THE COVENANT SCHOOL
Reading List
Explorers and First Grade
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young
Alesander, Martha
Fairy Tales
Anderson, Hans Christian
Little Runner of the Longhouse
Baker, Betty
Brambly Hedge (series)
Barklem, Jill
Madeline (series)
Bemelmans, Ludwig
Pelle's New Suit
Beskow, Elsa (any book by this author)
Runaway Bunny
Brown, Margaret Wise
Goodnight Moon
Brown, Margaret Wise (any book by this author)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Burton, Virginia Lee
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carle, Eric (any book by this author)
Babar (series)
de Brunhoff, Jean
Now One Foot, Now the Other
de Paola, Tomie (any book by this author)
The Friendly Beasts
de Paola, Tomie (illustrator)
Flip*(series)
Dennis, Wesley
Prayer for a Child
Field, Rachel
Ask Mr. Bear
Flack, Marjorie (any book by this author)
Corduroy
Freeman, Don (any book by this author)
Why Don't You Get a Horse Sam Adams
Fritz, Jean (any book by this author)
Millions of Cats
Gag, Wanda
Henny Penny
Galdon, Paul (any book by this author)
The Uncle Wiggly Book
Garis, Howard
I Love You Mouse
Graham, John
Little Toot
Gramatky, Hardie (any book by this author)
Fairy Tales
Grimm, The Brothers
Happy Winter*
Gundersheimer, Karen
Old Bear*
Hissey, Jane
Old Bear Tales*
Hissey, Jane
Bread and Jam for Frances
Hoban, Russell
Angelina Ballerina
Holabird, Katherine
The Tale of Three Trees
Hunt, Angela Elwell
Pet Show
Keats, Ezra Jack (any book by this author)
Christopher Columbus
Krensky, Stephen (any book by this author)
The Red Fairy Book (series)
Lang, Andrew
Animals of the Bible
Lathrop, Dorothy P.
The Little Airplane
Lenski, Lois (any book by this author)
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr (series)
Lindman, Maj
Ricka, Dicka, Flicka (series)
Lindman, Maj
Read Aloud Bible Stories (vols. 1-4)
Lindvall, Ella K.
A Time of Wonder
McCloskey, Robert (any book by this author)
Emma's Pet
McPhail, David (any book by this author)
Marshmallow
Newberry, Clare Turlay
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Numeroff, Laura Joffe
Foxwood Tales*(series)
Peterson, Cynthia and Brian
The Little Engine That Could
Piper, Watty
Stories That Never Grow Old*
Piper, Watty
The Tale of Tom Kitten
Potter, Beatrix
Our Animal Friends
A Year at Maple Hill Farms
Shaker Lane
Shaker Boy*
Curious George
Willie Was Different
Stolen Pony
This Year's Garden
The Long Way Westward
Our Changing World*
One Small Square Pond*
The Little Red Lighthouse
The Hen that Wouldn't Give Up
White Snow, Bright Snow
Seasons of Delight*
The Tales of Little Gray Rabbit (series)
Tale of a Tadpole
The Velveteen Rabbit
Harry the Dirty Dog (series)
Scholastic First Discovery Book (series)
Provensen, Alice and Martin
Provensen, Alice and Martin
Provensen, Alice and Martin
Ray, Mary Lyn
Rey, H.A.
Rockwell, Norman
Rounds, Glen (any book by this author)
Rylant, Cynthia
Sandin, Joan
Selberg, Ingrid
Silver, Donald M.
Swift, H.H. and Ward, Lynd
Tomlinson, Jill
Tresselt, Alvin
Tudor, Tasha (any book by this author)
Uttley, Alison
Wallace, Karen
Williams, Margery
Zion, Gene
*Out of Print
Second Grade
Picture Book Biography (series)
The King's Day*
Blaze and the Forest Fire (series)
Flower Fairies
Sam the Minute Man
Linnea in Monet's Garden
Come Look with Me (series)
Paddigton (series)
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
Calico the Wonder Horse
Chanticleer and the Fox
Miss Rumphius
The Fourth of July Story
The Little Wooden Farmer
A Child's Treasury of Poems*
Columbus
Babar (series)
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
The Parables of Jesus
Thee, Hannah!
