K-5 Book List

Kindergarten

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema, Verna

Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmans

Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Jan Brett

Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown

The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle

Maisy Goes to the Library – Lucy Cousins

Click Clack, Moo: Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin

A Ball for Daisy – Chris Raschka

Are You My Mother – P.D. Eastman

Color Zoo – Lois Ehlert

Olivia – Ian Falconer

In the Tall, Tall Grass – Denise Fleming

Corduroy – Don Freeman

Three Billy Goats Gruff – Paul Galdone

Kitten’s First Full Moon – Kevin Henkes

Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins

The Ugly Duckling – Rachel Isadora

Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson

Hello, Goodbye Window – Norton Juster

The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats

Leo the Late Bloomer – Robert Kraus

The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf

Tacky the Penguin – Helen Lester

Swimmy – Leo Lionni

Froggy Gets Dressed – Jonathan London

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Bill Martin

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Laura Numeroff

The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter

Goodnight Gorilla – Peggy Rathmann

Officer Buckle and Gloria – Peggy Rathmann

Curious George – H.A. Rey

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen

Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

Hop On Pop – Dr. Seuss

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish – Dr.Seuss

Duck on a Bike – David Shannon

No, David! – David Shannon

It Looked Like Spilt Milk – Charles G. Shaw

Caps for Sale – Esphyr Slobodkina

A Sick Day for Amos McGee – Philip Stead

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile – Bernard Waber

Mouse Paint – Ellen Stoll Walsh

Max Cleans Up – Rosemary Wells

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – Mo Willems

Elephant and Piggy - Mo Willems

A Chair for My Mother – Vera B. Williams

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? – Jane Yolen

Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion

The Color Monster: A Story about Emotions by Anna LLenas

Books About School

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes

Pete the Cat Rocking in my School Shoes by Eric Litwin

The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

David Goes to School by David Shannon

The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

If You Take A Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff

The Pigeon Has to Go To School by Mo Willems

How Do Dinosaurs Go To School by Jane Yolen

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

Froggy Goes To School by Jonathan London

Click, Clack, Quack to School by Doreen Cronin

The Wheels on the School Bus by Mary-Alice Moore

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg

Second Grade

Favorite Book Series

Cam Jansen by David Adler

I‘m a Duck by Eve Bunting

My Weird School by David Adler

Narwal On a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne

Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows

Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo

Rainbow Magic Fairies by Daisy Meadows

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

Junie B. Jones by Deborah Park

Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel

Owl Diaries by Rebecca Elliott

A Whale’s World by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read (Nonfiction)

Third Grade

Favorite Book Series and Novels

Humphry by Betty G. Birney

Ramona by Bevery Cleary

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew by Carolyn Keene

Judy Moody by Megan McDonald

Stink by Megan McDonald

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy

Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger

Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Will Wissinger

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

3 Adventures on Deckawoo Drive by Kate DiCamillo

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig by Kate DiCamillo

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Encyclopedia Brown Series by Donald J. Sobol

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Fourth Grade

Favorite Book Series and Novels

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Because of Winn- Dixie by Kate DiCamilla

Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

The Terrible Two by Phyllis Reyonolds Naylor

Shiloh by Mac Barnett

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Birdsong by Julie Flett

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 ( I Survived Graphic Novel 1 ) by George Ball

Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Stuart Little by E.B.White

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Fifth Grade

Favorite Book Series and Novels

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

Restart by Gordon Korman

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Percy Jackson and the Olympiad by Rick Riordan

I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Middle School Series by James Patterson

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor

New Kid by Jerry Craft

Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes

Accidental Trouble Magnet ( Planet Omar book 1 ) by Zainib Main

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Holes by Louis Sachar

The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsberg

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary