Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Author
Spalding Grade
Recommended
Little Red Riding Hood
Margaret Hillert
K
Not I, Not I
Margaret Hillert
K
Three Bears, The
Margaret Hillert
K
Three Goats, The
Three Little Pigs, The
Margaret Hillert
Margaret Hillert
K
K
What Am I?
Yellow Boat, The
Margaret Hillert
Margaret Hillert
K
K
A Bargain for Frances
Russell Hoban
K-1
A Sled Dog Morning
K-1
Angus and the Ducks
Laura AppletonSmith
Marjorie Flack
Are You my Mother?
Arthur’s Pen Pal
P.D. Eastman
Lillian Hoban
K-1
K-1
Biggest Bear, The
Lynd Ward
K-1
Bon Bon the Downtown Cow
K-1
Carrot Seed, The
Laura AppletonSmith
Ruth Krauss
Danny and the Dinosaur
Syd Hoff
K-1
Frank the Fish Gets His Wish
Laura AppletonSmith
Paul Galdone
K-1
P.D. Eastman
Dr Seuss
Laura AppletonSmith
Laura AppletonSmith
Beatrice De
Regniers
Laura AppletonSmith
Laura AppletonSmith
Laura AppletonSmith
Laura AppletonSmith
K-1
K-1
K-1
Gingerbread Boy, The
Go, Dog, Go
Green Eggs and Ham
Jen’s Best Gift Ever
Lin Lin and the Gulls
May I Bring a Friend
Meg and Jim’s Sled Trip
Mr. Sanchez and the Kickball
Oh My! It Must Be the Sky
Pearl Learns a Lesson
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K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Put Me in the Zoo
Sammy the Seal
Shep: The Sheep of Caladeen
Snail Hits the Trail
Story about Ping, The
Story of Fedinand, The
Sunset Pond, The
Ten Apples Up on Top
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Three Little Pigs, The
Big Snow, The
Caps for Sale
Cross Country Cat
Curious George
Five Chinese Brothers, The
Author
Robert Lopshire
Syd Hoff
Laura AppletonSmith
Laura AppletonSmith
Marjorie Flack
Mauro Leaf
Laura AppletonSmith
Theodore Le Sieg
Paul Galdone
Paul Galdone
Spalding Grade
Recommended
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
K-1
Millions of Cats
No Fighting, No Biting
Pelle's New Suit
B. & E. Hader
Esphyr Slobodkina
Mary Calhoun
H.A. Rey & Margret
Claire Hatchet,
Bishop
Leo Lionni
Arnold Lobel
Leo Lionni
Marie Ets
Else Minarik
Watty Piper
Laura AppletonSmith
Wanda Gag
Else Minarik
Elsa Beskow
Red Balloon, The
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The
Where the Wild Things Are
Whistle for Willie
Albert Lamorisse
Beatrix Potter
Maurice Sendak
Ezra Keats
1
1
1
1
Amelia Bedelia
Bears on Hemlock Mountain*
Peggy Parish
Alice Dalgliesh
2
2
Blackberry Ink
Eve Merriam
2
Frederick
Frog and Toad Together
Inch by Inch
Just Me
Little Bear
Little Engine that Could, The
Marvin's Trip to Mars
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Author
Spalding Grade
Recommended
Blueberries for Sal*
Robert McCloskey
2
Christmas Is a Time of Giving
Cinderella*
Emperor’s New Clothes, The*
Henry Huggins (Challenge Book)
In A Pumpkin Shell
Littles, The
Madeline*
Many Moons
One Morning in Maine*
Owl Moon*
Pippi Longstocking*
Joan Anglund
Charles Perrault
Hans C. Andersen
Beverly Cleary
Joan Anglund
John Peterson
Ludwig Bemelmans
James Thurber
Robert McCloskey
Jane Yolden
Astrid Lindgren
2
2
2
2-3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Rooster Crows, The
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Maud Petersham
Eleanor B. Coerr
2
2
Song of Swallows*
Spring Is a New Beginning
Squanto and the First Thanksgiving*
Leo Politi
Joan Anglund
Joyce K. Kessel
2
2
2
Steadfast Tin Soldier
Time of Wonder*
Velveteen Rabbit, The
Wolf and the Seven Kids, The*
Hans C. Andersen
Robert McCloskey
Margery Williams
Jacob Grimm
2
2
2
2
Abraham Lincoln
I. & E. D'Aulaire
3
Ben and Me
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Lawson
I. & E. D'Aulaire
3
3
Charlotte's Web
Columbus
Courage of Sarah Noble, The
Family Under the Bridge, The
Famous Myths of the Goldern Age
E.B. White
I. & E. D'Aulaire
Alice Dalgliesh
Natalie Carlson
Beatrice Alexander
3
3
3
3
3
Fourth of july Story
Alice Dalgliesh
3
George Washington
Grimms Fairy Tales
Henry Huggins
I. & E. D'Aulaire
J. Grimm
Beverly Cleary
3
3
3
In My Mother's House
Ann Clark
3
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Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Author
Spalding Grade
Recommended
Jupiter
Leif the Lucky
Mouse and the Motorcycle, The
Mr. Popper's Peguins
Seymour Simon
I. & E. D'Aulaire
Beverly Cleary
Richard Atwater
3
3
3
3
My Father's Dragon
Paddle to the Sea
Polar Express
Rabbit Hill
Ramona the Pest
Sarah Plain and Tall
Saturn
Stuart Little
Thanksgiving Story, The
The Enormous Egg
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Thee, Hannah!
