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At School
Big and Little
Dogs
I Can Count
Nature’s Colors
A Boy, a Dog, a Frog and a Friend
Blue Sea
Do You Want to Be My Friend?
Have You Seen My Duckling?
Look What I Can Do
Animals in Winter
I Have Feelings
Ocean Facts
Weather Changes
What Do I See?
A Big Surprise
Have You Seen My Cat?
On Market Street
The Hat
The Van
City Life
Day Sky
Firefighter
Flying
The Long and Short of It
Down on the Farm
Happy and Honey
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Lost!
Roll Over! A Counting Song
Animal Mothers
How Are They the Same?
My Senses Help Me
This Is Me
Wheels!
Big Pig and Little Pig
I Like Bugs
Mary Wore Her Red Dress, and Henry Wore His
Green Slippers
Sleepy Dog
The Chick and the Duckling
Being a Leader
Binoculars
Circles All Around
Following Rules
The Four Seasons
Best Friends
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
I See, You Saw
Rabbit and Turtle Go to School
Sid’s Surprise
Bread, Bread, Bread
Cars
Every Buddy Counts
Bobbie Kalman
Eli Francis
Ivan Black
Bobbie Kalman
Molly Blaisdell
Mercer & Marianna Mayer
Robert Kalan
Eric Carle
Nancy Tafuri
Jose Aruego
Jane Snyder
Bobbie Kalman
Joan Chapman
Molly Blaisdell
Bobbie Kalman
Kristi T. Butler
Eric Carle
Arnold Lobel
Holly Keller
Holly Keller
Diane E. Stango
Molly Blaisdell
Sheila Rivera
Donald Crews
Allyson Valentine Schrier
Rita Lascaro
Laura Godwin
Charles G. Shaw
David McPhail
Merle Peek
Bobbie Kalman
Bobbie Kalman
Bobbie Kalman
Chantelle Greenhills
Annie Cobb
David McPhail
Margaret Wise Brown
Merle Peek
Harriet Ziefert
Mirra Ginsburg
Robin Nelson
Robin Koontz
Allyson Valentine Schrier
Robin Nelson
Molly Blaisdell
Anna Michaels
Eileen Christelow
Nurit Karlin
Lucy Floyd
Candace Carter
Ann Morris
Anne Rockwell
Stuart J. Murphy
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N/A
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230
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70
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TITLE
AUTHOR
Needs in Nature
Respecting Others
A Dark, Dark Tale
Bathtime for Biscuit
Catch Me If You Can!
Get That Pest!
Who Will Be My Friends?
Houses and Homes
Tomás Rivera
What’s the Solution?
Where Does Our Food Come From?
Wind
Just for You
Monster Math Picnic
Six Silly Foxes
The Carrot Seed
The Chick That Wouldn’t Hatch
Fast as a Cheetah, Slow as a Sloth
Growing Vegetable Soup
My Five Senses
Sun Up, Sun Down
The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
A Kiss for Little Bear
A Picture for Harold’s Room
A Tree Is Nice
If the Dinosaurs Came Back
Ten, Nine, Eight
Airport
Can You Guess What It Is?
Fighting for Survival: Predators and Prey
How Many in All?
I’m Growing!
