Astronauts Are Sleeping by Natalie Standiford
Chicka Chicka ABC by Bill Martin
The Chicken Sisters by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Leaf Man by William Joyce
Market Day by Eve Bunting
Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Prairie Primer A to Z by Caroline Stutson
The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Visiting the Art Museum by Laurene Krasny Brown
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Bears’ Picnic by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bedtime for Francis by Russell Hoban
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Caps For Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Franklin Rides a Bike by Paulette Bourgeois
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Listening Walk by Paul Showers
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood
Ten Apples Upon Top by Theodore LeSieg
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
The True Storyof the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca
Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) by Peggy Parish
The Case of the Spooky Sleepover, Jigsaw Jones Mystery #4 by James Preller
Chicken Soup with Rice, A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak
Flat Stanley by: Jeff Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy #12 by Barbara Park
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh
Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Tonight on the Titanic, Magic Tree House #17 by Mary Pope Osbourne
You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger
Zelda and Ivyby Laura McGee Kvasnosky

The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective ( Series #1) by Donald Sobol

Go Free or Die, A Story about Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Poppy by Avi

Poppy and Rye by Avi

Ramona Quimby by Beverly Cleary

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris

What are you Figuring Now? A Story about Benjamin Banneker by Jeri Ferris

Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Babysitters Club #2) by Ann Martin

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret

Fudge – A – Mania by Judy Blume

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Jacob Two – Two Meets trhe Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler

Mrs. Frisley and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville

Native American Doctor, The Storyof Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris

The Original Adventures of Hank the Cow Dog by John Erickson

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat

Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon

A Share of Freedom by June Rae Wood

Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Time For Andrew, A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

The Absent Author by Ron Roy
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield
The Enchanted Book by Ruth Chew
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Ghost School by Eth Clifford
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
Koya Delaney & the Good Girl Blues by Elaine Greenfield
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! by Gordon Korman
The Mouse & the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements
Return of the Homerun Kid by Matt Christopher
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting

A Ghost in the House by Betty Ren Wright

The Cybil War by Betsy Byars

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Help! I’m Trapped in the First Day of School by Todd Strasser

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars

Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith

Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements

The Slim Jim Series by Elviran Woodroff

Sounder by William Armstrong

Super Fudge by Judy Blume

Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky

The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

Journey From the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss

The Man Who Was Poe by Avi

The Maze by Will Hobbs

Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand MIller, Robyn Miller and David Wingrove

Night by Elie Wiesel

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Redwall by Brian Jacques

River Thunder by Will Hobbs

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Where the Lillies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien

Star by Jerry Spinelli

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Children of the River by Linda Crew

The Chosen by Chaim Potak

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flogg

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

Midget by Tim Bowler

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Friday Night Lights by Bissinger

Marely & Me: Life & Love with the World’s Worst Dog by Grogan

Twilight by Meyer

I am Legend by Matheson

My Sister’s Keeper by Picoult

Kite Runner by Hosseini

The Shining by Stephen King

The Truth About Forever by Dessen

A Night to Remember by Lord

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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