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Young Readers: 1. Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton 2. If You Give a Moose A Muffin, Laura Joffe Numeroff 3. If You Give a Mouse A Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff 4. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Simms Taback 5. On My Beach There are Many Pebbles, Leo Lionni 6. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? Bill Martin Jr. 7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? Bill Martin Jr. 8. Stellaluna, Janelle Cannon 9. Miss Spider's Wedding, David Kirk 10. Miss Spider's New Car, David Kirk 11. Lunch, Denise Fleming 12. Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School, Mark Teague 13. The Three Pigs/ Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel, Bobbi Salinas
Elementary Primary 1. Brave Irene, William Steig 2. Amos & Boris, William Steig 3. Very Last First Time, Jan Andrews 4. The Gold Coin, Alma Flor Ada 5. The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka 6. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 7. June 29, 1999, David Wiesner 8. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren 9. Frog and Toad are Friends, Arnold Lobel 10. The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes 11. Swimmy, Leo Lionni 12. Thy Friend, Obadiah, Brinton Turkle 13. Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Leo Lionni 14. The Goat in the Rug, Charles L. Blood & Martin Link 15. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst 16. Annie Bananie and the People's Court, Leah Komaiko 17. Go Fish, Mary Stolz 18. The Day of Ahmed's Secret, Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland
Elementary Upper: 1. The Green Book, Jill Patton Walsh 2. Harris and Me, Gary Paulsen 3. A Gathering of Days, Joan W. Blos 4. Wringer, Jerry Spinelli 5. The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, Katherine Paterson 6. The Secret Museum, Paul Zindel 7. The Master Puppeteer, Katherine Paterson 8. The Sacrifice, Diane Matcheck 9. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks 10. The Last Lobo, Roland Smith 11. The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, Sid Fleischman 12. The Goats, Brock Cole 13. Seasons of the Moon: Winter Moon, Jean Craighead George 14. The Circuit, Francisco Jimènez 15. Seasons of the Moon: Autumn Moon, Jean Craighead George 16. Sounder, William H. Armstrong 17. Beardance, Will Hobbs 18. Maroo of the Winter Caves, Ann Turnbull 19. Seasons of the Moon: Summer Moon, Jean Craighead George 20. The Winter Room, Gary Paulsen 21. Journey, Patricia MacLachlan 22. Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story, Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin 23. The Giver, Lois Lowry 24. Frozen Stiff, Sherry Shahan 25. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary 26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling 27. Shark Lady: The Adventures of Eugenie Clark, Ann McGovern 28. Jungle Dogs, Graham Salisbury 29. Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska 30. Slake's Limbo, Felice Holman 31. Dogsong, Gary Paulsen 32. White Water, P.J. Petersen 33. The Bully of Barkham Street, Mary Stolz 34. On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer 35. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White 36. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell 37. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary 38. The Best Bad Thing, Yoshiko Uchida 39. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr 40. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster 41. Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, Naomi Shihab Nye
Middle School: 1. Welcome Back, Salmon, Molly Cone 2. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton 3. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 4. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 5. Monkey Island, Paula Fox 6. Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser 7. An Early Winter, Marion Dane Bauer 8. That Was Then, This is Now, S.E. Hinton 9. Slam! Walter Dean Myers 10. The Pigman, Paul Zindel 11. Flour Babies, Anne Fine 12. Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis 13. The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox 14. Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle 15. In the Middle of the Night, Robert Cormier 16. Frenchtown Summer, Robert Cormier 17. The Second Bend in the River, Ann Rinaldi 18. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, Suzanne Fisher Staples 19. The Last Mission, Harry Mazer 20. River Thunder, Will Hobbs 21. Seasons of the Moon: Autumn Moon, Jean Craighead George 22. The Wild Hunt, Jane Yolen 23. Child of the Owl, Laurence Yep 24. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 25. I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, Diane Lee Wilson 26. Julie, Jean Craighead George 27. Up Country, Alden R. Carter 28. Throwing Shadows, E.L. Konigsburg 29. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Kimberly Willis Holt 30. Winter Camp, Kirkpatrick Hill 31. Curses, Inc. and Other Stories, Vivian Vande Velde 32. Beyond the Burning Time, Kathryn Lasky 33. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes 34. The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis 35. Eva, Peter Dickinson 36. Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now, Maya Angelou 37. Tunes for Bears to Dance To, Robert Cormier 38. Max the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick 39. A Child Called "It", David Pelzer 40. Night, Elie Wiesel 41. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling 42. Rats, Paul Zindel 43. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank 44. A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck 45. Cousins, Virginia Hamilton 46. The Captive, Joyce Hansen 47. Space Race, Sylvia Waugh 48. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit 49. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen 50. Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Victor Martinez 51. The River, Gary Paulsen 52. Woodsong, Gary Paulsen 53. The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
High School: 1. Burning Up, Caroline B. Cooney 2. The Silent Storm, Sherry Garland 3. Montana 1948, Larry Watson 4. Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich 5. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Lorraine Hansberry 6. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury 7. The Acorn People, Ron Jones 8. The King's Shadow, Elizabeth Alder 9. Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers 10. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler 11. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 12. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros 13. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie 14. An Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold 15. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 16. We All Fall Down, Robert Cormier 17. Exodus, Leon Uris 18. The Chosen, Chaim Potok 19. Children of the River, Linda Crew 20. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck 21. Inside the Walls of Troy, Clemence McLaren 22. Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause 23. Tenderness, Robert Cormier 24. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 25. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin 26. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver 27. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls 28. Thousand Pieces of Gold, Ruthanne Lum McCunn 29. The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay 30. Heroes & Monsters of Greek Myth, Evslin, Evslin, & Hoopes 31. Buried Onions, Gary Soto 32. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez 33. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard 34. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland 35. Summer of my German Soldier, Bette Green 36. Poems, Maya Angelou 37. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 38. What's in a Name? Ellen Wittlinger 39. I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven 40. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou 41. Stotan! Chris Crutcher 42. Alias, Mary Elizabeth Ryan 43. Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, Paul Zindel 44. Dibs in Search of Self, Virginia M. Axline 45. In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 46. The Contender, Robert Lipsyte 47. The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury 48. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury 49. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende 50. The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger 51. 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Vincent Price 52. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mildred D. Taylor 53. The Moves Make the Man, Bruce Brooks 54. Sang Spell, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 55. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harber Lee 56. The Girl in the Box, Ouida Sebestyen 57. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson 58. The Killer's Cousin, Nancy Werlin
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