Big Dog, Little Dog: A Bedtime Story
Dreams
Hi! Fly Guy
Leo the Late Bloomer
Lucy’s Quiet Book
Check It Out! The Book About Libraries
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean
Harbor
My Feet
Technology and Natural Disasters
Henry and Mudge: The First Book
Owl at Home
Poppleton In Winter
A Rainbow of My Own
Work Song
A Tree Is a Plant
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the
Wright Brothers
From Tadpole to Frog
Killer Whales
Matter Matters
Caps for Sale
Helen Lepp Friesen
Robin Nelson
Ruth Brown
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Bernard Most
Erin Douglas
Syd Hoff
Ann Morris
Jane Medina
Karen Lewit Dunn
Bobbie Kalman
Marion Dane Bauer
Mercer Mayer
Grace Maccarone
Alex Moran
Ruth Krauss
Claire Daniel
Allyson Valentine Schrier
Lois Ehlert
Aliki
Gail Gibbons
Gail Gibbons
Else Holmelund Minarik
Crockett Johnson
Janice May Udry
Bernard Most
Molly Bang
Byron Barton
Cathy Elliott
Rick Raymos
Allyson Valentine Schrier
Aliki
P.D. Eastman
Ezra Jack Keats
Tedd Arnold
Robert Kraus
Angela Shelf Medearis
Gail Gibbons
Arthur Dorros
Donald Crews
Aliki
Karen Lewit Dunn
Cynthia Rylant
Arnold Lobel
Cynthia Rylant
Don Freeman
Gary Paulsen
Clyde Robert Bulla
George Shea
Wendy Pfeffer
Seymour Simon
Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Esphyr Slobodkina
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60
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120
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2–3
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2–3
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AUTHOR
Frog and Toad Together
Pet Show!
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry
Hungry, Hungry Sharks
Rocks and Minerals
The Planets in Our Solar System
The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves
What Color Is Camouflage?
Chrysanthemum
James Marshall’s Cinderella
The Mud Pony
The Paper Crane
Whistle for Willie
Air Is All Around You
Fire! Fire!
Fireflies in the Night
How Much Is a Million?
Where Does the Garbage Go?
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Special Gifts
The Wednesday Surprise
Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of
the Gettysburg Address
Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books
for the Blind
My Visit to the Dinosaurs
Simple Machines
Fables
Julius, the Baby of the World
My Name Is Maria Isabel
The Chalk Box Kid
The Chocolate Touch
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Planet Earth/Inside Out
Storms
Water All Around
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Amos and Boris
Chocolate Fever
Skinnybones
The Stories Julian Tells
The Storm
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America
One Day in the Prairie
The Brain and Nerves
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
When Clay Sings
A Lion to Guard Us
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Felita
Arnold Lobel
Ezra Jack Keats
Paul Galdone
Molly Bang
Joanna Cole
Molly Blaisdell
Franklyn M. Branley
Gail Gibbons
Carolyn B. Otto
Kevin Henkes
Barbara Karlin
Caron Lee Cohen
Molly Bang
Ezra Jack Keats
Franklyn M. Branley
Gail Gibbons
Judy Hawes
David M. Schwartz
Paul Showers
Judith Viorst
Maurice Sendak
Judi Barrett
Cynthia Rylant
Eve Bunting
Franklyn M. Branley
Jean Fritz
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330
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500
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510
480
840
820
410
480
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410
330
590
670
760
810
570
NP
730
540
540
500
390
Margaret Davidson
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510
Aliki
Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Arnold Lobel
Kevin Henkes
Alma Flor
Clyde Robert Bulla
Patrick Skene Catling
Cynthia Rylant
Gail Gibbons
Seymour Simon
Molly Blaisdell
Jean Fritz
William Steig
Robert Kimmel Smith
Barbara Park
Ann Cameron
Cynthia Rylant
Anne Kamma
Jean Craighead George
Christine Webster
Joanna Cole
Byrd Baylor
Clyde Robert Bulla
Roald Dahl
Nicholasa Mohr
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3–4
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Title List
TITLE
AUTHOR
Tar Beach
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
A Medieval Feast
Ancient Egypt
Big Cats
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
In Their Own Words: Paul Revere
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Fudge-a-Mania
Just Juice
Little House in the Big Woods
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
Do Stars Have Points? Questions and Answers
About Stars and Planets
The Trail of Tears
Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to Tonight
on the Titanic
Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction
Companion to Twister on Tuesday
Charlotte’s Web
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Shiloh
Skylark
The Library Card
China
Do Tornadoes Really Twist? Questions and
Answers About Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Leonardo da Vinci
On the Way Home: The Dairy of a Trip from
South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Letters from Rifka
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China
The Cricket in Times Square
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Pinballs
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson
Earthquakes
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Sharks
