2017
Required Reading
Pre-School – K
Book Title
Bugs in My Hair!
What’s your favorite animal?
Emeraldalicious
Let’s count to 100!
The Watermelon Seed
Where’s Spot?
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Author
David Shannon
Eric Carle
Victoria Kann
Masayuki Sebe
Greg Pizzoli
Eric Hill
Jane Yolen
Grade 1
Book Title
Author
My Five Senses
Aliki Brandenberg
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Robin Page and Steven Jenkins
A Bad Case of Stripes
David Shannon
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Res Sings from the Treetops: a Year in Color
Joyce Sidman
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr.
Batman’s Missions
Beth Davies
Grade 2
Book Title
Author
Ivy & Bean Bound to be Bad
Annie Barrows
Dinosaurs before Dark
Mary Pope Osborne
So You Want to be President?
Judith St. George
Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
Rapunzel
Paul O. Zelinsky
If You Decided to Go to the Moon
Faith McNulty
LIST
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs
Kathleen Kudlinski
Grades 3-4
Book Title
Author
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
Math Curse
John Scieszka
The Great Cake Mystery
Alexander McCall-Smith
Flora & Ulysses
Kate DiCamillo & K.G. Campbell
Frindle
Andrew Clements
100 Most Feared Creatures on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
Grades 4-5
Book Title
Author
Jedi Academy
Jeffrey Brown
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Dog Lost
Ingrid Lee
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Eugene Yelchin
Grades 5-6
Book Title
Author
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters,
Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Weasel
Cynthia DeFlice
Holes
The Skull of Truth
Casey at the Bat
Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star
Louis Sachar
Bruce Coville
Willard Mullin
Brandon Mull
Grades 7-8
Book Title
Author
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to
Dream Stone
Tanya Lee Stone
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman
Bone (1): Out From Boneville
Jeff Smith
Black Duck
Janet Taylor Lisle
The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt
The Devil’s Arithmetric
Jane Yolen
Grades 9-12
Book Title
Author
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair, Jr.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
A Farewall to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan