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Bring Me a Book Foundation

Recommended Book List

Grades K-1

Curious George by H. A. Rey

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham

Lily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

The Three Bears by Paul Galdone

The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone

The Teeny Tiny Woman by Paul Galdone

Stone Soup by Jon Muth

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

We All Went On Safari by Laurie Krebs

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Grades 2-5

The Three Questions by Jon Muth

Cinderella by Marcia Brown

Gandhi by Demi

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

The Greatest Power by Demi

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (author unknown)

This is San Francisco by Miroslav Sasek

Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora

Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Rocks in his Head by Carol Otis Hurst

A Chair for my Mother by Vera B. Williams

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gandiner

The Gold Threaded Dress by Carolyn Marsden

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Charlotte 's Web by E. B. White

Stuart Little by E. B. White

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

 

 Grades 6-8

The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez

Jacket by Andrew Clements & McDavid Henderson

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Harry Potter (all books) by J.K. Rowling

In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit

 

Grades 9-12

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