Read Aloud Book List

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade Books

P / The Fortune Tellers / Alexander
P / Dawn / Bamg
P / Tiemai & the Magic Brush / Bamg
P / The Eleventh Hour / Base
P / The Sign of the Seahorse: A Tale of Greed and Adventure and Two Acts / Base
P / If At First You Do Not See / Brown
P / Turtle Knows Your Name / Bryan
P / Daniel's Duck / Bulla
P / Dandelions / Bunting
P / Train to Somewhere / Bunting
C / Ramona the Pest / Cleary
P / Island Boy / Cooney
C / James and the Giant Peach / Dahl
P / 26 Fairmount Avenue / DePaola
P / Abuela / Dorros
P / Home Place / Dragonwagon
P / What Are You Figuring Now: A Story About Benjamin Banneker / Ferris
P / Glass Slipper, Gold Sandel: A World-Wide Cinderella / Fleischman
P / Weslandia / Fleischman
P / The Magic Hat / Fox
P / I.Q. Goes to School / Frasier
P / I.Q. Goes to the Library / Frasier
P / Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster / Frasier
P / Corduroy / Freeman
P / The Story of Holly & Ivy / Godden
P / Ox Cart Man / Hall
P / The Man Who Lived Alone / Hall
P / Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship / Hatkoff
P / The Castle on Hester Street / Heller
P / Lily's Purple Plastic Purse / Henkes
P / Evan's Corner / Hill
P / Who Will Be My Friends? / Hoff
P / Ben's Trumpet / Isadora
P / Henry Hikes to Fitchburg / Johnson
P / Papa Do You Love Me? / Joosse
P / The Snowy Day / Keets
P / The Story of Ferdinand / Leaf
P / Swimmy / Lionni
P / Who Came Down That Road / Lyon
P / Knots on a Counting Rope / Martin
P / Snowflake Bentley / Martin
P / There's a Nightmare in My Closet / Mayer
P / Thomas and the Library Lady / Mora
P / The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash / Noble
P / Just Not, Quite Right / Olsen
P / It's ok to be Different / Parr
C / Clementine / Pennypacker
P / Not a Box / Portis
P / Not a Stick / Portis
P / Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing / Rumford
P / Kamishibai Man / Say
P / Outside Over There / Sendak
P / Thomas' Snowsuit / Sendak
P / Where the Wild Things Are / Sendak
P / How I Learned Geography / Shulevitz
P / Sylvester and the Magic Pebble / Steig
P / Joseph Had a Little Overcoat / Taback
P / Pigsty / Teague
P / Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day / Viorst
P / Rosie and Micheal / Viorst
P / Hannah / Whelan
C / Charlotte's Web / White
P / Tuesday / Wiesner
P / Old Turtle / Wood
P / The Napping House / Wood
P / Owl Moon / Yolen

P = Picture Book

C = Chapter Book

Read Aloud Book List

3rd-5th Grade Books
The First Two Lives of Kasha / Alexander
The Fighting Ground / Avi
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi
Indian in the Cupboard / Banks
Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy / Blumberg
Caddie Woodlawn / Brink
Summer of the Swans / Byars
The Chocolate Touch / Catling
The Wishing Tree / Chew
Frindle / Clements
The Report Card / Clements
The School Story / Clements
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / Conly
Rasco and the Rats of NIMH / Conly
Danny the Champion of the World / Dahl
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade / DeClements
Because of Winn Dixie / DiCamillo
The Birchbark House / Erdrick
The Game of Silence / Erdrick
Harriet the Spy / Fitzhugh
Seedfolks / Fleischman
The Half-a-Moon Inn / Fleischman
The Whipping Boy / Fleischman
Stone Fox / Gardiner
A Girl Called Al / Greene
Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World / Hannigan
The Zebra Wall / Henkes
Love You, Soldier / Hest
The Phantom Tollbooth / Juster
Saving Lilly / Kehret
The Gammage Cup: A Novel of The Minnipins / Kendall
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth / Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time / L'Engle
Ella Enchanted / Levine
Pippi Longstocking / Lindgren
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter / Lindgren
Anastatia Krupnik / Lowry
Arthur, for the Very First Time / MacLachlan
Anne of Green Gables / Montgomery
Bridge to Terabithia / Paterson
Freaky Friday / Rodgers
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Rowling
Call it Courage / Sperry
Shredderman - Secret Identity / VanDraanen
Miranda's Last Stand / Whelan
Shadow of a Bull / Wojciechowska
Millicent Min, Girl Genius / Yee
Standford Wong Flunks Big Time / Yee
Later, Gator / Yep
6th-8th Grade Books
The Iron Ring / Alexander
Westmark / Alexander
Fever / Anderson
Crispin: At the Edge of the World / Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead / Avi
Nothing But the Truth / Avi
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi
Wolf Rider / Avi
The Folk Keeper / Billingsley
Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest 1837-1838 / Blos
A String in the Harp / Bond
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Bruchac
The Goats / Cole
Dawn of Fear / Cooper
The Dark is Rising / Cooper
Chasing Redbird / Creech
Walk Two Moons / Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 / Curtis
The Midwife's Apprentice / Cushman
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit / Danziger
The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller / Dash
The Ropemaker / Dickenson
The Sacrifice / Duble
Yolanda's Genius / Fenner
Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte / Ferris
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West / Fleischman
Pictures of Hollis Woods / Giff
Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale / Gorrell
Summer of My German Soldier / Greene
Stowaway / Hesse
Across Five Aprils / Hunt
Kira-Kira / Kadohata
The Trumpeter of Krakow / Kelly
Deliver Us From Normal / Klise
The View from Saturday / Konigsburg
Beyond the Burning Time / Lasky
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch / Latham
Gifts / Le Guin
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War / Lobel
Sitting Bull and His World / Marrin
Dragonsong / McCaffrey
The Wolfling / North
My Name is Not Angelica / O'Dell
Come Sing, Jimmy Jo / Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved / Paterson
A Day No Pigs Would Die / Peck
Life as We Knew It / Pfeffer
Anthem / Rand
The Kidnappers / Roberts
Words by Heart / Sebestyen
The Dark Side of Nowhere / Shusterman
The Shadow Club / Shusterman
The Witch of Blackbird Pond / Speare
Smiles to Go / Spinelli
Stargirl / Spinelli
The Mysterious Benedict Society / Stewart
A True and Faithful Narrative / Sturtevant
At the Sign of the Star / Sturtevant
Sword Song / Sutcliff
Surviving the Applewhites / Tolan
Izzy, Willy-Nilly / Voigt
Jackaroo / Voigt
Goodbye, Vietnam / Whelan
Belle Prater's Boy / White
Dragonwings / Yep