Woodsong
Bridge to Terabithia
Fair Weather
Love That Dog
The Birchbark House
The Black Stallion
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s
Microscope
Rosa Parks: My Story
The Double Life of Pocahontas
The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount
St. Helens
A Single Shard
Baseball in April and Other Stories
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
The Jungle Books
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Faith Ringgold
Katherine Paterson
Aliki
Benita Sen
Seymour Simon
Ellen Levine
George Sullivan
Beverly Cleary
Judy Blume
Karen Hesse
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Richard & Florence Atwater
Beatrice Gormley
Melvin & Gilda Berger
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X
790
930
840
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1050
720
740
910
490
690
930
910
950
700
Joseph Bruchac
Will Osborne & Mary Pope
Osborne
Will Osborne & Mary Pope
Osborne
E.B. White
Patricia MacLachlan
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Patricia MacLachlan
Jerry Spinelli
Joanne Mattern
Melvin & Gilda Berger
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X
610
680
X
680
X
X
680
560
890
470
690
890
770
Diane Stanley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
X
X
1010
900
Russell Freedman
Karen Hesse
Ed Young
George Selden
Katherine Paterson
Betsy Byars
Michelle Y. Green
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1000
660
670
780
800
600
860
Seymour Simon
Dorothy Sterling
Seymour Simon
Gary Paulsen
Katherine Paterson
Richard Peck
Sharon Creech
Louise Erdrich
Walter Farley
Stephen Kramer
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X
X
X
X
1010
910
960
1090
810
670
1010
970
680
1040
Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
Jean Fritz
Jean Craighead George
Patricia Lauber
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X
X
X
970
910
830
830
Linda Sue Park
Gary Soto
Paula Danziger
Rudyard Kipling
Christopher Paul Curtis
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V
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V
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V
V
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W
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5–6
5–6
5–6
5–6
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W
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W
W
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W
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X
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X
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Get on Board: The Story of the Underground
Railroad
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up
in the Holocaust
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
James Haskins
X
1180
Livia Bitton-Jackson
X
720
Patricia C. & Frederick L.
McKissack
Barry Denenberg
James Cross Giblin
Gary Paulsen
Pam Munoz Ryan
Katherine Paterson
Kevin Henkes
Virginia Hamilton
Johanna Hurtiwz
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
X
960
X
X
930
1100
930
750
860
680
670
990
720
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Jane Goodall
Laurence Yep
Madeline L’Engle
Laurence Yep
Mildred D. Taylor
Carolyn Reeder
Elizabeth George Speare
Burke Davis
Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz
Samantha Abeel
Gennifer Choldenko
Karen Cushman
Virginia Hamilton
Karen Hesse
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Anne Frank
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Jean L. Latham
Jerry Stanley
Elenor H. Ayer
Paul Fleishman
James Lincoln Collier &
Christopher Collier
Bette Greene
Nancy Farmer
Ben Mikaelsen
Cornelia Meigs
X
X
X
X
900
660
670
1150
Frederick Douglass
X
1080
Elie Wiesel
Ji-li Jiang
Julius Lester
Rudolfo Anaya
Walter Dean Myers
Louis Sachar
Bette Greene
Mark Twain
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X
X
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780
1080
840
610
690
800
950
Stealing Home
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
Dogsong
Esperanza Rising
Lyddie
Olive’s Ocean
The House of Dies Drear
Anne Frank: Life in Hiding
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai
on the African Savanna
How I Came to Be a Writer
My Life with the Chimpanzees
The Lost Garden
A Wrinkle in Time
Dragonwings
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Shades of Gray
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Black Heroes of the American Revolution
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers
Homesick: My Own Story
Make Way for Sam Houston
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Catherine, Called Birdy
M.C. Higgins, the Great
Out of the Dust
The Egypt Game
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Black Potatoes
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Children of the Dust Bowl
Parallel Journeys
Bull Run
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon, Maybe
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Touching Spirit Bear
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the
Author of Little Women
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas,
an American Slave
Night
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
To Be a Slave
Bless Me, Ultima
Scorpions
Small Steps
Summer of My German Soldier
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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