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Here is a listing of outstanding books, by grade level through high school (K-Adult).
The selection of a book should be based primarily on interest
and readiness to read at that level. Students should feel free to read any book.

These books should be available in your school or local public library.
Remember, if your library doesn't have the book, request that they place it
on hold for you, either in person, or on line. Los Angeles County Libraries rock!

Grade 1 (and Kindergarten) Reading Suggestions

The Little Red Hen		Are You My Mother?		There's a Nightmare in My Closet		Ira Sleeps Over

Go, Dog, Go!		George & Martha		Frog & Toad are Friends		I Am Enough

Big Blue Book		Brown Bear		The Snowy Day		Corduroy

Just Grandma & Me		Green Eggs and Ham		The Cat in the Hat		If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Where the Wild Things Are		Alexander and the Terrible...		The Berenstain Bears Beginner Books		Goodnight Moon

It Could Always be Worse		Stone Soup		Harold and the Purple Crayon		Sheila Rae, the Brave

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Grade 2 Reading Suggestions

Mr. Popper's Penguins		The Giving Tree		The Whingdingdilly		Junie B. Jones

Amber Brown		The Hundred Dresses		Life Doesn't Frighten Me		Captain Underpants

Danny & the Dinosaur		Love You Forever		Anansi the Spider		The Rainbow Fish

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Grade 3 Reading Suggestions

The Wump World		Fantastic Mr. Fox		Amelia Bedelia		Beezus & Ramona

The Mouse & the Motorcycle		Thank you, Mr. Falkner		Wonder		Koko's Kitten

Sounder		Stone Fox		Harriet the Spy		The Cricket in Times Square

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Grade 4 Reading Suggestions

Charlotte's Web		Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing		James and the Giant Peach		The BFG

Matilda		Charlie and the Chocolate Factory		The Phantom Tollbooth		Where the Red Fern Grows

Island of the Blue Dolphins		Tuck Everlasting		The Whipping Boy		Sarah, Plain and Tall

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Grade 5 Reading Suggestions

Sign of the Beaver		Maniac Magee		Holes		Onion John

... and now Miguel		Bud, not Buddy		The Giver		Dear Mr. Henshaw

Bridge to Terabithia		Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry		Julie of the Wolves		Shiloh

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Middle School Reading Suggestions

Tangerine		Esperanza Rising		Of Mice and Men		The Outsiders

The Giver		Wringer		Hatchet		Tuck Everlasting

The Hunger Games		The Pearl		The Book of Awesome		Twilight

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High School Reading Suggestions

To Kill a Mockingbird		Animal Farm		1984		Fahrenheit 451

Brave New World		Great Expectations		The Grapes of Wrath		Diary of Anne Frank

Slaughterhouse Five		The House on Mango Street		Catch-22		13 Reasons Why

The Jungle		Black Like Me		I Can't Make This Up		The Audacity of Hope

Scrappy Little Nobody		Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man		Gordon Ramsay Humble Pie		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bless Me, Ultima		The Color Purple		Manchild in the Promised Land		The Invisible Man

Bull Rider		Zen and the Art of Faking It		Condoleezza Rice Autobiography		Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

The Bell Jar		A Tree Grows in Brooklyn		Jane Eyre		The Rent Collector

The Real Anthony Fauci		Elon Musk		Real Time with Bill Maher		Jurassic Park