruth Sawyer
The Sign of the Beaver- Elizabeth George Speare
The Bronze Bow- Elizabeth George Speare
The Shining Company- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Silver Branch- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Outcast- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Eagle of the Ninth- Rosemary Sutcliff
Tristan and Iseult- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Sword and the Circle- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Light Beyond the Forest- Rosemary Sutcliff
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Daddy-Long-Legs- Jean Webster
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Grades 7-8
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Short Stories- Louisa May Alcott
Sounder- William Armstrong
Emma- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
Persuasion- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Bel Ria: Dog of War- Sheila Burnford
Don Quixote (translation by Burton Raffel)- Miguel de Cervantes
Isaac Newton: and the Scientific Revolution- Gale E. Christianson
Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
Life With Father- Clarence Day
David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
Silas Marner- George Eliot
The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
The Miracle Worker- William Gibson
American Primitive- William Gibson
The Snow Goose- Paul Gallico
The Confederate Reader- Richard Harwell (editor)
The Union Reader- Richard Harwell (editor)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips- James Hilton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
Rip Van Winkle- Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
To Be A Slave- Julius Lester
Invincible Louisa- Cornelia Meigs
Scottish Chiefs (illustrated by N.C. Wyeth)- Jane Porter
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom- Slavomir Rawicz
The Killer Angels- Michael Shaara
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Sailing on the Ice: and Other Stories from the Old Squire’s Farm- C.A. Stephens
Kidnapped- Robert Louis Stevenson
A Girl of the Limberlost- Gene Stratton-Porter
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth- Sojourner Truth
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court- Mark Twain
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne
Mysterious Island- Jules Verne
Reader’s Digest True Stories of Great Escapes: The Real Life Epics of Men and Women Whose Password Was Courage, and Gambled Everything for Freedom – or Death- Charles Verral (editor)
Ben Hur- Lew Wallace