Gallileo
Gutenberg
Cordoroy
The Hare and the Tortise
The Little Red Hen
Uncle Wiggly's Story Book
Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys
Sparky
Three Young Pilgrims
Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit*
B is for Betsy (series)
Frances (series)
Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts*
Saint George and the Dragon
The Bobbsey Twins(series)
The Tale of Three Trees
The Little Drummer Boy
The Snowy Day
Leo the Late Bloomer
The Boy Who Loved Music*
The Tale of Anabelle Hedgehog*
The Tale of Jeremy Vole*
The Tale of Timothy Mallard*
The Art of Beatrix Potter*
Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka (series)
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr (series)
Paul Revere's Ride
Adler
Aliki
Anderson, C.W.
Barber, Mary
Benchley, Nathaniel
Bjork, Christina
Blizzard, Gladys
Bond, Michael
Brown, Marcia
Bulla, Clyde Robert
Burton, Virginia Lee (any by this author)
Cooney, Barbara
Cooney, Barbara
Dalgliesh, Alice
Dalgliesh, Alice
Daniel, Mark
D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
de Bruhoff, Laurent
de Paola, Tomie
de Paola, Tomie (any by this author)
DeAngeli
Fisher, Leonard E.
Fisher, Leonard E.
Freeman, Don (any by this author)
Galdone, Paul
Galdone, Paul
Garis, Howard R.
Gaugh, Patricia
Gramatky, Hardie
Harness, Cheryl
Harris, Joel Chandler
Haywood, Carolyn
Hoban, Russell
Hodges, Margaret
Hodges, Margaret
Hope, Laura Lee
Hunt, Angela
Keats, Ezra Jack
Keats, Ezra Jack
Kraus, Robert
Lasker, David
Lawhead, Stephen
Lawhead, Stephen
Lawhead, Stephen
Linder, Leslie and Enid
Lindman, Maj
Lindman, Maj
Longfellow, Henry W.
One Morning in Maine
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect
Now We Are Six
The House at Pooh Corner
Little Bear (series)
One Bad Thing About Father*
The Ugly Duckling
April's Kitten
Amelia Bedelia (series)
The Evergreen Wood*
Foxwood Tales (series)
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck
The Glorious Flight
Constable's England*
The Relatives Came
The Pilgrims of Plimoth
Nate the Great (series)
Caps for Sale
N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
Bard of Avon
Charles Dickens
Casey at the Bat
A Time to Keep
Obadiah (series)
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists
The Boxcar Children (series)
Stuart Little
A Chair for My Mother
Owl Moon
*Out of Print
McCloskey, Robert (any by this author)
Miles, Elizabeth J.
Milne, A. A.
Milne, A. A.
Minarek, Else
Monjo, F. N.
Moore, Lilian
Newberry, Clare T. (any by this author)
Parrish, Peggy
Parry, Alan and Linda
Paterson, Cynthia and Brian
Potter, Beatrix
Potter, Beatrix
Provenson, Alice and Martin
Reynolds, Graham
Rylant, Cynthia
Sewall, Marcia
Sharmot, Marjorie
Slobodkina, Esphyr
Souci, Robert San
Stanley, Diane
Stanley, Diane and Vennema, Peter
Thayer, Phineas
Tudor, Tasha (any by this author)
Turkle, Brinton
Venezia, Mike
Warner, J.
White, E. B.
Williams, Vera B.
Yolen, Jane
Third Grade
Picture Book Biography (series)
Adler
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Atwaters, Richard and Florence
Paddington (series)
Bond, Michael
Caddie Woodlawn
Brink, Carol
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Browning, Robert
Riding the Pony Express
Bulla, Clyde R. (any book by this author)
Old Mother West Wind
Burgess, Thornton (any book by this author)
The Secret Garden
Burnett, Frances Hodges
Tough Enough
Carroll, Ruth and Latrobe
Life When Jesus was a Boy*
Cassandre
Pinocchio
Collodi, Carlo
Bread and Butter Indian*
Colver, Ann
The Bongleweed
Cresswell, Helen
Benjamin Franklin
Dalgliesh (any book by this author)
Daniel Boone
Daugherty, James (any book by this author)
Abraham Lincoln
D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
Benjamin Franklin
D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
George Washington
D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
The Wheel on the School
de Jong, Meindert
Benjamin West and His Cat Gremalkin
Dennis, Wesley and Henry, Marguerite
Robin Hood*
Early, Margaret
William Tell*
Early, Margaret
The Matchlock Gun
Edmonds, Walter D.
