Required reading:​ 

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr & John Archambault

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Suggested Titles:

• My Five Senses by Aliki

• Farm Animals by Wade Cooper

• The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney

• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

• When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

• Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale by Verma Aardema

Required reading:​

• Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora​

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Suggested Titles:​

• My Librarian is a Camel by Margriet Ruurs

• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

• Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young

• Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins

• Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel

• Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall Ets

• Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston and James Warhola

Required reading:​​

• The Little Yellow Leaf  by Carin Berger

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Suggested Titles:​​​

• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni

• The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki

• Journey of a Pioneer by Patricia J Murphy

• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family’s Fight For Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

• The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons

• Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Required reading:

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• The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino

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Suggested Titles:​​

• Shark Attack by Cathy East Dubowski

• Moonshot by Brian Floca

• One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh

• The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

• Tea with Milk by Allen Say

• Emma’s Rug by Allen Say

• Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg

Required reading:

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

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Suggested Titles:​​

• Clara & Davie by Patricia Pdacco

• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

• Mountains by Seymour Simon

• The Scarlet Stockings Spy by Trinka Hakes Noble

• Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

• Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

Required reading:

• Salt: A Story of Friendship In a Time of War by Helen Frost​

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Suggested Titles:

• Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac

• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

• The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan & Peter Sis

• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

• Iron Thunder by Avi

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Required reading:

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong

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Suggested Titles:

• The Odyssey by Geraldine McCaughrean & Emma Chic

• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

• Journey to the Center of the Earth  by Jules Verne

• Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart by Candice Fleming

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Required reading:

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

 

Suggested Titles:

• The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton

• Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David McCauley

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

• Hana’s Suitcase: The Quest To Solve a Holocaust Mystery by Karen Levin

• Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone

• Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

Required reading:

• War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

 

Suggested Titles:

• Soldier Dog by Sam Angus

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit

• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

• I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

• Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Ann Frank

• Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something by Laurie Ann Thompson