School Reading List 2008/09

Reading List for the 2008/09 School Year
To be added to throughout the year–

Audiobooks and Read alouds:

• Redwall by Brian Jacques (audiobook)
• Stone Fox (audiobook)
• The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant (audiobook)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Read aloud)
•  The Whipping Boy (audiobook)
• How and Why Stories from Around the World (audiobook)
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (audiobook)
• Sherlock Holmes for children (audiobook)
• Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques (audiobook)
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 10/23 (audiobook)
• Matilda by Roald Dahl 11/18 (audiobook)
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (audiobook) 5/2
• The Moffats by Eleanor Estes (audiobook)
• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (audiobook) 1/1
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (audiobook)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 2/25 (audiobook)
• Stories from the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling 3/25 (audiobook)
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall  (audiobook) 4/8
• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall (audiobook) 4/27
• The Rescuers by Margery Sharp 6/3 (audiobook)

Literature (Shorter picture books and books from FIAR):

• The Salamander Room (FIAR)
• The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco (FIAR)
• Baba Yaga
• How to Make and Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman (FIAR)
• Puss in Boots illus. by Fred Marcellino 10/17
• The Beautiful Butterfly, a folktale from Spain retold by Judy Sierra 10/6
• The Three Golden Oranges by Alma Flor Ada 10/6
• Ali, Child of the Desert by Jonathan London 9/16
• The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold 9/23
• Maui and the Sun-a Maori Tale 9/25
• East O’ The Sun and West O’ The Moon by P. J. Lynch 10/23
• Yo, Vikings by Judith Byron Schachner 10/20
• Clown of God by Tomie DePaola (FIAR) 12/12
• Wee Gillis (FIAR) 12/15
• Raisel’s Riddle by Erica Silverman 1/5
• The Rabbi Who Flew by Renate Dollinger 1/5
• Africa Calling, nighttime falling by Daniel Adlerman 1/6
• The Gifts of Wali Dad, a tale of India and Pakistan, retold by Aaron Shepard 1/8
• The Rumor, a Jataka Tale from India by Jan Thornhill 1/19
• Cat and Rat, The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac by Ed Young 1/22
• Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong 1/22
• In the Heart of the Village, The World of the Indian Banyan Tree by Barbara Bash 1/22
• Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown 1/23
• Yeh-Shen, A Cinderella Story from China retold by Ai-Ling Louie 1/26
• Lon Po Po, a Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young 1/26
• Fa Mulan by Robert D. San Souci 1/26
• The Crane Wife retold by Odds Bodkin 1/30
• Little Oh by Laura Krauss Melmed 1/30
• In the Moonlight Mist by Daniel San Souci 1/30
• Mr. Pak Buys a Story by Carol Farley 1/30
• Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi 2/6
• Bitter Dumplings by Jeanne M. Lee 2/6
• The Khan’s Daughter by Laurence Yep 2/10
• Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome 2/12
• Clay Boy by Mirra Ginsburg 2/12
• Baba Yaga and the Wise Doll retold by Hiawyn Oram 2/12
• Marushka’s Egg by Elsa Okon Rael 2/12
• The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring by Ruth Sanderson 2/13
• The Tsar’s Promise retold by Robert D. San Souci 2/13
• Little Red Riding Hood retold by Trina Schart Hyman 2/20
• Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Galdone 2/20
• Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky 2/20
• The Girl Who Lost Her Smile by Karim Alrawi 2/20
• The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox 2/20
• Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave as told by Marianna Mayer 2/20
• Sleeping Beauty retold by Trina Schart Hyman 2/27
• Snow White and Rose Red by the Brothers Grimm, illus. by Barbara Cooney 3/6
• Cuckoo by Lois Ehlert 4/17
• Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert 4/17
• Rain Player by David Wisniewski 4/17
• Musicians of the Sun by Gerald McDermott 4/17
• William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night retold by Bruce Coville 6/11
• In 1776 by Jean Marzollo 7/4
• The Declaration of Independence by Patricia Ryon Quiri 7/4

A’s Personal Reading for 2nd grade:

