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

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Emma Chichester Clark

Me and You -  Anthony Browne

 

 

 

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

An Undone Fairy Tale - Lendler, Ian

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Emma Chichester Clark

Me and You -  Anthony Browne

 

 

 

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

Araminta Spookie Series - Angie Sage (rec by G. Ingham - Moberly)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Emma Chichester Clark

Me and You -  Anthony Browne

Zorgamazoo - Paul Weston

 

 

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

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]

The Underneath - Appelt, Kathi (Rec by G. Ingham -Moberly)

The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Selznick (rec by G. Ingham - Moberly)

Elijah of Buxton - Curtis (rec by G. Ingham - Moberly)

Underground to Canada - Schmucker (rec by G. Ingham - Moberly)

Magyk - Sage (rec by G. Ingham - Moberly)

Falling- O'Roark Dowell, Frances

Keepers of the School- We the Children, Clements, Andrew

Keeper- Appelt, Kathi

Out of my Mind- Draper, Sharon

Remembering Mrs Rossi- Hest, Amy

Land of Stories (series) - Chris Colfer

 

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  

Dr. Franklin's Island - Halam, Ann

Iqbal-  D'Adamo

Mysterious Benedict Society - Stewart 

Peak - Smith

Zen and the Art of Faking It - Sonnenblick

I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You - Carter, Ally

Tanglewreck - Winterson, Jeanette

The last Universe - Sleator, William

We all fall down - Walters, Eric

Al Capone Does My Shirts - Choldenko, Gennifer

The Maze - Dashner,James

A Curse Dark as Gold - Bunce, Elizabeth

Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer - Grisham, John

Morpheus Road -The Light- Machale, D.J.

The Red Pyramid - Riordan, Rick

 

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

Picture Books for Older Learners Picture Books for Older Learners Picture Books for Older Learners Picture Books for Older Learners Picture Books for Older Learners Picture Books for Older Learners Something big has been here

 

 

Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Falling Up

A Light in the Attic