Sandburg's Reading Suggestions

Compiled by Beth Hagemeyer, former Sandburg LLC Director and Kathy Burke, Reading Specialist

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Kindergarten

TITLES:

• Moongame by Frank Asch

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

• Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews

• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

• The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone

• My Dear Noel: the Story of a Letter from Beatrix Potter by Jane Johnson

• Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.

• Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr.

• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

• No, David! by David Shannon

• Have You Seen My Duckling by Nancy Tafari

AUTHORS:

• Eric Carle

• Donald Crews

• Lois Ehlert

• Tana Hoban

• Dr. Seuss

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1st grade

TITLES:

• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

• Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg

• Minnie and Moo Go Dancing by Denys Cazet

• Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley

• Corduroy by Don Freeman

• Jessica by Kevin Henkes

• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

• The Bear's Toothache by David McPhail

• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff (part of a series)

• Rainbow Fish by Marc Pfister

• Mr. Putter and Tabby by Cynthia Rylant

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Lunch Money and Other Poems About School by Carol Shields

• The Napping House by Audrey Wood

AUTHORS:

• Jan Brett

• Gail Gibbons

• Leo Lionni

• Arnold Lobel

• Mercer Mayer

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2nd grade

TITLES:

• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema

• Miss Nelson is Missing by James Allard (part of a series)

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

• Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown (part of a series)

• The Little House by Virginia Brown

• Hot-Air Henry by Mary Calhoun

• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

• Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

• Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola

• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag

• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

• Horace & Morris but mostly Dolores by James Howe

• Imagine by Alison Lester

• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

• True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

• Candy Corn by James Stevenson

• Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

AUTHORS:

• Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

• Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parrish

• Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

• Nate the Great series by Marjorie W. Sharmat

• David Adler (picture book biography series)

• Gail Gibbons

• Steven Kellogg

• Stuart Murphy (math books)

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3rd grade

TITLES:

• Pioneer Girl: A Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson

• Tornado by Betsy Byars

• Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling

• Frindle by Andrew Clements

• Eleanor or Emily by Barbara Cooney

• Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger

• 26 Fairmount Avenue series by Tomie DePaola

• Laugh-eteria by Douglas Florian

• Bunnicula by James Howe

• Bigfoot Cinderrrrrrrrella by Tony Johnson

• Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith

• She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! by Kathryn Lasky

• Arthur for the Very First Time by Patricia MacLachlan

• Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

• Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

• How to Eat Fried Worms by H. Rockwell

• Not My Dog by Colby Rodowsky

• Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

• Minty: A Story of a Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder

• The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

• Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner

AUTHORS:

• Matt Christopher

• Beverly Cleary

• Andrew Clements

• Johanna Hurwitz

• Paul Goble

• Allen Say

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4th grade

TITLES:

• Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

• The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac

• Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

• Sing a Song of Popcorn by Beatrice deRegniers

• Joey Pigza Swallows the Key by Jack Gantos

• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

• Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin

• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Mathis

• Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• Borrowers by Mary Norton

• Duke Ellington by Andrea Pinkney

• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

• Holes by Louis Sachar

• Starry Messenger : Gailieo Galilei by Peter Sis

• Stuart Little by E.B. White

AUTHORS:

• Eve Bunting

• Roald Dahl

• Dan Gutman

• Patricia Polacco

• Jon Scieszka's Time Warp Trio series

• Seymour Simon

• Lemony Snicket

• Dear America and My Name is America series

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5th grade

TITLES:

• William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki

• Knee-Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

• Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

• The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Great Brain by John Fitzgerald

• Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

• Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O'Brien

• The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park

• Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

• Heidi by Johanna Spryi

• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

AUTHORS:

• Avi

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