• Billy and Blaze by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze and the Forest Fire by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze and Thunderbolt by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze Shows the Way by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze and the Mountain Lion by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze and the Lost Quarry by C. W. Anderson
• Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony by C. W. Anderson
• The Trumpet of the Swan
• The Bite of the Gold Bug: a story of the Alaskan gold rush by Barthe DeClements
• Bearskin by Howard Pyle
• The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith 10/3
• A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith 11/11
• The Invisible Dog by Dick King-Smith 11/16
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl 11/24
• Babe The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith 12/24
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola 12/26
• Charlie Muffin’s Miracle Mouse by Dick King-Smith 12/28
• Here We All Are by Tomie DePaola 12/29
• On My Way by Tomie DePaola 12/31
• Titus Rules! by Dick King-Smith 1/2
• Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride by George Selden 1/3
• George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl 1/4
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 1/5
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl 1/7
• Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong 1/9
• The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith 1/18
• Bambi by Felix Salten 1/23
• Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith 1/24
• The Merman by Dick King-Smith 1/25
• The Roundhill by Dick King-Smith 1/26
• Clever Duck by Dick King-Smith 1/27
• Martin’s Mice by Dick King-Smith 1/28
• The Minpins by Roald Dahl 1/29
• Mysterious Miss Slade by Dick King-Smith 1/29
• Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King 1/29
• The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith 1/30
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 2/1
• Sophie is Seven by Dick King-Smith 2/2
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 2/9
• Kat and the Emperor’s Gift 2/10
• Marco? Polo! by Jon Scieszka 2/11
• The Dragon of Lonely Island by Rebecca Rupp 2/12
• The Magic of Oz by Frank L. Baum 2/16
• The Return of the Dragon by Rebecca Rupp 2/20
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 2/23
• Little Wolf’s Book of Badness by Ian Whybrow 2/23
• The 13 Clocks by James Thurber 2/25
• Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant 2/26
• Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant 2/26
• On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 3/1
• Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard 3/3
• Three Swords for Granada by Walter Dean Myers 3/4
• Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland 3/8
• Sophie’s Lucky by Dick King-Smith 3/8
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli 3/9
• The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith 3/11
• Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George 3/16
• ACE, the Very Important Pig by Dick King-Smith 3/22
• Tall Timber Tales, More Paul Bunyan Stories by Dell J. McCormick 3/24
• The Cuckoo Child by Dick King-Smith 3/25
• Nell of Branford Hall by William Wise 4/4
• Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard 4/7
• Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard 4/17
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken 4/25
• Outlaw Red by Jim Kjelgaard 5/6
• Elizabeth I: The Outcast who Became England’s Queen by Simon Adams 6/10
• Mystery of the Pirate’s Ghost by Elizabeth Honness 6/11
• Freddy the Pilot by Walter R. Brooks 6/
• Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky 7/7
• Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld 7/8
• The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West 7/9
• Eddie and the Fire Engine by Carolyn Haywood 7/11
• Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick 7/22

C’s Personal Reading for Kindergarten:

• Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel 12/12
• Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel 12/15
• My First Book of the Very First Christmas 12/10
• Who is Coming to our House? by Joseph Slate 12/30
• Henry and Mudge and the Snowman Plan by Cynthia Rylant 12/31
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel 12/31
• Snow Bears 1/5
• Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel 1/8
• Poppleton and Friends by Cynthia Rylant 1/12
• Uncle Elephant by Arnold Lobel 1/13
• Here Comes the Snow by Angela Shelf Medearis 1/19
• Poppleton Everyday by Cynthia Rylant 1/19
• Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel 1/23
• Poppleton by Cynthia Rylant 1/29
• Poppleton in Winter by Cynthia Rylant 1/30
• The Alphabet Keeper by Mary Murphy 1/29
• Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel 2/2
• Quick, Quack, Quick by Marsha Arnold 2/10
• Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days by Cynthia Rylant 2/10
• Quick as a Cricket byAudrey Wood 2/13
• Poppleton Has Fun by Cynthia Rylant 2/16
• Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps by Cynthia Rylant 2/17
• Poppleton Forever by Cynthia Rylant 2/18
• Grasshopper on the Road by Arnold Lobel 2/26
• Poppleton in the Fall by Cynthia Rylant 2/27
• Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant 3/4
• Dodsworth in Paris by Tim Egan 3/6
• Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel 3/9
• Fox and His Friends by Edward Marshall 3/10
• Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow by Jean Van Leeuven 3/18
• Small Pig by Arnold Lobel 3/23
• Danny and the Dinosaur Treasury by Syd Hoff 3/26
• Harry and the Lady Next Door by Gene Zion 4/1
• Arthur’s Pen Pal by Lillian Hoban 4/7
• Arthur’s Honey Bear by Lillian Hoban 4/9
• Arthur’s Funny Money by Lillian Hoban 4/10
• The Backward Day by Ruth Krauss 4/8
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss 4/10
• A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban 4/14
• Little Bear’s Friend by Else Holmelund Minarik 4/17
• The Velveteen Rabbit (adaptation) 4/22
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin 4/23
• Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin 4/24
• Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
• Usborne The Story of Flying by Lesley Sims 4/30
• Tales of Oliver Pig by Jean Van Leeuwen 5/29
• If You Go Walking in Tiger Wood by Alan Durant 6/10
• Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff 6/11
• You Silly Goose 6/15
• Madeline and the Cats of Rome by John Bemelmans Marciano 6/22
• Emperor Penguins an All Aboard Science Reader by Roberta Edwards 6/23
• Drive by Nathan Clement 6/24
• Penguin Puzzle a Magic School Bus science chapter book 6/25
• The Frog Who Wanted to See the Sea by Guy Billout 6/26
• Cathedral Mouse by Kay Chorao 6/27
• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett 7/2
• The Blue Hill Meadows by Cynthia Rylant 7/3
• Thimbleberry Stories by Cynthia Rylant 7/3
• In 1776 by Jean Marzollo 7/4
• Dinosaur Tracks by Kathleen Zoehfeld 7/6
• Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett 7/10
• The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett 7/11
• Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne 7/16
• Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osborne 7/21

Medieval History Literature:

• The Hero Beowulf 8/21
• Celtic Memories
• Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown 8/25
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight words by Selina Hastings 8/28
• Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady retold by Selina Hastings 8/28
• The Legend of Saint Nicholas by Demi 9/4
• Selections from Odin’s Family, Myths of the Vikings retold by Neil Philip 10/21
• Saint George and the Dragon retold by Margaret Hodges 11/14
• A Medieval Feast by Aliki 11/14
• Till Year’s Good End by W. Nikola-Lisa 11/14
• Castle Diary, the Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page by Richard Platt
• The Foolish Men of Agra and other tales of Mogul India retold by Rina Singh 1/19
• Marco Polo, His Notebook by Susan L. Roth 2/6
• Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
• William Shakespeare & The Globe by Aliki 6/11
• The Queen’s Progress, An Elizabethan Alphabet by Celeste Davidson Mannis 6/12

History Nonfiction and Geography:

• The Story of the World Volume 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer
• I am Eastern Orthodox by Philemon D. Sevastiades 9/2
• Australia ABCs by Sarah Heiman 9/23
• Count Your Way through the Arab World by Jim Haskins 10/14
• Castle Under Siege 10/12
• Count Your Way Through Japan by Jim Haskins 1/30
• Russia, a true book by Martin Hintz 2/12
• What the Aztecs Told Me by Krystyna Libura, Claudia Burr, and Maria Cristina Urrutia 4/17

Biographies:

• Muhammed by Demi 9/8
• Ten Kings and the worlds they ruled by Milton Meltzer
  • Charlemagne
• Famous Men of the Middle Ages
  • Clovis
  • Charles Martel and Pepin
• Eric the Red by Neil Grant 10/23
• Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire 10/21
• Sundiata, Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski 1/6
• Marco Polo by Demi 2/5
• Joan of Arc, the Lily Maid by Margaret Hodges 3/5
• Joan of Arc by Josephine Poole 3/6
• Henry the Navigator by Claude Hurwicz 3/23
• Giotto by Mike Venezia 3/26
• A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus by David Adler 4/7
• Follow the Dream, the Story of Christopher Columbus by Peter Sis 4/7
• Ferdinand Magellan by Claude Hurwicz 4/14
• Nicolaus Copernicus, The Earth is a Planet by Dennis Brindell Fradin 6/4
• Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley 6/5
• Starry Messenger, Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis 6/11

Science Nonfiction:

• You’re Aboard Spaceship Earth 8/19
• Earth by Seymour Simon 8/21
• Salamanders by Emery and Durga Bernhard 8/21
• Day Light, Night Light by Franklyn M. Branley 8/28
• What Makes Day and Night by Franklyn M. Branley 8/28
• Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn M. Branley 8/29
• Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley 9/5
• Honey in a Hive by Anne Rockwell 9/9
• Hurricanes by Seymour Simon 9/18
• Tornadoes by Seymour Simon 9/20
• Earthquakes by Franklyn M. Branley 9/24
• Earthquakes by Ellen J. Prager 9/26
• Earthquakes by Seymour Simon 9/26
• The Frog Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta 9/27
• Caves, Hidden World 10/7
• Caves by Larry Dane Brimner 10/7
• Caves and Caverns by Gail Gibbons 10/9
• Volcanoes by Franklyn M. Branley 10/23
• How Mountains are Made by Kathleen Weidner-Zoehfeld 1/22
• I am the Ocean by Suzanna Marshak 2/9 Under the Sea by Angela Royston 2/9
• The Seven Seas, Exploring the World Ocean by Linda Vieira 3/6
• A House Spider’s Life by John Himmelman 3/5
• Spinning Spiders by Melvin Berger 3/5
• The Planets in our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley 3/26
• Mercury by Seymour Simon 4/7
• Venus by Seymour Simon 4/17