— Lower School Literature Selections —

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1st GRADE

  • A Beka Readers
  • Luke 2
  • Frog and Toad Are Friends, Lobel
  • Little Bear, Minarik
  • It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny, Sadler
  • Amelia Bedelia, Parish
  • Sam the Minute Man, Benchley
  • The Biggest Bear, Benchley
  • Blueberries for Sal, McCloskey
  • Lentil, McCloskey
  • Itchy, Itchy Chickenpox, MacCarone
  • The 100th Day of School, Medearis

2nd GRADE

  • Slide Down the Sky, Open Court Reader
  • From Sea to Shining Sea, Open Court Reader
  • Senefer, Lumpkin
  • Make Way for Ducklings, McCloskey
  • Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Ozlglish
  • Three Dollar Mule, Bulla
  • Nate the Great and the Lost List, Sharmat
  • The Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder
  • Tut’s Mummy Lost and Found, Donnelly
  • The Courage of Sarah Noble, Dalgliesh

3rd Grade

  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Atwater
  • Charlotte’s Web, White
  • Alexander the Great, Green
  • Farmer Boy, Wilder
  • Detectives in Togas, Winterfeld
  • Misty of Chincoteague, Henry
  • Arnold Lobel’s Fables, Lobel
         

4th Grade

  • Black Beauty, Sewell
  • Adam of the Road, Gray
  • The Door in the Wall, de Angeli
  • Morning Star of the Reformation, Thomson
  • The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis
  • The Story of Rolf, French
  • Ink on His Fingers, Vernon
  • The Thunderstorm in the Church, Vernon

5th Grade

  • Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
  • Sir Gibbie, MacDonald
  • Call It Courage, Sperry
  • The Hobbit, Tolkein
  • Johnny Tremain, Forbes
  • Carry on Mr. Bowditch, Latham
  • Tuck Everlasting, Babbit
  • Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare
  • The Island of the Blue Dolphins, O'Dell

6th Grade

  • Kidnapped, Stevenson
  • Call of the Wild, London
  • Hiding Place, Ten Boom
  • Across Five Aprils, Hunt
  • A Christmas Carol, Dickens
  • The Phantom Toll Booth, Juster
  • Jungle Book, Kipling
  • Watership Down, Adams
  • From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Konigsburg