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| K | K -1 School | K - 2 Shadows | K - 3 Finding Friends | K -4 Wind | K -5 Stick to it | |||||||||||||||||||
| Marianthe's Story | Aliki | *3.5 | What Makes Day and Night? | Branley, Franklyn | 3.5 | Dear Peter Rabbit | Ada, Alma Flor | *4.1 | Feel the Wind | Dorros, Arthur | 2.2 | Liang and the Magic paintbrush | Demi | 3.1 | ||||||||||
| Miss Nelson is Missing! | Allard, Harry | *3.1 | Sun Up, Sun Down | Gibbins, Gail | 2.9 | Story of Babar, The | Brunhoff, Jean de | *3.5 | Millicent and the Wind | Munsch, Robert | 4 | Whistle for Willie | Keats, Ezra Jack | *2.8 | ||||||||||
| Kissing Hand | Penn, Audrey | Nothing Sticks Like a Shadow | Tompert, Ann | 3.1 | Big Al | Clements, Andrew | *2.0 | When the Wind Stops | Zolotow, Charlotte | *3.5 | Paul Bunyan | Kellogg, Stephen | 3.8 | |||||||||||
| Bea and Mr. Jones | Schwartz | May I Bring a Friend? | deRegniers, B. | 3.4 | 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The | Seuss, Dr. | *3.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| David Goes to School | Shannon, David | *2.9 | Friends | Heine, Helme | *3.5 | Horton Hatches an Egg | Seuss, Dr. | *3.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lunch Money and Other Poems about School | Shields, Carol Diggory | 2.8 | Frog and Toad are Friends | Lobel, Arnold | *2.4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| George and Martha | Marshall, James | *2.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 - 1 Games | 1 - 2 Folktales | 1- 3 Keep Trying | 1 - 4 Being Afraid | 1 - 5 Homes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Moongame | Asch, Frank | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Aardema, Verna | *4.2 | Story of a Blue Bird | Bogacki, Tomek | 3.5 | Feelings | Aliki | 3.8 | Urban Roosts: where birds nest in the city | Bash, Barbara | *4.5 | |||||||||||
| James and the Rain | Kuskin, Karla | One Grain of Rice | Demi | *4.2 | Purple Coat, The | Hest, Amy | 3.2 | Paper Dragon, The | Davol, Marguerite W. | *3.5 | Little House, The | Burton, Virginia Lee | *3.8 | |||||||||||
| Guess how much I love you | McBratney, Sam | *3.7 | Snow White and the seven dwarfs | Grimm, Jacob | *4.1 | Amazing Grace | Hoffman, Mary | *4.1 | Sun and Moon A Giant Love Story | Desimini, Lisa | 4.2 | Livingstone Mouse | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 2.8 | ||||||||||
| Play Rhymes | *3.0 | Story, A Story, A | Haley, Gail E. | *4.2 | Wilma and Me | Krull, Kathleen | *4.8 | Can't you Sleep, little Bear? | Waddell, Martin | 3.5 | Village of round and square houses, The | Grifalconi, Ann | *3.8 | |||||||||||
| Lost Horse: a Chinese Folktale, The | Young, Ed | *3.5 | Little Engine that Could, The | Piper, Watty | *4.2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| It Could Always be Worse | Zemach, Margot | *4.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2 | 2 - 1 Sharing Stories | 2- 2 Kindness | 2 - 3 Look Again | 2 - 4 Fossils | 2 - 5 Courage | 2 - 6 Our Country and its People | ||||||||||||||||||
| Painted Words | Aliki | Older Brother, Younger Brother: a Korean Folktake | Animals in Disguise | Ganeri, Ann | Digging Up Dinosaurs | Aliki | *5.3 | Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp | Mayer, Mercer | *6.3 | Lotus Seed | Garland, Sherry | 2.8 | |||||||||||
| Nessa's Story | Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen | DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne | 4.1 | Claws, coats and camouflage: the ways animals fit into their world | Goodman, Susan E. | 5.0 | Fossils Tell of Long Ago | Aliki | 3.5 | Mirette on the High Wire | McCully, Emily Arnold | *4.1 | Masai and I | Kroll, Virginia L. | *4.9 | |||||||||
| Stories Julian Tells, The | Chair for My Mother | Williams, Vera | *3.8 | What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? | Jenkins, Steve | 5.5 | Archaeologists Dig for Clues | Duke, Kate | 2.8 | Storm in the Night | Stolz, Mary | 3.9 | Keeping Quilt, The | Polacco, Patricia | *5.3 | |||||||||
| What color is Camouflage? | Otto, Carolyn | 4.2 | How Big Were the Dinosaurs? | Most, Bernard | 3.0 | Dumpling Soup | Rattigan, jama Kim | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hiding Out: Camouflage in the Wild | Grandfather's Journey | Say, Allen | *4.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In the Time of the Drums | Siegelson, Kim L. | *4.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 -1 Friendship | 3 - 2 City Wildlife | 3 - 3 Imagination | 3 - 4 Storytelling | 5 - Money | 6 - Country Life | ||||||||||||||||||
| Silver Balloon, The | Bonners, Susan | *5.5 | Birds, Nests and Eggs | Boring, Mel | 4.8 | Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | *5.0 | Fortune-Tellers, The | Alexander, Lloyd | *4.6 | Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John Dennis | *4.8 | Black-eyed Susan | Armstrong, Jennifer | *5.6 | |||||||
| Secret Garden, The | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | *4.8 | Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek… | Cone, Molly | *5.4 | McMummy | Byars, Betsy Cromer | *5.1 | Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey to Freedom | Cha, Dia | 4.2 | Screen of Frogs | Hamanaka, Sheila | Gathering of Days, A: a New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 | Blos, Joan W. | *6.0 | ||||||||
| Ellen Tebbits | Cleary, Beverly | 4.9 | City Park (Habitats) | Davis, Wendy | 4.8 | Mouse and the Motorcycle The | Cleary, Beverly | *6.1 | One Grain of Rice: a mathematical folktale | Demi | *4.2 | My Rows and Piles of Coins | Mollel, Tololwa M. | *5.6 | If You're not from the Prairie | Bouchard, Dave | 4.4 | |||||||
| Lily's Crossing | Giff, Patricia Reilly | *5.2 | Seedfolks | Fleischman, Paul | *5.0 | James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald | *5.6 | Worry Stone, The | Dengler, Marianna | 3.5 | Cricket in Times Square, The | Selden, George | *6.2 | Pioneer Sampler: the daily life of a pioneer family in 1840 | Greenwood, Barbara | *5.5 | |||||||
| Old Yeller | Gipson, Fred | *5.4 | Rabbit Hill | Lawson, Robert | *5.0 | Behind the Couch | Gerstein, Mordicai | Hunterman and the Crocodile, The | Diakite, Baba Wague | *5.5 | Our Money | Spies, Karen B. | 5.7 | Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | *4.3 | ||||||||
| Mountain that Loved a Bird, The | McLerran, Alice | 5.4 | Backyard Safaris: 52 Year-Roound Science Adventures | Maria's Comet | Hopkinson, Deborah | May'naise Sandwiches & Sunshine Tea | Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday | Manes, Stephen | 5.3 | Unseen Rainbows, Silent Songs: the World Beyond Human Senses | ||||||||||||||
| Elijah's Angel: a story for Chanukah and Christmas | Rosen, Michael J. | *5.6 | Brought Back to Life | Bunnicula: a rabbit-tale of Mystery | Howe, Deborah | *4.9 | Arctic Memories | Kid's Guide to Money Earning it, Saving it, Spending it, Growing it, Sharing it | ||||||||||||||||
| Frindship, The | Taylor, Mildred | *5.1 | Down to Earth | Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 5.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Charlotte's Web | White, E.B. | *5.1 | Wild in the City | 4.1 | Borrowers, The | Norton, Mary | *5.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | *5.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 4 | 4 - 1 Risks and Consequences | 4 - 2 Dreams to Jobs | 4 - 3 From Mystery to Medicine | 4 - 4 Surviving | 4 - 5 Communication | 4 -6 Trail of Freedom | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kneeknock Rise | Babbitt, Natalie | 6 | Better Than a Lemonade Stand | Bernstein, Daryl | 5.9 | Fever 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 5.4 | Night Crossing | Ackerman, Karen | *5.9 | Nothing but the Truth | Avi | *6.9 | Lupita Manana | Beatty, Patricia | *6.2 | |||||||
| Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | *7.0 | You want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? | Fritz, Jean | *6.6 | First Woman Doctor, The | Baker, Rachel | 8.9 | Weasel | DeFelice, Cynthia | *7.0 | Buddy Love: now on Video | Cooper, Irene | *5.7 | Underground Railroad, The | Bial, Raymond | *7.5 | |||||||
| Landry News, The | Clements, Andrew | *6.1 | Teammates | Golenbock, Peter | *6.5 | Mind's Eye | Fleischman, Paul | *YA | Black Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | *6.5 | P.S. Longer Letter Later | Danziger, Paula | *5.9 | House of Dies Drear, The | Hamilton, Virginia | *6.0 | |||||||
| I Have a Dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Haskins, James | *6.6 | Rocket Boys | Hickam, Homer | YA | Out of Darkness: the story of Louis Braille | Freedman, Russell | *6.5 | Zlata's Diary | Filipovic, Zlata | *5.1 | Incident at Hawk's Hill | Eckert, Allan W | 6.6 | Letters from Rifka | Hesse, Karen | *5.1 | |||||||
| Top of the World, The: climbing of Mt. Everest | Jenkins, Steve | *7.0 | Restless Spirit: the life and work of Dorothea Lange (note: there are pictures of children in Richmond, CA) | Partridge, Elizabeth | *6.6 | When Plague Strikes: the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS | Giblin, James | *6.4 | Diary of a Young Girl, The | Frank, Anne | *7.3 | Jazmin's Notebook | Grimes, Nikki | *YA | Run Away Home | McKissaack, Pat | *5.9 | |||||||
| From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil L. Frankweiler | Konnigsburg, E.L. | *5.6 | Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting servie | Robertson, Keith | 5.5 | Flowers for Algernon | Keyes, Daniel | *5.9 | My Side of the Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | *6.7 | Kennedy assassinated! The world mourns: a reporter's story | Hapmpton, Wilborn | 7.6 | Basket Maker and the Spinner | |||||||||
| Snowbound: the tragic story of the Donner Party | Lavender, David Sievert | *5.9 | Kid's Guide to Money… | Marie Curie and Her Daughter Irene | Island of Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 5.5 | Band of Angels, A: a story inspired by the Jubilee Singers | Hopkinson, Deborah | *5.4 | ||||||||||||||
| Sarah Plain and Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia | *4.2 | Lily Cupboard, The | Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey | *6.2 | Bill Peet: an autobiography | Peet, Bill | *6.7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hobbit, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | *YA | Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | *6.3 | Cat's Elbow and Other Secret Languages | Schwartz, Alvin | |||||||||||||||||
| Voyage of the Frog | Paulsen, Gary | 6.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cay, The | Taylor, Theodore | *7.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 5 | 5 - 1 Cooperation and Competition | 5 - 2 Back Through the Stars | 5 - 3 Heritage | 5 - 4 Civil War | 5 - 5 New Frontiers | 5 - 6 Journeys and Quests | ||||||||||||||||||
| Anna of Byzantium | Barrett, Tracy | *YA | Edwin Hubble, American Astronomer | Fox, Mary Virginia | 6.6 | Kit's Wilderness | Almond, David | *YA | Separate Battle, The: Women and the Civil War | Chang, Ina | 6.9 | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World | Armstrong, Jennifer | *6.5 | Illyrian Adventure, The | Alexander, Lloyd | *7.6 | |||||||
| View from Saturday, The | Konnigsburg, E.L. | *4.8 | Wrinkle in Time, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | *5.8 | Tell Them We Remember: the story of the Holocuast | Bachrach, Susan D. | *7.3 | Island Far from Home, An | Donahue, John | 5.5 | Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, The | Calabro, Marian | *8.7 | True Confessons of Charlotte Doyle, The | Avi | *7.0 | |||||||
| Stones in Water | Napoli, Donna Jo | *6.5 | Tales of the Shimmering Sky | Milord, Susan | 5.2 | Catherine, Called Birdy | Cushman, Karen | *7.4 | Bull Run | Fleischman, Paul | *6.4 | Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule: | Robinet, Harriette | *7.1 | Zack | Bell, William | *YA | |||||||
| Habibi | Nye, Naomi Shihab | *YA | Science Fair Projects: Flight, Sace and Astronomy | In the Beginning: creation stories from around the world | Hamilton, Virginia | *6.4 | Why Do They Hate Me?: young lives caught in war and conflict | Holliday, Laurel | *YA | True Adventures of Grizzly Adams, The | Book of the Lion, The | Cadnum, Michael | *YA | |||||||||||
| In My Hands: memories of a holocaust rescuer | Opdyke, Irene, Gut | *7.0 | Farewell to Manzanar | Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki | *8.5 | To Be a Slave | Lester, Julius | *YA | Whirligig | Fleischman, Paul | *YA | |||||||||||||
| Coffin Quilt, The: the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys | Rinaldi, Ann | *5.0 | They Saw the Future: oracles, psychics, scientists, great thinkers, and pretty good guessers | Krull, Kathleen | *7.6 | Three Against the Tide | Love, Anne D. | *8.2 | Peregrine | Goodman, Joan E. | *6.7 | |||||||||||||
| World in Our Hands: In Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations… | Young People of the World | Great Ancestor Hunt, The | Perl, Lila | Longest Ride, The | Patrick, Denise Lewis | *7.2 | Redwall | Jacques, Brian | *7.8 | |||||||||||||||
| Climbing your family tree : online and offline genealogy for kids | Wolfman, Ira | 7.1 | Soldier's Heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service… | Paulsen, Gary | *YA | Call it Courage | Sperry, Armstrong | 5.8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lost Garden, The | Yep, Laurence | *6.1 | Silent Thunder:a Civil War story | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | *6.0 | Black Ships Before Troy; the story of the Iliad | Stucliff, Rosemary | *6.9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Across the Lines | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.9 | Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story | Warren, Andrea | 6.6 | |||||||||||||||||||