Thimble Summer
Enright, Elizabeth
Ginger Pyle
Estes, Eleanor
The Moffats
Estes, Eleanor
The Black Stallion
Farley, Walter
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Field, Eugene
The Whistle
Franklin, Benjamin
Children of the Wild West
Freedman, Russell
The Cabin Faced West
Fritz, Jean
Stone Fox
Gardiner, John Reynolds
The Wind and the Willows
Graham, Kenneth
The Man Without a Country
Hale, Everett
B is for Betsy
Haywood, Carolyn (any book by this author)
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Henry, Marguerite (any book by this author)
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza*
Hodges, Margaret
Johnny Texas
Hoff, Carol
Johnny Texas on the San Antonio Road
Hoff, Carol
Wilderness Pioneer
Hoff, Carol
Jesus, The Friend of Children
Hook, Richard and Frances
Child of the Silent Night
Hunter, Edith Fisher
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington
The Water Babies
Kingsley, Charles
Just So Stories
Kipling, R.
Arabian Nights
Lang, Andrew
Ben and Me
Lawson, Robert
Mr. Revere and I
Lawson, Robert
Rabbit Hill
Lawson, Robert
Mary Jemison: Indian Captive
Lenski, Lois
Strawberry Girl
Lenski, Lois
Hiawatha
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Betsy Tacy
Lovelace, Maud
The Mill
Macauley
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (series)
MacDonald, Betty
Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacLachlan
Holt and the Cowboys
McCafferty, Jim
Holt and the Teddy Bear
McCafferty, Jim
Homer Price
McCloskey, Robert
On to Oregon
Morrow
Rascal
North, Sterling
Once We Had a Horse
Rounds, Glen (any by this author)
The Five Little Peppers
Sidney, Margaret
Treasure of the Snow
St. John, Patricia
Charles Dickens
Stanley
Peter the Great
Stanley
Cleopatra
Stanley, Diane and Vennema, Peter
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Taylor, Helen
All-of-a-Kind Family (series)
Taylor, Sydney
The Boxcar Children (series)
Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Stuart Little
White, E.B.
Bird's Christmas Carol
Wiggin
Little House on the Prairie (series)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Childhood of Famous Americans (series)
Landmark Books (history series)
*Out of Print
Fourth Grade
Toliver's Secret
Freddy the Pig (series)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Little Princess
Alice in Wonderland
Canterbury Tales
The Boy in the Alamo
Charley and the Chocolate Factory
Daniel Boone
The Landing of the Pilgrims
The Door in the Wall
The House of Sixty Fathers
The Moffats (series)
The Black Stallion(series)
Calico Bush
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Understood Betsy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Biography Series
Augustus Caesar's World
Blue Willow
Wind in the Willows
Adam of the Road
Alexander the Great
Five O'Clock Charlie
Justin Morgan had a Horse
Dangerous Journey
Trail of Apple Blossoms*
Sugar Creek Gang (series)
Mossflower
The Jungle Book
Lassie Come Home
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
Lumberjack
Prairie Boy's Summer
Prairie Boy's Winter
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
From Anna
Mine For keeps
Dr. Dolittle (series)
Betsy Tacy (series)
Castle
Cathedral
City
Mill
Pyramid
The Princess and the Goblin
Brady, Esther
Brooks, Walter
Burnett, Frances Hodges
Burnett, Frances Hodges
Carroll, Lewis
Clooney
Cousins
Dahl, Roald
Daugherty, James
Daugherty, James
De Angeli, Marguerite
de Jong, Meindert
Estes, Eleanor
Farley, Walter
Field, Rachel
Field, Rachel
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fleming, Ian
Foster, Genevieve
Foster, Genevieve
Gates, Doris
Graham, Kenneth
Gray, Elizabeth Jaret
Gunther, John
Henry, Marguerite
Henry, Marguerite
Hunkin, Oliver
Hunt, Irene
Hutchens, P.
