LITERATURE FOR GROUP READING

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The following titles are available to contracting districts in classroom sets of ten or more.
To order call Fred Borchers at 964-4711, ext. 5249.

Primary Level

Author	Ca	Title	Grade
Baylor	*	Amigo	1-3
		Coyote Cry	1-3
	*	Desert is Theirs	K-3
		Everybody Needs a Rock	K-3
	*	Hawk, I'm Your Brother	1-4
	*	They Put on Masks	1-4
	*	When Clay Sings	1-4
Bradfield		Benjamin Dilley's Lavender Lion	1-4
		Benjamin Dilley's Thirsty Camel	1-4
		Flying Hockey Stick	1-4
		Giants Come in Different Sizes	1-4
		Good Knight For Dragons	1-4
		Pickle-Chiffon Pie	1-4
Calhoun		Witch of Hissing Hill	K-3
		Wobble the Witch Cat	K-3
Cannon		Stellaluna	1-3
Carrick		What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs?	K-3
Cooney	*	Miss Rumphius	K-3
Freeman		Beady Bear	K-1
	*	Bearymore	K-3
		Botts the Naughty Otter	K-3
		Come Again Pelican	K-3
	*	Corduroy	K-3
	*	Dandelion	K-2
		Guard Mouse	K-2
		Hattie the Backstage Bat	K-3
		Norman the Doorman	K-2
		Penguins of All People	K-3
		Pocket for Corduroy	K-2
		Quiet: There's a Canary in the Library	K-3
		Rainbow of My Own	K-3
		Seal and the Slick	K-3
		Space Witch	K-3
		Tilly Witch	K-3
Galdone		Gingerbread Boy	K-1
		Puss in Boots	K-3
Goble	*	Girl Who Loved Wild Horses	2-5
Henkes		Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse	K-3
Kellogg	*	Island of Skog	K-4
Lester		Tacky the Penguin	K-2
Lobel		Frog and Toad All Year	K-2
McDermott	*	Arrow to the Sun	1 up
McGovern		Stone Soup	1-3
Meddaugh		Martha Speaks	1-3
Peet		Buford the Little Bighorn	K-3
		Caboose Who Got Loose	K-3
	*	Chester the Worldly Pig	K-3
		Cowardly Clyde	K-3
		Eli	K-3
		Ella	K-3
		Farewell to Shady Glade	K-3
		Fly Homer Fly	K-3
		Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure	K-3
		Kermit the Hermit	K-3
		Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg	K-3
		Smokey	K-3
		Whingdingdilly	K-3
		Wump World	2-5
Polacco	*	Rechenka's Eggs	K-3
		Thunder Cake	K-3
Politi	*	Nicest Gift	K-3
	*	Song of the Swallows	K-3
		Three Stalks of Corn	1-4
Sendak	*	Where the Wild Things Are	K-3
Seuss	*	Cat in the Hat	K-2
	*	The Lorax	K-2
Skorpen		We Were Tired of Living in a House	K-3
Viorst	*	Alexander, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	K-2
	*	Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday	K-2
Waber	*	Ira Sleeps Over	K-2