Winnie the Pooh
World of Christopher Robin
Ruth Gannett
H.C. Holling
Chris Van Alsberg
Peter Lawson
Beverly Cleary
Patricia MacLachlan
Seymour Simon
E.B. White
Alice Dalgliesh
Oliver Butterworth
Marguerite De
Angeli
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
3
3
3
America's Paul Revere
And Now Miguel
Chronicles of Narnia, All 7 Titles
Cricket in Times Square, The
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Esther Forbes
Joseph Krumgold
C.S. Lewis
George Sheldon
Beverly Cleary
4
4
4
4
4
The Declaration of Independence and John Adams
Fables of Aesop, The
Farmer Boy
Garden of Abdul Gasozi
Ginger Pye
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Heidi
House of Sixty Fathers, The
Kathy Furgang
Aesop
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Chris Van Alsberg
Eleanor Estes
Mary Dodge
Joanna Spyri
Meindert DeJong
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Household Stories of Brothers Grimm
Just So Stories
Mary Poppins
Matchlock Gun, The
J. Grimm
Rudyard Kipling
P.L. Travers
Walter Edmonds
4
4
4
4
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Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Author
Spalding Grade
Recommended
Number the Stars (challenge book)
Pocahontas
Lois Lowery
I. & E. D'Aulaire
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Blue Willow
Call it Courage
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Shen of the Sea
Trumpeteer of Krakow, The
Twenty One Balloons
Wheel on the School, The
White Stag, The
Wind and the Willows
Lewis Carroll
Doris Gates
Armstrong Sperry
Jean Lathman
Marguerite De
Angeli
Kate Seredy
Shelia Burnford
Scott O'Dell
Esther Forbes
James Daugherty
Russel Freedman
Jean George
Lois Lowery
Frances Hodgson
Burnett
Arthur Crisman
Eric Kelly
W.P. DuBois
Meindert DeJong
Kate Seredy
Kenneth Grahame
Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Adam of the Road
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Book of Greek Myths
Boy's King Arthur, The
Bronze Bow, The
Caddie Woodlawn
Children's Homer, The
Carl Sandburg
Elizabeth Gray
Elizabeth Yates
I. & E. D'Aulaire
Sir Thomas Malory
Elizabeth Speare
Carol Brink
Padraic Colum
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Golden Goblet, The
Padraic Colum
Eloise J. McGraw
6
6
Door in the Wall
Good Master, The
Incredible Journey, The
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Johnny Tremain
Landing of the Pilgrims
Lincoln: A Photobiography
My Side of the Mountain
Number the Stars
The Secret Garden
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4-5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Suggested Reading Choices by Grade Level
Title
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
Land I Lost, The
Light Beyond the Forest
Little Men
Little Women
Norse Gods and Giants
Onion John
Road to Camlaan
Robinson Crusoe
Summer of the Swans, The
Swiss Family Robinson, The
Sword and the Circle
Treasure Island
Yearling, The
Author
Spalding Grade
Recommended
Rachel Field
Nhunog Nhuong
Quang
Rosemary Sutcliff
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
I. & E. D'Aulaire
Joseph Krumgold
Rosemary Sutcliff
Daniel Defoe
Betsy Byars
Johann David Wyss
Rosemary Sutcliff
Robert L. Stevenson
Marjorie Rawlings
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
The Titles Below are for 7th and 8th
Grade.
(Spalding does not have an approved list for these grades.
Title
Call of the Wild, The
A Christmas Carol
Midwife's Apprentice, The
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Where the Red Fern Grows
Author
Jack London
Charles Dickens
Karen Cushman
Mildred Taylor
Wilson Rawls
On DistrictApproved List
Grade Level
7
7
7
7
7
Animal Farm
April Morning
Hobbit, The
Walk Two Moons
White Fang
George Orwell
Howard Fast
J.R.R. Tolkien
Sharon Creech
Jack London
8
8
8
8
8
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