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AMERICA READS CHALLENGE: READ*WRITE*NOW! Reading and Vocabulary Log |
ContentsBirth to PreschoolPreschool through Grade 2 Grades 3 and 4 Grades 5 and 6  Return To Table of Contents |
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This reading list is provided by the American Library Association for you and your young reader*. If you choose to use this list, draw your child's attention to the books on the list, starting with those for the appropriate grade level. Go to the library and find one or more of the books listed here. Let your child look at the front and back covers of the book(s) and thumb through the book(s). Ask whether the book(s) interest your child. If so, check out the book(s). If not, find another book on this list and repeat the process until your child is happy.
Birth to PreschoolBang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight.Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon. Burton, Virginia. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Henkes, Kevin. Julius the Baby of the World. Keats, Ezra Jack. The Snowy Day. Numeroff, Laura and Felicia Bond. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Opie, Iona/Wells, Rosemary. My Very First Mother Goose. Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Prelutsky, Jack. Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young. Williams, Vera. "More, More, More," Said the Baby. Back to the Table of Contents Preschool through Grade 2Bruchak, Joseph. A Boy Called Slow.Cameron, Ann. Stories Julian Tells. Cole, Joanna and Bruce Degen. Magic School Bus series. Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius. Dooley, Norah. Everybody Cooks Rice. Dorros, Arthur. Abuela. Kuklin, Susan. How My Family Lives in America. Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad series. McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings. McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind. Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
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Grades 3 and 4Ada, Alma Flor. My Name Is Maria Isabel.Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest. Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? Hurwitz, Johanna. Much Ado about Aldo. Mathis, Sharon Bell. The Hundred Penny Box. Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Myers, Walter Dean. Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights. Uchida, Yoshiko. Jar of Dreams. White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Little House series. Back to the Table of Contents Grades 5 and 6Ancona, George. Powwow.Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963. Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice. Frank, Anne. The Dairy of a Young Girl. Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. Hamanada, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism and Renewal. Hamilton, Virginia. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush. Lomas Garza, Carmen. Family Pictures = Cuadros de Familia. Soto, Gary. Baseball in April and Other Stories. Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Woodson, Jacqueline. Maizon at Blue Hill. Zindel, Paul. The Pigman.
* The U.S. Department of Education recommends that families review this list and make their own decision on the suitability of the books for their children. |