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| Old Black Fly | Updated version of the classic nursery song "Old Black Fly". Each page is dedicated to a letter of the alphabet. |
| Mouse Counting | Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake |
| Jan Brett | Any title by Jan Brett |
| Read to Your Bunny | Brief rhyming text and colorful illustrations tell what happens when parents and children share 20 minutes a day read. |
| Six Little Ducks | A retelling of the nursery song about six little ducks who go to market with a quack, quack, quack. |
| Arroz Con Leche | A bilingual collection of Latin-American songs and rhymes in both English and some songs. |
| Snowballs | A group of children create a family out of snow. Includes labeled pictures of the items used and information on how snow is formed. Sure to cool off a hot summer day. |
| Numbears or Alphabears | Bears introduce the numbers and the alphabet. |
| M & M Counting Book | This yummy counting book teaches numbers one through 12, six colors and three primary shapes. |
| Dr. Suess | Any title by Dr.Suess. |
| Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever or other Mother Goose titles | An anthology of classic nursery rhymes, illustrated with Mr. Scarry’s lovable critters. |
| Sheep In a Jeep | This humorous rhyming book narrates the adventures of a sheep in an old red jeep. Also see Sheep on a Ship, Sheep out to Eat, and Sheep in a Shop. |
| The Crayon Counting Book | Rhyming text use crayon of different colors to teach counting, first by even numbers and then odd. |
| Big Fat Hen | Big fat hen counts to ten with her friends and all their chicks. |
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| Each Peach Pear Plum | Characters from Mother Goose and well-known folktales appear in an "I spy" text pattern. |
| Shortcut | A multicultural book about children who take a shortcut along a railroad track and find adventures |
| Ten Black Dots | A fun counting book from one to ten. |
| The Story about Ping | Ping, a duck, lives with his family on a boat on the Yangtze River, in this children’s classic. |
| Fire! Fire! | This factual book explains how firefighter fight fires in the city and in the country. |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Here is a fun alphabet book. Try clapping and chanting to the rhythm! |
| Mercer Mayer | Any title by Mercer Mayer |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Follow a little boy and a mouse to find out what happens if you give a cookie to a mouse! |
| It Looked Like Spilt Milk | This book encouraged children to use their imaginations. |
| Caps for Sale | Here is a humorous tale of a peddler, his caps, and the monkeys who take his caps while he is napping. |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Alexander has the kind of day that is one mishap after another! |
| Jan Brett | Any title by Jan Brett |
| Any Alphabet Book | Any Alphabet Book |
| Norman Bridwell | Any Clifford Book |
| Any Fairy Tales/Nursery Rhymes | Various |
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| Any Junie B. Jones | A spirited little girl and her stories of growing up from Kindergarten. |
| Why Can’t I Fly? | A monkey named Minnie tries to learn to fly. |
| More Spaghetti, I Say! | Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti to play. |
| Small Pig | A little pig runs away because the farmer’s wife wants to clean his puddle. |
| Goodnight Moon | A little rabbit says goodnight to everything as he gets ready for bed. |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | A story poem about activities of unusual animals. |
| Wee Little Woman | A wee little woman’s cat is mischievous. |
| DePaoloa, Tommie | Any book by author |
| Any Henry and Mudge | Wonderful stories of a boy and his dog and their innocent childhood adventures. |
| Mary Pope Osborne | Any Mary Pope Osborne |
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| Arthur Series | These Books focus on adventures of an inquisitive aardvark. R.L. 1-2 |
| Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry for later. |
| Zack Files | Amusing stories of mystery and adventure of a boy named Zack. Join him as he chases ghosts and tracks down answers. |
| Egyptian Cinderella | In this version of Cinderella, set in sixth century Egypt, a slave girl named Rhodspis is eventually chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen. R L. 3 |
| Box Car Children Series | These books are a collection of mysteries that involve the adventures of four orphan children. R.L. 3 |
| Any Magic Tree House | Travel through time with Jack and Annie as they learn about some our most memorable historical events. |
| The American Girl collection | The books in this collection tell the stories of five American girls who lived long ago. Felicity lives in colonial times, Kirsten is a pioneer, Addy lives in the midst of the Civil War, Samantha lives during Victorian times and Molly’s story takes place during World War II. R.L. 3-5. |
| A New True Book Series | A collection of informational books that answers kids questions on a variety of subjects from animals to sports. R.L. 2-4 |
| Hank the Cowdog | Hank the Cowdog, head of ranch security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes. R.L. 4 |
| Any Amber Brown Title | Join an average American girl as she goes through the "trauma" of pre-teen life in modern times. |
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| Amber Brown is Not a Crayon | Friends since preschool, Amber and Justin discover how hard it is to say good-bye to each other. |
| The Hundred Penny Box | Michael’s great great Aunt Dewbut is 100 and comes to live in his home. |
| The Black Snowman | A black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his African American heritage. |
| Annie and The Old One | Annie comes to understand her American Indian heritage and the fact that time cannot be stopped. |
| The Talking Eggs | The story of differing rewards for the good person/greedy person. |
| Whipping Boy | A humorous touch, similar to the Prince and the Pauper adventure. |
| Arthur for the Very First Time | Arthur is accused of being an observer rather than a doer. |
| Chalk Box Kid | Gregory’s house doesn’t have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising and very different garden in an unusual place. |
| Homer Price | The humorous adventures of an irresponsible boy who comes up with ingenious solutions to strange dilemmas. |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Peter finds his demanding 2-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem. |
| Meet Samantha, American Girl | Samantha is an orphan, in 1904, living with her wealthy grandmother. She, and her servant friend Nellie, has a midnight adventure. |
| Magic School Bus-Inside the Human Body | See how the human body works. |
| When I was Young in the Mountain | Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child. |
| Johnny Long Legs | Being the tallest member of a basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player. |
| Stuart Little | Adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek his dearest friend, a bird. |
| Any Barbara Park book | |
| If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand | A collection of school poems captures the excitement, challenge, heartbreak and wonder of elementary school life. |
| Any Louis Sachar book | Creatively written books with a funny theme. |
| Any Beverly Cleary book | Realistic Fiction books about boys and girls as they grow up. |
| Peppe the Lamplighter | Peppe’s father is upset when he learns that Peppe is lighting the gas streetlights in his New York City neighborhood. |
| Harry Potter Series (any title) | This is a collection of books telling the story of a young boy who finds out his family has a magical secret and his adventures as he grows with that secret. |
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| From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankewiler | Two suburban children runaway from their Connecticut home and go to New York’s Metropolitan Art Museum where their ingenuity allows them to live in luxury. R.L. 4.8 |
| The Night the Whole Class Slept Over | 11 year old Dan, whose artist parents have kept him moving around all his life, fears he will lose the friends he has made at his new school, until the whole class sleeps over. R.L. 5.4 |
| Harriet, the Spy | When Harriet’s classmates
find her diary and read what she has written about them, they decide to
make life miserable for her. R.L. 6.1 |
| Wayside School is Falling Down | More silly stories from the crazy classroom on the 13th floor. Beware of the cafeteria's mushroom surprise! R.L. 4.9 |
| The Stolen Train | This is the thrilling story based on one of the most dramatic and heroic incidents of the Civil War. (not an AR book) |
| Class President | The most obnoxious boy in 3rd grade finds it hard to change his reputation when he decides to become the perfect student. R.L. 4.9 |
| The Enormous Egg | Problems develop when Nate's hen lays an egg that hatches a dinosaur! |
| Any books by: | Sharon Creech, Gordan Korman, J.K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket, Gary Paulsen, Beverly Cleary |
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