Jacques, Brian
Kipling, R.
Knight, Eric
Koningsburg, E. L.
Kurelek, William
Kurelek, William
Kurelek, William
Latham, Jean Lee
Little, Jean
Little, Jean
Lofling, Hugh
Lovelace, M.
Macaulay, David
Macaulay, David
Macaulay, David
Macaulay, David
Macaulay, David
Macdonald, George
Homer Price
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Five Children and It
The Railway Children
Rascal
The Borrowers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Island of the Blue Dolphin
Just David
The Silver Sword
The Five Little Peppers and How They
Grew
The Sign of the Beaver
Heidi
Rainbow Garden
Star of Light
The Runaway
The Secret of Pheasant Cottage
The Tanglewood's Secret
Treasures of the Snow
Where the River Begins
Letters to Oma
Mary Poppins
I, Juan De Pareja
Ink on His Fingers
The Beggar's Bible
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Childhood of Famous Americans (series)
*Out of Print
McCloskey, Robert
Montgomery, L. M.
Montgomery, L. M.
Nesbit, Edith
Nesbitt, E.
North, Sterling
Norton, Mary
O'Brien, Robert C.
O'Dell, Scott
Porter, Eleanor
Serraillier, Ian
Sidney, Margaret
Speare, Elizabeth George
Spyri, Johanna
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
Surasich
Travers, P. L.
Trevino, Elizabeth B. de
Vernon, Louis
Vernon, Louis
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Fifth Grade
Born Free
Little Women
Little Men
Rose in Bloom
The Book of Three
The High King
Sounder
Tuck Everlasting
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Wizard of Oz
Dvora's Journey*
A Gathering of Days
Spying on Miss Muller
The Lost Prince
The Incredible Journey
Ride the West Wind*
My Brother Sam is Dead
I, Juan De Pareja
Wilderness Wife*
The Melon Hound*
To Catch a Golden Ring*
Devil in Print*
Twenty-One Balloons
Mandy
Johnny Tremain
America's Paul Revere
The World of William Penn
Theodore Roosevelt: An American Biography
Early Thunder
Homesick: My Own Story
My Side of the Mountain
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Dangerous Journey
The Little Fishes*
Vinegar Boy
The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
A Candle in the Dark*
Touch of the Golden Scepter*
North to Freedom*
Across Five Aprils
The Ark*
Smoky, The Cow Horse
Lisa and Lottie*
Rifles for Watie
Captain's Courageous
Big Red
Stormy
Adamson, Joy
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcott, Louisa May
Alexander, Lloyd
Alexander, Lloyd
Armstrong, William
Babbit, Natalie
Banks, Lynne Reid
Baum, L. Frank
Blaine, Marge
Blos, Joan W. A.
Bunting, Eve
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burnford, Sheila
Chamberlain, Barbara
Collier, James Lincoln
de Trevino, Elizabeth Barton
DeGering, Etta
Dengler, Sandy
Donahue, Marilyn
Drewery, Mary
Du Bois, William
Edwards, Julie
Forbes, Esther
Forbes, Esther
Foster, Genevieve
Foster, Genevieve
Fritz, Jean
Fritz, Jean
George, Jean Craighead
Gillbreth, F.
Green, Roger Lancelyn
Hamori, Laszlo
Haugaard, Erik Christian
Hawse, Albert
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Henderson, Lois
Henderson, Lois
Holm, Anne
Hunt, Irene
Isbert, Margaret
James, Will
Kastner, Erich
Keith, Harold
Kipling, Rudyard
Kjelgarrd, Jim
Kjelgarrd, Jim
Tales from Shakespeare
Tales of Troy and Greece
The Boy's King Arthur*
In the Hall of the Dragon King
A Wind in the Door
A Wrinkle in Time
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Number the Stars
At the Back of the North Wnd
The Princess and Curdie
The Golden Goblet
The Pushcart War
Gentle Ben
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars*
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Pollyanna
The Sword and the Sundial*
Men of Iron
Otto of the Silver Hand
Swallows and Amazons
A Pocket Full of Seeds
The Good Master
Kidnapped
The Black Arrow
A Dog on Barkham Street*
When the Sirens Wailed*
The Eagle of the Ninth
Lad: A Dog
Drawn From New England: Tasha Tudor*
Banner in the Sky
Up From Slavery
Doctor of Tanganyika*
*Out of Print
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Lang, Andrew
Lanier, Sidney
Lawhead, Stephen
L'Engle, Madeline
L'Engle, Madeline
Lofting, Hugh
Lowery, Lois
MacDonald, George
MacDonald, George
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
Merrill, Jean
Morey
Newman, Robert
O'Dell, Scott
Porter, Eleanor H.
Prokop, Phyllis
Pyle, Howard
Pyle, Howard
Ransome, Arthur
Sachs, Marilyn
Seredy, Kate
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoltz, Mary
Streatfield, Noel
Surasich, Marj
Terhume, Albert Pyaon
Tudor, Bethany
Ullman, James Ramsey
Washington, Booker
White, Paul
Sixth Grade
The Wolves of Willoughy Chase
Little Women
National Velvet
The Hiding Place
Trouble River
The Children's Homer
Dawn of Fear
Over Water, Under Stone
Robinson Crusoe
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Count of Monte Cristo
Jim the Boy
The Saturdays
The Black Stallion
Calico Bush
Hitty
Elsie Dinsmore
Old Yeller
King Arthur
The Endless Steppe
Tanglewood Tales
all titles
All Creatures Great and Small
Good-bye, Mr. Chips
Rip Van Winkle
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Story of My Life
Trumpeter of Krakow
Meet the Austins
The Call of the Wild
The Flying Scotsman*
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Invincible Louisa
Anne of Green Gables
Gentle Ben
Martin Luther: Hero of Faith*
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day
The King's Fifth
My Friend Flicka
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Freckles
The Girl of the Limberlost
Scottish Chiefs
The Westing Game
The Yearling
Aiken, Joan
Alcott, Louisa May
Bagnold, Enid
Boom, Corrie Ten
Byars, Betty
Colum, Padraic
Cooper, Susan D.
Cooper, Susan D.
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Dumas, Alexander
Earley, Tony
Enright, Elizabeth
Farley, Walter
Field, Rachel
Field, Rachel
Finley, Martha (any books by this author)
Gipson, Fred
Green, Roger Lancelyn
Hautzip, Esther
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Henty, G. A.
Herriot, James
Hilton, James
Irving, Washington
Juster, Norton
Keller, Helen
Kelly, Eric
L'Engle, Madeleine
London, Jack
Magnusson, Sally
McLean, Allan Campbell
Meigs, Cornelia
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Morey, Walt
Nohl, Fredrick
O'Dell, Scott
O'Dell, Scott
O'Hara, Mary
Orczy, Baroness Emma
Porter, Gene Stratton
Porter, Gene Stratton
Porter, Jane
Raskin, Ellen
Rawlings, Majorie Kinnan
Summer of the Monkeys
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Five Little Peppers
A Day of Pleasure
Heidi
The Buffalo Knife
The Perilous Road
Treasure Island
The Queen Elizabeth Story*
The Silver Branch*
Gulliver's Travels
The Keystone Kids
Rookie of the Year
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Prince and the Pauper
Around the World in Eighty Days
From Earth to the Moon
Michael Strogoff: A Courier of the Czar
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Dog Called Kitty
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Little Duke
Laura*
*Out of Print
Rawls, Wilson
Rawls, Wilson
Sidney, Margaret
Singer, Isaac
Spyri, Johanna
Steele, William O.
Steele, William O.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Swift, Jonathan
Tunnis, J.R.
Tunnis, J.R.
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Vern, Jules
Vern, Jules
Vern, Jules
Vern, Jules
Wallace, Bill
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Wyss, Johann David
Yonge, Charlotte
Zochert, Donald