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Middle Level

Author	Ca	Title	Grade
Aesop		Aesop's Fables	5-9
Alexander		Black Cauldron	5-9
		Book of Three	5-9
		Castle of Llyr	5-9
		High King	5-9
Armstrong		Sounder	5 up
Atwater		Mr. Popper's Penguins	3-6
Avi		Poppy	5-7
		True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	5-7
Babbitt	*	Tuck Everlasting	5 up
Banks	*	Indian in the Cupboard	4-6
Bauer		On My Honor	4-6
Blume		Superfudge	4-6
		Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing	4-6
Brink	*	Caddie Woodlawn	5-7
Bulla		Beast of Lor	3-6
		Benito	2-4
		Charlie's House	2-5
		Dexter	3-6
		Ghost of Windy Hill	3-7
		Ghost Town Treasure	4-6
		Jonah and the Great Fish	2-5
		John Billington, Friend of Squanto	2-5
		Moon Singer	2-4
		Open the Door and See All the People	2-4
		Pirate's Promise	2-5
	*	Shoeshine Girl	4-6
		Sword in the Tree	2-5
		Valentine Cat	2-4
		Viking Adventure	3-6
		White Bird	3-6
		Wish at the Top	2-5
Burnett	*	Secret Garden	3-6
Byars		Not Just Anybody Family	5-7
Cleary	*	Dear Mr. Henshaw	4-6
	*	Mouse and the Motorcycle	2-6
		Ralph S. Mouse	2-6
	*	Ramona and Her Father	2-5
		Ramona Quimby, Age 8	3-6
Collier		My Brother Sam is Dead	5-9
Cox		Magic and the Sword...Greek Myths Retold	5-9
Creech		Wanderer	4-7
Cunningham	*	Dorp Dead	5-9
		Macaroon	3-6
		Maybe a Mole	2-5
		Onion Journey	5 up
Cushman		Ballad of Lucy Whipple	4-6
Dahl		Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	4-6
	*	James and the Giant Peach	4-6
Dalgleish		Courage of Sarah Noble	1-5
DeSaint Exupery	*	Little Prince	4 up
DiCamillo		Because of Winn-Dixie	4-6
Dickens		Christmas Carol	4 up
Farley	*	Black Stallion	5 up
		Black Stallion Challenged	5 up
Fleischman	*	By the Great Horn Spoon	4-6
		Ghost on Saturday Night	4-6
		McBroom's Zoo	2-4
		Whipping Boy	3-6
Forbes		Johnny Tremain	5 up
Gardiner		Stone Fox	4-6
George	*	My Side of the Mountain	4-9
Gipson	*	Old Yeller	5 up
Grahame	*	Wind in the Willows	4-6
Gutman		Honus and Me	4-6
Hamilton	*	House of Dies Drear	5 up
Henry		Justin Morgan Had a Horse	4-6
		San Domingo; the Medicine Hat Stallion	3 up
Holling		Paddle to the Sea	4-7
Howe		Bunnicula	3-6
Juster		The Phantom Tollbooth	4-7
Keller		Desdemona-12 Going on Desperate	4-6
Konigsburg	*	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	3-7
	*	Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth	3-8
Krumgold	*	And Now Miguel	5-8
		Onion John	5-8
Laurgaard		Patty Reed's Doll	3-6
Lawson	*	Ben and Me	3-6
	*	Rabbit Hill	4-6
L'Engle	*	Wrinkle in Time	5-8
Lewis		Horse and His Boy	4-6
		Last Battle	4-6
	*	Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe	4-6
		Magician's Nephew	4-6
		Prince Caspian	4-6
		Silver Chair	4-6
		Voyage of the Dawn Treader	4-6
Lord	*	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	3-5
Lowry		Number the Stars	5-7
MacLachlan	*	Sarah, Plain and Tall	4-6
Manes		Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days	4-6
Merrill		Toothpaste Millionaire	4-7
Miles	*	Annie and the Old One	3-6
Neville	*	It's Like This Cat	5-8
O'Brian	*	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	5-7
O'Dell	*	Island of the Blue Dolphins	5 up
	*	Sing Down the Moon	5 up
Paterson	*	Bridge to Terabithia	5-7
	*	Great Gilly Hopkins	5-7
	*	Jacob Have I Loved	6-8
Paulsen		Hatchet	6-9
Pitts		Racing the Sun	5 up
Rawlings	*	Yearling	3 up
Rawls		Summer of the Monkeys	5 up
	*	Where the Red Fern Grows	5 up
Rylant		Missing May	6 up
Selden		Cricket in Times Square	4-7
Sewell		Black Beauty	3-6
Smith		War With Grandpa	4 up
Snyder		Black and Blue Magic	3-7
	*	Egypt Game	3-7
Speare	*	Sign of the Beaver	5-7
	*	Witch of Blackbird Pond	5 up
Sperry		Call it Courage	4-6
Spinelli		Maniac Magee	4-6
Van Draanen		Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief	4-7
		Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy	4-7
White	*	Charlotte's Web	3-5
	*	Stuart Little	3-5
		Trumpet of the Swan	3-5
Wilder		Little House in the Big Woods	2-5
		Little House on the Prairie	2-5
Wojciechowska		Shadow of the Bull	3-6

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Upper Level

Author	Ca	Title	Grade
Adams		Watership Down	7 up
Alcott	*	Little Women	6 up
Avi		Nothing But the Truth	6 up
Bethancourt		Dog Days of Arthur Cane	6 up
Byars	*	Summer of the Swans	6 up
Cameron	*	Court of the Stone Children	6 up
Chute		Stories from Shakespeare	7 up
Clemens		Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	6 up
		Adventures of Tom Sawyer	6 up
Crane		Red Badge of Courage	6 up
Dickens		David Copperfield	7 up
		Tale of Two Cities	7 up
Frank	*	Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl	7 up
George	*	Julie of the Wolves	7 up
Graham		Whose Town?	7 up
Haddix		Among the Hidden	5 up
Hamilton		Mythology	7 up
Hunt	*	Across Five Aprils	7 up
		Up a Road Slowly	7 up
Levitin		Mark of Conte	6-8
London	*	Call of the Wild	6 up
O'Dell	*	Black Pearl	7 up
	*	Zia	6 up
Raskin	*	Westing Game	6 up
Richter		Light in the Forest	6 up
Schaefer		Shane	7 up
Snyder		Fabulous Creature	7 up
Steinbeck		Pearl	6-9
	*	Red Pony	6 up
Stevenson		Treasure Island	6 up
Swift		Gulliver's Travels	7 up
Taylor, M.		Let the Circle Be Unbroken	6 up
	*	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	6 up
Taylor, T.	*	Cay	6 up
		Sniper	7 up
Tolkien	*	Hobbit	6 up
Uchida	*	Journey Home	5-7
	*	Journey to Topaz	5-7
		Samurai of Gold Hill	5-7
Untermeyer		Modern American Poetry	7 up
Verne		Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	7 up
Voight	*	Dicey's Song	7 up
		Homecoming	5 up
Yep	*	Child of the Owl	7 up
	*	Dragonwings	7 up

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This page last updated on 7/24/2001