Going into Second Grade

Required: Knots On A Counting Rope by Bill Martin & John Archambault

Recommended: Any book by Steven Kellogg

The Cobblestreet Cousins series by Cynthia Rylant

Mr. Putter and Tabby series by Cynthia Rylant

Nate the Great series by Marjorie Sharmat

Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park

Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel

The Golly Sisters series by Betsy Byars

Let's Read and Find Out series

 

 Required: Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary

One of the following:

All About Sam by Lois Lowry

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danzinger

Beetles, Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Boston Coffee Party by Donna Rappaport

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express by Eleanor Coerr

Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

 Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling

Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

The Girls Who Looked Under Rocks by J. Atkins

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by M. Walter

Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Poppy by Avi

The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? By Jean Fritz

Wayside School series by Louis Sachar

 

Going into Fourth Grade

Required:

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Dead Letter by Betsy Byars

Double Fudge by Judy Blume

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks

Falcon's Egg by Luli Gray

Faith and the Electric Dog by Patrick Jennings

From the Mixed Up Files by E.L. Konigsburg

Half Magic by Edward Eager

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

The Jacket by Andrew Clements

June Bug by Alice Mead Mayfield

Crossing by Gregory Maguire

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

S.O.R. Losers by Avi

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

 

Going Into Fifth Grade

 Required:

A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida

Two of the following:

Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote

From the Mixed up Files by E.L. Konigsburg

Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant

Haunting at Home Plate by David Patneaude

The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs

Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

Midnight Magic by Avi

North by Night by Katherine Ayers

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

Trolls by Polly Horvath

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene duBois

View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech