Please add your best books that you recommend to students/parents.

 

Kindergarten

 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Martin, Bill

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Carle, Eric

White Rabbit's Color Book - Baker, Alan

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance - Heidbreder, Robert

365 Penguins - Luc Fromental

Wait! I want to Tell You A Story - Tom Willans

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus - Mo Willems

'David' books - David Shannon

The Recess Queen - Alexis O'Neill

 

 

 

Grade 1/2

 

Fly Guy - Arnold, Tedd

Skeleton Hiccups - Cuyler, Margery

Stanley's Party - Bailey, Linda

Strega Nona - De Paola, Tomie

Mercy Watson Books- DiCamillo, Kate

Hickory Dickory Dock - Keith Baker

Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?  - Bill Martin Jr.

Charlie and Lola series - Lauren Child

Knuffle Bunny and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Cautionary Tale - Mo Willems

All "Mouse Books" (e.g. Chrysanthemum) - Kevin Henkes

The Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Numeroff

All "Corn" poetry books (e.g. Candy Corn) - James Stevenson

Love to Mama (poetry) - edited by Pat Mora

Jubal's Wish - Audrey Wood

The Great Fuzz Frenzy - Janet Stevens

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

Voices in the Park - Anthony Browne

Officer Buckle and Gloria - Peggy Rathman

A Chair for My Mother - Vera B. Williams

47 Beavers on the Big Blue Sea - Phil Vischer

 My Many Coloured Days - Dr. Seuss

 

 

 

Grade 3/4

 

Jacob Two-two and the Dinosaur - Richler, Mordecai 

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Dahl, Roald

Harry's Mad - King - Smith, Dick 

Time Warp Trio - Scieska, Jon

The Dragon's Child- Nimmo, Jenny

The Lorax - Dr. Seuss

Love That Dog (poetry) - Sharon Creech

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

I Found a Dead Bird (non-fiction) - Jan Thornhill

The BFG - Roald Dahl

Scaredy Squirrel - Melanie Watt

Thank You Mr. Falker - Patricia Polacco

 

 

Grade 4/5

 

Artemis Fowl - Colfer, Eoin 

Black Nell: the adventures of a coyote - Woods, Shirley

Fourth Grade Nothing - Blume, Judy

Pure Dead Wicked - Gliori, Debi

The Tale of Despereaux - DiCamillo, Kate 

Coroline - Neil Gaiman

Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters - Lesley M. Blume

Horrendo's Curse- Fienberg, Anna

And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon - Janet Stevens

Bad Boys - Margie Palatini

The Perfect Pet - Margie Palatini

Nose from Jupiter; A Nose for Adventure; & Noses are Red series - Richard Scrimger

Frindle - Andrew Clement

Sahara Special - Esme Raji Codell

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup - Sharon Creech

You wouldn't want to be ... - Various authors, most ill. by David Antram (history)

Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick

The Breadwinner Trilogy - Deborah Ellis

I Am a Taxi - Deborah Ellis

The Garbage King - Elizabeth Laird

Stones in Water - Donna Jo Napoli

Just a Dream - Chris Van Allsburg

Iqbal-Francesco D'Adamo

Flood - James Heneghan (local author)

Dinner at Magritte's-Michael Garland (picture book)

When Pigasso met Mootisse - Nina Laden [picture book] ]

The Night I followed the Dog - Nina Laden [picture book]

The Secret Garden of Abdul Gasazi - Chris Van Allsburg [picture book]

 

 

 

 

 

Grade 6/7

 

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm - Farmer, Nancy 

House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

Flipped - Van Draanen, Wendelin

Forbidden City - Bell, William

Thief Lord - Funke, Cornelia

Inkheart, Inspell, Inkdeath - Funke, Cornelia

Pretties, Uglies, Specials - Westerfield, Scott

Alchemyst - Michael Scott

Found -  Margaret Haddix

Stravaganza series - Mary Hoffman

Percy Jackson and the New Olympians series - Rick Riordan

Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo

The Crazy Man - Pamela Porter

Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Holes - Louis Sacher

Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss

The Things You Can Think - Dr. Seuss

 

 

 

Poetry - All ages

 

Jack Prelutsky

For laughing out loud: more poems to tickle your funnybone

It's raining pigs and noodles

The New Kid on the Block

A Pizza the Size of the Sun

Something big has been here

 

 

Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Falling Up

A Light in the Attic